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

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RIPORt ID TifE xmo OF FRANCE.
ILEGARtbitto TA Militia* 00 THE lUNPaolid.
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Slaa—l have said ibefore.yout Majesty the ejitie:
don of your kingdom. as k regards foreign unlit('
' the dleorderi so which I had the. Walker of calking
your attention are temporary; resignation moderates
them. time will repair them;. their cause is ktiown,
but them are other *ore serious,: a Picture of arhtch
it is m duty to bring under your view. I'rance is
at war with herself; we are !I,lreatene‘ with all the
calamities that can arise from the rousing of lisssioti,

and the conflict of opining.
The many political tempests that have agitated us
for twenty•five years, have scattered us- with their
violence into corketiding parties i so minty public and
private disputes, such a dikordance in actions, wishes,
said fears, have been the consequence, ,that it is now
impossible to rant desires, unless at the same time
opinions are a/ so rallied, by odds the heart at rest,
insuring tranquillity- ei. all Amovosts•
„".44,i1 is deliver), obstacit.in the *meat isi 'whirl,
alit are,ineroantied: . '['be majoi-itit of then o.'esergy
ho byre Combated and oreithrOWO ' the lest tassifri
lib; +ty jo' put an end-to iyriasi y!,,triy• ill)).
wary gorernthent would surrou
.. nd _them again With
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their eadMies. „ - . .
It is not merely for the sin' gate* of two Oren-
menu, but for the difference at .prtqc i p l e s that war
hai again burst lonia in ta..vud4 ; they lay down
their army, ,but war is nut ended; in -opposition' of
the same kind agitate: sna disunites all classes of
citizens, even to the members of every family. Its
habitation is in the most ardent:pi:ons, in the desire
as well As in the. fear of witnessing the triumph of

old .opinions.
Public calamities have served arty tetaugntent one
disorders ; the two parties either aggravate each
other by their reproaches and 'bit threats of re•ac-
tion, or
,urge themselves by theii.lotet. All Will
submit is the King, all at least ,well. have the lan-
guage of submission, bu; the one will demanctis the
condition of their fidelity the Maintenance of the
sights of the people, wl,ile the othei.;:odthe contrary;
wiihto retrograde, that every *thing should be put
in dispute; in chort, that the ptetent shotild decide
all the r • their favour.
liidet'd, it would be now saia, istt a view of the
state cat public opinion, that Prance euntaihS two
nations contending against eachather one degree
mare or tory is only necessary to dissolve the social
compact, and a few false measures on the part of
Government, are only required to produte a general
confl.gration.
On a view of the state, of public opinion, and of
the conflict of pasSions.„ there ate found distinguiili •
ing shades between the !firkins departments,letwe
the. citizens and the armlet, and between °the persist
and the faetfrins.
Minds are 'more calm in the centre of France ►
there obedience will be more prompt; but the Capital
must be considered a disimet class. It is not, and
can no longer be the rule and example of the Pio.
vinces : since a factitious opinion there so quitkly
takes the place of a red opinion, each party there
finds auxiliaries and accomplices in a momentary
irintripb ; every thing is to be apprehended from its
slightest agitations, while what appears its most per.
tea repose can give but a feeble lecurity. •
The North has evinced Moderation, and your Ma.
jesty has recei*ed dome proofs of attachment ; the
character of its saheb-dams tenders it itiseeptib)e ef.
disturbance; a constitutional regime, undet the Go.
vernment of the King. woeid gratify the wishes of
the departuients of the North.
The West presents >t frightful .Contrast; a great
numbei of persons in La Vendee, in Limousin, and
,Poicton, are devoted to the Sing, but either from
terror or from passion, for the last twenty years,
they have confounded the cause of the ancient regime
with the cause ot- royalty. Perhaps an imprudent
meal would consider it an advantage to calculate on
this armed population, on these credulous,
and ignorant peasants, made soldiers* by a long civil
war, and obeying their chiefs with the most blind
submission. • Such an error ought to claim the atten-
tion of your Majesty: The employment of these
'soldiers, the support of such an army would lose the
Royal cause without redemption, because they see
there the evident project of placing the cpunter-revo-
lutidn on the throne. It is, nevertheless, not to be
believed that opinion would be unanimous in these de-
pertinent'. Armed federations have been there form,
ed I one part cif the towns is opposed to the country,
and those who gain would resist whoever should at
tempt to dispossess them. - • •
• The Royalinne of the South break' out in attempts;
armed bands penetrate into the towns and overrun
the country. Assassinations and robberies multiply;
justice is every where silent ; • the Administration'
every where inactive; the passions that agitate, alone:,
speak and are listened to. The necessity for termi-
nating these disorder' is urgent, for soon the resis-•
tante provoked by such excesses would be as much
applauded as the aggressinn. The lower orders, the
greater part of the cultivators, a portion of the in-
habitants of the small towns, the whole Protestant
populition, and these of the Reformed Religion, are
interested. The departments of the Pyrennees wish
for neither troubles nor reactions. Auvergne. al.
though submissive, is of a constitutional sentiment
only; and at Lyons two parties prevail.
Towards the Eastern frontier, Alsace, Lorraine,
the three Bishopricks, Ardennes, Champagne, Bur-
gundy', Franche Comte and Dauphiny, present a
danger of a different kind, A Moral opposition to-
the Government of the Royal Dynasty is there nearly
general. Twice invaded by foreigners, thew depart-
ments have suffered more than the rest ; they hat
rather gained than lost by the;Centinental commerce;'
extent of their national &Mains made them still
more dread the prtsentationitt the ancient possessors.
It was also in these provinces that some errors of the
termer Ministers of the KinVbeing judged with pre
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