0 
     
    
   
   
    
     one will accrue ,me of inotJe'nowing 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' , the valueof the liberty of the press. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Alas! I'vwas ful‘l‘r’hopefand joy- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' when I saw you lay the foundation of 
     
     '_ ' piness, ,._atta‘ck~all abuses, '- 
     
     ’ firehlaim__all;.rights.;.and..subjectthe_, 
     
    
   
   
    
     difi'flerent parts of, this empire to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     -- same laws7tt‘fa'n uniform regulation.  
     
     ' My_eyes"were filled with tears when 
     
    
   
   
    
     Insawthe vilest and the most wicked 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’.of men employed as instruments in 
     
    
   
   
    
     bringing about a'u'seful revolution -, 
     
    
   
   
    
     .When I saw the holy. iove bf patri- - 
     
    
   
   
    
     otism prostituted to uillainy, and ii. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ceiitiousness-t march ~in----triumph our 
     
    
   
   
    
     vder' the? banners liberty; Terror 
     
     Was! mingled with myfljust grief, 
     
    
   
   
    
     rad-then::lrbeheld all theiresourcesgof 
     
     Government destroyed, 7an {lettuce . 
     
    
   
   
    
     : barriers—substituted ., to thehecessity 
     
     of an active and repressing force...— 
     
    
   
   
    
      ‘ 1-113": every Where sOught- the V634- 
     
     ‘...tigcs 'of that central authority which 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' "-negreat nationdeposits inthe hands 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,teri security and individual liberty ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the .Monarch- for its own safety ; 
     
     and have been nowhere able to find 
     
     them ; I have, sought the principles 
     
    
   
   
    
     whereby PWPfiYfiPt‘schedsfldd. 
     
    
   
   
    
     *Tlfiive seen them attacked ; I have 
     
    
   
   
    
     endeavoured to find under what shel- 
     
    
   
   
    
     reposed, and lhave seen audacity 
     
     always gatheiing strength from the 
     
    
   
   
    
     I vmultitude intending?an invoking 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ the sis-hi? fer— .‘iE§‘.‘Z¥iCtl§nsWhiCh the 
     
     factions, apd the innovators; asdaur-W 
     
    
   
   
    
     gerous as the.faCtious, are ready to 
     
     inflict. I have heard those insidious‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     — insinuations, whichim-press you with 
     
    
   
   
    
     false terrors, to turn aside your at- 
     
     tention from real dangers -,__ which 
     
     inspire you‘with-- fatal distrusts, to 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~- induce you: to-~destno-y‘s'u"c‘c"essive‘ly 
     
    
   
   
    
     all the, props ofmonaxchicaligovem‘. 
     
     'édEfiBs‘ériiing Luigiinmnre, 
     
    
   
   
    
     1‘ fthat  are desirpusmf bflf 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing freer‘potoaly disregard the so: 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 tie] Xlflflticf.humanity..md.fusfiecr 
     
    
   
   
    
     thofsole basis fogljeliberty, ,ut re. 
     
     cerve With" eagerness ihe new seeds 
     
     of corruption, and, suffer themselves 
     
    
   
   
    
     to be surrounded with new causes 
     
     of slavery.  r _  ‘ _' 
     
    

    
     Ah! Gentlemen," what‘ do I not 
     
     suffer on seeing in the midst of the 
     
     capital,_and in the very focus of in- 
     
     ibr'matioh, . this, seduced, people. ea- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ""'gerly~adopt with‘ aderociour'yoy“ the 
     
    
   
   
    
     mest criminal prOpogal’s, smile at 
     
     the detailsof assasinations, sing their 
     
     chm-e'saws'if they were conquests, 
     
     stupidly invite enemies to the revo- 
     
    
   
   
    
     v dit‘atefd on them ata time when, re; 
     
    
   
   
    
     jeete‘dfl by all the social__ institutions, 
     
     by all the intereStsyby all thegpreju. _ 
     
     dices, they'only presented the seducv 
     
     dons of a consolatory Wish." At that 
     
    
   
   
    
     dime no motivesinduced me to Weigh 
     
    
   
   
    
     "thidifiitfitiéiféf application, and 
     
     the terribleinconveniences» annexed ' 
     
     to abstractions, when they are in. 
     
     vested. with the force“ which com- 
     
     mandsmen and things, when the 
     
    
   
   
    
     lutiOn, sully it by complaisance,randr\resistance of things'and the passions 
     
    
   
