The National Register. — London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

MG tiahly this line of conduct, by never departing from that con vitational law for which we are indebted to you, by obser ving it so/ h as it now, exis. , , and leaving the period of its perfection to n had the glory of creating it ; it is by now fi\itc.; oto whole attention on the great objects poll - or:1,ot by your Majesty, and attending coustantly to our fist wants. that we shall succeed in repairing our late calam:iirs• Thus with the help of religion, the first prio cipk: of all human societies, will) the support of improved liberty founded on the laws and the re-establish /vent of credit, with the guarantee of an army composed on principles of loyalty, which can never become extinct in the hearts of Frencliinen, we shall restore to the crown anal the nation the force and dignity which beton ,t; to them Tins, after having seen last year, the Emperors and Kings of Europe united, accep - , as the only patentee, the moral character of your Majesty, we will offer to you, Sire, a fresh security to present tN them, in the wise energy of a nation which can renounce the fatal ambition of making itself feared, hut which nouri.hes the firm resolution of impressing around it, in concef t with its Sovereign, the respect ever due to its tights, and the confidence henceforward doe to its pr'neiples. The King answered: • - 1 receive with the most lively sensibility the assurance of the sentiments of the Chamber of Peers. In assembling the Chambers around me, I had to express to them, on that solemn occasion, the profound grief with which my heart was - penetrated : I will now speak to them only of my hoses.—l know my duties and will fulfil them all. I rely with confidence upon the a‘sistance of the Chamber of Petri, to repair the miseries of our country, and I see a sure pledge in the manner in which it has expressed its in tere,ts to me. The deputation from the Chamber of Deputies was next introduced :—M. Laine, the President of the Chaolher, read the following address : SIRE.—Your Majesty's words have deeply moved the hearts of your faithful subjects. the Members of the Cham ber of Deputies. They have filled them with respect, Sire, and, why must they add, With a grief so much the more cruel, because after so many encouraging promises it was the in re unGueseen. The ills of the count!y are great — they are not irreparable. If the nation, inaccessible to the provocations of the Usurper, must bear the penalty of a defection to which it was a stranger, it will support its mis fo to,ie The first consolation is in the return of the legiti mate King. Wb•it guarantee in .fact exists in this dogma of legitimacy, created much more in the interest of people than in that of Kings! This tutelary principle has watched for us—it maintained the succession of our Kings, and prepared fir us, after so many storms, an asylum in the shade of the throne. Violence usurped authority, but imperishable right survived violence. Legitimate Kings alone know how to devote themselves for their people. Your Majesty has provr.d it more than once. Your Majesty, in order to soften (eir miseries, does not fear to impose great privations upon yoxisell; your august family follows your example. A se vere economy is about to reduce the public, expences. NV hat Frenchman could refuse any thing which the wants of the State shall require ! Make theta known to us, Sire, and vou shall see the nation chew itself worthy of you. We 11 ~ye all need of consolation—we seek it in the good your NI - • h 'ed - Union is your first desire— e able to melt down all the of Frenchmen, which we Let them cease to agitate If the resurrection of rights OCT. ,T 2. fur ever abolished. We have sworn the Charter—Sire, let your Majesty suffer this pride, it is not even pern.itted to entertain a doubt of our good faith. We would tepair the misvrics of France, repair them without f; eslt convul sions, with wisdom, with speed. It is by our acts, by the eagerness with which we shall welcome the measures neces sary to the maintenance of the franchises of the people and the public peace, that it will be seen whether we are faith ful to our promises. However, Site, in the midst of wishes for universal concord, and even to cement it, it is our duty to solicit your justice against those who have placed the throne in danger! Your clemency has been almost unli mited, yet we do not come to ask you to retract it ; the pro mises of Kings ought, we know, to be sacred ; but we en treat you, in the name of the people who are the victims of these measures. whose weight overwhelms them, to order at least that justice should march where clemency has stop ped. Let those - who, even now, encouraged by impunity. do not fear to make a parade of their rebellion. he delivered up to the just severity of the Tribunals. The.Chantber will concur with zeal in the making of laws necessary to the ac complishmeni of this wish. It will shew the same zeal in the means to render to religion, which consoles us in our miseries, which prescribes oblivion of injuries, which lends its sanctity to the faith of oaths, this power more strong than the law. We will not speak. Site, to your Majesty of the necessity of entrusting only to pure hands the different branches of your aethority; the Ministers who surround you afford us, on this bead, encouraging . hopes; their vigilance, on this so essential point, will be so much the more easily exercised, inasmuch as the proof of events has revealed all sentiments and all thoughts; ours, Sire, have no other ob ject than the happiness of your Majesty and the safety of the country, and our wishes will be fulfilled if we obtain this glorious prize of our zeal and our labours. The King replied : I am deeply touched with the sentiments expressed by the Chamber. I embrace with eagerness the hopes it offers of a better futurity. It may rely.upon th e confidence with which I shall express myself upon the wants of the State, and upon the firmness which I shall always shew to main tain the rights that are to ensure the public safety. Nlaje,ty 11.4 s pointed nut to us. 1 i is s r ,f ~ • Iwe shall he 11- , 4 4) -..-- -j';l i. name a i '.!- P, i.i . I ~ '''' . ~- • 4 i r A' I- 4 4,4 t-t • •;., ...: ... er. .4,,,,,,0 : 4 , , : 4 ,.. .1.. , FS oi .' ..t. ,4 ,...7 - 5. lib . i • • . _ ... h . '• ' , 1 11 frk - t% ~ otii THE NATIONAL REGISTER. CHAMBER' OF DEPUTIES. P‘nTs. Orr. t;.--The sitting of yesterday was . opened at noon tinder pre,idencv of M. Laint. The litebident, after announcing that his Excellency the Keeper of the Seals had communicationk to make to the Chamber, requested him to ascend the Tribune. The Keeper of the Seals read the Speech, which is subjoined, and the follou lug Law. Project was read by a Secretary. ErEFCH OF THE KEEPER OF THE SEALS. GENTIAMEN—The King bas orilefed ns to lay before yon a plan of law for the suppresrion of seditious cries and provocations to re• hellion. . Our old and new laws contain sufficient regulations for the Op pression of these crimes in times of tranquillity, and when no extraor dinary circumstance interrupts the order and accustomed pio eel-dings of the Government. But if great crimes have been cum 'flitted, if the laws have been disrerarded, if a peaceable and disarmed multitude has been forced to yield to violence and arms, if, for his own preservation, the citizen who was subject to the laws, has been forced to remain motiooless berme seditious bands, without dis cipline or (-outrun], assembled as the last support of a desperate fac tion ; if iniquity has for a len2th of time enjoyed its fatal triumphs, calamities are ;till prolonged even when these events are interr u p teil. Rebels then endeavour by means of audacity to recover their lint advantages. The seditious mutually iestigate each other, and make efforts to be perceived in all places, and at every hour, as if certain of a new victory should they succeed in inspiring terror. They re ceive into their society Ali whom the armies have r4eeted with to-