THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD.
Tlio Count do Chambord has writton to the Marquiso do Forest a a letter which is treated as a manifesto, and the penultimate sentence of it as an overture to clerical Bonapartists : — " Frohadorf, July 26. " You know me too well not to realise my emotion on reading tho address of the faithful of Marseilles. I have just received the report of your festivities. 1 have seen everything 5 nothing has escaped me — nofc a lino, not a name ; and I know not what thanks to render to Providence for having allowed this awakening of hearts and souls, for having excited those generous outbursts which bring mo from every point of France the noblest protests against tho oppression of consciences and tho annihilation of our dearest liberties. I have but one regret in the midst of such consolations ; it i 3 that lam unable to express my gratitude as I should like — everywhere and to all. But I must thank you specially for a passage in your speech which affected me to the heart. In/an allusion full of frankness to our contemporary history you did fitting justice to that offensive assertion which, owing to the perfidy of Borne and the credulity of others, had too long misled public opinion. It has again and again been repeated that I voluntarily rejected a marvellous opportunity of ascending "the throne of my fathers. I reserve till I choose to give it a full elucidation of the events of 1878, but once more I thank you for having protested against such a suspicion with the indignation it deserves. Tou might have added, for it is true, that the return of tho traditional monarchy responded to the aspirations of tho greatest number ; that the labourer and the artisan rightly described those peacefuT joys of laborious life of which under the paternal authority of the head of a family so many generations in the past have known the s^eetnojs; that in a word, the peasant exported a King of France, but that the intrigues of politics had decided on giving him a Mayor of the Palace. If, in the face of expectant Europe on the morrow of indiscribable disasters and reverses, I showed more concern for the royal dignity and the grandeur of my nrssion, my purpose was, as you are well awar t, to remain faithful to my oath never to be t io King of a faction or a party. No, I will no 1 , accept the tutelage of men of figments and Utopias, but I will not ccoso to appeal to the co-operation af all honest men, and, as you admirably said, 'vAnned with this force and with , the g ace of . God,' I may; save Franofr-r-I must ml I will."
THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 3595, 18 October 1879, Page 3
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