Star. — London, England, 1814-01-06 00:00:00

....11.0rm.• r . . I • ' S " This Declaration is of 4 mature unusual in the ilidgoth4l,.thetongtvit v 'bigue was ready tq be dissolved, the groptross, q Ained to make a jasti efirt for thepaci6.catiou o the Continent. " The Duke of Paaano wrote to Prince bf f oor.i nick, ...He propokedp neutrake a point op the fron eiers, and there to resume the negociations . of Prague,l eireaduring :the crintisiassixe of host4ities., Vnhap pit, these overture, bat ito effect s six . • 44 The time wlien this pacifie siteri f seas taken is im portant : it was on the 18th August last. The re membrance of the clays of T. i nteen aiii.t.Baut s zen was .receot. This wish aga.inst the prolongation of . the war may then be said to he in some degFeecoptempp rary witl the date of two Nictories: Th t e efforts of the Orench Cabinet were in vain ; Peace became more remote; hostikiei began again ; the eventi assumed another face, The soldiers of the Berman Priuces, but lately our allies, shewed more "Ok . nri once, while figl7etiok ynder our banners, a fide. Thy but too , dubious all at once they ceased to dis semble, and ifained our enemies. From that moment the emszl?itiatiops of a campaign, so gloriously *sus,. could not havexhe expected success, - • • " The gm A cror perFeivecl that it was thpetoorder the French to evactsate'Ostrissany. • • lie returned with them, kghting at almost livery step; and on tlienarittcr route, whereeo many open defections and . silent treacheries, confined his progreiX'and his zoolions; 'OW trophies marked his .. . • " We folpiwed'him with some uneasiness, in the midst of so Marty ti?siatiei over which - be alone could triumph. *ith joy we saW him return to his fron tiers, not with his accustapea gond foittine, 'but not without herolith aw l with Out glory. • • • . 4- Having titurnar to kis eapital,Ne turned Ni; eye . . . from those 4ilds of battle; whae: the world admired' foi.Sltein yearahe even detached - his thoughts from the great designs he 'bud ecacsieetl. I use his Owti sion;. He turned to his piople, his heart • openeditielf, and we read in it our own sentiments. • "'He desired Peace, and as soon as the hope of a grreHai,i(n) seemed possible, he hastened to seize it. f. The grans of . the war led the . Baron de Saint Atnau tp the Head.quartera Of the Allied Powers. There he saw the Airstrjau Minister, Prince Metter. sfiel?, and the Russian Minister, Count Nesselt ode. 3oth inthe name of their Courts laid before him in a innddential coniersation, the basis of a general' pa . ci#eatiun.. The English Ambassador, Lord Abertleenoica present at this conference. Observe this last Penators, it is impoitant. " Baron Saint Aig_nau 'being desired to icitiaint his Court with all he had heard, faithfully acquitted himself of his commission, 44 . Though trance h. 4 a right to' hope for - other proposals; ihe pOperor sacrificed* every thinvihis aincere wish for peaty: He mita the Duke cif,l3is. !pm° to write to Prince mettern;cs, th a t be admitted as belie of the negociation, the general principle contained in the confltienti4Teport of M`..de Saint Ai g nau. Prince Metternich; in reply to the Duke of Bas sani, seetnad to think there was something vague in their acceptance iedheiion) given by France. - .. • " Then, to resoove.every difficulty, 'the Duke of Vicenz r 2, after having taken the orders of his IVtajesty , , made known to* Cabinet of Austria, that his Ma ' jesty adhered to the general and summary balis cam: ',llolefair d Al. de St. 4 4#411. The Duke of Vicenia's, letter is of the 2d Of December ; it was received on! • the 5111 of the same month. Prince Metternich did not answer till the jOth. These dates must be care. fally : obierve#,; you wilt soon see they are' not with., out :importance.' . « 141 hypes of peace may be fonseiyed on reading the nnsver of Pi it o vce .r.a.pieh to the 'dispatch of the DiAce.of Vicenza, onii at_ tie end of his letter ht onnounces, before . the alioclitious are opened, it is riece:44ry iv confer about dim with, the Allies. These allies can be au other than the English. Now their An-! ssadpr vas present at the coneersatiop of which M. de St. Aignau had been witness. We do pot desire to excite distrust; we relate, we have cre. folly noted the 44e pf the Lost correspondence be -twee's the Frenfh and the Austrian cabinets ;,we