The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-11-28 00:00:00

k - J ..w' A L ~ t' ,~ Piltt gromta. • 'felts of the Pe"lder as well as the esseutial rights the mimes of the Ministers), whose full power hay. 44 the Sovereign, align be fitted and secured. As ing been eacluonged, and found in doe order, they 1.•. will not (nice upon you this Conatitution, cons- •havite 'dined the following articles ! moo to all parts of uur kiigdora, )ou C.stiliet main - Art: I. the frontiers of Frani* remain as they rain, - -as you tli , respeciful.tttempt to do, that oek WOO its: 1790, .with the exception of the reciprocal 1 heseby forcibly deprive our faithful subjects of modifications in this article. their ancient political sights. IVe have never tines- , _,(1.) in the Not tholte frontier line remains as it was tinned the internal validity of the ancient corn. Ihed in the Treaty of Paris, till opposite Qoier • pacts, but only, as we still do, the catetnil appli. rain', thence it goes along the ancient frontiers of the c,ability of them in their full e xte n t, at a time when Belgic provinces of the farther bishoprick of Liege, crety thing has t ikon 4 new form. It is short-lose and of the duchy of Bouillon, ali.theY were in 1 7 9 0 , a groom:less assertioo, when jou would attribute to so that the territnties of Marieubueg .and Philippe us the- intention f making a compronsiw upon the: ville, with the fortresses of the same osme, and the former political relutioos. It is only in case die, whole Duchy of Lir;uillon, remain without the French compact fur a common constitution (from which, if' frostier*. Ffnii, Vinton' by Orval, on the frontiem • it is once concluded, neirher party sp deviate upon of the Department of the .Ardennes and the Duchy any pretest whatsoever without the consent of the of Lusemburg, as far as Perle, on the road leading . Da t er party), should not be brought about, that there from Thioairjlle to Treys, the frontier line remains cast be A onevtints of restoring the ancient political as it was fined in the Treaty of Paris .., From Purls relatintivOtod it Me same' time also, the question ia! it goes over Lansdorf, WallitiCh, Schariorf, Nutter what they properly consisted, and what modifications weeliog, Pellewsler, which places, With Their bats ' of them are required by the natiorrand changed dr- Hours, all remain to Forme, to Honorewnd slot* the *-cworstancirs of the State. Far as we are from tikitsg•imafrontiers of.t)re district of Saarbrock, mithat Sear blind to the greatness of the misfortune, which ry on* /Ws' and the course of the Soon, with the piled+ Ors arise both to the Government and the conotry, by,:ifte• right 6f the ebnite-mentined 04, with their -6 /liiihit° of accomplishing ' a. anion by way of coos- 3 inlimars, will come Without 'the - French frontiers, e-- 'fi •• - / / "i 7 - 1 bit ._ • Reek we me yet not conceal from you, theft tlsis.mis- from Ate tttietbsts of the 'Maria of ha' astrock the , ' feitistei di liunitabie, if you ehould farther refine to 1 fronlitte . lists shalt, be the same .which now separate! ' goose • iios . 4egocietiows `for a censtlietional coin- 1 the degertret of the Lower Rhine from Girinatt , - prellturittrd to the whole kingdom. In this unhappy Ye s far as the boundary to its junction with 'l i , ease, *Ale !Meet:bly resolved, mach es it opposes : Rhine i the whole' of territory lying cm the ' lassellitalltil litigations, which are directed to the i bank of the Lents, ieelti d ing. the fortresses ittliFee'; • r m Matti one eittects, to introduce' Into our Here- i dust, shall belong to Germany, the town of. Weis*, ' Fiery States the d Constitution, With the repro- senberg, however, which is itnereected by this rill% ' imitation accorditig to the original form, but to give remains wholly to France, with a rayon ott the leR ' our new States, on the contrary, a Constiteliew. 4 bank ; lisieroyori meet not exceed Itaffil tett i t • founded on a true national representation, and hav-' will be more particularly detektnined by t . ' • , • lug dee regard to the former political relations. But' mission er s who will hernia! be appointed ‘te 'Met ' to give you an incontestible proof with what truly pa- . late the frontless, . 