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sT.‘"I'E P.k I' UR. racyrEAT or THE EX-EMPItEsS The follotri , tg i 4 the {'retest of the Empress ArAltIA Loto addressed to the Congress o Vlentti, ttort st the ocenpatiolcol the Prefleh Tbrone tikelintorhml Dviioy This document was iit . ;4n , ally wunteo in French, t ool is now iwit into Eqglista Irons a t , :tlnNimion in¶o Frenth, don e trmii a Ger 14,411 Vel'%101), titposited in the Arc-hive% ht the City of Fr:11)10 . 0U t---• 'Maria L •uisa, Elupre%s„Archrflichrss .1 Austria., Thleltes‘ of Parma, in our mime. 1101111 z the minority Gf clr beloved Son runt Sovereign, es nd in naine of oir Fesn, Ch:irles Franei, ls;:tpoleon, as legitimite ptis,vssor of the Imperiai Throne of Franc... The distance at which we are kept from our nereditary states, and the absence of the Members of our Government preventi;tg us from claiming the admission of a Minister to represent us at the Congress now assembled at Vienna, and the desire of giving full authenticity to our reclamation in behalf of our beloved Sovereign and Son, have induced us, in imitation of oor ioanothil Ancestor, of glorious 11)Ini)ry, Maria Theresa, to take the resolution of laying before the above-mentioned Congress a declaration of the rights of our beloved Son to the Crown of Franoe, and a development of the principles on which they are fourided, to the end that it be known to Europe, and thc French nation, that it has never been our intention n•illingl'y to renounce the Imperial Throne of France, on which it. pleased Divine Providence to place t.s. We will not here recall to mind the disasters which dt prit•ed the Muse of Bourbon of the French Throne. We w;11 rather throw a veil over the errors of Prince;, and the Nulls (4 Nations. 11" e will not defend the work of factious and revolutionary proceedings; but, we will declare, that there exists a public law of immutable nature, which bloc's. Nations to Princes, a law at pohey,.cJntaining the principles upon which Sovereigns ought to conciliate their rights and interests, with certain rights and liberties," which are the prtTerty of their stihjrcts. A series of fatal events put an end to Royalty in France. All Eoroite took op arms to sustain or restore a Throne -which its r-tisessor ,vas unable to maintain ; a Throne which hail stink into nought through the flight of the Primes and' Nol►ility, which were its natural- supporters,• and perhaps through the violent cause of a popular will, unrestrained in its ni4ttift•stat ton The ainfortuvrae Louis XVI. and his Son perished succes sively. Ttioir legitimate liOrs fOrftited their claims to the Crown, Ilytheir free egress from the Kingdom, and their re treat int.) enemy's country. The Nation, no longei hound to its leZitimate Princes, was restored to its natural right of election. The o:.her :Nations of Europe considered these dis• avers as the work of political fanaticism, 'and a spirit of re bellion. • They in consequence took up arms, and penetrated into Vie l'eart of Fiance. Their success, houever, was hut of shot t duration. France soon expelled them from her invaded tcrxiiory, and maintained be: indepen.leqce. The Powers of Europe moist then have observed, that whatever had ori sinally led to this result, the G& ernment of France: was eilariged do facto and de jure, and that it belonged to the Frcneli people to institute snch form of Gocetninent for them srlrcs as was best suited to the circumstances of the times. In this state of thing% every tie WitS diS9olVed between France and the Bourbons; between the Bdurhons and the otter Soyereigni of Europe. The Family Compact, the Trvnty of personal gatirarvee, was cancelled by the infinence cif cunistances : in a political sense the Bourbuns . were no snore. The independence of France under the new Government of ber choice was th,n achnowledged by the very Powers who at present compose this Congress. Oa the sth April, 1795, the Treaty of 11Ile was signed between France and Prussia : on the 221 July, same year, another Treaty was signed at Bale between Republican Fiance and Spain. The latter Power, on the 7th June in the following year, concluded a Treaty of Alliance with the Executive Directory. The Courts of Sar dinia and Naples signed, in the course of that same year, the Erst on the 151 h May, the other on the lath October, a Treaty with that same Republica,' Government. The Pore, the minor Statcts of Germany and Italy, solemnly acknovii le(t,;cti also the new Government of France. Austria signed toe Treaty of Campo Formio with the Directory, and that of innevillc with the First Consul. England, by the Treaty of Amiens, Ist Oct. 1801, Spain by that of 27th March, 1902, Russia be that of Bth Oct. 1808., acknowledged