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r i GF VAN PAPERS. FRANKFORT, AUGUST 12. Preparations : , ve making for assembling the Diit of the Germanic Federation, which is to meet at Frankfort on the In of September. Deliberations on the affairs of Germany will be resumed there. HANOVER, AUGUST n. report is in circulation that the Kingdom of Ha. Roder will have Viceroy, who will reside in this city. it is likewise said, that Hanover will have an Order of Knighthood of its own, for the reward of distin guished services. WARSAW, AUGUST s. The Polish Deputation co his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, our King, has departed for Paris. VIENNA, AUGUST 16. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROAI PARIS, DATED AUGUST 10. " The arrogance of the Bonapartists is without bounds ; but why should they act otherwise ? If one of them jostles an Officer of the Allies in the Palace Royal, he quietly walks on without-murmur ing, thus justifying the old proverb, that to make a German angry you must give him two boxes on the car, and if you want to put him in a violent passion you most give him lour—nor is this all, whenever the anger of Providence has thrown down these Frenchmen , our t ulers lift them up with the greatest pity and the' most affecting politeness, accusing themselves of their awkwardness in having run over them. It is so natural and hum me to let them, though vanquished, pass forconqucrors ; and th...y are conquerors, for the so quest with arms is only the roughest kind, and in the war of the understanding the diplomatic leaders ate alway - s beaten, howe%er brilliant may be victories gained by the Generals. In this Fouche is a master, and knows so well now to command his people, that it is amusing to see him. " Gruner, with a few assistants and little money, h employed to establish a kind of counter.police against him, who can dispose of half a nation, and oi the treasures of so many robbers, who are honoured and feared—he must laugh when he sees such nma sures, and hears the half dozen clerks so busy about 1:13). The King has nothing to do but to distribute the order s of the Holy Ghost and the Lily, which is d.lne so liberally t: - at the last is given to shoemakers, tailors, and boys .1 ten years of age. The Boor bonists still retain all the miterer of old times, and so do not st e the abyss which their attentive servants arr digging under their feet." EXIIIACT l'itoM A PRIVATE LETTER FROM! BALTDIO4 OF THZ 2D OF JULY. " Here, as every where else in the United States, there is an ahs.tlute schism between the French of the Roya;i:t party, aid those who adhere to Napoleon ; th:y h lee even gtae so far as to fight several duels. With ti ese patties the Americans side, according as they are the friends of either. The public paper fflat favour tie one or the ocher of these partie the effervescence, and take no pains to aliay the u tions among the fcreigners. The liberty of the pi -ss is can icni to an extreme in the United States, and it is the papers that in s ate measure regulate the steps of the authorities, or, at leass point out to them such or such a measure which it v:ould be proper to adopt.— The American papers are the oracles of the people, and the thermometer of then passions. It seems that the Brntapartists are in this country superior both in number and boldness. They do not hesitate to bestow upon their ad versaries the most opprobrions epithets, who in their turn call them soi-dirardi. Many Americans execrate the white cockade as much as the King's enemies do, and this animosity is carried so far, that even children are encouraged by their parents to run and hoot after dyne who wear it. White cockade has thus become a term of reproach in the mouth of children; he who vicars this distinctive mark of royalism, if he should attempt to tike refuge in a house, would not be re ceive,t, at least by any democrat, and even a fede ralist would liard:y venture upon an act of humanity to save from a mob of children the person exposed. Frenchman, known as a royalist, would not dare to go with the white cockade to the suburbs of The town where he resides, without being under continual apprehensions for his safety; he passes with fear a French coffee-house, where he perceives a groupe at the door ; in a word, the citizen of France, whose re ligion is not that of his common fellow-countrymen, has nothing to hope from them in the United States; he may at his ease vegetate and die there—it is an enemy less, and that is all. " Th.! French Consuls themselves dare not display the trial k which ought to make their character re spected, when it is the Royal Government that they represent. But it they adhere to that of the usurper, the tti-coloured cockade is a passport to such as re sen.l)le. them ; they have no kind of correctional police to exercise against those who disturb the peaceable titizen, and their jut' , action •has. no known extent hitherto, since the rethip of the King in 1814. " The Consuls sent to the-United States by Louis XVIII. having le :rne I before they felt France, the return of Bopaparte, have not dared to make them selves oificiZy known. " The whit- flag of the frigate that arrived at Bal., timore from