1 • nevoid sentiments we enter upon ihese negociations, i (4.) From the moodier the lAnta, along the dip( we communicated to you in a second Supplement (B.), ' partments of the Lower Rhine , . the Doubs, and the • already published, containing certain fundamental 1 Sara, as f or a s she Canton' of Vaud, the frontiers eel' points, which cannot but appear to every impartial main as they are fixed in (be Treaty of Paris. The, person, adapted to serve as a basil for negociations Thalweg of the Rhine shall be the line of separ i tiou i i' i • upon a good constitotiou. They hear in themselves , b e t ween F rance an d t h e G erman S ta t es, be the) the guarantee of a happy result; and should the ne- i • property of the islands, as it will be determined bt ' gocistions fail notwithstanding, not on our people, consequence of a new elimination of the course of bat all Europe, will testify that the cause of the . that river, shall remain unchanged, whatever alter.- I ' failure is not to be attributed to us. As we, be- . tions the course of that river may, in process of time, ' sides this, repeat the declaration so often made, that undergo. Commissioners shall be appointed, within 1 yer shall be free to propose to our Royal Commis- tree . months, by the High Contracting Powers on ftter,a, elpressly instructed to thit sleet, every hie . ' WI - sides, in eider to make the said examlrittiotiri Stele in the uncieut compacts which you may judge The half of the bridge between Strasbuigh and Kehl 'to be essential, or even desirable, for reception into shall belong to France, and the other half to Sto .the new coostitutiou, and to make it an object of Grand Duchy of Baden. • negotiation ;as we repeat the so often given assur- i (3.) To restore a direct communication betertjew 'ante, that we will really adopt ell such propositions, ' the Canton of Geneva and Switzerland, that part If • es are anywise compatible with the welf a re of the the territory of Gel, which is bounded on the lest `State, the double apprehetialoh is hereby removed, by the Lake of Geneva, on the south 'by the telni• which you express, as if you' week! be meOly led , tory of, the Cantos of Geneva, on the north by the! :by the negociations, into what you call the labyrinth ' Canton of Vasil, and en the test by the courts of I of national law, as if by this new eatePact the ne- the Versois, and a line, which comprehends the core ii*n might lose its' bisteriegi OliStellah which bow. manes of Gilles, 'Bony, and Meye rs ~ leering the •sieser, is only acquired, and encases such by theirs- commune of Ferney to Prance, shall bti ceded to s the Abel transitlor. from an old to p are elate of things. Ilelvetic Confederatioa, 10 be united to the Canton • After all those ettneidetations, w assist Wpw ealoeCt of .Geneva. The line of the French Dosanes shall with certainty, that you will, So four side, meet b e placed to the west of the Jais,se that Q u i *We, 'bur paternal intentions, by opening the negotiations district of Gel shall'be withoet that line. - :without delay, as in duty booed, and will sot cam- , (4.) Froth the frontiers of the Canton of Ca m p s , pet us to renoetsce the belief that we behold in . you to the Mediterranean, the frontier line is the mine reel well-disposed representatives of our beloved as that which, in 1790, separated France from Savoy, people, and should we be forced tO gibe op tide be. cud th e county of Nice. The relations which the lief, to take our measures accordingly, lied' sofa Treaty of ltil , thad reestablished between France 'She unhappy separation to be really elected. "laud the #riticipality of Monaco shall for ever cease, " Given at Stutgard, 13th Nov. 1815. • l and the seme relations take place between that prin. " By his Majesty's command." 'cipality and the kingdom. of Serdiniii. • Sopplemeet A. net yin published. (5.) All territories and district, included within the frontiers of France as filed by the present article, 114111 B URG II PAPERS.' remain oohed to France. ' . —ow,..