The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-23 00:00:00

A PRII, t)S..

dived so map), affronts,
prided to the complete _
acid te.igning himself persooto
.Lim. abaedim mice more
st mots to • their frightful
•almve human strength; and
'ltui •re and the happiness of
foci itice. He mould have
' of whom, as he wise
hi dory to hold every thi,
thitig, to whom alone he
•to devote, his life. It was
the tuistbroinei of civil war
.I.llle restored to the French , he ,'tlietn
4.1 e, left it free to choose for , ...maven., and I .•
.Basely and its happiness on institutions whiclemight protect both.
• }lc hoped for the nation the prestlyetion of all which he had ac
4o)• 'red by twentyftve years of combats and of glory, the etercist
ot its sovereignty in the choke of a dynasty, and in the stipulation
of the conditions on which it would be called npon to reign. He
Expected from the new government respect for the glory of the
orioles. the rights of the brave, the guarantee ot ail the new interests,
of 111...0e interests which had arisen and been maintained foe a (limos
tor of a century, resulting from all the laws political oat ivil, nbs
served. rcvered during period, becahse they were identified'
with the manners, the habits, the wants of-the. nation. Far from•
that, all idea of the sovereignty of the people wosaliseardorl. The
principle on which all and civil, sincethe Itevo.
had re-ted, was egnally discarded. France•ltas been 'treated
by tic Rottilyn4 like a revolted countr);, recompicretl hy the arms
Of its ancient masters, and subjected anew to a feudal dominion.
Loci- Sta..islas .avier did not recognise the treaty which alone made
the throne of France vacant, and the abdication which atnie per
initted him to ascend it. He ptetersiled. to have reignert.l9 years;
thus insulting both the governments which had been established
in this. period and the people who had consecrated them by its serf;
fraoes, and the army which hail defended them, sad even the Stye-
reigns who bath recoznized them in their iintnerons treaties. A
chatter digested by. the Senate, all imperfect its it was, was throwni,
into oblivion. There was imposed, on France a pretmoled.constito.
tional law, as easy to elude as to revoke, and,,in the form ,ofoinsple.
royal decrees.' without consulting, the nation,•witliont hearing eves'
rho c bodies, become Illogol--pliantonis.of the ltletiobal.aedresonta-
' tion. And as the Bourbons passed oediaanees without.right, and
promised without guarantee, they eluded without good faith, gird
executed without ri lelity. The violation of the pretended Chart''r
was restrained, only by the timidity of theiegovernment; the extent
of the abuses of power was.Onty moraine(' by its weakness. the dia.
location ot the army, the dis"persioo of ita officers, the exile,of many
of ownt, the degradation of the soldiers, the imppression of their en;
douments, their deptivalion of pay and half-pay, the rethiction of
the salaries of eeionaries, their being stripped of, their honours, the
pre eminence of the deviations of the feudal, monarchy, the
tempt of citizens, dcsigaated anew by the Third Edo'
pared and already commenced spoliation of th 4 p!
tional property, the actual depreciation of that wi
obli4i.d to -ell, the retinal of leuelality, in its titles,
Hi lucrative rights, the re,tatablislinsent, of ultramcoo
cipte, the abolition of the liberties of
.11re Gollk
the annihilati.n of the Coneordat, the restorat'
the hottleraitce arising from an exOhisive religion, ;II
a handful of itobles over a people accostomed.to
what the Bourbons either did or iithet: to de for France. .
It was nutter such cireiguotanees that time Emperor
sported the isle of Elpa ; ,;itch *elle tlii motiris: Of the elt
winch he took, and irk the consideration of lily 4Am/of
at ak wit' tom, compared with 'the iiieeke4ts o. the be'
he has cooseerittrd his osiotencie. He did hit • iket,
losoat of Forme, out theensitrary, be eictingriisited
the proprietors of national property, forming four.:
landholder., would have been compelled to make tau..
the war which the citizens, oppretied, • degridett
holder., would have .beeh conipolled• to deeltre
onrs ; the war whir ii PrntestantS, Jews, men bf
would have been compelled to sustain against the
He Came to deliver France, and was received air a dr
rived almos; alone; lie traversed 220 leagues Witt
'whom combats,
.and resumed without resistatice,
t4l mid the aCclamatiOns of an immense majority of t,
throne deserted by the Marlton!, who, in the army,
hold, among the national guards; were MAO! to 11111)
to attempt to maintain them there. Anttleti"rrpfeced

It
.aquered, _ ant; . necessary ,
,the balance of great kingdom, and to the security of moll states.
.There bid been nothhig clanged,—if respecting the rights of a 'cruet
,station which wishes to respect the rights atilt others, which, proud
.*tid generous. has been lowered, but never debased, it be left to re.
. slime a monarch, and to give itself `a constitution ind laws suited to
its manners.. its inirrest.s, its habits, and its new wants. Thee is
nothing eliangedit not attempting to compel France to resume a
lytiasty which it no longer wishes, fendatchains which it has broken,
and to submit to siguorial and ecclesiastical claims from which it bat
been liberated, 'it is not wished td impose npon t laws, to inter-
tuedille
with its internal affairs, to assign it a lbrin of governmeut„
to give it masters iu conformity to the bite' etas or the passion 4 of
i's neighboor. There is nothing eltanged,l—if while Franc* is occupied
Atrpruparitue the nevi social compact-which shall guarantee the liberty
:of its citiaeiss„.itie triumph of the liberal ideas which prevail in-En.
tope, and can no longer be stifled, it be not forced to withdraw it.
*elf, it. order to Combat,: flout those pacific meditations and means
.of internal - -prosperity to which the people and their head wish to
Aerate theMselves in happy accordance. There has been nothing
oehanged,—if, ben the French nation asks wily to remain at Ovate
with all Europe, an unjust coalition do nut compel it, as it did in
1792, to defend its will and its rights, its independence, and the so.
yereigo of its chbice. •
(Signed) 40 The Minister of State,,President of the
• Section of the Finances.
" The two DtFERMON.
" The Minister of Spite, President of the
Section of the wet iee,
Colnt REGNAUD delT. JEAN. D',VNGELEY.
".Tie. President of the Section of Legislation,
"The Count BOULAY.
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.42 44 The President of the Suction of War,
• " The Count 4NDREOBSY.
(Cnatified conform.). . .
"114 bijniiter .Secretary of State."
—l.B The Duke,de BASSANO."

