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e . • •4 • 4 ; r • 4 • • t.'. e r I • F Bold HE-J?U.RNAL UN 1 VERSEL. GHENT, MAY 23. The King of France has finished collecting around bim all the foreign ministers who composed the diplo matic body at Parrs. Baron Vincent, minister pleni potentiary of Austria, Baron %Valtersdorff, minister of Denmark, and M. de Signeul, Swedish charge d'Affaires, have recently arrived and had audiences of Vs Majesty. M Deseze, first president of the Court of Cassa tion, is also in this city, and had yesterday the honour to dine with the King. The respectable defender of Louis XVI. presents, near Louis XVIII. all the con anling ideas rendered so necessary by the crimes and calamities of which we are witnesses. The King, the day before yesterday, received dis patches from Madrid by a messenger extraordinary. 'Cure Duke d'Angouleme, it appears, had been invited' by her Catholic Majesty to that capital. A very ener getic manifesto had already been published by the C,Aurt of Spain, CONGRESS OF VIENNA. EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF CONFERENCES OF THE POWERS WHO SIGNED THE 'TREATY OF PARIS. , • CONFERENCE OF MAY 12TH, 1815. The Committee appointed on the 9th instant, and charged to examine, whether, after the events which have.passed since the return of Napoleon Bonaparte to I ranee, and in consequence of the documents pub lished at Paris on the Declaration which the Powers issued against him on the 13th of March last, it would be necessary to proceed to a new Declaration, pre sented at the sitting of this day the following Report: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The Declaration published on the 13th of Match last against Napoleon Bonaparte and his adherents, by the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris, hav ing, since his return to Paris, been discussed in various shapes by those whom he has employed for that pur pose ; these discussions having acquired great publi city, and a letter addressed by him to all the Sove reigns, as well as a note addressed by the Duke of Vicenza to the heads of the Cabinets of Europe, having been also published by him with the manifest intention of influencing and misleading public opinion, the Committee appointed in the sitting of the 9th in stant was charged .to present a report on these topics; and Considering that in the above-mentioned publi cations, it has been'attempted to invalidate the De claration of tie' 13th of March, by laying it down, 1. That that Declaration, directed against Bona parte, at the period of his landing on the coast of France, was without application now that he had laid hold of the reins of government without open resistance, and that this fact 'sufficiently proving the 'wishes of the nation, he had not only re-entered into possession of his old rights in regard to France, but that the question even of the legitimacy of his Go vernment had ceased.to be within the jurisdiction of the Powers : • 2. That by offering to ratify the Treaty of Paris, L removed every ground of war against him : The Committee has been specially charged to take into consideration— !. Whether the position of Bonaparte in regard to the Powers of Europe has changed by the fact of his arrival at Paris, and by the circumstances that ac companied the first success of his attempt on the throne of France ? 2. Whether the offer to sanction the Treaty of Paris, of the 31st of May, 1814., can determine the rowers to adopt a system different from that which' they Announced in the Declaration of the 13th of March ? 3. Whether it be necessary or proper to publish a new Declaration to confirm or modify that of the 13th of March ? The Committee having maturely examined these iinestions, submits to the Assembly of Plenipoten tiaries the following account of the result of its deli berations; VAST QUESTION. It the pcskjen of Bonaparte in regard to the Power: of Aurope altered by the fi at success of leis enterprise, or 4 the events which have passed since his arrival in Paris P Thu rowers, informed of 'the landing of Bona.' pane in France, could see in him only a man who, by adrnacing on the French territory, with force and aims, and with the avowed project of overturning the established Government, by exciting the people and the army to revolt against their lawful Sovereign, and by usurping the title of Emperor of the French, ( I ) fwd incurred the penalties which 411 legislations pronunace against such outages,—a man who, by ahnsitig the good faith of the Sovereigns, had broken a solemn Treaty,-4 man, in line, ieho, by .recalling upon France, happy and tranquil, all the scourges of internal and external war, and upon Europe, at si moment when the blessings of peace must have consoled her for her lung sufferings, the sad neces. city nt a new general armament , was justly regarded as the implacable enctny of public welfare. Such was the origin, such were the grounds of the Decla ration of the 13th of March ;—a Declaration, of which the justice and necessity have been universally acknowledged, and %Inch general opinion has sang tifined. The events which conducted Bonaparte W Paris,' and restored to