- (6) The contracting Powers shall appoint iiiihin PAitts, Nov. 9..—The following is the great Treaty, three months after the signature of the present treaty, 'which,' according to the proves verbal of the con- Commissioners to iegulate every thing respecting Of *ferences, was to be first drawn up. The Articles Mang of the frontiers on both sides, end as soon at concerning the principles to 41 observed in respect to Oozes Commissioners have finished 'their labeers, Vie unezecnted Articles of the Treaty of Parr:, 811 y, map, s • hatl be made anditintier Posts set up to math 1814, have presented so many difficulties, thatit has the respective boundaries. • not been yet possible to draw them up, and the sig.,. Art. ll.—Tbe fortresses and territories which ' a i r intone of the Treaty, as well as the departure of the tise Remitting Article, are no longer' to belong 11,00 )'oreign Ministers, bail been hitherto retarded. In ' l rrentii territory, will be given up to the Allied Pow.' respect to the military occupation, and the payment ers hi the period+ specified in the military convention, of contributions, separate Conventions have been annexed to, the 9th Article of the' present Treaty ; concluded, which have been already published. i and his Majesty the King of France renounces for GENERAL TREATY WITH FRANCE. I ever, for himself, hivettea and successors, the rights The Allied Powers having by their exerthms, and of Sovereignty and property which he hitherto eser. the triumph of their arms, preserved France and tied ever the said &tresses and territories. Europe from the convulsions with which they were Art. 111.—As the fortifieations of Iloningee . helm threatened by the late enterprise of Napoleon Bona- always been a ground of uneasiness to the city of parte, and by the revolutionary system introduced Basle, the high contracting Powers to give to Sera. into France for its support. . i zerlassd a fresh proof of their care and geed-will, As they now participate with his most Christian bare agreed sarong themselves to have the fortifica- Majesty in the wish, by the inviolable maintenance tious of Huningen razed,aud the French gOvernment of the Royal dignity, and by restoring the validity engages for the same reasons never to reitair them, of the Constitutional Charter, to confirm the order and n t to erect any other fortificationksiiihin three happily re-established in France, and to bring back,' leagues of the city of Basle. between Franie and its neighbours, those relations The neutrality of Switzerland shall be extended founded upon reciprocal confidence and good will, to that piece of territory which lies north of a line which the mournful conarquences of the Revolution to be drawn from Ugioe, that plirceiocloderli in:ttre• and system of conquest had se long interrupted; south of the Lake of Annecy, over Javerge (in they and as they are convinced that their last objects can. B reme n Gmeile, ravergi ) , to lecheroine, and refuel not be attained except by an arrangement calculated thence to the Lake of *target, and the Rhene ' in I to give them just indemnity for the past, and solid th e s a le manlier SC is fixed be the 9241 Article of the security for the future : They have, therefore, in final Aet of the'CUngresi of Vienna in respect to the common withills Majesty the King of France, de. provinces of Chablais and Faucigny*. liberated on ihe means of bringing about such an , Tte (loops, th4refore, which the King of Sardinia arrangement, Slant as they bare convinced themselves may have in these provinCes, whenever the Powers .titat the indemnity due to the Powers cannot consist, adjacent to Switzerland are in a state of open burl wholly either in cessions of territory, or in pecuniary lity, or' are on the eve of such a state, shall retire, payments, without greatly injuring the essential in. may for that`porpose take, in tun of need, the terests of France in one way or the other, and that way over t!'e Venal.; but no armed troops of any it is better so to unite them, as to avoid both disad-; other Power can pass through