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us not above the courage and the 
atriotism of the French; and un- 
Soubtedly we shall not have the 
misfortune of finding ourselves de- 
ceived in judging you worthy to 
forget every other interest but that 
of liberty, of sacrificing every other 
sentiment to the love of your coun- 
try. 
Citizens, it is for you to judge 
if your representatives have exer- 
cised for your good the powers you 
have confidedto them; if they have 
acted according to your wishes in 
making a use of their powers which 
neither they nor you could foresee 
to be necessary. For us, we have 
discharged our duty in seizing with 
courage on the only means of pre- 
serving liberty that occurred to our 
consideration. Ready to die for it, 
at the post in which you have plac- 
ed us, we shall carry with us, at 
least, on quitting that post, the con- 
solation of having maintained it 
faithfully. 
Whatever judgment our con- 
temporaries or posterity may pass 
upon us, we shall not have to dread 
that of our own consciences: to 
whatever danger we may be expos- 
ed, the happiness will remain to us 
of having spared the torrents of 
French blood, which a conduct 
more weak would have made to 
flow ; we shall be spared remorse at 
least; nor shall we have to reproach 
ourselves with having seen a means 
of saving ourcountry, and not hav- 
ing dared to embrace it. 
(Signed) 
GuApcer, President. 
Govuson, 
G. Romne, 
Marans, 
CRESTIN, 
ARENE LECOINTE-PUIRAVAUX, 
Secretaries. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
Declaration to be made to the Fo- 
reign Powers, relative to the 
King’s Suspension, drawn up by 
M. Brissot. 
Be menbnanta thoes: the representa- 
tives of the French people have 
already, and repeatedly, manifested 
to foreign powers the _ senti- 
ments by which they are directed 
with regard to their external con- 
nections, they think it incumbent 
on them to give a still more ample 
declaration, on occasion of the pre- 
sent unexpected crisis, which brings 
forward a new revolution, and, by 
the suspension of a constitutional 
branch of the government, appears 
to create some uneasiness in some 
of the neutral powers. 
This is not a time to recite the 
causes of the war which is now 
drawing the blood of Europe; the 
articles agreed to by the coalesced 
powers are public, and sufficiently 
testify that the courts of Vienna and 
Berlin, in contempt of all treaties, 
in contempt of the right of nations, 
which they invoke while they tram- 
ple them under foot, are leagued 
together against the independence 
of the French nation, and to reine 
state Louis XVI. on his ancient 
throne. . Every measure was vainly 
employed to prevent or dissolve this 
conspiracy; and it would have 
brought dishonour upon France, 
and have endangered her liberty 
and security, to have suffered any 
longer her independence to be 
sported with, under the affectation 
of an apparent respect for her 
King: she declared war against the 
court of Vienna; or, rather, she 
began to put herself in a situation 
to repel an aggression concluded 
by treaties, and for the execution 
of which there were carrying on 
effectual preparations. 
During 
