The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-23 00:00:00

APRIL 15. rise b , . 1.1-t .e t. the dispositions of the try. I Am intorrned that a couv.y of I'lo French prisoners from Russia, has been stopped kmunt. lu waiting to derive' correct informa_ point, and to demand, if necessary, redress for such a proceeding, I confine myself not, to the statement of it to your Majesty, considering the hoportance which it receives from its conuection with other circum stances whiell'are developed around us Upon all parts of Europe at mice, they are arming or marching, or r e a dy io march. And against whom are the armaments directed ? si r e, it is y our Majesty they name, tut it is France that is threa• tent (I. The least favourable peace that the Powers ever dared to op, you is that with which your Majesty co nteuts yourself. Why do toe) not now wish what they stipulated at Chamoont,—what they willed at Mai.? It is not then against the monarch, it is. agdii:st thy French nation,.against the independence of the people, a„ ,lost ail that is dray to us, all that we have acquired after twenty. five )...r of •iitlering and of glory, against our liberties. oyr lusting lion., I:iat tiostile passions wish tontake war : a part of the Uour• Lon fiaiiiy, and some men wi:o have lung ceased to be Freuch, en. tr . , raise all the nations of Germany and the North, in the Imps of re-tinning a second time by force olarma on the soil which 1 4 1i-claims and wishes no longer to receive them. The same appeal has re-winded fur a moment in wine countries of the Roush, and it is from Span:sli troops that s me, people are'redeinanding the crown of France : it is a family again become private and solitary which tins implores the assistanee of fineigners. Where are the public hoictioliaries, the troops of the line, the national guards, the private inhabitants, who have Accompanied it in its flight beyond our fron tier, To mean to reestablish the Bourbons once more, would be to declare war on the whole French 'stipulation. When your m aj ' es ty eii;eted Paris %khan escort of a feWrneto ; when Bordeaux, "'unloose, Marseilles, and ail the South art disentangling themselves in one day trom the snares laid for them, is it a military movement slat w 14. s these miracles'; or rather, is it not . o national nrovement, • a niiou tricot common to all Frenc h hearts,which mites ih one feeling the love of the country and the love of the Monarch who know how to defend it ? It ,will then he to restore, to relish' upon us, 4 family which belongs neither to out age tier to our man- . i tiers ; witch knew neither how to appreciate the elevation of otir souls, nor to comprehend the extent of tow rights ; it Will be to re"- pie, onr necks the triple yoke of absolute monarchy, fanaticism, awl fendality, that all Europe would appear to/We itself up to an immense rising 1 One would say, that'France, c , aithied within its ancient limits, While the limits of other powers have been prodigi ously exteorled, -that France, free, rich only in the great character %illicit its revolotions have left it, still hold so much Apace in the map ofworld. Yes; if, , ecartrary to the dearest wish of your Ma jesty, foreign Pbwers give list signal of a new war; it is France her oil, it is the whole tuition Whom they mean to attack, though they pretend on'y tdattaek its Suvrxrign, though they eflect7to separate • she nation from the Emperor. The contract of France .with your 31.je.ty is closer than any that ever' suited a nation to its Prince. The people amid the ntottareh can only have lhe sante friends and the 1 1111 C elli'lllieg. Is the question one of mere personal provocatirds lietsviall one Sovereign and auotker ? That can be nothing else , kilt an iiiilioary tintil. What - did Francis I. in his rage against Cli:irles V / He 'seta hint a challenge. • Rut v ie distinguish the chic i of a nation from the nation itSeIT, to protest that nothing is nu-Ant hot against the person of the Prince, and to parch alone s million of 'men, is playing too 'much • , With tie cruelty of the nations. The sole, the rest object %Sikh the foreign powers can propose to-themselves on the hyrsothe air of a new coalition, must be the exhaustion. She degradation , of France; and to attain that object, tire s u rest means in-their view of it Will be to impose upon it • a goeernment without force and out energy. This policy on their part, is not,'hesides s a new policy ; the. sample has been given• theni by great masters. Tlista the Bo in" ploserihed such men as Mithridatea and Nicisil while f Hlll3, they coy red with their haughty protection the A ttalusea•and the Prfisiases, who, priding themielves in the title of their liteed.men, acknowledged that they only held from them their states and their ' eructs, Thus the Fresels nation would he assimilated to t46se itglaric nations, to wltosts 'the eain le ee of Rom gave for Ki s. Princes whose s n übmissio and dependence were secure I In v.:. view, the efforts which the Allied Powers may now attempt to make, Would not have for their precise object to taring-us bade ruder a dynasty rejected by public opinion. It would trot be the Bourbons in pas titular they would wish to protect; ;tir;akiiimig I;nee past, their cause, abandoned by theniselvcs, liar been so by all Ett- PtOe ; and that unfortnnate family has every. where - been 'objected W a disdain but too - Cruel. 