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tended views of the allied courts, to 
prevent the incurable evils which 
will still result to France, to Eu- 
rope, and to all mankind, from this 
fatal spirit of general insubordinati- 
on, of subverting all the powers, of 
license (Liberté trop grande) and of 
anarchy, of which it. might have 
been expected that an. unhappy 
experience should have already 
cone the progress. 
There is not any, power. interest- 
ed to niaintain the balance of Eu- 
repe, to whom it cam be indifferent 
to seethekingdom of France, which 
has hitherto formed.so considerable 
a weight in this great balance, given 
up any longer to the interiur agita- 
tions and horrors of disorder and 
anarchy, which it may be’ said have 
destroyed all political existence ; 
there. cannot be. any Frenchman 
truly. loving his.country, who. does 
not ardently desire to see these ter- 
minated ; in short, no man, sincere- 
ly afriend to humanity, who cannot 
but aspire to see, limits put to the 
progress of mistaken liberty; a daz- 
zling phantom, which leads the peo- 
ple far from the road of their true 
welfare, in altering the happy ties 
of attachment and confidence which 
ought tounite them to their prinves, 
their fathers, and their. defend- 
ers ; and especially tothe unbridled 
furies of the wicked, who duly seek 
to destroy the respect due to go- 
vernments, for the purpose of sa- 
crificing, on the ruins of throne-, 
to the idols of their most insatiable 
and restless ambition, or toa vile 
cupidity. e 
To put an end to anarchy in 
France, to establish for this. pur- 
pose a legal power on the essential 
basis of a monarchical form, and by 
thus giving security to other govern- 
ments against the incendiary. at- 
temptsandeftoris of a frantic troop, 
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a 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
such is the grand object which the 
King, conjointly with his ally, still 
proposes; being assured in this 
noble enterprise not only. of the 
wishes of all the powers of Eu- 
rope, who acknowledge its justice 
and necessity, but, in general, of 
the suffrages and the wishes of 
every person who sincerely desires 
the welfare of mankind. 
His Majesty is far from throw-- 
ing the blame of these faults, which 
have forced him to take up arms, 
on the whole French nation, He 
is persuaded that a part, and with- 
out doubt the most numerous of 
this esteemed nation, abhor the ex- 
cesses of a faction but too power- 
ful: and, seeing the dangers. to 
which these intrigues lead, strongly, 
desire the return of justice,:of, or- 
der, and of peace. Unfortunately, 
experience, has shewn, that the 
powerful influence of this, party. is, 
still but too real, although the event, 
has already demonstrated the nulli~ _ 
ty of those culpable projects, found-; 
ed on insurrections which. it, only. 
seeks to,foment. The difference of 
sentiments of persons well-intenti;, 
oned, however certain they are, are — 
thereby only for the moment, little: 
felt in their effects. But) his Ma- 
jesty hopes, that in opening. at last. 
their eyes to the dreadful situation, 
of their, country, they will display — 
all the energy which such.a-just, 
cause ought to inspire, and that, 
they will look on the allied troops, 
assembled on the frontiers. as their. 
protectorsand true friends, of whom, _ 
Providence will favour. the arms; — 
and they will know how to reduce 
to their just value the factions who — 
have put France in a state of fer- 
mentation, and who alone will be 
responsible for the blood which; 
their criminal enterprises. may. 
cause to be sheds 
Declaration 