successively the Consular Government, which proclaimed a general Peace on the 18th Brumaire, 10th year of the Republic. The Act which raised the altars again, and gave peace to the Galilean Church, which brought back morality, checked false doctrines, ant substituted the true belief in their lieu. The Concord ,t, i❑ a word, of whicl► the beneficial effects will long he felt by religion, put the seal, as it were, to those transactions of State policy, by which a Government, different from that of the aucient Monarchy, was solemnly recognized by all Europe. Who at that time suspected the Princes of the II ause of Bourbon of entertaining the rights of Siivereignty over Fiance ? That which has perished, can it rise again ? If these Princes - had no legal rights then, what rights ran they have now ? The French people nrignestionahly enjoyed the plenitude of their rights on der tht Consular Government ; at that period, 'when to give greater stability to institutions which had pot an end to the evils of the Revolution, and to give to Europe a pledge of that stability, the French People bestowed on the First Consul, Buimaparte, the Consular Power for life. The new organization of the State, in harmony with the genius of its first Magistrate, was consolidating itself daily, and it would have accomplished the most sanguiste wishes of the French people, were not the life of man limited to a small n wither of years, to impress these new institutions with a fresh character of permanency, to make them cor respond with the Governments of the other States of Furope, the nation suhstituted for the Consular Power the Im perial Power, which it rendered hereditary in the family of. Napoleon Buonaoarte. The citizens of the towns, the 'Com 7:owes , and the smallest hamlets, covered with their names the registers, whereiit the question of the erection of the Empire, and of the election of Napoleon Buonaparte, was sulymitted to them. lie received the oath of allegiance from his suhjects. The temples resounded with thanksgivings from the people to the Divinity. Tt.ie Clergy, in the holy office of the crass, prayed for his person and for his family, and soon the venerable Chief of Christendom came in person to consecrate, in the Metropolitan Church, a power which the Emperor )lenn had till thin nay Ida from tilt la:IL th: Prop! r. What %vas then wanting to fhe legitimacy of Lis Crnwil Had he nOC-redeiVell it from Ged and tis vinntry ? Itl other terals, froM ditque li s Lchtand front Itrzilon! rigiat ? Europe adopted these principles, and Najiolro i n the rank assigned to hint among Sovereigns, by the extent and power of his Empire. Austria acknowledged the Eili peror Napoleon on the 16th December 1806, by the Trettty'bf Presborg—t he Sovereigns of Bavaria and WitrteMberg se*We his allies, the same treaty raised thehs to the Royal Dignity On the 11th Dec. ISO 7. the Elector of Saxony 'received, by virtue of the Treaty of Posen, concluded with Napoleon, the title of King. • Did Europe dispute the legitimacy of these titles, emanated from the Imperial Power and from France ? Prussia acknowledged the French -Empire , and the Empe ror Napoleon, be the Treaty of Tilsit, July 9, 1507. The Emperor of Rnssia preserved his army, a inouni iog to about 900,000 men, by virtue of this same Treaty, which acknow ledged; not only the French Empire and the Emperor Napo leon, hut also the existence as Kings of the Princes of the Imperial Family. Finally, the Treaties of 14th October, 1809, and 6th January, 1810, between Sweden and France, complete the acts of external policy, which consolidate the dynasty thus seated on the Throne of France. All'continental Europe, indeed, Was the ally of the Emperor Napoleon. The family alliances of the Emperor Napoleon with the most August Sovereign Houses, tended to consolidate the social compact as established iu France. His strongly ce mented institutions ensured the stability of the monarchical for m of Government he had restored ; they opposmi an invin cible barrier to the invasion of .the democratic system. The Revolution of : France has taught nations.to lOok too closely into what passes in the Cabinets of Princes. It • was under the guarantee of the Constitution of the French Empire—under that of the treaties and of the alliances of foreign Sovereigns, that I became the Consort of Napoleon: It was under those same guarantees that Prince Charles Francis Napoleon, born of. our union, grounds his claim to the French throne, which claim the Princes assembled at this Congress have so often acknowledged to be legitimate. A fatal war broke o n t. The Emperor Napoleon was over come. You, Sovereigns assembled in Congress, arrived in his capital at a moment, when, favoured 'by