Jenks's Portland Gazette

Respecting the Interior of France.

LONDON, JULY 21.

On Saturday we received the Paris Journals to the 16th instant.

The most new and interesting parts relate to the internal politics of France. Some time ago, by an extract from The Decade Philosophique, we showed that the party of the philosophical Republicans are jealous of the party of Concord, of those who, in their desire of unanimity, sacrifice every Republican principle, every revolutionary institution—which, under pretence of crushing all factions, assume a sovereign, a despotic authority.

A new academy for the instruction of youth, or rather an old one revived, has been opened in Paris, the avowed object of which is to correct the vices and reform the morals which have been the consequence of the revolutionary education.—An attack like this upon the Jacobin system could not escape notice, and accordingly we find it has excited the bitterest invectives of the Journal already mentioned.—Every inflammatory topic is touched upon to alarm the nation against the conduct of the Government, in which Bonaparte is never implicated further than as a misled Magistrate. The insecurity of the Proprietors of National Domains is hinted at; the word people is repeated in a manner calculated to rouse the resentment of the lower classes, and an alarm is particularly attempted to be raised against the return of the Priests and Emigrants, and the toleration of the Catholic worship. The uneasiness of the Jacobins at the indulgence Government shows to the persecuted classes is great, and threatens to produce a popular commotion, which the genius of the Chief Consul will no doubt prevent. It is remarkable that the Jacobins of Paris should censure the Government for reviving the ancient institutions, and that the English Cabinet should make war upon the Government, though our Minister professes to have the restoration of these institutions chiefly in view.

The summer, it has been observed, generally produces commotions in Paris; and it has been humorously said, that nothing preserves tranquillity so well as rainy weather, which keeps people at home. The present fair season is not without its usual symptoms.

Paris, we learn, is thronged with emigrants. All who have not been in arms against the Republic are permitted to return; and so long as they refrain from meddling with the government, they and such parts of their property as have not been sold are returned to them—they are unmolested;—Bonaparte enjoys unlimited confidence; and appears to be as firmly established in his authority as the king of Great Britain is in his.