STATE PAPERS. 
nanimity of his majesty to afford it 
assistance, and with the sovereign- 
ty, to accept the task of rendering 
it happy. It is not necessary to 
repeat the sacrifices that have been 
made, and how much English biood 
has been bravely and generously 
shed, for the purpose of effeGing 
that undertaking. In ‘the circum- 
stances in which it is incumbent 
on his majesty to supply the most 
considerable expences, he has not 
ceased to communicate, with the 
utmost liberality, in whatever he 
thought necessary for the defence 
of the island: the English troops 
have been employed to protect it; 
several. Corsican battalions raised 
and maintained by his majesty’s be- 
neficence, and an arsenal established 
at Ajaccio; navigation has been 
restored, and care has been taken 
to protect it from the enemy ; in- 
dustry has been compensated by 
riches, and the means of consump. 
tion increased by the station of the 
fleet and army ; the national credit 
has been respected by foreigners, 
and supported by all the political 
influence of his majesty; laws 
have been framed according to the 
constitution of the kingdom; the 
public authorities regulated and 
protected ; individual liberty pre- 
served inviolable, and every motive 
for intestine division suppressed ; 
the exercise of the religion of your 
ancestors has been re-established, 
and a happy conclusion to the ar- 
ticles presented by the parliament 
to his holiness the pope may soon 
be expe¢ted ; and, in fine, a rapid 
progress in every point towards a 
perfect organization of the system 
of government effected, with the 
applause and consent of the whole 
nation, But when we promised 
ourselves that the moral effects 
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of these changes would have been 
sufficient for the maintenance of 
tranquillity’ and obedience to the 
laws, and to dire@t the national 
activity towards industry and every 
means of accelerating the general 
good, it was with much displeasure 
that, in some pirts, we perceived 
tumults formed, for the purpose of 
forcing the peaccable and well. 
behavad subjects to participate in 
aéts of turbulence and licentious. 
ness, viz. to burn the public maga- 
zines, to declare and resolve against 
‘the payment of the imposts, to 
search the houses of individuals by 
an. armed force, and threaten the 
lives of the citizens, with several 
other. inconveniences, manifested 
and executed with a spirit of insub. 
ordination to the government, and 
the dissolution of every good prin. 
ciple of society, chara¢terized by 
traits unworthy of persons who pas. 
sess any stimulus of respect for 
themselves, or attachment to their 
country: however, it has’ been 
some consolation to us in perceiving 
that these proceedings are held in 
abhorrence by the greatest part of 
the kingdom, and regretted by per. 
sons of credit and respectability, It 
is incumbent upon the Corsicans to 
consider the danger of the divisions 
to which this canduét must infalli. 
bly expose their nation: tamults 
are inevitably conneéted with vexa-. 
tions and atts of violence; arbitrary 
sway takes place of the law, and 
then neither life nor property is 
any longer secure. Neither should 
we forget an enraged and neigh. 
bouring enemy, who can only be 
kept at a distance by his majesty.’s 
arms, your Own unanimity, and the 
energy of the government. The 
pretence that a people may be go- 
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