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E , 1.1,\ VERS. A*Swrit nF TFI N.ENirt.rlENTlA:tit's OF PRANG, 'in MK PluipwSlTloNs ( , :z VIE . .. ) .01•11 c'r?.FT. Pleuipittentiaiie3 of his Most - , Vttlesty,, • fortf) before him . . the COM/Iltl4linAti6tlS'.whjch. were:trode.to them in the conference of yesterday . , by their Excellencies the Pforlipotetitiury of die four (mired Courts, respecting the de6uiti've arrangement, »s basessOf which" tlie:r Exei...4len-ies lini7e proposed : , The ce:.”lon.; byltis Most Christian Majesty, of a territory •e;.1.10 to twolbirds 4Witat *as adtlea to old France by the tre—aty of the3olh May, and in which shonld be comprehend the fmteesses if Cotrde, Pitilippetilie, Marienbourg,Gicet •aad Cicirlernont, Sarre:Louis, Landau, and forts Joux and 2. The demolition of the fortress-:s of Honing:nen. 3. The payment of two sums ; the one of GOO millions, un 'der the denomination of indemnity; the other of 200 millions, to •seree'for the construction of fortresses in the 'countries • e;:nterminons with France. 4. The military occuriation, during. seren years, of thefort 'res'ses'of Valenrietrnes, Itunchain, CandiraY, Nlaulyenge, Lau drecy, fxquesnoy, Avesue, Rocroy, Long.ry, ,Ilitehe, and the tote-du:pout of Port Louis, as well as of a line along the northern and e‘ast ern frr;nliers, by an a;•tay of 150,901 men, under ;he orders of a t;eneral nominated by the 1111 h-N, rind try sn:;:ed by Prance. • itlaiesty,•ardcntly desirous. of hastening as far as l ie's in his power, the conclusion of :-,"- rai•igrment, the delay of which has caused to Ilk •• evili which he daily deplores, and bas prolon;,ed in Fr;ince, and , still prolongs, that internal agitation which has excited the - solicitude 'Of the Powers, but still more animated by a desire .to -Tnak:l known" hii good dispositions to So vereigns his has wished that the under "flgued communicate without delay to their ncies the Plenipotentiaries of the four, Courts, the principles on which he thinks the ne jociation ought to be prosecuted, relatively to each of the bases proposed, by Ordering the no - dersigned to present the tollo‘Vping considerations on ;he first of tlivse bases-- - ---thilt respecting 4: ri t w i n ! which that important object is Cxatti:nvd, in the twofold relations of justice anti tit ilk y,ri!tic h it would be so daugerous to separate. The want of a common Judge, !Flying - tity and power.to terminate the dkputes of Sove reigns, leaves. no other course, when they cin pot, come to ,an atnicable agreement, but that of referring t!,c decisiOn of such disput'es to the fate o f arms, Mich coust itutes bet ween.them the state of war: If in this state, possessions of the one Are occupied lty the forces of the .other, the-c pie,sessions are, under conquest, by right of which the occupier acquires the full epinyment . of them daring all the time tha-the occupies thew, or Until the re-establishment ot , peace. Lie is entitled ro ijetuand as a condition of that re-establishment, that the territory which he occupies should be exiled to NW in whole or in part ; .and the cession, when it has taken place, transforming the enjoy- Incut inlO'nronerty- from mere occupier of it lie i4ecomcs the Sovereign. '1 his is a mode Of ac gokitiop which the law of nations authorises. But. the state of war, conquest, and the right of, ekacting cessions, are things which propeed from and depeud upon each othcr;in such way that the first, is an absolute condition of the second, and die latter of the third ; for out of the state of Ntiar, there can be no conquest made ; and where col3(pi: st has not htieO made, or no logger exists, tfe right of demanding territorial cessions canoot t•inee a claim cannot be !mule to retain that which one has tint, that which he no longer hits. • T!,ere can he no conquest where there is no state of trite, 'and as you . cannot.take from him Wlmo has nothing, you can only make cocvest of what . a man posse3ses ; hence it Inflows that in ordzr to constitute the possibility of conquest, there inn t have lmetn war by the om:caplet. on