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tiers to aatiary ail 'parties, while at the same time it is wished to retain four-fifths of Saxony, and to leaee.only one part to Prussia. The undersigned confuted himself on the 11th e December to the making of some remarks on 011 this, adding, that he felt himself under the ne ces:itY of demanding front the King, his august Master, precise instructions, before being able to make any ulterior declaration. - In 'he interval, Prince Metternich gave him to understand, that what Was :Offered by him as to Saxony was not to be considered as an ultimatum. "It primarily necessaryao rectify the ta bles annexed to the note of. the 10th of Decem her. With this view a faithful statement was given in No. 5, which proves completely that PruSsia, instead of having, according to the said table, a gr ea t etapopu l at i qn t h an in 1805, would have a less by more dal' 1,200,000 souls. Saxony herself is most materially interested. in the decision. The most powerful reasons ope rate against her being frittered down,—the wel . fare and the wishes of the nation, the word of .the a. Emperor Alexande r , th e i nterest o f P russ i a, as _ - well as that of all Europe. Hithertis it has never been denied, that in order to maintain a balance of power and tranquility, Prussia must be strong., Tie wish is, th a t s h e s h ou ld h ave such extent as may give 'her the means of self-defence, an d Which may not se nd h er i n perpetual' search . of aggrandisement to maintain the force indispensa ble to her defence. " 'Treaties, also, give her assurance of the number of inhabitants which she bad in 1805 ; it is true they say nothing of the precise possessions ; but they secure to her at least a State geographi cally rounded in all respects. Justice clemands that she should be reinforced in the same manner ' as all the Allies and so many other States have &kn. 'Where is she to procure all this, - unless the whole of Saxony is given to her ? . "It would be expedient, iii every point of view, to found another establishment for the King of Saxony and his successors. His ulterior existence in Saxony presents a situation which, far from being satisfactory to himself, could, on the con trary, only be borthenSome and precarious. possessions would be always cramped by th e two bordering powers, Austria and Prussia: The io habitants of the territory which he might retain would necessarily be in constant relationship with • those of - the ceded portions; which would occa sion disputes and discontents equally isreaudicial to the Sovereigns and their subjects. It would be come the centre of intrigues and cabals, which Would incessantly endanger the internal tran quility of the two States, and even the harmony which should always reign between -Autria and Prussia. - " The King of Prussia has offered, under very easy conditions, Monster, Paderborn, and Corvey, with a population of• 310,000 souls, in order to form the establishment required for the House of Saxony. Should these offers appear insufficient, the turolersiained is charged to propose possessions elf twice their extent on the left bank of the Rhine, and in which there is a city calculated to form a very agreeable residence. Luxemburg would hu that event becom e a fortress common to the whole Germanic . Confederation. "In the Note of 22d. of October, . Prince - Metternich consented, in the name of . his Store reign, under certain conditions, that all Saxony should be united to Prussia. He confined himself to expressing a wish, that a, portion of Saxony bordering on Bohemia should be retained to its Sovereign. •Theinpossibility of acquiescing' in this wish was set forth. The possession of a con siderable c ountry , w h ose i nha b itants profess the ,same religion as the Ki ng , was o ffe re d as an al ternative, which, in point of power, would give him rank immediately after Baden, as, well as a vote in the first Council of the Confederation, it being evident that the - situation of this district of country is not of such a nature as to render it the subject of continual jealousy between Prussia and Austria ; it would thus be preferable, in every view, to his retaining part of Saxony, which would be less secure and independent. May I now be permitted to examine the cOn a l - a ions on which Prince Metternich gave his con sent : • " 1. That this object should remain eonrrected with the other territorial arrangements of Germany ; that, in regard to this connection, •his Imperial Majesty considers the most Perfect egiailitiriti m between Austria and Prussia in Germany es its I , asis ; so that in the defensive system 'of Austria and Prussia, rwither of these Powers may directly encroach on the