disorder, a con spiracy manifested itself in favour of the Princes of the [louse of Bottrbon. You might have dictated to Napoleon in his ca pital such term! as were calculated to restore a due balance be tween powers, you would thus Irave consolidated institutions, whence arose the common strength and the common safety. This treaty would have been faithfully observed ; we have a full confidence thereof. ' Influeneed by the generous hope of putting a speedier end to the evils of war, and of sparing the effusion of blood, you put aside the rights of the Emperor Napoleon—you treated with those Princes to whom the conspiracy had' given the Crown ; what lustre could such Princes shed upon royalty ? —The. EnTeror Napoleon' at tha head of an army, not numerous, but brave and faithful, might have defend ed his Crown ; but to spare his subjects a civil war, he hail already resolved to abdicate in favour of his Stllt. Such was his determination manifested to the Allied Powers by the Dukes of Tarentum, Vicenza, and the Prince de la Moskoa, which determination _those powers viewed at first in it.; right light ; that is, as calculated to secure the tranquillity of Europe. Events which it belongs not to us to characterize, caused those just resolutions to be revolted.—The Emperor was obliged to sign an uncooditional abdication on the Ilth April, 1814 ; or thitt same day he sub scribed the treaty, of personal cofety, which, maintaining his title of Eniperor, assigned to him the Island of Elba as his place of abode, and confirmed to him the sovereignty over its territory. The SO article of the same Treaty assigned to me the So- Tereignty of the Estates of Parma, transmissible to my son and his descendants. I will net discuss the merits of these Treaties in respect of the Emperor Napoleon. They arc more or less binding on him, in proportion as he exercised his will more or less freely in signing them. We will simply say, that he had not the power of disposing, after his life, of the Crown which his son received as his birth-right from the French nation and its constitutional laws. If the Sovereigns of France, no more than the other princi pal Sovereigns of Europe, hare never been able to break through the estalilished rule of snecession in their own fami lies, so as to transmit their Crown to their second or third son, to the prejudice of their first-born, how comes it that the Emperor Napoleon should be able to deprive the Prince Charles Francis Napoleon of his right of inheritance, in or der to transfer it into foreign hands ? Can a conspiracy hare destroyed by its irregular acts the force and virtue of the laws. of the French Empire ?—Can it hare destroyed the royalty which the Prince, my son, holds of divine, as well as national right ? The Princes whom this con spiracy has put upon the Throne of. my son, fully admitted these principles themselves, when they refused to acknow ledge the acts of the government, styled provisional. Ten years of free government, ael.•nowledged by all the powers in Europe, at a time when the name of Buonaparte was not yet inscribed in the annals of'war—fifteen years existence of an Empire, the social conventions of which establish the .rights of the Emperor Napoleon, and those of his dynasty, rendered indisputable the legitimacy of his Crown. . When, during my residence at Bloss, 1 exercised the au thority of Regent, I appealed to the devotion of Frenchraen, I,received the strongest testimonies of their lo►e and zeal for the cause of their legitimate Prince. The presence of your armies, and the tendency of your 'Jolley, forbade me to re spond to the wishes of that faithful nation. The fate of nations being submitted to your award, y our ob ject will no doubt be to conciliate their rights and wi s h es w i t h the tight and interests of Sovereigns. Circumstances have deprived my Son of his Sovereigoty over the French Nation, and both himself and his People are equally injured in their rights by this fatal result of the late course of events. In this state of things, we, in ourquality of Empress and of Mother, anti before any authentic resolution be taken by the Congress, protest, by the present deed, against all acts of the existing Government of France, which has been esta blished to the prejudice of the legitimate Heir to the Throne. We protest, likewise, in our Own name, as well as iu that of the Prince Charles Francis Napoleon, presumptive Heir to and Possessor by right of the French Crown, against all reso lutions of the IFgh Powers assembled at Congress, whether taken collectively or individually, and tending to impair the rights of the Prince my Son to the said French Crown. The Throne of the Prince Charles Francis Napoleon is that raised by the French Nation,' such as it existed atthe time when its choice and election called the Emperor. Napoleon to the Llead of its Government, But if in the arduous struggle THE SUS. SULEM Is DICERE FAL:sIJ.4 AU l)E.1T• LONDON, TUESD.IY, .IUUUST 5, 1917, We received this morning the Paris Papers of Saturday last. The following are extracts : " PARIS, AUG. 2.