Alexandria Gazette

Louis Napoleon, (it is well remembered in the current number of Harper's Monthly Magazine,) has shown a disregard to literary men, such as none of his predecessors in the government of France had ever done. King Louis XVIII. patronized them royally; Charles X pensioned them liberally: Louis Philippe gave them titles and decorations freely, and was glad to have them at his receptions; his sons showed them all possible attention: but during the whole time Louis Bonaparte has been in power he has not only taken no official notice of them, but has not even had the decent civility to send them invitations to his soirees. By this conduct, as much, perhaps, as by his political proceedings, he has made nearly the whole literary body hostile to him: and singular to state, the most eminent writers of the country—Lamartine, Beranger, Hugo, Jocquin, Sue, Dumas, Thiers, are personally and politically among his bitterest adversaries.