The Sun. — London, England, 1816-02-20 00:00:00

fore Paris :mil continerell peace ; übich the wltofe Vrenth nation Al tleronah an electric feeling, seemed Vs:44 to throw themselves into the arms of the 'victors, (sad of lbeir restored Monarch, exulting art their liberation from the tyrant by whoto they 'ad been so lone oppressed. an illiberal policy bad been 'adopted towards Bnonnparte - : 'tire war had Then continited. to seize and remove his person, ao the war, as it would have done, had beentrie a rivil conteq:be had no doubt Ministers And winild' have been charged with attempting to cloud , tfiat 'horizon which appeared I.4en so glowing and so beantital. It ought to be the character of a great confeder4cy of powers to acct au enlarge(' views. In their career they had only acted on such; In a confederacy, which might hr considered ail the represtntathe force of nurope, since it pnt foul) at once one c>l* Th?n, scarcely any view of self-interest, artsbiticet., or spoliation, could be, intrnilticeil that wOl4 41)0t. 01111 its own correctiye, It was il,corifetterigir: " Nadeau; librata in closing the,war 1f414, they-itad readily re tir,4l from VranCe, not' only without taking any thing for themselves, but leaving her a greater ex tent of territory than she possessed before the Re volntion.. lie should continue to rejoice at sin h itemduet, even though it bad given rise to the stilt sequent war, because - it bad instsireil the, world with a moral confidence in the moderation. and, justice of the great Enropean Powers, 4ny otlor course would, besides, have only served to pro tract an intestine war. after the second contest, it would have been childisbncia in the confederacy to have indulged the Inn, rality.oltheir feelings to the sarneexteitt. In ex amining the question; he was desirons to meet wia:lt he rather supposed would be stated by an Hon. awl Learn , d Gentleman whom be slid not Now see in his place (Mr. flintier was mrderstood) n a ApetiCB of plea and har e the eourse adopted by Go`rernment, '' that we hail. no right to inter fere with the internal concerns and government of France." IThere were two, minles ortieWing that question : The , first, whether, On ge:ncial prineiples, such an interference could pot be sus tained ; the second related to the pecoliik situa clan in which the Brit'isb .Govcrurnheitood, whether that did - not debar it trotn,the tight of_ interfering. believed . that it would b.: press, ell by that lion., Gentlemen, that we had aban, aimed tire principle on which We "shoniti act, in , meddling With . the Government of ' France, mid trdOpted a-course of . nnwise policy and error. , fie irt;;11-t defend the conduct of Government 'by ask in whether" independent sf'itote inta,,not the right of mixing in the policy of anot4,v,r, n;ttion,, rrodbuiltling its security upon the peeoliar fnlttire ot. its formation ; but be should .:6t-st consider , %Olf bad fallen from an llbn. anti Lcarne4fien. Tiennin on a former night, and which, he had founded on a passage in a letter of Lord Clancarly, o • Bll PPtnitinof indifference on the . part .of GovSrnment• to the person who sboula. reign in Frank% • If the Hononrahle and T.:canted gentleman had road that sentence in connection svitit the next to it, he would havecertahily fonnd, that the object of the war was not to atnitgse any particular fm or of government upon France .7 , 1, bit if we ohlected to liaonaparte, on the, gcOund:, ot oar own security, did it resnit front that, , that we 11-twill3 be as indifferent to the.te-. o:oration. of no amiable and unfortunate Nereign, as tot the. elevation of Male other Asiventurer, who. might ‘row out of, the A k tenty ? He denied that any meaning ,of that' kind could he wrested out. o( out . ..political ftptsions. lie referred the Rouse .tto. our, D'v,lan . rution of May, on . ratifying the Treaty of the. With of •Mareh,• in which, although we had stafed, that we should not consider the impoliing of any, pl,cticular Government iii oto Prailte tl.idopoi non, , at •n, condition