The Comte de Chambord has addressed a kind of manifesto
to some merchants of Marseilles, who had presented him with an address. He indignantly denied the calumny that "in order to remain in an easy repose, he left France in peril, and renounced all hope of saving her." He "remains firm in his rights, and perfectly resolved to do his duty, when the propitious hour for direct and personal action shall arrive." The "Monarchy will not leave free course either to the ventures of the Empire or the violence of Radicalism, which preludes its triumph by insulting all that a nation is bound to respect,—the clergy and the magis- tracy,—that is to say, religion and justice; and the Army, that living image of the people and of its honour." The object of publishing this manifesto just now is not clear, but the Count probably feels that he is almost forgotten, and that 1880 will be the last opportunity for him, if not for his dynasty.
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