   
    
     shut their eyes uponwall. the evils 
     
     with Which they; overwhelm them- 
     
     selves ; for ithis’unhappy people are 
     
     'igfidiiant that an infinity of calami- 
     
     ties “may spring from a single. crirne 
     
     I see themflaugh and dance on the 
     
     ruinsof‘tlfiii‘ own morality, even on 
     
     the brink of; the. very abyss which 
     
     ~may swallow‘f‘up' their hopes ;' this 
     
     spectacle of joy is that by which I 
     
    
   
   
    
     have been the most. deeply affected. a 
     
    
   
   
    
     .Your indiEerence with. respect to 
     
     this alarmingdeviation of the pub- 
     
     lic understanding, is the first and 
     
     perhaps the sole 'c'ause'of the change 
     
     which has taken place with respect 
     
    
   
   
    
     to~y,on,—--vof that-ehange'wherebyfire 
     
    
   
   
    
     corrupt adulation or the murmurs 
     
     stifled by fear have susceeded the 
     
     pure homages beatowed upon. your 
     
     first labours. . '  “ 
     
    

    
      .with whatever cum-age the 
     
     approach of-y‘my last hour inspires 
     
     me, whatever d'uty'even that love'of 
     
     fibertyrwhiehf‘prrefésséid’berore you 
     
    
   
   
    
     existed, imposes upon: me, —I never;-' 
     
    
   
   
    
     theless experience inaddressing you, 
     
     that respect and sort'of fear, of 
     
     which no man can divest himself, 
     
     when he places himself in, thought 
     
    
   
   
    
     «in a state of immediate communica. 
     
    
   
   
    
     reat'nation; _ T 7 ._   
     
     Ought Ito’stop'flhere, "or to con-.- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion witherthe repreSentatives.» Qf"'a 
     
    
   
   
    
     'timmemk to Youias t0, pasted; 
     
    
   
   
    
     ty i—Yes, Gentlem‘enfl believe you 
     
     a  rehearing‘thislanguage”. . 
     
     ‘1’.”Iihave mania throughout the 
     
     whole-course of my life on the ideas 
     
     which you have lately applied to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     “guesses-9f the kingdom a! me: 
     
    
   
   
    
     . anyouffientl 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,  ,fiQ .. 
     
    
   
   
    
     . of men. are“ necessary arguments to ., 
     
     combine. , ‘ a ._ 
     
     W What I neither. ought not Could 
     
     .fOresee at; the- time and inlthecir- 
     
     cumstancesunder which I’wroie, the 
     
     circumstances and the timeiin which 
     
     "t-youaetrequire that-you should keep 
     
     an account of; andl ‘thiukwit' my . 
     
     duty to tell you that you have not 
     
     sufficiently done so. ‘¥ . ‘ ' “ ' 
     
     By this Sole but continued Fault, ybu 
     
    
   
   
    
     have vitiated your work -, you haVe 
     
    
   
   
    
     placed yourselves in suchva situati. 
     
     on as has perhapsrendered you um 
     
     able‘to preserve itifromv total ruin, 
     
     but by measuring back yOur-steps, 0r 
     
    

    
     'hr'indicating an(renegademaieh" 
     
     to your successors- Ought you. to ' 
     
    

    
     (be afraid of being the sole object of 
     
     all . the virulence with which the altar 
     
     of liberty is assailed _?- Believe, Gen- 
     
     tlemen that- this’heroic sacrifice will ' 
     
     not be the least c'onsolatory ofthose 
     
    

    
     "féi‘r'iembrances, Whjghyodwillbeiper» 
     
     mitted to preserve. 'What. men must . 
     
     those be,..who leaVingto their coun- 
     
    

    
     , try all the good whichthey have been- 
     
     able to do, accept and claim fur them-'- 
     
     selves alone the .reproaches which 
     
     have been deserved by real and serious . 
     
     evils, but oF-rrwhich they could'only. 
     
    

    
     "accuse the circumstances !’ 'I belie'im 
     
    

    
     adestmytand that idea encourages 
     
    

    
      out. to. jydu,,_without re. 
     
     serve, those defective parts which 7‘ 
     
     .3‘6u.haye__intrrzdx. mediate magma 
     
     constitution. ‘ ' - ' 
     
     Called‘ u'pbn- to regenerate France, 
     
    

    
     ’you ought first to have considered 
     
    

    
     what you could usefully preserve of