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and the cry of human cottscience is raised to consecrate this e'er:
truthloree mutilates no right. In these times of trouble, libertv
is invoked ; but the expression.of thouelit Ilse ceased to he tree. I
betty hi stilled by the saneuinary cries which early Aare in every i- o' •
melon. You will not suffer yourselves to be sul•jugatt d be the riles
which resound around you. Statemiten,remain calm in the etriilst of pl.
Dis ; and when confusedlvoices call to France the son of Napoleon,
Invoke the Republic, and proclaim the Duke of Orleans; at:shake::
in your choice, you will remember your oaths, and acknowledge the
sacred rights of the Royal Infant which, after so many Misfit, tut:, ..
Puovins:eet, has given to France. Think of the juilgoleet
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posterity—it would he terrible. You would not wish that Itistoe,
should say, they were faithles4 to their oaths. The eyes of E :rope
ate upon us. We have too long exhibited to her a spectacle sit: •go
instabilty ; too long have we changed sides, as often a vlettry
changed colours. thought hack to truth by misfortune, let us re-
main cairn in the midst of so many turbulent passions, and let us
bestow 0.. e reflect and tears upon great and royal misfortunes. Ey
remaining faithful to our duties, I wish to spare our country all ti'
calamities and crimes consequent upon usurpations. Viewing with
an anxious mind the destiny of France, I perceive, gentlemen, th
two-fold scourge of civil and foreign war, threatening oar noble
country ; 1 perceive liberty disappearing for ever ; I perceive Frenel.
blood Rotting, and this blood would recoil upon our heads. The
consideration of the principle of legitimacy, of this principle esta-
blished by the Charter. can alone preserve our country from
fearful destiny. All France is bound be oaths ; the army, ever
falthful,will bend their arms before the young King ; I cell to sitnees
our national honor. Let us not exhibit to the world the rootlet cr
perjury. In the presence of the sacred rights 01' the Duke of Rout
Beaux, the act which Should raise the Duke of Orleans to the three.
could be a violation of all human laws. As a Deputy, rernetulmr-
ing my oaths before lion, who, will judge us, I have declared the
whole truth. I should have forfeited the esteem of my advereMies,
if, in the perils which surround us, I had remained silent ; I &elm%
the sentimems which animate me in the face of Heaven ; 1 wont
express them at the cannon's mouth. If the principle of legitimacy
be not recognised by the Chatter, I must declare that I have tiorig:a
to participate in the deliberations which arc submitted to you.
M. BENJAMIN' CONSEADT said, that though thete was mil.:
sante agitAtion among the people, it was not sufficient to tacit,
any alarm. Coating t? • the proitaitiond made by M. Berard,
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said, We must have a prince of a differeat character from him slut.;
acts have been so deplorable and frightful. 1 will not anticline.
this discussion ; but I cannot refraiu from saying, that we mug:
have a prince who has fought in our tanks and under our statalart°
Iwgitimacyy in its ordinary acceptation, can no longer be invoked.
There is, in troth, no legitimacy but that whirl% deities i s source
from the people and the laws. All Europe knows that we have re-
solved to be free. We have no hostility against any nation. 01
this the proof will be found in the moderation we have displayed
after victory. I abhor and abjure a legitimacy that stains the rave.
ment of our streets with klood.
M. HYDE se NEUVILLE.—With my hand upon my heart, I
must repel the dangerous sovereignty you propose to establish. The
propostAtan ought to be subjected to a much mote lengthened con.
sideration. I think there is danger in trusting the future fate of a
great nation to the impressions of a moment. I have not received
from Heaven the power of wresting a thunderbolt ; 1 can but tip.
pose my prayers to the acts about to be consummated ; and I will
offer them for the liberty and the repose of my country.
M. ALEX. DE LABOADE.—Whatever might be the consequences
of the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the Duke de Bordeaux.
it would compel the virtuous Prince whom we desire to place upon
the throne, together with his family, to bow the knees hentre that
Infant whose presence would recal to our minds nothing but crimes
and misfortunes. Moreover, if 'you remain attached to an historical
legitimacy, the Prince we are anxious to scat upon the throne is
descended more directly titan the fallen Monarch from that King
whose memory the people cherish. I can give you no more.
