Star.
London, England, 1815-03-31 00:00:00

ADDRESS OW THE MINIS I'ERS.

Stag—PnovioEsca, who watches over our des*
nies, has re-oßened to your Majesty the road to the
throne to which you had been called by the free choir,
of the people and tae national gratitude. The counc
now raises its majestic front : it salutes for the second
time with the name of Liuerator, the Prince who de•
throned anarchy, and whose existence can alone con•
solidate our liberal institutions.

" The justest of all revolutions, that which was
give to man his dignity and all his political right
has precipitated from the throne the dynasty of the
Bourbons : after twenty-Eve years of troubles and
war, aa the efforts of foreigners have Mot been able
to revive affections extinguished or ccimpletely un-
known to the present generation: the struggle of the
interests and the prejudices of a small number against
the intelligence of the age and the interests of a great
nation. is finally terminated.
" The destinim are accomplisbed;—that cause
which is alone legitimate. the cause of the People.
has triumphed. Your Majesty is restored to the
wishes of the French ; you have resume/ the reins
the State. amidst the benedictions of the people and
the army.
4, France, Sire, has for guarantees her wishes and
her dearest interests : she has for guarantee, all that
your Majesty said in the midst of the populating
which thronged around you. ,
" The Bourbons have been abiestoforgetsothing;
their actions and their conduct gave the lie to their
words. Your Majesty will doubtless keep yours
you will recollect no services but those which ha'
been rendered to the country : you will prove that
peer eyes and in your heart, whatever may hal
been the diversity of opinion. and the expectation
parties, all citizens are equal before you, as they
before the law.

" Your Majesty wishes also to forget that we ha'
been the masters of the nations who surround us
generous thought which adds another ray of glory
so much glory already acquired.
" Already has your Majesty traced to your
ters the route which they ought to follow : 1
a_rexcli
have you made known to all nations, by your pr,
&mations, the. maxims according to which yt-
wish that your ,Empire shall be in haute governed.
No external war, if it be not to repel an unjust

gressioo : no intestine discord : no artntrgrr Act
security a persons, se4Jurity of property, a tree circi
lation of opinions: such are the participles which

hoe reordered sacred.—Happy, Sire, are those who
afe called to cooperate in so many sublime acts.--
Such benefits will'deserve from posterity, that is to
say, when the time of adulation has passed awa*,
the name of the Father of the Country ; they will 6e
guaranteed to our children by the august Heir, whom
your Majesty is preparing to crown in the Champ du
Nan. (Signed)

66 CA/ISAMU Duke of GAI;A ; Duke of BASSAN; (MA"
PST); Duke DACUS; Duke of OTRANTO VW/CUE);
MOLLICN ; CAULAINCOURT, Duke of ViCCIM. CAR.
NOT; the Marshal Prince uf ECKMUML (DAYOU/T)."
Ills 24.11.1EsTY'S AN4WEIt.
a The sentiments which you express are my own.
EVERY THING FOR TIIR NATION, AND NOR FILANCE!
Such is my motto I a
,s I and my family, which this great people has
raised to the throne of the French, and which it has
maintained there in spite of vieibsitudes and politi-
cal tempests, we wish not, we ought not, and we
csa never claim any other titles."
His Majesty afterwards passed into tile Hall of the
Throne, where, surrounded by his Ministers and
Grand Officers, he received—.
The Council of State,
The Court of Cassation,
The Court of Accounts,
The Cour Imperiale,
The Prefect and the Municipality of Paris.
!MAGI' FROM THE REGISTER OF THE DELIBERA.
TIONS OF I Ht. COUNCIL OF STATE.
SUITINGs OF TILE 25TH MARCH.
The Cmnicil of State, in rebuming its functions,
.I:;eks proper to make known the principles which
"can the rule of its opinions and conduct :
s: All Sovereignty resides in the People—this is
:be only legitimate source of power.
sg In 1789 the nation reconquered its rights, salons
ossrped or mistaken.
The National Assembly abolished the Feudal
vloLarchy, established a Constitutional Monarchy,
and the representative form of Government.
The resistance of the Bourbons to the wishes of
•he people, led to their downfal, and to their banish-
!atm from the French territory.
Twice the people consecrated by their votes the
-ew Lyn of Government established by their Rpm
:eat:gives.