of peace, yet we distinctly ex , premtedhow.desirous we . r shonld be ,to .sett _the' Bourhems. restored, This was not a ;um k.of difference, but shewed, that although ou,the eer tan. emilusion of. iluonaparte we might haye knowledgcd some other ittdisitinal, yet, we bad wenn Mid decided preferertee itj beltult of the hilt;,; of. France. That was the only avowed pqt . In.view in all our documents, and it was thereto' incredible that Lord Clanearty, writing on the I2th of May, in explanation of the ,Dsclaratinn, isfUle4 on.the2lllt of April, hi ratifying the Tremy of.the - 2.5th of March, shonid have wiiitea any tiring in a 'different sense ; as beside' his own judgment•and abilities-, that Nobleman .was net, without his instructions. lie therefore ii : slied the House to eitinitte the. DocuMents, commencing with the Declaration of, the Allies Of the' 13th of Atireb, the Treaty of the 2511 of the sante month, and , our explanatory. Declaration of the .24411 April, and it would be - found that to diouvew the ...restoration of the liouthons had never been our object. As an abstract question, lie was ready to acknowleilge that. nothing Was more improper than to interfere in the internal arrangements of .other nations, •or to- be captious 'about their modes of Ciorerntnent.: But would any Gentleman -any Stott!' has. telt:itself, so tied up as nutsto bare the 110 .of interfering 'in the conduct of foreign, nations, - . when any, one of theM' i attceked the se-. ; curity and establishments of thereof ? CeriainlY. • not,-for this principle was as fullyrecogitisiti as any other.greatdeading point of policy. -There was, 09. situation Which more deeply the peace, and:Sectirity of States, than that in ,which they were plated When there was any ilasstion,nbout, the right ot snecession to 'thr.Throne, and when it civil contest arole 'as to whitljel. the,, soprctlie posier shonld remain in one family,. -or - he , trttns,... fetTed: to another, If we• were to try the ques tion, by the , former practice ot •Lurope., , he appre hended we should riot bear srp many loo s e : opt- g i,, 4o: ,ahout 140 right of every people tr change. these .form of Government, a theory that 144 arisen,out taf Itie corrupted. and JiteObinioed. ctplcy et afloat by og,horrible French Revoln. Pion'.. If we kinked !melt at the prof* of. this rotintry, uual referred to the hest atithorities, sire should nod tlaait the principle in question wastaid, down , and, est4blithed by the theinselvgs,, —Wear, hear l)-,--iiti,mettnt the Whigs of earlie r r. threes, from sv h tose principles 'those .of modern d'. im had certainly swerved no chaff 'degree if we wanted a precedent for interfering in the Government 'Of a foreign nation, respecting thy stqoport and 'upholding of its legitimate dynasty, *re in our own country about a century Ago. r mp.e ti..tance was rurtne‘l tor lump? pose in .1717, and in the following year another power, Austria, acceded to it, and the object of it was tEI seettrethe Protestant I)ytinsfy on tire Bri.- tish Throne. He would read a few words front that Treaty, whfch heappreheimmied would prove a more preitnunt precedent than Geol . :men eilmsitC woad he d'lsposeml to mulimutt. liv time ritit Article. of theVreary of it is expressly stated, that if- :the Nines of any coentries or provinces who ?filed the Alliance shomtid he distill- heti, by inteS., tine. parrots or, rehelliomme„ on precomint of time stteees l (. l ); they sbnitlit „hare a right to dertand the succours of .their Allies, to assist. in ,suippress ing The same stipulation was waffle io regard to I'r/thee, in the Trent yof Utrecht. These precedeuts linty immstified us in combining and in terfering to pet'down that acernsed military ties. pot ism ; in ruance, which the dimeobius and Whigs of modern times had sostrenuousirlent themselves to By the. quadruple alliance, the con. tract log polies; pledged themselves to act nil perlolls trLitieVery, who. spotlit! attenyttO %tat their reftlieCtive 7 Goverummemmts. he meet,' dent was additionally strong, when