Guadaloupe, was changed for the tri• cnlused flag without any cllEctilty. Thus then when; those in autoority are guC• , ,- of the first infidelity to, S .vereign. the conduct of the people is pointed on: to thkm, and rebellion is the order of the day. " It remains to he seen what measures the King of France will take to make his autholity respected in America ; all will depend on the choice of the Am bassador." • The private letters from Paris state, that in come - - qucnce of the amount required by the Allies to de lta) tine expences of the war, arrangement* arc making in France to raise a loan of 609 millions of Francs, (nearly ,E21,0u0,000). but the Government being -trnwi!ling to hazard so hold a prop skim', it is ex pected to be deterred till the two Chambers assemlslel It is said, that to obviate all objection respecting se curity for the repayment of the loan, it has been pro pelled, that the Allied Sovereigns should themselves btcome geiaratets, and that this pr. jfct has been lis tened t« w ith attention, but on the express and indis pensible c edition, that, eertaht duties and imposts, conititioing the avenue . of Irtitrice, shall - be placed its a seem ity in their hands, aria that their own Corn- Intss:onert shall be employed to superiutend and re: dive them: " • " " 57',.11 - E PAPERS. REPORT ' TO TIIE KING ON THE SITUATION OF FRANCE, AND ON TILE RELATIONS WITh TILE FOREIGN ARMIES.' IT FOUCIIII I MINISTER 01' TILE GENERAL POLICE. 46 SIRE—The devastation of France is at its height. Every thing is ruiued, wasted and destroyed, as if we had neither to hope for peace nor composition. The inhabitants fly before undisciplined soldiers—the forests are filled with unhappy beings who seek in diem a last asylum—the crops are perishing on the ground ; in a short time despair will no longer listen to the voice of any authority, and this war, under taken for the triumph of moderation and justice, will equal in barbarity those deplorable and too celebrat ed invasions, the memory of which is handed dawn in history with honer. 46 The Allied Powers have too loudly proclaimed i their doctrine to allow us to doubt their magnanimity. What advantage can be derived from so many useless evils ? Shall there be no longer any bond of connec tion between the nations ? Do they wish to retard the reconciliation of Europe with France? One of the views of the Sovereigns seem.d to be to secure the Government of your Majesty, and yet its autho rity is incessantly compromised by the state of impo tency to which it is reduced by them. Its power is even rendered odious by the evils of which it seems to be the accomplice, because it is unable to prevent them. Your Majesty signed as ally the treaty of the '2sth March, and yet the most direct war is carried on against you. 44 'Die Sovereigns are acquainted with the degree of intelligence possessed by the French—no reason ing, no description of faults, no kind of propriety escape the penetration of that people---4hough humi liated by necessity, they resign themselves to it with courage. The only evils which. they cannot support are those which they cannot comprehend. Has not your Majesty done every thing for the interest of the Powers and for Peace which depended on your efforts ? Bonaparte has not only been d;spossessed, but he is in the hands of the Alliesi his family is ' equally in their power, as it iswithin their ter, itorics. The Chambers have been dissolved. Scent dune will be no men in public functions, but those who may be depended on and friends to peace. - 11 The Boaapartists were dreaded, though none of them can any long:r be dangerous. Your Maje;.ty, however, has on this steij(ct . granted every thing that could be granted or renewed by way of example.— If after. vanquishing France they pretend that it ought still to be punished, this langwe, which ought not to have been expected after the promises of the Sovereigns, requires that they should weigh well all the con:equences. For-what do they wish to punish us ? 16 it to expiate the ambition of one man and the evils which it has produced ? We were ourselves the first victims, and we have 'twice deli vered Eurote from them. It is not in foreign coun tries, but in France, that terror has constantly trou bled his repose notwithstanding his power. " He was never able to render the war national; instruments are not accomplices. Who does not know that the person sell., ext.iclses tyranny finds always in the multitude a sufficient force to make himself obeyed ? 46 We are even reproached with his successes : they were compensated by a number of reverses. What image did the announcement of his victories holdup to . us, but that of the conscriptions which perished and closed their short career, only to make new con scriptions which were again to be mowed down..in battle ! We were saved,' like the rest of Europe, by the same mournings and the same calamities. 