The National Register. — London, England, 1815-05-28 00:00:00

- still less for becoming its opponents. Bad we played our usual part and instigated them to take up arms; had we bribed them into hostilities with France, then no sooner would their avarice have been satisfied than they would have haitoned to shrink from a contest in which their heart had no share. As it is, they cannot betray . us, without betraying themselves. There is also another powerful guarantee for their fidelity, which did not furmerly exist. In all their anterior wars With France and Napoleon, they had never offended him beyond the hope . of pardon. They fought then to retain or to regain a few provinces, not to shake the pillars of his throne, or threaten the duration of his life. They might purchase peace by giving up the contested object, or if they broke their faith to their Allies, night be rewarded for their desertion with extended empire. But now such hopes are past. They have waged a personal war upon him, and what increases their criminality in his eyes, have waged it successfully. They have not only stripped him of his foreign conquests ; they have not only redeemed kingdoms from his yoke, reduced his titles and his power : they have torn the Imperial diadem from his brow ; they have banished him from the land which he had so long governed, and whatever colour may be put upon the fact, they have con fined him, like a convicted felon, in a small island of the Mediterranean. Now that he has burst the bonds : now that the sceptre of empire, and the sword of power are in his hands, they dread, and therefore anticipate his -ven geance. Submission, they feel would not obtain mercy. Divided, they would fall speedy victims to his superior strength ; and as it would be vain to calculate on a long period of complete union amongst themselves, they profit by the time when it exits, to make a common effort against him, and secure themselves, by his destruction, from all apprehcp.sions of future punishment. With such a motive ;or forming the present coalition, there is little doubt of their fidelity, and although we are not as sanguine in our hopes of its successful issue, as it seems the fashion to be, we believe at least that it will not be dis graced by any instance of treachery like the part, and that if the struggle should prove unavailing, and peace ith Buonaparte unavoidable, that peace will he con cluded with such an union of spirit and interests amongst all the Powers as will diminish its disadvantages and in crease its security. Twelve Members, ;milted off in the Mouse of Commons, on Thursday night. The whole number of Membcrs present, including the four tciless and the Speaker, must, therefore, Lave been 440. -s PVI A "rAr STATIC PAPERS. "-- OVERTURES OF PEIOE FROM THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON LETTER ?nom C‘UTAIINCOWIT TO VIICOVNT CASTLEREAGH, M•ATE') P tßiu, 4th APRIL, 1815. My Lord—The Emreror vt as anxious to express directly to 114 no,al the Prince Regent the Aentiments which imtpire him, and to mak, known fn hi,n the high value which he place* on the manitensewe of the pracP happily existing between the two rotinties. lam elyntilimleil in eon.rqnenee, my Lord, to address to von the annexed letter. and to twit your Ex elbowy to present it to hi. Hcvsl Highness - The first wish of the Emperor being that fir repow a' Etoope st hi remain inviolate. hin Mairsty hail beets OX loMft to maniremit this q•po.ilioni to the Sovereiesis who are still assembled at Vienna, :yid to all other Sovereign.. I have, &e. (Signed) CAULAINC-ERT, MC de Victnce, LETTER FROM M. RR CAUL iI+COLIRT TIP VI.;CRIPST CASTLEREAGH. I/ %TYR PARIS. APRIL 4, lit!) My Lard The expectations which bidticed hie Majesty the Emperor, my Angtt-t Sow ign. to 'Omit to the greatest sacri fices, have not keen fulfilled : France ha* not !yetis eel the price of the devotion of its Monarch : her hopes have been lismeutably rcived. After souse mouth- of !miens! restraint. her sentiments, concealed with regret, have at length manifested „themselves in ate extraordinary manner : by an universal and . pontaneons impulse, she has declared as her deliverer, the man. from whom alone site can expect Site guarantee of her liberties ard independence. The Emperor has appeared, the Royal Throne ha* fallen, and the Bone bon family have quitted our territory, without on. drop of blood having beets sited for their defence. Borne upon tln: arms of his peo ple, his Majesty has ti aversed France, from the point of the coast at which he at first touched the ground, as far as the centre of his capital, to tlrnt residence which is now again, as are all French hearts, filled with our dearest reineinbranees. No ob-taeles have delayed his Majesty's progress; from the instant of his re-landing upon French ground. lie resumed the government of his empire. Scarcely does his first Irian a;spear to have been for an instant interrupted. Every generous passion, every lineral thought' has rallied around him ; never did any present a spa, aele of more awful unanimity. The report of this great e% eta will _have reached your Lordship. lam commanded to announce it to you, in the name of the Emperor, and to request you will convey this (icvloraiirn to the knowledge of his Majesty the King of Gicat Britain, your iigtist Master. This Restoration of Ilse Emperor to the Throne of ri . a!tee is for him the in sst brilliant or hi. triumphs. His Nlajeiy prides himself above all, on the reflection, that lie owes it entireiy to the love of the French people, and he has no other wish than to repay such affections no longer by the trophies of vain ambition, but by all the advantages of an holsoinable reposes and by all the isle-sis a ls of a happy tranquillity. It is to the data. tion of peace that the Emperor look- 11.rward for the accomplish meta of Isis noble•I intentions. With a disposition to reApect the rights olother nations, Isis Majesty has the pleasing hope, that those of the French nation will remain inviolate. Tue Maiistenance of this precious deposit is the fiist, as it is the dearest of Isis duties, The quiet of the world is for a long time asauted o if all the other