The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-24 00:00:00

• REPORT

TO, THE KING. ON TLIE .5111../AT,ION--OF ;FRANCE, AND
9N -THU REL4T,IONS: WITH THE FOHOGN. AR-•
FOUCHE, MINISTER OF TOE GENERAL,
rOI,IOE.
•

" X;IRE---Thc devastation of France is at' its
height. Every thing is ruined, wasted atuldesir9y7
fed, as if we had neither to hoPe:for 'peace nor
composition. ,The inhabitants before the an-
•
disciplined soldiers—the :forests, are filled with
unhippy.sbeings Who seek in :them a last asylum.--4
4
the crops 'are perishing on the ground ; in ashort
time despair, will nb longer listen to the voice of
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any authority, and this war, undertaken for the
4,
triumphof moderation and justice,, will equal In
barbarity those deplorable and .too celebrated in -
vasions,.the memory of which is banded dow.n in
bistOry with horlor.

- . .
.‘`.'.lle,Allied Powers have too fondly proclaimed
their doctrine to allow 'us to.douht. of their mag-, .
naniwity. What advantage can be derived Qoni •
so many useless evils ? Shall there be no lOnger
• any bond of connection bet ween the
.Nations
,Do they wish to retard the reconciliation of Ett
rope with Froce ? One of the views 'of the So-
vereigns seemed to be to secure the Gov6;rinient
of your MajestY, and yet its authority is inces-
santly coMpromised by the state of impoteney to
which it is reduced by therii, Its power it evert
rendered odious by the evils Of which it Seems to
be the tecomplice, because it isimable to prevent
them. Your Majesty signed as an Ally the Treaty
of the 2.5 th March; and yet the niost direct tvar is
carried on against yon.
The Sovereigns are acqPainted with the de-
gree.Of intelligence possessed by the l'rench:--lio
reasoning; no description of faults, no kii,d Of
propriety escape the penetration Of that people—
t hough humiliated by necessity, they resign thern-
selVes to it with courage. The only evils which
they cannot support; are those which they cannot
comprehend. Has tywoturyOetairbiAllsa;jes.uity4o(nloAliliaerteevieirays
thing for the interest 'of the P6wers and for peace
ed on
/.410Iivtohttiicol
el only !4,(yi
ecees"l:ll s
his l
.ys e ,
is ebquutahe y ep
i~t their
oh
‘avnecrl
as it is within their territories. The Chambers
have been dissolved. Soon there *ill be no men
in public functions, but those Who may' be de-
pended on and friends to peace:
" The BuOnapartists were dreaded, though
none of them can any longer be *dangerous. Your
Majesty, however, has on ibis subject granted
every thing that could be granted or required by
way of example.
• it, utter vanquishing France, they preteuu
that it ought still. to be punished, this language
which ought not to have been expected after the
pro Mises of the Sovereigns, requires that they
should weigh well all the consequences. For
what "do
:they wish to punish us ? Is it to expiate
the ambition of one man and the evils Which it has
produced ? We were ourselves the first victims,
and we have twice delivered Europe from them.—
It is not in foreign countries, but in France, that
terror has constantly troubled his repose notWith,-.
standing his power.
tie was neVer able to render the war na-
tional 5 instruments are not accoMpliCes. Who
does not know that the perion who exercises ty-
rinny finds always in the multitude a sufficient
force to make himself obeyed ?
We are even reprOached with his successes :
they were compeoSated by a number of reverses.
What image (lid the announcement of his vieto- '
ries hold op to us, but that of the. conscriptions
which perished and closed their short career,puly
t 5 make new conscriptions' which were again to
be mowed down itr battle ! We were saved,
.like
the rest of Europe, by the same' mouruings and
the same calamities.

"'Tie army is Submissive to your Majesty, but
it still exists. We ought to explain ourselves ou
this subject without any reserve. What remains
of the army is now only attached. to peace and
the public tranquillity. its state of re- union, tar
front being an evil, prevents.the evil front extend-
ing.' The return of the soldiers into the bosom
of the people %vill be attended withr no danger
when the conclusion of the war. shall allow the
people the means of resuming their occupations
and their habits, but before that time, and so long
as the fermentation is not extinguished nor obe-
dience established, the mingling the soldiers with
the citizens, would be only throwing new inflam-
mable matter into the flames.

