The National Register. — London, England, 1815-08-27 00:00:00

AI"G. 27. one point excepted. What a contrast between what is ae.' walk• passing and their solemn promises! This is the age of on and justice, and the public opinion never had more power Who ran explain such excessive evils after such pri,rnises of moderation ? The present war was under taken to set re the cause of. legitimacy. Is this manner of carrying .on war calculated to render the authority . of your Majest% morelvicred ? ‘. Tl. , y desirous of punishing the individual who sported ~: tth the calamities of nations, and they inflict on France the sa;:)e violence, the same inhumanity. It was thought by all Europe that the entry of the Sovereigns into i'aris woad !.ut an end to the war. What will be thought nn learnik , ll that it was then only that the excesses of op pression commenced, without combats, and without resist ance? The evils which we are reproached with having in inctrd on others were never so great ; they never took place when the use of arms had no object; and thGugh it were true, that we had given the first examples of such an abuse force,of ought they to imitate what they impute to us as a crime ? It is known in the North, it is known in Prussia, that our want of moderation gave birth to energy and public spirit in our enemies. There will no longer be any end to the evils of humanity, if mutual vengeance: are to become the rule of war, for nations never die. " Your Majesty will deign to permit me to insist on one' final consideration—So long as France shall have any thing• to preserve, by the hope of maintaining its integrity as a, nation, no sacrifice will be impossible, and all the plans of an equitable policy may be executed; but the day in which the inhabitants shall have lost every thing, in which their ruin shall be consummated, a new order of things—a new series of events will be seen to arise, because there will no longer be either Government or obedience. A blindfury , will take the place of resignation. They will only seek counsel in despair; on both, sides there will be ravage; pil lage will make war on pillage. Every step of tht foreign soldiers will be marked with blood. France wilt be less ashamed of destroying herself than in allowing herself to be destroyed by others ; the moment approaches—already the national spirit takes this frightful direction ; the most oppo site parties are, blending into one; La Vendee itself unites its colours with thoe of the army. In this excess of evils what line of conduct remains to'your Majesty but that of removal ? The public functionaries in the same manner will quit their. places, and the armies of the Sovereigns will then be at issue with individuals feed from-all social ties. •• A nation of thirty millions of inhabitants may un doubtedly disappear from the face of the earth, but in this war of man to man, the oppressed and their vanquishers vrill lie together in more than one grave. N FOUCHE." TrIR NATIONAL ••••••••1N1mm.... The following is the ofEcial answer of the French Minis teis to the Note addressed to them by the Ministers of the Allied Powers, in which Military Governors were appointed over the different provinces:— " The Kirvr's Ministers have received the Official 'Note addressed to t b hem by the Ministers of the Allied Powers. The latter wish to persuade the. King's Ministers thht the measures which they have commended to the Government of Paris, ate . such as may contribute to diminish the exactions of the war, and to reestablish the. Royal authority. The King's Ministeri, however, unfortunately; - catinot iegard these measures in that point of view. They owe -it to the Sovereigns, to France, stud to themselves, to cxplaiu • • 11111.;: . • selves on this subject. The - Sovereigns, doubtless, are the mute's, and can do whatever they desire, but at any rare let them not say, that in taking every step calculated to ruin the cause of his Majesty, that they wish to confer any favour on him. There is already in France too much odium and ill-will . against the Bourbons; to.render it necessary still more to revolt every heart by making the nation experience the greatest losses and the deepest humiliations. What humilia tion can be more afflicting than to see in a time of peace all the departments subjected to your military Governors—what misfortune more to be deprecated than the dispersion of your troops over the whole face of the country ? The Sovereigns declared that they only made war against Napoleon, and yet all their measures belie their words, since at the present mo ment, when the war ought to be finished, it is only about to commence. .The present position of France is so much the more afflicting t .as were war openly declared, (which it is not), it is utterly impossible that she can suffer in a , greater degree all its evils, and all its horrors. Every where, wherever the armies are (always excepting the English), pillage, fire, rape, and murder, have been carried to their fullest extent; avarice and vengeance have left nothing for the officers of soldiers to desire. *To speak with freedom, they exceed even the atrocities of which the French armies have been too often justly accused. The measures, however, alluded to in your Note can have no other results than to ex tend the limits of this devastation. The armies spread them selves in our Provinces, and all the horrors which we have depicted follow in their train. Such are the sentiments (,f the King's 'Ministers on the new Decree, and their answer to the appeal which has been made to them. " They have the honour to subscribe themselves, ' 6 With the highest consideration. " TALLETRAND, " rOUCIIE." PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE FROM TRANCE. The following letter has been just received in London from an English person long resident in France, and an inmate in the family of a Noble Duke that has argued much for his loyalty in the cane of the Bourbons : " Ali, my good Friend ! —Did you see this country at present, not Paris, but the different provinces, you would be surprised at the ravages these four last months have produced ; and, how all will end, God alone can tell. " However nobly, however generously the English and the RUF. sians behave, the Prussians are like so many torrents which over flow on all sides, pillage and destroy every thing; and \Olen we re monstrate with them, their answer is—" Go into Prussia end aCe what the French have done there, and then complain if you dare! I was as eye witness of the visits they made at the Duke's. They best came only four, with their loaded pistols cocked in their hands, or rather at arms length, in the court yard of the castle. The Duke went to meet them, and desired them to put aside their aims. as they would be well lecelved. They then alighted, and asked only to eat and drink. After that they asked for tAt sacks of oats ; .but when they found that the Duke was acquainted with their Ge her:d, they seemed to be afraid, and said they would not take the corn. They then asked fur some bottles of wine and brandy, millets they carried away. " The next day thy servant came in a great hurry and told me that about .10 Englishmen were arrived, and if I would look ,out at the window I might see them. Alas! I did indeed see them, but not our good countrymen, but Saxons with a Prussian Officer, who stroke French So as to be perfectly Understood: . The Dap raw out the castle to receive them, amt said he hoped they would hut treat the house uor country as thymic?, but as faithful subjects to . ..,