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Security and repose of, dther powers. Under these circumstances, he de. 
mapds from France, and he demands with justice, the tefmination of 
a System of anarchy, which has no force but for the purpose of mischief, 
unable to discharge the primary duty of all government, to reprefs the dis- 
orders, or to punifh the crimes which are daily encreasing in the interior 
of the country, but dispasing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the in- 
habitants of France, im order to disturb the tranquillity of other nations, 
and to render all Europe the theatre of the same crimes and of the same 
misfortunes. The king demands toat some legitimate and stable govern- 
ment fhould be establifhed, founded on the acknowledg+d principles of uni- 
versal justice, and capable of maintaining with other powers the aceustom- 
ed velations of union and of peace. His majesty wifhes ardently to be ena- 
- bled to treat for the re-establifhmeut of general tranquillity with such a 
government, exercising a legal and permanent authority, animated with the 
with for general tranquillity, and polsefsiug power to enforce the observancé 
ofits engagements. The king would propose none other than equitable and 
moderate conditions, not such as the expences, the risques, and the sacrifi- 
‘ces of the war might justify, but such as his majesty thinks himself under 
the indispensable necefsity of requiring with a view to these considerations, 
and still more to that of his own security, and of the future tranquillity of 
Europe. His majesty desires nothing more sincerely than thus to terminate 
a war which he in vain endeavoured to avoid, and all the calamities of 
which, as now experienced by France, are to be attributed only to the am- 
bition, the pérfidy, and the violence of those, whose crimes have involved 
their own country in misery, and disgraced all civilized nations. 
As his majesty has hitherto been compelled to carry om war against the 
people of France collectively, to treat as enemies all those who suffer their 
property and blood to be lavifhed in support of an unjnst agegrefsion, his ma~ 
jesty wonld see with infinite satisfaction the opportunity of making excep- 
tions in. favour of the well-disposed inhabitants of other parts of France, as 
he has already done with respect to thase of Toulon. The King promises, 
on his part, the suspension of hostilities, friendfhip and (as far as the the 
course of events will allow, of which the will of man cannot dispose) secu 
rity and protection to all those who, by declaring for a Monarchical Govern- 
ment, fhall fhake off the yoke of a sanguinary anarchy, of that anarchy 
which has broken all the most sacred bonds of ‘Society, difsolved all the re= 
Jations of civil life, violated every right; confounded every duty, which uses 
the name of liberty to exercise the most cruel tyranny, to annihilate all pro- 
perty, to seize on all pofsefsions, which founds its power on the pretended 
consent of the people, and itself carries fire and sword through extensive 
pruvinces, for having demanded their laws, their religion, and their lawful 
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It is then in order to deliver theniselves from this unheard of opprefsion, 
to put an end to a system of unparallelled crimes, and to restore at length 
tranquillity to France, and security to all Europe, that his Majesty invites 
the co-operation ‘of the people of France. It is for thes¢ objects that he 
calls upon them to join the standard of an hereditary Monarchy, not for the 
purpose of deciding, in this moment of disorder, calamity, and public dan- 
ger, on all the modifications of which this form of government may here- 
aiter be susceptible, but in order, to unite themselves once more under the 
empire of law, offporality, and of religion; and to secure at length to their 
own country, external peace, domestic tranquillity, a real and genuine li- 
betty, a wise, ’thoderate, and beneficent government, and the uninterrupted 
enjoyment of all the advantages which can cantzibute to the happinefs and 
prosperity of a great and powerful nation. ; Pi 