the possessor, that is,on the Sovereign ; right of pos session of a country aml sovereignty bLing things imisrpar'able, or rather identical. • If then you make war in a country, and against A . tlimibd• more or. less considerable of the inhabi tants of that country, while the Sovereign is ex cepted therefritm, you do not :make war on the cOuntry, the laiter Word being merely alrope, by Nviiich the domain 'is put for the possestor. A however, mast : be constdefed as ex cepted fr'oni the wac tvhiali foreigners Carry on . in iii eonntry, when they acknowledge him, and talti;ttant uith'lmiln time hccustoined 'raition4 of peace. Ti;e" war is then Made ktpinst men, to the . tights of whom he who cOmnhats them cannot 'Btu - Teed, because they lulus no' rights, and front witorn it is impossilile to ermquer what does not • bOt ? ug. to them. Neither time objvCt•nor the ef ',feet of such a war can he to make conquests, but to• recover. l,le, howcyt!r, 'whp recovers that. Which does not belong to him, cannot recover it Lot for imiut whom he acknotvledges as the legi timate piyssessor. I.'9' entitle you to deem yoursell. ai war with a comintrv; withoutbeim4.; vo. with him who has been prlniotistY zlcknotyledged as .s.;overeigo, two thimCgs twist aticess4rily happen; the one is that of i,:g in hohl hill', as such, and to regard the sove 4iS transferred to those wboin you light by the .s.ery• art for which you fight agahmst them : that is to say ; you then recognize, pnrstie, and reaction those doctrines which hare Oretihrown sit many thrones, shaken them all,. rind against Europe was under the' ne cessTiy orarining or, you must lielieve that tims.overeigi..ty can 'be • (Inutile while it is esseu- Mid incapable . ..llf division ; it may exist ' nailer different form's, be collective or bot not each of these at once in the same country, cannot have . two , Sovereigns at the same 'ltie Allied Powers, however, haveneithcr done nor bctit!s:ed either theione or the other of these l~ro Lhings. . . They have considered the enterprise of Po4onn-, pitfie as the grentest crime that couhl he commit ulem, iftld the very attempt of which alone phio•ti Jiim without the law of natiotis.,' In 'his LOLL:rents they viewed only accomplices of that ,=•L; 'c) line, ,rt . liosni n`: - ....mff77 to down,' and pintish 7 :i-ICire , puila7nces ably ekelisde every th4t :oich ,eputa. , or conte:.,. t'ransinit,an+ The . : Aiiet! Powers have . not for an - instant cooed tfi rec-agniSe. his Va . st Christian Majesty . as' King of France, arid consecitiently th, ITcognise —the rights which belonged to him in tUt capacity; they have not tor an instantcea,ed to be with him in relations of peace :and amity, • Svhich ;lone conveyed with it the engagement 'to respect his Tigl.is; they took upon' them thit engagement in a farina!, _though implied:manner, in the.declara tion of the 13th of March, and in the Trcatyolthe 25th. They rendered it more strict by - tnaking the King enter, ,by'his accession to that Treaty, into their alliapee. against' the common enemy; 'for it. you cannot make conquests from a friend, you Can . still less do it from an ally. And let it not be said, that the King could not be the allYofthe Powers, but by co-operating with them, and that he did not do so; if the total defection of the army, which at the time of the treaty of the 2.5 th March, was already known and deemed inevitable,did not permit hitn to bring regular troops into action, the Frenchmen, who, ' by taking up arms for ,him to the tunnbee..of 60 or 70,000, in the departinent of the West and the tiont t hose who;.sheWing theniselvJs ed - to take them up, placed the P'sfirper wider the, necessity of 'dividing -his forces auci - those %ilia, after the defeat of Waterloo, instead'of the — re soprees in men and money,xvhich he demanded, left him no other butt that of abandoning eyery • "thing, 11 ere, for the Allied Powori, a real co-one rat ion,u ho, in proportion as their forces advanced, into 'the 'French povinee,, re-istahlisried there the Ki.vg!.s authority, a ineaure which ‘v'ould have can , ed covgisest to cease, had these provinces be en really emiquere.l. It is e3ident, then, that the demand which is made of-territorial cessions can not 'be loan:led neon conciaest: ISeither can it have as aticto;ll e reason the ex penditure made. by the Allied Powers; ; for if it be joist that the siwrilices to which they have been forced by t war, undertaken f<n: clie coinniOn good, 1 but for the 'mire particular benefit of France, ;should nOt reinnni chargealde - oil th;ein, it is etinAilv 1 jitst that they should satisfy theinselv e s . witn an indemnification of the same kind with the.sacii flees. Tie Allied Powers, however, have made 'i no sacrifice of trrritory: - We live at a period 1l'iletl„ more than at any other, it is important tostrt!ngt hen confidence in the tvord of Kings. 'rite exaction , 4 cessions ft ont his Alost Christian Majesty, would product. a quite contrary ttrect, aft et*the Declaration in which the Pi3weis announced, that they took up arms only against. Buonaparte and his adherents ; after. the Treaty, in which they engaged to maintain against all infraction Ow integTity r e f the seipultitions of the 30th Of t ly, 1814,--4hien',eannot miintan.ed artless that ot France is, so ; after the pi ocial‘na tions•of their Generals in Chief, in which the shine assurances are renewe.d. • The ooetiott Of ces•sions from his •1110St.CIWIS tiait 31: ! ijesty, would tkepr:lt l hitn:of the weans : Of extifiguishing totally aiid for evil. anio1101)e peo- P ie il L tt 1 )pil it of eOtiquest, fanned•by tlie , Usurper, and which 'would it)evit.,•iblY reki.otrw tlte•sie sire of recovefitig that vd:i.ch Fr:itite %%hold ne%er believe she bad just:y lost. . , • • Cessions exacted trom . l.;,s Most Christian . • • .lusty would be imputed_ to him as a kji: , 'k!; AS if he had thereby purcijased the iAid of the Pol‘;crs, and would_bc . anobsacle to the contirtuati:t •of the Royal Government, so iioportant for the. legiti mate dyn itt►d necessary to Cue repose or Europe, In ;I; I r as that repose is connected. with thesinternal tranquillity , Of In line, the exaction of ressions froni his Most Christian Aljesty would destrOy, pr at least alter that equilibrium, to the establishment. of wh;ch the Powers- have devoted so .tu,iny sacrifices, ,forts, and earci. It was theniSelves who fixed the ea tent that France y ought to have. flow should that which they deeme'd ;necessary 4: year ago, have ceased t o exist ? There are upon the Conti neat of Europe tr..o States, that surpass France. hi extent and in population ; their relative greatness' tome' necessarily increase in the sliiie, T roporti o n as tlw absolute g eatnes3 . of France •119 , i1d be di- Would this be eOnfoituable to the in 7 tere,ts of Europe ? Would it even be, witable to the part icid-or interots of these two Slates, in the order of relations in which they are placed toward, each other? If in a sriall democracy of antiquity, the people, in a body, learning that one of their Generals had to prt?t►ose to them :Something-, advantageous but not just, exclaimed unanimously, thitt they would not even hear it mentioned, , io •it possible to doulkrt that the Monarchs at Europe shi4itld mit be una nimous in a case where that, which is not just would even be pernicious ? It is theretOre, with the most entire confidence, that the undersigned have the honotir of submit-' ting to the Allied Sovereigns the preceding.ob servieions." • • Notwithstanding, however, the inconveniencies attached in actual circumstances to every territo rial cession, his Majesty will consent to. the re= establishment' of the. Ancient limits, in all th,e points in which additions• were made to old _France 'by. the Treaty of the 30th May. His Ma %vill also consent to the, payment of such art ihtleamity as shall leave means of supplying; the wants of the interior administration, Without ‘viiieh it x,vould be impossible to arrive at that settlement of order and tranquillity which has 'been the object of the war. •• Mis Majesty's-ill likewise consent to a provi sional occupation. Its flirtation, the numher of