Star. — London, England, 1815-11-28 00:00:00

• " • on Were them !ec ns arising from the feet of tits n otresecution of ige Ilith and following Article, of the Tkeaty ht.ty 30,1814, as ell as of the additional Article. df that Ttaa ,..,rglied betweenareat Britain and France, desirini to render c ore efficacious the hispOsitions laid down in those Articles, and t lA viilg for this purpose determined by two separate Conventions, t he c ourse to be followed on both aides for the complete extol• non of the Articles above mentioned, the said two Conventions, Wit as they are Joined to the presenareaty, shall have the same fc . ce and validity as if they were literally inserted in ft. Art. X. AU prisoners of war taken during the hostilities, as ~n 3.4 all hostages who may have been carried off or given, bc restored in the shortest tints possible. The same shall pr os.ereed in respect to the prisoners taken antecedently to the of the 30th May, 1814, and who shall not have been yet t e.loreki. Art. XI. The Treaty of Paris of 30th May, 1814, and the Act of the Congress of Vienna, of June 9, 1815, are con' r ated and maintained in all such of their dispesitioas as have not t u n modified by the clauses of the present Tray,. Art. Xli. The present Treaty, with the Conventions which ~..:ntesed to it, shall be ratified In one single act, and the rati. shaU be exchanged in the tam of two months;or snail ; •• 11 testimony whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries hive it, and have sealed It with their Arms. vo:te at Paris, the 20th of Novetubei., in the year of Grace, 1815. (Signed) " RICHELIEU. " METTERNICH. 64 W ESSIINBEIAO." ,1 Ti ri give T ied di ti the c ca 3 Sl,l res pecti Ctii. , nie in this t to in , ur have pr binary, :heir M h? moi ?c nit. I.lsw li,c pre se AC cord in :ended 4 , 11 l riei I ''-,r Ai Deno " Th -anie m • esti. ni ' ,tern F iraace ; 6 In 1 !lay, 11 511 d, w ussiont ..rms o -uidati rte De ..-.ll;ve «q ) the l 'eland -ell ur . 1 7 VI eaablis Article «T 1 taco a 'a the ' ie rat Itesti ,and "Doi The • hied " Su e icii subs ' it col `l3:ji htls, 44 1. 1 U: ti 'let • •4:3( 1 ink Z'.,:lt %S I M .'..:(12 tte ate lie i lf.r ,p . 6 4 e d : te I liz: Pt t As I'l ADDMONAL ARTICLE. The high contracting Powers, sincerely desiring t , give effect to the measures with which they occu- T ied themselves at the Congress of Vienna, relatively t i the complete and universal Abolition of the Afri ea3 give Trade, and having already, each in his res pective States, prohibited, without restriction, their Coi.,nies and subjects, from taking any pan whatever is this traffic, engage to unite again all their efforts to in , ure the final success of the principles which they have proclaimed in the declaration of the 4th of Fe. binary, 1815, and to concert, without loss a time, by :heir Ministers at the Courts of London and Patis, :fie most efficacious measuresao obtain the entire and l e int.ve Abolition of a traffic so odious and so highly I.lgnarit to the laws of religion and of nature.-- 11,e present additional Article shall have the same ":re and validity, as if it were inserted word for cord in the Treaty cf this day. It shall be compre :tr.ded in the ratification of the said Treaty. 4f fa testimony whereof, the respective Plenipoten. vies have signed it, and atilsed to it the Seal of lir Arms. Dane 2t Pads, Nov. 40th, in the year of Glace, 181S.* (The Sig. dares). " The same day, in the same place, and at the anie moment, the same Treaty, as well as the Con esti ns and Articles annexed to it, was signet be . tet n France and Great Britain—France and Prussia, :lace and Russia. SEPARATE ARTICLE, (lIIRISCD WITII RUSSIA ALONE.) In.execution of the additional Article of the 30th{ lay, 1814, his Most Christian 'Majesty Engages to 511 d, without delay, to Warsaw, one or more Com ussioners, to concur in his name according to the rms of the said Article, in the examination and li -uidation of the reciprocal claims of France and the Ite Duchy of Warsaw, and in all the arrangements •li-A;ve to them. * His Most Christian Majesty recognizes in respect ) the Emperor of Russia, in his quality of King of 'clam', the nullity of the Convention of Bayonne' •ell understood that this disposition cannot receive ty application, but conformably to the principles dished in the Conventions mentioned in the 9th ;trade of the Treaty of this day. "The present separate Article shall have the same fdtce and validity as if it were inserted word for word ;t the Treaty of this day. It shall be ratified, and ie rat;fications shall be exchanged at the same time. testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed to it the seal of their arms. " Done at Paris, Nor. 2ta, year of Grace, lb I S." [Here follow the Signaturca.l The reading being finished, the Minister pro hied : "Such are the stipulations which the Ministers of King have believed they could no longer refuse subscsihe. The engagements which France has contracted, are as an inevitable result of the ex "l3:Jin.iry circumstances in which, by the fatality Is, she rinds herself placed at this Jay. " i a different situation, and in other times, we but present to the Chamber one of those acts, ./enerally uniform series of which composes the tvics! body of the public law of nati:ns. We make it our duty to discuss all the Articles of And we should take pleasure in explaining all the ''"es of them; but it is not the same with the ~. 