The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-12 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO THE KING.

" The Deputies of departments congratulate themselves
on having assembled on the eve of the anniversary of the
revolution of July amidst those generous citiz:ns who have
sealed that revolution with their blood.
" We have performed a sacred duty in offering to the
noble victims the tribute of the sorrows and tears of France,
and we are grateful to your Majesty for having made us
witnesses of the solemn festival of a victory which patri-
otism has adorned with all its splendours, and which the
cordial and majestic unanimity of a great people has ren-
dered sa imposing.
" In a display of public concord so affecting, ire have
beheld the universal sentiments of united France gathered
round your constitutional throne. It is to cement more
and more strongly this happy unanimity that with our
vows we invoke the uniform action of all the Powers. The
homogeneousness of the administration of public affairs
through all its hierarchies,—its exercise, always placed in
clean and capable hands, faithful to the principles of the
revolution of July,—will impress upon your Government
a general character, which will redouble its energy, and
assure it of that frank co-operation which your Majesty
demands of us, and which use promise.
" Such is the most effectual means of putting an end to
those agitations by which France is confounded and ex-
hausted, to the criminal machinations of the partisans of
the deposed family, whose audacity still calls for an unre-
mitting vigilance, whose intrigues invoke a stern repres-
sion. It is thus that we shall see vanish the hopes of those
madmen who dream of some chimera of a republic, so
justly repudiated by the national opinion, disturb society,
mar the public quiet, and become too frequently the ac-
complices of a party which, faithful to its shameful tradi-
tions, foments excesses for dividing and weakening us.
" These vain attempts will fail before the resolute will
of France, before the experience which rlaces her on her
guard against tae guilty ambitions of all epochs; against
the illusions of the past that never can return, and which
public reason has irrevocably condemned.

" Supported by a concurrence of all ails, she will re-
press the fictions, whosoever they be, and will more and
more firmly consolidate internal order.

" A national Government can never be powerless ; its
force is derived from its origin, its interests, and the sen-
timents of all. Your Majesty has bad experience of this
in your recent tour. Everywhere you have witnessed the
same hearty enthusiasm for the throne which the revo-
lution of July has founded—everywhere you have heard a
concurrence of wishes for maintaining and defending it.
" The successive development of national institutions,
announced by your Majesty, can have no other effect but
to confirm this spirit of patriotism and fidelity.
" We will faithfully discharge the duty which the
Charter imposes upon us, and which has been bequeathed
tons by the late Legislature, by the investigation of that
grave con,titutisr.al question, the definitive solution of
which, by insuring the harmony of the great powers of
the state, will give to your Government the stability that
invites and justifies confidence.
" That confidence will re-open all the springs of national
prosperity. The crisis which has given a blow to coin.
rnerce and industry—the imevitahle result of the shock of a
great social revolution—will disappear in the same propor-
tion as public security shall be guaranteed ; and the afflict-
ing prolongation of this kind of suffering is perhaps aclely
due to the continuance of a state of uncertainty, the end of
which seems to have happily arrived.
" We learn with pleasure that the state of our finances
is encouraging, and that our resources are not inferior to
our wants.

" The sacrifices which France has borne with a eon_
stancy and devotedness that your Majesty admir,s, command
us, Sire, to aid your Majesty in making all possible reduc-
tions in the public expenditure.
" Among a people where equality exists, not only in the
laws, but in the manners, economy is the first duty of the
dispensers of the public wealth.

•` But should the dignity or safety of France be corn-
promised,—should the rank to which she is entitled among
the nations of Europe, and which she will not suffer to be
ravished from her, be contested, she will he no more par-
simonious of her gold than of her blood. Her fist wealth
is her independence—her most precious possession is her
liberty. Her armies, her National Guard, are ready at
the first signal ; they will match beneath the shade of
that glorious banner, the symbol of so many recollections,
the pledge of so many hopes.
" Your Majesty felicitates yourself upon the pacific re-
lations which foreign Governments maintain with yours.
We are happy to see drawn more closely the bonds which
attach us to the United States of America—our natural
Allies, whose earliest friends we were. We await the.
communications of the treaties concluded with them, fo,
well as those concluded with the republics of Mexico and
Hayti, when we shall examine the stipulations which
they contain.

‘-• We sincerely thank your Majesty for the measures
taken to enforce the execution of the law against the
slave-trade, which law unhappily a detestable thirst of
gain still seeks to elude. This odious traffic ought to
cease at once, and for ever, under a Government founded
on the eternal principles of humanity and justice. The
Chamber trusts that the intention of the Charter on colo-
nial legislation will he speedily fulfilled.
" The occupation of the Roman States by:Austria justly
aroused the national sensibility ; the retirement, though
tardy, of hertarmy, proves that the language of your Ma-
jesty has been heard. A real amnesty, the abolition of
confiscations, ameliorations in the administrative system,
are the benefits which bay give cunt( lation to the people
of these States.

" We love to hope that the promises obtained by your
Majesty will be faithfully accomplished ; that the amnesty
will be general ; that the chains of all captives will be
broken ; and that, if policy is satisfied, humanity will no
longer have to groan.
" The rights of humanity have been nobly vindicated at
Lisbon. Our countrymen there languished in dungeons ;
your Majesty spoke,—our squadrons appeared,—they
bravely forced the entrance of the Tagus, and the tri.co-