fortresses, and the extent of country, to be occu pied', gill be the subject of negociation ; but thd King doe's 'not hesitate to declare at present, that an occupation of seven years, being absolutely Compatible with the ipternal tranquillity of. the. .kingdom, is .uttcrly . Thus the, King admits in principle, territorial cessierts a; - to Whit did not. appertain to Old France ;'the payment of an. indemnity ; and a pro visional. occupation byaillumber of troops, and -for a period to ,be determined. Ills Most Christian Majesty flatters himself, that the Sovereigns, his allies,' will consent to establiOr the negociatioes'on the footirig of these three principles, as \yell as to carry into the cal culatiou of conditions taut sPirit of justice;, and erlt-rA . O:Yn tli,eni in 0fit , .. , 0 14) ; ..iy /IA! t speedily, Add %% i; 11 . dud d al these should not Prft.ll(lpted, 'the diff' cirsigned arm not receivc or prbpuse any other. REPLY OF THE MINISTERS OF THE ALLIED SoVEMIIGNS. PARIS, SEPT. 22, 1815. . The undersigned,. &c. &c. have received the, note in which Messieurs tie Plenipotentiaries of France have replied to the cointunnications made to them in the conference of the 20,h of,this month, with referenee to a dcfiuitive'arrangetnent. They have been surprised to find in it along - series Of observa tions on the tight of 'conquest, on the nature of those wars to which it is applicaide, and on the reasons Odell should induce the Contracting l i owers not to recur to it in the present instance-, The Undersigned consider themselves so much the more , fully en - mpted firom the necessity of following the Plenipo tentiaries of France in their reasoning, inasmuch as no one of the propositions which they have made; by command of their. august Sovereigns', with a view to the regulation of .the present and future relations.between Europe and France, was founded on the right of conquest, and because they have carefully avoided in their communications whatever might lead . to . a discussion of that right. The Allied Powers, al ways coil , ;,!vriog the restoration of order, and the confirtna- , tirrn of the royal authority in Fr:ince as the principal object of their proceedings, INt persuaded at the some time, that . Fiance canmot enjoy a solid 'peace whilst - nei4hbotthing nab lions cootintte to cherish with regard to [ter either bitter tmi :posit ies or perpetual alarms, have , recognised the principle of a just satisfaetiuri fur losses and past sacrifices,as well as that of a sufficient guarantee, for the future security of neigh bouring countries, eta the only means of putting an end to all discontents and apprehensions, and consequently as, the only true bases Of every solid and durablelarrangement. It is only upon these two principles that the Allied Powers have fixed their propositions, and in drawing up the pr. jet which the Undersigaca have had the infneur to transmit to the Plenipotentiaries "of France, they were distinctly expressed in everc one of its articles. The Plenipotentiaries of France ihtlaselves admit the first 'pf these priaciples, whilst they remain silent with respect to the second. It is, however, abundantly clear, litat the neves of guarantees for ti:,; future has- become more sensible and urgent than at the period of the ;gnature of the Treaty of Paris. The subsruent events have carried consternation and alarm to every part of Europe; at a moment when the' Sovereigns and their people flattered themselves that after so ' many atilietions, they were aboat to enjoy a long intern=al of peace, these events have everywhere produced agitatiow, us ,w;,11 as the burthus and saerCiees inseparable from a g'enoral ' arming. It impossible so soon. to tile: min,;, contemporaries the r6collection or sach a convulsion. That which VMS sarlicieut tai satis':y j?,O, canpit contvut them in 1315. Till: line of dcti.arcat;'.ni which appeared to guarantee the sci;arity of the States bordering on Fram . e, at the epoch of the Treaty, of the nth. May, can nu longer the just pretensions whieli they now prefer. • It is in•lispensible, that France should olIc( some. uetN: pledge of security. She ou.!lit t i t:Ile this stub., as will fronr • • , ;it of justit:e. atv! vxp-di,;,acy, tts from Lrr Qllll • Acell oticierstuod. For, 1 . 