Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-12-09

| duct with the wishes OF their King their
intentions would have been contour led wi II
the glory, the love, and the safety OF the
Prince. Those de,ircs, and those fanatical
| passions which world have disturbed an or
| der of Thu so suspicious to the general
good, would gradually have died away, or
have be N lost in the emptiness of an inef-
tectual opposition.
"Your subjects would have submitted to
your laws, whatever their opinions might
| have been, of their former condition. The
Republican or the lmperiai party is no Ion
ger to be feared the mass CT the nation
wish only for liberty and tranquility. For
eign Cabinets in seeing frenchmea rallied
round your thr,n-, would have limited pre-
tensions, which then yCu might have with
stood.
The Constitution having rendered us
responsible for the acts OF your authority,
we proposed to regulate it by those priuci-
Piles which we have here unfo'ded. We
soon had to struggle with the ignorance, the
passions, and the hatred OF the persons
VINO surrounded you they soon began to in
termeddie with the Government Orders
were given and measures adopted, IN which
we did not participants. Royal Comuissa
ries went and kndlad civil war in the pro-
vinces, gave the arms to the sedi;ious, di-
rectcd their ferocity against peaceful citi-
gems, and spread around terror and dis
may They easily succeeded in this,
when they announced that foreigners were
their aux:liaries, when they profane the
name OF your Majesty, by invoking it in
their addresses, AND when in the South,
which foreigners did not vet occupy, they
permitted the entrance Of eighty thousand
Spanards. 4 Marshal of France was muir
nT,f no hD, ~ ID /
asSassins were neither apDrehended nor
punished Was it by oppression that the
people were to be Inspired with love for
your government Outrage soon extend
ed Itself III some cities colours were dis
played which were not those of your Ma
JesIy. tr2nchmen themselves wished to
d'sn.embsr your kingdom, and separate the
north from the south. Your majesty be-
came sensible that it was necessary 10 re-
Cal 70 their submission the blind part sans
Oh cause whose illcgitimacy was acknow-
lodged Our orders were not listened to.
M glstrates whom we sett in your name
wers sacrificed by those who acted in the
name OF the Ii g we remained W. thout
power secret instructions rendered all our
efforts and intentions unavailing. In such
circumstances what could your maiesty's
ministers do The Duke OF Otranto, when
napoleon sill leigued, had succeeded by
negotiation in d'sarning La Vendee Your
MiJesty was scarcSJy seated on the throne
whcn the iuSurrectiou broke out in this
same la Vendec with more violence than
ever. What could be it's object alter yo,Ir
restoration Your Minister at war decIar-
ed that he had no troops with which to sub
due these provinces it was not the inten-
ton OF your Court that this insurrection
should be opposed.
=" We Cannot conceal from you, Sire,
that these attacks are levelled at your
thronc-you suffer legitimate authority to
be desplsed, and the authority OF faction
supplies its place. Factions produce revo-
lutions, and those who triumph to day NAV
De oyertnrown tomorrow your throne will
no longer nave even the support of their il
legitimate authority. Your Ministers, al
ways devoted 70 your person, still ende2vor-
ed to oppose tlns Reaction the princes of
your house, the mobiles of your court, desg-
mated as crimes, and as attacks upon your
crown, their efforts to restore order and
submission to the laws-we lost al influ-
ence with your Majesty; VIC became guilty
IN the eyes of the nation.
line elections were made; a factions
minority directed them that minor v
alone is represented. The choice which
they recommend to your Majesty for the
Chamber Of Peers, indicates the same spi-
rit.
" Minister'S, without authority, n prey to
! the prosecutions Of tn Court, without sup
port in the public opinion. exposed to the
| opposition of the Chambers, what should
! we De abe TO reply t. the clamours of the
| people, when at length they shall demand
the reasons Tor so many calamties
Meanwhile, foreigners possess France
| as conquered Country to civil discords
| they add the Tavage Of provinces thy dis
sipate the funds which ought to find their
way into the Treasury--they devour the
| provisions Of the people, who are threat
ened with an approaching famine-they
carry off the magazines of arms, the en-
| munltion Of war, and the canuOns from the
! ranlparts Of our cities. The white fac
floats only over ruins They despoi us Of
our public monuments, the tokens Of our
| former glory they se.ze the monuments oi
| art, viii h alone remain Co us after twenty
years of conquest. IL is dishonor, Sire
which the people are most reluctant to par
don, and your Majesty has remained silent
in the midst of all these attacks on the ma
tional honor
awe were for a Iong time ignorant thai
secret treaties had connected you with for.
eiguers--your NJ jesty wished to negotiate
yourself---we could not prevent the dsbard
ment Of the armv, and this measure b los
completed, left France and your person il
the rover of Foreigners. Whist had your
| House to fear from THAT army ? Napoleon
| M lor0er evfeta6 fo~ F~orc. The ot;,r,