You are therefore guilty of a most glaring contradiction.

Twenty-five millions of Frenchmen have felt that they could have no security for their liberties under any modification of monarchical power.

They have in consequence unanimously chosen a Republic.

You cannot but observe that they have only exercised that right in which, by your own confession, liberty essentially resides.
As to your arguments, by which you pretend to justify your anathemas of a Republic--if arguments they may be called--they are so concise, that I cannot but transcribe them.

'I dislike a Republic for this reason, because of all forms of government, scarcely excepting the most despotic, I think a Republic the most oppressive to the bulk of the people; they are deceived in it with a show of liberty, but they live in it under the most odious of all tyrannies--the tyranny of their equals.' This passage is a singular proof of that fatality by which the advocates of error furnish weapons for their own destruction: while it is merely _assertion_ in respect to a justification of your aversion to Republicanism, a strong _argument_ may be drawn from it in its favour.
Mr.Burke, in a philosophic lamentation over the extinction of chivalry, told us that in those times vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.