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London, England, 1816-08-21 00:00:00

of t 1) Monarch :who „should locceelli NAppleiyni.; it

was tetra that reaction and vengeance might
lutv the, return the liombons, People could.
not- perspacle themselves 'that, a dynasty which
bad' tiklifered so.nitich by the revolution could sitT-
cerely forgive it the evils that were fearinl.might
be imaginary; but these
,are precisely must
dangtrons, because4liey have tin limits, and here

ate no remedies for them. ;
All tho3e who, dieting the. last 28 year 3, bad-
acquyed in the civil or military career, considera-
tion, property, and reputatiun,,belield in the recal
of the Bourbons a subject of cruel -lam! gloomy
apprehensions : one party desired tt Foreign Prince
wito„would more impartially cOnfiritt What •was
estatiished ; another declared for the Regency ;
but a Regency that should have governed in the
name of the %vile and son of Napoleon would have
given 3.00 much credit to the idea that Napoleon
himself governed ; this thought exposed France
and Europe to reciprocal apprehensions. A part
of France named the Duke of Orleans : the per-
soma qualities of this Prince, the remembrance of
3ettaappe, and somt other of • the victories of the
Republic with which his .early youth .•was .con-
neeted, ao entirely new social compact which it
was natural and easy to
.couclutJe with him, and
his name of Bourbon,. which could not be pro-
nonneed in the interior, and yet might; he advan-
tageously emploved.im the negociations with the
foreigners—these and other causes showed in the
choice of him a prospect of .repose even to those
who did not find any happiness in it. Others in.
sistvd on the principles of legitimacy : but they
applied them falsely : this principle .is s ait% mb but
a political law proper to every nation where it is
received i it cooferS on every country. great ad-
vantages, .because •it prevents disorders and

trntibles ; hut in respect to the rights of nations,
his no law. Legithnacy bettveen. Sovereigns is
.hut a consequence of the recognition of 'each of
; war and compiest..abolish this recognition,
idol consequently this legitimacy: the partition of
Poland is a proof of it. .
..Napoleon might be legitimate or not (he. was
int'-hovvvvg,r, for every other Sovereign than Louis
he..would have been overthrown neVer-.
th,dess. With the principles that !now, predorni.
nate in Europe, it would he necessary to make
war upon that,.toonarch,who should. take it into
1141,1:cad to let like Napoleon ; nay, the principles
~.of legitimacy,. even considered AS merely a•.poli-
. tidal law of the country, is liable to intriortatkt

, except inns. .Nlotttescplieit. supposes, that?the re-
..let#olt-itekween 9,4iyonsty and tt people mar-be-
come so intolerable., that...ll.;v.low la
body change', in Order to sieve the country itself.
My correspondence. with the ministers of the
high Allies, and with the Generals of their salutes,
Avill he annexed to my memoir ; it will show how.
I know how to assert the .dignity of the nation.

. .
There were naturally and intentionally different
similes in the negociations I hoped that my proofs
would give more weight to each of my demands.
In however desperate a situation affairs stay be,
there are still secondary points upon which one
may lay hold; for in the loss of independence there
are rarities gradations of misfortune. People form
a very false idea of tke situation in which
.I was,
when they reproach me with not Inkving asserted
the right ot the oation to choose its Pi ince, and to
fix the conditions of his power. Both questions
were decided by the force of circumstances : the
present lay no more within, my power; all would,
have been easy had Napoleon abdicated at the field
of llay. His too late removal bowed us tinder
the yoke of events 1 believe that necessity ec-;
quits me of all reproach.
The real ditlicelty has not been properly con-
ceived; those who wished to remove the Hour-
boos imagined that the choice of Prince who
was to govern Prance was but of subordinate in-
terest ; it ought to have beets seen that the ques-
tion was to be considered" in another manner.
People uffitm I tamed the energetic dispositions
ot the army : those who believe that, know not
the disproportion of our strength t, new miracles
of valour would have served but to risk the flower
of our army, and we should at the same.tinw have
exposed the capital to all the•terrors of an armed
.invasunt : the greatest danger to a country is the
absolution of all social bonds, which destroys at
the same tune public and private prosperity, and
leaves no hope and no future (prospect.)
Amidst thiCconflict of opinions, Louis XVIII.
was approaching Paris ; wherever the foreign
armies Were lit wiv, proclaimed. It was hence to
be foreseen, that the same :spirit would protlucct
the_-same appearance in the capital. The King
teas at 6t. Denys whet' I had the first conference
with your Lordship. At Neuilly 1 did not seek
to polliate the fault of tliose who had betrayed the
throne; hut 1 tiffirtnedl .that froth the moment
that this throne was re•established, it was the
tilog's interest to nmalgarnate all-in a pooctisally
followed
,system of mildness And oblivion : whist
its ;a- welLordered stee of things is wisdom may
ber.Aroldoesg' is .t nOmieut (if confusion : ,ever:(l
persons.who were unfierthe suipiciou of trea:Thery
Ittiel been inertly hal astray irson the petit into
witi4ol,l_fie bad cOrithicteA
754 ,
~q,,l,upie4 rt•.pt,et aft them ;
ag bug atty.body duet not believe that lie is r
left:Atte path,of Isis duty, there is still a possibility
of hringotg hint back to it. • •
:tly stew!, my Lord, Obtained yovir. iipptilbit- •
tjou theitleas, of ottoleuation nitiveareti lo gain
Sttengtit a you became the organ of thelir; iii
the unparalleled relations, :pod considering, the
, Posts iti which: we .stood, this inlet s iot•
mutt Jka,ve po,verful -tofinenee perhaps ,o t';
,eternal late ot France and of Europe. The next
day 1 used the smite language to the ,King, when