When your repugnance to my choice shall be invincible and on good grounds, I shall comply; if this repugnance shall tend to compromise the safety of the country and yourself, I shall beg you to allow me to resign, and nominate my successor.

Think of the terrible dangers which beset your throne--it must be consolidated by the confidence of the nation in your sincere attachment to the Revolution.

It is a conquest which it depends on you to make.

I have prepared four despatches to ambassadors in this sense.

In these I have used language to which they are unused from courts, the language of an offended and resolute nation.