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divisions ; it being impossible that 
80 many contrary opinions, so many 
efforts, and’ so many violent exer- 
tions, should not leave after them 
Jasting agitation.” These fears, and 
the concert of passive observation, 
which is the result of them, have a 
double motive, equally well founded 
as inseparable in its objects. 
As long as the interior state of 
France, instead of giving reason to 
expect that the favourable predic- 
tions of M. Delessart will be re- 
alized on the recovery of order, the 
activity of government, and the ex- 
ecution of the Jaws, shall manifest, 
on the contrary, daily encreasing 
symptoms of ferments and resist- 
ance, the powers, friends of France, 
will have the most just motives to 
fear the fepetition of the same vio- 
lences against the King and the roy- 
al family ; anid even 6 apprehend 
that the French nation willbe plung- 
ed in the most dreadful evilthat can 
attack a great state,—popular anar- 
chy. But this is also an evil the 
most infectious towards other na- 
tions; and as more than one foreign 
state has already furnished fatal ex- 
amples of its progress, other pow- 
ers must be denied the same right 
of maintaining their constitutions, 
which France claims of protecting 
her own,—if it be not allowed that 
never did there exist a motive of 
alarm, and a genera! concert more 
just, more urgent, and more essen- 
tial to the tranquillity of Europe. 
The relations too of the best au- 
thenticated daily events must be 
disbelieved, to attribute the princi- 
pal cause of the agitation in the in- 
terior of France to the stand the 
emigrants have made, to their pre- 
parations, their projects, their 
threats. and to the assistance ‘they 
have received. The impotent ar- 
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maments of the emigrants did not 
require the collecting of forces 
thirty or forty times more numer- 
ous: the armaments of the emi- 
grants are dissolved, while those of 
France continue; and the Emperor, 
so far from approving their designs, 
insists that they make no attempt 
to disturb the public tranquillity. 
The princes of the empire follow 
his example; no power supplies 
them with troops; and the pecu- 
niary aid which may have been af- 
forded them in consideration of 
their misfortunes, is hardly suffici- 
ent for their subsistence. 
No; the true cause of this fer- 
ment, and of all the consequences 
which may ensue, is but too mani- 
fest to the eyes of France, and of 
all Europe; it is the influence and 
the violence of the republican par- 
ty, condemned by the principles of 
the constitution, and proscribed by 
the constituent assembly ; a party, 
whose ascendance in the present 
legislature has been viewed with 
dread by all those who have the 
good of France at heart. 
It is the violence of this party 
which produced those crimes and 
scenes of horror which disgraced 
the commencement of the reforma- 
tion of the French constitution, cal- 
led for and secured by the King 
himself; and the consummation of 
which Europe would have seen with 
unconcern, had not attempts, for- 
bidden by all laws, human and di- 
vine, forced foreign powers to unite 
for the preservation of the public 
tranquillity, and for the safety and 
honour of crowns. 
It is the agitators of this party 
who, since the new constitution has 
declared the inviolability of the 
monarchy, invariably seek to sap 
and overthrow its principles, some- 
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