The Duke of Otranto answered this letter by the following declaration:
"Gentlemen.—The committee of government having dissolved itself on the 7th of July, every act emanating from it posterior to its message to the chambers is null, and ought to be considered as not having taken place.
"Your remonstrance against the article inserted in the Moniteur of the 8th of July is just. I disavow it, as totally unfounded, and published without my authority.
(Signed) The Duke of Otranto."[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 95: The words recorded by M. de Lascases.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 96: At the same moment Louis XVIII. entered Paris. It was another remarkable singularity, that the King entered the capital the first time on the same day, on which the Emperor went on board the brig, that conveyed him to Porto Ferrajo.[Back to Main Text.]