we foetid ,our own. tVhigs. looking particularly hap, their own situation , and milting two !treeties mr it 11 the • tit es.fleumeral of' the Netherlimmk, tosimpport out . Protestant sevems,siomm against all, eneintes what itrer. If the modern nom ionsabout a nemerical majority Of the, emomntry Imeimmg,ng,eimmat such immtem-, ferenee, had prevailerLat that. day., he imagiumed it would have been. extremely dif fi cult to usscertaio' whether. the majority-of: the people were in favour of time reigning . dynasty , or not. But it. was deem ; ed necessary, to provide. for the security of time no tions by stichstrongmul judicious Treaties, in .or der to prevent renewed scenes : of ametrelly mold re, hellion,, and' it wits, ; the honest Whig promeiples those daystimat led to awl .atimminea time obieot, I.ly, the,Treaty.signed lc time. Hague. in 1709, the sjtatesmGeneral of. the United Provinces', engaged trereemmgoh , e succeesion, to essiSt the:, rightful , Iteirs its t k ing possession , of the•throtme,.' if they, bad.not• already got it, nod to oppose. ; who might, resist them. The Nl'Jmigs primied.them • selves ita.immtviog stipulated in favour of the-Prin. cuss; Sophia of 'Hanover ; end,. the Treaty of Utreelmt expressly states, that. no person 3t s'' miry . right- to cull imi tines:ion any,.arrammgement made with.Great :Britain i.n this respect, or eiltloBVoll, .-to:nitpustujimright pfliss,CClSif)ll of the l'rilicess , s ov i i i K , • 'Ttlii-yeas asufticieot prtnif Of time rnifilto' distiection between the principles of the ancient and modern Wimies , -.‘e proof of the..practice Of'the prog c uitors: of, those of the present days They denied' the. right of nations, to interfere; with a vieme to:pet down the despotisret i and awirehy• of a llot brr, which disturleml, their Own happiness arid rep.i.,,t, though thistoight be douse on' the broad grown, of pub.licseetwity. , Blot formic attsbitiotisiumi, (4viaivil to interfere the GOvernmenrvof. other stations, and that contrary. to all 'the- rights,i and interests of.ntankind, waS perfectly. within Uri-. pale of modern Whiggism.. 'Having now tit least h hce.t.o,,y, but was in favomir of tire principle of in.', trrferiauce, he had mirsemnburras.ied. hi m self of thai cotiiitlerahle A:attire. of. the argument that: denied our riglit to interfere ; we had is right to take tke- ' .i bermel(eof the principle. opou . such broad , grounds e* isted for it in. the.late contest; or imm tact un apy:orcasion, provided We ..not carry it tarn 'far, or misapply, it. In order to , 'establish the fact that we haml..not done so, it was only necessary . to • , xantimie.. whether' the- partictiler poliey . we .'had.: adopted. was, consistent or' inconsistent. with gym! eegagentents bet weenns andtommis: %SILL; .whetimer •the, line we had followed ,wasi, iriconsis.tettt'et',ith. ' >;u n p i d policy, or whether the,: Pritairtm to (mediate the safety:, of Ir A mtroPe by such. immterposirion mtg• eensotable.. or praisewertimy, 1 - 10, WA& , aware that' would he t a ken of the ipmestimm. Slone Gan, tleinco might say that we were tied up hand avul,i foot, times late cempeign, and m ostli‘ott,' fit do hot follomv the 'treaty of the preceding year.-- 11 1 1 s,. Imo eiNr, he totally denied. Time . first clues., tiott, nras,, whether -we' mveye so, bound by :that Tteaty, Bs. to 'have . no option left trims at -all, to, expel. Briona pat hit , and to re.estehlisis titerotiw, time Treaty of l'eare omf thc.preeerliatelear.- it s,s eatsll4 Arne,. that if we 'looked' itt.-theatipuda, tionv,of of, the.. 25,thmr Maveh: they. , furnished-Very strong arguments in fae.our•ofoliis quest iota ; for : thew-ay view this Allied Puwershed trt the, time of tramulog it, woe to defend- France or , any, oklier ealotrias t iegaimrst the ineelion,4% Weis • B u oi la parte aitempteil to pl'acticei,.. of,..,Fratiets wile the isle of . this, rent y I aulf.,lSo (Ideal ) I,arl nta heiltalion'ilf e told been en‘,ltile.l'An remain in:rranCe i ..asa to repel the .hivader, time Treaty 0f..