him for the moment tke exercise of so pi eme powers have, doubtless, in fact, altered the position in which be was at the period of his entering France; but these events, brought on by criminal collusion, by military conspiracies, by revolting trea sons, can create iso right; they are absolutely null in a legal point of view ; and in order to the position of Bonaparte being essentially and legitimately altered, it would be neceislry that the steps which he has taken to establish himself on the ruins of the govern. vent overturned by him, shoul4 have been confirmed 14 some legal title. Bonapatte lays it down in his publications, that she wishes of the French nation in favour of his re (1) The first Artleleof the Convention of the I ids of April, at 4; is s, aullows i--1 4 1 he Finperor Napoleon .renoonees, for . biti ; ell, his successors, and descendants, as well as for all the nr ,mb i p or hi, iamily, all rights of sovereignty and of power, no t trees the French Empire apd the Kingdom of haly, bus 214 aver every other eimmuy." Notwithstanding this format re• 1.: ation, Isotope:se, In his dfferent Proelamaioni from tbd low., from Gap, urenoble, and Lyons, entiticd idamelf, G' rte pace ia coo and the constitutions of the Empire, Zea pew tAe o.c. Stoor-Ste Afsmiker of Match 21, 1215. establishment on the throne sulfite to constitute tbis legal title. • • The question for the powers to examine may be stated as follows : Can the consent, reel or factitious, explicit or tacit, of the French nation, to the re-es.l tablishment of Bonaparte's power, operate a legal change in the position of the latter, in regard to fo reign powers, and form a title obligatory on these powers ? The Committee are of opinion that such cannot by any means be the effect of such consent: and the following are their reasons : The Powers know too well the principles which ought to guide them in their relations with an inde pendent country, to attempt (as it is endeavoured to accuse them) “ to impose upon it laws, to interfere in its internal affairs, to presciibe to it a form of go vernment, to give it masters according to the interests or passions of its neighbours. (1) But they also know that the liberty of a nation to change its sys tem of government must have its just limits, and that if foreign Powers have not the right to preurik to it the exercise which it shall make of that liberty, they have at least indubitably the right of trots:ling against 'the abuse which it may make of it at their expence. Impressed with this principle, the Powers do not deem themselves authorised to impose a go vernment on France ; but they will never renounce the right of preventing the establishment in France of a focus of disorders and of subversions to other States, under the title of a Government. They will respect the liberty of France in every way in which it shall not be incompatible with their own security and the general tranquillity of Europe. In the existing Case, the right of the Allied Sove reigns to interfere in the question of the internal go vernment of France is the more incontestable, inas much as the abolition of the power which now claims to be re-established there, was the fundamental con dition of a treaty of peace, on which rested all the le. lations which, op to the return of Bonaparte to Paris, subsisted between France and the rest of Europe.— On the day of their entrance into Paris, the Sove reigns declared that they would never treat of peace with Bonaparte (2). This dedication, loudly ap plauded by France and by Europe, produced the ab dication of Napoleon, and the convention of the 11 th of April ; it formed the principal basis of the neko. ciation ; it was explicitly pronounced in the preamble of the treaty of Paris. The French nation, even sup posing it perfectly free and united, cannot with. draw itself from this fundamental condition, without abrogating the Treaty of Paris and all its existing re• lations with the European system. The allied powers, on the other hand, by insisting on this very condition, only exercise a right which it is impossible to contest to them, unless it be maintained that the most sacred compacts can be perverted, as suits the convenience of either of the contracting parties. It hence folloWs that the will of the people of France is by no niearis sufficient to re-establish, in a legal sense, a Government proscribed by solemn en. gagements, which that very people entered into with all the Powers of Europe ; and that they cannot, un-, der any pretext, give validity as against these powers to the right of recalling to the throne him whose ex. elusion was a condition preliminary to every pacific arrangement with France t the wish of the Ftench people, even if it were fully ascertained, would not be the less null and of no effect in regard to Europe to wards reestablishing a power, against which all Eu rope has been in a state `of permanent protest from the 31st of March, 1814, up to the 13th of March, 1815 ; and in this view the position of Bonaparte is precisely at this day what it was at the last-mentioned periods. SECOND QUESTION. Should the ?Fr to 'sanction the Treaty of Paris change the