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_ To give up the city of Paris to 
the most dreadful and terrible jus- 
tice, from which nothing can save it, 
as well as all the other cities which 
may render themselves its accom- 
plices, if the least insult, or the least 
outrage is offered to the King, the 
Queen, or the royal family ; and if 
that city does not endeavour to ex- 
piate its errors, and to merit the 
interposition and good offices of 
their Imperial and Royal Majesties, 
to obtain pardon, by immediately 
restoring liberty, and paying every 
due honour and respect to their 
Most Christian Majesties : 
In short, to procure to the King 
perfect security in some frontier 
town of his kingdom, andthe means 
of collecting there his family, and 
the princes his brothers, until his 
Most Christian Majesty can enter 
his capital with honour, and enjoy 
there the satisfaction of seeing his 
subjects repent ; -of conferring new 
favours upon them; of granting 
them real liberty, and consequently 
of finding them submissive to his 
supreme authority. 
— _ 
Declaration of the Princes his Most 
Christian Majesty's Brothers, and 
the Princes of the Blood united 
with them. Addressed to France 
and to all Europe. 
cae it is evidently 
44 manifest that the confederate 
powers whiose troops are assembled 
on the frontiers of France, neither 
wage war against the King nor the 
mation, but solely against the fac- 
tious, who oppress both; and, not- 
withstanding the declaration pub- 
lished in the names of their Ma- 
jesties the Emperor and the King 
of Prussia, by the reigning Duke 
of Brunswick, sufficiently demon- 
strates the motives and views of 
PAPERS. 
this formidable coalition; the 
princes, his Most Christian Ma- 
jesty’s brothers, the princes of the 
blood united with them, the valiant 
nobility marching in their train, 
and the flower of the nation ranged 
under their standard, cannot make 
a junction with foreign armies 
(which a declaration of war, made 
in the name of France, has brought 
into their country) without explain- 
ing to his Majesty, and to all Eu- 
rope, their motives, their senti- 
ments, and their intentions. 
When we first took the resolu- 
tion of leaving the kingdom, it was 
not so much from a desire for our 
own personal safety, as for that of 
the King, by frustrating the mis- 
chiefs which threatened us, and to 
solicit for him that assistance which 
his situation did not allow him to 
ask for himself. 
And now that we are on the 
point of returning into our country, 
it is with the satisfaction of having 
accomplished these two great ob- 
jects, and finding ourselves on the 
eve of enjoying the advantages of 
our success. 
The emigration from our coun- 
try was to make ourselves the safe- 
guard of his Majesty:—our return 
presents the prospect of his ap- 
proaching emancipation, as well as 
that of his people. -—The former, 
the effect of violence, has prevent- 
ed its being carried to the greatest 
extremity: the latter, protected by 
the most formidable armies, makes 
the guilty faction (whom Provi- 
dence has, ina manner, inspired to 
proveke them) tremble at their ap- 
proach. 
To recapitulate the almost incre- 
dible occurrences which have filled 
up the interval of these two periods, 
would be to recall the remembrance 
of the most horrible crimes, and 
the 
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