THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1762, 13 October 1879, Page 4

THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD.

The Count de Chambord has written to the Marquis do Foreata a letter which ia treated aa a manifesto, and the penultimate sentence of it as an overture to clerical Bonapartists:— “ Frohadorf, July 20. <! You know me too well not to realise my emotion on reading the address of the faithful of Marseilles. I have just received the report of your festivities. 1 have seen everything ; nothing has escaped me—not aline, 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 the oppression of consciences and the annihilation of our dearest liberties. I have but one regret in the midst of such consolations ; it is that I am unable to express my gratitude aa 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 some 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 tifl I choose to give it a full elucidation of the events of 1873, but once more I thank you for having against such a suspicion with the

indignation it deserves. You might have added, for it is true, that the return of the traditional monarchy responded to the aspirations of the greatest number ; that the laborer and the artisan rightly described those peaceful 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 sweetness; that in a word, the peasant expected 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 indescribable disasters and reverses, I showed more concern for the Royal dignity and the grandeur of my mission, my purpose was, as you are well aware, to remain faithful to my oath never to bo the King of a fraction or a party. No, I will not accept the tutelage of men of figments and Utopias, but I will not cease to appeal to the co-opera-tion of all honest men, and, as you admirably said, ‘ Armed with this force and with the grace of God,’ I may save France—l must and I will."