XVlll 



liijloncal ChroHicIe. 



Letter from her MajeJIy the ( 

 Emprefs of all the Rujias, to 

 the Marjhal de Broglio. 

 t " Marfhal de Broglio, 

 " I adfirefs myfelt to you, 

 to make known to ihe French 

 nobility, banilhed and perfe- 

 cuted, but ftill unlhaken in 

 their fidelity and attachment 

 to their Sovereign, how fcs.fi. 

 bly I have fell the fentiments 

 which ftiey prcfeffed to n:e in 

 their letter of 20th September. 

 The moCc illuftrious of your 

 Kings gloried in calling them- 

 felves the firft gentlemen of 

 their kingdom. Henry IV. 

 was particularly defim'iis of 

 bearing this title. It was not 

 an empty compliment that he 

 paid to your anceftors ; but he 

 thus taught them, that with- 

 out nobility there could be no 

 Monarchy ; and that their in- 

 tereft to defend and maintain it 

 was infeparable from his. They 

 underttood the leflbn, and la- 

 viflied their blood and their 

 efforts to re-efiablifh the rights 

 of their mafters and their own. 

 Do yon, their worthy defcen- 

 dants, to whom the unhappy 

 circumflanccs of your country 

 open tlie fame career, continue 

 to tread in their fteps, and let 

 the fpirit which animated them, 

 and which you appear to in- 

 lierit, be difplayed in your ac- 

 tions. 



" Elizabeth fuccoured Henry 

 IV. who triumphed over the 

 league at the head of your 

 anceftors. The example of 

 that Queen is worthy of being 

 imitated by pollerity ; and I 

 Ihall dcferve to be compared 

 to her by my perfeveran'ce in 

 my fentiments for the defcen- 



dants of the famehero, towhom 

 I have as yet only Hiewn my 

 widies and my good intenti- 

 ons. In efpoufing the com- 

 mon caufe of Kings in that of 

 your Monarch, I do no more 

 than the duty of the rank 

 which I hold on earth : I liften 

 only to the pure didates of a 

 iincere and difinterelted friend- 

 (hip for your Princes, the 

 King's brothers, and the defire 

 of affording a conftant fupport 

 to every faithful fervant ot your 

 Sovereign. 



" Such are the difpofitions 

 of which I have charged Count 

 Romanzow to affure thofe 

 Princes. As no caufe was e- 

 ver more grand, more juft, 

 more noble, more deferving to 

 excite the zeal and the courage 

 o^ all who have devoted them- 

 felves to defend it and to fight 

 for it, I cannot but augur fuc- 

 cefs the moft fortunate and a- 

 nalogous to the wifhes I have 

 formed ; and I pray God to 

 have you, and all the French 

 nobility who participate your , 

 fentiments, and adhere to your 

 principles, in his moft holy 

 keeping. 



(Signed) Catharine" 

 Letter from the French Emi- 

 grants to i,Je French King, 

 This longcompofition is dat- 

 ed Coilentz, Decen.her i. and 

 contains, among others, the 

 follov.'ing piffige. 



" It is not to you. Sire, that 

 we undertake to juftify our re- 

 finance {to the ini'itntion of re- 

 turn) — We know too well the 

 intentions of your Majedy: 

 We fhall never believe, that 

 you have freely confented to - 

 renounce the fovereignty^. 



