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Monthly Chronicle.
J ; - -, ! -- ' - par * a pressing and indispensable Hvty : and kis Majesty feels adcu ' ifoisa ] s . - . -islaclion in making such a declaration , from the hope of finding , in the other y- ¦• . ¦' . engaged with him in the common cause , sentiments ansi views perfectly ct .-. - ' ormable to his own . From the first period when his Most Christian Majesty Loais the XVItfj frad called Ms people arouud him , to join in concerting measures for their common Iia ;> pi ; : es ? , the King has uniformly shewn by his conduct , the sincerity of his wirKrs for the success of so difficultbutat the same timeso interesting an
un-, , , dertaking . His Majesty wasdeeply afflicted with all the misfortunes which ensued , but particularly when he perceived more and more evidently that measures , ¦ She consequences of which he could not disguise from himself , must finally compel him to relinquish the friendly and pacific system ; which he had adopted . The moment at length arrived when his Majesty saw that it was necessary for him not only to defend his own rights and those of his allies , not only to . repel the unjust aggression which he had recently experienced , but that all the dearest interests of his people imposed upon him a duty still more important , that of
exerting his efforts for the preservation of civil society itself , as happily established among ( he nations of E urope , . ' ¦ The designs which had been professed of reforming the abuses 0 f the Governroent of France , of establishing personal liberty and the rights of property on s solid foundation , of securing to and extensive an populous country thebenefis of a wise legislation , and an equitable and mild administration of it ' s laws' ; all these salutary views have unfortunately vanished . In their place lies succeeded , a-system destructive of all public ordermaintained by proscriptionsexiles and
, , confiscations without number , by arbitrary imprisonments , by massacres which cannot even berenvmbered without horror , andatlength by the execrable murder of a just and beneficent Sovereign , and of the illustrious Princess who , with an unshaken firmness , has shared all the misfortunes of her royal consort , his protracted sufferings , his cruel captivity ,, his ignominious death . The
inhabitants of that unfortunate country , so long nattered by promises or happiness ^ renewed at the period of every fresh crime , have found themselves plunged into an abyss of unexampled calamities ; and neighbouring nations , instead ni ¦ deriving a new security for the maintenance of genera ! tranquillity from the establishment of a wise and moderate government , have been exposed to the repeated attacks of a ferocious anarchy , the natural and necessary enemy of ali public order : they have had toehcounteracts of aggression without pretext , open violations of all Treaties , unprovoked declarations of War ; in a word ,
whatever corruption , intrigue or violence could effect for the purpose so openly , avowed , of subverting all the institutions of society-, and of extending over all the nations of Europe fhatconfusion which has produced the misery of France . This state of things cannot exist in Fiance , -withotrt involving all the SUTrouriding Powers in one common danger , wiihoutgiving them She right , without imposing it upon them as a duty , to stop the progress of an evil which exists enly by the successive violation of all IEW and all property , and which attacks the fundamental princiles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil society .
p Mis Majesty by no means disputes the right of France to reform its laws . It never would have been Lis wish to employ the influence of externa ! force with respect to the particular forms of government Jo be established in an independent country . Neither has he now that wish , except in so far as such interference isbecome essential to the security and repose of other Powers . Under these circumstances , he demands from France , and he demands with justice , thetermi-Eation of a system of Anarchy , which has no force but for the purposes of miseliiefunable to discharge the primary duty of all governmentto repress the
dis-, , orders or to punish the crimes which are daily increasing ia the interior of the country , but disposing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the inhabitants of France , in order to disturb the tranquillity of other nations , and to render all Europe the theatre of the same crimes and of the same misfortunes . The King : demands , that sovr > c legitimate and stable government should be established , founded on the acknowledged principles of universal justice , and capable of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
J ; - -, ! -- ' - par * a pressing and indispensable Hvty : and kis Majesty feels adcu ' ifoisa ] s . - . -islaclion in making such a declaration , from the hope of finding , in the other y- ¦• . ¦' . engaged with him in the common cause , sentiments ansi views perfectly ct .-. - ' ormable to his own . From the first period when his Most Christian Majesty Loais the XVItfj frad called Ms people arouud him , to join in concerting measures for their common Iia ;> pi ; : es ? , the King has uniformly shewn by his conduct , the sincerity of his wirKrs for the success of so difficultbutat the same timeso interesting an
un-, , , dertaking . His Majesty wasdeeply afflicted with all the misfortunes which ensued , but particularly when he perceived more and more evidently that measures , ¦ She consequences of which he could not disguise from himself , must finally compel him to relinquish the friendly and pacific system ; which he had adopted . The moment at length arrived when his Majesty saw that it was necessary for him not only to defend his own rights and those of his allies , not only to . repel the unjust aggression which he had recently experienced , but that all the dearest interests of his people imposed upon him a duty still more important , that of
exerting his efforts for the preservation of civil society itself , as happily established among ( he nations of E urope , . ' ¦ The designs which had been professed of reforming the abuses 0 f the Governroent of France , of establishing personal liberty and the rights of property on s solid foundation , of securing to and extensive an populous country thebenefis of a wise legislation , and an equitable and mild administration of it ' s laws' ; all these salutary views have unfortunately vanished . In their place lies succeeded , a-system destructive of all public ordermaintained by proscriptionsexiles and
, , confiscations without number , by arbitrary imprisonments , by massacres which cannot even berenvmbered without horror , andatlength by the execrable murder of a just and beneficent Sovereign , and of the illustrious Princess who , with an unshaken firmness , has shared all the misfortunes of her royal consort , his protracted sufferings , his cruel captivity ,, his ignominious death . The
inhabitants of that unfortunate country , so long nattered by promises or happiness ^ renewed at the period of every fresh crime , have found themselves plunged into an abyss of unexampled calamities ; and neighbouring nations , instead ni ¦ deriving a new security for the maintenance of genera ! tranquillity from the establishment of a wise and moderate government , have been exposed to the repeated attacks of a ferocious anarchy , the natural and necessary enemy of ali public order : they have had toehcounteracts of aggression without pretext , open violations of all Treaties , unprovoked declarations of War ; in a word ,
whatever corruption , intrigue or violence could effect for the purpose so openly , avowed , of subverting all the institutions of society-, and of extending over all the nations of Europe fhatconfusion which has produced the misery of France . This state of things cannot exist in Fiance , -withotrt involving all the SUTrouriding Powers in one common danger , wiihoutgiving them She right , without imposing it upon them as a duty , to stop the progress of an evil which exists enly by the successive violation of all IEW and all property , and which attacks the fundamental princiles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil society .
p Mis Majesty by no means disputes the right of France to reform its laws . It never would have been Lis wish to employ the influence of externa ! force with respect to the particular forms of government Jo be established in an independent country . Neither has he now that wish , except in so far as such interference isbecome essential to the security and repose of other Powers . Under these circumstances , he demands from France , and he demands with justice , thetermi-Eation of a system of Anarchy , which has no force but for the purposes of miseliiefunable to discharge the primary duty of all governmentto repress the
dis-, , orders or to punish the crimes which are daily increasing ia the interior of the country , but disposing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the inhabitants of France , in order to disturb the tranquillity of other nations , and to render all Europe the theatre of the same crimes and of the same misfortunes . The King : demands , that sovr > c legitimate and stable government should be established , founded on the acknowledged principles of universal justice , and capable of