STATE PAPERS. 
We will not go a point beyond 
that; and the support of the courts 
whose formidable armies surround 
France on every side, adds nothing 
to our first wishes and intentions. 
Adhering fully to the spirit of mo- 
deration with which their Imperial 
and Prussian Majesties havejust pub- 
lished a solemn declaration of, which 
does honour to and will immortalize 
the use they make of their power, 
—we declare moreover again, under 
their auspices,—‘ That our only 
object is to redemand from the 
usurpers—the monarch and the 
monarchy; the freedom of the au- 
gust head of the state, and that of 
his people; public order, and the 
protective power of individual right; 
our ancient Jaws; our manners; 
our religion, national honour, jus- 
tice, peace, and security.” 
Is there a rational Frenchman 
who does not agree with us in these 
views? Is there one who does not 
join with us in demanding an end 
of the frightful chaos into which 
the factious have plunged all the 
branches of administration ; the es- 
tablishment of the finances, devour- 
ed by the vilest depredations ; the 
re-constitution of the public re- 
venue, destroyed through unskilful 
administration of it; a permanent 
and regular order of things, which 
may close the pit that has swailow- 
ed up three thousand millians of 
stock; the security of state-credi- 
tors, and the destruction of credit, 
which may and ought to operate 
by a strict reform in the expendi- 
ture, and by the suppression (which 
the King has always had in view) 
of abuses which were long ago in- 
troduced into the constitution : 
abuses which it is not easy to wipe 
away, but which those who have 
overturned every thing, even so as 
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to change the ideas and sentiments 
of men, have affected to confound 
with the government itself. 
In thus expressing our wishes, 
which are no otherwise guided than 
by that common interest which the 
whole nation, by its representatives, 
pronounced to be one, we have rea- 
son to hope that all those who are 
not seditiously inclined,—all that 
are not inimical to royalty, inimi- 
cal to legitimate authority and pub- 
lic tranquillity, will not hesitate a 
moment to join us; and that a very 
great majority of the inhabitants of 
the kingdom, hitherto restrained by 
the terror of popular tyranny, or 
uneasiness about what will become 
of them at last, having now the 
prospect of being protected against 
both, will soon flock to the royal 
standard which we are following. 
Full of this confidence, and con-- 
vinced that in France there can be 
but two parties, the King’s, of which 
we are the head during his captivi- 
ty; and that of the factious, which 
comprehends all the different inno- 
vators, some of whom have under- 
taken to overset the throne, and 
others to degrade it; we exhort all 
those who have not partaken of the 
crimes of the factious; all those 
who, having been merely led astray, 
do not wish to be the accomplices 
of furious usurpers, in destroying 
or perverting the French govern- 
ment; all those who abhor that 
atrocious doctrine which tends to 
disturb the peace of all nations; we 
beseech them to be of one and the 
same mind with us, not to dispute 
on the mode of regulating the state, 
when the question is to fight toge- 
ther against those who wish to de- 
stroy it; and to acknowledge, that 
if it is necessary to Correct the abus- 
es which time introduces into the 
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