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What an impediment to a negotiation big with the destinies of the world! It is curious to find this important Plenipotentiary and Captain of the Guard lying, two days after, on his sofa, with his infirm foot on a stool, surrounded by the Guizots, the Dupins, the Broglies, and the De Cazes; and without ever having given, in the intermediate time, any intimation of his existence to either of the parties between whom he was to negotiate.

The King was persuaded to depart with his family from St. Cloud during the night of the 30th. On the 31st he arrived at Versailles, at Trianon, but still in expectation of M. de Mortemart; and with this expectation he would listen to no other proposition. It was the fear of interfering with this fancied negotiation of Mortemart that prevented Charles the Tenth from exerting his military means, and availing himself of his military position, till it was too late till he was completely surrounded, entangled, and at last manacled.

The doubt that reigned at Paris was dreadful, even more terrible than near the King. The provisional government were the whole day in expectation of receiving the royal communication,

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which was frustrated by the inexplicable conduct of the Duke de Mortemart. Inexplicable did I say? His Excellency has since been appointed by Louis Philippe ambassador at St. Petersburg. The populace was infuriate; the number of dead and wounded among them excited fresh rage; and while the intrigue, which was to be the base of the new throne, advanced with rapid strides, the youths who had achieved every thing, fearing treachery, were desirous of proclaiming a republic, not merely as an easier, but as a higher and more national, course than any mezzi termini connected with the Duke of Orleans. But the Doctrinaires took advantage of their apprehensions, and threatening to declare in favour of the legitimate dynasty, rather than a republic, and, as a middle course, a juste milieu, proposed a kind of Regent, under the title of Lieutenant-general. The Duke of Orleans was thus brought forward, but in fear and trembling; and, to excite the people in his favour, bulletins were circulated, informing them, that a price was put on the head of the Duke by the sanguinary Charles; a circumstance sufficient to excite at that moment the deepest interest for one whose popular sentiments thus occasioned him to be fixed upon as a victim. They reminded the people, also, by placards, that Louis

Philippe was not a Bourbon, but rather a Valois.* These were the measures adopted by the Duke of Orleans and his friends to effect his nomination; and at the very moment that they were circulating their infamous calumnies against Charles the Tenth, that unhappy monarch was giving the greatest proof of confidence in the traitor, by conferring on him the most important post in the kingdom.

One must have been present to comprehend another series of intrigues, still more refined, that were now resorted to by the same party to dupe La Fayette, and to induce him, who was entirely for a republican government, to consent to appointing the Duke Lieutenant-general. With what prodigality did they not lavish upon this ancient leader every species of allurement, and, above all, the distilled and artful flatteries of a prince, who now scarcely notices the man to whom he owes his crown! One individual, however, and one who exercised an immense power at the Hôtel de Ville, they could not deceive, M. Mauguin.

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* This absurdity has been so often repeated, that people begin to forget that the Duke of Orleans is, like Charles X., the descendant of Louis XIII. the son of Henry IV, head of the Bourbon Branch, and has no connection whatsoever with that of Valois; on the failure of which the Bourbons succeeded.

We can therefore easily understand the manner with which that eminent personage is now treated by the Citizen King, and the click who cut up the cake.

It is now agreed by every body, and avowed by those who were in power at the Hôtel de Ville, that if the Duke de Mortemart had been faithful to his trust, and repaired to the Commission, as the King commanded him, either on the night of the 29th, or early on the 30th, the throne of Charles the Tenth would have been preserved, and order would have been restored. But, Dis aliter visum: the Orleanists interfere as mediators: they induce the King to negotiate, and they manage, at the same time, that his envoy should disappear. It was not until the 31st, when the King had departed from St. Cloud, and when all was organised by the Orleans faction, that the illustrious M. de Mortemart was able to extract his corn.

The 31st passed at Paris with tolerable tranquillity. The populace were in good humour from their victory; and the Orleans party, by dint of promises, and general protestations of love and friendship, succeeded in extracting from the government of the Hôtel de Ville, in the absence of Mauguin, the nomination of their chief

as Lieutenant-General of the kingdom. All this time, however, let it never be forgotten, the same Duke of Orleans, through the medium of some pretended friends of the Bourbons, was intriguing to obtain the same title from Charles the Tenth, so that the nomination was to be secured on both sides. I will not pretend, that any respect for the individuals prevents my divulging the names of the chief conductors of this intrigue. They are before me, and deserve to be recorded; but I hear that their zealous services have not been in every instance as prodigally rewarded as was anticipated, and that, in some, they have even been most ungratefully called in question. By publishing their names, therefore, I might unconsciously furnish them with the means of securing a recompense, which is, God knows, not of the kind I should wish to see them obtain.

This was the moment of threats and promises. Both were lavished in a manner quite unprecedented. The King being convinced that the Hôtel de Ville had resolved to nominate the Duke of Orleans Lieutenant-General, instantly took the resolution to abdicate in favour of the Duke of Bordeaux, and anticipate the Hôtel de Ville in conferring the title; a measure which he trusted would conciliate the people. Charles was induced