The National Register. — London, England, 1809-01-22 00:00:00

E NATIPNAL REGISTER.. 56 T; connected by ties of the closest alliance, and by stipulations which unite their counsels for peace as well as for war. To Spain his alajesty is not yet bound by any formal.instru pent ; but his Majesty has, n the face'of the world, contracted with that nation engagements not less Sacred and not less bind ing upon his M:ijesty',; mind than the most solemn treaties.. His. Majesty therefore assumes that l in an overture made to his Nla jesty for entering into negociations for a general peace the re.. lotions subsisting between his Majesty and the Spanislrbiontirchy • have been dit•tinctly taken into consideration, and that the vernment acting in the name of his Catholic Majesty, Ferdinautl the Seventh,,, is uncterstood to be a party to any negoci4tion in . Which his Majiisty is invited to engage,. (Signed) • GEORGE CANNING. Count de nomanzotr tn•. Mr. Secretary fiaaning, dated Paris, 28th' Nov. 1808. • Received December 6th. . • NOTE. • • The tinclergliniql. Arirtister for Foreign Affairs of his - Majesty the Emperor of all 1 1 -.0 Ruffilas, has the honour to reply 'to the isilv of the With Oc ,Her, si i nied by Mr. Canning, Secrefary of . State' for Foreign Wffair; to t: is Majesty 'the king o r (114 at fain. and addressed by. his Excelfehey the Russian • Atribaisagr 1 ,Paris ;—That the admission of the Sovereigns in Alliance With England, to a •Congress.catinei be a point of any difficujiy, in that - 403sta And it i'anee cottsitif to . if. "'But this principle.' by no.thelinsiitetitls . tO * the nceessity of . admitting the Plenipo lentiarl,s, of the parilsh insurgents: • The Emperor of Russia cannot admit theitn 114 Etdplrp , in - similar circumstances, — and erip' rrec Ilea one particular instance,—itas always been tree !ci .1 he smile ciple. Moreover, he has already lc, khowtedz,ed "the Kin!. .Joseph Napoleon. fie has announced,to . Rritanaie hdljesty, that he was united With fhe. Emperor of the French for peace as well as for war; and his . Imperial. jelly here r-peats thaf declaration.. He is resolved 'ant to sepa- . rate his !ti:er , •sts' from tifoie of that MonarCh ; but they areboth . ready to :tonclaile 'a peda l * provided it be just, honourable, and egital !Or all. parties. • • • . • The undersigned sees with pleasure, that, in this difference of opialow respecting the Spaniards, nothing presents itself which can either prevent or delay the opening of a Congress. He de ri his persuasion in this respect, from that which his Britannic Majesty has himself confided to the two Emperors, that he is• bound by no positive engagement with those who have taken up arms in Spain. After fifteen years of war, Europe has a' right tademand pare.. The interest of all the Powers, includ ing that of England, is to render it general. Humanity cam= funds it; and such a desire, surely, cannot be foreign to the fee. ins of his Britannic Majesty. How can it he, that he alone can withdraw himself from such an object, and refuse to tenni pate the miseries ofsuffering humanity ? • The undersigned consequently renews, in the name of the Em peror his august Master, the proposal already spade, to *IP? Plenipotentiaries to uny city on the Continent, which his Bri tannic Majesty may please to point out; to admit to the Congress the Plenipotentiaries of the Sovereigns in alliance with (:rest Britain to treat upon the basis of the uti posstdetis, and upon that of the respective power of the belligerent parties: In fine, to accept any basis which may have for its object the conclusion Of a peace; in which all parties shall find honour, justice. and equality. The undersigned has the honour to renew to his xceJiency Mr. Canning the assurances of his high consider-titian. •(Signed) COMA NICHOLAS DE ROMANZOFF. M. de Champagny to Mr. Canning.—Norn. The undersigned.has laid before the Emperor, his Master, the note of his Excellency Mr. Cannin•. If it were true that t h e evils of war. were felt only o n th e Continent, certainly there ._ would be little hope of attaining peace. Thetwo Emperors hatd ' flattered themselves that the object of their measure would not have been misinterpreted in Landon. Could the English Minis try have ascribed it to weakness or necessity, when every im partial statesman must recngnolle in the spirit of peace and mo deration by which it is dictated, the characteristics of power mid true greatness I France and Russia can carry on the war so long as the Court of London shall not recur to just and equitable dispositions, and they are resolved to do so, now is it possible for the French Government to entertain the proposal which has been made to it, of admitting to the Nego- • .