The Sun.
London, England, 1815-10-18 00:00:00

LErrEP. OF TIT: niNlti rXPI,AINING

FPENCI!

MOTIVE:; FOP. TI-17.ta RETIRING.

Majesty tleitznca to contije to ui tlfc admini-
stration f your Eamire, wllen the whole of Europe in itrms
occupier! the Northam when they menaced those
of the East ana the South, and whe❑ civil war was Linillea
and diffused over the West.: A trlumphaut faction which was

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ies,troine, hut not disconra,,red : portion; of the population
Who had !)teotrie indifferent from the excess of their fears or

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their stttrerings to z)ny evens which -iffigilt ensue ; equally
ready to support alternately the tyranny of the faction and
vot,e of foreign arms, until some greater misfortunes

shou;l at h-2m4..,h on.,te them :yzainSt their oppressors;--such
has been the situation of the Itingiont since your Majesty's

return.

" The lore of our country was no longer to he found, but
tinder the tri-coloured fin. The party 'which called theM-
selves Royalists, proscribed, in their proects, 'both the laws
and the men who did not encourage' the subversi.‘n of social
order. Were France buried beneath her own ruins, and your
Ma'estc reigned only over desert provinces, this party would
:prefer the destruction of the glory, the strength, and the po-
litical existence of France, to seeing her consoled for her mis-
fort",nes, and regaining her losses under the wise and liberal
lav:s vouch ~fed by your Majesty. This party became hostile
in the West, in the South, and. in the North, because it be-
lieved itself supported by authority. Goodcitizens waited, in
slimier., to hear the voice of your Majesty. At present they
arc preparing their arms in Auvergne, in the Cevennes, in
the Ir,s7es, in Franche Comte, and in Alsace.

" You cf.nnot, Sire, he ignorant what was our devotion to
your -21 red person : we had partaken of your dangers, your
your exile ; we knew the wishes and the
wants of the French people; we ekpressed them to your Ma-
jesty with a respectful candour. You seemed to listen to us ;
"and now that we are quitting your councils, We hope,you will
pertnl+ us to recall them to your,recollection.
" Successive revolutions have changed the conditions of
families, have overthrown the fortunes which they had
amassed, flare closed up the paths they had opened, have
tarnished the national glory which they had exalted :. but.
"thn.e revolutions have also taught the people that there is no
haPpi-i,ss for them except under a fixed and steady Govern-
ment, because that will replace the conditions of families in
a state of I)urrnony with existing manners, because it will
consolidate existing fortunes, because it will permit the citi-
zens to go on in that career which they have begun; and because
it will estaldish the national honour on the principles of un-
alterable justice ; results or the utmost importance to the na-
tion, because it will place individuals in that relative condi--
tion whirl] the state ofssociety requires.

" If •we could have given th,, direction to your Majesty's
'Government, Frenchmen would hare been united in heart
and in ~,,ndilct with the wishs.s of their King; their interests
—*would have been confounded ,vita the glory, the to e, and
the safety of .he Prince. 'l'hosr desires, and those' fanatiCal
-passions which would !lace disturbed an order of things so
auspicious to the general good, wauld -gradually have died
aiv.P.y, or have been lost in 'the emptiness of an ineffectual
oppo:1 t ion.

" Your subjects would have submitted to your laws what-
ever their, opinions might have been, or their former condi-
tion. The Republican or the Imperial Party 'is no longer to
be feared ; the mass'of the -nation wish only fur liberty and
tranquillity. Foreign Cabinct, in seeing Frenchmen rallied
round your thriine, would have limited preteusiOns,which then

you might have withstOod.
"The Constitution having rendered us responsible for the
acts of your authority, we proposed to regulate it by those
principles which we have here unfolded. We soon: ha.; to
struggle with the, ignorance, the passions, and the hatred of
the pnr,ons who surrounded you, they soon began to inter-
meddle with the Government. Orders were given 7,enil
mca-
• sures adopte I, in wuieb we did not participate. Royal Com-
inissaries went and kndled civil war in the provinces,
gave the arms to the seditious, directed their. ferocity
- against peaceable• citizens, and spread around terror and
dismay 1 They easily succeeded in this, when they announc-
ed that foreigners were their anxiliat•ies, when they
• profaned the name of your Majiesty, by invoking it in their
addresses, and Whets in the South, which foreigners did not
yet ,erooy, they perthitted the entrance of eighty thousand
.gpiniards. A )larshal of France was murdered on the banks
of the Rhone,and his assassins were neither apprehended nor
punis'••H! ! Was it by oppression that the people. were to be
inspired with a love for your Government? Outrage soon ex-
r\
t ended itself; in some cities colours were displayed which were
oot 'those of your Majesty., Frenchmen themselves wished to
dismember your kingdom, and separate the North from the
S ' our Majesty became sensible that it was necessary to
reeal to their submission the blind partisans of a cause whose
legitimacy was acknowledged! Our orders were not listened
to ;magistrates whom *e sent in your name were sacrificed, by
'those who acted in the name of the King; we remained with-
out power; secret instructions rendered all our efforts and
intentions unavailing. In such circumstances, what could
'your Majesty's Ministers do? The Duke of Otranto, when Na-
poleon still reigned, had succeeded, by negociation, in dis 7
Arming '!.kl Vench!e. Your Majesty was scarcely seated ,on
the throne. when the insurrection broke out in this same La
. Vendee with more viohmee than ,ever. What could be its
objeOt after your restoration ?Your Minister at War declared
that be had-no troops with which to subdue these provinces :
it was not the intention of your Court that •this ins,arrection
should be opposed..
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We cannot conceal from you, Sire, Curt these attacks are
levelled at !our throne ; you surer legitimate Ait Cho rity to be
despised, and the authority of• faction %supplies .its place.
-Factions produce revolutions, and those who triumph to-clay
may be overthrown to-morrow; ymr throne will no longer
Itat•e even the support of their illegitimate authority. Your
Ministers, a•!%vays,leoted-ti, your person, still endeayoured
to oppoSe this re-action; the Princes of your House, the
Nobles of _your Court, de,ignated as crimes, and as attacks
upo❑ your t:rown, their efforts to.testore order and submis-
sion to the laws: we lost all influence with your Majesty ; we