other. But should the equality of protection or of influence of the' two German Powers cease to exist, his M'rjesr.: would then consider the line .upon the Mein, including Me . titz, as necessary for the defence of Southern Germany, and the security of his Monarchy; the course of the Nkin and that of the Moselle would, in consequence, be considered ,as the southern line of defence.: and the p or ti ons of territory ( which might serve as indemnities-or compensations to the Princes of is 7 u . thcrn and Southern Germany would next fall to be rep , lated accordingly. " 2. Under the express reservation of arrangements to be _concluded between the two Powers, in regard to frontiers, to the fortification of certain places, and to the commercial re ' lations and free navigation of the Elbe. " a. His Majesty reckons on the perfect agreement of the two Courts, and their mutual support of each other as far as fulate73 to the affairs of Poland. " As to the first point, Prussia enters com pletely into all the views and prificiples' of hi; Majesty the, Emperor. She is quite , disposed to yield to Austria the influence and the arrange ments in question, both on the left hank of the i\lcin and the right hank of the Mosella, without entering into any innnediate discussiOn of the uniastiou, whether the fortress of Mentz is more necessary for. the defence of the north than the swath of Germany. The necessity of preserving it, for the benefit of the common country, . is so evident, and so distinctly declared by the majority of time German Princes, that Prussia, which has never entertained the design of augmenting its po::sessions by that fortress, has TM other wish but to consider it as a common bulwark of the 'onfederation. This fortress would be guarded by time troolis of the Germanic Body, and kept up at the communion expellee. litS " In regard to the second point, an engage ment :-as been made not to fortify Dresden. Tbe rinder•sitined knows not any other frontier point Ware which can become the subject of dit•cas sion 011 this head ; but the arrangements to be made, in regard to Dresden, to the relntions of commerce and mutual benefit, and to the free iiti ,...fitation of the Elbe, are nut liable to any "lu ::tgitvd - to the third point, PrtFcia al- teady done sci much, as far as her means extend, that we may hope to see it atlitisted in a satisfae tOry manner. • " t►';ih the-exception of -, the undersigned does - not know any German power which has de clared against the union of all Saxony With Prussia. "That'power intimates it does not wish that the federative compact should be established on a ba sis, which, by tomb Ming with it the incorpora tion of one of the first States of Germany, might give it alarm for its own security. But was not the existence of Germany, ,and the safety of its members, menaced in a much higher degree when 'the King of Saxony remained obstinately attached to the cause of the enemy till the last moment " The King of Prussia flatters himself that the Emperor will consent to the i.icorporation of Saxony with Prussia; and will represent to the King of Saxony, and the members of his family, the advantages which they will derive from the establishment offered on the left bank of the Rhine. His Majesty desires nothing more ar dently than, on the one hand, to contribute as ►ouch as possible to whatever ,may preserve the union between the great Allied Powers ; hut, .on the other, he cannot consent to any arrange- Meut which would impose on Prussia alone'a per manent sacrifice. i4is Majesty demands that which he may justly ltiy claim to, from treaties, and for the efforts he has made." BRUSSELS AND FRA,NKFORT PAPERS. BRUSSELS, FEB. 14.—Vhe Paris journals have announced the taking of Rime by 'the Neapolitan army, the reheat of hiS Holiness to 'the Castle of St. Angelo, and many other events which are mere fables, destitute of all'fouudation. We re gret having noticed these- reports, which are spread in Paris out Malevolence. Wediave be fore us letters front Rome of the 24th of January, his Holiness had officiated the day before in pub lic, at St: Peter's, amidst an immense - crowd' of the faithful. ! Every thing was perfectly tranquil at Rome when these letters cause away. Some French papers continue to publish arti cles, sometimes under the head of Antwerp some times of Ghent, of.Louvain, Or of some other town, which seem to be dictated by the spirit of lying and perfidy which reigned under Buona parte. These reflections occur. on reading in the Gazette de _France of the 10th inst. an extract from a private letter written from Ghent by a Fle mish Magistrate : this pretended letter is a for gery, for there cannot be in Flanders, I will not say a