Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-07


Orleans; to exercise the functions of Lieutenant
General of the kingdom. This is in their opin-
:on the surest means promptly to accomplish
by peace the success Of the most legitimate de-
fence.
"The Duke Of Orleans is devoted to the nation
al and constitutional cause. He has always de-
Tended its interests and professed It's principles
lie will respect our rights. for he will derive his
own from US We shall secure to ourselves by
laws all the guarantees necessary TO liberty
strong and durable.
"The re.estabiishment of the National Guard,
with the Intervention of the National Guards
in the choice of the officers.
The Intervention Of the citizens IN the tor.
nation of the departmental and municipal adj
mnistrations.
1.-The Jury for the transgressions of the press;
the regaly organized responsibility OF the Nuns
tiers. and the secondary agents of the admins
traton.
..The reelection of Deputies appointed to pub
lie Offices we shall give at length to our institu
tons, in concert to the head of the State, the de-
velopements of which they have need.
Frenchmen-the Duke of Orleans himself
has already spoken. and hts language is that
which is suitable to free country.
1.-THE Chambers says he. 'are going TO as
semble: they will consider of means to insure the
reign of the laws & the maintenance OF the rights
of the nation
..The charter will henceforth be a truth. -
Imprimerie du Temps.
The next document is the
"Protest Of me Depmies.-" The unders'sn-
ed, regularly elected by the Colleges OF AKRON.
easements, BY virtue of the Royal Ordinance Of
the. and conformably to the Constitution
al Charter and to the laws relative to elections OF
| tho, and who are now at Paris, ''Consl-
der themselves as absolutely Obliged by their du-
| ties and their honor to protest against the mea-
sures which the advisers of the Grown have late
" caused to be proclaimed for the overthrow of
the ieaa system of elections, and the ruin of the
liberty of the press.
I" The same measures contained in the ordi-
nances of the-are in the opinion of the I'M
dersgned. directly contrary to the constitution
| al rights of the Chamber of Peers, to the public
rights of the French, to the attributes and to the
DEGREES of the tribunal, and calculated to throw
the State into a confusion. which equally endan-
gers the peace of the present moment, and the
security of the future.
..In consequence. the undersigned, inviolably
faithful to their oath, protest in concert not only
against the said measures. but against all the acts
which NAV result from them.
! "And considering, on the one hands that the
| Chamber of Deputies not having been Constitut-
ed. could not be legally dissolved-on the other,
! that the attempt to form new Chamber of De-
puties in novel and arbitrary manner, is direct.
" opposed to the Constitutional Charter. and to
the acquired rights of the iectors- The under
signed declare that they will still consider them
selves as legally elected the deputation by the
o. nf A rti M
whose suffrages they have obtained. and az inca
pabe of being replaced. except by virtue of cleo
tons made according to the principles and forms
prescribed by the laws. And if the undersigned
do not effectively exercise the rights nor perform
all the duties which they derive from their legal
election it is because they are hindered BY absO-
lutte violence. Many Deputies are expected at
Paris tomorrow or the day after. Among those
who have already signed are Here follow the
signatures.
The following is the Proclamation Of the DUKE
Of ORLEANS. dated paris. July 51-noon'':
Inhabitants of Pars-'rhe Deputies of France
at this moment assembled at Paris. have express
ed to me the desire that | should repair to this
capitaI to exercise the functions of Lieutenant
General of the kingdom
IL have not hesitated TO come and share your
dangers, TO place myself in the midst of your he
roic population, and to exert all my efforts to pre-
serve ypu from the caamiies of civil war and Of
anarchy.
"On returning to the city of Paris, wore
with pride those glorious colors which YOU have
resumed. and which myself long wore.
'.The Chambers are going to assemble, they
will consider of the means OF securing the reign
of the laws. and the maintenance Of the nation
The Charter will henccturward be truth.
"LOUIS PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS."
And the annexed that of General LAFAYETTE.
on accepting the command oil the National
Guards:
"Fellow -Citizens-You have BY unanimous
reclamation elected me your General. / shall
prove myself worthy of the choice of the Pari-
sian National Guard. We fight for our laws
and our liberties.
.Fellow- Citizens-Onr triumph is certain. /
bcseech YOU to obey the orders of the Chiefs that
will be given YOU. and that cordially. The troops
Of the line have already given way. The Guards
are ready to do tie same. The traitors who
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