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London, England, 1815-09-08 00:00:00

great error ; they are not less opposed to the Govern-
ment of the King, having some difficulty in believing
that a dynaAy that has suffered so much by the re-
volution and which ha% struggled so long, can pre-
vail upon itself eit'aet to pardon, to forget, or to deny
its ancient doctrines by giving sufficient guarantees
for public lib-rte. This motive alone has recency
induced them to take a part in all the measures that
had for obj,xt the expulsion of . t!te Bdurbons ; that
an impasaable barrier is taised bitween the past and
the present; that public liberty should be established
on an immutable basis. With these conditions there
is nothing to be apprehended from the Republicans ;
they would even become the firmest supporters of the
G' vent:lent. _

rhe Constitution4lists are only a party to this ex-
ception, in as much as they are opposed to the
Royaiits and defend the rights of the people against
them, as they wi.;e est.iblistied during the revolution,
fix every aurg is the last 25 years has not been illu-
sion or criqie.

A stip has :wen put to slating abuses and odious
• privileges, r..ige principles have been consecrated, and
just bai:iers opposed to a power which had uo re-
straint hot i:s o.tn discretion. It is not under this
What
of vat w that we are in opposition with Europe.
What a Revonnion aaoll mt have produced would
have been obtained by the progress.of knowledge
alone. Now that France is acquainted with her
'rights, how can she be made to retrograde? It must
first be in the power of man to destroy and forget
his own ideas, to create for himself other truths and
another kil.d of evidence.
The Constitutionalists revere also the principle of
legitimacy. Two Monarchical Constitutions have
been framed in France since 1789—both have conse.
crated the principle of a hereditary throne; but be-
cause both gives the right to succeed to the throne.
must we conclude that it transmits a power without
limits? Does it perpetuate the manner of governing
because it perpetuates the dynasty ? And is there not
a dioincti.o to he made between the designation of
the Prince and the nature of his authority ? The first
is undoubtedly regulated by birth ; but the. second
can only be regulated by national laws. Such are
ti_ principles of the Constitutionalists.
This party, however, and this must not be dissein-
bled—this party, although it dues not hesitate to
submit, has never ceased during a twelvemonth to be
in opposition to the King's Government. In 1814 it
was chiefly the Constitutionalists who censured vio-
lently, who attacked incessantly•the most of the mea-
sures and acts of authority; and when such a 'strug-
gle has once begun, when the multitude take a part
in it, a revolution is not far off. This opposition
brought out a number of parties who had never before
shewn themselves. It was generally said that the
reion of the Beurbons would not be of long duration,
that a crisis was approaching either from some enter- •
prize of the Court, or a movement of the people.
Some spoke at that time of calling a foreign Prince:
th the throne, others declared themselves in favour of
the Duke of Orleans, a greater number still for the
Regency ; it seemed that a sort of moral Revolution
had already taken place in the minds and hearts,
and this circumstance, added to the treachery, ex-
plains only too well the facility with which Bonaparte
replaced himself on the throne, and the impossibility
in which the Court then was of defending themselves.
In another moment less decisive, that where Bona-
parte gave in his abdication, the saint: opposition to
the King's Government was .manifested in the Con-
stitutional party with still mote force than the former
time. liihy can I not avoid laying these details be-
fore your Majesty ? But how is it possible to save the
Monarchy, it we are not thoroughly acquainted with
the evil, and with every danger ? There is not a Iw
reign Prince whom at this moment the party in ques-
tion would not have preferred obtaining or receiving
from the hands of the Allied Polders. The prepos-
session had reached such a height that there wits but
one exclusion ;--that of the tamily of our ancient
Kings. Your Majesty cannot help considering as a
seditious act. 'the. Declaration of the Chamber of Re-
presintatives. which tended to regulate the royal
power before the throne was filled. The truth ;s,
bowever, that a multitude of Frenchmen participate
in the same blindness and the same resistance, be.
cause they had the same fears. Every one demanded
conditions ; every. one dreaded re-actions and ven.
seances; they wished guarantees, not against your
Majesty, whine w isium and moderation were known,
but against the pretensions so well known, and so
often announced, of those who from their access to the
miy one day have the opportunity and per-
haps the power d making them triumph.
What obstacles will not this fatal disposition of
minds produce 1 1 have only entered into such pain-
Jul details to art ive at this tensequence—The acts of
the Govermneitt still be again attacked; they are so
already, and this controul, with respect to princi-
'ples, p :sus for a right, and even for.;: duty, when it
is ezt.iript trom bad intentions. Political doctrines
are in the ;sreslnt day so generally diffused in France
that the people imagine themselves competent to de.
cid.: on them. A detni-liberty, partial conditions,
appear as insupportable as the most absolute power;
they would excite the same commotions. What I
_have already said of the public spirit of the depart-
ments, has shewn, that in some provinces the Consti.
tutional Party prevails more or lass. This same '
party attracts alio more and more potice among cer-
tain classes of citizens. The old rich families arein
general more devoted to the Kings it is the same in
the Tribunals, among the people of the law, and the
higher commercial classes. On the other hand, it is
the great majority of the inferior citizens (petite bear-
:feu:re), retailers and' petty proprietors, who are con-
stitutional, because they have had the greatest shoe
in the Revolution.
The purchasers of national estates and the families
of soldiers add a great force to that party; but what'
gives it snore especidlly an irresistible preponderance.
is the mass of peasantry, who are at present very en.
lightened and in easy circumstances, irreconcileable '
enemies of the Nobles and Clergy, whose situation
inss been ameliorated by the Revolution. Passion
diiculittes the strength ef parties tifferently, and at-
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tive.s, in fact, at other results. f n such) calculations,
the people pass for' nothing. •
ttq pot include the Bonapartiats ip the number of.
Faith:* ; there, ate. none, there ;an no longer be any
.oOttapFtiSll, eicept in a small portion of the army.
It Is noefresp attachment foe the man of ibis party,
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