Magistrate, but any ma n so stup id as to combine ignorance - and imposture to such a de gree. Here is the proof—ft is asked, says this letter of French manufacture, where is the deliver ance, and from what are we delivered P Certainly it is not from the droits reunis, nor from the coa scription, nor from the; contributions, &c. We know not whether we ought most to adMire the folly or the ill faith of such an assertion. What ! a Paris Journalist dares to tell us, that the conscription exists in our country, and he has the impudence to attribute this imposture to a Flemish Magis trate. That is t oo much. ' No one is ignorant that our national army is recruited by voluntary enrolments ; that all those soldiers who leave fo reign service to return to their county, may go to their own homes, as soon as they have set toot on their native soil. The Military service is, free, in the strictest sense. of the term. If the droits reunis, now called the indirect taxes, still exist, they are greatly diminished ; viz. salt under the French Government cost 45 centimes a pound, now it costs 10.' On the other hand, the spies; the informers, the' worthy retinue of the ancient administration of the droits reunis, have disappeared with it. You asked from what are we delivered .? I answer, from your chains, your dungeons, your moveable columns, which filled our country with despair, from the proscrip tion of our venerable bishops, from the infamous treatment shewn to the young men of the semi nary at Ghent, from the horrible abuse of all kind of power; we are delivered also from a cer tain Proprietor of the Gazette de France, who made Antwerp and all Zealand tremble by the arbitrary measures of his police. To hear you, one wottld suppose that In your happy France, there were no droits reunis, no con tributions, and that, manna falls in abundance from - Heaven for the fortunate inhabitants. If I remember, -however, the Count D'Artois, brother of his Majesty Louis XVIII. when he en tered France by the way of Alsace and Lorraine, did proclaim with that noble generosity which distinguishes his character, the abolition of the . droit reunis ; but we know that the King has not confirmed this measure. - Have we not lately seen courts of justice in Burgundy bring actions against persons who refused to pay the droits Tennis which they thought abolished.' These facts" are not com municated to us 'by magistrates of Lorraine or Burgundy, but merely by .the newspdpers. BERLIN, JAN. Society has been formed at Berlin, called the German Society, 'the object of which is to cause the use of foreign languages to cease- in Germany, , to cultiv a t e t h e ' G erman alone. Many o f the first, iterati of Berlin are members of this Society. DUTCH MAIL: [nEccivED TIiIS moRNIN:G.3 BitUsSEL3, FEB. 10.--It is affirmed that if-the Prussian Monarchy is extended beyond the - left bank of the Rhine, its frontiers will be foitned by the Roer anditheOurthc, and thus Liege, Limburg, Luxemburg, and•that part of the country of Nil 7 mur which lies on the right bank of the-Maese, will be united with Belgium, which, if it did 'not happen, would be attended with the most injuri -0113 effects on the commercial intercourse of the respective inhabitants. We again, therefore, flat ter ourselves, and, as we think, on good grounds, that these beautiful provinces will not bescparated, from each other for foreign interests. We attri bute to this the diminution which continues to take place in the number' of Prussian troops in the Governtnents of the 'Middle and Lower Rhine. We expect every moment to see the Empress of Russia depart ;' the .travelling equipages of the Emperor Alexander arc: also ready, as well as those of the other foreign Sovereigns ; their ab sence will be but of. short duration ; in the spring. the Monarchs will meet again at Vienna, to put the last hand to tl)e general pacification.—(Ora ele Feb.l7) VIENNA, FEB. 5.-1 t is now reported here that a principal object of the mission of 'the Duke of Wellington is to lay before the Congress the de plorable situation of the Spaniards under their fanatiC and vjndictive King, and to obtain Tor that people a fate which their noble resistance to the French oppression has so well deserved. It is at the same time intended to prevent' the conse quences of a voluntary resistance on the part of that people, which might be attended with many other effects, calculated to disturb The repose of Europe. England insists onl the • increase of the Dutch ' territory, and on giving greater splendour to the House of Orange.--(ikurnal de la Belgique, Feb. 17.) • BRUSSELS, FEB: 16.