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

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P ARM OCT. 10.
Yesterday, at.eight o'clock , the king received the Depu•
tation of the Chamber of Peels in the Hall of the Throne,
'The Deputation. was introduced by the Grand Master, the
Master and theAssistanta of the Ceres nies. The,('•
cellar, as President of the Chamber of Peers, read •he Ad-
dressof that. Body, which was conceived in the following
terms:—

Sire,—Your faithful subjects. the Peers of France, hare
been profoundly moved by the words which your Majesty
delivered, from the throne, and whicb
,are felt:in all
hearts. They hasten to
,deposit at your feet the homage of
their respectful and ardent loyalty; that of their retrivt for
your sorrows, of their hope in..your wisdom; ;that of. all the
sentiments which circumstances so important roust excite ;
of all the resources which can he offered by our love for
your person. our fidelity to your blood, our irliertninnble
and boundless devotion for our country and our King.
Sire, when last year Providence, listening to the wisbe,i
of the world, restored you to the wishes of France, re
erected for you the throne of your fathers, our patrimony
as well as yours, the appearance of yoer Majesty , was the
signal of a peace with . which it will permit the
,ciligens
.to
go on in that career which they have begun. and because
it will establish the national honour on- the principles of
unalterable justice ; results of the utmost _importance to the
nation, because it will place individoals in that relative
condition which the state of society requires. If we could
have given this direction to your Majesty's Government.
Frenchmen would have been united
,in heart and in conduct
with the wishes of their King; their interest would have
been confounded with the glory, the love, and the safety
of the Prince. Those desires and those fanatical passions
which would have tilisturbeil atv_ssr‘ler, of.thiogs so auspicious
to the general good, would gradually ..have died , away, or
have been lost in the emptiness of an ineffectual oppositions
Your subjects would have submitted.royogr.laws„whatever
their :opinions might have,, been or ,their !Tow condition.
The Republican or the Imperial party is no lonve to be
•feared; the mass of the nation wish' only -for liberty and
tranquillity. .Foreign, cabiaets..in seeing Frencluneo.-rallied
round your throne, would have limited pretension which then
, you might have withstood,
The constitution having rendered' in for
the • acts of..your .authority.. we priposed. tw ragniaSe it by
.those principles which. we.,bavc hare,..unfolty. sv,9 Aeon
had to strthtgle with the ignorance, the passions, and the
ha•red of the persons who surrounded' yoti they' soonlkgan
'to intermeddle with the Government.. Orders welt* tsiven,
and measures adopted,. in ,which we did not participate.
:Royal Conitni.saries went and kindled civil war in the pro-
vinces, gave arms to the seditious, directed their ferocity
against peaceful citizens, .and spread around terror and
dismay ! They easily succeeded. in:.this, when they an-
nounced that foreigners were their auxiliaries, when they
profaned the name of your Majesty, by invoihig if In their
.addresses, and when in the . South, which foreigners did
not yet occupy, they permitted the entrap
thousand Spaniards. A Marshal of Franc(
on. the bank of the Rhone, and his assassi
apprehended par punished:!. Was it, by;
the people were to be inspired sv#h a lova
meta ? Outrage soon extended itself.; in
.so!
were displayed which were pet thOac Of

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