What happened in our parliaments of Pau and Rennes is not relevant to my other parliaments. I have dealt with these two courts as was necessary for my authority, and I do not owe anyone any account of it.I would have no other response to give to the many reproaches made to me on this subject, if their meeting, the indecency of the style, the recklessness of the most erroneous principles, and the affectation of new expressions to characterize them did not manifest the harmful consequences of this system of unity that I have already proscribed, and which they would like to establish as a principle, while daring to put it into practice.I will not allow an association to form in my kingdom that would degenerate into a resistance association, the natural bond of the same duties and common obligations, nor will I allow the introduction into the monarchy of an imaginary body that could only disturb its harmony.The judiciary does not form a body or an order separate from the three orders of the kingdom; the magistrates are my officers, charged with fulfilling the truly royal duty of administering justice to my subjects; a function that binds them to my person and will always make them commendable in my eyes; I am aware of the importance of their services; it is therefore an illusion, which only seeks to shake the confidence, to imagine a plan to annihilate the judiciary and to assume it has enemies at the throne.Their only true enemies are those who, within their own ranks, make them speak a language contrary to their principles, who make them say: - That all parliaments form a single body, distributed into several classes; - that this body, necessarily indivisible, is the essence of the monarchy and serves as its foundation; - that it is the seat, the tribunal, the organ of the nation; - that it is the protector and the essential depositary of its liberty, its interests, its rights; - that it is accountable for this deposit and would be criminal towards it if it abandoned it; - that it is accountable for all aspects of the public good, not only to the king but also to the nation; - that it is the judge between the king and his people; - that, as the guardian of the respective bond, it maintains the equilibrium of government by equally repressing excesses of liberty and abuses of power; - that the parliaments cooperate with the sovereign power in establishing laws; - that they may sometimes, by their own efforts, disregard a law that has been recorded and justifiably consider it non-existent; - that they must oppose an insurmountable barrier to decisions they attribute to arbitrary authority and call illegal acts, as well as to orders they claim are illicit; - and that if this results in a battle of authority, it is their duty to abandon their functions and resign their offices, without their resignations being accepted.To attempt to establish such harmful novelties as principles is to insult the judiciary, to deny its institution, to betray its interests, and to fail to acknowledge the true fundamental laws of the State, as if it were permissible to forget— that sovereign power resides solely in my person, whose character is the spirit of counsel, justice, and reason; - that it is only from me that my courts derive their existence and authority; - that the fullness of this authority, which they exercise only in my name, always remains in me, and that its use can never be turned against me; - that it is only mine to hold the legislative power, without dependence or sharing; - that it is by my sole authority that the officers of my courts proceed, not to form but to record, publish, and execute the law, and that they are permitted to remind me of what is the duty of good and faithful advisers; - that the entire public order emanates from me: that I am its supreme guardian; - that my people are one with me, - and that the rights and interests of the nation, which some dare to make a body separate from the monarch, are necessarily united with mine and rest only in my hands.Finally, this scandalous spectacle of a contradiction rivaling my sovereign power would reduce me to the sad necessity of using all the power I have received from God, to protect my people from the harmful consequences of such undertakings.