The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-02 00:00:00

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nation !
all for France !' that is my motto. My-elf and family, whom this
.great people have raised to the Throne of the Freon, and whom
they have maintained there, notwithstanding political storms and
vicisaitudrs, we desire, we deserve, we claim no other title.
COUNCIL OF STATE.
EXTRACT FROM TILE REGISTER OF DELIBERATIONS.
SITTING OF MARC!! ES.
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lg The Council of State in resnmiug itsinnetions, considers it%l if
bound to declare the principles which form the ntle of its opinions
and its conduct.
" The Savereienty resides in the People, which is the only source
of legitimate power.
" In July, 170, the Nation re-conquered its rights, which had
long been.usitrped or 'disregarded.'
" The National Assembly abolished the Feudal Monarchy, and
established a Constitutional and Representative Goveinutent.
" The resistance of the flotations to the will of the people caused
their fall and their banishment from the French territory. • •
" Twice did die people consecrate by their votes the new forms
of Governmeu t assembled by its 'representati ves.
" In the year. 8, Bonaparte. already crowned by victory, was
-raised to the Government.by the national assent. A coasatitutium
created the Consular Magistracy.
" The *mains Consnitum of the 28th Floreal, year 10, contereld
on Napoleon the hereditary dignity, awl reathacd it haeilitoryin
his family.
" These
the people,
SE farina
France.
were stl

411. the
Constitotions poscess
the power of tt decreed, of Coo-
-stittition which it 44,prepa reel should 6g submitted to the acceptance of
Not French people, and Oat Louis •Sianislous- Xavier atonic: be pro•
Onimed Bing of Ala French as soon as he should hare accepted the Con-
stilutian, and sworn to observe it, and to cause it to be obserced.
" The abdication of. the Emperor was solely the result of the tin-
fortunate situation to which France and the Emperor had bgen te-
duced by the events of the war, by treason, and by the oceupation
of the capital. The abdication had Ito other object than to avoid a
civil mar, and theeffitsion of Vienett blood. Not consecrated by
.the rid of the people, that act cannot destroy the solemn contract
made between the nation amt the Emperor ; and even though Na-
pulcon might have personally abdicated the crown, he could but
sacrifice the rights.of his son called to feign after him.
" Meanwhile a llourhon was appointed Licntenaut-General of
the ISing,dUni, and assumed the reins of Government.
" Louis-Statiislas-Xavier arrived in France, made his entry into a
capital, and • took possession of the throne according to the order
established in the ancient feudal monarchy.
He did not accept the Constitntiim decreed by the Senate, he
did not swear to observe it and cause it to be obserVed-At was not
siihmitted to the•acceptance" of the nation. The people subjugated
by the Preenee of foreign armies, could not either freely ur validly
express their will.
Under the protection of these armies. omfatter having thanked
A Weirs) Prince for having raised him to the Throne, Louis Stania-
las-Xavier dated the first act of his authority in the 19111 year of
his reign ; thus &Haling, that the acts which had emanated from
the will of the people were only the`suit of a lone revolt. Ale, to.
luntarily, and hrtlie free exercise of his nml authority. granted a Con-
stitutional Cho; ter, called an Ordonnaste of P4forma Gan ;. and, aK its
only sanction, lie e:itised It to be read in isreigence•tri a near Bd(ly.
,which he-had erepted, and of an Assembly of 11).puties. who \wee
not tree, who did not accept it, who possessed no character to'an.

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troop ; HIS MAJESTY'S REPLY.
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hese three solemn arts were submitted to the arceptanc, ,if
whneonseerated them by nearly four Millions of ‘gites.
mina ‘2 years the Bourbons had thus ceased to reign in
They were there forgotten by their contemporaries, and
Amgen to onr laws, our institntions„ our manners; and our
The existing generation mew then) only by the recollection
foreign war, which they had excited against the Country, and
iiitestine dissentionso which they. Lad occiikioned.
1.1114.
_France was invadedlry hostile armies, and the eap!lta
cupied. -Foreigners:created a pretended provisional rio'veril-
ThEy assembled a minority of the Senators 'and compelled
contraryto Mission, and contrary to ;heir will, to !h..
he'en4tinag Coqatitutioo, to overthrow the Imperial Tbroi`.e,
reml the family of the Bourbons.
he Senate, which had bern instituted only for preserving the
lotions of the Empire, ackintiviedged that it did not puscess
wer of lahlOng a change. It decreed; that the plan of Con-