In the year 8, Bonaparte, already Browned by
ictory, was called to the Government by the na-
-1 onal consent: a Constitution created the Consular
'lagistracy.
" The Senatus Consult= of the 16th Thermidor,
ear 10, nominated Bonaparte Consul for life.
" The Senatus Conanitum of the 29th Floreal,
car 12, conferred on Napoleon the Imperial dignity,
nd rendered it hereditary in his family.
" These three solemn acts were submitted to the
_cceptaisca of the people. who randared them =iota
.1 nearly four millions of votes.
" Thus for 22 years the Bourbons had ceased to
in France; they were forgotten by their con.
.tmporaries ; strangers to our laws, to our institu.
•tos, our manners, and our glory ; the present genera.
• (m only knew them by the recollection of the foreign
'err which they had excited against the country, and
roe intestine dissentions which they bad lighted up.
" In 1814, France was invaded by hostile armies,
tad the Capital occupied. Foreigners created a Fe.
'tended Provisional Government. They assembled
the minority of the Senators, and forced them, toa-
sty to their missions and their wishes, to destroy
Lie existing Constitutions, to overtthrow the Imperial
Throne, and to recall the family of the Bourbons.
" The Senate, which had been instituted merely
tl preserve the Constitution of the Empire, ac know.
' clgod of itself that it had no power to change them.
: decreed, that the-project of the Constitution which
41 prepared should be submitted to the acceptanee of the
IV:, and that Louis Stanislaw Xavier should be pro-
Kirg of the French, as soon as he had accepted the
gontitution and sworn to observe it, and to cause it to be
;served.
" The abdication of the Emperor Napoleon was
flerely the result of the unfortunate situation to which
prance and the Emperor had been reduced by the
-rents of the war, by treachery, and the occupation
f the capital : his abdication had only for its object
) avoid a civil wctr and the effusion of French blood.
tot being consecrated by the will of the people, this
:t could not destroy the solemn contract which had
een fcrmed between them and the Emperor, and
if Napoleon could have personally Abdicated the
•it,ne, l,e could not have sacrificed the rights of his
alto was called to reign after hilts.
" Nevertheless a Bourbon was appointed Lieute-
.4:l•General oldie Kingdcru, and assuu:zl the reins
loventment.
" Louts Stanislaus Xavier arrived in France : he
ci.le his entrance into the capital : he took posses.
of the throne according to t u order established
"ye ancient feudal monarchy.
" He had not accepted the constitution decreed by
ic Senate, he had not sworn to observe it and to
4w,e it to be observed ; it had not been. submitted
"'he peopk ; the pcopie, subjugated by the pre.
`T:e of foreign armies, could not even express freely
-r validly their wishes.
thicier their proteCtion, after hiving thanked a
or,ign Prince for having caused him to reascend
throne, Louis Stanislaus Xavier dated the first
set of his authority, in the 19th year of his reign,
'bus declaring that the acts which emanated from
will of the people, were only the products of a

long revolt, k pasted vohastardy, atilt by the fres exii-1
cite of hi: royal authority, a Constitotiosal Charter, called
an Ordissamte of lifforisatioa ;" and, for its whole'
sanction, he made it be read in presence of a new
Body which he had just creased, and a meeting of
Deputies, which was not free, which did not accept
him, none of whom were clothed with a character to
entitle him to consent to this change, and two•fifths
of whom had not even the character of Representa•
tives.

•' AU these acts are therefore illegal. Done in
presence of hostile armies and under foreign domina-
tion, they are only the works of violence, they are
essentially null and degradatory to the honour, the
liberty, and the rights of the people.
66 The adhesions given by individuals and by func-
tionaries without authority, could neither annihilate,
nor compensate for the consent of the French people,
expressed by votes, solemnly called far, and legally
emitted.

44 If these adhesions, as well as the oaths, had ever
been binding on those who made them, they would
have ceased to be so as soon as the Government
which received them ceased to exist.
" The conduct of the citizens, who, under this
Government, have served the State, cannot be
blamed. Those are even worthy of praise, who have
only profited by their situations to defend the national
interests; and to oppose the spirit of reaction, and
of counter-revolution, which desolated France.

