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FRANCE:
Letter from the OFFICERS in M. de BOUILLE's army to their comrades in France.

"Ye French!—relatives and friends! of all ranks, of either sex, and of all ages! know ye, we have been employed in following the measures adopted by our General, and in using our endeavours to give efficacy to the efforts made by the Marquis de Bouille to save the Royal Family, and to break the fetters of the best and most unfortunate of Kings!

"The insults, to which we have been obliged to submit, are not to be described—yet we have the courage to bear them all with patience: because we flattered ourselves with the pleasing hopes that we should at some time or other reap the fruits of our moderation and prudence.

"One single word, one rash step, might have ruined all our schemes, and frustrated all our attempts to set our King at liberty, and to restore him to his exalted state in the midst of those his subjects, whose loyalty remains unshaken.

"Nothing has been able to cool our zeal; our attachment to the King has remained firm amidst insults, outrages, and persecutions of all kinds.

"The moment—so long wished for, and which has been so prudently provided for—has arrived; but unfortunately it has been productive of fatal consequences to the French nation—or rather to all true Frenchmen.—Our projects are all frustrated; our hopes have vanished into air; our souls are full of bitterness and anguish; and we should be at this moment, a prey to despair, were we not convinced, that our military brethren, and all other true Frenchmen now in France, who have been prevented from treading in the steps of the Marquis de BOUILLE, will adopt our profession of fidelity, which we now transmit to all the corps still remaining, but almost at the last gasp, of one of the most gallant armies in the universe

"The outrageous, insulting, and barbarous manner in which the French nation—become ferocious—watched every step of the most unfortunate of Princesses—the departure of the King—his subsequent arrestation at Varennes—his forced return to the capital;—all those circumstances proves to all the world the crimes—of a faction, and the captivity of our master.

"We, therefore, consider every thing which the soi-disant National Assembly has done, as null and void.

"We declare that we shall never submit to any other government than that of a monarchy.

"We demand a free King! We demand our King!

"It is the duty of the French nobility, formerly famed for loyalty—it is the duty of every French soldier—to fly to the relief of his king—to tear him away from his prison—to sacrifice our lives and fortunes for this unfortunate monarch—to pursue to our last moments, the monsters who have wrested the sceptre from his grasp, and have placed it in hands blasted with crimes, those monsters who have dared to insult the tenderest of mothers;—a mother, in whose veins flows the noblest blood in the universe!

"We are resolved to live, and to die, professing the religion of our ancestors.

"We therefore swear—and our oath will be applauded by the whole world—that we will transmit to our children—to our neighbours—to our friends—the most implacable hatred against all factious persons who live on rapine and murder.

"All those, who still remain loyal to their King, and to the French monarchy—all those who are friends to mankind—must rid the world of those monsters who infest the finest kingdom upon earth—who insult the best of Kings—and who blindly lead to every exces and outrage, a nation, formerly distinguished for generous sentiments and the noblest actions.

"Ye French Officers! hear the oath we are going to take, and repeat it at the same time with us!

We SWEAR, upon our honour (the only thing which remains to us) that we will die for the deliverance of our King—that we shall educate our children in these principles—that we will pursue, so long as we live, the factious leaders who have insulted our King;—or who shall dare touch the persons of their Majesties; and we shall consider every military person as infamous who shall refuse to take this oath,

". Neither fire nor sword, neither flames nor poison, nor the massacre of our relatives, of our wives or of our children;—nothing in a word, shall make us forget the first oath which we have taken in favour of our King.

"This is the only legitimate oath we can take, and for its inviolable preservation we are ready to die.

"All ye inhabitants of the earth! and all ye French people of either sex, and of all ages!—ye will applaud our courage. You will say to your children—"Misfortune were their portion; but, though they fell victims to factious fury, they preserved their honour."

"Such is the profession of loyalty made by all Officers who remain faithful to their King; and this profession it is the duty of all true Frenchmen to make.

"Signed by the General Officers and Aids-de-Camp of the Army of M. de BOUILLE.

"The Officers of the following regiments join their signatures with ours.

"Royal Allemand, Royal Campagne, Chasseurs de Campagne, Chasseurs de Neuillerie, de Royal Burgoyne, de Conde, Infantry, de Lauzun, Hussars, de Schomberg, Dragoons, de Nassau, Chasseurs de Cevannes, Corps Royal of Engineers, de Monsieur Dragoons, de Royal Dragoons, des Guards du Corps, du Roi, des Gardes de Monsieur, le Comte d'Artois, &c. &c.

"N. B. Instead of each individual signature, it was thought sufficient to name the regiments to which the Officers now with us belong.

"They have requested me to make their sentiments known, and to authenticate them with my signature, that all Europe may be acquainted with them.

"Signed DEJOTEUX,
Adj. General to the Marquis de BOUILLE,
Approved—Le Marquis de BOUILLE
Luxembourg, June 27, 1791.