The National Register. — London, England, 1815-09-03 00:00:00

THE NATI exposeront da%antage. On dira que vous ne gardez ces titres clue parce quc vous gardez toutes Nos prkentiona. On lira que le rocher d'Elbe est le point d'appul sur lc quel vous placcrcz les.leviers avec lcsquels vous chercheret cncore a soulever le monde. Pcrmettez moi de vous dire ma pensee toute, entiere e;lc cst le resultat dc 'rues refleBions. 11 serait plus glo ricuz et plus consolant pour vous, de vivre en simple cit eyen ; et aujourd'bui Pasile le plus 4,41 r et le plus convene- He pour un homme tel que vous, ce sont les Etats ULIIS d'Amerique. vous recommence= votre existence au milieu de ces Pcuples assez neufs encore; ils sauront admirer votre genie sans le eraindre. Vous y sercz sous la protection de ces lois egales et inviolables pour tout cc qui respire : dans la patrie des Franklin, des Washington, et des Jepherson. Vons prouverez a ces peuples, que si vous aviez . recu la naissance au milieu d'eux, vous auriez senti, pose, et vote comme enz ; que vous auriez prefere leurs yertus et leurs libertes a toutes les dominations de la terre. J'ai l'honneur &etre. &c. (Signe) Lc Dec D'OTRANTE. TRANSLATION. Copy of a Lttfir written by the Duke of Otranto to his Royal Ifighness Monsieur, April 4s, 18 14. MONSEIGNEUR,--I have attempted to render a fresh ser vice to the Emperor Napoleon, whose Minister I have been during ten years. I think it proper to communicate to your Royal highness the letter which I have written to him. Isis interests cannot be an indifferent object to me, since they have moved the generous compassion of the Powers who have conquered him. But the greatest of all interests for France and for Europe, that to which every thing should be sacrificed, is the repose of nations and of Monarchs, after so many agitations and calamities: and that r:pose, even if it should be established on solid bases, mould never be sufficiently secured, would never be truly enjoyed, as long as the Emperor Napoleon should stay in. the island of Elba. Napoleon on that rock, would be to Italy, to France, and to all Europe, what Vesuvius is by thy side of Naples. I only see the New World and the Lulled States in which he can produce no convulsion. TRANSLATION. Copy of the Letter written by the Duke of Otranto to the Emperor _Napoleon, April 23 1 1814, inclosed within the foregoing. Siftr:,—When Trance and a part of Europe were at our feet, I dared to make you constantly hear the truth. IN ow that you are uufortunate, I experience more dread ifiIIINIMIIMINMEIMN -- of wounding your feelings by speaking the language of , sincerity: but I owe it to you, since to you it will prove useful and even necessary. "'Yon have acceptbd; as a tetreat, the island of Elba and its sovereignty. I lend a very attentive ear to all that is said respecting that sovereignty and that island. I think it my duty to assure you, that the situation of that island _ in Europe does not become your own, andthat the title of Sovereign of a few acres of land, still less becomes him who has possessed an immense empire. I beseech you to weigh these two considerations, and you will feel how well they are founded. The island of Elba lies at a. short distance from Africa, Greece % .and Spain : it almost touches the coasts of Italy and of France. From that island, the sea, the winds, and a small felucca, may rapidly conxey to every country most exposed to movements, events, and revolutions. As yet, stability exists nowhere. In this mutability of na tions, a genius like yours will always create inquietude and suspicions amongst the European Powers. 'Without being criminal, you will be accused; but without being criminal, - too, you will do harm; for alarm is a great evil both to governments and to nations. The King who is about to reign in France, will wish to reign only by justice ; but you know how many passions surround a throne, and with what skill hatred imparts to calumny the colours of truth. The titles which you preserve, whilst recalling at ever• moment wliat you have lost, can only serve to encrease the bitterness of your regrets. They will not appear a wreck., but a vain representation of so many vanished grandeurs. I say more : without honouring you, they will expose you to greater dangers. It will be said that you o`aly keep those titles because you maintain all your pretensions. It will be said that the rock of Elba is the resting point on which you intend to place the lever with which you will seek once more to raise the world. Allow me to tell you my whole thought : it is the re. sult of my reflexions. It would be more glorious and more consolatory for you to live as a simple citizen : and at present, the safest and the most becoming asylum for a man like you, is—the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. There, you will recommence your existence in the midst of a people still new : who will know how to ad. mire, without fearing, your genius. You will be undi;► the protection of those laws, equally impartial and invio lable for all that breathe--i►► the country of Franklin. Washington, and Jefferson. You will prove to the Ame• ricaus that if you had bee► born amongst them, you would have felt, thought, and voted like them ; and preferre•' (heir virtues and their liberties to all the doutivatiou of the earth. I have the honour to be, &c. (signed) The Duke of °TRANI E, if•