The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. v etter which corresponds with f, being placed underneath it► h it:. u, is that which is to he noted down. To decypher the P roclamation, of course the coder of reference must be in derted, by looking for the corresponding letter to n, in the, ivision opposite that letter L, which stands in the column. TRANSLATION. Frenchmen! your coun.ry was betrayed; your Emperor atone can replace you in the splendid.state suitable for France. Give your entire confidence to him who has always led you to glory. His eagles will arin soar on high, and strike the nations *lib astonishment. • The nidel w.ia actually made, and exhibited in Spring-gardens. .1411PO1tTANT STATE PAPERS. LARD C tSTLEREAGII TO PRINCE lIADENBtRG., Mop PIiiNCE-I nave the houour to acknowledge the rceeipt nf your ktter ut 3esterday, together with its esiclositues, and I lose no time in explaining myself upon their solijeet. with that frank• 'less which I have ever observed inwards vein Highness. is tin priocip'e of European policy to winch I attach more importance than the substantial re-establishment of the nossiaa Power. The glorious services which she has rendered in Vic last war, give her the most eminent claims on our gratitude. But a still noire poweifol• motive exists in the necessity of considering the Monarchy as the only solid basis of atty at rangement with a view to secure the North of Germany from the iminimait daogers with whit:lilt might be exposed. In such a crisis it is over Plussia that it is our duty to ' Watch. We must smite our Garee with her's, and in this view, it is nee, vary that Prussia-. be substantial and strong, possessing all the attrilontem of an Ind pendent state capable of making herself re spected, and nt inspiring her fiends with ci,nfidence. With regard to the question of Saxony, I declare to yon, that if the ineorpotathm of the whole of that country with the Prussian Monarchy be neces sary Jou the attainincot of an object so important for Europe, what ever pain I must personally emit Helier from'the idea of seeing an ancient family in such a state of affliction, I should entertain no ob jection, either moral or political, against _the measure itself. If ever a sovyr e i g n was placed by his own acts in a sititatiun to be fairly sacrifieed to the Mime tranquillity of Europe, I conceive the king of Saxony to have been so placed .by his perptanal terciversa. • times, and beeati-e he has been not only flue insist devoted, but the ipyst favoured of Boiripartra vassals ; contributing with all his means, and wills tic greatest vat], in the double capacity of a Ger emu as well as Poled, Sovereign, to extend the general subjection, even into the lic,art of Russia. lam aware that many instances arc to be fiteind lu Germans of a similar political immorality. lam acquainted however with none which is• equally revolting. And in the vicious course in which the German Staters have' considered themselves as almost warranted in proceeding for some time past, as ail cannot be punished, and the gi eater number have s made reparation4ty subsequent services, I shall'intt regret . , that, inj pardoning the guilty in the mass, one example be made f rom amongst them, in ()ides- effectually to arrest the progress of such an While -- tilde evil. 1 Yost Highness will see from dirk - declaration that I can have: no hesitation its assenting to the principle of the proposed arrange.. Moot, if it be necessary, in ostler to placie Prussia in that situation which the- interests of Europe require that she Should maintain : lint if this incorporation is to be regarded as the means of imiemni— fviaK Prussia for any loses she may sustain limn the alarming and - dangerous pretensions of Russia amid tinder the jdea of induciog - her to submit, without a frontier ,o(dekuce, to •an evident state sirs dependence on Russia ; in the latter .pasition, which, tOr the Hi. terest s f all , and more ? au ticularly t.f Itntisia herself, I should deeply lament, I do not consitrer myself as:Nowise(' to give your Highness the best season to hope that Great Britain would evor consent, in the lace of Emope, to sue-b an arraugement. " In the full persita-ion that a result so incompatible with the principle. of the alliance, could neither be props-ed on the one Hand nor accepted on the other, I have no objectless that Saxony be ..ontided, as your Highness desire's, .to the previsional administra tion of his Prn-sian Majesty. lam the more willing to give my consent at once , to this me:mire, which appears to me both just and • retelytialite in itself, its a pledge of the sincerity of the assn. - Alicia , 'above,given, and in the confilient hope that the King of Prusaia will i' sat lefpl himself to any arrao,,teimmt inenamatible . With...the causally IttlitiaQuven t us with the permanent seettrity or his dominions. APRM 16 " I breve conceived your Highness must be desirous of being made acquainted without delay with any opinion upon this latter subject, and as soon as Prince Metternich shall consider himself at liberty to come to an explanation rpon the points to which your Highness's ;eller refers, I shall be ready to enter with you npou the whole mat ter ; and I am very desirous of bringing to a conclusion an arrange. ►neat which appears to be essenti.illy connected with the best in. terests of Europe. " Vienna, 11th October, 1814. " CASTLEREAGii." COPT OF THE LETTER OF THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND TO LORD VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGII, DATED VIENNA, DEC. 15 1 1814. " M v Lon n.