The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-28 00:00:00

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s 7 e• • Mans. • Dane heady had them proclaimed in no brief or equivocal
y she nomipotenee of Goal, sad the esertione of the 1 which would be taken by the King, hut instead of a Arr.
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manner. The record is yet dull, gloomy, scanß.
I igh Allies, this hope of the people was justified.-- resolution cnnformable to their wishes, his :Majesty
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'r,,. miion, cailsol the Itheeieh Coefederation, va. contented himself with declaring. to the States, that 0
uedieit, and see nation wilts the sane tranquillity ;he would immediately cause the perticular grievances 0 -
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as it hid bor•,e the most affecting aitipitinn, could to be exami,sell, as what molt concerned him, but did I,Ricx ov 14.rocKs .n...
look to the rentveig she Pioclamation of Kalish and not regard the constitutional points as of seeh magni- eant
the seinstatement in the ancient rights, of Which it tude. and therefore thought fit to attiontis the As- e eer Cent. Red +-hut
had be.•:: liarived. • sembly, who should leave some Deputies to carry an 3 err cense te is. 54.4 7 - ... 1
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see DAY li'rONlt O'CLOCK.
L-ne. Ann. shot
gxebeiwer BOK 34 d , Power alone is to be the support of the new s, s.
loin—this speaks its weakness and the hatefulness of
its nature. The Emperor of AustelA has ordered
his guards to Paris, as has also the King of l'aussit.
Mark the reliance which these Prince' full of .
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. • • " Its Maisie/. the. 11Elog of Wirtembere, by a the negociation, who must receive their instructions
Blevejlesto of are 17iii 'sr ./dewy tats year, hasten- coeformably to the views
of the Khoo The Ai3eol9
plc in feta,- en shire-Ail this expectation of the
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people was
.well foandeal; in it he eipressly con. : giving its Detesties any ether instructions than Omit! !
Armed, that only imys.rioos eircumstancoa bad been 1 which the people had given themselves, hut that they
able to Weaken the efficacy of the Constitution of the had proceeded to the choice of such a Committee as •
Ilveeditary States, and that the Head of the State', had hitherto existed for the instruction of the four
now that these 'external circumstances were done 'Deputies of the elates, nod as the Constitution of
assay, did not bes Pate to give the people a Cense- the Ilerrelitary States prescribes the uninterrupted ,
Whin which should satisfy all parties. The people, representetien. This Address, drawn up in the ThrE ST.,I7'ESIVLIN.
LONDON:
INVILanAT, szreesseett `2B, 1815.
—....-., 1 their characters. The French have, indeed, beef)
wonderfully relieved from a military Government
Yet the jargon, the officiel stuff that has abused the •
dulness nod stupidity themseltet
have seen and acknowledged its hollow baseness, il
!still lung forth to cozen and cleceire—" the Allie.i
' faithful tretheit principles, faithfel to their dilate.
1 lions," are to do this and that fur the benefit of the
contitlitig in tie -.mime of their Sovereign, hereupon Immo:see of faithful Representatives of the People, I
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chose their livresentatives, and the Representatives received, however, a negative answer from his Ma. • s
of the people so chosen met, together se it IS those jesty. Tee was place adjournment persisted in, and aThe motives for the weeping change that has taken French people. Faithful they have indeed bee., to
in the French Government, now begin to de-; their. principles, bdt these are far from beiug what
Cl.l3Ofted as tuch, either by the birth as former States Committee, hating a representative character, was velop themselves. Those which have been assigned ; they have professed to cherish—faithful indeed they
of the Empire, or by the choice of the King, in order disapproved, as incompatible with the idea of an ad- as the actuating causes of the conduct of the French ! hive been to their engagements ; but these are
• to restore the old form of Government, and to de- inurement. . Ministers, are known to such as have heard of their only the selfish engagements they have contracted
liberate in a constitutional manner with the SO. : " Tills resolution filled the Assembly with pro-
• between themselves to crush all human liberty and
I reign, coceerning tee %sanctification, which the spirit found sorrow. It rel..v itself under the necessity of repugnance to comply with the demands of the Allies,
andthe
of the times and the change of riicorostaorea made representing to his Majesty the
impossibility of tear.
