A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 12

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

THE KING OF FRANCE'S SPEECH. The following reproduction by the ' Observer' (London) of an extraot from its issue ot December 13, 1818, has been brought under our uotice by Mr Benno ticherek : We received on Saturday a copy of the speech.delivered-by the King at the opening of the Chamber of Deputies at the coramencemeut of., the session on Thursday last, which -we ' hasten to lay betore our readers: "Europe has eagerly received France, replaced in the rank which belongs to her. The declaration, ' 'which announces to the world the- principles on which the union ot the ftvo'- Powers is founded sufficiently shows the friendship which, prevails anions, the Sovereigns..' This salutary union, dictated by iuslice aud consolidated by morality and religion, has for its object to prevent the scourge of war bv the maintenance or treaties,, by the guarantee of existing.rights, and permits us to fix ouj eyes on' the long days of neaco which such an alliance promise,?' to. r Europe. .-;-■■ • In seconding my and mv "efforts you will not forget, gentlemen,- that -this charter, delivering .France from despotism, has put an end to revolutions; I-.depend on your concurrence to repel those pernicious principles, which, under the mask of liberty, attack social order—conduct, by anarchy, lo absolute power, and whose final succe-s has cost the world so much blood and so ' many tears.' ,