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rarity is left in human professiem..___The
• Princes will riot pass without tiniffhefol
jealousies must embitter the domestic relatf6ns oollfe.'
On this subject, however, I shall not conjointly',
• havisigdedicated a letter to it in another publication.
shall,. therefore, confine myself here to the crates.
deratiun Of other matters. The ancient soccessiou
of the Crown of France went upon this ground,
: that tin' best right was derived from the people.—
. PHIS CHARLEMAGNE waspreferred to his nephews,
. against the right of lineal succession; and Louis 1. be-
ing deposed, CD A RIAD LE CHAUTE, his fourth son, was
• • admitted to the prejudice of his elder brothers; as
•' W3l Louti.ll. to the prejudice of hie elder brethren;
• and his bastards to the prejudice of his lawful sons;
CI:ARLEI IV. to the prejudice of Louis V. and
Oiuo, Earl of Pat is, to the prejudice of CHARLES
I.V. liurit CAPE-r, the descendant of OTHO, " came
to the Crown," says BELTOREST, 64 by the consent
amid will of the Commonwealth." Lib. iii. c. I.
• And I find in a scarce book, entitled A Treatise of
the Broken Succession of the Grown, of England,
published in the time of the Centmonwealt4
. 1653, p. 80, the speech delivered •by the AniP
bassadors sent by the States Or 'France to
• thrAitcy of LORR3INE, informing him of theie
election of II;:ou CarET, which I shall give the,
Reader; it is taken from GERARD ; end DOLEMAN,
in his famous book, published in the latter end
of the reign of Eme urn, from which Mr. PLoweest
has made sudlt abutidattt extracts in his Jura An-
glurum, has, the very same speech, p. 140, edition
.1681, the Orst editiottof that work having been pub-
"• lisited.ls93.--e4E.,erysoaninoweth(Lord CHARLES)
-that the inceession of the crown and Realm of
reaseel accoraingio the ordipary lows and rights of
Abe same, tilongethuito you, and not onto Ikon
curer, now our King ; but yet the vseximame laws
!which do give unto you this right ,Of "on do
judge you also unworthy of the same.;. for that,you
▪ leave not endeavoured hitherto to frame your life and
• manners according to tin prescript of the said laws ;
. nor according to the tittiond anstoui of the country
of France,: but rather hare allied youreetf with the
• German action, our old enemies, and have acquaint,'
. eti yourself . with their_ vile and base n•attilers.
' Wherefore seeing that you have abandoned and.
forsaken the ancient virtue, sweetness, and amity.
of The French, 'We bate also abandoned and left
you Mel • shore chosen Hucu CAPET for our
4 King, and have, past you back; and this withobt•
!
ally scruple or prejudices of our consciences at all ;
•.
esteeming it far better and more just to live under
MOH CAM, th4l present possessor of the Crown,
• NA enjoying the 'ancient use of our law. , tustoins,l
pririleges, andillterties, than under you, the inheritor
by nearness of bloodOn oppression, strange customs,
44dt:rocky. For even as those that'ase to make a
voyage in a ship open a dangerous, sea, do not to
much regard whether the pilot who is to guide the j
. • *fern be owner of the ship or no, but rather whether
. he be skilful, valiant,' and like to biing them in
salty to their way's end, of-to drown them among ,
•the waves; *trivia so out principal-care is, that we
have a good Prince to lead and guide us in the way.
of
scivil and politic life, which is • the end ashy
•Pritices were appointed, and for that thirties is fitter
4s) lie our King." Thus did- livon Carol 'come to
ire Keg uf Frawce, thotit, by the tame right that
the Kite:s of England govern to this day, which I.
Fawn:secs atilt-pole:las populo ejtuxu. The people '
abuts hint tweet* they deemed flit& to .be
their' King," -then CHARLES of LORRATNE, who paid
no regard to their ancient laws, customs, and liberties:.
Such was the origin of that right claimed by the llonse
of CArrr ; and the Reader will plainly see that, at.
the very best, it never was better than that of Bo-
NA PARTE, who held by the very same tenure; but
having been forfeited over and over agaia, as by
XI. for instance, who tyrannically subverted!
.Manse ancient leis, customs, liberties, &c, 'which]
Mean CAPET (under whom he claimed not withstand.,
it'll) was selected to maintain ; as irso by Louis
XVI. who broke his oath to the nation, it is very
clear that the title of BONAPARTE was far better than
that of the BOURBONS. My opinion, therefore, is,
that the Decree'of the Conservative Senate-could not
have lawfully divested BONAPARTE of his right, if
he had not pleased to divest himself; and it is k
great happiness that he has done so, as by that means i
a civil war is avoided. And now, as to the case of '
the Itouenosis, there are but two ways by which
they can reign ; either by a restoration of their an-
civil family right,' which indeed deserves very little
tespect, the tenure by which they held it, namely,
maietenance of the ancient laws and liberties,
tli-g beint lest and done away with, &c. &c. or
• i'resh authority derived from the people. But
....tits••rvative Sea' to are not competent to the
• ! .s•-‘311.,1; this new authority in the Princes.
. themselves have only a rkricatirc
•... .d that power must be exercised for
..11)o.es for which it was entrusted to them :
anilterity is cthiservative nut creative, and it is
un abtertlity to say, that any man (or body of men)
tan transmit to another a right that is not previ-
ously in himself. The people, indeed, may finally
approve what the Senate may previously digest and
propose to them, which was the mode of Legisla-
tion practised among the Saxons and 'other Ger Man
nations. This may be done; but stilt' It" will be. ne.l
cessary teat a National Assembly shotird be expresily
(Wed for this purpose, as was the' case in the Con-
vention Parliament. As to the ProjelrOf a Constitu-1
tints, for it deserves no other nenre,.digested by the
Conservative Senate, and published in your Paper of
Tarirsday last, I confess that there la.it considerable
affinity between it, and the Constitution of 17'89;
but 1 do not think that this is any proof of the Allies
itti, become proselites to the Rights of Man; it is
witty me rather creason for suspecting their sincerity.
this circumstance, however, bears you out in the
• assertion, that the principles which gate the first im-
puke to the Revolution of 1789, are effectively at
vterk in the Revolution of 1811. This assertion
•ented to me incredible till I read your• Paper of last
Thursday-, and now I confess that there is an
p<••:, mice for whit you say. But, however 'specious
e,e,. appearances may be, I cannot believe, for My
p 111, that it is the real object of the Allies to este-
Cash, in 1814, what in the year 1791 they ma-
• ts .I.rated together to destroy: On this subject, how-
e;, I shall enlarge in my next, and remain, &c.

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