with an unprepared people, a tyranny still, of the many, the few, or the one.  Possibly you may remember, at the date of the jeu de paume, how earnestly I urged yourself and the patriots of my acquaintance to enter then into a compact with the King, securing freedom of religion, freedom of the press, trial by jury, habeas corpus, and a national legislature, all of which it was known he would then yield, to go home, and let these work on the amelioration of the condition of the people, until they should have rendered them capable of more, when occasions would not fail to arise for communicating to them more.  This was as much as I then thought them able to bear, soberly and usefully for themselves.  You thought otherwise, and that the dose might still be larger.  And I found you were right; for subsequent events proved they were equal to the constitution of 1791.  Unfortunately, some of the most honest and enlightened of our patriotic friends (but closet politicians merely, unpractised in the knowledge of man) thought more could still be obtained and borne.  They did not weigh the hazards of a transition from one form of government to another, the value of what they had already rescued from those hazards, and might hold in security if they pleased, nor the imprudence of giving up the certainty of such a degree of liberty, under a limited monarch, for the uncertainty of a little more under the form of a republic.  You differed from them.  You were for stopping there, and for securing the constitution which the National Assembly had obtained.  Here, too, you were right; and from this fatal error of the republicans, from their separation from yourself and the constitutionalists, in their councils, flowed all the subsequent sufferings and crimes of the French nation.  The hazards of a second change fell upon them by the way.  The foreigner gained time to anarchize by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order:  and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte.  You are now rid of him, and I sincerely wish you may continue so.  But this may depend on the wisdom and moderation of the restored dynasty.  It is for them now to read a lesson in the fatal errors of the republicans; to be contented with a certain portion of power, secured by formal compact with the nation, rather than, grasping at more, hazard all upon uncertainty, and risk meeting the fate of their predecessor, or a renewal of their own exile.  We are just informed, too, of an example which merits, if true, their most profound contemplation.  The gazettes say, that Ferdinand of Spain is dethroned, and his father re-established on the basis of their new constitution.