4tlon which we have to present to you—it is nay, it must be affected, by the situation in 41 each of the parties is respectively placed; as tie interests and considerations which result from itte of things unparalleled in history, unique in its, 're, and which must necessarily be so in its con if-nces. ' After five and twenty years of troubles and clis tlY [Las, which in an uninterrupted series of signs, conquests, and destruction, incessantly Is 'ed, have, without distinction, compromised the 4:cal exiAence, and threatened even the social or liution of all States, the restoration of the legiti e monarchy s,f France had. been the prelude to . Peac e of the World; our independence, our tali , our external consideration, and our real ret 'ce% had not suffered any national alteration. lie Sovereigns oflurope felicitated themselves oh the happy tectbsciliatinn Which had jbst re-esta blished between France and other nations that con fonnity of principles, that reciprocity of maxims and views, become by a happy concert the most encou raging pledge of its tranquillity and of the prosperity of all. II The Work of public Felicity was advakcing daily towards its Perfection; when an alarming crisis tame all on a sudden to suspend and arrest its progress. 66 Almost an entire army, detached from its l.tw ful Sovereign, who alone had a right to dispose of it, separated by the perfidy of some Chiefs and by an infatuation (entrainment) without parallel, from the nation, in the boson of which it had been formed— an army whose courage was employe.' to impose an useqier upon France and an oppressor upon Europe, proviated the struggle which was to bring upon itself, and upon us; all the disasters and all the calamities ,which have followed it. " The King as Sovereign . , and France as a State, have not ceased to oppose this guilty movement, but ,by a combination of which, perhaps, there is no ex ample; whilst the militaryfaction was deaf to the voice of the one, and betrayed the sentiments of the other, both were reserved to suffer, both from the efforts of attack and those of resistance, and by the brilliant successes and the prodigious reverses which have dia l- raeterssed this short and memorable campaign. ff Such are the events which have withdrawn its some manner the actual destiny of the State from the action of its Government; it has Seen obliged to corn. pound not only with the pretensions but with the alarm, which this fatal rebellion has excited in Eu rope, and unable to conceal from itself, or to balance the incontestible superiority which demanded painful, though in a great measure temporary sacrifices, it has not been able to see in these necessary sacrifices any thing but a means of arriving at that period of hope to which all France aspires, and which will per. mit her at length to enjoy in peace add security her permanent advantages. " Far be from us, Gentlemen, the imprudent thought of forming for the present, or of throwing into the future the seeds of an impolitic and danger. ous discontent. " It is from this Chamber, in which the benevo lent •oice of the King, aad his enlightened discefn tient, have united all who in the highest classes of the State have appeared to him proper to represent the wisdom, the dignity. the maturity of the national character; it is from this Assembly, I say, that it is fitting to make France hear severe truths, and which cannot be revealed to her on a more solemn occasion. " France has cherished for half a century, the de. sire, legitimate in its principle as in its object, of seeing the abuses reformed which had been succes sively introduced in the system of her internal policy. This reform, which desires suitably expressed, were beginning to obtain of a paternal and wise Govern• ment, and which of its own accord met, on this point, the enlightened opinion of the public; this reform, easy for the Government, was impossible to be ef fected by numerous assemblies, where the desire of good cannot always be tempered by prudence; where attempts ventured upon at random, too often outstrip the slow aria sure progress of opinion : hence