Star.
London, England, 1814-02-12 00:00:00

PARIS, FEBRUARY 6.

The mandiment of his Eminence Cirdinal Maury,
ordering public prayers for the success of his .Ma:
jesty the Emperor and King, against the invasion of
the French territory by the Allied Powers, has just
appeared. It is distinguished by manly eloquence,
enriched by the Holy Scriptures, by tradition, an.i
by history. We regret that we must confine ourselves
to a few quotations.
The•aggrnsion and the danger
.admit here no
choice of duties. There can, there does no longer
remain among us but one unanimous cry of courage,
of national defence, one only feeling. one only wish ;
the immediate and simultaneous desire of the Sove-
reign and the People to ►epel the invasion with all the
energy of the French honour."
Letter from his Majesty to the Bishops :

Yes, every question is finished, necessity speaks
to every heart, the sight of the hostile banners waving
in our country, ends all diversity of opioions, by a
general call to arms and to the field of honour, for
in the principles of religion, as well as by all the laws
of civilized nations, a defensive war is not only lawful
as a national right, it is commanded as the most sacred
duty which the urgency of the public safety,imposes
on all people, reanimating their courage by tl:e mos:
powerful springs that can act on the human bean;
religion then becomes the guardian, and she conse-
crates the guarantee of social order, established and
sanctioned by Heaven, when she professes this tine.,
lary doctrine in our Temples.
" The French people, united with their Sovereign,
always have been, and ever will be, invincible on'
their own soil. France ! 0, France ! rise then at the
voice of the hero who makes thee the partner of his
glory—enrich with thy courage our devotion, the
pictures which the present epoch is preparing for thy
history—continually confront thyself with thy memo-
rable triumphs—enlarge with all thy recollections,
the sphere of thy hopes. It is. for the fathers of the
present day to shew themselves as brave as their chil-
dren have been, worthy to serve them as models ;
such a noble emulation ought to adjourn every inte-
rest but the safety of the State. The moment of
action'is come for every Frenchman. There can
now be in the nation only one reigning thought, the
thought of its august Monarch, the holy and salutary
thought of flying to the defence of our provinces ;
iikensed at enduring a foreign yoke, and impatient
to behold their native soil delivered from all these
northern hordes, who must. find there their entire de-
feat. To a great people, a distant war is only a
burden ; a war in the bosom of the Empire is the
most horrible of calamitie4. To stand still before
such a sight, would be base—to insulate one's self,
would be ruin—to fall asleep on the brink of the pre.
cipice, would be throwing one's self into it—to be
discouraged, would be annihilation—neutrality would
be ignominiously cutting one's self off from the num-
ber of citizens. Whoever is able to serve his country
with arms in his hands, and does not defend her
when she invokes his aid, is an ungrateful and unna-
tural son.

64 The enemy, my dear brethren, the enemy is, as
it were, at your gates. Will you then wait his com-
ing to oppose to:hirn a tardy and then soo late re-

sistance ? No, it is not in your walls, it is on the
frontiers of the empire that you must defend this
capital, it is only there that you can save it and
preserve it from all injury. The fate which Heaven
reserves for' our rash 'aggressors, is written before-
hand in our annals in bloody characters. Since the
ever.melnorable expulsion of the English, driven
from our country by the Duke of Guise, never to
return, no conquering invader has been able tr) get a
footing in this empire. Arise then now from your
tombs, brave and illustrious defenders of Fra!tce
you whose dear names will be immortal in our his.,
tory, rise from your tombs, to animate us all with
the same spirit an the same courage which mad,
you triumph over every usurpation of your natal soil,
and quickly reinstate your posterity in the ancient
inheritance of your glory :"