Thiers is our absolute sovereign.

We call ourselves a free people.

We have beheaded one monarch, exiled three generations of kings merely to have a dictator, '_mal ne, mal fait, et mal eleve_.' There has been a rumour of a change of ministry, but no one believes it.

The overthrow of Thiers would be the signal for a revolution, and the fortifications are not yet completed to master it.
May not all these armaments be the precursors of some _coup d'etat_?
A general gloom is over all around us.

All the faces are long; all the conversations are sad!" This may be accepted as a thoroughly accurate and trustworthy representation of the then state of feeling and opinion among the friends of Louis Philippe's Government, whether _Parceque Bourbon_ or _Quoique Bourbon_, and as such is valuable.