The National Register. — London, England, 1815-06-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SUN POLITICAL DISQUISITION. -.... 0 .-- CONDUCT OP THE ALLIES. Je treaties have been ratified; all the grants have lade. Europe has sent forth her Declaration, and sword is not drawn. Peace, as though reluctant the earth, still derides the menace of armies—the !oes of kings ; and delays, if she cannot prevent, olation of mankind. To many, whom it fills with and awe, this pause appears unaccountable. .he note of preparation has sounded for three whole hrough all the states of the continent, they think lave been answered and obeyed. They compare with time, and consider that all the troops of ition might ere now have stood embattled within the of the enemy. Taught by the experience of the inanity of professions, and the fragility of pro .hey yield to despondency and doubt, and dream (erections which have no reality. We demonstrated last the force of the ties which bind the present more closely than any of the preceding ones. there is no hope of mercy from an enemy, there no desertion to his side. This was proved in the Peuinstilikty Hit minket of As French themselves, who, tired and disgusted with an unjust, inglorious, iarassing warfare, never passed to the Spanish posts, nought but assassination awaited them. It will he .onfirmed by Ake constancy of the Allied Powers, who, can expect no forgiveness from the man they had will only seek for safety in his destruction. We now endeavour to show, that even supposing the itions of the Allies had been completed, and the of entering France at an earlier period attained, present delay is neither inconsistent with good po lor with the interests of the great cause which they engaged to support. \ fidence in the honour and loyalty of the French na prevented the Allies from seieng the first, and the 'venrab!e opportunity, for defeating the rash at. Napoleon. They would not insult a gallant peo sending foreign troops to defend a Monarch, who to reign in the affections of his subjects. They not believe that the protestations of fidolity, the assistance, and the demonstrations of love, which forth in every quarter, were only intended to de- They thought that France had resumed her an- Iracter, and that the spirit of chivalry was rekin the souls of her sons. They left her the defence Sovereign of her choice, and the guardianship own honour. If their hopes were PA No. CCCL XXV' !IL Cur ling, Constitution, anD tabu. .i , c) ; 711 . 4i5.14ED AT NO. 11 ) NtWCASTLE-STREET ) STRAND. , JUNE 4, 1815. Pnrck 9d multitudes, prodigal of oaths, were sparing of their blood; if no hand waS raised to support the throne, and avert eternal infamy, yet those hopes were justifiable. They honoured those by whom they were formed, and the people on whom they were founded. As events have shown them groundless, it may be matter of regret that they were entertained—it can never be /natter of I blame. If the appearance of twenty thousand British and Prus. shin troops in the French territory at the time Buonaparte approached Lyons, would have encouraged the adherents of the King, restrained the military, and for ever stopped the progress of the Invader, the Allied Monarchs perceived that treble that force would be insufficient to shake hia power, when, sanctioned by the great legaliser of usurpa tions, Success, it was reseated in the capital, and wielded all the resources of France. They were too fatally ac quainted with the energy of his character, the activity with which he would press every menus into his service, and the hypocritical pliability with which he would seek to conciliate the fa►our of all parties, not to regard him, even in the infancy of his renewed authority, as a mighty foe, whom it would be ruin to attack without an over whelming force. Partial acts of hostility could not fail to tarn to his advantage, as he could easily repel them; and the impression produced on the pul;;ic mind in France, by the gain of a sing], triumph, wcu!d give him the willing support of a rop!e l 04)!t. consider the brilliancy and not the justice of tart' exploits. Hence the Allies did not ru: , hunguardc:Uy to battle, however great was the force which they bad assembled, when they knew that they could collect a ~greater. They had too often witnessed the successive de feats of separate armies, to endanger the fate of the coa lition by untimely acting on appearances which might prove deceitful. They wished to ascertain that a coin_ neon spirit reigned amongst them and that all the strength id their respective states had been fully put forth, before they ventured to open a contest, in which the political ex. istence of nll is at stake. These reasons, it will be said, may account for the de lay which has already taken place ; but now that the.• whole force of the Allies is said to be assembled on all the points of intended hostilities, what can justify inac tivity ? It may not be generally known, but it will be easily credited, that in their late invasion of France, the Allies suffered great privations, and were considerably checked in their movements, by the necessity of cms ing along them their own magazines for the subsistence of • Ny. 381 4 . All the been mad yet the s' to lease t manifest( the des olt anxiety When thi months tl It must hi distance the coal it frontiers past, the mises, th of defecti in our la coalition Where tl will be a Peninsula howeTer and hare where not confirmed as they ci deposed, shall no preparatil possibilit] their pres licy, nor have ens► Con fid tion, pre most favf tempt of pie, by a • seemed t could no offers of burst for ceive. tient chat died in ti of the Si of her aw vu. r disa - ppot*- -1 .4f11 with I