;fur the faith and friendship of Princes extend. Rubes
necessary. but on milling together the States, on ing behind four single Deputies, and of renewing
its branches of the Rept Family. The motives of tic-
than complete his mercenary pact with Pros -la and
the 111•11 of March, Isis Niojesty the King expressed, first request of the confirmation of a Committee, (ion on the part of those who have occasioned their i .
t • his ietention% very differently. The ancient Con- which should instruct the four Deputies, as the Royal
dismissal, we now learn from a source, whose asset
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envied over in silence ; and the Act of Commissioners were instructed by a Royal Commit-
lions, true or false, honourable or dishonourable, 1 for the aggrandisement of all of whom we have ;144
11 an entirely new Constitution, iii the formation of tee. But the States, after what has passed, must re-
which the Mates had ilo share, was laid before them titmice the hope of a satisfactory resolution ; and
as an organic ,
as moil) law of the State—as the only one, and thus this Assembly, which had done every thing in hirelings in thiS country, who, by applauding
lied by Itis•ltsjesty the King. Your Ex. its yower to defend the interest of its Constituents, act of despotic power as the result o
• cellency knows this new Constiiiii
' ,and we—all imaeso prospect left than that the high Powers who
to whom by birth or the cmitidence of the people have guaranteed the Constitution, will take upon are never wanting in confidence. 'flue Ministerial i and paid most soundly, the magnanimous Empereret
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every Rs:
f the profound.
est wisdom, without adverting to what may be its
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consequences, refer us at once to its origin, and seta condescends to coalesce with the Duke and
Dechess of ANGouLEMe, and gives France a Revels
' Piime Minister, with the assurance, (hat though,
weak woman, and a still weaker set of Princes awl i
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molested their sights, the combined interest of the ahem the care of the rights of the people, and no
claim all the honour for their favourite God, DAGO,', ; their partisans, who possess no public confidence, hat i
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.Nation and the Sovereign—may rejoice in the eon. consolatioe, but that it has only desired what is good
soling conviction, that the acceptance of this Con.
are exulting at this complete change of men and mea-.1 with minds given to bigotry and revenge, may plugs i
land just, that it did not ask what was obsolete or in.
atitution, instead a the• one which is s,:proitted by ; applicable, and that it never violated the due forms, sure,; and scruple not to insinuate, that it was in-1 France in civil war and rivet the chains of despotism; •
' 1 the expaiience of three centuries, and the welfare of i even in the moments of its greatest embarrassments. • tended at the time when Foccue and his friends were yet that her territory shall remain in tact, for the
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many generations, and which has been rendered .In the contemplation of its approaching dissolution, invited to rematsi in the Ministry, 14 not to multi- benefit of the said friends of feudal ideas, and that i
sacred by an oath, would have been considered as an ! it remains faithful to the firm resolution to exert its !
Russia may be in no danger from the greeting power I
act of treachery. i utmost endeavours to appease the minds of the sub- , rue them longer than Was necessary to obtain quiet :
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• , possessina of the reins of Government ;,, in other of her German neighbours. The Duke of Ittcno
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" If the Assembly pronounced loudly and ilea- !jests.
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steely the restoration of this hereditary Constitu- 1 66 At .this decisive moment it has still, however, works that the Royal Party, or Allied Powers, have LI co, whom all accounts agree in representing as the
tion, declaring, however, at the same time, for the , the last and most sacred duty to perform, and to , not ,tickled at the commission of a piece of deep!). : nen Prime Minister, though a Frenchman by birth, i
necessity of several important modifications which are fulfil this it hastens to express to your Excellency its (ion, which, though it may be favourable to their is, in all respects, a Russian, and in the Russian is. I
suitable to the spirit of the times, and to the altered firm hope, and the urgent prayer of the people of ' plans, in the meantime must cover them with the terests. He was many years Governor of Odessa, t
situation of the country, this was done upon the ex. Wirtemberg, that in this state of thing; the auceist .in the Black Sea, a Province of Russia; end we be- t
express instructions received from all the chief dis. I Sovereigns, who at a former period found meo,os to most lasting stain of perfidy, and show, if any such
,ii firm. proof was 'wanting, that no confidence.
can be re- ' Here, as far as the liberalizing politics of a Rut.