46 The army is submissive to your Majesty, but it still exists. We ought to explain 'ourselves on this subject without any reserve. What remains of the army is now only attached to peace and the public tranquillity. Its state of re-union, tar from being an evil, prevents the evil trcm extending. The return of the soldiers into the bosom of the people will be attended with no danger when the conclusion of the war shall allow the pe - sple the means of resuming their occupations and their habits, but before that time, and so long as the fermentation is not extin guished nor obedience established, the mingling the soldiers with the citizens would be only throwing new inflammable matter into the flames. 66 It is grievous to think that this state of things originates in the error of some Cabinets, in the judg ments formed by them on the situation of France.— The fulfilr.-.ent of all their desires depends on them selves alone. There ate no sacrifices to which an enlightened people will not readily submit, when they see the object fer Which they are exacted, and finding them the mons of avoiding greater calami ties. Such is the disposition, such the wish of every Frenchman. " But if they, on t h e other hand, wish to obtain preparatory intasnres tor• unknown plans, they de. mind a thing irupos3ible. There is no Each thing as blind obedience in !•r.tnce. The Powers have not yet published any of their designs; no one knows what idea he ought to entertain of the Government, c•; the authority of your Majesty, or of the future.— Anxiety and suspicion are at their height, and every thing appeal - 1 a subject of terror in the midst of this obscurity. But a single word would change every dispcnition ; there would no longer be an obstacle to an/ measures, if they made a part of a general plan wnich should altogether afford some conciliation to " Let the Sovereigns then deign to explain them. selves. Why will they persist in reio.ing this act of justice ? Let them deign to bring forward all their demands as so many conditions of the repose of the nations, and let our concession to their views make part of a reciprocal treaty, and there will no longer be any difficulties. " The Sovereigns do not, perhaps, sufficiently re mark the circle of embarrassments and obitacles in which they place both us and themselves. We require good order to second them, and their explanation to re.estahlish good order. Are they desirous of sacri. faces winch require repartitions and prompt obedience? It is only requisite for this pu , pose, that the authority of your Majesty should be lull and entire, nothing is possible, nothing can be executed, it peace does not exist in reality, at least provisionally ; and far from being in a state of peace, we experience all the Cala mities of war. • " Let , llbe Sovereigns bestow-at least some.attenti• n '' .to their own interests. When every thing shall be ruined and devastated around their armies, how will they find means of subsistence ? Is there no danger in dispersing the troops ? All arms will not be taken away, and arms of all sorts -are murderoui in the hands of despair. With respect to warlike contribu tions, what new sacrifice can be. demanded, where every thing has already been destroyed by the sol - With respect to armed force, When once dis cipline is relaxed, it is not easily re-established. " Germany is far from expecting, after a glorious campaign, to receive back her soldiers, corrupted by a spirit of licentiousness, rapine, and pillage. " This war ought to have been in every respect distinguished from others, instead of imitating and surpassing in France the excesses against which the Sovereigns took up arms—Will their glory even be satisfied ? On our part we have dune whatever they desired ; and on their part every thing which had been announced to the world is fulfilled, one point excepted. What a contrast between what is actually passing and their solemn promises I This is the age of reason and justice, and the public opinion never had more power. Who tan explain such excessive evils after such promises of moderation ? The pre ' sent war was undertaken to serve the cause of legiti macy. Is this manner of carrying on war calculated to render the authority of your Majesty more sacred? 41 They were desirous of punishing the individual who sported with the calamnies of nations, and they inflict on France the same violence, the sam' inho- , manity. It was thought by all Europe that t'.e entry of the Sovereigns into Paris would put an eal,i to C:•.. war. What will Is- thought on learning that it was then only that the excesses of oppression commenced without combats, and witlren resistance ? The evils which we are reproached with having• inflicted on others, were never so great ; they never took place when the use of arms had no object ; and though it were trite, that we had given the first examples ut such an abuse of force, ought they to imitate what they impute to us as a crime ? 44 It is known in the North, it is known in Prussia, that ciur want of'mnderation gave birth to energy and public spirit in our enemies. 