Jehoshua
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Imperial Proclamation on the Columbian Rebellion.
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It has come to pass that many of our subjects in diverse parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by misguided demagogues and aggrieved by the trials effected upon all Our subjects by the recent war with Great Britain, Spain and allies of the same have forgotten the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them and committed various disorderly acts in disturbance of the public peace.
It is Our desire that such disorderly and rebellious conduct cease, and that the obstructions to lawful commerce and the concordant oppression of Our loyal subjects carrying on the same be removed, that by the restoration of serenity within Our Plantations and Colonies the common good and prosperity of all our subjects may be protected under the aegis of the law and respectful of the lawful sovereignty of the crown.
While it is our understanding that such rebellion as has been advanced in North America has been enhanced and encouraged by traitorous correspondence and the meddling of hostile foreign powers who seeking to harm the Empire peddle arms and finances to the misguided to undermine Us where open warfare failed... It has ever been the custom of France to seek reconciliation and compromise, be it between the devotees of the Catholic and Reformed Churches or between the interests of our diverse subjects in regards to legitimate grievances and to the end of the greater glory of God and Empire and the peace of God within the same Empire.
To this end, understanding clearly the troubles affecting our subjects in North America as a consequence of the strains of the aforementioned war and noting that despite their rebellion the rebels engaged in such are nonetheless French, and desirous of our clemency and equitable justice, Our Empire is prepared to grant the Provinces of Acadia, Canada, Nouvelle Bretagne and Caroline the status of a dominion within the Empire, in which internal political and fiscal affairs are autonomously undertaken by a local government loyal to the Crown and subject to it in matters of foreign relations and trade.
Likewise understanding the loyalty and zeal of our loyal and most worthy subjects in Louisiana and Florida. We also undertake that we shall not forfeit in the course of any negotiations their rights under the protection and sovereignty of the crown and lawful colonial authorities, and that likewise the local government of the Huron's legitimate autonomy will be sedulously protected by Us. Furthermore we would convey to the subjects in these provinces our intention to provide as much assistance financial and otherwise as is permitted by the circumstances in the greater Empire, in particular guaranteeing the preferable and exclusive market of France to colonial produce free from the competition of foreign goods and the protection of imperial arms from their enemies. Thus we hope that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof or wayward and rebellious correspondence, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal for indeed we charge the armies of france to unreservedly protect our subjects from any unlawful and hostile affronts from the rebellion or from any enemy that would dare assail them.
We pray to the Most Holy Trinity for favourable correspondence from the colonies, and that reason and devotion to the common good of all our subjects may move the rebellion to a solution that does not entail yet more shedding of French blood.
Given at our Court at Versaille on the Eleventh day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety in the fifteenth year of our reign.
GOD save the EMPEROR.
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It has come to pass that many of our subjects in diverse parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by misguided demagogues and aggrieved by the trials effected upon all Our subjects by the recent war with Great Britain, Spain and allies of the same have forgotten the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them and committed various disorderly acts in disturbance of the public peace.
It is Our desire that such disorderly and rebellious conduct cease, and that the obstructions to lawful commerce and the concordant oppression of Our loyal subjects carrying on the same be removed, that by the restoration of serenity within Our Plantations and Colonies the common good and prosperity of all our subjects may be protected under the aegis of the law and respectful of the lawful sovereignty of the crown.
While it is our understanding that such rebellion as has been advanced in North America has been enhanced and encouraged by traitorous correspondence and the meddling of hostile foreign powers who seeking to harm the Empire peddle arms and finances to the misguided to undermine Us where open warfare failed... It has ever been the custom of France to seek reconciliation and compromise, be it between the devotees of the Catholic and Reformed Churches or between the interests of our diverse subjects in regards to legitimate grievances and to the end of the greater glory of God and Empire and the peace of God within the same Empire.
To this end, understanding clearly the troubles affecting our subjects in North America as a consequence of the strains of the aforementioned war and noting that despite their rebellion the rebels engaged in such are nonetheless French, and desirous of our clemency and equitable justice, Our Empire is prepared to grant the Provinces of Acadia, Canada, Nouvelle Bretagne and Caroline the status of a dominion within the Empire, in which internal political and fiscal affairs are autonomously undertaken by a local government loyal to the Crown and subject to it in matters of foreign relations and trade.
Likewise understanding the loyalty and zeal of our loyal and most worthy subjects in Louisiana and Florida. We also undertake that we shall not forfeit in the course of any negotiations their rights under the protection and sovereignty of the crown and lawful colonial authorities, and that likewise the local government of the Huron's legitimate autonomy will be sedulously protected by Us. Furthermore we would convey to the subjects in these provinces our intention to provide as much assistance financial and otherwise as is permitted by the circumstances in the greater Empire, in particular guaranteeing the preferable and exclusive market of France to colonial produce free from the competition of foreign goods and the protection of imperial arms from their enemies. Thus we hope that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof or wayward and rebellious correspondence, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal for indeed we charge the armies of france to unreservedly protect our subjects from any unlawful and hostile affronts from the rebellion or from any enemy that would dare assail them.
We pray to the Most Holy Trinity for favourable correspondence from the colonies, and that reason and devotion to the common good of all our subjects may move the rebellion to a solution that does not entail yet more shedding of French blood.
Given at our Court at Versaille on the Eleventh day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety in the fifteenth year of our reign.
GOD save the EMPEROR.
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