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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 the 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.

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