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vinces, aresolutionis taken tospread 
the poison of a seductive illusion on 
the pretended advantages of the 
French constitution, with a view to 
make those partakers of it who may 
be deluded by this means; butit is 
necessary that the people who: are 
confided to our government be re- 
minded and informed that the king- 
dom of France groans at this time, 
in the name of liberty, under the 
most hateful slavery, every species 
of vice, of the most unbridled pas- 
sions, and of a species of anarchy 
which is without example; that 
rights and property are abolished ; 
that the holy religion which we 
profess is there trodden under foot; 
that altars are profaned and pollut- 
ed; that their true ministers are de- 
prived of their justrights,ill-treated ; 
persecuted even in their retreats a- 
mong foreign nations, and replaced 
by intruders who have no mission 
from the hierarchy of the church; 
that the pastors of the people have 
been deprived of their distinctive 
vestments by which they were 
known totheir flocks; that ina mon- 
strous code, rights have been ex- 
tolled which man cannot enjoy in 
society, and to which he tacitly re- 
nounces, by being born in civilized 
associations; that, pursuant to those 
chimerical rights, attempts have 
been made to abolish, overturn, and 
confound those real rights which 
have been transmitted under the 
protection of the fundamental laws 
of the kingdom, from generation to 
generation,tothose venerable classes 
to which the French nation had, in 
every respect, the highest obliga- 
tions; that real property has given 
way to the name, by seizing the 
estates of those who had been so- 
lemnly invested with them by time, 
by the Jaws, and by an uninterrupt- 
ed possession, a hundred times re- 
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newed and confirmed. by the true 
representatives of the nation; and 
all this under the deceitful colour — 
of an equality of chimerical rights, 
not existing in fact, and annihilated 
if it could for a moment exist, by 
that variety of character, impressed 
on all mankind at their birth, by 
which they share, in very unequal 
proportions, moral faculties, the 
very disproportion of which has 
always determined, and will ever 
determine, the ascendency of ge- 
nius, strength, patience, industry, 
and economy, over the opposite 
qualities; together with all the 
advantages which may lawfully arise 
from them,and which may be trans- 
ferred like every other species of 
property. 
Finally, it is necessary that the 
faithful subjects of his Majesty be 
informed that, whilst pains are tak- 
en to extol the pretended glory and 
prosperity of the kingdom of France, 
lately the most flourishing in Eu- 
rope, there is now no commerce, 
no circulation of specie or goods, no 
public force, no justice, no police ; 
and that the philosophical persecu- 
tors of all those who are not of 
their sect, know no bounds to the 
excesses which they excite their 
people to commit, except a satiety 
of crimes. 
Who, after this, could be so blind 
or stupid as to place the least con- 
fidence in the promises, and in the 
insidious assurances made by these 
tyrants to those nations whom they 
wish to subdue, that they wiil re- 
spect their property, their religion, 
their rights, their privileges, and 
their constitution; tyrants who, 
since they have usurped the public 
power and force in France, have 
trodden under foot, with an effron- 
tery and audacity hitherto unheard 
of, the most solemn public ge 
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