The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-27 00:00:00

PROCIA NIA"! TON.

Maynr's Office ri the City of Bordeaux.—'The yor of Bordeaux
to lets fellow -citizetis.
irell'ii,:aat.t rf Holrilevx ! p aerial Migi:trate of ynur
city- has even summoned, hy circumstances the most fortunate. to he
set iliterpieter of your long suppressed dishes, and the organ of your
in order to ‘velemne, in your name, the Nephew, the Son-
in Law ef Lillis XVI. whose presence converts into allies, irritated
taiintis, who, almost to your gales, bore the name of encodes.
Airealv, people of Ilowdeattx. proclamat• en.; oinltipled by
yo r impatient pens, amidst the subservience of 11,e press, have re-
asaired you as to the intention of our King. and the plans ot his Allies.
It is not to stil;act your provinces to a feweign yoke th,,t the
Eneli-h, tl C Spatii -.ad.:, the Portuguese appear there They have
as.(»thletl in the South, as people in other countries have dove in
she North, to 11 e Amy the scourge of nations, and replace him by a
Noliareh, the hello rof his peorile. It is threneh him only that we
can i,peeas • the resentincet of a neighbouring flatten, against which
he ere r recipitat«l by the most perfidious despotism.
If I teal nut been convinced that the presence of the flour-
buns, eoedue led by their g..nerons Allies, must put a pc-14rd to your
calamities, still I -should not have de,,erted your city ; but should
le.ve bent my heal hi silence under a temporary )oke. Never
shon!.l I have be en seen to wave that colour which presages a' pure
eovernmeet, had I not been assured that all classes of citizens would
enjoy those b!eSsings which the progress of the human mind pro-
mised to-om• age.
Tile hands of the Bourbons are free from French blood. With
the tegument of Louis X I. in their bands, they forget all resent-
:- rnent ; every where they proclaim, and they prove, that tolerance is
'lhe iirst wish of their soul:. Awe' c that the ministers of a religion
elifferent from that which they profess have lamented the fate of
Aiiegs' and Pontiff:, they promise equal protection to every faith
:-•uttie:l invokys at God of. peace and reconciliution.
1 r d:; luring the horrible ravages of r ninny eneentic•ed by !ken-
ti,usuess, oi-it they forget the errors cat;:,ed by the illusions of liberty.
FAT from waling them to fall on those e ha, with an ardour two severely
puoishvd, pursued its vide phantom, they came to restore that true
Pherty which leaves at mice tho people and the monarch without
iriistru•t. ery Liberal institution shall be maiiit;.lued. Alarmed at
the fidelity of the French in voting imposts, the pillars of the despotism
the Prince-will lie the first to devise, with your representatives, the
inost fecal mode of taxerti.m the most equitable distribtith;, in order
that the people.. may not be overwhelmed.
Those brief mid conAdieg words which the husband of the dangle
ferof Louis XVI. has just addressed to yon—"Nee more tyrants !—No
more war !—No more conscriptions more vexatious imposts!".
have already cheered your families. '
Already his Majesty has twice proclaimed, in the face of Europe, 1
that the interest of the State made iii a low with him to confirm the
ales, which by innumerable changes interested 50 Many ft: nines in
6,tates.henctforwara guariulpech 1