Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-07-17

Majesty. they presented to him the
new credentials OF Retrospective Soye-
lreigns, to reside wherever the sole he,
lgitinate Sovereign of France was ana
Their power, being authenticated, they
Offered the new Treaty Of the Allies 70
1.-THE elaboration and signature OF the
King. ,.,
). Frenchmen, the king has deliberat-
| ed and has signed it. In these words a. a..
flone lies your whole security:
!. You are we'll aware, Fsenchmen,
| that your king could sign nothing tha1
was against you.-Y Your king shall never
Icease to watch over you and Tor you.
! You have read him in allhis public acts;
you have heard him amidst yoar. repre-
Isentatives, your municipal councils. yoa VI
national guards You know inat II ole
mot depend on him to ward oil this severe
NECESSITY of reconquering your nights.
He would at this moment sacrifice his lie
for you, did not his sacrifice, instead OF
securing your peace, leave you exposed 10
a more terrible. war. A foreign invasion
would be substituted for foreign sup
port. Europe has resolved upon tie de-
struction of power Incompatible with
European society; and how, in such q
lconfict, would foreigners if left to tbeza-
selves. distinguish among YOU the victims
1vf tyranny from it's accoinplicess Would
not the nation, adj whose faculties the u
surper w6hld press into his service, Q,
otherwise appear to those who colnbatteo
him, a nation entirely and solely hostile !
Victorious and yanquished, what would
become of unhappy France
:. But let France will it, and France
will have only friends in league IN
which her king has been requested to
take part, and in which he has taken
part. Let the French army, regenerat-
ed, resume the lustre which belongs to
its name. Let al! the national guards,
delivered from the snsres Of perady, and
restored to tie movement of their hearts.
hasten the establishment of civil and
political order, throughout the whole
kingdom. Let it be necessarily repeat
ed, in fine, that the more the French do
to save their country, their auxi'iaries
will have the less to subject AID, above
all, that rebellion once put down, the
|osurper once destroyed, no foreign po"-
Ter VIII place Itself between the legitimate
Prince ard his faithful! people, to inter
fere with any of the political institutions,
of which the proposal, the consideration,
and the adoption, belong exclusively to
them.
:. Frenchmen the king, who has al
ways been near you, will soon be with
you. His majesty, the day on which he
! shall set foot on lis territory and yours.
viii make to yoa in detail bis salutary
Intention, and all his measures, OF justice,
order and wisdom. You will see that
the period Of his retreat has not Been
tine Lost For jour interests, and that the
king hasre led by the cares OF his tore
/ sight, even when be did not reign II TIE
|exercise of his authority"
IN oGc passage, particularly address
FED 10 the rebels, it is observed, " the
king perhaps pardoned too mnch but 1t
is as impossible for Louis Afill, not to
exercise pardon, as not to do Justice
Let tie victims of necessity be assured
that it will not be Imputed to them and
let all without exception know ana ac-
knowledge that there are times when per-
severance in crime is the only thing that
icannot be forgiven"
6 Erenchmen, from Louis ASiu. IS
about to reconcile a second time with hu-
rope inhabitants of those good cities,
whose affecting wishes daily reach the
king, and encourage him to accomplish
them Payisians, who now grow pale at
the sight Of that very palace whose walls
alone so lately spread serenety on your
countenances who, every morning dur
Ing year, came thither 70 salute Louis
XVII. with the name Of fatlsr, not
with voices subiugated by terror, or SOLO
to falsehood, but with the cry OF your
hearts and your eonsciences; National
Guards, whom on the 18th OF March
swore to him with so much ardor to 1--we
and die for him ard the constitution !; l.
YOU have preserved him in your hearts
YOU who have seen him i'll your ranks,
had treason permitted those ranks to be
formed-prepare all OF you for the day
when the voice of your Prince and OF
YOUR country shall summon you to the
duty of aiding the one and saving the O.
Their"
The Manifesto concludes with adj