—Letters , from Paris in form us, that there have been at Rennes, the Ca pita! of Bretagne, great disturbances, occasioned by the, imprudence of M. de Bois Gay; who called himself the King's Commissioner ; be had in vited the ancient Vendians to repair to Rennes, to give an account of their services. The Bretpns are very hot-headed, as is well known; and this invitation displeased tbern extremely. M. de Bois Gai was near being killed ; the, Prefect .was in suited, the windows of hi's carriage were broken, and he owed his safety to the presence of mind of his coachman and the swiftness of his horSes.— The town of Rennes presented the appearance of a popular tumult ; the different quarters of the city resounded with the cries of an enraged mul titude, who, However, at last dispersed of them selves. M. de Bois-Gai has returned to Paris.- -(aracle, Feb. 17) FRONTIERS O 5 AUSTRIA, FEB. 9.—lt is affirmed that the questions relative to Poland and Saxony . are almOst, if not quite settled, and to this is at tributed Lord Castlereagh's protracted stay at Vienna. Lord Wellington arrived on the I st, and vet We hear nothing of Lord Castlereagh's departure from this capital it is probable he pritlongs his stay in the "hope of seeing the decisiOn of these twb important questions, which have so long Oc cupied the Congress.—(Journal de Frankfort, Feb. 13.) JAMAICA PAPERS to the 15th ult. F.'xtractof a Letter from St. Jago de Culia, dated the 9th inst. ‘.‘ By letters from the Havanna we learn, that Gen. Jackson, after giying .up Pensacola, bad marched with 30,000 men and 8000 Indians for Mobile. No force less , than 30,000 Brisish troops can therefore make any impression in that quarter." • • The inhabitants of Santa F 6 have entered into a capitulation with Bolivar, uniting themselves•to the State of Cal - thagena. In Venezuela. the Royalist cause has been more successful, having recently obtained possession of several .toWns therein, and besieged Maturin, where Jose, - Francisco Bermudez commandslthe nsurgents. From a notice, published in the Curacoa Ga zette of the 31st 'Dec. it is expected that that island will be restored to the Dutch nation in the course of the three first months of this year. On Wednesday advices from Carthagena, with . Gazettes of th at c i ty to the 3 0 th Dec. and other publications inethe present month, were received. The embargo, witich had been in. force there for some time, was taken off at the beginning of this montb. Military law was in forc e , i n w hi ch duty all the inhabitants were occupied among whom, The day on «Lich ll the provinces of Belgium will be united; under the .same Government, will, certainly be one of the fairest in our history. FEBRUARY 13.--,To-day,. Sir Charles Stuart, Ambassador Extraordinary and Miliister Plenipotentiary from his Britannic Majesty to the Prince Sovereign, delivered his creden tials, and was received in that capacity. Mr. li. Gordon, his Majesty's Plenipotentiary, took leave of his Royal Highness to return to Ehg land.—(llarlem Courant, lith and 16th Feb) VIENNA, Fan. 4..---England has fleelared; as we are assured, that its desire that Prussia shall re-' ceive a great increase of territory, but that it may obtain such indemnifications as arc bea calculat ed to make it a centre of union between Belgium and German y.—(Vague Courant, Feb. 17) VIENNA, FEB.'s.—The determination of the frontiers of Holland, or ,rather of Belgium, on the side of France, seems to become one of the most important points of the Negociation at the Congress. France seeks to circumscribe, as much as possible, the influence of England in the pro •vinces or its frontiers ; but, on the other hand, England strongly . insists on the • aggrandisement of the new Kingdom pf Belgium. Os°, some squabbles prevailed as to who be elected President. The American privateer schooner Grampus, late Murphy', has arrived at New York, from a crui se of five months off the Western Islands, during which she made six prizes, manned four, and or dered the m to th e U o i te d States. On the 14th or September, she fell in with the British sloop 0 f war Ariel, disguised, and after a severe engage ment, in which she received several shot between wind and water, the Grampus escaped from her; • Captain Murphy, during the engagement, received a grape shot, which carried away part of his right jaw and tongue, and a musket ball at the 'same instant in his right thigh, but reluctantly per; mitted himself to be carried below. • 1-le expired three days after. The ship Louis the Eighteenth, Captain O'Lalf from New Orleans to St. Jago de Cuba, with 41 French pass e n gers , taken off Cape' Maize on th e 26th ultimo, by the Dasher sloop o f wa r, efl' guns, was brought into Port Royal on TuesdaY 'The passengers were landed at St..Tago. The in habitants of New Orleans, it is said, had collected a force of 10,000 men, to repel any attack frat the'British. AMERICAN PAPERS. 