The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-06-24
Declaretian ofthe 15tA .ft,riL

70.
Louis, by the Grace of God, &c. &c
At the moment of our return to the midst
of our people we believe that we owe to them,
In the face of Europe, solemn declaration
OF our sentiments and of the intentions of cur
Allies
When heaven and the nation recalled us
tn the throne, we made to God and to France
the promise, sweet to our heart, to forget IN
juries aud to (abour without ceasing for the
happiness OF our subjects.
The sons of ST. Louis have never commit
ted treason against heaven or against their
country. Already our people, had found a.
gam, by our cares, abundance and repose
within and the esteem of all nations without
Already the throne, shaken Uy so many
Sh cks, was beginning to he established again,
when treason forced us to cult our caoital
and to seek refuge In the confines of our
states. In the meantime Europe, faithful to
her treaties, would not recognize, as king OF
France, any one bat us. Twelve hundred
thousand soldiers were DESTROYS to march to
assure the repose of the world AID to deliver
our fair country second time.
In thls state OF things, a man whose srtfce
and falsehood form at this day his whole
power, seeks to lead astray the mind of the.
nation by fallacious promises, to raise itup "a
gainst its legitimate King, and to draw it
down into the abyss, as t were, for the pur-
pose OF accomplishing his trightful prophecy
OF 1914 "UI tail they shall learn Ao7y
much the fail Of a great man costs"
In the midst of the alarms which the pre-
sent dangers of France have produced in cur
heart, the crown, which we have never re-
garded but as the means of doing good, would
have lost all its charms iii our eyes, and we
would have resumed with pride the route of
our exile (where twenty years of our life
re employed in efforts for tn happiness of
Frenchmen,) ifthe country was not menaced.
i'll fuurity with all the calamties to which
our return had put period, and if we g:ere
not, AS it respects the nations, the gua. Al zee
Of France.
The sovereigns who give us, this day, so
great mark of their affection, cannot be anv
more abused by the cabinet of Bonaparte
whose machevialism is so we'll known to them
and animated by the love and the inter
est which they bear to their people. thew
march without hesitation to the glorious goal.
where heaven has suspended the general
peace and happiness ofnations. Wen con-
vinced, in spite of all the articles Of n vain
policy, that the French nation has not render
ed itself an accompice to the attempts of
the army and that the small number Of delud-
ed Frenchmcn will not delay to acknowledge
their error, they regard France as their aIlv.
There, where they find faithful Frenchmen.
the fields will be respected, the laborers pro-
tected, the poor suCColred, reserving to them
selves to make the rights OF war weigh only
upon those provinces which, at their approach
snail not have returned to their duty. This
resolution, dictatedby prudence, would af1lict
us sens'bly, if our people were less known TO
US but, whatever may be the fears, with
which they have endeavoredto inspire Won
as to our intentions, since the allies only make
the war az 4IIlst the rebels, our people have
nothing to doubt, and we have to cherish the
| thought that their love to u.s. will not be al
tered either by an absence of so short du-
ration, nor by the calumnies of libellers, nor
by the promises Of a chief of a party, too wen
| convinced of his fecbleness, not to caress
| those whom he burns to destroy.
At Our return to our capital, which we re-
gard as very near, our first care will be to
| Iecompcnse the virtuous citizens, who are
devoted TO the good cadse, and to endeavor to
make even the appearance of those abuses.
which may have alienated any Frenchmen
from US to disappear.
Done at our Royal Palace at Client the
15th April 1915.
(SgncD LOUIS.
(oIgned) The Duke De FELTKE.