The National Register. — London, England, 1813-09-19 00:00:00

SPS 'roat overtures Siit,ving from so pure a motive should be decidedV rejertt cou:d not certainly !.e fore .ceat. But the manner in which wt re teceived, and still more the striking contrast botween the olcotiments entertained by Austria and the whole conduct of the Etoperor Nap , loon, to the period of these unmccessful endea vs na Inv peace, axon alt trovcd the best hopes that were enter. 1.1 dead of end( arouring by a m'.+ rate language to improve at 1-ast our tiew of the totmc, and to I ,, i4en the general des votlet:cy, it ‘‘:is en every Occasicn solemnly declared, belbre the :aithor. ties in reaeee, that the Emperor wool'! hear of no propotiou fot peace that should vi late the integrity of the French ei»pir,, in the l'reneli sense ut the word, or that should make ;aiy to the .irbitrarily it:curia), ate() provinces. At the eventual C011114101E% with which this self cry !led boondary (1:41 not even appear to have any relation, were splien of, at_onti time meoacirg itufignation, at another with bitter contempt ; as it' it leo! not been possible to declare in !elms slit fic•tan:y d:stioet, au , ru,, , iwilm 4)r cle Napioom, not to wake to the repose (!t* UP' tri))lit teen one single nominal sacrifice. 'These hostile demanstiations were attended with thi- particular mortilicatini to Austria, that they placed even the invitations to j'eace this Cabinet, with flit knowled;:e and apparent cot:- sent of FroliCC, Mad(' to a.ther Coorts, in a false and hi•.llly disad vantageous light. Thu Si'Vel CigllS !Mite(' ar. - alist Fraoce, ino.ead of any answer to Austria's propositions for Neeociation, anal filet Dili''' of !aedi.ition, laid In lore her the wi!die th(''otations of the French ilioperor. And when it) ti•e month or Match, I:is !.I:(esty sent a Minister to Londoo, to invite Lu:dand to share in a ezo ciation tor pt-art', 800 Ministry la " that they would no: heiieve Austria still entertain , d any how's of pear'', .111411 the rur Naiolvon :tad in the mean time expressed st)t!inients wli'eh could only Itial to the pet oetnation of war ;" a deelaration Wil6 the more painful to his Alaje.-;y', the more it was ju-t a! d ,roll f.!ititded. Aitol I:1. liti\t (AI r, did not, upon this account, CC 'C to impress in inole fmrible roll distinct terms, the ilert...:•Hy of pi‘ave, Limn tile o•hiti of the Emperor of France; directed in ail her measures liy principle, that, as all order and balance of pow( r in Forope had been tics fro% ed by the boendless S il l clibitity el France, no real pi tce er a• to be expect: d, unless that supetiotily were diniiiiished llis 11Taie , tY in the mean time adoptvil evt•ry necessary ereng Igen ;old concentrate his armies: sensible that Anslria fl ut ist lie pale.: for will' it her mediation were not to be entilely titi availine. He. Impel ial Nlajesty had morcmer been in;;;;; , htee per. II ;.t the of an immediate slutl . e in t!,e \rat., wtoidd t o low:et he escluded from his caleulaticns. '11:e actual' state of dupes could not be continued ; of this the Emperor was con% inced : this conviction IViIA the mainspring of his actions, anti vas natitrall) strengthened by the failure of any attt mitt to procure a pei,ce. 'Die result w:is apparent. fl one means or the ot.':cr, t by negoriatinti or by tOrce of arms, a new state of things must be cliceteti. ''it.puror Napoleon was not only aware of the Austrian pre parations t , r at. but even acknowledged them as necessary, and just find thein in more than •ne instance. He had -ittfteient reason to In.lie‘e,ll:at kis Majesty the Emperor, at so decisive a period for the We of the whole world, would lay aside all personal and mo mentary feciirers, %eonld alone constslt the lasting wdfare of Ans. trig, and of the countrie.: by which she is surrounded, and would re solve ur,tltita but what this great motive shottlil impo , e as a ditty Upon Linn T; .e. Austrian Cabinet had never t xpiessed itself in terms that woahi wattant any other constrne:iou; mud yet the Fr( itch (NI not only acknowledge that the Austrian mediat;on cou!d only be an Antall mediation, but declared, upon more than on; oc casion, that Austria, under cxistint: circumstances, ought no long* r to - confine In rscif to act a condary part, but should appear in forre upon the stage, and decide as a great and indeptaulent Paws Whatever the Fretult Government could either hope or fear from Austria, this acknowledgment was of itselt a 'nevi, us justification of the whole int ruled and hitherto adopted measures of his Imperial Majesty. Thu , tar were circumstances developed when the Emper o r N a p o I con l e ft p a r k ora,r to make head against the progroN of the aliied armies Even tilt it enemies have done homage to the valour of the Russian and Prussian troops in the sanguinary actions of the month of NI ay Tlett, however. the result of this first period of the campaign w..s not more favourable to them, was owing partly to the gyve numerical superiority of the Preach force, and to the of their leader, and wide!, the Sovc . They acted under the in which they were en. SEPT. 19. gaged, con!d not possibly be confined to themselves, that sooner or later, %%f ether successfull or unfortunate, every state which still pre. •erved a sh 'flow of independence nmst join their confederacy, eveiy indrpwolent army mitt act with them. They, therelbre, did not allow &tiller scope to the bravery of their troop:, than the moment recrirtil, and pre, , erved a considerable part of their strength fir a when, with mere extended meaw, the, - might look to the attainment of greater objects. For the amc can-e, and with a view to the dcvelopement of events, they consented to the Arthisti e. In the mean time the retreat of the Allies hail for the mornent riven an apoearacce to the war, which daily became more interest hig to the imperor, from the impossthility, it it should succeed, of his remaining an inactive spectator of it. The fate of the Prus.ial Monarchy w:,:s a point which pertdiarly attracted the attention of his Majesty, feeliog, as the Emperor did, that the iestoration of the Pin-shin Monarchy was the t step towards that of the ‘‘lode litiral srA4:lll- of Etirope, arid he vievietl the danger in which she now stood, as equally affecting himself. Already, iu the month of April, had the .Emperor Napoleon suggested to te:e Austrian Cabi net, that he considered the dissolotion of the Prussian I%loo:trek. a 3 a manna! eons' queeee of her detection trom Prance, zeal of the eon tinte.tion of the war, and th it it now on!y depended npoil Austria to add the mo•t iiiportant and most Itairishing Of her provinces to it• own sta(' ; a sage.estion whie:i showed distintstly lamogh, th a t eo means ciail I properly be neelec:ed to save that Power. If this Lzil•iit obit•lrt Cotil:1 not obtained by a just rare, it wac 1:e -c~ asst VlO support Ittioia and r i a...j et by a ',oval io.operati.Ja. Filial this HaPiril view or opon which eva ii Franee could hatger elect ive hl rself, Maje•ty continued his preparations with unwearied activity. H:• grit in the early pat tof Jul), his residence, and proceeded to the vicinity or the scene of action, in order the more effectually to labour at the netociation for peace, which still emititmcd to be the object of his most ardeet desires ; and partly to he able the more ellectnally to conduct the prepara tions of wav, if no other choice should reit ain for A list! la. A short time before the Emperor Napoleon 1e..1 declared, " that Ile IN 4I pr, 'osf d a Congtvos, to be la Id at Pragne, where Pleni potentiaries li:;111 Ranee, the United States of North America, Manna, k, the King of Spain, and the ot!.er Allied Princes ou hand, aim on the other, Plenipotentiaries of England, Russia, Prussia, t h e Spanish Ins:on - gents, and the other Allies of this hostile mass, should meet, and lay the ground xviiik of a peace." To what this 011m:01011 Wis.S illtithlAisCil, ID whit mama I', in VI Lit tiip!otiiat ic thro%,ll wiinse organ it roidd have. been done, was perfectly unktiowti to the Austrian Cabinet, %%hick on:y tVaS made ilepla ed the circumstance through the medium of the pAlic print'. How, too. such a project could be bronght to bear—how train the ronthiaa!ion of such dissimular elements, without any generally ac kuowledged lob:cited, without Lily previously regulated plait, a . gceiation tOr peace was to be set on foot, was so little to be cioy,plekiet e d, that it was very all , wahle to consider the whole propo-it!on rather as a play of the imagination, them as a serious invitation to the adoption of a great political measure. Pesfectly with all the obstacles to a generJ peace, Austria had twig considered whether this distant and difficult object was not rather to be attained ptogressively ; aunt , iu this opinion, had expressed herself both to France, and to Russia and Prussia, upon t h e sidject of a continental peace. Not that the Austrian Gout had miscoticeived, even for a moment, the necessity and in:- portauce ef an universal peace among all the great Powers of Eu rope, and vvithout which there was no hope of either safety or hap piness, or had imagined that the Continent could exist, if the sepa ration of England were not bleat iable considered as a most cleanly evil ! The negociation which Austria proposed, after the alarmitig declaration of France had nearly destroyed all the hopes of England uniti..g her endeavour:tin the attempt to procure a general peace, was an essential part of the great approaching negoeiation, for a general and cif, Clive Congress for peace : it was intended as preparatory to this, to draw up the preliminary articles of the futare Treaty, to pave the way by a loag continental .Irmistice to a more extended and duralltmegociation. Had the princip!e upon which Austria advanced been other than this, neitner Russia nor Prnssia, bound by the strongest ties to England,. would certainly ever have listened to the proposals of the Austrian Cabinet. • After the Russian n! , (1 Prussian Conits, animated by a roof!. dence in his )13je,iy, highly flatterii;r., to the Einreror, had alrtudy th . clared their ( . 011(1,1.4.mv in the piopoA , 4l Congross tinder the_ me diation of it became necessary to obtain the f maul as,ent of the ,Eaipcin Napoleon, and to determine upon what principles the negociations for peace were to be carried on. For this purp9se imperial Ma,je-41;,' resolvtd towards: the end of the mouth of Julio .. univei-ally acknowleilued military talents p ar ily tp the 1)4011 : r t. l'. :11KIions. by .1 reigns xvere ;;iii c,i '-- , '''' ( e r rtalkings. JwsL suppiibili ' 4 ,, G . 4 , • _ 1 ''' 4 ,6 4:11kc H C . ;if /I : . • '4 4 .4 r- •; . --''. l e .: „ k - 54.1 1 . tok i ..1 ' •I*. •.' i'le • * . 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