The National Register. — London, England, 1813-12-26 00:00:00

TIONAL REGIST ALA -A. NA . , • : „, . 4 - 4 Ostr Wag, eanotitution, ant tato& • .O.yL s' • PVBLISIIED AT NO. 11, NiVird,4NTLE-8-TaCk.:T, STRA.:I4ir , , 1 ' 4'..4 A • .V 1 • ~,,"~, SUNDAY,DtCEMBEit 9.6 ? 1813. 1 1 4 - 0. 313. 2'o SAMUEL Wiling? EA f.,52. M. P. WAR IN DItiGUISE. Bit,—.-The Declaration to which its authors have affixed the name of Allied Powe:s, may be compared to our seers which only become secret, when they have left aut . shores, and t»iuisters their opponents, aud the news paper writers cannot say to wha t q uarter the wind ma y have . carried our.fieet, _Since Mi:ijsters themselves have attested the Frankfort Declaration, that t4eial document has re main: d involved in mysterious oh •curity, which N A poi, EON'S speech t ► The Legislative Body, and Lord CASTLCREAGI -1. :: intended dep4rwrie for the sentinent, baye only served to thicken, Befare proceeding further on this subject, I take pleasure in doing justiee to your conduct in the short debate on the • state of our relations with our Northern Allies, ‘rhieli has elreited a doubtful ljght 'that has produced such different efferts in the mind of those who attentively follow the course ctf public events. • You have acted fairly and 6.0t/4s/eat/lb And I have no doubt : hut in future you will only oppose the pleasures which y 0.9 really disapprove, iiistead of systetnatt . rally resistin4 gtli those that •proct+d frian_a cortain tat of hiPicifport' foil as aq enlightened ..tpp‘vsition is neeei l ., , +Airy toJito sopport of our excellent Coitstitutton, party spirit is fatal to the proper.action Coyernrnent in critic; l ircurnstam es. • I have no occasion to remind you of the que4tions • answars that have been•put and reA:iyed in both Houses of partiarxworetetive to the Declaration of theVlied Vowels. It results fawn them that this document has been . franlzki and puYtished at Franicfort without any previous commUnicatlon with this evontt y, although we have no fewer than th! ee Ambassadors extraordinary at the head:quarters of our Allies, *Arise duty is certainty not confined to writing iniiitaq rep; ports. ;Ministers having returned no reply to the qnestion whether the offers of the Allies had been rejected, it was tie-' turaily concluded that• they bad been accepted, and NAP - it,Eott's speech had confirmed that supposition. Bat Lord , C 4.sT 1, ERE c!i's departure involves us once more in thoubt gad o)setli ity • Opcalculating dates, I find that our *Northern Allies no sooner reached Ole banks of the #bine, than they offered • peace to Napoleon, 'and accompanied their proposals, with • that of granting qan augmentation of territory greater than ftance ever possessed under her kings." They puh _ jishe4 this op the jet of December (p"te this attenti‘:eiy), in • ammo to a Prprec of the .B,enate, trthring a new I.ery 10p,000 nip'. Bence ? mgy we pot conclude, that on the i.t ni Pm. fiapoleoi) hail not yg. accepted what he terms f' Vut Preliminary Basis of fhe Negociations," vhlch, np OW stale; wp'e to take place pt ,NjoibFirP, • _ f YI Nc. (SNAIL - tio 4 . PR rex f . , - . .'• r Ministers, eirho have found it quite natural; that should have published their Declaration, without pommy nicating it to our Ambassadors, though actually ,)rgvizt tit their head-quaiters, attempt to excuse that ot nissioe, by as suriug us, that the most perfect concord exists between 011ie . GOyerntnent and the' Allies, who are in possession of our views. Wherefore then, does 'the the Secretary for PoreiisS • Affairs of Great Britain, set .00 for the Continent iritme diately after the artival of the *couriers dispatched from Frankfort, the Cih and 7th inst.-and of Napoleon's Speech I have heard it said by persons, whose eoaljtion with Mi. nisters is not of a date anterior to your own, that the events - • that have lately occtirred in 1-Inila - nd .acre the cause of 'Lora , CasTt.rae:nott's sudfleu departure. 1 o wn that I thipk too well of Ministers to believe fur a moment that all thp Powers ~0 who were petfeetly well: acquainted with their views, l • should have offered to Bu ort AP A ITE, a preliminary basis, 71 in which the independence of Iio!h should not have beets ...tipnlateil. The proposal of encreasin the territories of ••'. France under her Emperor, cannnt be a meson for ceding any part of Holland, nr even,of Austrian Flanders, for it is weil known that Austria. !roving gieest up the low countries Ito *ranee under her Kings, (that is -to say, when she per:. Nsfsf,Laless extpasive territory than she now does) pn that she ;honk) assist in the reconquest of Sites;a from trionaechy, Vin; land deeiated that she opposed that eessipn, .the ettetny's ,naval estahlishrneols . at Antwerp a 7'.easa4 •w • ky we' should now adopt a c'.lfferet)t systetu • IC,II the otii.-r band, those who are acquainted with w.hat passes in Ministet ial circles, say, that Lord e ca EAc ft Play goes to the Coni inent as our 2 ,litiister at the Coretc:= 4 mentioned by NAeOLKQN. This woad appear more likely, bece:use,, should our northern Allies and Bvois: a r A'tvr E hare greed that a Congress should bo holden •It l',latilteitn, Mi nisters would not have even the shadow of a pretence to keep it secret, unless the " pet feet eoncot d" Whitels , . had , ‘tibe sisted until the appearauce of the Declaration °# t -"It le Ail,es, should have ceased to exit: end that is my opinion. remark, with pain, the„t since the arrival of the Allied Armies on the "banks of the ithine, they have remained its almost total inactivity. • 1 also notice that the CRc t INI : II PRINCE, who had informed our lkilittiiter, Mr. `fast', i - ros, that - he should • enter and leave DA VOUST, }Mtn. burg, &c. to Generals BEN liICSEN, W A LMeV EN, and Tale TEN abe.ist, has, on the contrary, mot...eft away from' the patch teititory. 1 see that we have heel) compelled to ten 4 to that country troops which would have b. ell much more usefully employed under ford Wet.t.iNGToe, to aeocieratet the conclusion of peace, even with N A FOI.ECij, 3!`,f,41, . without at) encrease territoeial • domains on the sari 4 Franc*. 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