-the With of, March woph4 luire-Nnturins , - in, good , faith anti lionouri to have nia-th a liretitrof: Peace,„ as tn• territorial arrangemetiti, the,:saine'aslhat of the preceding year,,; lie woold•goft tteirfarther,,:and ply, that if' rime ling Arad ~teen' driven out of Fritnee,by, his rebellious amity, anal , hatlyeeased to be, de facto,, King of Fraitee, though,. he • soda not have, ceased to . he'so, lie4trre ;, if . the •natfon had risen against limimilimmparte anti. hht:ifrioy, es time D4teli rose ugeinst time French,', and replaced.their . ing on the -if hron 0,1 it 'me onto harobeewbvilaitit tohave adopted , tiny other ,policy litan..thaCcif the: , Trentrof Paris. ititt the Allies mere opposed, not, certainly by the whole weight of the natieini but by.the whole power. of the. ariny ; 'fur irk liati„ hero queitiost between • the 1111ie s, `end riancc. it would, Awe been too munch to -prow ttiimtr thotywe, should . hot hive hats'. a vist - itleat more to encounter. When, however-, were so•sttplue as to.theiromto.l„ thatthey, hatl.no . coutitlettce Att z 'theinsel Pei and - . the.' state of .things !being,:etteb,. that the Xing foultd it necessary, even to restrain .the :exertions of • friends, insomuch that the Loyalists olLa.Ves , deo, .were:ohliged to give up the:rause. heforelite war.coul&hesaid to be et nu .ensl i 'would Con.. teuil,,that :the case imposed on the , llies the adoßai; Lion of , the comic they bad followed., iii their 'own subjects. They-had deemed it 'neektr 4 sary to reeptire from tbe.King satisfactiowinOtk' tigatioo of the charges they 'hail incurred, i t iist precautionary security_ against t a pe tecurrettee of' such en.. outrage, in. future. --When the treittral the, 25th March- was ,concluded, it was ..ktrOvltv that Bunnaparte had ramie- rowel "Rogow ; Ott France, but it, was not known that the Ki mg -had left Paris. No accession had Lieu elate on the part n King of, • ranee to this treaty ; can'ti quently, if we looked at Abe diplomatic law, it would he acknowledged•that it - held the King, of FranCe under no obligation ;:s•hut, -on the ;other hand, there was nothing to „preclude the Allies from acting in the manner they had. thought pro pr to'do. We were all et/mewling in the same 'cause, tri inn down that audacious military maim ,rity Fren•ce, which threatened .tine security of *all the rest orititiope ; and it wits necessary ifittf we-slionhi combine. the •general interests of the ir with those precantionary ineafartot Which we felt it proper to take. for the safety of every other Nation, The Mlles were not pi eeinded from imosing, those obligations on Cratre, be. eAtisethe King returned and resumed it IS rich, ne tinder the :victories which the; Agile ha' so' liantly gained*. Ile would the, ionise to litols, at the elements of svbieh France was at that time composed, as it %Vas only by such a View that any 'arrangement that had been. come to could be. :deemed politic or wise. The first poil; was", what course - or . policy was due to the of Erance.himself, in his- character of King of that He had suffered from tlinnevolut ion , hot. the whole course of his-conduct after his restore ' tiro) had Manifested the spirit of. conciliation and peace.--The next topic was the right of that Col, Clive branch of nations, whose efforts had re stored peaee ; end, thirdly, we had to consider the nature of that branch the French Sysrein,' *ltieli was entisidertni the etertialeoeitiy of " ,rope, and which it was necessary to soppr63_, • and effectually out down, bef , tre there could be any fusee that the country, could look to, "or any . Dynasty first could be cothii;;;.lc.'d otherwise than nnitporary or inseettre. It conic! nerer*bethouglit, that If the army of Jacobins of France reviv;. - ed again, the present Dynasty eroild *stator. The. late Government of France W a military GOvermueut ; it was whollyatol and led by the army, and obliged to :m -ower twit for all its'operations. lie tilt that alt. though we might .now look to repose itatkr the arrangements . that'had been adopted, it was only ky seconding for n length ofrime thet.e opt:reions, by the presence of a strong military, force. Unless ffir the imposing attitude of• this body, till the military ,spi r it of Jacobin'. sin was 'extinct ' the pearnr, could norlie secure. The principle on %ihichhis MajestY's.Government felt the question 'of war or peace to hinge, was the continuance of an army of .tlitrAiliea hi : Fr:men. .But. respecting, Ithe dissolution of the army of Buonaparte, which 'had now taken place, he .should thitik' himself undeserving of the attentiOn 0 the House, if be; • was'not prepared to ayoyr that his Majes-- ty's-Government,, at'tir'e time' Loitis.XVilL was rat Ghent - , laid" k. down as a funtlathental and positiv.e: principle, • that that. army:o;6old he to tally ; and he should hare. been liable to the charge of being accessary to tfie reSurreetinn of, that army, if lie hod not insisted - on-Ira entire 'extinction. But this.grand point was effected, and .it only remained for US to watch over it fur. a i hue', in -its state of dissolution for if anyinati suppos ed it had ceased.to exist, because it longer exist ed on patatle, lie knew nothing of the deep rooted principles' of Jaeobinism: fly which it had been actuated from the commencement of its disor ganising career. It.wtts H part of his inatification to avow, thin it was distinctly stated to Louis XVIII. that if he did not do this act of justice to Europe, . the. Allies would deem it their ditty to Jake the task *upon 'themselves ; and -that on lit:today, if the local authorities hail not the lower: or inclination • to' tic)' •it, the Allies would 014 dote - a ut once it frirco. Which th e y justly considered inconsist cot with- the. gene tail - safety. We - bad Culled nit the King ~ to 4lissolvc this army, • because we were prepared to protect him till lie cutting raise. another from :amongst the lOyal and well-disptrvetfpart of his sub. ! , eats ; and if we haul ;tot insiated on this effort being; ma de, he had no hesitation in saying,, th a t : we should. have trepanned the King into the powitr of'his enitities'—(fiear;-hetir, be4l:!)' The Noble LOrd,crtatititiing to deseant on,the,attach metitof the military conspirator? to Banaparte, observed that he never hall beets 'nue of those olto had tleritebtatid - liisVithiliti t i ;'hut he olif.l say, -t hat hat- army bad ; een, atifTered to exist, it WOlO4l h . ave ,beetr!,perfatatly •tionsipor, taut Whether Buonaparte were: confined or _nok, f o r it wOuld• nOt'have been "diflitalt to find a chief who wtatrlct tiirti:e ~pour let' it into its. 101 , 41: , :t* caree.• What,thtireforv i ! W:la• its istile,' was; whether *the world shoultingain be-"betrayed ..and a military despotlsta; as :it formerly tadheett..-af!':: ter seelog.the calmultittotliat had..grown out of; ir,:* This .tlespotlitn"- had = arisen , from.:tbat'AjsordertA: state of the world, caused by' liedeitstable prin ciples at modern philtis (*idlers andmoderii-whig-*. gisin.4-»(I tear, ticertearl)—l f But naparteltad Con.. d urta() , . lllttititll t 'ivitls more attnlire t lie migh t t hoe have perfeeted'aud established this despotism; but Us temerity was the cause t'if his* downfall. It was eurlotte, that one thelap Acts he per formed to- pirpet mire this despotiatiV, was to order the , Pretetts' to - return 'a list of all the tinnotrtied, Ainales , • thitY. , 4l.tiriCtri' in ordrr -that mi)tht" frititnl 64. -his soldier's ! 