obsta cles and unhappy mistrusts which must produce, and in fact has produced hatted, resistance, and fatal re• sentments. " The weakening, the ruin of power, the oblivion of religion, the contempt of the laws, the despolia tion of social ties, have been in France the immediate consequences of this presumptuous enterprize. A general alarm was immediately spread abroad ; it has provoked, as might have been foreseen, wars without, and without measure. France, set up as a mark (m hunt) to all nations, has developed an ex traordinary energy—all States have suffered by her efforts ; she has carried almost every where her vic torious arms but it must be owned, wherever she has vanquished, she has exacted fear, provoked ven geance, and kindled resentment, which only time, great moderation, and a persevering and invariable prudence will be able to appease. "• You have been witness of the explosion of these resentments, when the second appearance of the m .n, fatal to France, who had succeeded in raising fer himself a power which he thought indestructible from the terror which revolutionary principles and the courage of the French Armies bad every where spread, when, Europe, I say, at this terrible appearance, had reason to fear seeing herself once more subdued by soldiers whom the same delusion led away, and who seemed animatedby the same enthusiasm, a common instinct of preservation, instantaneously concentrated on the same object all the fears, all the hatred, all the interests of the alarmed nations. The rivalry of po litics was forgotten, all the products of agriculture, of commerce, all kinds of property have been offered in sacrif.ce, all ages and sexes, all classes of the popu lation have been led away by the same impultr, and more than a nyllion of soldiers precipitated them selves upon our fruntiers. •I Without doubt such a display of force was not necessary to put down a party wl►:ch was far hum being seconded in France (as it was suppr.serl to be in foreign countries) by the National will, by the assent of public opinion, And we are but too well au thorised to tell foreign nations, that have been in an error concerning the true extent of the forces that they had to combat, and that at the very mi,ment when faction poured forth its forces, the French peo iple was united by its wishes to its legitimate Sovereign, • • • but ha efforts ha ve been paralyid by pereersity of those who have bt:tr.,yed it; rend the generous men who from all Par.s of the Monarchy were preparing the ruin of the usurped pow. r, not having been able to beitin their operas ions before those of the allied ar 'hies, nor to act with the same promptitude and the same efficacy, true (the Allies), have considered the fall of the Tyrant as the immediate eft ct of their victory; and France, by this combination of unhappy circumstances, thus sees herself exposed to answer for all the sacrifices, losses, and injuries that have been sustained, though they may have been the result of an exaggerated alarm. 46 The extreme rigour of this principle must have , been tempered in its application by the equity and the nrignanimity of the Sovereigns; but there exist considerations which may have led their determine tion, and which it is indispensable to know. " Sovereigns have an influence on the destiny of , nations by the exercise of their power, and nations on their side influence the councils of Sovereigns by the powerful action of opinion : this action acquires new force when the opinion of one nation is strengthened by the agreement of many others, and that it has become by the nature of events one of the most effi cacious causes of their triumphs ; if the remembrance of violent proceedings, of levity, alarms of evils long suffered and often renewed, is joined to the anima tion of success, these Sovereigns themselves are invo luntarily led into measures repugnant to their perso nal sentiments, and in spite of themselves doubtless ; these determinations savour of the passions which their personal generosity disclaims. ' 44 I have thought it my duty, Gentlemen, to pre lice, by these observations, the communication of the ttvo Conventions which are accessary to the Treaty, and which it remains to me to read to you : , g The burthens imposed upon us are heavy, and the distrust which is shown towards us is well calcu lated to affect us; but reflect. Gentlemen, on the fatal impression which must have been made on asto nished and irritated Europe, by the unhappy catas trophe of which France has jest been the victim, and still more by the facility with which the seditious have succeeded in triumphing over their own country " Reflect, that the times in which we have the misfortune to live, immediately succeed a fatal period, in which, for '25 years, the respect