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STATE PAPERS. 
belong to the King ofthe French; 
but also all the credit,,which his 
Majesty could have by the ties of 
blood jand the interest of his per- 
sonal situation. . When the severity 
of the laws required from the King a 
rigorous conduct against the French 
princes of his family and his blood, 
unhappy as the moment was for his 
heart, did he hesitate bet\veen the 
yoice of nature and the duties of 
royalty? 
The King has, doubtless, used 
' every endeayout to avoid the war, 
and it was also in spight of himself, 
and when he could no longer with- 
hold from it, that he determined. 
upon this cruel measure, of which 
the people support all the weight; 
and, the war being once/declared, 
he has spared nothing to support 
the glory of the French arms. 
_ What orders has he not given for 
the provisioning and increase of the 
armies? The King opposed the 
forming a camp in the interior of 
the kingdom, and almost under the 
walls of Paris, but to propose a for- 
mation of volunteer battalions, more 
numerous, and collected. in a man- 
ner more useful. 
Foreign armies menace you. 
Frenchmen, it is for you to. daunt 
them by your countenance, and es- 
pecially by your union. They in- 
sult your independence; renew. 
with the King your oath to defend 
it. They usurp his name to invade 
we French territory. 
Frenchmen, all your enemies are 
notin the armies which attack your 
_ frontiers; know them by their: pro- 
ject to disunite you, and believe 
_ that those are not far from. having 
ore interest, who. accord-so 
in the ideas which they wish to 
spread.—Those who would. con- 
quer France, announce that they 
haye taken up arms forthe interests 
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of the King; and those who agitate 
it within, dare equally to say that it 
is for his interests they, struggle 
againsthimself. His Majesty gives 
to the assertions of both parties the 
most formal disavowal. It is to all 
good Frenchmen, to all those who 
have the national honour at heart, 
the interest of Jiberty, the safety of 
the country, to reject such perfidi- 
ous insinuations, opposing to the 
arms of the first an invincible cou- 
rage, to the plots of the latter an in- 
flexible attachment, to the law. 
‘On these considerations, 
The King thinking it his duty to 
recal the execution of the laws, the 
respect due to the constituted autho- 
rities, and to give to the; national 
force all the energy of which it is, 
susceptible, by impressing upon all 
thoughts, upon all wills, upon all 
efforts, a common direction towar ds 
the safety of the state. 
His Majesty invites all active. 
citizens, to repair with punctuality 
to the. legal assemblies, to; which 
they are called, to express their will, 
and to pay to their country the tri- 
bute of their understandings. ) 
His Majesty invites them equally 
to serve personally in the national 
guards, to give force to the law, to 
maintain the execution of judg- 
ments, to defend the peace ,and 
public tranquillity,andexhorts them 
especially to an inviolable attach- 
ment to the constitution, to which 
they haye sworn to be faithful. 
-Given at the Council of State, 
Aug. 7, 1792, Hourtls Year of 
Liberty. e 
Lovts,, J, 
Dre Jovy, | 
DuBoucuAGE, 
CHAMPION, 
DABANCOURT, 
Leroux LA VILze,:. 
Bicor S17. Croix. 
Manifesto 
