The Sun.
London, England, 1814-04-16 00:00:00

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thing men Loki sacred, bas kept hi prisori,
nerahle bead of .our religion ? Is it not he who,
by a detestable piece of treachery, robbed a King,
his ally, of his dominions, and delivered the Spa 4
nish Nation, an ancient and faithful friend, tbthe
horrors of devastation ? Is it net he. wly.lhas
brought the enemy to the very doOr of his de-
cei wed subjects, after having just refusedanLo-
nourable peace, in which our country might, at
least, have taken breath awhile ? And did he
not, lastly, give the scandaldus orders ti the Na:
tional Guard, uselessly to expose itself to an •iin
prissible defence of the capital, upon which capi-
tal he thus invoked all the vengeance of the enemy ?
Finally, is it not he, who, tearing nothing so
much as truth, has contemptuously; before the.
eyes of all Europe, driven ,away our Legislators,
because they once. ventured to tell him the truth,
with equal moderation and dignity ?—What does
it signify that he has sacrificed a small number of
persons to his ambition or personal revenge, when
he has sacrificed France—France do we say ?—all
Europe, to his boundless ambition. Ambition or
revenge, that is indifferent. Be it us` it may, be-
hold the consequences of it : see the whole Con-
tinent of Europe' everywhere covered . with the
mingled bones of Frenchmen .und of people xvlio
had nothing to demand of each other, Who did not
hate each other, whose remoteness °ln each
precluded 311 differences, and whom he alone. has
I,lntiged into war.,,l:i order to till the world with

his name. .
• " Why should we
.be told of his past con-
quests ? What good have they done us ? The
• hatred of other nations, the mourning of faini,„
lies, the constrained celibacy of our daughters,
the untimely widowhood of our wives; the anni-
-bi'lation of all riches ; the despir of parents, who,
out of a hitinerous progeny, hare not a single
child left to•clos:! their eyes ; this is what we have
got by his conquests. it is. these which, now
within cur own-Walls, witiCii, binder the paternal
.protection of our Kings, were never conquered,
animated the foreigners with courage, .‘v hoe ge-
nerous protection- demands our gratitude,.‘yhile
we delig4t in offering to theni a disinterested
al-
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" There is not one of 11.:3 Wh6 sloes not in his
heart detect him as a public enemy ; not one who
in his secret thoughts has not often wished to see
an end put atiength to so 'many needles's' cruelties.
" We should- he traitors to tilt; public cause, if
we hesitated to'declare the with of our INarts and
of yours. 7

" Enromin auras invites to it ; it asks it, as .a
benclit to -humanity, as a pledge' of 'general and
dorabk! peace.
" People of Paris—Europe in P.rmc lhogla not obtain of
yotAr Magistrates .this' wish, if it ;Ili not ,;uiticide with their
duties.

" But it is in the name of those very dutie, and indeed Of
the imust sacred of them, that we forswear all allegiance to
the Usurper, and return to-our lawful ;;;,>Vereigni.
" If it is dangerous to follow this impulse of the heart-and
the conscience, we submit to it; history and the gratitude-of
the French shall ,preserl'e your names, and transmit them as
an inheritance to the veneration of posterity.
" Itesolvt,d, The General Council of the Department of
the Seine, and the Municipal Council of Parl4, voluntatily
as.sernbled, declare, with the unanimity of all-the Members
present, that 'they solemnly renounce all obedience to Na-
poleon Buonaparte; that they solemnly desire that the Mo-
narchal Government Wat he reAored in the person of Louis
XVIII. and his lawful successors.

" Itt;soli7e4„ That this Declaration, antithe Proclamation
sent to all tln, Authorities re/halal:l4 at Paris, a 1.14 i' the
Departments, and transmitted ;to the Municipal C:oaneils in
all the ikpartments.
" Done in the General Coun,:ii at- Paris, in the Town
h ally April 1. " BADLNhEIt,