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trials, and is conformity with the justly-founded de- maintain the Constitution, will advocate wi
•Mau Governorship may be supposed to qualify a
• mends of the whole people. ness and justice the cause of this good German IR. posed in Princes. How often have the Foreign s
36 That therefore which was the internal, unalter- ; tion. Wirtemberg has never renounced She guarati- Courts renewed the solemn assurance, that they man for a lending part in the Administration of .S
able conviction of the individuals, was consecrated ; tee, and never can renounce it ; no external change meant not to interfere in the internal government of a Bourbon Government, the Duke of Rican= i
as the will of the people and the power of right, has had the power to dissolve tl7s internal relation ; Fsence' and that they meant to respect her natiorml bas all the talents and all the education necessary.— c
clearly spoke their instructions to the Representatives ; on the contrary, the acquisition sieve snide with the
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ntiepeneence ! France believed these assurances, re- General CLARKE (the Duke of Feltre), who pro. o
of the People. Tae more sacred the affair they strength of the Hereditary Slate, confirm the claim
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ad to manage was, the more pore their views of the whole country to this guarantee, since by tee pelted to her by her Minister sitting inthe conclave claimed that France was saved the moment lie got (
are in respect to both the King and the Com- swore Cteivelitiou, every part added to the old ter. of these Princes. France was entered, and Paris into the War-office, though BortarAare was within b
try, the more deeply must they be afflicted at seeing aitory has the same right and duties which it obtains surrendered in consequence. I;et in what respect a few miles of Paris, is another efficient hand, a
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that at the very beginning the demands of the people and undertakes in the same mintier. It is, there.
made through them were unattended. to, and that no fore, beyond sal doubt that the guarantee of the is faith kept to the French nation ?—The worthy of being included in such an Administration. a
t:country then ha, see:mined in the fullest cots- But ALexAtenre " displays an army of 17'2,000 li
part of the good old Constitution should be given to Constitution still exists fur the whole country as a
ndence is made one wide scene of pillage and infantry and '26,000 cavalry, all newly clothed and a
• \. the States in constainence of a right, but only as bnlwerk. If, now, the only hope of this country,
much as his Majesty the King might he pleased to teat the rights which aro confided to the Assembly devastation ; Couventions are avowed to have been in the highest condition, not to overawe the French, by
grant upon petitions of the Assembly of the eiate, eel be advocated by the high Gueranteeing Courts is mere tricks to obtsin possession; a Government every but to show them that he is prepared to protect them V
or as matter of -favour. After the exchange of some tie'! founded, the Slates can have no more sacred duty way hateful has been imposed ; the men whose re- against extravagant demands." Great, conscientious,
notes and resolutions, a lineal Derlaration indeed than that of humbly explaining to your Excellency potations, talents, and integrity, were at once a and magnanimous ALEXANDER! So these 17'2,000 Is
followed, that the derision should be deferred to the . these circumstancue, and most solemnly to conjure
guarantee for the confidence and safety of the infantry and 26,000 cavalry, came to France for its
return of his Royal Highness the Crown niece. All : you, in the name of the brave people who are rep re B
hearts looked with confidence to that moment. And seated by the Assenibly, by tee importance of the French owlet), are no longer continued. in Admini- other purpose but to protect the French from extra. gi
though the negotiations which took place between matter to %Virtembeig, and indeed to all Germany, stration than is necessary to 'allow the enemies of the vngant demands—why then hare they not already a
his majesty tee Kites end his Royal Highness the to have the kinduese to induce your most gracious happiness of Filitice to obtain undisturbechpossession of turned (heir arms agninit the extravagant demands and at
Crown Prince 'love Hot cree ! °ie.:J.ls to tee 'clew. Sovereign powerfully to support this holy cause.— the reins of a overtiment and of the country; and the the unparalleled violations and outrages of the Prue Is
ledge of the Assembly, it is no St 1.:. r/ ill oleo spirit ; We beg your liecellency to excuse this retpleq ois
mast odious and remorseless tyranny is introduced, ,tans? And who clothed all these Russians so find}' ti
this high.minded Prince declared his sentiments to . amount of the importance of the suhject which we
his august father. If by this the hope of the As.; are called upon by our duties to defend, to interest
under the mask of the fairest professions ;—and the How come they to be in such high condition, so defer. PI
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world is told, and partly believes the tale, that ant from the misery and starvation of their own coom
semhly was encouraged, that by a uegociation be- 1 yourself ilk the concerns of this menu, and to accept
tweets the R ;yal C mmi,sioners and some Deputies' the assurance, of the most distinguished consideration this is magnanimity and honourable dealing I But try ? France is too rich a scene to be hastily alum .1
•it is the potty of the Duke of AN E
GouLDE and cloned. England will subsidize any Court, and clothe
: of the States, found d open the hereditary Comititele ' with which we have the honour to remain i
Lion as a basis, the demends of justice-would be re-, " Your Excellency's most obedient servants, ' the French Pi inces who have turned out the Mi. and feed the subjects of any country that can assist I
I t g ized, this brave people, distinguished by a rare
44 They had courage to speak." Would to keep France from enjoying a free Government. ; u
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ode ty, made easy, and the good a the Severeign !s•se•n ably of time Su ate... 4 -f the kin gdom of Wirte.nberg, losters.
