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cipitation;. chiefly citited ,itlarrn. It was there that
the war was most national. . , • . •
In this view I have.pnlyihserted-the mnitt.pseirait.
ing opinions, some of which.nre not withnotmii•ore.
The Noblesse *nd the Clergyei thrk.Yertieeetcup:edipir
have no where any party. • All Fraitte revolts ot the
excessei coMmitted in the.Scothi.ity tuns:. trolls that,
exclusively call themselves Royals earst. .
once is a State of rebellion. Fits iticiirm„ &eat wa.rs
and the counter revolutiOnary.sentiment heir-roc
every where. • Scarcely a tenth part et, tie Fretleh
nation can be found who are willing to rejccrt :p the
old evtivii, and.scircely a fifth par! w•I!: :tole heartily
devoted to legitimate authority. ,Thi. (no
tent the great majority korn submi!tinp, sinterely td
your•Majestr in your capacity of Chief uf the State,.
'That taitinossiost . will bb lasting; inlthe cmt.fw 'if
time it will even assume the character of Iswe and.
Confidence, if France be constantly., gov-:ned by
liberal ideas; eminently constitutional: riOccitl'ioeir
national.
Cis the _tappets:en of tom' wit; tliC RoyAlists
linolffreign absolutiOn tea eiciaXtrnents a in fifteed.
others the parties would be baltaced ; and in all •Js
rest Of France only a few handfuls (1 Itoy4lists
tvotld be found „oppoied to the great mass nt the
people. There would be stifficieut means of fuming
a Royal army, but bow l-ing would resistance. oe
maintained, ot even the fidelity of that army
served, which bad been so !Ouch reckoned upon
There are besides a euflicient number of ancient
bles, or of partisans of .the CoOrt,_ in ever!, deyar:-
menti to establish there an appearance of
pub=ic o;rt-
nion, and even, a certain majority in clot: Electoral
Colleges.
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it must be inferred that the party of the N .
is still of som! importance, when the pwslie iu
notaries employ all, the efforts of G .vernment to
support them ; is it deprived of that soyport, the pd.
pulation absorbs it : some seriotwerrors-on this ,stils-
ject. might circa' tto rcei.id. the fluonrie, and frit this
reason I endeavour t 6 excite, ettet:o6it tothern. •
!hail have other oxcasienr- to chatactease the. poblic
feeling ; I ought first to speak. of-theinioy. • •
Various motives have proditcod. tltY 'obeli/ion of
the army; in some this sultrulision' is k:littorrercintit.,
'to flair duty to the Ring's instattrotiverr it is tilt,
effect of necessity ; in the grater no:sillier it ire sa-
ciigce made to the .repose or;Pi44e. k now
worittled and humili.tted 'at bekoltting.its distrait:Aber..
,tend dismissal.

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That army has been-employed in ineasinrs and
eunqUelt L repose is repngnaar to it ;. ambition iin-
houndea-by fortune had rendered it entAprising, an 4
though it had no longer at its-head as general th:te
warlike Chief of the State. it could not but lung
teinember its ancient standascl‘"''-'
Ought we to strive to place it oh hint:onions terms
frith tau ether armies.6l Europe b giving it nroJeit
notions,* moral and Monarchicalisoint ot-boatmr,
sort of religion for legitimacy ? Or, indeed, W. it
indispensioly necessary to disband them ? This
question ought not to be decid: d by the laws of riyro.
tons *Janice, we should rather constilt the art of gu.
veining the future and the reason of Stater.
' The fewer old officers and soldiers there remain is
the new corps about to be formed, the more
.discoo.
tent and sedition will be found in the midst of the
people. It will require a long time before the obj.ct
is accomplished of estranging a nt.w army from the
interests of the old, The civil disturbances will be..
come much more serious in snore stormy elements;
and if the clash of the various tactions be survived,
every thing will he in a state of preparation for si
civil war ; under the must favoutabie suppositions
the disbanding of the army will base the effect of
recruitim the brigands, gad if is impossible n..t to
'discover a cause of terror in the mere fact of throw-
ing' upon an electric population, already so much
disturbed, 2(X),000 men connected with so Many
families. who are thus placed in opposition to fats
Government: No authority could withstand such an
immense coalition of ill-will, hatred, passion, and of
shattered and discordant interests.
Another linger will arise Irons the opposidon of
the political opinions of the parties and factions.
There are draw-backs in the march of ages and is
the progress of civilization ; the understanding itself
has its detractors, and when they lead to too precipi.
tate and extensive changes. it gives rise to resistance
and continued agitations. The great struggle of tt)e
Revolution is not yet finished by 25 years of subver-
sion ; each of the'ancient factions was not complztely
ektinct When the invasion of the usurper revived the
parties, disclosed new ones, and made a full discovery
of the extent of the factions.
To speak us the first place oaly of the simple difi
ferente of opinion; if this difference be extremely
wide, if it produce a sort of rupture in the State, it is
in vain far authority to govern in the sense ',AOC!' it
believis prevalent ; another opinion comes across it
which also pretends to be the public (Tinton r a reign
could not be of long continuance if it had only this
minority in its favour, since even the support of the
nujority would still allow the strongest resistance to
be kept up ; en the one side the sacntice of their Bpi.
Arms will be difficult, and on the other infeasible.
It remains, therefore, but to chose rightly, and to
make reason and justice triumph over old p issious
anti ancient prejudices. Similar contrarities doubt-
less exist in the other states of Etiropei but they de
net refer to such mighty .interests, nor unite them.
selves to so many other oppositions.

- - After this danger comes that of parties, without
calculating the Royabsts4 who are found in the y•-ar
1813 to be what they were in 1789.; Among the old
parties the Republicans and the Constitutionalists still
subsist r if the Republicans have not been undeceived
with regard to all their priaciples, they have at le4st
discovered the impossibility of applying them to a
great state. Having thus ceased to be dan_ger oufto
tie power of monarchy, they became sa to Bonlparxe
only on account of bis tyranny, and with a verylew
exceptions Bortapardsts would be found in the ranks
of the Republicans.. Tins would be to csisumic.a
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