The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. " It may be remembeta d, perhaps, that the Manifesto of the Duke of iilrunswick irritated the pri de of a great people. In fact. even those who did not join in the opinions prevalent at that period when they read this insulting Manifesto. found them elves 4h:sided in the national honour. Another language has therefore been asanmed. Europe fatigued, has more need t f repose than of passions. " lint if there be so mita moderation in the councils of our enemies. wherefore. while they continually speak of peace, do they still menace our frontiers, which they bad promised to respect, when we should have no other barrier than the Rhiae ? " If our enemies are so moderate, why have they violated the capitulation of Dresden ? why have they not done justice to the noble complaints et the General who commanded in that place ? a If they are so moderate h..' e they not established the exchange of psi occurs, conformahly In all the usuages of war ? " Finally, if this e protectors ofthe violas of nations are so mode rate, why have they not respected those of the Swiss Cantons? Why does this wise and free Government, which, in the face et* all Europe, had declared itself neuter, now see its peaceful vallies and mountains ravaged by all the scourges of war ? " Moderation is sometimes only a diplomatic artifice. If we choose to employ the same at tifices, attesting also justice and good filth, how easily might we confound our accusers with their own arms " Does the Queen escaped from Sicily, who, from one place of exile to another, has fled In her adversity to the Ottomaus, prove to the world that our enemies have so much respect for the royal dignity ? " The Savereig,n of Saxony has placed himself at the disposal et the Allied Powers. Has he met with actions cunformable to the assurances g ive n ? Unhappy reports are spread in Ilurope • may they eot b e realized ! Can it be desired to punish for fidelity to his oath, the brad of a Sovereign, bowed down with age and afflictions, and crowned with so many virtues ? " It is not from this tribune that Governincors are to he insolted, even those who should allow themselves ta insult us ; but we may lie permitted to appreciate at their true value, those aesient and well-knonn reproaches, poured forth against all such powers as have acted a great part, from Charles the Fifth, to Louis the Fourteenth ; and from Loris the Fourteenth to the Emperor. " The system of bee-alias, of preponderance, of unirersal monarchy, ties been always a rallying cry for all coalitions; and from the midst of-these coalitions, astot.i•lred at their cwri imprudence, often arose a power still more amintions than that whose ambition was ex claimed against. " The abuses of power are marked in bloody characters nn all the pages of 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 Power's form sin- Isere wishes for peace, there is no obstacle to its being restored. We have demonstrated by the abstract of the official papers, that the Emperor desitcs peace, and will purchase it even by sacrifices in which his great soul seems to neglect his personal glory, to at tend only to the wants of the.nation. " When we cast our a yes on this coalition ' composed of element' which repel each other; when we see the fortnitone and strange niocture of nations, whom nature has made rivals: when we reflect that many of them, by incousiderate alliances, expose thearvielves stingers which are nut a chimera; we cannot believe that such as assemblage of interests so different can be of long situation. " Do not I behold in the midst of the enemy's rank', a Prince torn with all the French sentiments, in the country where they are, perhaps, most lively ? . The warrior, who formerly defended France, cannot long remain armed against her. 4 ' Let ns remember, toe, that a monarch of the north, and the atiost powerful of ell, did but lately reckon among his titles to glory, the friendship of the greet man with whom he now combats. " Our eyes tarn with confideuce to that Yariperor, whom so many tics minds to our's; who gave ea the fairest present in a 'eim eil sovereign ; and who beholds in his grandson the heir of the Reach E:npire. 