The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-11-08 00:00:00

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A COIIPARATIVW EXAIMINNITIMS,
AND MINIS? MIAL Palilat.
The first acknowledgetta thhidil
a source of truth so eery Mixt:tab!
descendent of Saint-Leith is, that he'
to the throne of his ancestors by , eseilles,
pie. Why is this acknowledgmeol . wises-
does honour at the same time to ti Recording
—of a truth which erects his , a bolo-
-eausw—. ~. the only title which renders:id,
timate, omitted in the preatnbles ter assassi-
etegreAt the moment of that 'crisis of aingii:
Royal authority ? Why is it se 'lt. to im-
lablek the igeoeance or deipntism of the agents of
Prince is King belong
Ayer
have almost always produced, Princes have by the free choice
he is so in reality ? Why 'substitute in the placeofter—the
I most 'cies son-thel most
f disinterested brother, do 1
Tu-e„e, failed to discover that they have been de-
this phrase, so beautiful and so true, the old and I not Irsament bat on {y
Tearsor a stated time the objects
abed, and that things woold have taken a different
trivial formula, " Louis, by the Grace of God," &c. most dear
course had the truth been exhibited to them by faith-
If it be objected, that a pious Prince, such as ours as every '
to then. dry up, grief dies away
fill servants. They have always deplored (when fallen
accustomed to refer every thing to the wind Heaven' floe of former afflictions
thing else, and if at any time the recollec-
into the abyss) the fatality attached to their condi-
has thought it a duty on this occlusion to offer tol tear
tail. happen to steal a tear, that
don, which seemed to condemn them to be the per-
, the Supreme Being the
,homage -of the sentiment, . rendered
s isolated and solitary. It was that noise which
It suspected, and which does not want jour-
petual sport of the passions of their Ministers and
which prompted the French people to call him to nalists or preachers. Virtue is fair of herself—bat,
Courtiers. Such late regrets sometimes have the el-
the throne; and that to say, " King by the grace G 1
feet of absolving them before the indulgent tribunals
God," signifiee,ent emen, true virtue is modest, and yours makes
by the will of the people 61 • a bustle the least inconvenience of which 's, that
of their contemporaries ; but history, more severe,l4
whom God has inspired that will, we shall answer( Palest peOple do not put in faith in it. Thel wisest
punishes those faults which have caused the ruin of i
proportioned , that the ellypsis is too strong ; that the gratitude ill wil , would to to obey theYKing, by forgetting those
generations by a measure of justice
i the Prince towards his people could not be, too tid
to their crimes, and when she traces out with an in. ngs altogether on bath sides.
'strongly expressed ; hut we repeat it, that the for.
dePhodent baud the errors of people and of Kings, . Ili 6th ~ God , Be convinced that you are as much interested in
, is common and super fffa this oblivion as we are. It would be painful to us
she with equal justice reproaches the one with that -In a .Y e grace ot
has , tenons. Religion teachesces that nothing happens' to appear to recriminate but • 1
stupid submission,• by means of which tyranny
.in the world without the 'remission of God, but I ; if the Emigrants re-
been consolidated, and the other with the little careporch newith the losses which they have experienced
God permits many 'things which the' people would , during the late war, which is fortunately terminated,
which they had taken to assure to truth that access
to the throne which she ought to find. I not have chosen. God has permitted the reign of the 'we shell reply to them in the language of a character ,
Jacobins (to make use of the expression of M. the ,in diebfable to the lioness which had lost her whelp.
Fortunately, Sire, these reproaches .will never be !
Ac Safety, of the Revolutionary ;Abbe Montesquiou); he has permitted that of the Atu coonnere
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deserted by yoe, or by the people submitted to your ;
ommittees of, Publicceux que vows ayes etrnm, les, .1. •i. t,.
