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

TII Elba f•••they would have designated him by these Giles, nor would have departed, either in sobstance or form, from the respectful. notice which they impose. They would have felt that,' seeording• to the law of nations, the Pi Mee least pawerfnl from the extent or population of his States, enjoys. in regard to his political and and civil character, the rights helatieiegto every Sovereign. Prince equally with the most powerful Monarch ; and Napoleon, recog nised under the title of Empeior, and as a Sovereign Prince by all the Powers was no mort than any one triable by the Congress of Vienna. An oblivion of those principles, which it it impossible to ascribe to Plettipurentiaties who weigh the rights of nations with. deliberation and prudence, has in it notlinig astonishing when it is displayed by sonic French Ministers, whose consciences reproach them with more than one act of treason, in whom fear has pro duced rage, and wham remorse deptives of reason. Such persons might have riskei the fshrication, the publication of a document like the pretended Orel:nation of the 1311$ of March, in the hope of st o pp i ng the progress of Napoleon, and misleading the . French people as to the true principles of &reign powers. But such men are not qualified, like the latter, to judge of the merit of a nation which they have misconceived, betrayed, delivered up the arms of Foreigners. That nation, brave and generous, revolts against every thing bearing the character of .baseness and oppression ; its affec tions became enthusiastic when their object .is threatened or at taitked by a great injustice ; and the assassination to which the de claration'of the 13tii of March excites, will find anoint for its exe cution neither among the the twenty-five millions of Frenchmen, the majority of whom folloWed, guarded, protected Napoleon from the Mediterranean to the capital, nor among the eighteen millions of Italians, the six, millions of Belgians and Rhenish, nor the nume rous nations of Germany, who, •at this-solemn crisis. have 'sot pros nonneed his name but with respectful recollections ; nor antidat the iridignant EtivJish nation, whose hononeableCentiments disavow* the language which has been audaciously put into the months of Save- - reigns. The nations of Europe are enlightened vilify judge the. rights of Napoleon, the rights of the Allied Princes, and those of the RAtrhoos. They know that the conv e nti o n o f Fontainbleati Was a Treaty among titc..Sovereigos ; its violation', the entrance of Napoleon on the French territory, like every infraction of &diplo matic act, like every hostile itivision, coild . only lead tri" . .an ordi nary war, the result of which can only be,. in reepect,of persons, that of being conqueror or -conquered,, free,. or a prisqner,of war; , in respect-Of possessions, that of their bring either preserveri or lost, increased or diminished; and that of every thotight, every threat, every attempt against the life of a Prince-pt war with another, is a thing unheard of in rite history of nations and the cabinets of Europe. In the violence, the rage, the oblivion of principles whirl, charac terise the Declaration of the 13111 of March, we recognise the en voys of the same Prince, the inami.of t in e same Councils, whic h . by the ordinance of the 9th of Ma rc h, sits places, Napoleoir viltft , ', out the law, also incited agitaist has .the popisitdilif assassins, and 'I promised a reward to the rger aids head. What, however, did Napoleon do ? He did ho k a b o:4 7 4o,ldis Militiessce to the Meat 4:fall nations, insulted by the info ; w pm to whirls it was *aka to invite them: he chewed It . • ,ate. geosrons, the protector even of those wigs baiLdev - Ma to death, When be spoke to General Excelmans,.siOreleitint toitards the catmint which dwelt', followed LUIIif Staltijillfir Xavier .; - to Count irtelen t whit had to I receive him at Lille :to General Q.' mot, ert,o.s ti vis to Bo r d ei p m , where was the p s .d'Ap g oetteme ; to gawp* Gro u chy, dio ; patched to pact - li d tb tife civil diaseusiona pica IV by the Doke., pe d oeis d'Angouleme,—ivery where(. - .in :abort, orders were given by .the Emperor thatpersoft should Protected and ihelteied front every attack , attack, every danger, every.violenee, Waft on the "Preiteh ern tory, and whop they quitted it Nations and posterity wilt -jadite on which side, at this great c tome, : has, been respect ta r the : right' of tile t eople and of:sever t Or the loto ofiporOlte , eiples of eicilleitioni'ffie maxitits of p., *civil spit rejigio,. ~: r 4.. oi i, ...decide betoken -Napoleonind the Hattie Of Bo tik bOb.