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165.: FRENCH NEWS [60] EXAMINER, 13 MAY, 1832, P. 314 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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FRENCH NEWS [60]

EXAMINER, 13 MAY, 1832, P. 314

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 116. The item, headed “London, May 13, 1832,” is listed as “Article on France” and enclosed in square brackets in the Somerville College set of the Examiner.

the telegraphic despatch given in the Standard,¹ relative to an insurrection at Marseilles, and which we conceived to be a forgery, was, it seems, genuine: but the insurrection was of the most contemptible description, and was put down without shedding one drop of blood. The ringleaders have been arrested: and it is affirmed that a steam-vessel, which was bringing the Duchess of Berri from Italy, to join the conspirators, has been seized, and that personage made prisoner.² Should this prove to be the fact, it is said that the French Government intends to dismiss the Duchess quietly to her family in Edinburgh, but to deal with her accomplices according to law.

M. Casimir Périer is said to be slowly recovering. The cholera at Paris is rapidly disappearing

The interest of foreign politics now fades before that of our own. The theatre of political excitement has changed. The current of the mouvement has now shifted to Great Britain: how rapidly to proceed, or in what latitudes to terminate, he must be a bold man who deems that he can foreknow: nor needs he: it is not now the time to hope, but to do.

[1 ]Standard, 3 May, 1832, p. 3.

[2 ]For background, see No. 87, n1. On 29 Apr., 1832, the Duchess landed at Marseilles, hoping to lead the royalist South in the overthrow of the Orléans dynasty. No general uprising in her favour materialized; the immediate insurrection was easily defeated, but there were sporadic uprisings of varying degrees of seriousness in her favour for the next few months, particularly during June in the traditionally royalist Vendée.