or be stationed its the vantages: l above pterinces, escept such as Sniteerlaud thinks Their Imperial and Royal Majesties have, there- fit to send thither, bet this state of things mart not fore, taken this as the basis of the present nego- hinder the adittinistrators of those countries whom' eladons, and have also agreed upon it as a basis, that the civil office's of the King of Sardinia may empty' It Is necessary, during a certain time, to keep the! as the municipal guard for ;he maintenaeoe of gee* frontier provinces of Freese occupielby a certain order. • 4,e number of the Allied Troops, anti have agreed tol Art. IV. That part of the indemnity to be gives unite in a Definitive Treaty the several dispositions France to the Allied Powers, e hich consists in awl founded upon these bases. i nay , i s fi xe d t o th e su m of 700,000,0(X)"61 frames.-...; in 'this view, and to this end, his Majesty the, The manner, the periods, and the securities of ffilit 2Cin& of Great Britain and 'Hanover for himself payment of this sea shall be regulated by a sever** ~'ad his Allies on one side, and his Majesty the! jc *og of France and Navarre on the other side, I • TebanieteNtus thus: The proviiirminf Oloselikis and Fad. IA ,„ teppelnted for their Plenipotentiaries, to discuss, el te a:' h Y;kil ing w r o l i f t i n t i i i ," e p aln e r u l t a ° l r . u S tl e nt u ltrS , p ars , fp, and sign the Definitive Treaty (hero ate Switsertead, as rceeptged and guaranteed by the roWert. . . . c„ ova p t i a h, w hi c h s h a ll b e (l e n ity va lid 'sad bi n ding vocation is to receive a communication which it t o 416 if it were inserted word for word in the present lie made to the Chamber by the King ' s , Meiste r , Treaty. in the name of his Majesty. The Minister of th e Art. V. Att the state of confusion and thrmentation King, Secretaries of State in the diffe'rent d which France ttecessarily feels;after so many violent *pan. meat% of Justice, Fpreigh Asir,. of the l eter t„, , convulsions, , and particularly after the last ca of War, of tits . Mertes, and tire Fioances h ere i n . tastrophe, nntoithsianding the paternal intentions of, the King, add the advantages which all classes of the. troduced, and lake their usual pieces opposi te the subjects necessarily derive from the Constitutional bar. - Charter, ma guarantee neceessake some m for the sures of p her caution ao the d The D u ke of lizcnetaxe, Minister for Pore' temporaryur of p resident of the Council of Ministe rs , b oo. la t neighbouring States, it has been considered as abso- Aft.ire, lutely requisite to occupy, for a filed time, .military. itic obtained leave to speak, etpressed hi mself in temp positions along the frontiers of France, by a corps o f these terms :.-- . . Allied troops, under the eipress reservation teat 'hid : ' " tiorr.raars;,-- , -The King her Ordered us t o of his . connnunicate to the Chamber the Act which, occupation- shall clot infringe on the tovereignty * • has two Most Christian Majesty, nor on the state of possession, po lon g announced espected with such Tager inn. as fixed by this treety. The number of troops shall not 9 Patience, and by w hick, after eight month, of diva exceed 150,000. The Commander is Chief is named e . alarms, and calamities without by the Allied Pewers. This army will occupy Con ordts, di, beends, Valenciennes, Boachnin g Combriy. quesisoy, Mao.. aides have terrified Europe and afflicted Freers, beuge, Landrecies, Armors, ltoceoy, Given with the system of our political relations with foreip cherlemonts Mrziereq, Sedan, - MlYnlinedYl ThiPe - States and Sovereigns is definitively established. i vide, Longwy, Bitsch, and the Tetesde•Peat sof ' - am going, Gentlemen, to read to you thrAct.ir Fort Louis. As France is to provide for the main. I- r , • . „, t t ~ ,_ teem* of the ermy, every thing relative. to this! 11 " e tue Lu'utsier see d ("see Lechige) the pri m . shall be regulated in a separate Convetition:— 1 clpal Treaty concluded at Paris, on the tOth o f this In thid Convention, which shall be as valid self in. month, between France and the Allied Powers. sorted word fur word in this Treaty, the relations ' , The first six Articles are the same as in the Ran. shall he fixed between the occupying Army sod the burgh Papers. Civil and Military . 