It is grievous to think that this state of
things originates in the error of some Cabinets, in
the judgments formed by them on the situation
of France. The fulfilment of all their desires de-
pends on..themselves alone. There are no sacri-
fices to which an enlightened people will not
readily submit; when they see the object for whicii
they are exacted, and finding them the means of
'avoiding greater calamities. Such is the disposi-
tion, such the wish of every Frenchman.,
But if they, on the other hand, wish toob-
tain preparatory measures for -unknown plans,
they detnand a thing impossible. There is -no
such thing as blind obedience in France. The
Powers have not yet published any of their de-
sitrns • no one linows what idea he ought to en-
tertain of the Government, of the authority of
‘your Majesty, or of the future.
the
midst every " A en
tg appears
yanti
a
suspicion
übj areect at
of tlt eir height,
terror and
midst of this obscurity. But a single word would
change every disposition ; there would no longer
.be :!bstac.7lc to any measures, if they nire,de p
s

part of a get "ral,plan which shotilcl altogether af-
ford some cc-ilciiiation to elyedieiree.

" Let the Sovereiens then deign to explain
themselves. Why will they persist in refusing
this act of jasticel—Let them deign to bring for-
Wnrd all their demands ns_so many conditions for
the repose of the oations, and lit our concession
to their vier.-s make part of a reciprocal treaty,
and there will no longer be any diffieidties:
" The Sovereigns do not, perhaps, suflicieutly
remark the circle of etobarraesments and obsta-
cles in which they place both us- and themselves.
Ve require good order to second them, anti their
explanation to te-establish good order. Are they
desirous of sacrifices which require tepartitions
and prompt obedience ? It is only requisite for
this purpose, that the authority of your Majesty
should be full and entire ; nothing is possible, no-
thing can be executed, if peace does not exist in
reality, at least provisionally, and far from be-
ing in a state of peace, we experience all the ca-
lamities of war.
" Let the Sovereigns bestow at least some at-
tention to their own interests. When every thing
shall be ruined and. devastated around their ar-
mies, how will they find means of subsistence ?
is there no danger in dispersing the troops All
arms will not he taken away, and arms of all sorts
are murderous in the hands of despair. Wit, re-
spect to warlike contributions, what new sacri-
fice can he detuars.ded where every thing has al-
ready been destroyed by the soldier % With re-
spect to .armed force, when once discipline, is re-
laxed, it is not easily re-established.
Germany is far from expecting, after aglo-
rious campaign, to receive hack her soldiers, cor-
tuptedby .a spirit of licentiousness, rapine, and
pillage.
" This war _ought to have been in every re-
spect distinguished front others, instead of imi-
tating and surpassing in Prance the • excesses
against which the Sovereigns took up netts.
their glory even be satisfied On our part we have
done whatever they desired ; and on their part,
every thing which had been ,announced to the
world is fulfilled, "one point excepted, NVbat a
contrast' between what is actually passi!.; i4nd
their solemn promises I. This is the age of reason
and justice, anti the. public opinion never had
more power. Who can explain such excessive
evils after such promises of moderation ? The
.pre-
sent war was undertaken to serve the cane of
legitimacy. Is this manner of carrying on war
calculated to render the authority of your Majesty
more sacred ?
" They were desirous of punishing the indivi-
dual who sported with the calamities of nations,
and they it itict on France the saute violence, the
same inhumani? y. It was thought by ap Europe
that the entry of the Sovereigns ioto Paris would
put an.end to the war. ' What will be thought on
learning that it was then only that the exces,,es
of oppression commenced without .combats, and
without resistance. The evils which we ate re"-
proached with having inflicted on others, were
never so great ; they never took ph'ee when the
use cif arms bad no object ; and though • it %vete
trite, that we had given the first examples of such
an abuse of force, aught they to imitate what they
impute to us as a crime
It•is known in the North, is known in
/rave. birth
to energy, awl public spirit to our i.:;!emiev:There
:it'll' Ito tooger be any eta' :0 the evil: of hanqinitY,
If Mittual seugeances arc t 6 become the rule of
War, fornations never die.

