COUNT DE CHAMBORD'S MANIFESTO TO THE NATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 73, 19 September 1874, Page 6

COUNT DE CHAMBORD'S MANIFESTO TO THE NATION.

The >flble dispatches from Fiance to the Associated Press, under dates of July 3 and 4, "are particularly interesting. The first brings the Manifesto of tho Count de Chambord to the Nation, and the second announces the suppression for two weeks of ' L'Union,' the special orgun of the Legitimists. We append the dispatches : Paeis, July 3, 1874. The Count de Chambord hns issued the following manifesto :—: — F&JCSCiiiiEN — sTou have required temporary expedients of safety. The country now seems to be on the eve of fresh dangers. France has need of royalty. My birth made me jour King. I would be wanting in lhe most sacred of duties if I neglected to make a supreme effort to overthrow the interposing barriers of prejudice. I am aware of the accu«utiojis against me. I hare remained, silent in order nob to add to the difficulties of the illustrious soldier who protects you. Because of the accumulation of errors and falsehoods silence is no longer permissible. Persons have pretended to understand from previous declarations that I placed the royal power above the laws, ond dreamed of unheard-of governmental combinations based upon absolutism and arbitrary ideas- The French Christian monarchy is a limited monarchy in its very essence. It borrows nothing from governments of fortune •which promises boundless prosperity and lea i to ruin. i'lie limited monarchy admits of the existence of two chambers, one nominated by the King and the other elected by the nation) according to legally established suffrage. The union of the people and the King enabled the ancient monarchy to frustrate for centuries the calculations of those seeking to domineer over the people l.y contending against the King. It is untrue that my policy is at variance with the aspirations of the country. "We both desire the strong reparative powers which a durable alliance ■with the monarchy alone can give. I wish the representatives of the nation to be vigilant auxiliaries for the examination of questions submitted to them, but will not have barren parliamentary struggles, from "which the sovereign often issues powerless ond weakened. In rejecting the foreign and imported formula, with its King who reigns, but does not governs I feel myself in harniony with tho immense majority. I am now, as beiore, ready. The House of France is fciuccrely reconciled. Let there be a truce to our divisions. Ie it not time to restore prosperity and grandeur to France with the Vfifievable royalty ? PBESS SUSPENSION. ,T, T , rT . , „ Pabis, July 4, 1874. L Lnion, which first published Count de Chamboru's manifesto hoe been suspended fioin publication for two weeks. In the National Assembly to-day M. Lebrun asked why « L'Union was suspended. M. Fourton. Minister of the Interior, in reply to the question, admitted that the suspension was partly because the paper had attacked the yeptennate, and partly because it published the manifesto of the Count of Chambord.