have saillfriel*FlS4 of Vicenza'; letter must have beets received op the sth; - and that the r4fipt was run acknowiaget the 40th ! . It) the interval a Gaeette, nor under theltillti ence of the Ailied Powers, publishedto all Europe a declaration, which issatig to in fornilted with their authority. It wad be melancholy to beli eve it. Xi)lmmo) , of Kings. It is no longtr to Icings like ihernseives eclat they evA4in their grievances, and d their manifestoes. It is to the people that they address them, snd from what motive d 9 they adopt Such a new method of poceeding ? Tt it to separate the cause . o f th e people from th4t of their governors, tho Ugh t;-,e interest of society has every where united therq: May not this example be fatal ! , di Should it be then, especially at this period, when people l .4 minds, agitated by all the diseases of pride, Jae so averse to bending under the authority., which protests theft, while it reprpues ;heir audacke: Ayui against whoa this odirm at4FIL aimed ? Against a great man, who merited the gratityde of all Kings ; because, by sa•establisising the throne of France, hez lila' sassed . the space of Llait ullsago threatened thcfa 46 It must, not be .dissembled, that fa certain re spcctkthis extraordinary Inglifeito is in a moderato tont% proves that 0141 esperiersce of the i coaki. 630 bas gained perfection.. 4 4 It *ay is remembered, ped2aps, that the mini. festo of the. Duke of Brunswick irritated the pride of a great people. In fact, even those who did not join in the opinion prevalent at that period, when the read thif insulting wannest°, found themselves of.' fended in the national honours another language has thereto* been assumed. Europe, fatigued, Ins more need of repose than of passions. " Fapt if there be so much moderation in the coun., ails of oor enemies, wherefore, while they continually, speak •of -peace, do they still menace our frontiers, which they had promised to respect when we should have n 9 Ather barrier than the,Rhine ? ." If our - encmies are so moderate, why have they violated the capitulation of Dresden ? Why have they not done justice .to the noble complaints of the General whO commanded in that place ? If they Are somoderate, why have they not established the *exchange of psisoders, conformably to all the usage , . of war Finally, if these protectors of the rights of na tions arg so moderate, why have they not respected those •of the Swiss Cantons ? Why does this wise and free Government, whi4), in the face of all Eu : rope, had declared itself neuter, slow see its paciac vallies and mountains ravaged by all the scourges of war ? 44 Moderation, is sometimes only diplomatic arti fice. If we chose to employ the same artifice, attest ing also justice, and good faith, how easily might we confound our accusers with their own arms. Does the Queen, escaped from Sicily, and who, from one place. of e;ile to another,. has Red in her adversity to the Ottomaos, prove to 1110 world that our enemies have so much respect for. the Royal dignity ? The Sovereign of Saxony has placed himself at the disposal of the Allied rowers, Has he not with actions conformed to the assurances given ? Unhappy reports are spread in Europe, May Awl/ not be realised ! Can it be desired to punish, for fidelity to his oath, the head of a .56vereign bowed down With age -And afilictioos, and crowned with so many virtues ? It is not from this tribune that Government arc •to be instrited— even those who should allow them selves to insult us; but we may be permitted to ap !preci4te at their true value those ancient and well 'known reproaches poured -forth against all such Ittivertits - haie acted a.great part s (tom Charles the Fifth to Lewis the Fourteenth), and from Lewriihe Fourteenth to the Emperor. " The system of invasion , of preponderance, of yni venal Monarchy, has been always a rallying cry for all. coalitions ; and from the midst of these coalitions, astonished at their own imprudence, often arose a power still more ambitious than that whose ambition was exclaimed against. " The abuses of power are marked in bloody cha racters on the pages history. All nations have erred ; all governments have committed excesses ; all ought to pardon each other. " If, as we are willing to believe, the Allied Powers form sincere wishes for peace, there is no obgacle to its being restored ; we have demonstrated by the ab stract of the Official Papers that the emperor desires peace, and will purchase it even by sacrifices; in which 'his great soul seems to neglect his personal glory, to attend only to the wants of the nation. _ _ _ _ -et When we cast our eyes on this coalition, Com posed of elements which expel each other,. when we see the portentous and strange mixture of people, whom nature has made rivals, when we reflect tlrtt many of them, by inconsiderate alliances, expose themselves to dangers which are not a chimera, we-, cannot believe that such an assemblage of interests so different can be of long duration. 