The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature Volume 13; To Which Is Prefixed, a Short Review of the Principal Transactions of the Present Reign (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 Excerpt: ...of expecting a foreign interference, penetrated with the principle which I have the honour of having been the first to profess in France, that all illegal power is oppression, and that to resist them ii a duty--they are bound to lay their fears before the legislative bodv. Thev hope that the attention of the legislative body will deliver them from chose fears. As for me, gentlemen, who havenever changed principles, sentiments, or language, I should hope, that the national assembly, considering the urgency and danger of circumstances, will permit me to join the new expression of my regret and my wishes to the homage of my profound respect. (Signed) La Fayette. Letter from the King to the National Assembly, July 4. July 5, 4th year of liberty. " Gentlemen, " We approach the famous epoch at which the French are going to commemorate, in all parts of the kingdom, a pact of alliance contracted on the altar of our country on the 14th of July, 179b. The law forbids all particular federations; it allows only an annual renewal of the federative pact in the chief town of each district. But we have in our power a measure which, without the least violation of the letter of the law, seems to me adapted to the grand events that every where present themselves. When a great nation wages war abroad in defence of liberty, then it is that she feels most strongly the necessity of peace at home; when all tlie intestine dissensions seem to coincide with the foreign war, when wicked men are striving to excite troubles, the peaceable citizens stand in need of encouragement. We must prove to the armies on our frontiers, that they are fighting in reality for the peace and the liberty of their country. I am of opinion, gentlemen, that we cannot give them a surer pledge os; t...