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Raised to the throne by your 
choice, all that has been done 
without you is illegitimate. For 
twenty-five years France has had 
new interests, new institutions, 
and new glory, which could only 
be secured by a national Govern- 
ment, and by a Dynasty created 
under these new circumstances. 
A Prince who should reign over 
you, who should be seated on my 
throne by the power of those very 
armies which ravaged our ter- 
ritory, would in vain attempt to 
support himself with the principles 
of feudal law: he would not be 
able to recover the honour and 
the rights of more than a small 
number of individuals, enemies of 
the people who, for twenty-five 
years, have cendemned .them in 
all our national assemblies. Your 
tranquillity at home, and your 
consequence abroad, would be lost 
for ever. 
Frenchmen! In my exile I heard 
your complaints and your wishes: 
you demanded that government 
of your choice which alone was 
legitimate. You accused my long 
slumber; you reproached me for 
sacrificing to my repose the great 
interests ofthe country. 
I have crossed the seas in the 
midst of dangers of every kind: 
I arrive amongst you to resume 
my rights which are your's. All 
thatindividuals have done,written, 
or said, since the capture of Paris, 
Iwill be for ever ignorant of: it 
shall not at all influence the recol- 
lections which I “preserve of the 
important services which they have 
performed. There are circum- 
stances of such a nature as to be 
above human organization. 
Frenchmen! There is no nation, 
however small it may be, which 
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has not had the right, and which 
may not withdraw itself from the 
disgrace of obeying a Prince im- 
posed on it by an enemy momen- 
tarily victorious. When Charles 
VII. re-entered Paris, and over- 
threw the ephemeral throne of 
Henry V.; he acknowledged that 
he held his throne from the valour 
of his heroes, and not from a 
Prince Regent of England. 
It is thus that to you alone, and 
to the brave men of the army, I 
account it, and shall always ac- 
count it, my glory to owe every 
thing. 
By the Emperor. 
(Signed( NAPOLEON, 
The Grand Marshal performing the 
functions of Major-General of 
the Grand Army. 
(Signed) Count Berrranp. 
Note from the King of Saxony to 
the Allied Powers. 
“ The King of Saxony has seen 
with the deepest afiliction, in the 
documents which Princes Metter- 
nich and Talleyrand and the Duke 
of Wellington were charged to 
communicate to him, the -deter- 
mination which the five Powers 
have come to with regard to the 
fate of Saxony. 
‘¢ Without any other principle 
but that of convenience, and with- 
out any regard to the internal re- 
lations of the nation, a line has 
been traced across the country, 
which would at once tear from it 
two-fifths of its population, and 
more than one half of its territos 
rial extent, as well as.the means 
indispensable for the subsistence 