4 f Do not I behold, in the midst of the enemy's ranks, a Prince born with all the French sentiments, in the country where they are, perhaps, the most 'lively ? The warrior who formerly defended France, cannot long remain armed against her, " Let us remember too, that a Monarch of the North, and the most powerful of all, did hutiately reci.:on among his titles to glory, the friendship of the great man with whom he now combats. " Our eyes turn !kb confidence to that Emperor, whom so many ties bind to ours ; who gave us the fairest present, in * beloved Sovereign ; and who be bolds in.his grimdson the heir of the French Empire. With.so many motives to agree and to unite, can . peace be difficult ? s , Let the place of conference be immediately fixed; let the PleniAintiaries on both sides come forward, with the noble wish to give peace to the world ; le t moderation reign in their Councils as well as in their' language: The Foreign Powers have themselves said, in the Declaration attributed - so them— , A `great nation does not lose rank fir having suffered in its turn reverses in this pailful and bloody struggle, in which it has combated with ite usual courage.' 14 Senators, we shonld not hale fulfilled the dutiei which you expect of your Committee, if, in proving demsonstration the pacific intentions of the Empe. For, our last words iid not remind the people' of 'what the/ owe to themselves—what they owe to the Monarch. 44 The moment is decisive. The Foreign Pawns a pacific .langwe, tost-pme•of Rtu 6 - pritieis ;we invaded, and war is 41 our doors. go Thirty-six millions of men cas►ttot betray their glory ato ; their rig/lily. Nations -distinguished irt this great quarrel,bxvx experienced numerous pverseat more than once they have been put ivy: is fortrOat ;1 their wounds bread still • France ha also also received, some wounds, but she is far from being Fast down ; 'she may he proud of her wounds as of her paii triumphs. Despondency in adversity would be more inexcusable than boasting in prosperity. - Thu, ben; while we male peace, let the military preparations be , accelerated, and suppoi t the negociatfow. Let u rally round the diadem, wborra the spleudupr of fifty vicmrips shine through a passing cloud. 01 Fortune is not long wanting to na4ons lArho are, not wanting to themselves. " This appeal to the national honour is dictated by the love of peace—of that peace which is not obtain_ s 4 by weakness but by- krmness--of that'peace, in short, which the Emperor, frith a new species of cou rage, promises to grant ? at the price of great sacri fices. " We have the soothing confidence that his wishes and ours will be realised, :old that this brave nation, after such long fatigues and so much bloodshed, will find repose under the auspices of a throne which had enough of glory, and which for the future chcoses to be surrounded only with images of public felicity." AFFAIRS OF SWI IZERLAND. . 1 which REPORT TO HIS MAJLISTY THE EMPEROR AND KING. SIRE—I have the honour to lay before your Ma jesty the dispatches of your Legation at Berne, con sidering that the territory and neutrality of Switzer land have been violated by the Allies. I subjoin the letter broughtby Messrs. Ruttiman and trielind, En voys ExtraorAinary from the Swiss Diet, and your Majesty's answer, confirming the recognition, already made by your Ministers, of the neutrality of Swit zerland. 0 , While those Envoys presented to your Majesty the letter they brought, other Envoys repaired to the Allied Sovereigns, a; Frankfort, who promised to re. cognize the neutrality of Switzerland,•and IV Com mauder in Chief of their armies every where gave or, ders to repeat it. Confiding in these promises and orders, the Swiss lr.id limited their precautions to the placing of a mere cordon. 