1 4401066 es of the country. This Art. VII. In all the *sentries which shall ch ow military occupation cannot last above b years, acid ! may sod before that period, if the Allied So- masters by virtue of, the present Tritely; Atwell so vereigns, after the expiration• of three years, and by the errangerneats *bleb are to be made in con e . after they have first in agreement with the Kitig quintet', tbere shall be granted to tbelnkabitants, of France, maturely weighed the situation and ma- b o th na ti ves g o d f ore i tc ae rscoo f w h a t ever set t ee they f teal interest, as well as the progress which there. may hie ; ' a term of six v T lobe boned f lEstablishment of order and peace may bare made its _,.- • ' ,„. ' „ ' ell i $ll reckoned -reed* France, have recognized in common, that the an- ex ‘H an g e ' ° "li e rattucation t 0 9 1• P ne et if defy Wok tires which induced this measure no longer exist. f!tt of their property, and to retire iota Inch But whatever may be the result of this deliberation, coontry as they shill think_ qt to dense. . all the places and positions occupied by the Allied VIII. All the dispositions of the 'Pretty of Paris, . • troops, will, at the expiration of five years, be era. hf the 30th of May, 1814, ; relative to thecostetriss , cuated without farther delay, and given op to his ceded by t h at Treaty, shall be equally epplied t o 1 Mast Christine Majesty, or his heirs and successors . An. VI. Alt the other foreign troops not belong. the different territories and districts ceded by thews • leg to the Army of Occupation, shill quit the sent Treaty. , 1 French territory in the periods fixed in the Military 1 IX. ',fete high Cogarading Powers haring eressd Convention, annexed to the flth Article of the present t 8 be laid before them the reclamations etiologies Treaty. •. , • i'bOact of the aomeat4utlopt of the letk sod fallow. l'? b j Ee i ing Articles of the Treaty of May, isl 4, as sell II of the additional Articles of teat Treity, signed be. .tween Great Britain and France, desiring to rend* more efficacious, divpositiene laid down an these Artielei and having for this pontos* determined, .• by two separate Cowrentions, the cowl, to he fol. lowed on both sides for the complete eueltiee of the Articles above. Weed, the said two Cooseations, such a' , joined to the , present Treaty; shall have! e same force and validity as it they were Me ssily iiisertea in it. 'lfs. All prisoners of war taken daring the h soli. ties, atwpil alkali hastier' stho loaf lave been car. tied off or give*, shall be restored in the shortest time possible. The sams amerred le re rpect *to the prisoners taken entocadogell to the ;Oda alf May, • 1814, and who *di asst has heft yet re stored. • • • •"• XI. The Treaty of Paris, of 30th May, 1814, owl the final Act of the Cengres; of Vienna, of nth Juno, 1815, are Confirieed and maintained in ail each of their dispositions as have not been modified by the clauses of the present Treaty. XII. The present Treaty, with the Conventions that are anuesed to it, shall be ratified in one single Act, and the ratifications shall be exchanged io she term of two months, or sooner if possible. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipetes. tiaries have signed it, and have sealed it with their arms. % , 1r • loan U • Lisboa , ,•••••••‘...•••••••• 0 • - natrenbegiOi ' 1 1 1 ...... . .i. Paice or STOCKS TIII9.DAY A l r. l4 Nll .4 `raKOOS._ • 5; Rut Long. AM. 15 I K-16t 9 per Get. Rai 601,4 limns Brad 6'7 . p 3 ph. C. Om*. 