" Your MajeE•ty ;II deign to permit tut :•
'gist tit ont final cOnsideration-7SO Joni; as Fr.! .re
pny thing to preserve, by the hope of
maintaliont; tts intercity as a nation, no sacrifice
Will be inipossible, ;tort all the pilus of an
table policy May be executed ;hut I tie day io which
the inhatiitaiits shall hate y thing,in which
their rout shall be entisummated,a new order of
things--a net'v ;erics ofevynts trill be t•evn to arise,
itecanse there %. ill Ito loni4cr be either. Govern-
inent or obedience. A,.blinct fury will take the
vlace of resignation. They will only seek counsel
in despair ; ou both sides tit: re will be ravage—
~tilla;,c trill war on pillage. Every step of
the foreign soldiers will be Marked with bl91,(1:
rrance will be less ashamed of destroying herself,
than in tillowing herself to be destroyed hy other. ;
the moMent approa:hes— already . the national
spirit takes this, frightful direction ;---the most
opposite pa'rties are blending into one—La Vendite
itself unites- its colours with those of ..the army.
in this excess of evils, what line of conduct re-
mains to your I%lajesty but that of removal ? The
public fuovionariei, in the same manner will Olt
their places, and the armies of the• Sovereigns
will then be at issue %yid' individuals freed from
'all social ties.

" A Nation of thirty millions of inhabitants
May undoubtedly disippear front the face of the
earth, tint in this tylo. 'of man to 'Man, the op-
prose(' and their vang.ti?hers %Oil lie together in
more thin one grave.

" FOUCIIE.'`

At.ZSWEI: O THE FRENCH MINISTERS TO THE OFFI-

CIAL NOTE OF THE ALLIED SOVER Gt.:3.

" The King's Ministers have received the Official Note ad-
Aresscd to then, by the Ministers of the Allied pimers. The
latter wish to persuade the King's Wuisters that the inch-
sures which they hare commended to the Government of
Paris, arc such as may contribute to diminish the exactions of
the wair-,aati to re=establish the Royal Authority. Th'i2 King's
ninisterS, Unfortunately, cannot regard these ntea-
suresin that *point of vie*. They owe it to the So-vereigns,
to France, and to th'euielves, to explain themselves on this
suhfcct. 'fh, Sovereigni, donhtless, nre tits masters, and can
whatever they desire, hut at . an: e let thent riot say,
that in every itep calculated to ruin the cause of his
Diajesty, that they wish to confer any favOur on him. There
is alyeade in France too much odium and ill will against the
•tr • still more to revoft every
Bourbons, to render it necessary
the nation experience the greatest losses and
heart by making
hat humiliation tan be more
afflictiag than to se
the deepest liuntilationsi;l
,V
time of peace all the depart-
-1 subjlcgd to your Yili•are Governors—what Mis-
fortune Mort. •to be. denrt•ctite • ; SOvereigns
d than the dispersion of your
troops over the whole face of the CutiFltS3
and yet
d,ckired that they only blade war againt Napplectn,
tivzir no2asores beiic their words, smcc'att
it.hoenr_tyesae. noturntoo-
ment, when the war ought to he finished; 1
uticl about to
""mence. The present position of jitaace is ro 1

rrAre ar,-;ting, zts ileciarod it is :ate,
it is utterly inipossihl ! that si:e can suffer in a,gr&iter degree
all its evils, 'and all its horror. Es-cry Where, wherever the
armies are (always rckcep ti the .1:f),;lisli), -fire, rape,
and inureer, have been carried to their fullest extent; ava-
rice arid vengeance hive raft nothing fa tire ffiliccrs or Sul-
diers:to desire. -To speak svittl freedom, they exceed even
the atrocities of which the Fren-L armies have been too oftea
justly accused. The ineasnres, 110%Vel er, alluded to yotir
Note can have no tither results than to tXtCrlia the liiaits

this devastation. The armies spread theMseives in our Pro-,
Vinces, and alt the horrors which we hAVC depicted folbw
iit
their train: Such are the sentiments of the King!.s Ministers
on the new Decree, and.their answer to the which has
been made to them.

"'Try have the honour to subscribe themselves,
Wrtb the highest consideratiOn,.
•c TALLEYRAND.
•
" FOUCHE."

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