The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-25 00:00:00

TIIF, NATIONAI REGISTER. JULY 25. laud, that she is sovereign of the continent, and, therefore, may quietly wait the termination of the ltritiOi n'aratime power ;---now, %viten the nullity of a ?eparatc peace is apparent, and the obstinacy Nvi l it winch one war after anothei has been Waged is exhausted; the voice of Peace heard, and the French Emperor, proposing a gene ral Congress for Peak., concludes an A.roistice, to pot au end to the effasion of human blood ; and while he speak 3 of sensibility, seems dvAroas to have it believed, that he has had no part in pro ducing the misery, which, during the lust ten year A, has afflicted Europe. " Few believe in the sincerity of stich a proposal ; they cannot stippue tnat any else iy intended bat to gain time. For over CWII !Eat, ',co inliq rouross that we differ from this opinion. France is now oblirred to carry en the war from . her own resources alone, pea loti no huger Ole power to continue it rod NAVPIeOII, 170 :::e I . ofllider of a dynasty must heap facial:ors Cu sacrifices. '.V.t theatre of war extents trom the Ta ,, as to the Neva, and trot, the Danube to the Froton Ocean Spain has for fire years past heco changed i•ito a desert, and has been only an open grave for the Freti-h ariates. The piles are yet snicking on which, the plains of Russia, the bodies of ni,lre than three huhilied thoonsnd Fr( nr warriors, the tiower of Wostetii Esivape, were comamel, to pi veot pestileoee. All the colonies of France are in the hands of England, and no means remain of reeni,ering them by toter. Spa nish Anita - lea has detached herself' from the mother coint.ry. an.l reverve her resenrees Cnr her own regardless of the wag n. of the FiTiWil Mill•!!•1*.—to be.vare how she yields herself CX cl!;qi%dy ttl EitofitA. Euro:o.an world is io conimotio7:, and -refuses to leod ti sit hdlo(nee which has eattsed all its misery. Unner seA eicritrostleres., the wish for peace is natural, eves) ill those who I;A% e toai,i. tsar for every thing. " Gut how s1:311 this wisn oe gratifie:l? A Congress for a gent ral peare, we are told, shall he assembled at Prague, at olueli api n on tin one part, the Plenipoten ltarleA of France, those of toe L lilted States of America, Denmaik, the King of Sp oin, and all the Allied Princes Ounptcstionably of Itak' mid Gorinan : on the °titer part, the Plenipotentiaries of England, Russia, Pi ussia, the Spani-li losurgeots, and the other ' of these Builigerent Powers, (among which, douhtless, Sweden is to be reckoned). It is added, that these principles -arc.:rd with the vieWSiif Austria. _ _ . " It consists with the nature of things, that, if Europe shout enjoy apc :ter u me length in its (titration, it ran oaly he the work of a Congress, and cannot he produced by ...itch negoei.itions at those of ltreshur, Tilsit, and Vienna. This, however, most 1w the first question, 1V:io sktil he admitted to this Ctingress? " the French Eraporor eau procure an admission to it for the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, it is difficult to say •s fly the Tut kish Emperor, the King of Persia, and the Republic of Spanish Atnernta, should not be admitted. The policy of the United States is essentially diflerent from that of the European States, though they are for the moment involved in the war, which France carries on against England. Their interest, therefore, can be only the general interest of trade ; and they can have nothing to do with a Congress for Peace, held at Prtigue, but merely to per }dux and protract the negoetations. It is still more remarkable that the Plenipotentiaries of the Spanish Insurgents shall 1w admitted together with those of KM.: Joseph. How! Have the two, then, any thing in common? Is th-re any capitulation between the Ihnirgents and the King id Mn;t not the forintr insist that Joseph Napoleon shall evacuate Spain; and the latter that there shad be nu insurgents in Spain? And what should the Allies of France do at a Congress for peace, if among theta we are to reckon the Princes of Germany and Italy ? How long have they had interests to espouse or defend ? Hitherto their greJtett sirtue has consisted in slavidi obedience. They were the vassals of Frame, in the worst sense of the . ...ord ; and as such, in negociations for a general peace, they can only be the of je:Js of them, not partictpators in them. 64 The only real Plempotentiaric4, therefore, that wilt remain, are those of Englattd, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark. The o':ijects they have to discuss arc of sufficient inag nitule, and sufficiently pet piexed to engage them fer a long time, ;toil to set in snotion every passion. " The Erciich Emperor, before his departure from Paris in April last, said to the Deputies of the Lci ! ,isiative Body, that the inte grity of the French Empire had never nt.