—The Viscount de St. Mars, Marcehal de Camp, is appointed Secretary-Gene ral to the Grand Chancelilry of the Legion of llonottr, in the room of M. Hulot d'aiery, ap pointed Commander of the said Older. " Nineteen Grenadiers of th e 4th B a tt a li on o f the National Guards of Rotten were summoned before the Correctional Police, charged with le fusing to obey the orders of their superior Offi cers. They refused to appear, asserting that they were only amenable to the Council of Discipline aod they had judgment against-them by default, and were sentenced to three months imprison ment. The Chamber of Appeal has confirmed the competence of the Tribunal of Correctional Police. " The Harvest begins next Monday in the plains of La Beance; the wheat has a remarkably fine appearance. " The Duke of Orleans has replaced his arms on the principal doors of the Palais Royal. " From Strasburgh, the 2Sth ult. it is stated, that the Harvest had began in that quarter, and turns Out most abundant. " The Prussian troops which are to be re viewed by their Sovereign between St. Aubin and Ligny, amount to 13,029 men and 3,196 horses. " Genet-id INoronzuw, Commander in Chief of the Russian Contingent in France, set out yes terday morning from hence, to return to his head quarters at Manhenge. The Hereditary Prince of Prussia arrived at Luxemberg the 25th ult. " FIVE PER CENT3.—Friday, GS r. 55 c. " COPENHAGEN, JUL? 19.—The King, Queen, a nd Prince Royal set out the 2,1 August on a journey in the Duchies. Their Majestin proceed to Schleswig and Louisenlund, and the King will a fterwards visit his new subjects of Lauenburg. We are actively employed here in the resto- . ration of our navy : a new ship of the line has been launched, two new frigates are finished, and two brigs, recently constructed, are stationed in the Cattegat. • " VIENNA, JULY 22.—The Emperor of itmsia having been informed of the journey of the Em peror of Austria in Gallici4, sent General Count tl'Ojorowsky, his Adjutant, to Lemberg, to com pliment him. The Genera); arrived on ;be 10th, n:ad t nrti :I,ly 1.1:0 an Anlience of Ode Eloporor of Aust lid, to tViic ! ;ll delivered autvgrai.,;l letter fro►if ilifi.SOvereign. 44 HAMItURdIt, JULY iq it; the intelligence from itttsitt, the 7th Russian corp, d'aros6e, hitl►crto tantoned in Volhynia, is to be milted ‘vith the Gth tort)3, kiict ids() tvith the troops returning from France. The Count de Bruning sell, (;eneral-in•Chief of tbiS Army, will, on big journey of• inspection, visit the fortresses of Choczirn, Bender, Ackermann, and Ismael, to ascertain whether these :►laces ate in a propet state of defence, and sufficiently provisioned The rorte, on its side, profits by the opportuni y of peace to fortify all the important points on Its frontiers, the defiles, &c. " The chtferences which have for some time subsisted between the Porte and England arc en tirely arranged. Tlae former Power has neglected nothing to gain the latter to its interests; it has therefore .recognized the pretensions of England' with regard to the lonian Isles. A Turkish Com missary has set out for these countrits. " General Maitland is much belored by the Grand Signior. Conformably to instructions from his Government, he has delivered to Ali Bey, the Commissioner of his Sublime Highness, the fort of Perga, in Albania, hitherto occupied by the English troops. It is thought the order of the Crescent will he conferred on him. 'rite English successively reinforce their gar• risons in the lonian Isles, and the number of their vessels on the coast. These measures are attributed"to the disorders in the Islands, which are not altogether tranquilized. Through the intervention of England a con vention has been concluded between the Holy See and the Porte, whieh sechres more liberty to the .Christians established in Turkey. In conse quence of this Convention, printing presses have, been established at Constantinople tinder .the di. rection of an Italian. Several works in Italian, French and Latin, have already been printed. " LAUSANNE, JULY 22.—Aniongst the travel. lers recently arrived here, are Lord And Lady Lonsdale, Lady Lowther, Mr. and Lady Ana Beckett:' Charleston Papers to the 7th Judy anivca t morning : " CILVTILESTON.; JULY 7. —(From . Florida.)