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A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

THE KING OF FRANCE'S SPEECH.

The following reproduction by the "Observer' (London) of an extract from its issue of December 13, 1818, has been ■brought under our notice by Mr. Benno Scherek:—

We received on Saturday a copy of the speeoh delivered by the King at the opening of the Chamber of Deputies at the commencement of the session on Thursday last, which we hasten to lay before our readers;—

"Europe has eagerly received France, replaced in the rank which belongs to her. The declaration, which announces to the world the prinoiples on which the union of tie five Powers is founded sufficiently shows the friendship which prevails among the Sovereigns. This salu-' tary union, dictated by justice and consolidated by morality and religion, has for its object to prevent the scourge of war by the maintenance of treaties, by the guarantW of and permits us to fix out>eyes,on the long days of peace which such an alliance promises to Europe. . . . In seconding my wishes and my 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 anarohy, fo absolute power, and whose final success has cost the world 60 much blood and so many tears. ■, . ■"

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 7

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A HUNDRED YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 7

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 7

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