-.: JAN; -29. a ciatlon the Spanish insurgents. What would the English Go!" vernment have said had it been proposed to them te:ldmiethe Ca l tholic insurgents of Ireland ? France, Aiittolit having any, ;frets; ties with them, has been in Communication with then) : lute made them promises, and has frequently sent them succours. Could such a proposal have found place . in a note, theObje”OfWh:ich ought not to* have been to irritate, but to:endeiVeur to effect to. mutual conciliation art&good underistandinj? England will land herself under a strange mistake, if, contrary . to 'the esperietire of the past, she still entertains the ichqt of ronfendingStie . cessftilly, upon the Continent, against the artnieS of Fiance, What hope can she now have .especially as France is' irreVocabl,y 'nuked with Russia: The undersigned is camtrindeeto repetif. "the preposal, to admit to the negotiation all the Allies of the King of En land ; whether it be the Kingfwho reigns in the 13razils ; whether it, be the King 4rtin. reigns in Sweiten; "or whether it.be the King; who reigns in ; *anti to take fur:Aim basis of the negociatiOn the uti possi.-reiis. -Ile is ceinmattstedle express the hope that, pot losing-sight Of the intSvirabl e results Of the force of States, it will be remembered; that iletrwtflkosettMt Powers there isjno solid peace, but that-which i*.itt ii,ts sfrtine'Cilne equal a; - :.ihonourable for all p:lrties. 'the undersi..:ned roGlests his 14c.-liency Mr. Canning to accept theassuranceß eift . h is sitigh est conbideration. (Signed) *CttAattlAGN.v. or:r RI AL . 4 .N4:) . T. • .• • • • Dated Foreign Ailice, 9th Dee. 1808. • The undersigned, his .Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid before - the•Ning•ftis — Master, the ,note transmitted to him by his , 'Exoelleney the Count Nit - holas de Romanzoff, Minister for Coreigir Atfaimof his Majesty the Emperor of all the *Rtissias, dated on the 10-•. ii of November, The King learns with nstottiithment and regret, the expectation nhich are:•ars to have been entertained ill/4 his . Ilajeky'shottld consent to commence a negociation for general peace by the previous abandonment of the Cause of the Spanish nation, and °flit° legitimate monarchy of Spain, • i retie fereneett) ttnitantypa— tion which has no parallel in the history or thv.-worx. His Majesty had hoped that the participation of the Emperor of Russia in the overtures made to his Majesty, :would hare af forded a security to his Alajesity against the proposal of,u;enn4i i lion, so unjust in its effect, and- so fatal in its example. Nor can his Majesty conceive by what obligation of duty pr. 4. 10, terest, or by what ,prinril:lo. o‘' Rusoao.p4ilicy, his *lmperial Majesty can have found " himself conip,•lled to acknosi ledge 'the right, assumed by France, to d^pose•and. imprison triendis So vereigns, and forcibly to transfer to .herself the allegiance, bf loyal and independent nations. If these be ioiteed the princi ples to which the Emperor of Russia has inviolably tutached himself; to which his Imperial Majesty has pledged .the. sacter.and resources of bis Empire; which he has united hims elf .wita France to establish by war, and to maintain. in pea ce, deeply does his Majesty lament' a determination, by. which the u fte ring s .of Europe, must be aggravated and prOlougcd'.but pot to his Majesty is to be attributed the contiouunce of ;he cala mities of war, by .the disappointment of all hope of wk:a peace as would be compatible with justice and with honour, . The undersigned, &c:, • • (Signed) GEGRGE CANNING: OFFICIAL NOTE. • Dated Foreign Office, Dec. 9, ISO. The undersigned, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of 'State rot-Foreign Affairs, has laid before the King, his Master, the Note transmitted to him by his Excellency M. de Chainpagny, hied 49th NOvember.—He is especially commanded by his Ma -.sty to abstain from noticing any of those lOpics and expres .nus insulting to his Majesty, •to his Allies, and to the Spanish mien, with which the Official Note teanensittect by M. de C:!anpagny Majesty was desirous to have tre•ited fur a peace which might have arranged the re sue. live interests of all the Powers engaged •in the war on }Awl pies of equal justice ; and his Majesty sincerely regrets that this doire of his Majesty is disappointed. But hie Majes ly is determined not to abandon the cause of the Spanish cation, ond of the legitimate Monarchy of Spain , and •the •pretensions of France to exclude from the vegeciation the•Ceuiral and Su preme Government, acting in the name of his Catholic Majesty Ferdiband VII. is one which his Majesty could Dot admit, without acquiescing in an usurpation which has no parallel is the history of the world.--'The oadersigued, dec. . (Signed) Gro. CANNINGic 1 / 1 R 1 4 ~ .lAA 1 1 ~ ;,, t ilk