SUNDAY, DEC. 25, 1830.

"Sire, -Your Majesty told me yesterday that the subject of our conversation should be concluded this day. I have seen MM Lafitte and Montalivet; they have spoken to me of the amendment which the President of the Council intends to propose. But, Sire, you know well that it does not remove the objections which I took the liberty of submitting to you. I mentioned to M. de Montalivet that I looked upon myself as having given in my resignation, and I imagine he will have issued his orders in consequence. However, I think it my duty to repeat it to the King, because, General Carbonnel and my son having followed my fortune, as likewise Major General Tracy, it is necessary that orders should be issued for to-morrow's service. Believe me, Sire, the duty which I consider I am fulfilling, is more painful to me than I can express; and now, more than ever, it behooves me to join with the tribute of my respect, that of my profound and unalterable attachment.

"LAFAYETTE."

The preceding accounts of the quarrel between Louis Philippe and Lafayette, is translated from a work by Sarrans, the General's Aid-de-camp at the time, who wrote it under his direction. A distinguished American gentleman was told by Lafayette that "he and Louis Philippe had virtually given each other 'the lie,' as respects the celebrated programme of the Hotel de Ville. The good old General regarded the King as the prince of dissimulation." *

Dupont de l'Eure resigned at once, for he could not remain in a cabinet whose political sympathies were so little in accordance with his own, or serve a monarch whose political tergiversation was so notorious. Lafayette, his distinguished patron, carried with him to the grave the republican principles which he maintained in youth; Napoleon, even after his crushing defeat at Waterloo, still held in the Chambers the language of the despotic Emperor; Charles X. could risk a throne, but could not, notwithstanding the present necessity of the case, abate one jot of his prerogative; * J. Fennimore Cooper.

Dumouriez, Carnot and Lafitte, all died, as they had lived, steady, inflexible advocates of the revolutionary principle of democracy; but Louis Philippe-apparently either hypocritically cunning, or incapable of deep-rooted impressions -changed to suit his purpose with the change of times. The upholder of republicanism in his youth, in age he tasked the utmost powers of his intellect to crush it, setting public opinion as much at defiance as any of the old Bourbons in the most palmy days of their rule.

FAC-SIMILE OF THE SIGNATURE OF ARAGO.

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