The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-13 00:00:00

NATIOTIAt

which yon'sarnifested, when Palled titiott you for the
means to' fulfil our engagements, was a brilliant proof
of the attachment of the French to their country, of the
coallenee of the nation in its King ; and Europe has
eagerly received France, replaced in the rank which
belongs to ber.

" The declaration which announces to the world,
the principles on which the union of the five Powers is
founded, sufficiently shows the friendship which pre-
vails among the Sovereigns. This salutary union, dic-
tated by justice and consolidated by morality and re-
ligion, has for its object to prevent the scourge of war,
by the mAintenance of treaties, by. the guarantee of
existing sights, and permits us to fix our eyes on the
long days of peace, which such an alliance promises to
Europe.

" I have awaited in silence this happy epoch, to
turn my thoughts to the national solemnity, in which
religion consecrates the intimate union of the people
with their King. When receiving the Royal function
in the midst of you, I shall take too witness the God
by whom Kings reign, the God of Clovis, of Charle-
magne, of St. Louis; I shall renew at the altar,
the oath, to confirm the institutions founded on
that Charter, which I cherish more, sines the French,
by a unanimous sentiment, have frankly rallied round it.
"In the laws which will he proposed to you, I
shall take care that its spirit shall be always consulted,
in order to secure more and more the public rights of
the French, and to preserve to the Monarchy the force
which it must have to preserve all the liberties which
are dear to my people.
" In seconding my wishes and my efforts, you will
not forget, Gentlemen, that this Charter, delivering
France from despotism, has put an end to revolutions.
I depend en your concurrence to repel those pernicious
principles which, under the mask of liberty, attack
social order, conduct, by anarchy, to absolute power,
and whose fatal success has cost the world so much
Wood and so many tears.

"My Ministers will lay before you the Budget of
the expences, which the public service requires. The
protracted effects of events, the coneequehees of which
we have been found to bear or accept, have not yet al-
lowed me to propose to you, a dimunition of the bur.
dens imposed upon my pow*: but I have the consola-
tion
to perceive, at no great distance, the moment
when I shall be able to satisfy this desire of my heart.
Prom this moment a limit is fixed to the increase of our
debt ; we have the certainty that it will diminish in a
rapid progression.—This certainty, and the loyalty of
France, in the fulfilment of her engagements, will es-
tallish on an immovable foundation the public credit,
which some transitory circumstances, common to other
States, had seemed to Affect for a moment.
" The French youth have just given a noble proof
of the love to their country and their King. The Re-
cruiting Law his been executed with submission, and
often with joy. While the young soldiers enter the
ranks of the army, their brothers, who are released,
remain in the bosom of their families ; and the veterans,
who have fulfilled their engagements, return to their
homes; they axe both living examples of the fidelity,
henceforth inviolable, in emaciating the laws.
" After the calamities of a scarcity, the remembrance
of which still affects my seul, Providence this year,
lavish of its benefits, has coveresiour fields with abun-
dant harvests. They will serve to revive commerce,
whose vessels visit every sea, and shew the French
fag to the most remote nations. Industry and the arts,
also extending their empire, will add to the sweets of
general peace. To the independence of the country,
to public liberty is added private liberty, which France
has never so entirely enjoyed. Let us, thereibre, unite
our sentiments, and our expressions of gratitude to the
Aut'hor of so many blessings, and let us know bow to
render them durable. They will be so, if ban ishing every
sad remembrance. and stilling every resentment, the
French thoroughly persuade themselves, that their
liberties are inseparable from order, which itself rests
upon the Throne, their sole palladium. My duty is to
defend them against their common enemies; I shall
fulfil it, and I shall find in you, Gentlemen, that sup-
port, which I have never yet invoked in vain."

The Moniteur of Tuesday last contains the Royal
ordinance, appointing M. Roy Secretary of State fur
the Finance departwent. A second ordinance follows,
by virtue of which Count Corvetto, in consideration of
the services which he has rendered to thu Monarchy,
is named a Minister of State, and a member of the
Privy Council. A subsequent paragraph announces
that this ex-Minister is so much indisposed as to be con-
k.*, to hi bed.