disposition of the Power; ? France has had no reason to complain of the Treaty of Paris. This Treaty reconciled France with Europe; it satisfied all her true interests, secured all her real advantages, all the elements of prosperity and glory, which a people called to one of the first places in the European system could reasonably desire, and only took from her that which was to her, under the deceitful exterior of great national eclat, aft inexhaus tible source of sufferings, of ruin, and of misery. This Treaty was even an immense benefit for a country, reduced by the madness of its chief to the most disas trous situation. (8) The Allied Powers would have betrayed their in. terests and their duties, if, as the price of so much moderation and generosity, they had not, on signing the Treaty, obtained some solid advantage but the' sole object of their ambition was the peace of Europe and the happiness of France. Never, in treating with Bonaparte, would they have consented to the condi tions 'Which , they granted to a GovernMenr, a while offering to Europe a pledge of security and stability, relieved them from requiring from France the.guarantees which they had demanded under its former Government" (4). This clause is insepara ble from the Treaty of Paris ; 'to abolish it, is to brook this Treaty. The fornial consent of the French nation to the return of Bonaparte to the throne would be equivalent to a declaration of war against Europe : for the state of peace did not exist between Europe and France, except by the Treaty of Paris, and the Treaty of Paris is incompatible with the power of Bonaparte. If this reasoning had need of further support, it might be found in the very offer of Bonaparte to ra tify the Treaty of Paris. This Treaty had been scrupulously observed and executed : the transac tions of the Congress of Vienna were only its supple ments and developements ; and without the new at tempt of Bonaparte, it would have been for a long series of yeks one of the bases of the public right of Europe but this order of things has given place to a new revolution ; and the agents of this revolution, although they proclaim incessantly " that (5) nothing has been changed," conceive and feel themselves that all is changed ground them. The question is no longer the maintenance of the Treaty of Paris, but (1) -it is this that Bonsparte's Council of State express them • selves in their geport on the intentions of the rowers.—See Mo• faker of the isth of April. (2) Declaration of the 31st of biTarch, left. (3) The Emperor, cenv;tic.d of the critkal situation lo which he I his placcel France, and of the impossibility of savlno it him self, appeared to resign !dowel( and consent to an entire and un conditional abdkat uu. latter of Marshal Nei to the rrittgie of Renevent. (4) Preamble of the Treaty of (5) This idea vesurs perpetestirt the mon of the Ceenel• et State-of tnniapane, published in the Mentteer, AprO 13, fof 8 the tesshiaz of it afrah. The Powers find themielves, with respect to France, in the condition in which they were on the 81st of March, 1814. It is not to prevent war, for France has in fact rekindled it, it is to terminate it that there now offers itself to Europe a state of things essentially different from that on I which the peace of 1814 was founded. The ques don, then, has ceased to be a question of right : it is no more than a question of political calculation and foresight. in which the Powers have only to consult the real interests of their people and the common in terest of Europe. The Committee thinks it may dispense with en tering here into an exposition of the considerations which, under this last view, have directed the mea sures of the governments. It will be sufficient to recall to notice, that the man who, in now offering to sanction the Treaty of Paris, pretends to substi tute his guarantee for that of a Sovereign, whose loyalty was without stain, and benevolence without measure, is the same who during 15 years ravaged and laid waste the earth, to find means of satisfying his ambition, who sacrificed millions of victims, and the happiness of an entire generation, to a system of conquests, whom truces, little worthy of the n ame of peace, have only rendered more oppressive and more odious ; (1) who, after having by mad enter prizes tired fortune, armed all Europe against him, and exhausted all the means of France, was forced to abandon his projects, and abdicated power to save some relics of existence ; who at the moment when the nations of Europe were giving themselves up to the hope of a durable tranquility, meditated new ca tastrophes, and by a double perfidy, towards the powers who had too generously spared him, and towards a government which he could not attack without the blackest treason, usurped a Throne which he had renounced, and which be never occupied except for the misery of France and the world. This man has no other guarantee to propose to Europe than his word. Mier the cruel experience of fifteen years, who would have the courage to accept this guarantee ; and if the French nation has really em braced his cause, who could any longer respect the security which it could