The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-08 00:00:00

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ion of every part 'of die tapes t n only
take place by combats.
Th. evil is still aggravated by the prolongation of
the stay of the foreign armies, and yet the Sovereign»
will not think of withdrawing them from France be-
fore bating guarantees of our repose, because their
tranquillity is connected with ours. We must here-
after be together in peace or in war, in misfortune
or in prosperity.
A thousand new obstacieslwill arise from the state
in • hich they will leave France. Every thing will
have been annihilated, public and private fortunes all'
will have been carried off; we shall escape out of
this war as from a sort of shipwreck, at whatever
price we shall have obtained the enjoyment of the
King's Government. Will this moment be that of
obedience and lose, or that of complaints, of re- 1
proaches and accusations ? The hearts will be em-
bittered—the
passions, already highs will be stilt'
more inflammable. Wet., oppression, the examples
of inhumanity, have always the effect or rendering'
manners more violent, and of pmaucing a new
degree of immorality and perversity in the heart it
man.
He who now kills an enemy, but who etiriehes not ,
himself by the murder, will one day hill his feltow-
cititteus in the same disposition of mind., The eon;
sequences have not been calculated which 'must arise
from the assembling of so many people enknoWn to
each other and miser together. There is no hinger
either family, or country, or laws in this new world ;
civilization is suspended; the inundation of these,
people will lead every where to a distructire fer-
wept, co afflicting state of things, the pernicious
ejects of which we shall not.fail to feel.
_ iyp this afflicting situation of affairs, hitherto with..
out usetple, what good can he attempted by your
blajesty, afflicting yourself in common with the peo.
plea and its your goodness forgetting nothing that
can console them.. There must, however, 'be
pected an opposition, more pertinacious than in or-
dinary times, and authority will be so much 'the
weaker because theie is so much the more need of
conciliating'. If we were to speak of re-actions the
/hole people would cry out, is there not enough of
public misfortunes;. if we were to threaten a re-
straint ttpon liberty, the people would defend it with
new energy, as the only_admitiage of which the ene.
my could not deprive them. It is a discontented
people, it is an agitated people that your Majesty',
will *have togovern.
•- It is tsue,,Sirs, that* personal qualities of your
Majesty may cause to distropesr,„orspe the means of
softening down, a.great number pl. the obstacles.;— ,
Tlte,lote, the respect, the confidea.ce which they
spire am our principal Autism of safety, but, the de-. I
stinies of Prance are not its your hands alone* fatal'
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circumstances exist which excite fears in toe *elk 41
the people and loduca , them to distinee. (hi reigns
which will follow that of your Majesty.. They psk;
whether they shall always be governed faith the same •
mederation ; abether an inviolable barrier will still
be opposed In thit persecutions .pf the Noblei and
to„the return of ,thst, ancient regime; _whether relit
ginoadifferences will, always .be wielded with the
vase toleration; whether firmness wlik-.alweYki 'be ,
tempered by jedulgeuce aqd _goodness?. natural
inatiuct leads-all people to look forwarillo the evit •
sad the good, which, await tiletn, and in their •litpi.
netts, as in their disquietude,. they, alnazs compare
the present reign with the. reigns that are Jo follow..'
',have made. this ,remark because this circumstance
has en inevitable influence on the disposition of. the.
mind, and ohilst under certain circumstances it ten-.
tiers Government more easy, in other cases it creates
obstacles and prevents a proper degree of firmness,,, •
Late, look forward to the state of France as, it
will be after the departure of theloreigners.
be zt peace at home ; will the combat of opinions
have ceased ; will tyranny be extinct? There will
.be a nation sensible and proud,, but unquiet, vain;
and jealous; equality
.and liberty hate, made a deep-,
impression upon the heart. The incient„Nobility
and the Clergy in losing their, property :have lost, ed.'
aptitude to form again,the bOde politic of the State. ,
Every dispute relative to prluMplea will excite dis-", 1
turbances when it shall °perile as a dispute for or
against public opinion. In ordinary times little
mutton is paid to discontent, audit is easy to re.
strain the seditious; but in our situetioe every 'kind
of *opposition, every complaint will be a quarrel be-,
tweet; the steeple and the Government. The evil
will be still more envenomed by the general. misery,
—Doc finances will be ruined; we must reduce the
espenditure and takeaway the subsistence from
thousands of families before we can find functionaries,
united to the state of the public mind ; we unto.place,l
*ad displace, and at every nomination the opposite,
parties will be still . present. -It is always by .tbe
choice of its auxiliaries that authority au** I. be
discovered its most bidden designs. .After this,cOmes
the inseparable dangers of a national representation,
and those of the Liberty of the Press, without which
however there can be no public
.liberty..
.The worst,
of all the evils will be immorality, that,eadicourge
which destroys nations, which vitiates the mind and.
the heart, and which extinguishes public spirit.
Lastly, we have to combat on one, side the epposi-
tinn of a numerous and formidable petty, who will
suffer not authority to repose so long as there shall
be any fears for public liberty or for themselves;
and, on the other side, the pretensions of inseam
party whom no concession will satisfy, who attach
themselves to Royalty only to. share its power; and
who would sap and overturn the Throne only bi-
cause it does not adopt them for its chief support..
should net have thought of placing this afflicting
picture before the eyes of your Majesty, if 1 had net
et the same time to propose some measures, and a
plan o' Government which may contribute to render
our situation supportable. .
Government cannot exist without a physical or
without a moral force. The first cannot subsist with-
out the seeond, and both fail us. The manner of
forming the army will implicitly decide other ques-
tions. It would lead to a general overthrow, were
it left to be conjectured, in consequence of this for.
mations, that the King had a design of forming an
army against the public liberty. I have already said
that it seems ee if there were two nations in France;
it must therefore be promptly decided to conciliate
them, in orgies to attach both, without which clear
may be lighted. op which cannot be extinguished,
and whatever happens, your Majesty oast at leak
appear to reign with the nation.