-en enslangered, nor ever should be. If he continue to adhere to this declaration, the Con. gresg for peace at Prague is sinsettlutios. on.y must there ne a question of what France has nsurped from Germany (the ithine b•Ang consrdered as the boaudaty between Frit=9: and Out Coon- 467 try ; but of the aboiition of the Confederation of the Rhine, and even the kingdom of ;taly itself; as also of what has been annexed to France in " the South of Germany ; .or the independence, of Ger many can never be re established. . " France must return to original principle., and open the Can. g,reFa with declaring, that she i; willing to retire %%it'll:: her 'natural noundaries. This declaration, alone worthy of a gre, - . - .t Power, will rechneile all the Powers of the Continent ; and tilting!' it contains thc oonl'ession of past faults, it is th..! only initative of a future ptare with England. France untst now feel, that she has only wookt herself by i:.l acquisitions : she his WOW Orpertilnity to rear thit error. " In short either France understands the art, at tha aPpro-ehing Congress for Peace, wherever it may take place, to tt.rjili ilk' to :tersclf thc Powers of Enrope,----and thou will site obtain more than sin. could have expectc:l : or she does not mulastand that at t, and , then is the Revolution of the I e,tli of litumuire not the last that She may eXpect. Able physiciats, in desperate. eases, have often re• rout-e to opposite remedies. 'lnure Li now only one tIICHIIS to re 4aiti the comidence of Eto opt.), winch nt , t he, before the Cong:TS‘ commences, to recall the French arini,'s l'rom Germany and S.,Pti!; fur a ne t ...ciat ion for peace in tie neig%it,,inhood Pr*, nett troops, will not be carried on in the best spit it. If Nl:oreon eau not prev,,tl oil himself to remove their,, i,c ',tot in v . ...in of com miseration for the shedding of G u inan : the war must still continue; and as he has Arcady found a INlAr;bnivitgii is Spain, he may find a Pt ince Eugene in elet many." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. [ilonday and Tuesday no busine6s of importance - was dons in ciao: flonse.] HOUSE 0) 1 LORDS. WEDNESDAY, My 21. The Royal Assent NVIS given by Commission to the remaining fills which had been passed . by their Lordships in the mouse of the present week. Among them were the India Charter Hill, Stipen diary COrate Z, Trinity Doctrine, Cam Navigation, Ship Owners' and Windsor Forest Hills, aod_a ifluher of others, both pub. lie aut private. THURSDAY. JULY 22. CLOSE 07 TH E SESSION OF PA RLI A MENT. This dos. the Prince iitege:,t went in state to the H use t.t Peers, t') close the . Session of Parli:rment, •by a speech limn the Tl.rone. His Royal Highness, dressed in regimentals, and wearing'be Order of the Garter, entered the State Carriageat live 'Montt . . I,;(.•rire two o'clock. attended by the Duke of Montrose to carry the Ss.s.rd of State, and Lord JaraPs l‘l!lrtay as the Lord in Waithug. ton his Royal Highness's entin ing the State Carriage, the band of the Cold streant Regiment struck up " Go .l save the King ;" the regiment at the same time presenting arms.. The eig'l. s!'eats:-evioured horses were ornamented with a profusion of ligl; r:lkons. The pro. cession passed through yt. Jame . s's Park, an., at the House of Peers at tv:enty minutes i.:!st two. The arrival of the Prince ittee,ent in the Royal •--as an. flounced by la salute of tweati-a . . •ns from the rivet. Tie side benches of the House were previon..iy targc, assc:we hinge of Ladles of the first distinction. Th.: tlpanisit, Portuguese Ambassadnrs, were upon a bei:Ch en the .fight of tes: Throne; and a conliderable number of Peer:; and s huirts were also assembled in their tones. The Plume Regent !lic•o entered, and took his scat on the Throne, having the Great Ministers of State 04 each side of him, w4ll their &Remit enibms of office. The S:vord of State was berne•by the garkot Liverpool, as Prime Mi., niter, The Usher of the Black Rod then proceeded to summon the at tenth/nee of the House of Commons, the Members of which, with the SPEAKER at the head, scent after appeared kit the bar, when the SPE .KER addressed Oa Prince Regent as follows — May it plca'e your Royal Highness,— We, his Illtijecty's most du. - tifd iJyal sobjects, the Commons of Great Britain and 'Wan(' in Parliament a.!;•embled, have ciosed the supplies for the sarvice of the present car ; add, reflecting upon the various trimsactions synicia have conic before u', we look bask with satisfaction npont' tutre which er:rxern our domestic poly: s' entexteining also a confident hope in the prosperous issue of ti:USV great Clients which most re/Atte the settlemeet of onr forei;;,zi relations. Unde.: 4 toe pressote („f'Ereat butiens at hcmc, art! MP SUP ;OW A