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London, England, 1814-04-16 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION

OF TUE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE

SEINE, AND OF TILE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF PA:IIS.

" INHABITANTS OF PARIS!—Your Magistrates
would be traitors to you and the country, if the),
out of any personal views, any longer suppressed the
voice of their conscience. This voice exclaims to
them, that you have to attribute all the evils that
overwhelmed you to one man. It is be who every
year takes away to the conscription a tenth pact of
your families ; which of as has not lost a son, a bro-
ther, a relation, or a friend ? For whom did all these
brave men die ? For hini akne--not for their coun-
try ! Wherefore ? They are sacrificed, absolutely
sactificed to eternize the memory, the madness, of
the most dreadful Tyrant that ever oppressed the
human race.

44 It is he who, instead of 400 millions which
France paid under our good and ancient Kings, to be
free, happy, anl uauquil, has bur thenefr it with 1590
millions, which bitrthen he even -threatened to in-
crease. It is he oho has shut against ns the seas of
both hemispheres; who has annihilated all the sources
of national prosperity—has torn the cultivators from
our fields, the workmen from our manufactories: to
him we are indebted for the hatred of all nations,
without having merited it ; since we, as well as they,
have been more the unhappy victims than the sad in-
struments of his rage.
44 Is not he the man who, contemning every thing
men hold sacred, has kept in prison the venerable
Head of our religion ? Is it not he who, by a detest-
able piece of treachery, robbed a King, his ally, of
his dominions, and delivered the Spanish nation, an
ancient and faithful friend, to the horrors of devasta-
tion ? Is it not he who has brought the enemy to the
very door of his deceived subjects, after having just
refused an honourable peace, in which our country
might at least have taken breath awhile ? And did
he not, lastly, give the scandalous orders to the Na.
tional Guard, uselessly to expose itself to an impos-
sible defence of the capital, upon which capital he
thus invoked all the vengeance of the enemy?
of Finally, is it not he, who, fearing nothing so
much as truth, bas contemptuously, before the eyes
or all Europe, driven away our Legislators, because
they once •entured to tel) him the truth, with equal
.rpoderation and dignity h—What does it signify, that
:he has sacrificed a small. number of persons to his
:am►bition or, personal revenge, when he has sacrificed
Francem—gruce, do we .say ?, A Europa—to bis

ambition I Ambidon or revenge, that is
indilllkent. Be it as it may, behold the consequences
of it : see the whole Continent of Europe every where
covered with the mingled bones of Frenchmen nild
of people who had nothing to demand of each other ;
who did not hate each other, whose remoteness fri..m
each precluded all differences, and whom he alone
his plunged into war, in order to fill the world with
his name.

" Why should we be told of his past conquests
What good have they done us i The hatred of other
nations, the mourning of families, the constrained ce-
libacy of our daughters, the untimely widowhood of
our wives, the annihilation of all riches, the despair
of parents, who, out of a numerous progeny, have not
a single child left to close their eyes—this is what we
have got by his conquests. It is these which, now
within our own walls (which under the paternal pro-
tection of our Kings were never conquered) animated
the foreigners with courage, whose generous protec-
tion demands our gratitude, while we delight in offer-
ing to them a disinterested alliance.
There is not one of us who does not in his heart
detest him as a public enemy ; not one, who in his
secret thoughts has not often wished to see an end put
at length to so many needless cruelties.

" We should be traitors to the public cause, if we
hesitated to declare the wish of our hearts and of yours.

" Europe in arms invites to it : it asks it, as a be-
nefit to humanity—as a pledge of general and dura-
ble Peace.

People of Paris!—Europe in arms should not oh.
tain of your Magistrates this wish, it it did not coin
cide with'their duties.

" But it is in the name of those very ditties, and
indeed of the most sacred of them, that we forswear
all allegiance to the Usurper, and return to our law-
ful Sovereigns.
ig If it is dangerous to follow this impulse of the
heart and the conscience, we submit to it ; history
and the gratitude of the French shall preserve your
names, and transmit them as an inhetitance to the
veneration of posterity. '
Resolved, The General Council of the Depart-
ment of the Seine, and the Municipal Council of Pa-'
ris, voluntarily assembled, decl.tre with the unanimity
of all the Members present, that they solemnly re-
nounce all obedience to Napoleon Bonaparte ; that
they s lemnly desire that the Monarchial G',vern-
ment may be testoted in the person ut Louis XVIII.
and hts lawful successors.
Resolved, That this Declaration, and the Pro-
clamation explaining the grounds of it, be printed at
Paris, posted up, sent to all the Authorities remaining
.it Pat is and in the Departments, and transmitted to
the Municipal C9unctis in all the Departmitnts.
Dane in the General Council at Paris, in the
Tots Hall, April 1. (Signed)
BADENIEK," &C.