Government- Your Majesty is too enlightened not
Government, of the Directory, of the Consuls, of N'innent il ai per' ei mere? •
to foresee the case, in which the inexperience of '
.an Emperor, &c. &c. ; all this hat happened Gossip, be so good.as to infer* Nam .if those whom
tbose to whom you have consigned the management by the grace of God, and nothing of all this by you strangled had neither father" netrinother ?
ef your affairs might. make your Majesty's inter- the free will of the French. The new .formulas The King had promised to leave each person in the
ference between your Ministers and your people the omission of which I regret, might have con- , post which he occupied ; and the agents of the Royal
necessity. Frenehmen, you have said, have a right tamped the ancient ;—the ancient does not neces- authority are no sooner named, than all the persons
to publish and to print their opinions, only conform- sarily contain the new. When a King is affected, employed under the old Government are dismissed,
sag to the laws which should repress the abuse of and is grateful, it is not natural that he 'Mould boast under the specious pretext of economy; but, ilt
that liberty i3y making this solemn declaration,
of the less compreheneive form when he might quote ' reality, to make room for a cloud of Priests, to •
your Majesty has deprived us of every pretext for the more in his favour. The same spirit of religion whose ambition the service of the Altar does not .
complaining on some future day of
,that servitude •
which has consecrated the sentiment that Kings and i offer anAthing satisfactory. Complaints were lately
Into which we would have voluntarily fatten should
Shepherds are equal before God, according to our , heard of the want which we felt of Gentlemen
we lay down those arms which yourself has deigned way of thinking, does not permit a modest Prime to •of this profession • there *ere not sufficient, it was •
to pat into our hands for the purpose of preventing
think that God is more particularly occupied with ' Aid, to serve the Churches! God must have worked
it. Should that misfOrtane ever happen, you would
him than with every other, and that heaven has de- 'a simpler miracle in their favour, for within them !
have a right to say to us :—" Have I not foreseen tided that it should be Louis rather than Peter or six months means have been lotted net• only to:
the possibility of my being deceived? Have not I •
Philip, who would discharge the duties of mceee..! furnish the churches with them,' but out :of them
myself furnished ',on with the means of preserving
tire magistracy in France. That which answered to. Ito furnish Ministers—Administrations-41m aims
ene from it' If I was ender the necessity of con-
every thing is, that the French people willed it. —agencies, and all other posts where there is mo.
elding.great powers to my Ministers, have not I Rican
Our good King has on many occasions repeated it; • ney to be gained, and heads of families to be re-
yen the means of informing me when they abuied .t i - -
it therefore against his opinion and his will that' placed. All the acts of authority appear as if they
these powers ? in recovering your rights for you,
the expression is omitted on the most important emanated from a council or a conclave. We are
and in recegilizing them, has your Prince- told you
occasions. .0 important'
to no longer in any other language than that
Mot to use them bat its such manner and circum-
The' Ministers have not confined themselves to of the solemn offices of religion—about processions,
stances as might best suit those against whom he has
that, they have wished to humble the nation, and elute's, fe
provided you with them ? This, hlirase, ' confurni- vilify.his Royal Majesty, in a point which must d-
ing to the laws,' can it meet ,conforming to the
feet the people in the most sensible-manner. Oar
caprice, the opinion, the interest or the wilt of a journals make our King acknowledge a kind of het-
i:en:tor? The Mitesters are afraid that you might.
. magefor his Crown to the Prince Regent of England.
censure their Administration ! Well, thee, if is
They reek* him say, that after God he owes his
proper they should fear it—it is even proper
Crown to idus. Certainly, if this phrase his escaped
that their measures shonld be censured by those
from Isis Majesty, we ought to rank it in the class of
who have reason to find fault with them: it
those cnunplinients of purecourtesy whlcbcostnothing,
is necessary that those censures should be knovin.
and which are given for as much as they are worth.
to me, in order that I might appreciate their
,He should make haste to forget it, and by, wo metlet
' merit. Behold the usage which it was intentiony inteolun
give it a place in the annals of his restoration. Be.