11 order that the FiCAjt may Le a:?(.1 trzAnTiil, it IS ith,ohttely mc,ssau that .their nvighbouri F:slJunkt be.ll:titpy irmliquil Surgh ale Ole iww.eritil th;lt c iswinccdilte ?Mkt! I':+a•rrs to ile.avtud of Fr.ince some The inchn4c!ei cxtvit of Lllese. tij.ltt, of the I,)i.tts ;Gott I:cy bear, :1-11f:4:1c:1:1y that, they 1;m-e ::ethittg ia cot with views in' Aggrantlise- Went. ay!d cuuquest, and that, the security of b.,r•rcipt; lions is their ou'..obji-ct. cessions are of a nature •to coinpromise.the su!tstruitial integrlty of France. Tln'y em bract pnly delactled iiistricts or points remote from her terri tory; they eanuut: real!): Nve::1,11 her in any relation eitio:r administrative or military, nor can her defca , ive systein affected 1 .4 them.: Pruner vtill remain not the lesstone of the 'best rounded and, best fortified States of Euriye, ns well at . cue of tho richest in means of every description for resi.ting the - danger of invasion. Nyithout entering iatnthese higher cOnsiderations, tile Plc, nipotentiarics of FraneeadJuit, however, the principle of ter ritorial cession, as far as respects the points 'added to old _France by the, Treaty of Paris. The Undersiped end it d'acult to understand upon what thiat distinctiAi - can he finvitird, or under the point of view adopted. by the, Allied Powers; in what the essential differ ence between ancient and recent territory consists. It is im pOssible to suppose, that the Plenipotentiaries of France wish to revive in the actual state of affairs the dUctrine of the pre 7 tended inviolability of the French territory. They too tell know ,that this doctrine, put forward by the Chiefs and Apostles of the Revolutionary System, formed one of the most revolting chapters: in. that 'arbitrary code which they wished to impose on Europe. It would be to destroy entirely every idea of equality between the different Powers, if it, were once ettabislied as a principle, that France may without dillieulty extend her limits, acquire new provinces, and unite them to her territory, either by conqueit'Or treaty, whil.it she alone shall tojuy the pririlege of never losing any of tier ancient possessions; tither by the wisfortuncs(of war,' or .by the political arrangements that may result froM it. With regard to . the latter part of the note of the Plenipo tentiaries of France, the Undersigned reserve themselves for a serious explanation in the next 'conference which they will have the honour of proposing to the Plenipotentiaries of Frank. (Signed; ILISUNIOFFSKY, METTERNICH, • CA HARDENIIEfiG, WEISS.EI3ERC=, HUMIIOLDT,- The Abbe de : PRADT.is, it. seems, writing a His tory of the Cobgress at Vienna : a we imagine, Ono small difficulty. • A:person of the name (it PlEtillt LABORD2RIE, a %vine Inerehatit of Bon - Meaux, e•mvicted •of ,having used seditious expres•sions-, teas been eon dimmed. by. the Assize .Court of the C-. l iyonde, to five y ) ..ars linprisonpieut,. and, a fine at :Ut) fr4tie3. \Vorkaten are now 'employed in efF•;►.ein, tl►c Lti, seriptiott upon the column ifillte-Plare•VendUme. • 1 ' A nett' r. Ort.co(• ito:)0( 'ls, it i s s aA, os the , point of being established, in con stvence of the Electorate being ,exalted to the rtink of a kingdom. It not iv? c(mlined to GettnAn M Atotryno—l List;.,), I 1-irii.!:::1;;, 'aft-riO. • D.r . r.—/: FraJt;sv, 1 lil , 3r)t:r i ;ll, I Lt1)..24. 3 Catt:aburgl 1 tiullaati, 1 Wa.ti!r;%'cli. - Tats D 4 r AT T F STOCKS o'CLOck. In:rill:Hu:ids, 24. 