'ln feet he. omitted rrothing,iiist , coAtitt; he sacrifieed to their . Watt ,4nll avarice, - that' he - m -m ight aintain his throne,liy their; proteefiOn, • till 'did timeeame Sound again, far way and desolation. lie fled never.talked i .with any tertiOntibie tuna in Frt‘nce, Who!did not declare that they had*-always 4 looked at their' own "Military t" ysteni - ai'fi:tyratitirfrotir whiefr they ardently wished tit? lescaj ."i Ott tact;. , it .vairs'n , monster, :which' would; /ratite' peeper ttially , kept- all "Etirepe The. Stale,; , was notutog:mOre mereinStrartletit ' itr its-,j lie •liad never' be. - trd any :•' sem° mew of regret - -front .any Frehelonan, as 'to :our eontitibt in France`, except' one, which ~fear, .donnas, ttit:r: lie had dilledvenlotbeikailti:i43ll4l7;reoinni_tpeirewteliriettiaegeratiatirs ort(PLeall:coisigedeiti- ti l sloe chef d suY i t o t : t Pe g P.el f ) a r6 e ta rnil e r .. : : Lves'wut)iiirlsed to: interfere wit:lr tn-tlrtht`. Having ttated' the' 4rand object we had . in;view, , thit r f iproviding for: the security o f Europe, by . tbe ., -deintilitiort? of ' the faeobilt A t - f or d -it netttrelly ffilla:wod, that -what we bad d u pe ks•ei kistilittWe au& whatemr .' t , ~ might have been the facility with Which tills OW totirse of policy on the Pert of tee Me. , eee see 'reeled, it was necessary not to pursue a line Of vindietive- policy, not to mark the great merit distincthitt,ethist it was not against France, at is natiesisee thate the Allies were et war, het against'Fratseet 'in a. revolutionary sense--segainst diet railittilifelacedsissisni which had given its _impulse 'the" 'the . civil Jacobi! , ; while , in the spirit of our honourable enee gement towerns the Fling, we Were bou n d to . blend our pelicy ' with it &mete of personal conciliation . . 'Merit was a broad line of policy which -no pleb oould mistake. If- we bad suffered France lei. • suppose that the question was, whether shit should be allowed to exist within the pale of 14 ' 4 • ciai ord e r. iit — Whet her she should be puniehel.fig: her faults by a considerable dismembermentni het territory, the conseqiienre. would have beets, 11l in theleitter ease- we should Wive hail Ifie , .whol of •Peatbe agaiest us. If the charaCter of Fraoo 11 4 40- sitered of late years, as to-give her,a test predoreinance in Europe, no Illatl Cuttiti say 114 ''. the pewee of Great Britein had not also inereesed its an equal propmeion,Whieli made the' view of tee iltieieg France less pressing or neeeisery; Grist llritain,in tact, bad no interest in having France diee ntembeted, nor was there' any Power to whom so 0 dismemberment li could prove henzficial, ThCrl, was no roan who diet net feel that the Ense ice ° ,,, e Russia had taken a start whirls made the lee s ' r" , 'France appear under very different features fro ! what formerly was. 13et lie' was preparetl: t: ray, that nothing would have been mons fiit gl fa . the general interests of Europe titan In itive gu t " fere r ! the question to have been agitated' see' . u ing the reduction of France : He thought. tha t the proper consideration war, to let Freacci ge .; serve her character as R nation. - In t h e - statioa Le i, which. France stood, there was not a eel . . matt who tlid not say- that she 'o do ttil jar , security ag-ailist the recurrence of whit hail liar petted. lltst tit the same time, we were-celled "I . ' ‘ toireilessilliee the world, and not to siteeeseeeneer abstract notions of the behtece,°:. power, at,yariance with the feelings of the peoP le , ... 'end wetieli might have been productive of a : . ',T ii contest', That course was alone Wise., gene as a shield for our own security, tvlsile ' le „ . its Is faculty to adopt such a system, as-shoula caw' fry a benefit on the vil times people o f Freneee t , There were two ways in which the Allies teig d n . have clan-nett inttem fifty : they might have 41 01 1 ll ' • , cd a Itiri . ,:e ptClittidry recompense, or have map° 4 ., severe abstraction of her` territory. J t a ,, parcel tag, been said, that the pecuniary levy Was i t 'Li-, most revolting to the people of any thing t h at. most have . been adopted ; nothing, ' 1 " )4 ,:: ever; was farther from the truth. ; '.. 114 , t 'i ;was, barely any portion of the people ': !trance :who would object to part welt these neenep--(Laughter.) The state of click ' g ... nances adMitted of their paying a heavy ceu trl ' bution ; for on lnoking at the situation of Dove et compared with other nations, we shall fio" that she has derived from her profligacy en see vantage which other nations cannot equal. vi the.events of the RCVOItIIiOrI, she had been till' , enettasbered.of her national debt, while the fiti ll ' der she - had taken from other nations had pie" . 