due to alliances, to the engagements of peace, fidelity to promises, good faith, probity, the basis formerly so revered of the security of states, have been shaken to their very fouudations. Observe, that the habitual, and, as it were, systematic violation of all the moral rules of politics, is, as it were, inherent in the very principles of revolutions, a terrible and fatal principle, which has been unhappily professed in France, with so much eclat, and so recently. Think, in short, that these multiplied infractions of all that is sacred among men, have caused by turns the unhappiness of all people, and that the greatest of our misfortunes is, of being still, after all our disgraces, and the useful lesson which you' ' wish to draw from them, an object of distrust and of fear to all those, upon whom we have exer cised rights which fortune has put it in their power to exercise in their turn upon us. " Forced to submit to the evil which PROYIDENCR sends us, let us fun our eyes upon the King, whom Ileaven has restored to us; let us share his grief; let us imitate his noble and affecting resignation: he is' 'personally the object of the confidence and the vene ration of the Nations and Kings; his magnanimous constancy has conquered for us the friendship of the Sovereigns; this friendship, if it is aided by our pru dence, by our moderation, and by our fidelity in ful filling the engagements we have contracted, will ac quire us the confidence and affection of all nations. " We have sufficiently aspired to, we have suffi ciently obtained the fatal glory which is gained by the courage of the armies, and by the bloody trophies of their victories ; there remains a better glory for us to acquire, let us force other nations, notwithstanding the evil that the Usurper has done them, to be afflicted at that which they do us; let us force them to confide in us, to know us well, themselves to use us frankly and for ever. " I am going, Gentlemen, to read to you the two accessaky Conventions, one of which regulates the payment of the annual sums which are to complete the discharge of the indemnity stipulated in the 4th Article of the principal Treaty, and the other deter mines the form and manner of the execution of the Stli Article, relative to the temporary maintenance of a foreign army on our frontiers. [Here the Minister read the Conventions No. 11. and B. These arc the two Conventions which have already been given in the STAR from the German Papers.] " To the Military Convetlon is annexed, a tarif of the rations to be given to the troops, the allowance to Officers according to their rank, and several dis positions relative to the hospitals, posts, douanes, 3cc. " No. IV. is called a Convention, concluded in cor.formity with the 9th Ankle of the Municipal Treaty, and relative to the examination and liquida tion of the tlaims against the French Government.— ThiS Convention fills seven columns of the Meeitter, in 2ti Articles. No. V. is a Convention for the examination and liquidation of the claims of the subjects of his Bri- I4IIIIIC Majesty upon the French Government, con cluded acunlias to the 9th Article of the principal - - Treaty. This Convention is in 18 Atitler, in fon. columns of the Moniitur. The reading these documents being finished, the Minister continued is follows : " After Ion! ! And continued discussions, in which, deinands still more exorbitant had been pro:lnce:l to tic, and at last withdrawn, those whic% have been communicated to you, hav , . been prescnted as an uhhatnutr, and the nt orgent and imi.erions ennsi &rations have imposed it on us as a taw, to subset ibe to them. " 6 These demands are certainly the most burthen. some, the hardest. the most painful part of the stipu lation thet we have had to disenss ; anil it is ennngh to know that they have been proposed t nenc!imen, to be jestitied in the conclusion, that indispensable necessity done could induce them to st,sielhe to them. ", lint it after the ez on,:le of the Kate, whom we heard, Gentlemen, at the opening of your S!esioe, with that love of frankness and goodness which 's the most striking features of his noble character, express to you the profettrd affliction with which his heart is penetrated, if I s:ty we may he permitted to give an account b Tore you, and in the face of ;.trope, of the impressions which we may have felt, I will say, that arrived at this period of tile neeecia tion, the most thorny that ever exercised tee zeal, and tried the devotion of the servants of an unhappy King, atter having pal:agreed all the means of discs.