The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-08-02

their capitals had generously re-establshed
them on their tottering thrones rois hatred
OF our enemies strengthens our attachment to
you. Were the meane st of our citizens pro-
scribed, we ought to defend him with the
same energy he would be, like YOU, under
the egis of the law and of the power of
France.
"We are threatened with an invasion and
yet shut up within on; frontiers which nature
has not given US, which long before your reign
victory and peace had extenGed-wc have
not passed those narrow bounds out Of respect
tor the treaties which you have not signed,
and which you have offered to respect.
p" Is it guarantees only that they want -
These are to be found in all our institutions,
and III the will of the French people hence
forth united with yours.
Ought they not to be afraid OF reminding
us OF very different time and Il very differ
ent state of things, which, however, might
once more recur.
ss'' 1t Soud MT be the FIRST time that we
should have conquered Europe armed against
us.
1T is. to the French nation that they dare
deny a second time, in the 10Th century. in
the face of the civilized world, those sacred
imprescriptible rights, which the smallest
tribe never claimed i'll vain at the tribunal of
justice and of history.
q Because France is determined to be
France, must she be dragged, tern, dismen-
bered; and is the fate OF Poland reserved for
US
q In vain would they cloak fatal designs
under the mask OF the sole intention of sepa-
ting you from US, in order to give us masters
with whom we have nothing in common.
whom we do not understand, and who cannot
understand us, who seem to belong neither to
the age nor to the nation, which received
them tor moment into its bosom, only to be-
hold its most generous citizens prescribed &
degraded by them.
I" Their presence has destroyed all the IL
lusions which were still attached to their
name.
They would no longer te able to believe
our oaths-we could no longer believe their
PROMISES. Tithes, the feudal system, privile-
ges, all that is odious to us was too evidently
the ann and bottom of their thoughts when
one OF them, to quiet the simpatience of the
present, assured his conidants that ne would
be answerable to them for the future.
what each of had for IS years consi-
dered as titles of glory, as services worthy of
reward, was to them cause of prescription,
seal of reprobation.
A million of functonaries of magistrates
who tor 25 years have followed the same
maxims, and from whom we have chosen
our representatives 500 900 warriors, our
strength and our glory six millions Of landed
proprietors invested by the revolution a still
greater number of enlightened citizens, who
make deliberate profession of those ideas
winch nave grown among us into political
oogmas all these worthy Freedmen were lot
the Frenchmen of the Bourbons they visi, TO
reign only by a handful of priviledged per-
SONS, punished or pardoned for IS years past
"OPinloD itself, this sacred property Of
man, they have ACKNOWLEDGMENT even
IN the peaceable sanctuary of letters and arts.
Sire, throne erected fer moment BIZ
roreign arms, and environed with incurableA
errors, has crumbled TO pieces in an instant
before you--beCause you bring back from re-
tirement, fruitful in grand ideas to great men
only, all the traces of our real glory, & all the
hopes OF our real prosperity.
TOW must your triumphal march from
Cannes TO Faris have opened all eyes In
the history OF all nations, and of all ages, is
there a scene more national, more heroic.
more imposing! Is not this triumph which
has not cost drop of blood sufficient to mn
deceive our enemies! Do they wish for more
bloody ones ? Well, Sire, expect from ms p
very thing that an heroic founder has RIGHT
20 expect from nation faithful, energetic.
generous, not to be shaken in its principles. in.
variable III the object of its efforts. indenen-
dence abroad, and libersy at homey''
ne three branches of the Leg,slature
are on the eve of operation. One sentiment
alone VIII animate them. Confdinp in the
promises of your Majesty, we commit to il.
we Commit to our Representatives, and TO the
chamber of Peers, the care of revising. con-
soiidating, and perfecting in concert-without
preciPltation-without shock-wjth maturity
with wlsdom--our Constitutional system-and
the institutions which are to secure it.
And, meanwhile, if we be forced TO com
pat let one sole cry be heard from every
heart. Let us march against the enemy
VINO seeks to treat us as the last of nations -
Let us master around the throne. where q,
the father and the chief of people and the A..
N.Y. F'0 "''N '''e al
Sire, nothing is impossible nothing will
De spared to secure honor and Independence
those goods more dear than life. Every th;ng
VIII be attemPted-every thing will be done
10 rePel AN ignominious yoke. We saw il to
hations-may their chiefs hear us if thcv ac-
cePt you offers OF peace the French people
WIN expect from your administration. strong
liOeral and paternal motives to console If for
the sacrifices which peace has cost us but if
'hey VIII leave us only choice between war
ana shame, the whole nation rises entire for
wsr--it IS ready to exricate Won from the
oHers' pehaps too moderate which Won have
haue 20 spare Europe few CONFUSION. r.
very rrehchman IS d soldier. Glory will at
tend your eagles, and our enemies. vino recL-
ynked b'NN hNFiiib piN-