— Von desire me to snake known to you in what nunt ncr the affair of Naples ought to be seined in Co, gress ; for as the! e is 4 necessity of settling it, it is a point upon winch the!, ought not to be one moment of uncertainly in a mind like onlit he for ever a subject of reproach, and I will say, even an eternal subject of shame, if the right of sovereignty noes an areient and tine kingdom, like that of Naples being contested, Europe milted f.r I the first time (and probably for the last) in genera! Cuegress should leave undecided a question 01 this nature, in some degree, usurpation by its silence. shouhl - give ground for the opinion, that the only solace of tight is force. I have. nut at the some time to convince your Excellency, of the rights of Ferdinand IV Engine(' has never ceased to recoubize them. In the war in which he lost Naples, Etieltiod was his ally. She has been since, and is so - still. Never has she recognized the title that the persou %rho now governs at Naples assumes, nor the right which this title supposes ; therefore, in cbsieurring to assure the rights of King Fer theand, England has only one plain thing to do—which is to declare in Congress what she has always recognized, that Ferrite:OW IV. is• the legitimate Sovereign of the Kiogdom cf Naples. " Perhaps E n gland. heretotoie the ally of Ferdinand IV. desires still to be so. Perhaps she may believe her honour demands that she should assist, it need be, with her forces, for his regaining the Crowe of which he has been recognized the Sovereign—but this is not an obligation that ran flow from a pure and simple acknowledg ; ment of the rights of this prince. because the recognition of a right does not naturally carry %volt it any other obligation, than that of doing nothing that may be contrary to swell tight, and of not s up. porting any pretension that may be sti rip against it. It doe) not carry with it the obligation of fighting in his defence. " It may be that I deceive myself, but it uproars to me infinitely probable, that a frank and unanimous declaration of the Powers of Europe, and the certitude of the persent who now governs at Na. pies, that he would not be supported by ally one, would render use. less the employment of force; but if the contrary should happen, those only of the Allies of King Ferdinand would be necessary, who should think proper to lend him their support. " Is it feared that in dnn case, the war should spread beyond the limits of the Kingdom of Naples, and that the tranquillity of Italy should again be intermitted? Is it feared that foreign troops should again traverse Italy? These fears may be obviated by mil:elating that the Kingdom of Naples should not be attacked by the Italian. Continent. Austria - appears to be engaged towards him, who go verus at Naples, to guarantee him from all attack on this side ; and if, as we are assured, Austria has only engaged herself for this (how can it be supposed that the Emperor has given his guarantee against the rights of a Millet!, at once his uncle and his tather-iielaw, to 'the poAession of a kingdom which he lost ID linking common came with Austria). she cannot be embarra=sed in reconciling with jUSlice and with the natural scutiments of affection, the engagements auto which extraordinary circumstances made her cuter. " It appears to me, therefore, that we may at one and the same time satislyeall our duties, and all our interests, and all, our engage , ments by an 'Article such as the tolloviing " Europe, united in Con.res, recognize, his Majesty F e rdinand " rv. as King of . Naples. r• All the powers engage to 4.ne another gg not to favour, nor to support directly or indirectly any Kette-nat. " opposite to-the rights which 'appertain to him in this title ; but " the Wimps which the powers, foreigo to Italy, and the Allies of "• his said Majesty, may march to the support of his cause, cannot k traverse Italy." " I persuade myself, my Lord, that Y. E. is suffiriently autho rized to subscribe such a clause, and that you have no reed of a twee special authorization ; but if you slnerld think otherwise, shall request or yoo to require this 4411t9rity without delay, as you h eve hero g I enoneh to permit me so to do (ahisi litt'ele a hies eoulu me le per mel i re). " Agree. t l / 4 c' (Signed) " Le Prince diTALLEYRAND." .~.:, z , *scr?*