Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-16


tlsd with dangers, because he does not see
them /; but for ne it could no longer be an
object OF ambition. All was confusion, him
tlrancc and dagger. When people saw
me accept of the Ministry, they might
have believed Intended to illustrate lay
death, as had honorcd nay life.
If had had personal views, I should
have inAamed still more the generous in
t,ignation OF the army, instead Of suppress.
ing it should not have tremb,d at the
thought OF the destruction OF the blood
whi.h would have filed Paris. In this, am.
bit,on might still have found its acc1unt
in the part which l took, there is to BE-
seen only the resolution of well disposed
man.
1t IS al! comprehensive That low anbi-
ton might have ben content with getting
into the administration, on condition Of be-
com:ng the doci'e tool of party but at
the elevation to which my conscience
and the esteem of the public rliSe,i the,
could ever make any condition of my ser
vices besides the national interest9 Let
my letter to the King at St. Denys be
read, at the moment when accepted the
Ministry it is printed is the Moniteur.-
Have ! compromised my principles
Does my language give any party hope
that will let it predominate as the con-
qneror!
Let people Judge ofmy actions 8, words,
not comparatively firm one tine to anoea
er, bat according TO the standard OF what
was said and dime aronud me when spoke
AMI acted. If | could nor ruie events, /
have IT least crit .inly done every thing
TO soft the violence Of ,heir course Have
mot been constantly seen between the OPP
pressors and the oppressedi But viii not
rake myself, more generous than | am
ALREADY has eXpcris nee taught me that
people are much ofIeuer moderate. calm.
and reasonable Ill adversely, than in pros.
perity.
find myself between two psrties; the
one reproaches nc for having served the
King; the other makes crigae o. M ha-
wing been in the service of NApol, on.
This last party no longer remembers that
it feared him less in proportion as / was
nearer to him. What did say Ia him
when he returned from the Isle ofIlIoa
conjured him not to disgrace the nation by
groundlsss aMnesties ; and inccss 'ntl,' ~
peated to him that he must seem 10 be ig-
norant of every thing. NV whole career,
as Minister, has proved but one thing
that gave the duties to the country, the
prpponderance above every other.--ii is
solely to the reputation which | enjoyed
in the opinion of the nation, that owed my
Offices under the several governments
which succeeded each other and which
went,o ruin, because q vsnture to assert
it, they rejected the truth, which l had
the Courage to lay open TO them.
was confls at thu reproach which
was cast on me. after having deceived the
King resp citing the love IF his people TO
him. What base fi,ttery People are not
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cious Prince, that after twenty-five years
absence, he has suddenly become the ob-
jest of universal love, of the love of ma
ton, VIII. Sc generations, several times re-
newed, had been brought up in passions
and convuls ons, in principles SO wholly cp-
posite to love Of the Baurbons What as
surance to hold such language after wit
Messing what passed on the entrance of
Napoleon into Paris, when he returned
from Eliza, when the Bourbcns could not
fad single place of refuge in France -
No | was not perjured, when ] begged
the King to tranquilize peoples minds by
the ideas OF security there was no other
means to fortify the State, and security Of
the Throne.
Pardon was part Of justice. Who
can deny in our days that political storms
are not the cons guence of calculations, and
the work of some iHGivduals, but that all
is invo!untariiy hurried along in their yor--
teXs
Tolerance has its Inconvenience, but
could the 81 very complicated circumstan-
ces. the capitulatior that was signed, ad-
NIT of another treatment, another system
Every measure of severity, after the proc
lamation of the King that had been pub
lished, seemed to give he lie to the word
he had given. One could no longer depend
on any thing, if the convention concIu-
ded yesterday was not to be valid fox the
following day.
AT what moment was it more necessary
that every one should be convinced thSt the
word of the king was sacred and irrevoca-
bic The slightest, the most trining APP
pearance Of any violation whatever of the
obligations entered into, must wound eve
ny feeling ; the dreadful suspicion II having
been deceived. seized again upon all minds,
and confidence vanished on all sides, and
forever.
The King could only show generosity q
regularity SINCE arbitrary act laid the
foundation Of a dangerous opposition How
punshi Where c. ase And if there is
TO limit, how shall confusion come to re-
pose? Full and unlimited amnesty was
necessary, precisely, because punishment
was impossible, unless one could again
expose ones self 10 the greatest difficult
ties.
However, removed from Paris, those
whose preseuce there would have been i'm
proper caused passports to be given
them, and (Fcoufess it) even procured for
several the neans, of which they were des-
titute, to retire.