Rivet still does not write to me. The letters I receive from Algiers still show the greatest anxiety for the future. General Cavaignac has declined a good deal in estimation during his short government. There is General Changarnier who is going to take to it his practice in managing the troops by his will and power of conquest. I think he will want these great qualities, and several more that he does not possess to as great a degree.

I have heard that Mdme. Feray came to Algiers alone, in better health, and most bravely encountering the trials she had to go through. We hope that she is now with the Duchess, and request you to convey the expression of our deep and respectful sympathy to those ladies.

I am, with respect, Marshal, your most sincerely devoted,

J. TROCHU.

There is a portrait of Marshal Bugeaud from the hand of his old aide-de-camp, General Trochu, given in l'Armée Francaise, that is a fitting sequel to the affectionate letter above :

Could any one not bow to the sincerity of his patriotism, the firmness of his incomparable good sense, the breadth of his views, the wealth of his experience, the really antique simplicity of his life and habits?

Perhaps the most remarkable of these grand natural faculties, was the singular intrepidity that he displayed in danger, boundless and without preparation To this he owed the precious advantage of preserving at the most exciting moments a steadfastness of observation, a solidity of judgment, that allowed him to choose his line with a mind inaccessible to disturbance; great sagacity, never agitated by even the heaviest feeling of responsibility. He was permanently in the condition of a military professor propagating what he called " proper notions," with unwearied activity, without the smallest care for the rank or quality of his hearers. He was a whole treasury of professional knowledge, where the principles of war founded upon an attentive observation of the various states of the human soul, and the mind of troops in the midst of danger, were supported by the exciting tales of events that went back to the battle of Austerlitz, and extended to the struggles of the First Empire.'

The letter below written to the Marshal, by General Bedeau, shows that thoughts were already

turning to the conqueror of Isly, and that his African lieutenants were turning their eyes towards him as the future preserver of order and society.

Paris, 19th May, 1848.

MARSHAL,-You know the events of the 15th of May, and the fearful anarchy we were falling into, but for the vigorous action of the National Guard. Still we are daily threatened with a fresh attack, though I do not believe in it much, because some of the chief ringleaders have been arrested, and others are afraid to compromise themselves any more, wishing to preserve an influence on the assembly and Government, that will be refused them; lastly, because, being entrusted with the duty of securing the independence or the defence of the legislative palace, I am careful in my precautions; but that does not advance us any further. The Assembly is distrustful of the executive power, and jealous, although they would give the Assembly their confidence in a way that has been already ill-rewarded. These questions will be settled some of these days. I think that the Chamber will not give up its power, but the struggle continues. As in statics two opposing forces annul each other, we must expect a status quo, and barren debates wearying the country.

The Assembly, Marshal, has done me the honour to put me in command of the forces destined for its protection. I have accepted this as the duty of a good citizen, but probably in a few days I shall resign the important duty, because the executive power is too jealous of me, and is every moment putting sticks into my wheels. If we do not come to a decision to have one commandant for all the troops at Paris, the movable national guard, and the stationary national guard, who have independent chiefs, we shall come to a state of anarchy, and perhaps to a general movement of the national guard, dangerous to the Government it despises, to the republic it loves, notwithstanding the sufferings that have been, and still are, the consequences of the installation of this Government. you will take me for a modern Cassandra; I hope so. to grow old, and men are said to dote when they grow old; but these are my prophecies, Marshal; God grant that they come not true.

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I have communicated your kind remembrance to Négrier; he is very much gratified, and desires me to convey his respects to you. As for the 900 muskets and cartridges he is said to have bought, to arm the representatives and give them the means of resistance, it is a story. All the world, Marshal, is not as energetic as you are, and does not know so well how to use the sword, or speech, or the plough.

I thank you, Marshal, for the kind things you say to me. I can never forget the campaigns I made under your orders, any more than the good feeling there was between us, and the constant kindness shown me by the Duchess; have the goodness to be my interpreter to her, and convey to her my respectful homage, and yourself receive the assurance of my most devoted feelings.

BEDEAU.

THE DAYS OF JUNE.

CHAPTER XVI.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (1848).

Days of June-Weakening of the Republic-Letters to Jamin and Féray-The Marshal consulted on the choice of a Governor for Algeria-Constitution of September-The Presidential Elections - Bugeaud a Candidate-Letters to Lavergne-Resignation-Letter to Ducrot-The Era of the Cæsars-Letter to

L'Heureux.

THE days of June were brought about by the letting loose of the passions of the rabble, added to the unpopularity, the weakness, and isolation of the republican government; that is to say, one of the most sanguinary and formidable insurrections France has had to endure. When we think of the torrents of blood that flowed in the streets of Paris to enable the republicans of the National to keep their power a few months more, we cannot prevent ourselves from remembering the abuse and calumny heaped on the heads of King Louis-Philippe's Government, and Marshal Bugeaud, in consequence of the repression of riots got up by those same republicans, who recoiled from no violence that might preserve their power when they had become members of the Govern

ment.

During these days of woe, the Marshal was at La Durantie, and God spared the conqueror of Isly the sorrow of shedding the blood of Frenchmen. The following letter written to Colonel Jamin, sometime aide-de-camp to the Duke d'Aumale, incidentally touches upon the grave events that had taken place.

TO COLONEL JAMIN, COMMANDING THE STH REGIMENT OF THE LINE IN ALGeria.

La Durantie, 4th July, 1848.

MY DEAR COLONEL,-One of my neighbours and friends begs me to recommend to you his son, Antoine A . . . . who has joined your regiment as a volunteer. I hope he is worthy of the recommendation I send you; if he is, you will oblige me by giving him his stripes, and afterwards keeping an eye upon him, to push him if he deserves it.

What cruel events, my dear colonel! Your heart must have been wrung by them as much and more than mine, for you have had a closer view than I have of the noble and excellent family that deserved quite another fate. It had not failed in any of its promises it was the victim of shameless ambition and socialist ideas.

The demagogues, the false or perverse minds, have seized the power; the gate was opened to them by the ambitions of the dynastic opposition, who thought the Ministry had lasted too long.

No doubt there were faults in parliamentary and government tactics. The Ministry should have been dismissed sooner, the men changed, to satisfy the ambitious, and make some concessions to these notions of reform; but they have been punished as if they had committed crimes. In other words, the catastrophe and crisis were only retarded by giving way, for the fall might have been avoided by more strictness and foresight.

Socialist ideas, the excesses of the press, the permanently factious could not fail to bring an attempt at revolution upon us. This had been written, for me, long ago; and therefore in February I did all I could to urge energetic preparation against the storm. The Ministry, and perhaps the King himself, attributing my advice to personal interest, thought that I was thus making a bid to be Governor of Paris, and they attended very little to me for two months. They wanted to give me the command, but did not venture to brave Duchatel, who thought that Jacqueminot would be humiliated if he was commanded by a Marshal of France! However, Jacqueminot was very ill, and could do no useful service. The troops were under a lieutenant-general, but there could be no unity.

The troops remained seventy hours under arms, in presence of the rioters, who were breaking the lamps, burning the guard-rooms, cutting down the trees in the Champs Elysées and the Boulevards, without being hindered in any way. At the same time they were covering the National Guard with abuse, and softening the hearts of the Line by a lot of speeches: You are of the people as we are; you are our brothers; you would not fire upon us, when we only want our liberty:' and they were allowed to talk like this not two paces off.