4 ' With so many motives to agree, and to guile, can peace be difficult ? " Let the place of conference be immediately fixed; let the ple nipotentiaries on both eideir come forward with the noble wish to give peace to the world : let moderation reign in their councils as well as in their language. The Allied flossier* have themselves said, ii - nation dots not lose painful end bloody wkich Tin es- ill • 7.,• pect of your Committee, if, in proving to demonstration the pacilii: intentions of the Emperor, our last words did not iemind the peo ple of what they owe to thenselves,—what they owe to Lie nio- Hatch. " The moment is decisive. The foreign powers hold a pacifc language, but some of our frontiers are invaded, and war is at our doors. Thirty-4x millions of men cannot betray their glory and their destiny. Nations distinguished in this great quarrel have experi enced numerous reverses : more than once they have been put fors de conduit ; their wounds bleed still. France has also re:seived some wound:; but she is far from being cast down ; she may be proud Of her %snoods as of her past triumphs. Despondency in adversity would be more inexcusable than boasting in prosperity. Thus, then while we make peace, let the military preparations be accelerated, and support the tiegociations. Let us rally round tie diadem where the splendour of fifty s ictories shine through a passing. cloud. " Fortune is not long wanting to nations who are not wanting to themselves. " This appeal to the national honour is dictated by the love of peace; of that peace, v'. Lich is not obtained by weakness but by firmness : of that peace, in short, which the Emperor, with a new species of coinage, promises to grant at the price of great sacrifices. 1 "We have the soothing confidence , that his wi sh es an d ou r ' s will be realized ; and that this brave liation, after such long fatigue, and . 1 so muds bloodshed, ;till find repose under the auspices of a throne, I which bad enough of glory, and w !licit, tor the future, chooses to i be btu rounded only with images of public felicity." DIFPOIIT TO MIS MAJESTYThe EMPETIOR AND KING. Site. I have the honour to lay hetisre your Majesty the dispatches of your Legation at Berne, ausiouuring - , that the territory and the neutrality ofSwitz: rki.d have been violated by the Allies. 1 subjoin the lettjr brought by Mitsgrg. Rs ttiman and Wieland, E uv oys. c xtraordimry from the Swiss Diet, and your Majesty% aus‘ver, coutirmiog the recognition already made by your Minister, of the uentrglity of Switrerbuol. While these Envoys presented to your Majesty the letters they brought, other Envoys repaired to the allied Sovereigns at Frank fort, who premised to recognize the nelitrality of Switzerland, and the Commander in Chief of their armies every w hoe gave orders le respect it. Confiding in these promises and orders, the Swiss had limited their Free:lotions to the placing elf a mere cordon. Your Majesty had no troops: on that frontier, vrishing to remove every idea of the tient rality of Switzerland bring in danger on that side. But the Allies have not only violated the neutrality of Switzer land, they have sent M. (le Sent to Herne. to require, that Bwitzer land shall renounce the art of mediation, the con•eiretices of niii(h have for these ten years rendered it so happy. M. de Senft accom panied this demand, with the declaration, that the Allied Army was going to enter So itzerland. At the same moment M. Anhns snmmoned the troops of the CAD federation to cvacnate their posts : the bridge of Basle was forced, and the silliest army entered at different points. fly viu)nting in this manner the territory of a pearefol people and it., neutrality, which Enrope has respect( d for three centuries, the Allies themselves have given the measure of the confidence their promises merit, and show, what is in fact, the respect it they profess for the rights of nations. The Minister for Foreign Afl'airs, CAULA NCO IRT, Duke of Vicenza. Paris, Dec. IT, 1313. (Signed) [Here follow the letter of the Lindamman of Svritrerland to the Ymperor, announcing the neutrality, the declaration of the Diet, both d4ted Nov. 18; and linonaparte's kiltr to the Landman:in, recogniving the neutrality, dated Dec. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER FOR FORMS* AFFAInS. Sir,—Yesterday morning General Militia had a conference witit Colonel Herrenschvrand, who commands the Swiss troops from Basle to Lauffinburg, and declared to him, that the Allied Army, 160;000 strong, would enter Switzerland, in the night of the 20th, by Basle, Rheinfeld, and 'stein. It is said, that Colonel Herr( tiglt. wand wai required to give information of it to the Laudamman, and to General Watteville ; and it seems that the Swiss battalions which were on the Rhine have fallen back, some to Solenre, ant 4 some to the head-quarters, which have retired from Aran to Lentz burg. It is announced, that on the 26th, 10,000 men, chiefly Ans. 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