- sion and resistance which cold be seggested by red. son and by that political foresight, which in rod as well as in bad fortune, ought to be the constaat guide of the conduct of Cabinets, seeing on the one part in the disposition of the Ministers of tt.e Powers a determination irrevocably filed, sang on • the other hand, that the present crisis brceight inces santly into action, in the whole extent of France, the principle of an oppression, of an impoverishment, of an irritation, and in short, of a series of devastations which seemed daily to increase and to acqeire new strength, we judged that if we suffered this crisis to be indefinitely prolonged. the fate of France was at stake, even the fate of those who have imposed upon us such great sacrifices, and perhaps the destiny of social order in Europe. s' And it is in the prospect of so many dangers, that sacrificing without hesitation all our rerignancee, we have accepted, in the name of the King, in the name of the country, the conditions which have bees laid before you." The Minister, on ending his discourse, observed, for the information of the Chamber, •' that is no secret conditions accessary to those which he has just communicated." The Minister, on leaving the tribune. deposed cn the bar-Ist, the Process which he had just read ; the Treaty concluded at Paris. Stith Islay, 1814. The Chamber of Peers, after having given an Act to the Ministers of the King of the painful corn. munication which they have just ne.tde to it in his Majesty's name, decrees, on the proposal of one of its Members, that the President shall wait neon his Majesty, to express to him, in the name of the Cham bers, its love, its fidelity, its unalterable devotion, its zeal in seconding all the efforts which circumstances require—lastly, its resigaation, entirely continmable to that of the paternal heart of his Majesty. The pieces communicated to the Clamber and the Minister's speech are ordered to be printed. The Chamber adjourns to Tuesday, the 28th. instant. The Ministers made the same communication to the other Chamber.—(Moniteur, Njv. '26 ) PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY A I"FWELVE O'CLOCK: Reduced 60f f —Cons money 6111—fur acc. 61141 4 par Cent 75t--5 per Crut. 910—Bond. 6a. 7s pr. Own. 153 pr.—Do.pay. 16f pr.—Exch. Bills Sato 61. pr. Lord CASTLEREAGH, hourly expected from Paris, had not arrived in Town when this Paper was put to press. Mr. Secretary CooKE, of the Foreign Department, arrived at Dover on Sunday, from Paris, atter an ab sence of fifteen months, during which time he has, with his wonted industrj and ability, been employee. on Official business of the highest importance at the different seats of Government in Germany, in Italy, and in France. Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at CsrltonHouse, which was numerously attended. The Public offices and Theatres were last night splendidly illuminated in honour of Peace; and the streets; till a late hour, were crowded with delighted spectators, who hailed with shouts of rational joy the return of tranquillity to emancipated Europe. So. merset House had the words—" Europe in Peace's Britain in Glory," amidst a number of devices. In the City, the Guildhall, Bank, India House, and Mansion House attracted particular attention ; the latter never was lighted more brilliantly. In consequence of the Peace, the Enterprize Ten der, off the Tower, is ordered to be paid off; and to 'be sold. _ _ _ Fate.—•This - mnrning, at use o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at an umbrella-maker's in .High Holborn, between Featherstune-buildings and Brownlow street. We are sorry to add, that in one hour sir houses in front were entirely burnt to the ground. Two of the houses were of wood and plaster, and of course greatly hastened the conflagration. Two small houses were also consumed. The inhabitants hid no time to save any part ef their goods, but (•vi:!t the exception of Mr. NUTTING, the umbitlla-m:.!:er, who is missing, and supposed to be burnt) tin lives were lost. Several of the inhabitants who es.:..ptd, were unable to save even their clothes: A hoe. le in ot.e of the houses burnt, had been deliee;-..d o f a ch Li only an hour before the fire broke out. but b.►th we :e safely removed. The houses burnt down are as f low :-1. Nutting. umbrell.i-maker ; '2. Phiuips, ironmonger; 3. Hopkinz, toy-shop; 4. Norris, ui holsterer ; 5. Wonllet. hatter ; G. A Jew's sale shop. Part of Hand-court, in rear, was at one time ua fire, but a strung party wall prevented the further progress of the flames. The dead body of a female laid out for interment, was removed from one of the hours when enveloped in flames, and deposited in the watch.house. THE BRISTOL PEDRSTRIAN—Mr. SToITEs completed his fifty miles at seven o'clock on Sunday eve.fulg. Yesterday morning he started at s►s o'clock, and at fifty-eight minutes pan four in the afternoon lie cotter pitied forty-one miles, and was then resting. E I