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citation was opened for representing to foreign
vernments the situation in which France was placed
by this stipulation, made in goad faith, mid in the
interest of every people. The King spoke to thens
in the language of confidence and frankness ; he
addressed himself to Sovereigns worthy of hearing

" I would it were possible, Gentlemen, to apprize
you of all the difficulties inseparable from such a
negociation, unexampled, perhaps, in the initials of
politics. It was necessary to combat unt agaiva
general views, not against political combination.,
hut against the prejudices, frequently exaggerates!,
of a multitude of t•reditors solemnly invited to make
good their claims, and who from every part of Eu-
rope pressed the Government, and denied, as I may
say, the right of disputing their claims.
" These obstacles, of a natnre hitherto unknown,
would have been perhaps insurmountable, were It
not for the sentituents of equity which animated the
Ministers rhsrged to examine and 111111111 dill the
interests of the people, and the impartiality and
moderation of the illustrious mediator whom the
confidence of Europe had invited to preside over
this important negociation. It has been at length
terminated. New Conventions with 311 the Slates
which bad taken in that of the inth of November,
1815, have definitively regulated the debts of
France towards their subjects, and the means of
liberation. , .

" His Majesty has commanded us to coramoni-
elite to you the result, until he can lay before you
the Acts themselves, when they shall have obtained
the necessary sanction to permit their publication.

" One of these Acts concerns the Continental
Powers. The amount which Frossiee•lias to loutish
for liquidating her debt toward. their subjects., is
definitively fixed at 12,040,000 fr.
" By a particular arrimgement with Spain, one
million id specialll set apart for what is due to that
Power, by virtue of an ,additional article of the
Treaty couchtded with her in 1814; but as this
article is reciprocal, and applicable to the French
ereditoni of Spitio as well as to the Spanish creditors
of Feistier, it has been stipulated that the funds to
defray Mitt portion of our debts should remain in
deposit, until' the Spanish Government shall hare,•
according to the bases and. prindiples-uf the Treaty,
satisfied the just claims of the French.
" A Separate Convention, which has been con-
cluded with England., to assure the execution of
the additional article Of the Treaty of the :30th ef
May, 1814, and of the Special Convention of the
90th November, 1815, hxes at 3,000,000 fr. of
realer the definitive completion of the funds, of
which the payment has been stipulated in the 4th
article of the Couvention, relative to the
tiou of the debts due to the subjects ef his I.li non.
nic Majest:y.
a Thus, Gentlerhen; the arrangements t;l%t
have been concluded, impose on us the oblizatioa.
of creating 16,040,000 fr. of renter. I lis 11;.jest
has co aaaaa lutitled ut to preseht the law fur inser:lmig
them upou the great book.
" By this, Gentlemen, will be finally closed that
abyw of which, in 1815, it was iiiip..ssible to
utea-
M the depth. and which threatened to swallow
up the public fortune.
" It is doubtless distressing to us to present rift
with a charge so burdensome as a great consola-
tion. More than once in the coarse of' our eff
have we been penetrated with a profound grief, iu
considering that a burden our country would
to beer, even when we should have obtained all
that we demanded. But now we have the consola-
tion of thinking, that we have neglected 'nulling to
diminish it, and theuce has arisen our resoltition its
bear the responsibility of submitting the Treaty El
the consent of the King.
" To appreciate the result of our efforts, it is
necessary calmly to draw jour attention toward,
the pest, and to consider all the consequences of
the disastrous system which had tteettnoulattBl out
France charges so exorbitant. The mass of claims
presented mounted to one milliard six iiiiiidred
millions: of this wars about 180,000,000 have
been transferred to the fund of credit, created by
the law of the teth of April, 1815. About
30,000,000 have been declared inadmissible, and
there remained one thousand three hundred mil-
lions to be liquidated.
" Of whatever reduction this sum might be con-
sidered susceptible by a liquidation, conformable
to the regulations traced in the Convention of the
20th of November, it is impossible to believe that
it would have remained at the amount of the capital
represented by the rode of 16,0.40,000 fr. which
we now require you to create.
" To secure the exact payment of the sums lit!S•
tined to acquit our debts, it has been deterniii.ed
that the liquidation should be continued by the
Powers themselves towards their own subjects.
Prance will no further interfere in this labour than
in giving the means proper for facilitating it."
"The epoch is now arrived in which France is to
receive the pike of ber courageous resignation.
Holding these Treaties, of which she has fulfilled
themosit rigorous conditions, she will not demand
in vain, from Europe, to fulfil in its turn those
which are favourable to her.

"The Treaty of the 40th November contains these
words :--• Tire military occupation of France may
terminate at the end of three years.'—This term
approaches, and every French bean, beats with the
hope of no looter seeing on the soil of the country
any other bunters floating-than French banners.—
The Stuvereigns are going to assemble to pronoutwe
upon this great question which contains the demi-
ines of Europe. These are no longer those confe-
rences of Kings which history has so often traced
as a melancholy of the concert of atreng.it
against weakness.Prel'ari is august union will oprit
under other auspices. Justice will preside throe.
The sentiments already manifested by the rulers of
nations proclaim before baud their decision. They
will yield to the wish of the King, to that wish.
which, after the example of his august fainnly,
all France repeats every day with an noontime*
voice. They have already heard its and know that
the conditions, of which you are going to vote the
accomplishment, are not the only ones which we
have fulfilled with a scrupulous exactness.
" In fact. the most perfect tranquillity reigns
throughout France; our instifutions develope them-
selves; they increase is strength with so moot
the more rapidity, as, at epochs so active as our..
days possess the importance of years. The Charter,
open to all parties, receives them not to be usurped,
but that they may unite, and lose themselves in its