'rho casket of thirtiaGnar.:l4 *Oa they •• ot- Femme •wowld -ke of-little iiiienrionce / saw there seated with him w eauesa ionld be the most sensible witi . .fge that be , bononr of is taagnaninions and rename. na tion. It is that which has already most deeply wounded . French hearts, and of which the renewal would be the most imply°, table. Altlitmgii hi the latter months of 1813, that &mons Deelartitiou w. • published at Frankfort, by which it was solemnly announced that they wished France to he great, happy% and fi fe. what Wail the result of those pompons assurances? At the same moment they violated the Swiss neutrality. When, in short, on the French soli, io order to -cool patriotissu and to disorganize the interior, they co,, 1 itiurti prortase to France an existence towid liberal laws; the es exit soon sliewett what cordiatuce was tine to such engagements. Eilligiaeurd by experience, France has its eyes opened; Iliac is not one of its citizens tilt° does. not observe mod judgp what .passes aroti..d it inclosed within its ancient frontier, whets it cannot give otre..re to . other governments, every attack against its own sovereign is a tendency to interfere in its internal affairs, and will appear only an attempt to divide its strength by civil war, and to complete its ruin and dismemberment. However, Sire, even to : this day, all is me nace. and as yet there is 5o hostility. Your Majesty will not wish that incidents proceeding from the individuaidispositionsofpai I ieulat corn , marlders i cither little scrupulous observers of the...oral (4 of their court. or too ready to anticipate their supposed iidentioos, should be consi dered as sprineilig fi out the will of those powers, and as having broke the state of peace. No official .10 has pi oved the determination of a/opt-ore. We are retiticelitovague conjectures, to report pedlars false. It .appears certain that an the V oth of Mai ch a new agree ment was MOMd in which the, powers consecrated the (nuns alli ance of Chaninont. If the object of it is th.leitsive, it enters into • the views of your Majesty yourself, and France has no cause to coin- Oahe ; it it were otherwise, it is the independence of the French. ata tion which would be attacked, and France would kriow how to re , pet an Regression so odious. The Prince Regent of England de. dares thatlie wishes, leefliie lie acts, to come to an understanding with the other powers. All those powers un- armed, and tiny deli berate. France, excluded from these deliberations of whieisit is , lis not et aimed. tie p ' ei ri rc n t e int ip s a t i an o i b e . s c s t o ;:i. i f fit a p sir o;tf. lne i o itin dr t i l i i i te er ni i i t d e :t e y p su f those 'Mice' taiii ties as to the real dispositions of foreign powers, disposition s .whose exterior acts are of a nature toinithorise just alarms, the ,sentiments anti wishes of your Maje.sty An. t lie itialketiance of peace, -and of the treaty of Paris, ought not to prevent legitimate preeale tiows. I therefore think it my duty to call the A ttention of your Majesty, and the reflections of your Council. to t IC measures which the pteservation of her rights, the safety of her territory, and the defence of the national honour, ought to dictate to Ftatice. (Signed) . • CAULAINA.:OI;RT, Duke of Vieenaat CIRCPLAR ADDRESSED TO AMDASgADORI T 'IWINISTFAS ) -AND OT/lER AGENTS. OF EIiANIE Paris, Moth :m, 1613. Stn.—The wishes of the French nation never rewired to recall' the Sovereizii of its 'choler, the only Prince who can guarantee to it the conservation of its liberty and independents.. The Emperor appeared, and the royal govermnent no longer exists. At tilt sight of the universal movement which carried both*, the people; . and the army towards their legitimate I%.lottarels the Nattily the flotations perceived that theie remained no other course tor them hut to ~take refuge ,in a foreign country. They havil qititt.d il,e French soil, without a single musket having been fired, or 'drop of bloisl shed io their defence. 'rne military household which at. compartied them has collecled at Bethune. where it 'deelarrd onbinission In the orders of the Emperor. It Nis given tip its Gorses mu!. arms : more than half of it 'has entered our ranks; the rest, few in number,. are retiring to their armies, bailey to tints its asylum in the generosity of his Intpetial Alaiesty. the most pro found tranquillity reigna,thrmighmit the whole extent of the empire. vAry yht•re4be same* cry is heard Bever did a tuition present spectacle of more complete etianitniiy iu - the etprelp:ion of its Intppilless anti joy,, this 'great Change has been only the work of a:few days.. It Vs the finest ti lamp,* of . the Confitlctiec of a morarrh in ; :the love of icis.people; it at the sifllir time the moat extra .ordittery mit or the of a nation which knows its Hello' and its dillitP. The. functions entrusted to you by the royal government have tcyntjaateti; atS I am about to take, without delay, the tirderkof his illajegy the Emperor, in cider to accredit a .new legation. You mut Lionned:Arly, Sir, assume the tri-enlouretl cork- Acie,,and. anise it to be. taken by the Prenehnien who are &blurt 'you.. II; At bid 1114aUCItt of ellittlug the Con t where you resides THE NATIONALREGISTRO. - ..................• : . .... , . Soverei g n of that coml. *should phice on. the thione of 0 men , and 12 'Accra, to the Allies. provided they pped 0:1 the side of Tim- and pusillanimity : this wo Formation on this point, ' could b e done to the honon 441410