•• Atfti U STUS, Po ince of itutimilohe, Preside,.t. ! they have had course to show their faces, or to open though. her own should starve. A Minister frost
and Subjects permanently confirmed. The Itnyal ;
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Commissioiiers urine the opening of the negociatious
elechrred to time Plenipotentieries of the States, that ' since Von';.
-they are in•fact merely authorized to hear the prone. I 1,1 r; jri.ijm.•sFAßhß' Vice-Pl"".
of the Prince 4, Courts,. and Saone, having
'' tiEOItGE, Cottle of Walileck. P3rmont, and Lemp..
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rank ol the States respecting the modifications of the ' „ in the
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of or Elected neinitie., ttoir mouths in France, if they
and comitenanced by half a limadmiitoont bnefen backed the shores of the Black Sea, and a sullirieg
foreign number of desperate believers in divine tight
bayonets and the coalesced Sovereigns of Europe ?at the helm, with a J of A at their brad
; And what is the mighty advantage that France and must, indeed, corn
The plea- binism, end the t • complete ''clitoCwntitl- of ja-ra',
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,: the world are to reap from this change ?
1 new Constitution, to be draws from the ancient one. - I'I.F.MRICK INIMANULL,
'The States f ;r, as they naturally must be, from re. l
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s:',,K,LUorta. Ftl LIMAN, Secretaries ad interim.
:to-lumen a Constitution, which is the inalienable!
p roperty of the nation, aud the fairest possession of 1 if:, 'Atli July."
..-.....eee.-..ee.T.......---em= • i sure with which the French people hail it, may be
by the state of public credit. Is a general
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' and lasting pacification likely to be effected better tiihtini:fie(eil.se
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awrreeiumph of legitimacy—as foray),
a told
•9 the deliverers are quite
want the proof of this, as
much as that mankind are all blind, and horn to he
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every iroliyiilual Wirtecnberger, found themselves in I
the most ['aide' einharrasement.
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es LETTER. 'mom PARIS, SEPT. 21.
pe se themselves for a time to the reproaches of some 1-
crifice the main object, the cent•
I• 'Fhe Imuere that monument of victory, is at least aarnedessmoopilleetrelby
onetime
common good of the
It had been closed on Monde the filing np of the Offices of the the slaves of men whom the
hoierathe French people, arid ;
State, and the conclusion of treaties with men who ' and ()rnes-.
Y have no influYersfc'ereoigvenr It ; the party who have 1 capAiltanlr,e anallrittlsliteutrcninica's y have raised to pone
P approaching the French el
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So-'sir} Tuesday. Yesterday a detachment of Britishhaarseestablished his head.einie
seseign mid the people. They therefore made to thebrought about the triumph of the lte-actio •'
. le.tlit Infantry walked info P •no arts, opened the doors noires, are, ters at Versailles, Who shall say that the Aline . 3
, just end g•,9.1 cause the sacrifice, that in the way ,
• of , and' let loose a body of workmen on the Paintings.--
' wholly destitute of this ; and is net the resistance ' want ' ; delicacy, and that the Legislative Chamberi,
I compromise departing for once ham the formal re- , °phis moriago,
, the floors are covered with them. A and dismissal of those Ministers in whom the nee 1' r
rvshine of the principle of the uninterrupted exist.: ' loos, who are so devoted to 'Avis that he cannot fate •
. ... few National Guards linger about the door, British has hitherto confided, more likely to be the •,,,, P
•al !them mice of former rights, they pointed out the chin Sigl. i without a correeponding Ministry, are about -
sentinels are planted through the gallery, and no-Y
fundamental lines, aed thought they might be easy !eth• 1 dfor a general opposition to the system sought to he ••
• thing but the sound of hammers is heard from one assemiee, without military protectors? “ Tile x
if the conventional rele'ioiss between the King and i u introduced, and the terms proposed, than to be King," '. end of it to the other. The Antwerp altar-piece has to-says the ?env's, "is following the impu!se
the people could he re-established upon these. If .
• been with a crowd of its illustrious compatriots, al- gerded as a proof of the triumph of detected artifice, given hint from alt quarters of the kingdom by 6.0 •I,
now she mometation of the States, of a happy re-;
- ready' token down;
.n and two schools, the Ditch and arid despotism trembling in the midst of its power? feleetotei I
removal of all difficulties tits fully justified, yet of .addresses, and the Allied Sovereigns oty
• the six points extracted from the am-lent Constitu- .
