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synallagmatic acts, which must be 
executed in all their parts, or re- 
jected in toto, being infringed by 
the usurping assembly, would be 
at present annulled, were not the 
proceedings of the assembly radi- 
cally null themselves, and if it were 
not necessary that their decrees 
should disappear, before the grand 
interest which France has in being 
just, in not violating the sacred 
rights of the empire, and in not 
wounding the dignity of any of its 
members. 
But their Imperial and Royal Ma- 
jesties are fully persuaded, that the 
first use which his Most Christian 
Majesty will make of this authority 
when he has recovered it, will be 
to restore to the injured princes all 
their rights and privileges, to in- 
demnify them for what they may 
have suffered in respect to degra- 
dation, or being deprived of their 
privileges ; and to cement more and 
more by this act of justice, the har- 
mony which has for a long time 
subsisted between the Germanic 
body and his Most Christian Ma- 
jesty. The injury offered to the 
German princes who have posses- 
sions in France, is not considered 
as a reason for making war on his 
Most Christian Majesty, but for 
placing him upon the throne, in 
order to obtain justice. 
IV. ON THE REVOLUTION AS IT 
CONCERNS ALI. NATIONS. 
But the most general point of 
view, under which their Imperial 
and Royal Majesties ought co consi- 
der the French revolution is, as it 
“gab the interest of all nations, 
and the tranquillity of Europe. 
In vain would the assembly, which 
usurps the name of the French Na- 
tion, have renounced conquest, if 
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it wished to subject tu its pretend- 
ed liberty the states of their neigh- 
bours. Of all the methods of mak- 
ing war on peaceful, virtuous, and 
fortunate people, the most fatal, 
doubtless, would be to preach up 
rebellion, to mislead their minds, to 
corrupt their morals, to form them 
to crimes by example and seduc- 
tion, and to draw down upon them 
the wrath of Heaven and punish- 
ment from their sovereigns, under 
the pretence of rendering them 
happy. 
The ambition of a conqueror has 
its bounds; and his views, when 
known, cease to be dangerous; but 
a planned system of anarchy, which 
tends to dissolve all political socie- 
ty abounds with inexpressible dan- 
ger; and all sovereigns, for the in- 
terest of their subjects, cannot use 
too much expedition to check its 
progress, and to stifle the evil in its 
birth People would pay too dearly 
for the fatal error of believing that 
their interests can be separated 
from those of their sovereigns. It is 
therefore necessary to destroy this 
error as soon as possible, and to 
chastise, as soon as they appear, 
tho-e factious men who couspire 
against the happiness of all coun- 
tries. Had any doubts existed in 
this respect, they would have been 
already removed by the attack and 
invasion of the Pays Bas; by the 
plan of the usurping assembly, di- 
vulged by the popular minister, of 
spreading every where the flames of 
revolt; a barbarous maxim, which 
attests views of cowardly ambition, 
and which is an insult to all nations, 
and a signal of alerm against all 
kings. Besides, a numerous and 
powerful nation cannot disappear 
from the political hemisphere of 
Europe without the greatest incon- 
venience 
