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“ Frenchmen, unity of action is 
re-eftablifhed between the two 
great powers, not that which refults 
from the dependence of one of 
them, but that which produces the 
harmony of reciprocal wills. We 
have expofed to you our conduct 
and our principles; our life is zlto- 
gether devoted to the maintenance 
of the republic; we will not fay 
that we are merely ready to lofe 
our lives in combating the factions, 
but we {wear to you that we will 
overcome them.” 
The following Proclamations have been 
publified by the Direftory. On their 
Authenticity no great Reliance can 
be placed. Thus much, however, 
muft be fard, that the Pretender has 
not thousht fit to difavow them. 
LOUIS XVIII. TO THE FRENCH, 
A PROFOUND grief penetrates 
our breaft every time we fee French- 
men groaning in captivity, through 
their attachment to the fafety of 
-France. But will it fatisfy your tv- 
rants to have procured new victims? 
In this confpiracy which they im- 
pute to them, in the papers they 
publith fo faftidioufly, will they not 
feek pretexts to calumniate our in- 
tentions? Is it not to be dreaded, 
finally, that, either by forging pa- 
pers, or by throwing out fubtle in- 
finuations, they will attempt to 
paint us to you in falfe colours ? 
It is our duty to admonifh you 
againft a perfidy which. the expe- 
rience of what is paft authorizes us 
to forefee; it is our duty to ma- 
nifeft to you the fentiments with 
which our heart is filled. The ty- 
rants envelope themfelves in the 
fhades of myftery; a father dreads 
not to be feen by his children. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1797 
Thofe of our faithful fubje&s whom 
we have appointed to inftruct you 
as to your trueinterefts, will retrace 
in this paper the inftructions they 
have received. Thofe whom the 
purity of their zeal and the wifdom 
of their principles will entitle to 
our confidence in future, will here 
read aforehand the  inftructions 
which will be given to them. Fi- 
nally, all the French who, fharing 
our love for the country, with to 
concur towards faving it, will in- 
ftruct themfelves in the rules they 
ought to follow; andall France, ac- 
quainted with the end to which 
every one fhould concur in concert, 
and the means which ought to be 
employed, will form a judgment 
for itfelf of the good which it ought 
to expect from them. 
We have faid to our agents, 
(note, by the Direétory, Dunan, 
Brottier, and Lavilluernois) and we 
repeat to them inceffantly, “* Bring 
back our people to the holy religion 
of their forefathers, and to the pa- 
ternal government which fo lon 
conftituted the glory and lenpinel: 
of France. Explain to them that 
the conftitution of the ftate has been 
calumniated, becaufe it has been 
mifunderftood. Inftruct them to 
diftinguifh it from the regime which 
had been too long introduced. Shew 
them that it is alike oppofite to an- 
archy and defpotifm, the two feour- 
ges which are as odious to us as they 
are to them, but which have altern- 
ately afflicted France fince fhe has 
no longer had a King. Confult 
wife and enlightened men as to the 
new degrees of perfection, of which 
that conftitution may be fufcepti- 
ble, and make known to them the 
forms it has prefcribed to effect its 
own amelioration. Affirm that we 
have adopted the moft efficacious 
meafures 
