They will never consent to quit their religion, as they have declared by their protest at the last meeting of the estates of Bearn.

* * * And, even supposing that they were reduced to accept your faith, consider what you would have to fear from the two sovereigns whose territories surround you, and who abhor nothing so much as the new opinions with which you are so delighted.

Their policy would lead them to seize your dominions, rather than suffer them to be the prey of strangers.

To shelter you from these dangers, you have not, like England, the ocean for a rampart.

Your conduct perils the fortunes of your children, and risks the beholding them deprived of a throne.