The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-17 00:00:00

NATIONAL REGISTER . but too clearly demonstrated, that a peace, such as Austria the allied Sovereigns desired, was foreign to the wishes of (L); and that hayloft accepted for form's lake, and in order be exposed to the reproach of the prolongation of the war, iroposition for a negociation, she wished to el u de the effect of or perhaps take advantage of it to separate Austria f mu the .'owers which were already united with her by principle, even be• fore treaties had consecrated their union for the cause of peace, and the happiness of tie.- world. (N) Austria came out of this negociation, the results of which deceived her clearest wishes, with a eonscionstiess ot the good faith which she carried to it. More zealous than ever for the noble end which she propo.ed, t he only takveartus for the purpose of attaining it, concert with powers animated by similar sentiments, always equally disposed to lend her hand to the re-establisheaent ot an order ot things, which by a wise decision of forces, will place the gua rantee o! peace under the shield of au association of independent States. She will neglect no opportunity of arri%ing at this result ; and the koowicdge she has acquired of the dispositions of the Com is become henceforth allies, gives her the certaint3, that they will sin cerely co-operate ill so salutary a &sign. Io declaring by the Emperoi's orders to the Count de Narbonne, that his functions, as Antbas-ador, cease from this moment, the under , igned places at his. Excetleucy's disposition, the requisite passports for himself and suite. Similar passports shall be sent to A. de la Blanche, Charge d'Af faires tri•in Vl4llllll, as well as to the other individuals of the Em bas:l, lie has the honour of °Wring, 6:e. (Signed) METTERNICH. Prague, Aug. 12. 1013. N 0 . 1 . E5. Kele A. Anstria with bill co• r•ent renounced the Empire of Germany. She aekuowledeed the Princes of the Confederation Site acknowledged the Protectorate of the Emperor. If the Cabi wet has receised the desigu of re-establishing the Empire. of Ger- Many, of reversing every thing that victory has founded, and treaties eoiseerated, it Las cenceived a design which but i l proves the spirit of ntoderation, and the respect for the rights of independent States, with which it professes to be animated. Note B. The Cabinet of 'Vienna forgets the treaty of alliance which it concluded on the ilth of Wirt+, 1811 ; it forgets that by This treaty, Ft ;ince and Austria reciprocally guaranteed the inte grity of their existing territories it forgets that, by this treaty, ,Austria engaged to defend the territory of France, as it then ex isted, and which has not since received any enlargement ; it forgets that, by this treaty, it dil lint limit it:eif to the demand for Austria the integrity of her tort itory, but the aggrandizements which circumstances might pro: me to her ; it forgets, that on the 14th of March, 181 . 2, all the questions from which the war originated were known and fixed ; and that it was voluntarily, and with full know ledge of the cause, that it took part against Russia. Why if it had then the sentiments which it at present avows, did it not then make eummon cause w ith Russia ? why, at least, instead of uniting itself with what it now represents as an unjust cease, did it cot remain neutral? Prussia, at the same time, made an alliance with France , schieli she violated afterwards, but Ler fortresses and territory were erctipied. Placed between two great Pont rs in arms, and in the theatre of war, milt's:day was impossible, and she took part with the sti (ingest side. When afterwards Russia occupied her territery she received the law, and became the ally of Russia. None of those eirmlistances %%hick regulated the determinations of Priissia existed in 11 1 1.2, nor do they exist in 1815 with respect to Arstria. She fingaeed with full consent, in IEI v, in the cause- which shr believed koost just, and th-tt of which the triumph was most impertaitt to her view., and the iiiterests of Europe, of which she has shown herself so rest;ess a pi otector, and so warlike a defend( r. She has shed her blood to support the cause of France, and in 1 813 she la% ishes it to support ti.e contrary sitZe. What most the people iltinl. ? What judgment must they form of a Government which attacked today what it defended yesterday, skews that it is nei ther justice nor policy which regulates the must important deter init•at;ons of its Cabinet. N.!te C. The French Cabinet know; better than any other that /test) i.e excited to it ween eye! , the hope of oht tilling it nu?, Lot enneet%ed ; it was :I ty that Austria serail(' not may take vo part against It, Wit CIO it %%twill tyke part for it. It knows tleit fat Cram dissolving the mar, Aostila excited it ; that tar front tearing it, she desired it. She keoa s, that far from washiug to oppose Iwo divisions of States, she em,ceived saw dismemberments, by which she •• •! to profit. P.,te D. " Cabinet (.1 Vie.ota could not, it I• 4 said, maint , in n sem ibis in tbp Aida 01 the vast field of battle winch surround it 014 - - all *ides. Were not circumstances, then. the same in 1806? Were not sanguinary battles fotiAht in IEOS and 1807, near the limits of her