offer? Peace with a Government placed in such hands, and composed of such elements. would only be a per petual state of uncertainty, anxiety, and danger. No power being able effectually to disarm, the people • would enjoy none of the advantages of a true peace ; they would be overwhelmed with expenses of all kinds ; confidence not being able to establish itself any where, industry and commerce would every where languish ; nothing would be stable in political relations ; a sullen discontent would spread over all countries ; and f um day to day, Europe in alarm would expect a new explosion. The Sovereigns have certainlj not misunderstood the interest of their peo ple, in judging that an ()p.m war, with all its ;nconve. nienctes and all its sacrifices, is preferable to such a state of things, and the measures which they have adopted have met the general approbation. The opinion of Europe on this great occasion is pronounced in a manner very positive and very so lemn ; never could the real sentiments of nations have been more accurately known and more faithfully in terpreted than at a moment when the representatives of all the powers wele assembled to consolidate the peace of the world. THIRD QUESTION. Is it necessary to publish a new Declaration ? The observations which the Committee have just presented furnish the answer to the last question which remains to be examined. It considers, 1. That the Declaration of the 13th of March was dictated to the powers by reasons of such evident justice and such decisive weight, that none of the so phistries by which it is pretended tee be atucked can at all affect it : 2. That these reasons remain in all their force, and that the changes which have in fact occurred since the Declaration of the ,13th of March, have produced no alteration in the position of Bonaparte and of France with regard to the Allies. 3. That the offer to ratify the Treaty of Paris can not on any account alter the disposition of the Allies. Therefore, the Committee is of opinion that it would be useless to publish a fresh declaration. The Plenipoteotiaries of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris, and,who as such are responsible for its execution with regard to the acceding Powers, having taken into consideration, and sanctioned by their approbation the preceding report, have resolved, that there shall Isz made to the Plenipotentiaries of the other Royal Courts a communication of the mi. nutes of this day. They have further ordered, that an extract of the said minutes shall be made public. Here follow the signatures in the alphabetical order of she Courts : AUSTIIA. PORTUGAL. Prince MET TERNICH, The Count de PALMELLA, Baron WESSEERG. SAIDANHA, SPAIN SPAGN a). P. COMES RADOR. PRUSSItt. FRANC& Prince HARDENERRO, Prime TALLEYRAND, Baron HUMBOLDT. Duke of DALBERO, Russia. Count ALEX de NOAILLES. Count RASOUMOUSKY, GatAl BRITAIN. Count STAKELBERO, CLANCARTY, Count NESSELRODE. CA THCART, SWIDDM. srawAit r. count LOEWENHIELM. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries, approving the whole of the principles contained in the present ex tract from the minutes, have affixed to it their sig. natures, Vkima, May 12. lei 5. BAVARIA. SARDINIA. The Marquis de 8 LMARSAN. DINMASR. Count ROSSI. C. BERNSTOREF. SARONT. I. BERNSTO!'F. Count SCHULEMBURO. UANOVIS. TWO SICILIES. Count MUNSTER. The Commander RUFF°. Count HARDEN BURGH. lIVURTIM3IIIIO. DIZTIILRLANDS. Count WIN ZINOSIAODL Baron SPAEN. Baron LINDEN. Baron UAOERN. (I) The Committee here think It right to add the impertant obssrvatkri, that the greater part of the Invasions, and forced unions, of which Bonaparte formed successively what he called the Great Empire, took place doting those perfidious intervals of peace, more de/aro:tier to Europe than even the wan with which it was tortnented. It was thus that he took possoseleo of Piedmont, Yarns', Get on, I. tete, of the States of kerne, of Hol land, of the countries ompo .ng the Nd Military Division. It was thus at a pv:led of peace ; tt least with all the Continent), that be struck the first . low e/ 41st Portugal and Spain, am% thought to have finish e d t. e eon is of those cwpakies by nips ning and audacity, iv hen t. o patrio MU and energy o f t h e p eop l e of the peninsula drt w kiln nip 114 luinary war, dal cammine e . 'pun t$ hie %mu 4uw4(4:1, old pI c .c salvation of Europe. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MAY es. The Emperor yesterday presided at a Council of the Ministers. A telegraphic dispatch, dated from Lyons, five o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Prefect of the Rhone to the Minister of the Interior , announces as follows :—Prince Jerome, Madame and Cardinal Fesch, arrived at Juan, at nine in the morning of the 22d, in the frigate la Dryade. An Aide - de - Camp of Prince Jerome is just passing throUgh Lyons , direct . to the Emperor. It is asserted that an important personage is ex. petted in Paris from Germany. It is even said that the hotel for his residence is already prepared. It i. said there exists at this moment, with the consent even'of Austria, a correspondence between the En.. peror and the Empress Maria Louisa. The