1 . Your Majesty had no troops on that frontier, wishing to' remove every idea of the neutrality of SWitzetland being in danger on that side, • 44 . But the Allies have not only violated the nen tralitT of Switzerland, they have sent M. de Senft to Berne, to require that this country shall _renounce the act of mediation, the consequences of which bs's foi these ten years rendered it-so happy. M. de Sentt accompanied this siemand with the declaration that the Allied Army was going to enter Switzerland. At the same moment M. Bubna summoned the troops of the Confederation to evacuate their posts.- tiie of BAle was forced, and the 41lied Army entered at differein points. 9 Dy•violating in chic, manner tht territory of a peaceful people and its neutrality, which Europe has respected for three centuries, the Allies themselves have given the standard of the coafidetice which their promises merit, and skew what is in fact the respect which they profess for the rights of nations. f‘ Paris, 27th Der. 1813, " The Minister for Foreign Affairs, (61i : turf:I) a CAULIHCOURT, Dike of Vicence." Here follow the letter of the iondamman of S wit, zcrland to the F..mperor, announcing the neutrality, the Declaration of the Diet, both dated November 18, and Bonaparte* Letter to the Landamman, re cognizing the neutrality, dated 14th December. TO /118 Excrxtrioy TILE MINISITR FOR PORSIGN APFAIRS. ' 6 Berne, December 21, Ttn o'clock et night. sr Slit.—Yesterday morning General Bubna had a conference with Colonel fluiertchward, who com mands the Swiss troops from 1341 e to Lauffenhoorg; and declared to him, that the Allied Army, 160,000 strong, wculd enter Switzerland in the night of ..the 20th, by Bale, Rhenteld, and ote.n. t•-': It is said that Colonel Hitren - chward was requi , ', red to give information of it to the Landau:organ and to General Watteville, 'and it seems that the Swifs . battalions which were on the Rhine have lallen back, some to Soleure s and some to the headquarters, have retired front Aral; to Lentzbourg, 44 It is announced, that on the 25th, ten thousancl men, chiefly Austrian cavalry, will arrive at•Betne t end that soon afterwards two similar div6ilClll; will pass through there, which will successively take the road to Geneva. of M. de Senft Pilsach has continued to importune and to intrigue here, that the forms of government may be changed ; hut-the Little Council has n of s sented to this demand, and the Great Council, which met yesterday and today, for the usual autumnal sittings, has not suffered itself to be seduced by the promise which M. de Senft filsach has made iri the name of the Allied fowers, to restore to the canton of Berne the possession of Argovia and the Pays de Vaud, and give it Ilienne and the Esquel. This Mit, nister, dissatisfied at the ill success of his attempts, has upbraided the intriguers who went to Frankfort, with having far top much exaggeOted there the eagerness which would he shewn to overturn thy Act of Mediation. It is seen, on the contrari, that it vrlll not he effected, unlesi t y threatjaild'ittice, :The country people are ceftainly mt 4 attached %kit: . 1 they loudly murmur at the, the war vita SY/jun:Wet and say, the day will come when II y shall be nblo to scvenge.thesnselves on the amliitices . in))ahi t canfa cl file tides. Seyerall Cantons have sent Deputies to ask di. sections of the Landamman. The peasants of hid canton will certainly he the mod ramped if the pre. . • " a _ • ;Ott constitut io n is coanglo7 ol " 44--- It mty he seen now to a cesii frig." that a French e-A oneitir rattilianik and if thew was a point of support di sane strength, the mass of thg people, tit frast is litany cantons; would certainly have rallied round 4. ! --1 'request your Ex. cellency. (Signed) "F. Rola*, Sec. of Leg.'s TO fil; RECfLLEDIrY ?Ills MINISTER OR lI)*EJON Ariel NS ? " Btaut, Dec. gt, (spar re Tit Iggsl4llC Sint,-,-Some Austrian cavalry bas entered So., leure to-day, bot it it thought they will proceed to Bienne, apd that other corps will enter this city on the 25th. An extraordinary Fooffic ! ion prevails. The Great cOnncil has voted thanks to the Little Coun cil for not having yielded to the importunities of M. Senft ilsach, and to the machinations of the in. triguing citiyens of Berne, who desired the existing constitution