7 her in a situation of greater .affittence thao4l,l • other in Enrope—(Hear, hear, hear.) Heeh nl ": here digress to say a word or t wo on - s he b"P c-- rial Loan, which was net rem with the topic on which he was speaking e 7 remodel had plundered Prussia ht different times of no less , than 1200 millions-of livres, and Austrin °' even a larger proportion :- in fact, these t 6 '''- , 5100 , 11'6'MS' were' so reduced, tlsat if they _., v 1 1: pressed to refund the money advanced try Britain, they would not •be able to put die!" aroy i s e nn the peace establishment .' Returning is 0, tp , epatieet of 'France; the Noble Lord contenO ti ~tI" „ t xvillieg was more repugnant to the frelinee' , o slie,fteeple than the idea . that they were...to bc 41" t h l a r l f . 4of territory; and if a partition bed bee s ! t s ,v is r ;c o l l e co tl„ . tette ved upon, he was convinced it would 01 i have been in di; power of the Allies to ,have pet' steeled his elsfislian Majesty tis accede to ite-e., There hcievever, no - difference of opiiii" ft was, , i i amongst the Allies, that 'we aught net to dol.. , e I ' with Feats& as"a compiereft country ; it wue / ' have been a measttee.pregtittot wrth the greate 4 :. danger,,- ; and . rhe ' B vOuld &aye. he should flesl )l4 !'. teat- F renchman' who -would, not , have becielee, indienenv at • the: :partitiotiing out o f ,his ter.; r ee itoel, and who- would- 'lot fe e l that the state et . / 1 1 4 iieteei before - the Revolution, w in; the State - , L i r iflfikli Isis honour was bound up. Where was 1 " .. j f.ltieilishntan who worth, not fight for any of 0 06 oselissitilis whielecossoehatedto the power of 1150 e ' :13Misli Crown ? . lit protested:eherefore eeei n e s " . : : . as n tl t lr l t e. ';l r e:ni p ili r e n t : }f e h l e s ttib o lle f e ti fl nt i l s 'i n i‘ t iv e tl' i ri l e b yt t; p rn ii: e ct n el tr t 9 l to v : t hef o i t li tc e c i l cdt' l l i i r ;; "" : 1'14 ,;: :::: injustice. For if any large portions of Isq v t e r / i!'• •• ritory - had beets taken 'from her. they 11 ,431 Pli s divoleed over to It i tai wrin g S ' g'' '''' ' se I e k e o g tete it ► would have been a source of .perpettesi dis ol3 " .. ► and- when ' theediffieuity of brizigieg hack: t he different 'Powers . of lestrape :. ta.. Alm ash}: . au) , -other Power was cousitiered, - flu' 3 !i be .a preettniptnont politician e , who could erk • • " that 'they could: come hack to give Pr ()te i g ; lion :as . often as any - other St kt te lU i ~I i Wa . tlt ,their assistance . It wee a . IntelemeP,L e tnextiu of France to be inseceved - in: year . with ": 1 ; Low COuntetes, and wheneverelsis svele;bC- gg- el . the bin:then always, fell upem the alsotapirs. of 11 r i e ` , ,sciptitiy. We feel therefore taken care to s ecu ,t,ki! dotitinii-is of . the king of the Nvilterlano 0 0 much tei p ossible egainat env attack troes 141. '" I e C r o ci ' ~_ '..t7 . , ,Precteationery measures howeree• 1 1 0! i ; 4lip tett'. there -was everVreason to :::: , e , :::". e it i , f lier •' l het' Fienee wieild test make, attY l'''„ 511 , 1 ,1 11 - atteMpf. - We had 150,000.0 f the. best tru', l l ) ; - the world, ander a runn who witsjnstlrar. l n ' t b; versally . admitt eft to be Use gieatese 0 'world ; 11114113 France hail ereeted die dantte., .. 'was but right that she shoti .ldpytheprite for vol' i ' l ' i ll i i lug over her tranquillity .--Ort, tbi whole, ha `, ,a good reason tä believe that time peace would e..i,'-',-,, -secure, even _though some skew of bul tii , l e , 3 ;e L c : might be made' he France in so long s 4r...' ~,,,,. ' 111 t llfr e of nein_ as five years.. -It woold li ne ° f etneaetee have beets wise to here taken th ee t_, ' t oiel * e Pteeeii front France, and annexed 'theta ~ 'couttsPies'io which. they were,cOtiti gno ttsf ... ; -. . • i f mire to s t ~ a wcaeure would have been ut UV ,adVali" - g ,; G