611 Ksphippier Kills 36 p • 4 pa C. 7511' theihNim 151 5 per Cent bevy 9111 , Omeklor Act. Slit • " THE STATES3-lAN lONEtO • ME CONVENTIONAL TREATIES, . AND Tat FUOCELDINGS or Tilt FRENCH LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS THEREOY • We bare received the Paris Papers of Saturday and Moniteurs of Sunday last, the 2Gth. The latter ■re highly important. The Chamber of Peers assembled on Saturday it 11 o'clock, to receive the communication of the Treaty of Peace. The Ministers attended in a body; end the Duke of RICHZLIEU having, in an exordium, enlarged on the unfortunate necessity for concluding the Treaties in question, read to the Chamber the va riots Conventions which the King bad entered into with the Allied Powers, and to which, as Minister of the Crown, he had put his signature, and was , charged to communicate. The Grand Treaty, as it is called, is much the same its. the Report in the Moniteur, as the copy we submit from the Hambergh' Mail. But there are separate Articles with some of the Allies. The Duke of Ricuctacv closed his communications by a long speech framed for the per pose of reconciling the mindawf his hearers• and the I French people to the onerous nature of the Ctinven- I lions to which France has been compelled to satthit. lie has not a very splendid eulogy to bestow an the equity and magnanimity of the Allied Severeigitt.f Mei however charitably supposes they have more getterOus sentiments for France than they choose to avow: by their acts; and that they bare bees► ievelitetartlylletti int. the measures they hue taken towards France, by the powerful action of national opinions on their Councils, joined to the additional stimulus 9( sub , ness. Bow necessary it is, if this be the ease, than reason should regulate the opinions, as,well as the actions, of nations, and that their determinations should be just ! The Chamber received the plural communications with resignation, and decreed that the President should wait on his Majesty, to es preus to him, in the name of the Chamber, its unalterable fidelitj and dg-. •otion, and its zeal to second all the effort; whitis circumstances require. The Chestier then adjourned to Teesday, the 28(h. There is an mention of the result of LAIALLVTL'i Appeal, or of his sentence haring teen carried into necalion. It is stated that Madame Nay obtained en audience on Friday of tits Dike of Rico:math et his hotel. PARIs. we.. U. • • CIIAMIIFA OF ?KERB, Neir.2s. The CitANclitzeit, Preisident..—At eleven o'clock Ike Chamber toetip.coossooenro of ikopounons *ad" by order of the President. The object of the con. Done at Paris, the 20tb of No►ember,.istheyar of Grace, 1815. _ (Sideed) RICIIELIr.U. . NETTERNIVIL WESSENBIRG. [The Monileur gives the Treaty as between 114 King of France and the Emperor of Austria, King of Hoagary, etc.] ADOITIONAL ARTICLF.. The High Contracting Powers sincerely desiring Ito give effect to the measures with which they °rm. I pied themselves &Lille Congress of Vienna, relatively to ittl complete and ouiversal Abolition of the Abio Fan Slate Trade, and having already, each in his re i . rectire States, prohibited without instruction their 11(donie! and subjects from taking any part whatever -tut thii traffic, en4age to unite again all their cuffs_ J 40 .p,s.m. the -finii , -rarcestrilf The . y, , ii, ei IA es Which Ithey.base proclaimed in the Declaration of the 4th of IFebruary, 1815, and to concert, whhoot loss of time, by their Ministers at the Courts of London amvi Pvtis, the. most efficacious measures to °built ! live entire and definitive Abolition of a traffic so odintmatul so flighty repugnant to the laws of reliv gion and of nature. 1 , The present Additional Article shall have the same force and valbtity as if it were inserted word for I " lino() in the Treaty of this day. It shall he coat. I prelleinied in the ratification of the said Treaty. fn tevimony whereof the regpfetive Plenipoten. glories have signed it, and affixed to it the seal of Weir arms. Done at Paris, the 20th of Nov. in the year of G race, 1815. (7k Signeteres.) . The same day, in tho same place, and at the game looltsent, the same Treaty, as well as the Conrentiees and Articles annexed to it, was signed bet , . to France ■nd Great Britain, Franca and Prussia, France and Russia. Separate:Article (signed with Rossi* alone)• 1 ,, execution of t►e Additional Astkis to the Treat! tf I ;•'_*•,7 Y • 1' I - . . • ' N • .._... L ~~ . ' • ft ._ ■• I I G si 0 so bl fo 01 4111 sis