General LAFAYETTE made agood speech upon the clause that
the peers created by Charles should be annulled. The clause and
all the clauses passed.
A few members, doing justice to the virtues of the Duke of
Orleans, opposed the motion, on the ground that, having sworn
fidelity to the King and the Charter, they did not think that the
powers given them by their constituents authorized them to change
the succession to the throne. At the conclusion of the sitting, and
after the adoption of the report by a majority of 2111 to 33, M.
Dupin, showing his button-hole, to which the three colours were
attached, proposed the following additional article :—" France re-
sumes its colours henceforth. None but the tri-coloured co ,ode
shall be worn." This motion was carried by acclamation. •

DUKE OF ORLEANS. fsa
The following interesting account of the Duke of titian% Is
taken from " Tweddel's Remains." It is contained In a lettet er...
written by Mr. Tweddel in 1796:
" I have collected the following particulars of the events that have
befallen the young Duke of Orleans : they will interest you, and
they have been communicated to me by one too nearly connected
with the Duke to be misinformed, and too honest and sincere to de-
ceive : you may therefore rely upon the truth of the story. Baying
learned that a decree for his arrest had issued, he determined to quit
France, but with a resolution never to take up arms against his
country ; and this resolution he maintained so faithfully, that when
the Archduke Charles (then at Mons) offered him the rank and ap-
pointment of Lieutenant-General in the Austrian service, with all
the honours due to his birth, he refused to accept them, remained at
Mons only as long as was necessary to procure a passport (24
hours,) and set out for Switzerland something less than 100
louis, being the whole of his wealth. From the moment of his ar-
rival in Switzerland, he was persecuted by the aristocratical party
there; and knowing, on the other hand, that Robespierre would hold
his relatives in France responsible for his flight, he determined to
disappear so completely, that in France he should be supposed to
be no longer in existence. He withdrew, therefore, to the loftiest
mountains of the Alps; but not daring to show himself in those
places which are commonly the resort of the curious, he pursued a
route the more interesting, as it was wholly unknown. As he had
left with his sister the little money which he possessed, it was in
extreme penury and prisation that he passed the four months of
his retreat. On great days and holydays his expenditure—the
cost of lodging and diet for himself and the faithful valet, who
could not be prevailed upon to quit him—amounted to thirty
sols (Is. 3d.); but being at length reduced to his last louis,
the Duke was obliged to relinquish this only servant, this last
consolation ; and having learned that the place of profess)r of
geometry in a college of the Grisons was vacant, he applied foe and
obtained it. He remained there iix months, without any one
knowing who he was, and so far gained upon the affections of his
.pupils, and the respect of the masters, that M. de Salis, who had
persecuted him when he had known him as Duke of Orleans, struck
with the good sense and merit of the young professor' invited him
to become the preceptor of his sons. The Duke refused, and re-
mained in his college, teaching geometry in the German language,
until the death of Robespierre, removing his apprehensions for the
safety of his mother and brothers, he emerged from his retreat, re.
claimed the affectionate correspondence of his friends, and from that
time has constantly resided in a small Swiss village, with the same
simplicity, and as little known as before. At present hi is deter.
mined to proceed to North America, to enjoy that liberty,for which
he has suffered so much. There, in the midst of forests, he will
complete an education so auspiciously commenced by adversity. 1
doubt not that he will still display that unaffected magnanimity,
which has hitherto rendered him superior to good and to bad tor.
tune. The same greatness of soul has marked him throughout ; a
Prince at 16, without the least touch of pride; at 17, a General,
three times rallying his division in the fire of Jemappe ; a profes-
sor of geometry at 20, as competent as if he bad devoted long years
to study ; and in each condition as if he had been born to fulfil its
duties. To conclude, I cannot better depict the union of. strength
and moderation in his character than by giving you a copy of a
letter which he wrote a few days ago to an Anierican,• who had
offered to him some waste lands to clear :
" lam heartily disposed to labour for the acquisision of an in-
dependence. 3lisforune has smitten, but thank GOD it has not
prostrated me—more than happy in my misfortunes, that youth
prevented the formation of habits difficult to break through, and
that prosperity was snatched from me before I could either use
or abuse it."

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