Show CZAR NEEDS SPIES louie illustrates the value of secret polac the alleged determination of the emperor of loussia to abolish forthwith the secret police is sure to end in smoke and it would be a most fatuous and absurd proceeding in the existing condition of the country says alie london truth when louis was dying comte dartois charles X and due dorleans dOrl cans louis sat in the next room discussing the functions of the police in a well ordered state comac dartois declared that the kings police should be as numerous as his guards while due dOrIc ins maintained that a virtuous monarch having confidence in subject could entirely dispense with a secret police louis philippe acted on aliis principle when lie came to the throne ajr about two years the result being that lie had four insurrections to quell his life was several times attempted and he very narrowly escaped being the victim of a legitimate conspiracy sp iracy which had been formed to kidnap him on alie grounds at neuilly and carry him out of france louis philippe having discovered that his virtues and good intentions would not protect him changed his tactics and during the last fifteen years of his reign liis police spies were even more numerous than liis guards |