.to authorise. Aa to the abases of the privilege
sides, it is enough for the national honour end glory ,
which men maylall into, we have laws proper to
that it has not pleased God and the &SRNs* to re.
repress them. ,Would I °hue feared those abuses of
establish Louis XVIII. but when it pleased the peter' pt.* ..,
your rights if' I had intended to keep to myself the ',__,,
'pie of trance no longer to maintain a Government -Ptlnce? These Mk ire assassins, we tire told by
direction ot the use / Could you have forgotten
became insupportable. the Tribanat of our Lighlitive Clititibeiivanlibithe
the very words of your JiLine,words so clear, so llis Majesty wdmitted, not many months ago, that Jednels directed 'by Oar Mittisteeit -Bit floir toes
pricise—to admit the interested Interpretations of i
sewascalled to the throne by the love of his people, is It since men, constituted judges 'by a great nation,
his agents ? What terms, what forms must I make
and his Ministers make him date all, his acts from the have become responsible for the sentence which their
use of to verify and consolidate my principles' if an
19th year of his reign ?—What can be the object of consciences, well or ill informed, dictated to them ?
act the most religious, the most holy, the most so-
singularity which gives the liato the Prince himself, lam far from presuming to set bounds to the opinions
lama of my aneherity, appeared Ito more respectable 'a_
to reasou,and to truth ?.Are they desirous of making of
a Legislator or a writer, but I will make bold to
to you than the cavils so often confuted of those who
the Prince responsible for the evils which we have ;say that those who deliver themselves to that effect
had enslaved you." * suffereciduring that long period, when we were sse: deserve a most exemplary punishment, not because
Behold, Sire what your Majesty would not fail plainly deprived both of his counsels and his infla- 1 they have been unjust or violent, bat because
to say to us, if in marching oil to a general re- Ewe? Would they wish to charge to the account Or-they have violated one of the principal articles of the
organization under your auspices, we should let go his Majesty all the horrors of which we have been the : Constitution.
the 'hived which you have held out to save us ! victims—the treasons executed in his name- against I Perhaps it is believed that the nation may be lulled
Fear not, Sire,. that we shall again fall into that our common country—the massacres of the inhabit.
into security, by its appearing that onty some lion-
snare into which every species of tyrants have, in ants of all.parties—the burning of our vessels in our dreds of individuals are pursued who are accused of
turn, with such deptorable success, for five-and- ports and haaboursall kinds of plots organised this crime; but, in the irst place, it is a principle
twenty years, dragged us. Your Majesty hash willed in the interior—the assassinations of couriers—the . in the social state, the whole society is injured
that the Press should be free—it shall be, so and robberies of coaches—the falsehoods—the calms*• i
when one individual is unjustly oppressed ; and, in
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. you shall he obeyed en this print as well as every nies, and all the crimes with which, were it not for that the
next place, do they think to persuade us that,
other, You have desired to assure yourself the law of oblivion, we shouldl, have to reproach the zeal after those, the much more serious crime of those
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means of discovering the truth; you have nothing to of those fanatics who at this day pretend to have
men will be forgotten, who, not being.boutud to any
fear from it ; you shall know it, therefore, of *hat- served their country in serving the enemies of the thing iu this question, have expressed their opinions
ever kind it may be, and its reign, *Well shill have State. Such a project makes us shudder, and we i
freely and voluntarily on the great and terrible act of
commenced with yours, shall be dated from the first i
dare not suspect any one of it! • the National Convention ?—Will it be forgotten,
year of the restoration. - Do they. wish to prove that all our acts dosing 191 that ninety thousand communes had each of them,•at
You are led, Sire, into a deplorable error, if years were so many crimes and rebellions? But from that epoch, two or three Committees, who were
you are persuaded that the public opinion is the whence then comes this fury of always furnishing as to applaud it to their Itepresentitires ?--Will
same at this day as at the time of your return.— with new crimes ) And if the intention be to show 1 those innumerable Addresses be forgotten, in which
That joy, so pore, of %hick you were at once the obedience to the King, who bath declared that he I men hastened to felicitate the Convention upon that
witness and the ranse, has given place to that dark did not desire to date it but from the 12th of March,levent and the 2000 signatures which attest the so-
restlessness, to this general distrust, the ordinary why these excursions into times past ? Why are f so many men ?
we i lUisla;), assent o.
aliment of factions, and the first means to which always to retrograde? In a word,why say a falee-1
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disorganizers resort. The security which your hood?