• '.,„ . If, after having examined the peeteisded tfeeldration cif the Chn- , gress under this first view, it is discomed !in Its Ptliiiiollloo . diiiio stogie conventions. sad to the, Treaty of :Fottainblean, of the 3 ttta: of April, 1814, ratified by the FreneltGoverinnent, it will be found that its violation is onlyy , iinpotable to the very persona who repeogh I Napoleon therewith. The treaty ofFontalidoleau has been violated. .i by the Allied Vowers, and the Haase it ;Bourbon, in what regards the Emperor Napoleon, and his family, in what regards the interests Mad the rights of the French nation - Fr ri g_Th e Empress Maria-Louisa and her son ought to have oh-. tained passports, mid as escort to repair to the itteroe; and far from exec . = a l ga , t they separated vi v iole ntly the mite fro= A t - the father, and that during ditties- , 2, 1 ye_ 4' Pt '4• " • • W.S!!!:4i , sing ciecnneiteinces, whoa the firmest sonl has need of looking fur • consolatlau and support to the bosom of its family, and domestic Seepagly—The ptfely. of Napoleon, of his imperial family, and of Mei! attendants, was guaranteed (14th article of treaty), by all the Powers ; and bands .of assassins have been organised in France ,under the eyes of the French Government, and even by its orders,. as will soon be proved by the solemn process against the •iietti. Demontbrettil, for the purpose of attacking the Em. . pertly and his brothers and their wives :. in default of the success •• which was expected from this first branch of the . plot, cam°, lion had been planned at. Organ, on .the Emperor's road, to attempt an attack on his life by the hands of some brigand.: they sent as govenioy to Corsica an assassin of George'., the Sieur Brit, tart, raked purposely to the rank of Marshal.de•Comp. known in Britauy, in Anjou, io Normandy, in La Vendee, in all England. by the blood which lie bad shed, that he might prepare and make sure the crime : and in fact several isolated assassins attempted, , in the Isle of giba, to gain by the murder of Napoleon the giiiity' and disgraceful salary which was.promised to them. . Thirdly—The Duchies of Parma and Placentia were given in full property to AfariaLoniso for herself, her soil, aid het descendants; and after loug refitsals to put her in pos....sine. they.. gave the finish to their injustice by an absolute spoliation, meter the delusive pretext :of a change without valuation, without pro. .portion, without sovereignly. without consent : awl docuwents existing in the Foreign-office, which have heeit sabinitted to os, prove that it was on the solicitations; at the instance, and by the trignes of the Prince of Beneveut, that Maria Louisa add her: son have been plundered. Fourthly—There should have been given to the Pririce Eugene, ' adopted son of the Emperor, who has done honour to France,. wide!), gave him birth, and who .has cantered the affection of i • Italy, which adopted, him, a suitable establishment out of France, •and'he has' obtained nothing. Fifthly—The _Emperor, had (art.. 9, of- thetreaty) stipulated . in favour of the heroes ot the army, for the preservation of their. endowments on the Monte Nape:time : he bad reserved on the ex • traardinary'd . dmaiiis, 'and oil the funds .1 the civil lisr, means of recompeiring his servants, of paying the soldiem who attached titemsacres holds 'destiny: all was curried' away and kept back by 'the Ministers' of the 'Bourbons. An • agent for the French ' Military, M. Breseen. went in vain to Vienna, to.claim for then Hie . most mgred Or. properties - the 'price of their courage and blood. • 4 " . - • ' '" ' • ' • • . _ i.lll4ll—"The - presartatipts of the *goods, moveable and • ins• moveable, of the family or the Emperor, is, stiOillated by the same treaty (art. : and they have been plrindered , Of:este and of Abe other ; that is to say, by main' ferce in France, *by commis ; iiotleJ brigaisda; In 'ltaly, by. the violence of the military chiefs.; in the twit Countries', by dequestratiehs, 'atid seizures solernhily decreed. . . Serengtly-, -The Emperor Napoleon was to have• received 2,000,n0 , a n d hi s f am il y 2,500.000 francs per annum, according to thearratigenieut established in the 6th article of the treaty : and the, 7fritaiicaliviimilint has constantly refused to fulfil this engage mcnt, _.end Napoleon would soon have been reduced to dismiss his . taittful gnaid for Want of means to secure their pay, if he had not faliiid In the .gmatifid recollectiods of the bankers, and merchants oir Genes end of .ItaV, the honourable resource of a loan of' it which wag offered to him. • short, it was not without a reason that they wished by ;It ineasis• to separate from Napoleon those companions of his •lery. modeller devotedness and , constancy, the unshakeu rentees of his safety and of his The island of Elba was seared , - to him in fog properly Orr. 5, of the treaty) and the resolution- to spoil him of it, mhich writ desired by. the Bone. bins, ,and soltcited by their agentsk; had been taken at tbe Con _ An 4 if Pravidence bad • not in its justice provided for him, En-• :rope would.have Koh an athwk made on the person, on the liberty, of 'Napoleon,paelahed for the &hire in the mercy of.his. enernies v tia from Iris (wok', zed separated from-his servant% either to St. Lucia,l or Alt. Helena, which was intended for his ph isou. And when the Allied Powers, yielding to the imprudent wishes, to the cruel int.' portimities of the House of Bottrbon, had condescetnicd to violate' the solemn contract, on the faith of which Napoleon had teleased, the French nation from its oaths ; when himself and the mencbers of his family se* themselves threatened, at tacked in their. person, in• tbeirproperty, in their affections, in the rights stipulated ier their, favour, is Primes, even in those rights teetered by the laws to situ % pie citizens, what could - Naksolaiu de f Ought he, after hiving "inJ