— Captain DoI.:RNLI, from St. Augustine, informs us. .that the Spanish garrison at present in that for tress is very weak. They had heard that the Americans ‘vr: re fitting out an expedition to come against it, anti it was the getscrial upiudoit that no efe:.i ;tnl• defence could be made against an invading force of any con,,itiernble strength. " We have becn favoured by q friend with le.te accounts from the 'Havanna!), which st,te that some revolutionary diqutbances bad taken pl,:ce not only in the city but in the ioteeior of the island. " Loss of the schooner Dispotch.—Tyro searnen belonging to the crew of the schooner Captain FIELD, arrived here last evening in the schooner Beldumin, from the coast of Florida, and last front St. Augustine. Tkvy inform, that the'schooner went on shore upon Carrysto; t Rea on the ,15th ult. on her passage front llavannall to this port : her cargo, sails, rigging, St , . hats been saved by the New Providence wreckers, and taken to Nassau, where Cap;ain EtEt.rt had pro. ceeded with tbte rest of the crew. These two nvera had taken the schooner's boat with the intention of proceeding along the coast to tLi.i port in her, hut falling in with the schooner Benjamin, they were taken on board. There had beet: no other recent shipwrecks on the Florida coast." We have extracted l ong „ rz ;d e wli i ch appears in the Morning Chronicle of tl,is thy, and in no other Paper, purporting to be A Protest from the Ex-Empress 11IARIA LOUISA, apinst the tesuntp. lion of the r Uhrone of France by the 13 013NE gg and claiming it for her Son. It ‘v.ould be difficult to suppose this Protest to be any thin 4 hut a fabrication by the tniuiwo of BUONAZ'AarE, if it were not stated to (titre b ee , „t‘iauy enter eel c., n th e Protocol, and registered among the acts o f t h e Congress on the 2-Ith of February 18!5. if it was really so entered, it is one of the , most repre hensibie acts that ever emanilted trent a w „tiog of legitintate Soverel4ns. Every.frienti to regular Governments inu,t read this curima document with indignation, and wunder at e ffrontery which produced it. throne of France from its I , ..gi:imate Po',:sessor, irZ favour of the Son of an execrable Usurper, is a greater excess of boldness, to give it th , :. wildest term, than perhaps ever violated the principles of ancient and established authority, and the grossest. insult to the common sense, and common feeliolo , of mankind, that ever was presented to their noire. For our part, not withstanding the authority wbicfi appears to be attached to it, re Cantlet 'lO c;:+i►l ;be in is Inch tt nas need engaged; the French Empire constrained by the force of arms to s'gn the Treaty of Paris, we thiak it just, in:ism-itch as respects the territories not form ing part of present France, that the conditions thereof be faithfully and for 'ever observed. To this end we here de clare, that the present Protest solely applies to the illegal 6 . ecupatir of that territory of France constituting the pre 'tent Monarchy. 'Having thus developed her claims, the Empress Maria LAnisa, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, &c. se presenting Prince Charles Francis Napoleon, tier Son, a INtio'r,?equests of the justice and Magnanimity of the Allied that 'the subject of her claims be submitted to the de libiraNd of Congress; and that an acknowledgment of the preterit i l l'Otest be delivered unto her, in order that she may produce it wlinever it way please Divine Providence to atfard her time and place for twat purpose. In faith of which - , And to give all due authenticity to the present Protest, she has attixed to it her seal, and written it in her own hand, atthe PalaCe of•Schcenbrun, Feb. 19;1815. (L.S.) MARIA LOUISA, Imperatrice. The High Powers assembled at Congress, after•having de liberated, in their sitting of the 24th February, on the present Reclamation of her Imperial Majesty, Maria L9uisa, conform ably to the opinion of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, of his Imperial and Royal Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the Father of h'er Imperial and Royal Majesty the Empress Maria Louisa; and from the respect due to the per sonal character of her Majesty the Empress, have resolved that the Act emanated from her the 19th February, com mencing by the words " Maria Louisa," and ending by those' " written by her hand," shall be inscribed in the Protocol of the Acts of the Congress. The French Ministers,: having protested against this deci sion, have abstained from-signing rt. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Perfi)rmed Last Night. . • TUF.ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—The Travellets Benighted Theodore, Mr. Russell ;.Marguerette, Mrs. Gibbs. After whirh, Teasing Made Easy, and The Village Lawyer. 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