3s. dis. dis. is. PP. tly,iitt.m, 131111 Dia° fur :Paymetit, 141 I fur ° i nning, 61/14- 'lank Stock, per Cent. 14.ei: 5911},. • per ( etwt. Con,s. shut 4 per Cutts, :i per trit. N.i y shilt `Bank L. Ann. 14 15-ILitfit - 15 Ststma —Average. Price, of )Irown or Muscavado Sugar) cornputi.t trio the Return , ill the tvedt ending the 1:31 11 ci.ly of I)ece . aibin:, 1115, is per CNVA. HIGH W.ITF.It as Lo:41)0N TO-N1011.11.0W. Morning, 1: inintati;s altur 4.4 ,Eve.iwcz, £7 minutes alto* 4' 11_ 11: 4 1 tu T T 11' • soLxix DicißE FALSCM AUDEAT? LONDON; MOND/IY. 1)E CE I ILZUZ, IS. • The insertion. of two valuably State Papers, irz a►ldition to our usual aceuntulatiOn of two clays news on Monday, would prevent ni from atter% ing• into comments upon that neW9 vvtu WCI*O it of a nature, to demand especial notice. But it is altogether of "very little interest; 'and we leave it to insert , the • tollotring extracts front a Dutch Mail receivedthis morning " HAGUE, th..c..13. if .. SECOND CIIAMBEIt OF THE' STATES-GENERAD+ " D ttrin ' 'cr i 2. '' A Message was read front his Majesty, ill'. forming, the Chatui)er that his 11.1ajet,vhad . eluded a treaty of ttittrriage btqween his beloved Son the PriaCc Of Orange, and hen Iligb•! tress the Grand :Duchess Alaria Paubutt,. Skter the guiperor Alexander, and tt itich, according to the Constitution, the consent Of the States is Itc" cessary. 7 --Referred to a Committee to be,teporte d - ! upon to-utorrow.:--(llagut Courant, Dec. 13.) " iiitliSSELb, DEC. U.-From Paris to our 107 14 tiers, the Altieil troops are all 'in Motion, th e lroads are - cove redwitb troops, of ail arms, arta' aid ati - entlies train of hag;:age, Eic• Preparations• , are making at ChantOrtly to reedy° before the entiof t!te mouth the Heact-tplartjs of Lor . tl Wellington ; i I th< E ng iki i troo p's h'" yond the cantingent,of,2s,ooo int . antiy, and Oliq cai - glry A')l t icil remain in France, are coining to • yOs gium ;- the Hanoverian and Hanseatic troops! titi-Ogh these pro‘inces to return bottle; i n " ". ante, the ditty is done in the Freitch f o rtve;: t * at Lille and. lints, 111 tire 6trictrst ." 'I he troops which lately landed at Ostend , went yesteruity no boitill again to•rettit : n to Eng*" The report ;.:irctdatiOn 0 14 . , L Ord IVelling . tott's head-quarters' 'come w lirusscls in the e,,urSe of the 11HMCo of 3-Mlllllll'4 (fiattrlentVant,l)ee.. A.) - stoirn of the ' 7th anti Slit inst. witieti was attended With. stfel' .3— t4tilticu :anti severe trust, has don :;rest maw.: tyon oar neighbouring coait, - are stranckcl in the Ztivtler Zee, or entait4 l e il the ice there, in the months of the harbours, 3'l in the Y. • In all the ports of .the .greatest exertions are making, paltly to diseog'c' e . • ~ the vtsscls 'surrounded %rich the iee,.a . nd them into more s'eottre 'births, and partly to repair - the damage done to uthers."—(,:hitsterdam Cc ur , • Dec. 13.) • .• • The Rhenisli—liercury cOntains, a conipfaiiif 6i : the purchase of the Pictures at Alaltnitis .. ints by the Elllpetor ALEXANDER. Sound of the. filiest r these pictures, it is adirtned, belong to the.Elec i°/. of IlEssit CASSEL, and [Our' of the Claudes, 31 ° 11c- are worth mote than the whole sum, s ° (.l ' 9°° h francs, paid for JOSEPHINE'S gallery. IL is e ' they will be restored. to th e .lawful ow ners, "t 1(. 7,- not,put,chased to enrich a Niitior.Eo: , ..i Phlud ever.- = There i 3 Chis thy a 10ao 'article in a .resil cc ` able Morning Paper, of,wlikb, indeed; there Is a promise of a contintruion resprcting the r Ucu- -1 • i r e_ of intended changes in the Vice..r)y , iity of r land. - fettle. Editor had looked at TILE SO th Saturday last, he w.ould have, seen that - Co'" tradicted those runiouri as we had dvnt;,- nefOre , AtTtiortiTY, and - eve repeat from the sam e anthority, that Lord Wu I:TWORTiI, has. no lu te! " non of resigninga .sitnalion the'importaTit lions of. which ,he fulGis so much to 1.4 own honour, and that of his country. : • We continue our extracts frCitu the Quarterly Reriew..of . captain PoitTnir ,Crui,th, _ender: tki pleasing idea that this thorough dressing of a Buc caneer till,obtain more p oi ndarpirculationinth e "United States, through the medium of a daily JourUul, than it could hope for even in the Ividelf dissendnated volume which it originally enriches.. The Duahess of CUMBFRLAND is reCOVCTIFIZ from her iiidivosition. O Friday;:her Royat i Iligliness took airing in a carriage, for the tir s ; time, and repeated hcr ride of Sgurday. 1