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you will enly return to your reason 
and to your duty, your dearest in- 
terests inviting you to it.—It is in 
full assurance of this that we think 
ourselves justified in joining our 
standard to those of foreign pow- 
ers. By publishing their intea- 
tions they have shewn the propriety 
of the step we are taking, and our 
wishes for their success are mixed 
with those which we are constantly 
entertaining for the welfare of our 
country. 
The factious, your real enemies 
as well as ours, have told you that 
we were animated with violent and 
implacable resentments; that we 
breathed nothing but vengeance, 
carnage, and proscription; and that 
there was no mercy to be expected 
‘ from a nobility too justly offended 
not to be deaf to the calls of it.— 
Those who tell you this, French- 
amen, are the men who for three 
years past have been in the habit of 
deceiving you, who have made it 
their principal study, who have esta- 
blished shops for lies and false news, 
avhich the orators of the tribunes 
promulgate, the clubs believe, and 
the revolution-libellists spread far 
and wide.—Interested in alienating 
you from those with whose pure 
and unalterable attachment to the 
King, and the fundamental princi- 
ples of monarchy, they are ac- 
quainted, they strive to raise your 
hatred against your emigrated coun- 
trymen; the abuse not being able 
to seduce us, and to destroy the 
fondness you have for the heirs of 
a name dear to you for many ages 
back, they endeavour to terrify you 
with the intentions with which 
{they say) we are coming into the 
kingdom. 
But be no Jonger the dupes of 
their guilty arts; we solemnly de- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
clare to you, and all Europe is wit- 
ness to what we declare, as well in 
our names as in those of all the 
French who are marching with us, 
and who are of our way of thinking, 
‘‘ that, united to deliver the King 
and the people from the despotism 
of usurpers, we do not separate 
ourselves from those who have the 
same intention: that no spirit of 
particular vengeance guides our 
steps: that we are very far from con- 
founding the nation with the per- 
verse seducers who have led it 
astray ; and that, leaving to justice 
the case of punishing the guilty, we 
come to hold out our hands to all 
those who, renouncing their errors, 
shall immediately return to their 
duty.” 
The emigrated French have not 
taken up arms to recover by the: 
sword the rights which violence has 
wrested from them; it will belong 
to the King, when liberated, to re- 
store them ; they will willingly lay 
at the foot of his unshackled throne 
the care of their own interests; and 
we, the first citizens of the state, 
will give to all an example of sub- 
mission to justice and his Majesty’s 
will,—But being born hereditary 
defenders of the throne of our an- 
cestors, faithful to the religion of 
our forefathers, attached to the fun— 
damental maxims of monarchy, 
*¢ we will rather shed the last drop 
of our blood than abandon any of 
these high interests.’”? Our senti- 
ments, already expressed in our let- 
ter of the 10th of last December, 
and recapituiated in a few words in 
our publication of the 30th of Octo- 
ber, are unchangeable. The protes- 
tations we made then, we now re- 
peat again; inspired by honour, 
engraven onour hearts from duty,no- 
thing shall ever be able to move Use 
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