WJiorical Chronicle, 



XIX 



vhich you hold from God a- 

 lone, to render yourfclt the fub- 

 ordinate agent of the revolters 

 who ufurp your throne. 



" Your Majefty, lefs unhap- 

 py than was the head of your 

 houfe, may reckon among your 

 defenders two augnft brothers, 

 the Princes of the name of 

 Conde, a name fo dear to vie 



tinually hold the others in a 

 precarious and uncert lin ftate. 

 *< Do not believe, S re, tlAt 

 we have abandoned our country ; 

 we hope to return with all 

 thofe whom common danger 

 has compelled to qiit their 

 houfes; we fhall return to 

 bring with us order and peace; 

 to replace your Majefty upon 



tory, the French nobility, and | your throne; and to enjoy, 

 a number of perfons of the I with all vour people, the bleff- 

 thirdeftate, who have all dedi- jings which you ihall freely 

 cated their blood and the reft i judge it fuitable to grant 

 of their fortune to the talk of I them." 



replacing the crown upon your AI! the letters received from 

 head. It is in thefe circum- abroad are now filled with ac- 

 ftances, Sire, that we are in- counts of the mighty prepara- 

 vited to abandon your rights, jtions making by the Ex-Princes 

 and to fubmit ourrelves to the |for re-entering France. Thefe 

 multitude who have deprived may, for the moft part, be con- 



you of your liberty, 



" Tile fidelity, which we 

 have fworn. Sire, is to the 



fidered as ftratagems to keep up 

 the fpirits of the party during 

 the winter. The feafon, at 



whole Houfe of Courbdn, and | leafl, is certainly very unfavour- 

 wheu it fhail be poflible that' able to fuch undertakings, 

 youmay wifhtodeprivcusof it. It is a faift, however, that 

 our obligations will not lubfift confiderable fiims b.ave b<en re- 



the lefs between us and your 

 defcendants. The throne will 

 belong to them as itwastranf- 

 Hiittcd to you, and fuch as you 

 poflefied k at your acceflion to 

 the crown. Our fidelity will 

 be due t6 them ; we are, there- 

 fore, not permitted to confcnt 

 to any ad, which may deprive 

 them of the rights of their 

 birth, and of the inheritance to 

 which they are called. 



" In all nations, the pro- 

 prietors of thejand, the poircf- 

 iiirs of the richeft perfonal pru ' 



knitted to Coblentz, to the Ex- 

 Hrinces. But the Count d'Ar- 

 tois, confidering the money as 

 intended for his own ufes, and 

 that for fome other^ of the 

 Royal Houfehold, has dilTipat- 

 ed the greateft part ot it, 

 which has alienated the hearts 

 of many frieiitls to the caufe. 



Letters from Switzerland an- 

 nounce, that the canton of Fri- 

 bourg has rcfufe-i to acknow- 

 ledge the accept ince by the 

 King of the Fr:'nch of tlie new 

 conltitution : That the canton 



pcrty, have always formed a of Soleurc authorifcs recruiting 

 diftintft clafs from the other in- within its territory for th^ - 

 habitants. Without this pre* army of the Princes — and tlut: 

 caution, the latter, necelHrily I the canton of Ejrne per. nits 

 •the i^'.'jft immurous, would con- cmnyn to be QX'X for tlicu'. at 



