The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-23 00:00:00

~ .. ' - . • : . f ' ` • •.• THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Our Ming, Constittitton, aim•Latu. PUBLISHED AT NO. 11, NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND. Mrlli SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1815. No. 382. VON' APARTE'S POLITICAL CONVERSION. Th , volution which has replaced Napoleon on the i t spcill' throne, sudden and unexpected as it was, has pc . rhP:)- excited less astonishment than that which appears to have taken Place in his cou-cils. The man ; whose will vas his law ; wli"m not only France, but the nations and monarchs of the Continent for many years - implicitly i ° herd, and in whom the long use of arbitrary power must have become a natural habit, has no sooner passed from exi'e to his crown, than he drops the despot's tone, and ac-•trees that of .a patriot and a friend to liberty. His Ministers are chos 'n among the men whom he had hitherto I disgraced re, accou'it of their republican principles. The people, he now proclaims, is not made to support the throne, but the throne erected to concentrate the energies of the peeple. and direcrithern into the channel of public pros perity. He recoqniSes n'ts . nther legitimate power - than tort conferred by tied' fo - e.the nation. The Constitution which he boasted in other times he had given Franeei.is now found wanting in liberality and freedom,. and another is to be formed by. the conntrY itself, to maintain which her will pledge his - political existence and all his rights to the'. Throne. The suddenness of this revolution in his natures might well create some doubts of his sincerity. It seldom. happens that the hearts of men expel at once their deep• rooted passions to adopt others of an opposite tendencT4 The hand accustomed to wave the sword of War and con. ° quest, wants skill to weave the wreaths of peace If Na.: poleon is believed in France, therefore, it is not on account, of his professions, but of the situation in which he is placed,- , which compels him to realize them. He has been recalled by the Army and the Republicans : the former is not suf ficient for his support ; its enthusiasm may be great in his nese, but its numbers are not equal to thosewhich Europe threatens to send forth against him, and as he is deprived of the means of augmenting them by conscripts, all the devotion of the army alone could not support him against foreign hostility and internal disaffection, were he .to resume the exercise of arbitrary power to its former exfent. He must I therefore court additional support, and finds it in the Repub limns. who still can rouse and Wield ; all the energies of the Pc . )lo, hut who will only arm them in his defence, on findlN him ready td adopt their views, to restore the sovereignty to the nation, and under the title of Emperor, to becomesnerely the head of the executive authority. To these conditions he has subscribed with apparent willing /less : and the important documents which follow, and which this week has produced to the world, wilt all be found to breathe that ;spirit. of political rt 4 CteLltill. NI A l 0 : 11 I r .r ifts • Plurr.nrf which circumstances may have - forced upon him, but which the measures adopted by his liresent cur/in-Wm will not allow to evaporate in vain professions. The on - inner in which they recruit his force to meet the attack of Europe, should the lowering storm at last burst into open...war, shows, that whilst they are willing to arm him against the Allies, they yield him no weapon agai st themselvev. Instead of reviving the Conscription to till up anti focd the waste of the regular army, and swell it to an unli mited amount, thus giving him the means of re-establish ing aespotism, they only allow the disbanded soldiers and returned prisoners to be called. As this force would not be sufficient, they have recourse to another, but of a temporary duration and of a nature which is not dt tho disposal of the throne, but of the people. th Natiorial Guards. Even should two millions of these be raised as they propose, 'at the end of the war they must be disbanded. ) and Napateon must remain with no othti standing force, than an army considerably reduced l±v the events of its campaigns, without any certain mode of replenishing its ranks, and therefore unable to support him in an attempt to regain absolute power in Franco, or once more to undertake the conqUest of the world. FOREIGN DITELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. - AYSWEIt OF raiwca GOTEAno.-- 'SION OF THE ALLIES. * TO THZ DSCLA.. Report of the Committee of Presidents of the Council of State. In consequence of the remit which lots been made to it. the Com mittee, composed of Presidents of Sections of the Conveil has extunined the Declaration of the 13th of iamb. the report of the Minister-of General Police, and the 4penments thereto sub joins& The Declaration is in a forM so dmisnal, coneeived in' terms so strange, expresses ideas so antiffureial, -*bat the COM:dit , tee was ready to consider it as one of those forgeries by Which des picable men leek to mislead the people. and produce : a einniee in pablic opinion. But the verifications of 1.-gill minutes &nun ups t Metz, and orthe examinations of eentiers, has left no ground for daub t that the transmission of this dechiation was made by the Memberi °Utile 'French Legation at Vjeasta, and it nnist, therefore. b.' re garded at adopted and signed by them. It.was in this first point of view that the Committee thought it their ditty to examine, in the first instance, this prottnetibn, which is without precedent in the annals of diplomacy, and in which Frenchmen, men invested with a public character the most respectable, begin by a sort of placinj withont the law, or, to speak more precisely, by an ineitrniciit to the assassination of the Emperor Napoleon. We say with the Mi nister of Police that this Declaration is the work of the Frei:ell Plenipotentiaries ; becanse those of Austria, Russia, Prussia) and ' England, conlA not have signi-d a deed which the S'. ereizos an the nations to which they below, - will _tasty,' to disavow. For u the first place these Plenipotentia iv., most of *hum co o p t - r at,-,1 in the Treaty of Paris, know tfkat gapoleun was there tecogfii • I etaktfing the title of Emptier', and as SJveiCigr3 of the Isle of 41'7L'c • 'Y.:.