consoling words inspired, bath fled before those . His Majesty on taking into his hands the reins of
measures of your Ministers, following one after the Empire has declared that every thing which had
another so rapidly, and those unfaithful or . any reference to acts, votes, and opinions, previous
awkward servants have conducted themselves- in to the eemovation, should be consigned to oblivion.
such manner, as if they had undertaken the task of I He has even contleseended to make this oblivion one
proving that the consoling principles professed 'by I of the principobarticles of the chart which enjoins it
yew Majesty Were nothing but a trap to deceive the : on all tribunals arid -to all the citizens.
nation, and one of those means which the machia- i The Ministers are,, to all appearance, above the
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statism of tyrants Bath always employed to lulleheir ' tribunals, the, citizens, and• the chart itself, inis-
eietims to sleep before they sacrifice.them. [ much as that
,clause was broken the day after its
Deign, Sire, to compare fur a moment the pater.l promulgation. • Is it by way of oblivion that the
nal intentions which you so happily expressed to us, I authorities and all that belong to them, the priests,' b)
with the manner .in which they have been fulfilled, the writers, and the ournalists, hue proclaimed sloth.
had beet.
and your Majesty will then be able to judge of the most eagerly these funeral commensorations in ho-
who sells es.
effect which that comparison should have on the ocuo'r of every one who died victims of their attach-
poetic mind. It is not the few and weak partisans ment to one 'of
,the parties which here divided was heat in N
of the Government which has been Overturned, neither France ? Is it for the purpotes of oblivion that all Stehlthaw-lane; e
with his plunder, any.
Is it the disorganizers and the evil-disposed, it is ail the effects of the civil troubles are successive) y re.
Geld ; but Whitney's h.
France—the most decided Royalists—the very Emi- called, which are, intended for the memory of those
ming, and carried him befon
grants themselves, who, fearing with reason, that who have suffered under the acts of,the opposite
art, 'the pulpits,. Ate property, except obout SChi,
the little concordance which they remark between party—that the press, the statuary
pre. was found upon him.
the sacred promises of your Majesty and the acts of the theatres, reproduce -Wee acts which' it is
the Government, may introduce new storms, and tended are consigned too blivion—that attempts are All the great Prizes in the Two
May put off indefinitely that repose sehich they as made to cover France with a funeral crape, and to were divided among the Public, which a..
well as we began to enjoy, make with regret the sad transform it into one vast lachryesatory ? . . --- eatradrdleary demand' for the Tit
recapitulation, a picture of which I think it neces. And what would our Ministers say if we shoo/ -‘lO4 is all to be Dray.
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Or ROYAL toitosstalls wllielt we formerly paid to those men who.
ZoassaNcEs. the 10th of August, in the cOnteit 'of the
hich has Mat from against the remaining defenders of the throne
ectable as thst of a those days of general recontiliation we sho
it he has been recalled disposed' to recal to memory the assessinatior
kg the love of hie pc.- nutted on the patriots of Fort John, at Mar
meat of a truth, which at Lyons,
.at Avignon, &c. and to call forth
the nation audrrince ,sonsibto pity ror those victims, immolated, RV
new Government' on us- Off acknowledgment of the assassins," as a
incontestible and legi- caoste, apd in the way of expiation of other
to of all the acts of the nations !* Whom do those hypocrites think
not said, that " our pose on, by, affecting a grief which does not
ice of the nation," as to the nature of,man ? The most tender fathi

, and every thing which ought to be absolutely fo-
reign to the Administration of the State. is this,
we shall presdnie to ask, that which his Majesty in-
tended, whet 1i declared to France, that in the
Constitution Which he gage' to it, he wished to ap-
preciate theAffe_cts ,9.010.4,c011te,5s of knowledge,
-teNich was perpeardly increasing—the new relations
• whichihis pkorresi bal introdmeefi into society—the
direction sal* during ,half a CON' urs it has given to
the public mind,
Thr4Phoolikeke. N./erect rotes and, opinions!
Ii it not insolently opposing the will of the ilapi4th
, to drive, as has been done, from every.public emPfdy-
•_tsent, the men wise, in the proceedings against Linda
r-IVI. adopted in dpiaion fatal to that unfortunate