1. To recommend to the Legislatures represent' ed in this Convention, to - adopt all necessary wo; sores to protect their citizens from all Acts passed of to be passed by the. Congress, containing pr o. visions subjecting, the militiamen or other citizens to forcible drafts, conscriptions, or impressmentsf not authorised by the Constitution. 2. Application to the Government of the thlite j States for an arrangement whereby the said Stat cg inay separately, or in concert, assume t o Oa'. selves the defence of their territory, and the taa ; nagement of a ' reasona bl e %port i on of the taxes collected within the said States. 3. To form corps for the defence of such par" of the States of New England as may be il l ' varied. 4. To recommend the following amendment % in the Constitution : I .. — lleprescntatites and direct Taxes shall b« apportioll, da among the s evera l St a t es w hi c h may b e i nc l u d ed within tw" Union,_ according to their respective nu m b er o f f ree persott, a. N. now Sta t a to b t adulated intcythe Union without w concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress. 3. Congress not to have the power to lay an embargo Or e . the ships at the citizens of the United States for more than days. 4. Congress not to have the power, without the . conctr„ rence of two-thirds of both Houses, to interdict the coma cial intercourse between the United States and foreign natio: l s 4 5. Congress not t o d ec l are war w i t h out the coneurren c _ 4 two-thirds of both Houses, except in case of defence agar 7 actual invasion. '6_ No person hereafter naturalized to be eligible as a Mel/ r; her of the Stat e o r H ouse of Representatives, nor capable ° holding any civil office. 7. Ihe saline . person not to be elect e d President o f 01 6 United States a second time, nor to be elected for the 53 '7 State two terms in succession. And that if these recommend a ti ons b e u nstW cessful, and peace be not concluded, and the de' fence of these States be•neglected the represcnt 4d tives of the New England States do. appoint P legates to another Convention to be held at Sa s ' ton on the 3d of June. • MAILS. ARRIVED-1 France, I uoHand, 1 Guttenburg .- h, j, and Jersey, .2 Dublin, I Wate r f or d. DuEl 1 Lisbon, 1 Malta, 2 Hamburg!), 1 Gottenburghy I . terford. PRICE 0, THU DAY AT Ti STOCKS 'EINE O'C VICK. . • Bank L. Ann. IGa 7-16th; India Bonds, 13s, 14s. Pr' Excheq. - Bills, 2s. ss. pr- Onmitun, 2 ills. Cons. for Account, 65 Bank Stock, 3 leer Ceut. Ited: 651 3 per Cent. Cons.• t 4 65 4 per Cent. Cons. 81ii 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. 94ki HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-mongo Morning, G minutes after 12. Evening, 31 minutes atter THE SUN. 501,E51 QUIS DICERE FA1.31.1M AUDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1615. We are warranted in stating, that Mr. BAR OI6 ' whose opinions on the subject of the Coi ; n L a`" must bare great weight with the commuo it Y ' ' has; on mature consideration, altered his ° P o nion to the best m o d e o f g i v i ng e ffect his purpose of affording temporary r e lief, an d 5 is his int en ti on t o move to amen d the Reso luti° ll her now before the Ho use , i nstea d o f propos i n g 0t" resolutions of his own. Among the new Taxes to 1)4 proposed by CHANCELLOR of the EXCHECILIEE this even :„, v' a additional Duty on Foreign Wines is anticip ate * in the City, from' there having been a busy-em t el' ployment o f Excise Officers in all the is ea t c Lars, Staking tire stock, &c. I OF We on Friday e/icluively communicate" o f progress of the Expedition to New Orlean s ' which an account was b ; o ug ht by the 514 , r ',4 from 'Jamaica, Anoilier Jamaica Mail aril American Papers reached town on Saturday, to the 10th ult. Letters had arrived at N e w Voil" from Augusta, stating, that the British had ran d " ed 14,000 men on the wcet side of Mobile Bay.' On the 2d ult. the new Bill for establishing a-S t ''' . tional Bank was rejected in the House of RePre' sentatives. • There were 81 Members ou each Side, aria the fate of the Bill was decided by the casting vote of the Speaker. It was supposed thor in consegitence of this decision Mr. Dallas woul d resign. CoMmodore McDonough was 'out the point of leaving New York, to resume the con" mand of the squad ron on 'Lake Champlain.---; report, which we know to be totally uhfoundcgt prevailed at New York, of the Maidstone British frigate having hemsunk by the Constitution Awe; rican.frigate.-06 . the 24th of Deeember,. the gv Delegates of the New England States met i n Coo' vention "at.flartfard, came to the following Re'