STATE PAPERS. 
times by motions and direct attacks, 
and sometimes by a settled plan to 
annihilate it in effect. by leading 
the legislative assembly to seize the 
exclusive functions of the executive 
power, or forcing the King to yield 
to their wishes by explosions which 
they excite, and by the mistrusts 
and reproaches which their ma- 
neeuvres bring upon the King. 
As they well known that the ma- 
jority of the nation is unwilling to 
adopt their system of a republic, 
or, more properly, of anarchy; and 
as they despair of succeeding to 
bring it about, if tranquillity should 
be established in the interior of the 
nation, and peace preserved with 
the surrounding powers, they di- 
rect al! their efforts to foster the 
internal troubles, and bring on a 
foreign war. 
It is in the first of these views 
that they carefully encourage reli- 
gious disputes, as the most active 
cause of civil commotions, annihi- 
lating the effect of the tolerating 
views of the constitution by an in- 
tolerance in its execution directly 
contrary to its spirit. It is to this 
end they endeavour to make the 
reconciliation of the different par- 
ties impossible; and the method 
they take of reclaiming one side, 
which has been alienated by the 
severest trials the human heart can 
suffer, is by depriving them of the 
hope of mitigation or protection ; 
and while they themselves are seen 
to attack and violate with impunity 
the new constitution in its most es- 
sential principles, they excite the 
public enthusiasm for its imimuta- 
bility and perfection, and yet baffle 
the desire of rendering it perma- 
nent by the temperate improve- 
ments of judgment and experience, 
not Jess important towards its es- 
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sential end, the establishment of a 
free monarchy, than necessary to 
reunite all classes in unanimity, ane 
restore that order and energy which 
are absolutely requisite for internal 
government. 
But knowing well that their éx- 
istence, and the success of their 
views, depend only on the degree 
of enthusiasm which they may ex- 
cite in the nation, they have pro- 
voked the present crisis between 
France and foreign powers. It is 
for this purpose, therefore,that they 
have induced the government to 
lavish the public revenue, insuffici- 
ent for the current expences and the 
support of the credit of the state, in 
awar-establishment of 150,000 men, 
under the pretext of making head 
against about four theusand, whom 
the emigrants did assemble, and do 
no longer assemble in Germany ; 
but in reality with the evident in- 
tent that these armaments, accom- 
panied with menacing language, 
shall infallibly provoke counter-ar- 
manients, and finally an open rup- 
ture with the Emperor and empire. 
This is the reason that, instead 
of appeasing the just apprehensions 
which the foreign powers have en- 
tertained for a long time on account 
of their dark yet detected projects 
of seducing other nations to anar- 
chy and revolt, they plot at this 
day, with a publicity of declarations 
and measures without example in 
the history of any civilized govern- 
ment. ‘They reckoned that sove- 
reigns must at length cease to op- 
pose indifference and contempt to 
their furious and calummiating ha- 
rangues, when they should see that 
the national assembly toleratesthem 
in its bosom, collects them, and 
even decrees their publication. 
They reckoned, above all, that they 
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