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Show COUNT OE CHAMBORD'S LETTER. New York, 1-1. English papers received contain the full text of the manifesto of Count de Cbambord, which was written in the form of a letter to M. Chtuclong, as follows : I am asked to-day to make a sacrifice of honor. 'What reply can I make. I repeat that I never retract nor retrench re-trench anything of my previous dc duration. The claims of yesterday gave me the measure of what would be expected on the morrow. I can't consent to inaugurate a reign of reparation re-paration of strength ly an act of weakness. It is the fashion, as you know, to contiast the firmness of Henry Vth with the diplomacy of Henry I Vth. Tho passionate love which I bear to my subjects, he often said, makes everything possible and i honorable. On that point I claim to concede nothing to him, but I should like to know what sort of a rebuke any one would have brought down on himself who should have wen imprudent impru-dent enough to persuade Henry Vth to renounce the standard of Argues and of lvery. You, Monsieur, belong to-the province which gave you buth, and you will be of the same opinion as I. That would very promptly have disarmed his interlocutor, ad"-dressing ad"-dressing him as Bearsaize Vagur. Mv friend, take my white flag. It wiil always lead you in the path of honor and victory. I am accused of noc holding in sullicicntly high esteem the valour oi' our soldiers and that, too, at the very moment when Jouly aspires to confide to them al! that is most dear to me. Is it then forgotten that honor is the pattern in common, of the house of Bourbon, and of the French army, auu likil iqiuu uu3 puna- a misunderstanding misunder-standing between them is impossible? No, I do do not ignore any of my country's mcroories.and God only has seen the tears of gratitude which, in the depth of my exile. I have shed every time that the children of France, iu good or in evil fortune, have shown themselves worthy of her. But we have a great work to accomplish together. to-gether. I am ready to undertake it when desired, to-morrow, to-night, this moment, and that is why I wish to remain exactly what I am. Enfeebled En-feebled to-day, I should be powerless to-morrow. It is a question of reconstruction, recon-struction, upon its national basis, of ft society profoundly disturbed, of giving giv-ing energetic assurance to the supremacy su-premacy of the law; of reviving prosperity pros-perity at home, anil concluding dur-iible dur-iible alliances abroad: and, above all, the unhesitating employment of the, power of the army in the service of order and justice. People speak of conditions. Were any con-, ditions placed before me by the young; Prince whose honest embrace J experienced expe-rienced with suoh liiijipineis, and who, only listening to the dictates of his own patriotism, came to me spontaneously, spon-taneously, bringing in the name of all those surrouiiding him, assurances of peace, devotion, and reconciliation? They ask for guarantees. Were any required of that Bayard of modern times, on the memorable night of the' i2i(hofMay, when the glorious mission mis-sion was imposed upon his modesty of calling his country by one of those utterances, ut-terances, of an honest man and a soldier, which inspire con-iideucc con-iideucc among good men and make wicked men tremble. I have not, it is true, borne, like him, the; sword of France on twenty fields of; battle; but I have preserved intact for j tbrty-three years the sabred deposit of. our traditions, and of our liberties. li too have, therefore, the right to count j upon some confidence, and I ouhtto inspire some feeling oi security.' My, personality is nothing; my principles ; are everything. Franco will see tho end of her trials when she is willing to understand this. I am the indispensable indis-pensable pilot, the only one capable of guiding the ship to port because I in your power. Monsieur, to dissipate dissi-pate misunderstandings and faltering m the hour of struggle, your consoling consol-ing words, in leaving Salsbourgh, are ever present to my mind. France cannot perish lor Christ still loves his friends, and when God has resolved to save a people He takes care that scep-torsof scep-torsof justice shall only be placed in hands strong enough to wield it. Signed, IIexiue. |