'There will no longer he any end to the evils of humanity, if mutual vengeance. are to become the rule of war, fur nations never die. 44 Your Majesty will deign to permit me to insist on me final consideration—So long as France shalt have any thing to preserve, by the hope of maintain ing its integrity as a nation, no sacrifice will b. and all the plans of an equitable policy may be executed ; but the day in which the inhabitants shall have lost every thing, in which their ruin shall be consummated, a new order of things—a new se ries of events will be seen to arise, because there will no longer be either Government or obedience. • A blind fury will take the place of resignation. They will only seek counsel in despair ; on both sides there will be ravage—pillage will make war on Every step of the foreign soldiers will be marked with blood. France will be less ashamed of destroy ing herself than in allowing herself to be destroyed by others ;—the moment approaches ;--already the national spirit takes this frightful direction ;—the most opposite parties are blending into one—La Vendee itself unites its colours wito those of the army. In this excess of evils what line of conduct remains to your Majesty but that of removal? The public functionaries in the cam: manner will quit their places, and the armies cf the Sovereigns will then be at issue with individuals freed from An social ties. s , A nation of SO millions of inhabitants may un doubtedly disappear from the face of the earth, but in this war of man to man, ;he oppressed and tlwir vanquishers will lie t.gether in more than one grieve. ,(Signed) Foucfi We have also r,-ceived the Answer of the French Ministers to the Otlicial Note addressed - to them by timed the Allied Powers, nem- three weeks past, in which they appoint Military Governors, and order their troops to be dispersed over the Provinces. ANSWER OF TIIE FRENCH MINISTERS TO THE OFFICIAL NOTE OF THE ALLIED SOVEREIGNS. • N The King's Ministers have received the Official Note addressed to them by the Ministers of the Al lied Powers. The latter wish to persuade the King's Ministers that the measures which they have com manded to the Government of Paris, are such as may contribute to diniiniai the exactions of the war, and to re-establish the Royal Authority. The King's Ministers, however, unfortunately, cannot regard these measures in that point of view. They owe it to tl,e Sovereigns, to France, and to themselves, to explain themselves tin this subject. The Sovereigns, Jrubtless, are the masters, and can do whatever they desire, but at any tee let them not say, that in taking every step calculated to ruin the cause of his Majesty, they wish to confer any favour on him. There is al ready in France too much odium and ill will against the Bout bons, to render it necessary still more to revolt every heart by making the nation experience the greatest losses and the deepest humiliations. What humiliation can be more afflicting than to see in a time of peace all the departments subjected to your Military Governors—what misfortune more to be de. precated than the dispersion of your troops over the whole face of the country ? The Sovereigns declared that they only made War against Napoleon, and yet all their measures belie their words,• since at the pre sent moment, when the war ought to be finished, it is only about to commence. The present position of France is so much the more afflicting, as were war openly declared (which it is'not), it is utterly impos sible that she can suffer in a greater degree all its evils, and all its horrors. Every where, wherever the armies are (always excepting the English), pil lage, fire, rape, and murder, have been carried to their fullest extent; avarice and vengeance have left nothing for the officers or soldiers to desire. To speak with freedom, they exceed even the atrocities of which the French armies have been too often justly accused. The measures, however, alluded to in your Note can have no other results than to extend the limits ot this devastation. The armies spread themselves iri our Provinces, and all the horrors which we have depicted follow in their train. `;:u.li are the sentiments ot the King's Ministers on the new Deem, and their answer to the appeal which f ben made to them. " They have the honour w silt:oo6hr themselves, " With the highest conlideratian, " TA il.ka RAND, " 1 1. 0116116" • s • -.' , FROM ?RE RNENNISII MERCUR r. THE SITUATION OF THE WORLD IN THE REGIW NING OF AUGUR r. When the measure of folly had become full, and the wisdom of men in the councils of the mighty had been miserably brought to shame, a higher power it its anger took up the sword, and soon repaired whet the others had been long in destroying. They at e witnesses of the wonderful things which have Lee,. done; but we have heard, and we have read, time they . asciibe all to their own wisdom, and divir.! ; among themselves the fame which does not belieiz to them. The fury of the Sovereign Judge has again poured out against the French. With us vices ceive on the earth like worms ; but with them Iniquity !mightily holds up her head, and, grinding tlee teeth like tigers, were they struck in pieces by 'h. first bolt of his wrath. Their measure has been dealt scut to them ours is written in the book. The good natured resignation of the people, the truth and fain. which are yet alive within them, and which foe: now again shown themselves in so affecting a rne . ncr, have alone served to avert the judgment. Tie leng wavering of the scales, however, clearly provel how much the sin was divided, and the judgme doubtful. N'ipoleon has come to a miserable end. Like re ;; woe in the pit, he has