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

In the Gazette of Yesterday, we gave lengthy
account of the late Revolution in France. We
give. 10 day. several documents issued on the
occasion. which are necessary to a full under
standing of the affair. The first is
'' Manifesto TO Tie Ffsaeh-to aA people and all
gOrsrnineats."
"A solemn Act had, in 1916. laid the basis of
a reconciliation between the French nation and
lhe ancient DYNASTY. and fixed the conditions by
gilch the Chief of the Bourbon family should re-
,ume and preserve the exercise OF the Royal au-
Northumberland oaths have at different epochs
rendered more imperiOus the Obligations con-
hacted bv the chiefs of this family. and had
made their Charter the sole title to the Obedl-
zlce of the French. All these oaths have been
violated during the last sixteen years, by the es-
adjustment Of great number OF laws. opposed
IN their spirit and letter to the spirit of the Con-
.titutional Charter: but each of the attempts
hitherto made against this fundamental law had
an appearance Of legality, and had not exceeded
legislative forms, which, while they had been
preserved. offered the means of reparaton.-
The French nation with an equanimity which has
often been called indifference or weakness, has
supported itself against all the inroads Of power,
all the attacks against its rights. which. made by
the different administrations which had succeed
ed each other under the reign oil the aStute Louis
XVIII. as under that Of his successor. The ma
tionai patience. instead of bringing back the 90
TernmCnt TO the sentiments OF justice. OF comb
Lencc of bCreyoencc, hail. Oh the contrary, IN
spired it with sufficient audacIty To march more
openly to the overthrow of our institutions--to
the spoliation OF all eur rlghts--to the re-estab
lishment of those principles OF Divine rlsht-of
those Roya! prcrogatives which are in opposition
70 the interests and prern"ttives vi the people,
wr,ch cannot be regarded otherwise than as an
o.trs.re to human reason. and which England
fat sti"matiled with her anathemas, and de-
sroyed 81 her arms. The Performances Of the
e5th Of the present month, in abollshins the prin
oipal guarantees couseCrated BY the constitutions
81 Charter. have set at nouSht the positive terms
Of that Charter, and of well considered laws,
adopted BY the two Chambers, and sane
tloned BY the King according TO legal forms,
have al length taught the nation that the chief
which she had deigned to acknowledge, notwith-
standing four years of vices, Of cOrruptions and
of treasors against his country. wished to govern
il bvhis own will. and according TO the caprices
cf his own good pleasure. BY these Ordonnan-
ces the Chief of tie Government has placed HIM
self aboyeths lac; THEREFORE, HE HAS PUT HIM
sxLEour OF THE PALE OF THE LAW.
formerly Count of Artois, has ceased of right to
be King Of France: the French are released
from all their obligations to him in that charac
ter. All the Ord0nnances which he may pro-
muIge will be like those Of the 25th, null and as
If they have never been given. The Ministers
co,nnosirr the Government of the liking.
named Polignac peyronnet, Montbe', d'liaus-
SCI, de Chanteause and Guernon Ranville, are
declared att.inted and convicted of high treason.
II i the duty of all Frenchmen to resist by every
mean, IN their power. the orders of Charles Philip
Camel or his agents. under whatever denOmlna-
ton they NAV present themselves-to refuse
payment of all impOstS, and TO take arms, II 1t
should be necessary, To put an end to a Govern
mepe he flcio. and 20 establish new Govern
Inent de joe.
..Jhe army is released from its oaths Of tide-
iity to the Ex-King--its country inyokes its
concurrence. Charles Philip Capet-his self
styled Ministers or Counsellors. their abettors
and a,lherents. the Generals, the Chiefs OF Re-
ailments and officers, are responsible tor every
ofin.ion Of blood resulting from the resistance of
the Government de factO to the national will.
..I.ouis Philip of Orleans. Duke of Orleans,
IA called upon to fulfil, under the present cir
oumstances, the duties which are imposed upon
him, and to concur with his fellow citizens in the
ee-establishment Of Constitutional Govern
ment; and on his refusal to do SO, he must, with
his family quit the French territory until the
perfect consolidation Of the new Government
has been effected.
Voted in Session at Paris 9Th day Of July,
1880.
(Signed) IT. S. Provisional President
&c. De NJ. Provisional
y. Du ID. s Secretaries"
Then follows
:. Proclamation addressed TO the French By The
Deputies of Departments assembled at Paris.
~F France free. Absolute pow
or raised its standard-the heroic population of
Paris has overthrown it. Paris. attacked has
made the sacred cause triumph by arms which
had triumphed in vain in the elections. pow
.r which usurped our rights and disturbed our
ref,se, threatened at once liberty and order
We rs.,~u to the possession of order and liberty.
ISesf ssr r" for ssSer rh. , Witch
stiIl want. A government WIZ "s,aassay without