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The following extract from the address of General BERTRAND on offering himself as a candidate to the electoral college of Chateauroux, shows the con stant reference made by the friends of freedom, elsewhere, to the example of the U. States:

 The question of an hereditary peerage, and some other points which have latterly been agated sufficiently prove that there be no safety for France except in the establishment of public liberty, and the economy of the public money. But fear not to say that the electors have lost sight of the most important question, question which should take the lead of all others, and without which it is impossible to reason usefuy upon the means of es- tablishng any government in modern tmes among an undebased people. That question is--the un- limited liberty of the press, which is the foundation, the palladium of freedom. The liberty which the British possess of printing, publishing and circulat- ing what they please, has alone secured the revolu- ton f169S and caused that island to resist the vices of it's old aristocracy It is the liberty of the press which has secured the independence of the United States In that country they are said to possess t,oo Mousand newspapers, as we'll as t,oo Mousand ciitages."