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‘tion, to disarm their just resent- 
‘ment. His whole life has for 
ever deprived him of the power of 
imposing upon good faith. De- 
spairing of the success of his ar- 
tifices, he seeks, for the second 
‘time, to precipitate with himself 
‘into the abyss, the nation over 
which he causes terror to reign; 
he renews all the departments of 
‘administration in order to fill 
‘them wholly with men sold to his 
tyrannical projects; he disorga- 
nizes the National Guard, whose 
blood he intends to lavish in a 
sacrilegious war; he begins to 
abolish rights which have’ been 
Tong since abolished; he convokes 
a pretended Field of May to mul- 
tiply the accomplices of his usur- 
pation ; he promises to proclaim 
‘there, in the midst of bayonets, 
a derisory imitation of that consti- 
tution, which, after 25 years of 
disorders and calamities, had, for 
the first time, founded’ on a solid 
basis the liberty and the happi- 
‘ness of France. Finally, he has 
‘consummated the greatest of all 
‘crimes towards our subjects, by 
‘attempting to separate them from 
their Sovereign; to tearthem away 
from our family, whose existence, 
which for so many years has been 
identified with that of the nation 
itself, is still at this moment the 
‘only thing that can guarantee the 
stability of the legitimacy of the 
‘government, the rights and the 
liberty of the people, the mutual 
interests of France and of Eu- 
Tope. 
In these circumstances we rely 
with entire confidence on the sen- 
timents of our subjects, who can- 
‘not fail to perceive the dangers 
and the miseries to which they are 
exposed by a man whom assem- 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, i815. 
bled Europe has devoted to public 
vengeance. Allthe Powers know 
the disposition of France. We 
are assured of their amicable 
‘views and of their support. 
Frenchmen ! seize the means of 
deliverance which are offered to 
your courage. Rally round your 
King, your father the defender 
of all your rights—hasten to him 
to assist him in saving you, to 
put an end to a revolt, the pro- 
longation of which might become 
fatal to our country, and by the 
punishment of the author of so 
many evils, to accelerate the era 
of a general reconciliations 
Given at Ghent, the 2nd day of 
the month of May, in the year of 
our Lord, 1815, and the 20th year 
of our reign. 
(Signed) 
Louis. 
SWITZERLAND. 
Note delivered to the Diet by the 
Ministers of the Four Great 
Powers, which was read in the 
Stétting of the 12th of May. 
“ From the moment that Buo- 
naparte returned to France, all 
Switzerland resolved by an una- 
nimous and energetic determi- 
nation to take up arms to defend 
its frontiers, and to keep off those 
disorders of all kinds with which 
Europe is menaced by the return 
of this Usurper. 
“« This measure, which fullydis- 
played the energy of the Diet, 
and the wisdom of its delibera- 
tions, was perfectly in harmony 
with the sentiments of all Europe, 
which openly applauded the con- 
duct of a people, who, though 
the nearest to the danger, was 