" The Bourbons themselves had constantly 'vio-
lated their promises : they favoured the pretensions
of the Noble:a who remained faithful to them : they
attacked the sales of the national domains : they
prepared for the restoration of the feudal law, and of
the Dime: : they menaced all new establishments :
they declared war against all liberal opinions : they
attacked all the institutions which France had ac-
quired at the price of her blood.
" Preferring rather to humble the nation than to
identify themselves with its glory, they stripped the
Legion of Honour of its dotations and its political
rights : they lavished the decoration, to degrade it :
they deprived the army—our heroes—of their pay,
their ranks, and honours, to bestow them on the
emigrants and chiefs of the revolt. Lastly, they
were anxious to reign, and to oppress the people by
Panigratina
48 Deeply affected by its misfortunes and humilia-
tion, France exisressed every wish to possess its Na-
tioaal Government—the dynasty attached to its new
interests, and new institutions.

di When the Emperor approached the capital, the
Bourbons attempted in vain to repair, by l:sws made
for the occasion, and by oaths made too late in favour
of their constitutional Chart, the outrages committed
on the nation and the army. The time of illusion
was passed, and confidence alien atcd for eve.. ',L.'s
a single arm was raised in their defence : the nation
and army hastened to meet their liberator. •
u The Emperor, in re-ascending the throne erect-
ed by the people, therefore re-established the people
in the most sacred of their rights. He merely brings
again into execution the decrees of the representati►e
assemblies, sanctioned by the nation. He returns to
reign by the sole principle of legitimacy which France
has acknowledged and sanctioned during twenty-five
years, and to which all the Authorities were bound
by oaths from which the will of the people could
alone release them.

el The Emperor is called to guarantee anew, by
institutions (and he has engaged to do so in his Pro-
clamations to the Nation and Army) all liberal prin-
ciples, individual liberty and equality of rights, the
freedom of the press and the abolition of censorship,
the liberty of worship, the vote of contributions and
laws by the Representatives of the Nation legally
chosen, the national properties however they may
have originated, the independence and immovability
of the tribunals, and the responsibility of Ministers,
and of all the agents of power.
" The better to consecrate the rights and obliga-
tions of the people and of the monarch, the national
institutions are to be revised by a great assembly of the
representatives, already announced by the Emperor.

44 Until the meeting of this great National Assets.
bly, the Emperor ought to exercise, and cause to be
exercised, conformably to the existing constitution
and laws, the power they have delegated to him,
which cannot have been taken from him, and which
he could not abandon without•the consent of the NA*
lion, and which the wishes and interest of the people
of France impose on him as a duty to resume.
Signed, Le Comte Defermon, Comte Regnaud de St. Jean d'An-
g..ly, Comte Bosky, Comte Audreouy, Corte Darn, Comte
Thibaudean, Comte Mare, Baron de Pomercuil. Comte
Nape, Comte Jollivet, Comte Berber, Comte Mitt, Comte
Ducbatel, Comte Dumas, Comte Dukuluy, Comte Pelet de
la Lozere, Comte Francais, Comte de Laseases, Baron Cann;
Bunn Marebant, Comte Jaubert,. Comte Levaletus, Comte
Real, Gilbert de Volans, Baron Qutnette, Comte Merlin,
Chevalier Jaubert, baroa Belleville, Baron d'Alpbonso, Ba•
ron Felix, Baron Make, Cbarks Mallard, Casson, Comte
Delaborde, Baron Finot, Baron Janet, Baron de Freya, Baron
Fajn, Baron Cbampty, C. D. Lames, Baron Freville, Baron
Part, Comte de Bendy, and Chevalier Brume.
(3igned) "Le Comte Dare Baum,
The Setruary-Oesseral of the Council of State.
(Signed) " Le Barone Loots."

Ills MAJESTY'S IMPLY.

" Princes are first citizens of the State—their au-
thority is more or less extensive according to the inte-
rest of the nation they, govern. The Sovereignty
itself is not hereditary) but became the interqpt of the

people requires it to V* es—besides these principles,
I do not know any legitimate ones.
" I have renounced the ideas of the great Empire,
the basis alone of which l had established in the space
of fifteen years. For the future, the happiness and
consolidation of the French Empire will be the object
of all my thoughts."

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