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Tu regnes, mats lui seul a sauve tes etats: Les bienfaits chez les rois ne font que des ingrats. "And thou, lazy Monarch," stupid Louis, let us omit him: "Pompadour, selling her lover to the highest bidder, makes France, in our day, Austria's slave!" The pomps of my rank I could resign without regret. But to rescue thee, in this black crisis, I will spend my heart's blood.
I shall venture, however, to elaborate the subject from the present view-point, even though the principles of Marcus Aurelius are as applicable now as they were in the days of the Roman Empire. One of its suggestions was paralleled by the philosopher-poet when he wrote: "Latius regnes avidum domando Spiritum, quam si Libyam remotis Gadibus iungas et uterque Poenus Serviat uni."
The book is entitled Politique de tous les Cabinets de l'Europe pendant la Règnes de Louis XV. et de Louis XVI. It is altogether very curious, and worth reading. See our Declaration. Dear Sir, I thank you for the bundle of state-papers which I received yesterday. I have travelled through the negotiation, and a sad, founderous road it is.
The death of Lewis, and the known disposition of the Regent, appeared to the Protestant party, in France, to afford a proper opportunity of recovering their rights. Duclos, in his Mémoires secréts sur les regnes de Louis XIV. et de Louis XV., says, that the Regent himself wished to restore the Protestants, to their civil rights, but was dissuaded by his council.
Memoire de M. Turgot, a l'occasion du Memoire remis par M. le Compte de Vergennes sur la maniere dont la France at l'Espagne doivent envisager les suites de la querelle entre la Grande Bretagne et ses Colonies. In "Politique de tous les Cabinets de l'Europe pendant les Regnes to Louis XV. et de Louis XVI." Par L.P. Segue l'aine. Congress issued a cautionary declaration in reply.
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