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‘,... ...I .... 0 .L!!Nt • TIM NAT from an inconsideration which is the moie dangerous, as it tends to produce the exhaltation of conflicting opinion, and all those excesses of which civil wars are the commencement " And does it not evidently appear that it is a civil war, which the enemy of France desires ? His emissaries never fail to circulate what is calculated to mislead the people, and i t was thus our fatal revolution commenced. " Then. as now, these good people were told—you shall pay no more taxes. As if a country could be defended and governed without taxes ! But this you were not told—your children• shall be sent to moisten Europe, Asia, and Africa with their blood, in order to minister to the ambition of a single man. " Then, as now, it was attempted to discredit personages whose vittues, still more than their high birth and their mis fortunes, render them respectable in the eyes of the whole universe. But these caricatures were then slid publicly. because the people bad 11 , 4 been enlightened by their mis fortunes, and because they might be deceived with impunity. Now the, are circulated clandestinely because the foreigner wel' kn'%ws that the people love and respect their King, and because the emissaries thus employed know that they • are watched. " Buonaparte promises I —What signifies his promises to you since you well know his bad faith? Ile promised yon the Republic, to conceal his ambition ; to cheat you he took the title of Consul for ten years ; be promised you that his Consulship should be for life, and to subjugate you lie made himself Emperor. " Yes, be made himself Emperor; that title was never legally given him ; he extorted it to the great astonishment of his comoanions in arms, all of whom were more worthy then he, and who will yet prove that to him. 48 You are told also that I am an Irishman, that lam ready to take my departure, and that a vessel is prepared to carry me hack to the. bosom of my family t What absurdity I My family has resided in France for three generations, my father was born among you, and I have never been out of France. have no longer any relations in Ireland; I have not even friends there. All my relations are in France, and all my friends in Bourdeaux. The King is my father, the French are my biethren, you are my children. Such is my family, and I will never abandon it. 48 Listen not then, my dear fellow citizens, to the danger ous insinuations of the enemy of the country. Be calm and prudent, and von will he strong Be firm and constant in your love for the King. Of these sentitnents you have given proofs, which have placed Bordeaux in the first- rank of cities. You will not permit them to diminish. " And you, obscure and powerless agitators, your . erimitial and clandestine enterptizes will prove abortive. We know your schemes, and they wilt be defeated by that harmony which, in this city, happily prevails between the magistrates, the military, and all the administrations. " Each is at his post ; the magistrates to support the good and to punish the wicked; the troops surrounded with a glory which fidelity crowns, to concur with the civil authorities in defeat* and represslfig perverse designs. " All the Civil. and Military Chiefs surround that illus trious Princess, wilom you cannot see without shedding tears of tendcrne‘s - and joy. She,—her love for you, w ou ld ani mate us, wo u ld t eac h us to brave all dangers, open and con cealed, were we not already so powerfully mosied by our love fur the King.' " Peepte of Bourdeaux, Let us all swear, at the feet of the rONAL REGISTER. APRIL 9. daughters of twenty kings, the honour and the glory of our country, that we shall be faithful to our legitimate Sovereign and his august House " Vive le Roi, Vivent les Bourbons. (Signed) "Count LYNCH, Mayor. " Bourdcau x, March 22, 1 s 15." PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE SLAVE TRADE. The Papers relative to the Slave Trade have been printed and pre sented to the House of Commons. The following document, con taining the declaration of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris, is • the most important, as containing an unanimous and energetic re probition of the principle of that abominable traffic. DECLARATION. The Plenipotentiaries of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris, the 3Oth of May, 1814, assembled in' Congress : Having taken into consideration that the traffic known under the namesof the 'Vries* Slave Trade has been regarded by just and en lightened men of all ages, as repugnant to the principles of huma nity and of universal morality; that the particular circumstances in which this traffic owes its origin, and the difficulty of abruptly interrupting its progress, . have to a certain degree .lessened the odium of continniag it : but that at last the public voice in all civilized countries has demanded that it should be suppressed as soon as possible ; that since the character and the detail, of this traffic have been better known, and the evils of every sort which accompanied it completely unveiled, several European govern ments have resolved to suppress it ; and that successively all powers possessing colonies in different parts of the world have acknow ledged, either by legislative acts or by treaties and other formal engagements, the obligation and necessity of abolishing it ; that by a separate article of the last Treaty of Paris, Great Britain and France engaged to unite their efforts at the Congress at Vienua to . engage all the powers of Christendom to pronounce the universal and definitive abolition of the slave trade ; that the Plerripetentiaries as. warbled at this Congress cannot better honour their mission, fulfil their duty, and immifest the principles which guide their august Sovereigns, than by labouring to release this engagemept, and by proclainong in the name of their Sovereigns the desire to put an end to a scourge, which has so lung desolated Africa, degraded Erh rope. and afflicted humanity. The said Plenipotentiaries have agreed to open their deliberations as to the means of accomplishing so salutary an object, by a solemn declaration of the principles which have guided them in this work. Fully' authorised to such an act, by the unanimous adherence of their respective courts to the principles announced in the said separate article of the Treaty of Paris, they in consequerice de clare, in the face of Europe, that, looking upon the universal abolition of the Slave Trade, ris a measure particularly swarthy of their attention, cooformable to the.epirit of the age, and to the ge petal principles of their august Sovereigns, they are animated with a sincere desire to concur, by every means in .their power, in the most prompt and effectual execution of this measure, end to act in the employment of those means with all the zeal ausrall the perse verence which so great and a good cause merit. Too well informed of the sentiments of their So vereigns not to foresee, the, however honourable may be their object, they %until not pursue it without a just regard to the interests, the habits, and even the prejudices of their subjects; the said Pleuipetentiaries at the same time acknowledge, that this general declaration should not prejudge the period which each particular Power should look upon as the expedient for the definitive abolition of the traffic in slaves. Consequently Me determination of the period when this traffic ought universally to cease, will be an object of negociation between the different Powers; it being, however, well understood, that no means proper to easnre and accelerate its progress should be rieglecteel ; and that the reciprocal engagement contracted !:y the present declaration between the Sovereigns who have taken part la it, should not be considered as rained until the ininneart %slum complete ticeess shall have crowned their united efforts. In making tlek declaration known to Europe, and to all the eivi• lized nations of the twat, the said Plenipotentiaries flatter them *elites they shall engage ail other governments, and particularly is.ose who, in abolishing the traffic in slaves, have already manifested the same sentimenk, to support them with their suffrage in a eau-e, of winch the- final triumph will be one of the greateA monuments of the-age which undertook it, and which bhall have gloriuudy car . e(1 it into complete effect. February 8, 181,5. PC 117, I.r. *3, twit of coo In 01 ~~ wo. --- - - ~~ `WIOW. ,