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Memorial

ADDRESSED

TO THE KING,

JULY, 1814.

BY M. CARNOT,

LIEUT. GENERAL, CHEVALIER OF THE ROYAL MILITARY ORDER OF ST. LOUIS, MEMBER OF THE LEGION OF

HONOR, OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, &c. &c.

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PREFACE

BY THE TRANSLATOR.

THE interest which the following tract has excited, and the reputation of its author, demand some introductory notice in regard to both subjects.

The restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of their ancestors, not having fulfilled, in the opinion of the republican party, those ardent hopes of national concord and happiness, in which the great body of the people had been taught to indulge, M. Carnot, whose independence of spirit repined at this disappointment, whether real or imaginary, was induced to begin printing this address in July last, with a view of submitting it to the royal judgment, in a form more imposing and permanent than that of manuscript. At the intercession of the government, he discontinued the printing, as apprehensions were entertained of the influence of the author's reasonings on the public mind. It was not originally his intention to circulate the memorial beyond his personal connexions; and when he understood

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