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present indi•ereetly
•• is for tole an ob-
i to be hilted into
dy the earetios the
'diet priresiob-
clauger where none
it to spring up fVom
rations which may be
izeusable 114(0,1.11mi.
3tive informatign
‘l,cr.ol a resolution
upon a speedy
just inquietude,—
Once. vain do
of tbe„pussions.
Ar to mike itself
prevail ribrio sl*
.ov pre-
seep. deft mimed
justify so unheard) of
best r efootat ion.
dreeise, ineureiv•r-
. about to er Ye of
Europe. tingovern-
ludgment to rat 4 ion

_ your nttenticni to
governments; 1.4. t Ilia
Sprang upon sorsc watt►.

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ants, supported 'n many injuries, to have eon. .of the nation, vrinch Mgt matey I reit Willurnee(thre. hArijust
.•te violation of the engagements made with hiot, designlted bier a foeith time by the recePtiolo.it.itave him in
hip ta-
If persomilly to the lot whir:4.l,p* prepared tire vid and triumphinfittarelnind that nation by which and
more his wife, his son, blu fawdy, bla -faithful fur the interest of *Mar tie trteani,' to reign,
,what ii the wish..of Na-
'rightful destiny ? Such -a
resolution epireani , noleon? That whist' The French-000e vrisithe independence o(
; awl vet Napoleon wutitrl hare talf.tu it, it / France, infernal perree,"peset'willtidi
oiness of France had been'tli€ price MOO ~treaty of Paris ut the 30tIs of May,' 11111 What is there MO
have devoted himself 'again for' the, French' .tcharmed In the state of Europe and in the hirp'ofiretrase Wharf pr 4.
is he wiAses to declare to Europe, bo tn4Les if ur!ed itself? What voice sir raised to denukrd chit succour winch,
?ry thing, to whom he,wiAtes to ascribe ivory according to the deelarititin, Should beonly &lien when claimed ?
ne he wishes to answer for all.his actions, aid There hag been nothing chair ed,--,shonld the Allied Powers return,
It was for France alone, mut to. sicytt fium it as we sreboitortte crineettliey will, to just and moderate sentiments,
civil war, that lie abdicate. 4 the croWri ift 11114 i if they admit that the e'xisteirce of France in a' respeet.bfe and
'retich people the rights w'rlch he Itiht-o f them;
,depeutleotoiluation, as tat returived from conquering as from being
106 C for itErif a•now mounters; and to eslaitilfahrts' conquered, from dominating as from being enslaved, as necessary to
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Aare.liy, the cot - ; ' REPORT TO THIS EMPEROR.
Estate,_ the pre-
Slttg,-If prudence makes it my duty not to prep
mrchissers of no- to your Majesty a phantom of chimerical dangers, it i
vhich they, ,were ligation not less siered; not to suffer that vigil.tnee t
s, its privileges,. .
i alleceilfuf seenrity which is presefibed to me by.
I..,B.,,nl,T.ltainehpr'll- Preservation of peen ' 'that great interest of France, t
"'an r"V`•"1 jeet of the wishes ' o yonr.lllajesty. To see daug
ation of ;tither,
exists, is som'etitneti
Ortsvekeit, and to cause it to
he doniinatiOp of another side; 'to shut..-4 r eyes aguinst the indication
I:,ility;—such %Ai the foreitinneri. oi.lt,' would be. in aet of inexcust
tituce. .
I ought not to dissemhte, Sire,..thht though no posit
iperor Napoleht .confirnia, tip to Otis dcty, on the.partof foreign Pow
he deterniination fortnaHy adhpteil; • which should lead.two.to presume
Spn al irttetcNis an war;
.yet ap ratifen; -10146ently itithotise ajm
e notion to which alarthingsy _ m% lire mitnifeatEd on all sides at MI
nit
ng ' war 'into. the • ypu 9T*4l4e ter cologibettee otavelon to the tannin t
!d the war which The voice of your Maigsty has not yet betn ahl
Altlis of French heard—an ineompeehinsibie syeitiiii threatens to pt
]p their spoilers; pariyers....that of prepatringjhu.pindhat without a,:n
r, iinviiiAateit by lijninary etplitmatton with the-alibi'. which they at
reinsetheirnirrep-'. te- fight:: ay Whatever pretext theyirstend to justif
' varioui rtliniour I E.; roeeeding, Ilia contract of your' ri)esty is its l
their perseentors. Hi faefsepeek for themselves ; they Aito simple, pre
deliverer..Helrl ' able. ;,. and filial the mere statement which) I am at
thout.‘npposkiiin, theselbetai tuff Conneils Of all the Sovereigus of Eon
I
amidst the iatti-- tusettfi mid the nations, may alike pronounce judgn
r the eititens, the , portant cause. . .
y, to their hom nts e-. 1 Sodays, since, Sir, I found it necessary to call yi
em an ir dividind ', , the preParatlarts of ' the • different foreign gnvernn
hind it ibii bead ' genus of dibturbilain-wiliell lot I moment sprang tti