Excerpt from History of the Reigns of Louis XVIII, Vol. 2 of 2: And Charles XMinisters asked for these exceptional powers as a mark of confidence. But who are the Ministers, asked Con stant, but men who have already executed the most severe laws, with complaisance and zeal, for that very military despot whom they now denounce? It would be some thing. If those on the ministerial bench could come forward with pure hands and say, that they had never been guilty of an arbitrary act, nor signed a cruel order, nor encon raged spies, nor acted the part of informer in order to exile and imprison patriots.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.