tamely, and without oppf m i lion, allowed the rope to be fasecned mind his ire:: A wounded vanity wished to preserve seniethinglikt :tignity for him, by having him treated like a Sere reign at sea : hut even this was net cd : he was again hurnieied in the dust, after havieg c.o - riesl the Irrce to nearly its former height. His assaciates have shared the same fate., ::10 the French, who were possessed by the same vita, her( met with a like humiliatioe. They began their i;p:. p ir ations with cunning end prudent activity ; the) fought with determinetion and valour; hut as thee onset was baffled by the film and cool valour of d e e enemies, then- whole eruktuie fell a; one blow to tL. ground. It we: to be wished and hoped that the Prince: who before entered Paris with their armies to iiere duce Louis XVIII. from a feeling of dignity, wind,: net have a second time trod that sinful tit ) , the tourcc. and beginning ot all mischief. It would have teen - berterrgarbwineired they . sommerteed — rht Ohre. judgment in Germany, and have acted as judges an.: niadirfOls- - -isitivien Louis and the Fienefepeople ; they ought never to have allowed him to step in mediator between themselves and that nation. The Princes, however, have not been pleased to act in this manner, and it does not belong to as t: examine into the grounds by which they ate 4:lter mined. It is not, however, to he concealed, t h at diei coaduct has given rise to much mischief. As in tle proceedings at Frankfort, all the pretended right: anti the order of things established by Napoleon in Ger many were acknowledged, the possibility of a con tution and unity in this country were irrecovcralili. lost. In like manner, its claims on France ate in great meesuregiven up, as Louis XVIII. has been second time introduced by force, and they hive nc. begun to negcsciate with him till after restoring r. him the possession of his Throne. We shall Ice lett in the lurch as we were before et Paris, and af te: xard; in Vienna. In the first place, the capital has by thi; meat again escaped castigation. In it all the treast:res the world are hid, in it sat all the Marshals and oche: sinners guarding the millions which they yeeezei from other nations, and which, distrestful of a cadge of fortune, they chiefly kept in ready money. It A4s not thundred millions, nor even five hundred, whic ought to have been demanded ;—the punislatere should have borne some proportion to the mischief. The open country, generally poor and needy, is, ei the mean time, severely oppressed, tee robbers see all their treasures safe, and one or two r: most in foreign countries by toe ostentation of ar4iti, teach a lesson to the people, that no trade is held i: such honour, or treated with such leniency, as stn• cersf it robbery. The French have now recovered from the nishment, and have well and quickly betnoupe themselves of their salvation—the work of tr. .r ; beration has already been successfully begun. nee are no longer intent on establishing this or tha: - tical principle, or obtaining this or that Con i steatite their great concern is to get quit of the fureign anni: with which diay are over-run. On this point al ties are agrcee, their rage will soon restore to the' the courage of which their misfortunes have depr,ve them ; and their natural vanity (of this our Rule; may rest assured) will replace them in a threatenir. • attitude.. They recalled Napoleon, in their reliance on i 1 talents of generalship; but it was soon discoverc that there was an incurable division in the nation which broke its force, and to which they ascrioe: their overthrowe—eAfter his misfortune, they aga' expelled him ; and Louis XVIII. became a welcose head to the wiser part of the.nation, u in his stead. brought the Royalists in a mass along with him ; An , as he, by way of securing the Revolutionary Part, threwhimielf into the arms of #ouche, that poi , have gained in him a much more flecible instituter than the old self-willed Tyrant—and all their emir' yours are now directed to explain this to the sober. and the whole of the remaining party, who flee: ca• into the wildest rage on learning it, that all diesior' May be forgotten in the great plan of France. Such is 'the present perplexed game. The Ein' hardly pressed between naked swords drawn for has and against him, his capital surrounded with center that at once announce his power and his impoteeci To party rage an abomination. the hatred ot tf people, a welcome instrument in the hands of cra ft` wickedness, he cannot take . root in a 'Wien Or: . has forgotten his family, and he vacillates an elet` of compassion between friends who are his elector and enemies who affect to be his friends ; howl the part of the grateful ally and the ungrate ful Frei Prince, backwards and forwards without any 01 hi security than that, which he derives from the tdre'g armies which are destroying his country, and mu _ o necessarily strengthen the hatred of his pope's . tow al ,, him. This people, grown up in li centi ouseess,w . n" the oppreseiun of tyranny has made even more obi f nate, and of which the head has been turned by tr, sudden revolutions which it has of late witaesodt T mains like an unruly beast stamping and rear in g 4" 1'