territory ; and did she nt t still preserve to her pt.ople the b, tents of , 00ice, and iniiiidairt a happy neutrality ? But the G oleo:meta of Austria, in taking part in the war, and cow hatti .o in the cause of Vince, consulted, it is slid, its fidelity to rehoiarts rienhr established; a fidelity which no longer deserves to Le cousillod, when :hose rela tions become Older by a yeor, and mere siiiet by a forme; alliatice : if we may now believe Austiia, it was r.r.t to insure to its ro:eran ilizeicalits that in 1811 .1 actlirtl itself ts) Ffill.ce. Which gunianieed.all its possessions, and took ;part in tire war ; it was to preneee the return .1 peace, and to cr.use the couocils n 1 eiJcitins and pruderice to be \Vhat logic ! what n n n ! Note EIl iw did ;he Cabin: r Vienna lemon that the brilliant sec cesses of the camp:11•011 01 1 nll did not brine tact: : no t kranvh t h e ..ouneil.4 of the French (Hover went ? It it had been oed it wont.' have known that the councils of Fraoce, ha tie of Aluskwa, were moderate end paiofic, and that evei y iltiii who o child restore peace was then tiled. Note F. The Cabinet of Vienna continues its errors. It sieree eon,- aion cause with France in 191'2. and it now says that wa. to pr:•..vent her from makiag war Russia. It :Jai. in 1:113, in I‘.' roe of Russia and Prussia; and this it says is to iiispiie the::. with tae .•t'•< re 'of peace. These Powers, at first elev•ited by some success which they owed to the chance of circumstances, were restored I•: Cabal coti ments by the striking reverses of the hist month of the calor:eh...li Lit feebled, vatignised, they were about to recover from th it :Ito otis. rhe Austrian Government declait d, that it would aim %Hiatt; and chewed them its arms ready to be taken lip in their deleticee. By thus otrerine them new chisoces in the contiewit Aryl to Ow war, it pre tends to in•pire thera with the desire of pe..ce. el, e could it have thine, it it head wished to erc,,trage them to war ? It a• uf fervit to Russia to take upon itself the burden ; me! it has 4erect to Priosia to change the theatre nf the war? it has tidied toilet Its tetra! territory the troops of its Allies, and all the cal,areiiies which.weietred epon that of Prussia. It has, iii fine, iditoed to the tut SI. Petersburelo !he spectacle most agree-41de to an Emperor of us-;a,-- that of Austria, tier natural enemy, fightilie aguitot Fra - Ce. hcr cctual enemy. It the Cabinet of Vienna had asked aevice of Irn°' - wisdom, it would have known that a coetiaeratien is 110 t II) extiviunts;led by aliorditig it new aliment ; that it i- not wise to cork:toter hiost . !ves for 3 nation whose taterests are contrary or foren:!. ; ill line, thai it is. folly to expose to all the chances of war a natiert which atLer such .len.ocontititted misfortunes alight continue to eiiyy ille SWeets 01 In ace. But minhition is pot n c, , unsellur which wisdom aatioole.:ges. Note G. The author of this declaiatioo ca cuot get 910 Ut the vicious ci.cle in which he i• bewildered. 11u, , ia and Prossia i,now very well that the. Austrian Government wo:s arming nenitist Fruit ce.l rout that monent they could hot wish f r peace. This result 0! illy dillo4itiolis of tile Cabinet of Vienna was too evident not to be rt ci.riteol upon. Note El. Tile Caumet of Vienna had caused the whit month o f June to be lost without airy of the lonieditics which theuld have pr, - ceded the opt fling of the Ciogress. Freece did solicit that the Armistice should lie prolonged, hut si c consented to it. I'Vliat the wished, amid what 91:e asked Wits. that the siitolliti he .:011. !Mucci durii i hostilities. But re Catiinet ut Aloria rclused this. Austoa would have Lceit horind a, ructliatrix iiering die rie:oicia rams, and she preferred a prolonealnor at the :'r'hiNtlce wl.lch would Ave h er lime to finish her ; .m(1 ut uhieli the tofeicd a fatal let at for breaking off tho ne,oictatoons e..d de ciat- Note 1 How was the Gibiln . l of Vienna ti!nwryil that France eoield not bong to the peace throe s , crifices e loch Infirm restier it to Fl. rope ? Before the motne:a wt icb ii had ft \cd 1:4 war, stab it p r ., 1 ,,,,e any ei.tinct4 iii .kt• litio‘vn Ilp.t ? It tit - chtred war because it WISIO*( 1 tor war. I: dot-kw:l exatnie tog wheCii r it could be avoided, and with a po is itch i t is difficult to receg ise the influence itt the c t: t eise,. ..1 Note .1. It 'nos by the Act of Austria and tire Ailoo ,t the arrival f l'lenipoteritiarit s was retarded. Yet the s hy de sige were' nut removed iAlit:n the C t opt de N -11.0.0ve wos ioreuo r lit I'ral~:te. iris pewers, croureou to the ryve P.et.ipt.o !iii-aro o .utP.o rised lion to act jointlynt separati I . v. The 1)•1;se ainvv4l oiler, because new difficellies by which t e e o ,were by the enemy. 1.10 .sit<tt ti.ert ,ervations ? Whit would a debov of a o..tv bare 1),•vn1.. J wll.l 'tot wish for war ? .that risirtivt War i• of a few days! A'oic Plcitipotent tO at: the terii:s of orgac;;;Con vroidost - d unusual !items, and of Veripotentiativs en gscialic.M. lie introduced a iaries hail for thvii nt Itov. "ere lo co: ..,1;1.7)4:tt (i i.v 1:1t•• I Slit..lt it• prt %scot ~.11 :.1.1: fliheuszivu 411,10: nu iteo,Liutvt, . 17. 661 . __- OCT united, sod thi France not to leer pro it(M), Power! - l