. Flemish, almost totally cleared of their fittest pie. The French now see what they have to expect f ' '
from Ist
acttng cordially wills him on this occasion." 111
tares. The Italian has been yet but slightly torched. the forbearance of the Allied 1-
lion, first laid down as a basis, not a single me was .Lings, and the aa odd 1
ion comittg out of th all this morning, the sight '
• granted, nod tee Assembly, after six weeks delay, :what the Vienna Confeelerec • have been
%es at least various. lii the Place of the Thuilleries y contending' very striking; but, " a fellow-feeling make. Es sion• el
found itself preciseey where it had begun, in entire ! :lie Levee for •
was assemhlieg to attend the Kim, to . ,whether the dastardly party of Cobleutz and dermas kind." Is K•
contradiction of the King to the pretensions of their ,
i Mass. In the Place tie Carousel, in trout, thebNe- • 1110129 and their principles, are extinct; i the tag disposed to pay rice
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constitacnts. Your Excellency will acknowledge the,
tional Guardofthe
end what 1 respect to the Addresses that have been fcrearthd
justice of the affling sensations which this state of to to him by the. Electoral Colleges in the inieresa (f '
i band; under the shade of the Valais des Beaux A its, ; one .of their own • • all
privileged order, otiose dominions ' his family
• things meat excit its the Assembly,
and which are in the front of all, a detachment of the British Light they than to the assembled Representative. el
the more paiefol, in as tuustli as the Assembly has ob. have so long promised to restore. It willalso iv
• Infantry were bivouacking; some Cossacks of the the nation ? Is lie prepared to obey the imps
rained and deserved the public teetimony, OW it was ,
t Emperor's guard were looking over all with won- be speedily seen whether the French people have
i impossible in this situation to act with greater equani.yet ; that they are ready to give him ?We airrehc" ate
I der arid 'amusement, and biers were coming out (I f a stake to hazard—whether they have submitted or I not. The Ft
1 mity,conscientieu
done. It felt the co
nity of the throne
duties of the Representatives
performed this to s
t ess and respectfulness than it has 1
ta ,
tviction that the respect for the dig. ! the
must be intimately united with the 1 field
esentatives of the People, and it has
task in tbese trying circumstances. In
this tof things they again' unfolded It
the hpe of
Louvre,
coverlets, as i I
battle.
contrast, and ea
m carrying picture
they pictures wrapped up with
were carrying the dead from a
Every thing was noise, and singular
military confusion.
The disturbances amongst the i
end stateepations of their constituenta, in sno
ods
Shields
dress to his Majesty the King, accompanied by a de- at continuing, it is said discharged seamen'
'that a con 'tl
• d representation of the mnurnful situation of the detachment of cavalry has marchedinto
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Newcastle
erable
been conquered—whether they have
by confidence in the Ministees that h
placed—and whether they are disposed to go the 1-1
i lengths that
been restrained lion, not the
are beeiedis. tyrannical faction, which they
are apprehended, in opposition to the the twee •
1 Royal Go
vestment, composed tes it will now be on independence
pure Vendean principles. As
sentiment on the changes that h
the state of yet little of popular
have occurred pitiful, applauding tools of a hige
are said to he. te.l
ley arc alive to the deeps! of their country, n".l
ssity of giving an example of firmuess '4
penitence to the rest of the nation. The no":'
conduct of the late Parliament, which disdained la
beyond keep up the farce of deliberation ellen its ilisco"i'"''
be,
-fie
Ca i
lea
Ceti
May
atthe public fonds is at
1 country. In these papers they exhausted every ar-
by order of Government, in aid of the Civil Autho-
to titles there, and that a ship of war will sail without public !Hints. Iled any superior de discoverable from the were no longer free, is before them. They carry .! n 3
I foment that fidelity, patriotism, and attachment
the august family of the Sovereign, river
and thus the delay to give its assistance on the. and in the been the immediate result, or were degree of freedom their hands a declaration
any of their rights anal 'limo
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d forward lierboar, towards putting an end to these proceed. nary blessings extraordi- 4 the and tl • know that they ""11-
my
People and their Representatives looked . . 1 gs anticipated to crown the restoration of alto country,
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with the most anxious expectation to the resolution ,JI g . tbe old order of tl • to the nation and to pestle 't for If vdischse
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!legs, see Wok we should have al-of the high d • IPP
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i • leduties entrusted to them, TheY arc teen
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