The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-09 00:00:00

• 13ORDEAUX PAPERS.

THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF COURUEAVX TO THE
CITIZENS.

CITIZEWS OF ISOVIIDEAUKr
" The success of tl:e measures with which the ditferent
audio: isles are unceasingly employed. depends on the main-
tenance 9f outer and tranquility., Every thing that tends to
disturb order and tranquility .is, in ordinary times, an evil ;
but their preservation is much more necesssry when a just
resentment is excited lir,* crimininariaggiession, it the in-
dignation which that aggressiskii inspires he ntit participated
by same men, whorn,tsn in.cOnceWable raniiticisin binds, it
is not by resorting to awaits which die:Police-Laws reprove,
that they can be either reformed or 'Puniehed. •
Every assemblage forming :troops in'the public phces is
inconsistent with older, because evil disposed persons take
advantage of Stich opportunities for circulwing thousands of
false report eiledlated to tiis:cad
" Ail running about the city and inconsiderate cries pro.
Geed, is the Mojoi-sGiueial *Of tbs. Natibnal mud) ba* wit

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from an inconsideration which is the moie dangerous, as it
tends to produce the exhaltation of conflicting opinion, and
all those excesses of which civil wars are the commencement

" And does it not evidently appear that it is a civil war,
which the enemy of France desires ? His emissaries never
fail to circulate what is calculated to mislead the people, and
i t was thus our fatal revolution commenced.

" Then. as now, these good people were told—you shall
pay no more taxes. As if a country could be defended and
governed without taxes ! But this you were not told—your
children• shall be sent to moisten Europe, Asia, and Africa
with their blood, in order to minister to the ambition of a
single man.

" Then, as now, it was attempted to discredit personages
whose vittues, still more than their high birth and their mis-
fortunes, render them respectable in the eyes of the whole
universe. But these caricatures were then slid publicly.
because the people bad 11,4 been enlightened by their mis-
fortunes, and because they might be deceived with impunity.
Now the, are circulated clandestinely because the foreigner
wel' kn'%ws that the people love and respect their King, and
because the emissaries thus employed know that they • are
watched.

" Buonaparte promises I—What signifies his promises to
you since you well know his bad faith? Ile promised yon
the Republic, to conceal his ambition ; to cheat you he took
the title of Consul for ten years ; be promised you that his
Consulship should be for life, and to subjugate you lie made
himself Emperor.
" Yes, be made himself Emperor; that title was never
legally given him ; he extorted it to the great astonishment
of his comoanions in arms, all of whom were more worthy
then he, and who will yet prove that to him.
48 You are told also that I am an Irishman, that lam ready
to take my departure, and that a vessel is prepared to carry
me hack to the. bosom of my family t What absurdity I My
family has resided in France for three generations, my father
was born among you, and I have never been out of France.
have no longer any relations in Ireland; I have not even
friends there. All my relations are in France, and all my
friends in Bourdeaux. The King is my father, the French
are my biethren, you are my children. Such is my family,
and I will never abandon it.
48 Listen not then, my dear fellow citizens, to the danger-
ous insinuations of the enemy of the country. Be calm and
prudent, and von will he strong Be firm and constant in
your love for the King. Of these sentitnents you have given
proofs, which have placed Bordeaux in the first- rank of
cities. You will not permit them to diminish.
" And you, obscure and powerless agitators, your.erimitial
and clandestine enterptizes will prove abortive. We know
your schemes, and they wilt be defeated by that harmony
which, in this city, happily prevails between the magistrates,
the military, and all the administrations.
" Each is at his post ; the magistrates to support the good
and to punish the wicked; the troops surrounded with a glory
which fidelity crowns, to concur with the civil authorities in
defeat* and represslfig perverse designs.
" All the Civil. and Military Chiefs surround that illus-
trious Princess, wilom you cannot see without shedding tears
of tendcrne‘s-and joy. She,—her love for you, would ani-
mate us, would teach us to brave all dangers, open and con-
cealed, were we not already so powerfully mosied by our love
fur the King.'
" Peepte of Bourdeaux, Let us all swear, at the feet of the