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London, England, 1815-06-06 00:00:00

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ir Their presence has destroved all' the Illusions
which were Stitattiched to their names.
• They mail not' tepid upon our oaths, and we
tom n t depend Axe% their promises. The Dime
(fand•tAx). Feoltlity. Privileges, every thing. in
on, which was odious to us, was too evidently
sorest their hearts; when one of them, in order to
city pr• sent impatience, assured his confidants, that
ht eutre/./ senses for As fawn.
*. What each of us had regarded for twenty-five
fors as titles of gforr—as services worthy of recoil.
peace—was with them a title of proscription, and a
oak of reprobation.
• A million of Functionaries and Magistrates, who
for .25 years have followed the same maxims, and
,Tong whom we have chosen our Representatives,
:00,000 warriors, our strength and our glory, six
millions of proprietors invested by the revolution with
:heir property, a greater number still of enlightened
:.rlzens who protounilly,refiect on those ideas which
~ we now become political dogmas : all these worthy
Frenchmen were not the Frenchmen of the Bourbeite
,
..tney wished to reign only- for the sake of a hand.
:.,11 of privileged persons; who, during twenty-five
fors, had been either punished or pardoned. Opi.
11J11 itself, that sacred property of man, they prose-
:ut...l, and persecuted even into the peaceful sane-
:uoy of letters and the arts.
e sire—A throne raised for a moment by foreign
urns, and surrounded by incurable errors—crumbled
n an instant before you, because you brought with
rot from your retreat, which is only fertile in great
.',oughts for great men, aU the pledges of our true
;lay, and all the hopes of our true prosperity.
‘i How happens it that your triumphal march,
'veto Cannes to Paris, has nit opened all eyes ? In
:he history of all people and a all ages, can there be
a more national, more heroic, or more imposing scene ?
" This triumph, which did not cost a drop of blood,
viii it not undeceive our enemies :-do they want
.Ime more bloody triumphs ? Yes, Sire, you may
expect from us all that a heroic founder has a right
a erp...ct from a nation, faithful; er.ergetic, generous,
and not to be shaken in its principles, invariable in
he objects of its efforts, namely, independence with
.expect to foreign nations, and liberty to ourselves.
+, The three branches of the Leg!slatOie wish to
called into action; one sentiment alone animates
• • m : confiding in the promises of your Majesty, -k C.
pllce in your hands, and in the hands of our Repre-
4entatives and the Chamber of Peers.' the care of re-
r;:.3, consolidating, and perfecting in concert. with.
c•zt 2recipitation, without corroption. with maturity,
such wisdom, our Constitutional System, and the in,
,t;tutions which ought to be their guarantee.
" And yet if we are compelled to fight let one cry
make all hearts rebound : Let his march against the
enemy who willies to treat us as the lowest of na •
L,likS ! Let us cluster round the throne; where sits the
Yather and the Chief of the People and the Army!'
" Sire, nothing is impossibk, 'nothing shall be
•
spared to secure us.honner aqd . independeace, those
Llessings which are dearei.thati life.
i• . ,
" Every thing shall be attempted, and every thing
s'..all be executed, to repel an ignominious yoke.—
We tell this to the nations: may their Chiefs hear
us! If they accept your offers of Peace, the French
people will expect from your strong, liberal and pa-
ternal administration; 'motives of consolation for the
sacrifices which the Peace has cost him ; but if they
lame us only a choice between war and disgrace, the
Whole nation will rise fur war : it is ready to free you
from the perhaps too moderate offers which you have
made to save Europe from a new political earthquake.
:.very Frenchman is a soldier : victory will follow
sour eagles, and our enemies who reckon on our
tivisions will soon regret having provoked us."
The whole inclosure resounded with crin of Five
la Nation ! rno ? Barporer 1
The Prince Arch•Chaneellor then declared the ac-
ceptance of the additional Act to the Constitutions of
the Empire, by the voters, almost unanimously. 'lle
Dumber of negative votes was 4206.
The Herald at Arms then proclaimed this accep;
tames amid new acclamations. Prince Joseph next
gave the pen to the Emperor, who signed the addi-
tional act and the promulgation of the Constitution.
The table having been removed from before him,
the Emperor, sitting on his Throne, and with his hat
,la his head, spoke as follows :
a Gentlemen, Electors of the Colleges of the De-
partments, and the Asirondissements, '
" Gentlemen, Deputies from the Troops by Sea
. and Land, to the Champ de Mai,
IS As Emperor. as Consul, and as a Soldier 1 I
owe every thing to the people. In prosperity, in sat
varsity, in the field of battle, in the Council, on the
Throne, and in Exile, France has been the only and
constant object of my thoughts and my actions.
" Like a certain King of Athens, I sacrificed
In/self for my people, • in the hope of seeing the pro.
rule realisetreflreeerving in natural integrity, her
Miaow., and her rights. .•• -- • ' . •
• My indignation at seskiirdesse sacred rights
' by twenty-five ymmoif vietories• despised
trampled upon; the cry a French honour tar.
trampled
tion
, the wishes of die na have called me back
to t throw which b dear to use because it il the