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:became guilty in the eyes of the nation.
" The election's were made; a 'factious minority directed
theta; that minority alone is repreSented. The choice which
they recoinntemleil to your Majesty for the Chamber of Peers

in licates the same spirit.
" Ministt;is, without authority, a prey to the persecutions
of the Cotut,, without support in the public opinion, exposed
to the oppositiob of the Chambers, -what should we he aisle
to-reply to' the clamours of the people, when at length they
shall demand the reasons fur so many calamities?
" Meanwhile, foreigners possess France as-, a conquered
t:onatry ; to civil discords they gild the ray:le of prtiviuces ;

they disiFitft the funds iviiieh ought their wiy
the treasury : they devotir the provision's of the people, who
•are threatened' with an Approaching ; they carry off
the Magazines of arms, the am miinitiOiiOf war, and the can-
nuns front the ramparts of our cities. The white flag floats
only over i uin ! They despoil us of Our moniiments,
the tokens of our farmer glory; they seize the Monnnients of
art, which alone remain to us after twenty years o; conquest.
It is dishonour, Sire, which-the .people ate most reluctant to
pardon, and your Majesty has remained silent in the midst
of all these attacks on the national honour!
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" We were for a long time ignorant that secret treaties had
connected yal with foreigners—your Majesty wished to ne-
gociate yourself--we could not prevent the disbandment of,
the army, and this measure being completed, left France and
your person in the power of foreigners. What had your
house to fear from that army? . Napoleon no longer existed'
for France. The national colours granted, and some conces-
sions made to public opinion, that army would have become
yours—it would bare servtal you to resist the ambitious' pro-.
jects of our Allies. Was every thing to be abandoned to the
combinations and the seduction of your Court and of foreign
Princes ? Your Court is led astray by prejudices—the foreign
sovereigns have interests opposed to yours—The Emperor of
Russia was perhaps the only one whom you could believe sin-
cere in his lrrornises.
" The Allies at this moment oppose the recruiting of the
departnwat al legions.
" Such are the misfortunes of the situation in which un_
wise Councils have placed your Majesty. Your subjects are
almost every where in 'oppoSition or in arms' against each
other, and almost every where the partizans of your house
are the smallest number. The French, humiliated and dis-
contented, are ready to proceed to the last extremity.
Your Majesty has no longer the means of opposing the
pretensions of foreigners.. They have presented a Treaty
which would Consummate the ruin of the nation, and
which would corer it with eternal shame. AVe have
not thought it became us to give an assent which would have
rendered as culpable towards that nation, which may be hu-
miliate.:, but which cannot be heat down. Since your Majesty
has confided authority to our hands, we have constantly been
without the power of doing good, without the power of pre-
ventitig evil. Our opinions have no influence; the cabals of
your Court-have prevailed. We have to obey, thrOitglt respect
to your Majesty, mono sanction l our signature, acts which
we disaPprove.We would have sacrificed our lives to save yOur
Majesty and the Country, but those who arc near your Majesty
know that the revolution which they would excite, would set:
round the vessel of the state, with new perils; that they Would
give to factions, to whom yon are oppo.cti, the means of seek-
ing a resting place beyond the legitimate authority of your
Majeity; that they would raise pretenders to the throne
where you are seated. It is not by means of a faction that
your Majesty ought to rein, but by a Constitution, by a
Royal prerogative, recognized and established. Let that fac-
tion tremble, ,and suspend their efforts to substitute passion
in their place. Their agents would be the first victims, and
they would cause the greatest misfortunes to your Majesty.

" We are therefore convinced that %VC can no longer con-
tribute to the welfare of 'your subjects, that we cannot go-
vern the State in the, spirit of the Councils which direct your
Majesty. Your wisdom will doubtless do more than our zeal
and our eifOrts to remedy the evils which atiliet the Matt, we
therefore venture to supplicate you to believe in the regrets
that we experiance, in not being able any longer to contribute
to serve you, and in the wishes that we have formed for the
prosperity of your House, and for the safety of the country."