Princess of Wales is still at Genoa. A letter from Niort, of the 18th instant, say; 41 The town of Bressuiere has been evacuated. lt I at this moment occupied by the insurgents, at the head of whom is Monsieur de la Roche Jacquelin (Auguste) who commands the rising in les Deur Sevres, and incites the insurgents with all the hai tors of Royalism. He has for his colleagues, Monsieur de la Garde de 'fhouars, and a Monsieuc Beauvoilier de Loudun. All the Noblesse of the: „ virgins, who seemed to be peaceably disposed, Iv.ve taken part, directly or indirectly, in these event.. P. appears from a Report, dated May 17, at one in tilt morning, addressed to the Colonel of Gens d'Arrne. rie of the 9th Legion, that the English have landed, near St. Gilles, a quantity of arms and ammunition, and a body of from 7to SOO men. It is not EN . posed that the Champ de Mai can take place net. Sunday, but that it will he postponed for a few clay. longer, as the registers of the votes upon the Cons... tution cannot arrive by that day, as was expected.' FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, MAY 22. The desertion among the French troops continutn and Bonaparte has declared Lille and Dunkirk in a state of rebellion, on account of their attachment to the King. He has imposed upon Lille a forced loan of three millions of francs, and upon Dunkirk oue of a million and an half. Numerous fugitives from Dunkirk, Calais, Havre, and other places, who have arrived here, give the most melancholy accounts of the present state of France. Bonaparte employs the most viiileat mea sures to extort money from the people, especially in the northern departments, which are distinguished by their attachment to the King. All provisions are seized without mercy, and the soldiers ate quartered upon the sitiseni p and live at discretion. At Marseilles fresh disturbances have broken out. The theatres are shut, and dare not be opened aga i n . The spirit of the people in the south is such, that on the least co-operation and support from the Allies, a 'general rising against Bonaparte will immediately take place. BRUSSELS, MAY t 3. The Duchess of Angouleme is expected at Ghent. The Journal of Aix-la-Chapelle, of to.day, declares that it is charged. to state that the letter of Marshal Mar. mont is a forgery. One of the last numbers of the Arittargue, a new Paris paper,vontains a declaration of the Duke of NVellingtun to the Frendvnation. This piece is also a forgery. MAY 21.—Within these few► days there has been a tumult in the neighbourhood of Lille. A number of country people hoisted the white cockade, and cried Vive le Rol !" 'A detachment of troops fired upon them, by which several were killed or wounded. Many are flying into our country. In French Flan ders and Picardy, the Bourbons have a very power tul party. The whole French army seems to be already can. toned about the SaMbre and the Mane, and it is to this important point that the Duke of Wellington and Prince Blucher have especially turned their attention The cavalry of the allied armies is excellent, and the artillery very numerous. It is asserted that the latter amounts to 700 pieces of cannon, all in perfect ordtr The fear of the French Government for an invasion becomes doily more evident, Orders have been given to remove to the interior every thing that is nut necessary for the defence of the place, and this measure has been executed a.th extraordinary precipitation. BERLIN, MAY 16. The new Constitution of the Prussian Monarch, has been laid before the King for his approbation. — He however, desired that some alteration shall be made in it. BOIS LE DUG, MAY W. Yesterday 1,500 disarmed Saxons arrived lee escorted by about 1,200 Prussian troops, both toot and horse. Today they have proceeded to Quart., and thence to Wesel it is said they are to go to Russia, ALTONA, MAY 1111. Between eight and nine o'cock this evening, we bad the happiness of seeing our much loved Monarch arrive here, in the best health, on his return from Vienna to Copenhagen. GHENT, MAY N. On the 17th thele was an affair of outposts near Mouseton, on the extreme frontier of our territory. Some Retch dragoons and 20 infantry placed them 'elves in ambush behind some houses. A piquet °I six Hanoverian Huuars and a Brigadier answered their cry of who goes there ? when the infantry fired and mortally wounded one of the Hussarb, Joeth er received a ball through his helmet ; the Brigad ier of the Hussars ordered them to retreat, and dischargedhis two pistols at the French, oneof whom was wounded. ANTI•ATTEITION.—The saving to the public by the use of the Patent Composition on Steam Eng ines and Machinery, is seldom %en than at the rate of five shillings out of six, but frequently more, and four- . wheel carriages will run upwards of one thousand miles With only one priming of this article, bats the Kii v i i g the ex penc e . of which is about sixpence. The public should b.. on their guard against the various impositions in this valuable distovery, for none is genuine but that'' signed il W . D. BaLLAMv,' to counterfeit 's Arms of to it, and the di Ifelony. 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