STATE PAPERS, 
we think only on the means which 
ought most powerfully to unite 
all..parties, to restore confidence, 
and bring back abundance and 
peace ; we will second the wishes 
of the true citizens, in causing the 
laws to be executed with the great- 
est firmness and activity. 
Rewsect, president. 
Letter from Louis XV TLL. tothe Arch. 
bishop of Paris, residing in Swit. 
zerland. 
My cousin, 
I HAVE received the free which 
in conjunction with the bishops of 
Langres, Nismes, and St. Malo, 
you have written me in the name 
of the faithful part of my clergy 
residing at Constance, I prea 
acknowledge the concern you take 
in my grief, on account of the de. 
cease of the king, my nephew; ' 
and the attachment you profess for 
my person. I accept with sub. 
mission the burthen which Provi- 
dence has been pleased to charge 
me with ; and I should even ac- 
cept it with joy, if I might hope 
to become the instrument of its 
mercy, for restoring to the Chris. 
tian kingdom its religion, so cruelly 
persecuted by those who usurp my 
throne. 
I charge you to return my thanks 
‘to the three bishops, as well.as to 
all the clergy who have expressed 
their kindness towards me through 
you ; and tell them, in my name, 
to offer up the most ardent prayers 
to that God, through whom mo- 
narchs reign, that he may con- 
descend to restore to my love my’ 
subjects, and to my subjects, by my 
intervention, those laws which 
have so long maintained my king- 
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dom in a flourishing condition ; but 
above all, to restore to them the 
‘precious gift of faith. 
Wherewith, I pray to God, my 
cousin, to hold you in his holy 
and worthy keeping, 
At Verona, the rgth of June, 
1795. 
Louts. 
(Signed) 
Lettagipen Louis XVIII. to the Popes 
Verona, 24th Fune. 
IT is with the most lively sorrow 
I inform your holiness of the death 
of king Louis XVII. my honoured 
lord and nephew, who on the 8th 
of this month sunk under the pres. 
sure of the rigorous treatment 
which he incessantly experienced 
from the assassins of his august fa- 
ther. Become by- his death most 
Christian king, I am sensible of 
the obligations which such a title: 
imposes upon me; and the first of 
my: cares will be,. tomake the Ro: 
man. Catholic religion flourish: in 
my kingdom. ~ Your holiness ‘has 
long. been acquainted » with ‘my 
sentiments of veneratio for pti 
person, and attachimétit 't6 ty the she 
see, You” will glways* find 
in the aldest” _son’, of the. church, 
who implores } your apostolic berié,. 
dition. ." I san, most ely Fathes; 
your holiness’s very. zealous. son, . 
(Signed) Lous 
Aiswer of the “Pope. to the. Letter of 
itis Louis Petia 
Pius VI. to our ‘very dear ‘son in 
Jesus Christ, Louis XVIII. of 
France and Navarre, the most 
Christian king. 
My 
