He talked politics, and I am afraid went away shocked at perceiving how little interest I took in them.

I like not political subjects in England, and avoid them whenever I can; but here I feel very much about them, as the Irishman is said to have felt when told that the house he was living in was on fire, and he answered "Sure, what's that to me!--I am only a lodger!" -- -- told me that France is in a very dangerous state; the people discontented, etc.etc.So I have heard every time I have visited Paris for the last ten years; and as to the people being discontented, when were they otherwise I should like to know?
Never, at least since I have been acquainted with them; and it will require a sovereign such as France has not yet known to satisfy a people so versatile and excitable.

Charles the Tenth is not popular.

His religious turn, far from conciliating the respect or confidence of his subjects, tends only to awaken their suspicions of his being influenced by the Jesuits--a suspicion fraught with evil, if not danger, to him.
Strange to say, all admit that France has not been so prosperous for years as at present.

Its people are rapidly acquiring a love of commerce, and the wealth that springs from it, which induces me to imagine that they would not be disposed to risk the advantages they possess by any measure likely to subvert the present state of things.
Nevertheless, more than one alarmist like -- -- shake their heads and look solemn, foretelling that affairs cannot long go on as they are.
Of one thing I am convinced, and that is, that no sovereign, whatever may be his merits, can long remain popular in France; and that no prosperity, however brilliant, can prevent the people from those _emeutes_ into which their excitable temperaments, rather than any real cause for discontent, hurry them.