to be changed, Men distinguished by their names and by their services have expressed their indignation at the disgrace and the respunsihility which were going to fallen the city of Berne. Oa the other hand, the weak. and those who beep deairad the en: trance of the allied troops, fear a reaction, and the vengeance with which the people threaten them. " I hare the honour to send your Eseellercy the translation of two Proclamations which I bare jest ,procured. All the SWiss battalions retort. to their canton very mqch dissatisfied at the conduct whicl. they art made to 'observe. Mary would have pre. ferfed falling with glrry, and they will be f;:cnd well disposed, if an opportunity is afforded them of repai:. ing what they "-all an involuntary baseness. Neve! had people fete so strongly the benefits of the act of mediation, add the advantages of the tranquillity which theC'eutttkthati enjoyed these ten years. 44 1 tchtft'ilie honour, Ste. thignedl ti s. nouvaa.”. aims ncialsnir Ti tUIXISTItnOB FoR ?lON ATTAIRS. " Leutzburgh, Dec. 11, 111111. re Sze,.,,,Tbe !aped armies have to-day entered Swit zerland4t;Venty thousand men at Lauffenbtu to.. e ig, a • • ' . inn Or* V. or suf tlfoesand between Itheinf "4 Bale, vi iityt*lt Infra -throw,n a bridge over the Rhine. Ther isktiiiiigeiwenty or, thirty thousand men cross the errdge at Bale—eve thousand„ltorrat =Thing a part of keen regimartr;lt4'at Zurrih.lll, whole force of the Allier is estimated at 1 60,00041114 " M. Reinhard, the Landscnman, has writes the Canton to send Deputies to Zurich, who walbi constituted a Diet, when the peputip of the t ' r ofthe Cantons shall be arrived. 4 ,Bn is of Ale, Pept4ka 4 N !mkt - the council. not hut* oteat .Cooncikt which pen , :ei that it is iptepded to overturn the Cot stitutio. The Allies have entetcd Switzerland ati: shot liaving been tired, " A treat part of the Swiss people is ashamed 4 mach . akficlOct. The greater number are attached to the, act pf mediation, and wool4have dedcnded A tbc neutrality, if they had ekpectedtgbe supported. (Signed) - aourza.'t PLIBLIC4TION TO Tait TROOP; OP 111.11 Mee CONYEDiRATION! " Had-quarters at Lentsbourt Dee, V., 4 1 The Federal troops under arms arc. hereby in t formed, that the Allied Armies hare entered &wit. zerland at ueveral point, and that their Commander , in Chief, Prince Schwartaenbutg, has published to his army, and tiensmiterd to the G.— federation same time, Courts .no the Ilia telleney the strongest the country therefore, • wherever they may meet corps of the foreign solcliert, 101 suffer no molestation, and the ofricark, subalterns anl privates, will take care, in such castes„ to give n• room, by their conduct, for disagreeable scene=. Aa the Commanders of corps will continue to wiaiusain tranquillity, order, and c9.06,44rce among thettoops under their command. The kiatlner it% which all corps have behaved 01 - ‘IIA ideal moment, convioces ma that they will peoceabky wait the course of events and the decrees eilbeir aspoiort. 4 Signsdi # t Dt WATTLYIII.I4 'The Gess*ef tge Conicderation." Dana or THE DAY IV! pp 111WINFAII TILE FRIIIICI OP SCIIV/Ap77.IMBURO GENIRAL IN Clan! OP TIM ALLItD wostics. SoilDtv.as I—We set foqt in the Swiss territotT it is as friends, as deliverer) that we appear in Oil country. Your conduct will be conformable to this principle. Agave to the brave Swiss that the Austriats watriori are as well acquainted with the duties which they have to fulfil in *sing throtigh a friendly coun. ;I‘,•and the respect due to the inhahitants, as with tile Qualities which' in a day of b;ttle lead to glory and victory. lf the dir e c t ion of the war renders it mem oir, to terpor yotl to painful marches in this Ligo. 'roll' mum, do slot forget, Soldiers, that the slues . doe now is to finis } gloriously, what you have begin. 'with to much hoaitir; and that greater difficulties, ,greateV danger; duo tlapse Ton are now met with, hive beep already vaoTtishog 4 i4-shat, ;As it is both (;f reason, r, and transmitted to the Gcneral of the Con. In, the subjoined Order of the Day; at the le, that the PlenipotatiAries of tie Allied low . in Swit;erland hair,e remitted to his Er, the 4.,antlacomazi dsvla t r . ation, containing gest assurances of gitoik treatment, both of try and the inhabits(nts : Thercis reason s ~ to expect that the Federal tipops t rhereves tar d a r ibl Z