The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-29 00:00:00

699,

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

•4 The Plenipotentiaries having definitively adopted these
bases, have conceited upon the course to he adopted, in
cider to arrive in the shortest possible time at a formal `ar-
rangement, and have consequently dctei mined—
"- I. That a general treaty shall he &awn up upon the
burs above laid down, and adding to them such artielcA as
by common consent shall he jod4ed necessary to eOniiikie
it. The French Governipent will notninate on its i.ait the

person who i, to unite with those whom the four Cowls has e
charged woh the drawing up of the Titaty.
" 2. That the Commissioners appointed for the military
aft-airs shad proceed, conjointly with the Commissiont-rs whom
the French Government shall appoint for tl:is purpose, to
draw up project of a Convention to regulate every thing
relative to the Military occupation, and to the swim, t of
the artily employed in this occupation. The game Commis-
sioners shall also dett•rio we the manner and the pei ias of the
evacuation of all Such parts of the French territory as are
pot eomi.rehended within the line of the military trecupa-
Con.

" 3. That a Special Commission appointed for that pur-
pose by the contracting parties, •shall draw up without delay
a plan of A Ccnvention to regulate the mode, the periods.
and the guarantee; of the payment of the 700,000,000 of
franes 'o be stipulated by the general treaty.
" 4. The Commission formed to examine the reclamations
of several Powers relatively to the non-execution of certain
articles of the Treaty of Paris, shall continue its labours,
will the understanding, that it is to communicate them as
sg)on as possible to tl.e Plenipotentiaries in the principal
oegociation.

" 5. That as soon as these Commissioners have termi-
natel their labours, the Plenipotentiaries shall unite to exa•
!nine the results of then), to determine on the dclinitive
arrangements, and to sign the principal Ti eaty as well as
the different particular Conventions. This Frees Vetbui
having been read, the Plenipotentiaries have approved it,
and signed.

RAsLIMOUSTCV,
CASTL ERE AGEIp

WISSEN 13 ER (1,
~APO D. ISTRA,
11UM LO L DT,
lIA DEN CC it.G."

a' HICHELIF.U,

" WELLINGTON,

LETTER TO LOUIS

PUBLISHED AT VERONA, FEBRUARY, 1795.

TO MONSIEUR MOUNIEIt, rx-mEninrit OF TIIE CONSTITUENT

A SSEMDI.Y.

4, When you express timidity, Sir, at addressing me openly
on the subject of the means you conceive calculated to
restcre order in France, you scent to forget the claims
you enjoy to my consideration. My recollection is more
fortunate: I shall always remember the conduct you pursued
towards the King, my brother, on the sth of October,
1789, though charged by the Assembly, over which you then
presided, with a mission so opposed to the duties of a faith-
ful subject, %hid) you so zealously fulfilled. 1 shall not
forget, that if perfidious counsels had not prevailed over the
reiterated advice which you transmitted to the King, he
would have quitted Versailles, and perhaps would have pre-
vented, by this step, the deluge of crimes and disasters with
which name has since been inundated. The remembrance
of a day so terrific in itself, but so honouri:',lc to you, de-
terinities me to give you a particular mark of my esteem,
by candidly imparting to you my sentiments: the object of
Ivy. letter is one of general utility. You ate sincerely
&snout of the itstoratiou of wouattliy what I. shall Say

OCT. 24:

• to you will serve as n•basis for your posonal meat s • You
think rightly in making a great distinctioo betoe, t. ciitee
and eri or, the former provokes the hated of the jc,sr and
the rigour of the laws; the latter deserves more pits than
indignation, and when honestly confessed, it would be
injustice to deny it indulgence. I have never ceased to
enteitain.this opinion. I an) ready to raise up and sn-
brace:Ole man, who, being unsul ied by guilt, but having
been buried away, either by ignorauce or wea%ness, or
even by erroneous ideas, should rt row hinoelf at my
feet, acknowledge his insult, and solicit my {:.).don This
sentimeot is not only mine, it is that of ni% booher, and
' of all my funily. The monsteis who have 'educed the
French penile, by fallacions promises of happiness, to
t3ratmise over them, and entirh thetn,el% es wail spoil,
know the bottom of our heal ts ; but, as they ate .m vase also,
that, when these truths shall become known, dart) cdifee
will tumble of itself, they resort to even source of
calumny to stifle then); but this obstacle will be over-
come by (lint of courage-, and perseverance ; and the% na-
tion will learn, in spite of than, !hlt we love her, that
we only wish for her good, and that all our labours tend to
that object ; she will discover that the emigioints who have
been so grossly calumniated, quitted their counq, not so
much to avoid submission to laws contrary to their duty
and honour, as to seek against those laws, which she at
present abhors equally with them, a support which they (oad
not meet in Fiance, where a set of miscreants bad to•ssess(d
themselves of the national power. In a word, stile my
sentiments and those of my family, France will equally know,
that if any feeling of private vengeance blerd;ol itself
with the general desire of restoring order, I should suppress
it, and exert the royal authority deposited in my hands, to
maintain a perfect balance between all the subjects of the
King; but these indulgent dispositions, this inclination to
pardon, even to excuse, ate in my heart, it is in the law of
God that I find them ; they are not dictated by irksomeness
of my situation, by an anxiety to quit it. :My duty and my
honour equally fOrlid me, at any price, to abate the authority
if the King, which is confided to me; ALL I HAVE IN
VIEW IS THE RESTORATION OF THE CATHOLIC
RELIGION AND OF OUR ANCIENT CONSTITU-
TION. I am far from confounding, as the perfidy of the
detractors of the throne have but too often dune, that Con-
stitution with the abuses that have crept into the adminis-
, tration. The only wish of the late King, my brother, was,
to destroy them. Such is mine also. I will labour unremit-
tingly for that porpose; and, if I cannot obtain fiom the
favour of God, to confer on the King, my nephew, when
he shall have attained his majority, HIS WHOLE AU-
THORITY and his Government five from abuse, I shall
hare at least inculcated in him such principles as will easily
enable him to complete the work I ehall hare commenced for
him; but, I repeat, it is only reform that I wish, and I
will never lay a daring hand on our Constitution ; upon
this point I know of no compromise which can be com-
patible with my honour and the good of the State. The
indulgence to which I am so much disposed will only
apply to the guilty, and not to the results of crimes; my
maxim is, toleration for individuals, intolerance for prin-
ciples. The natural consequence of this maxim is to
forget the opinions which men have had, but to keep a
watchful eye on those which men have: I (to not think it
lust to admit to the honour of restoring the throne, only
those, whose principles at all times pure, all ,rd them no
occasion for repentance, but I will not (if I may express so
myself), while curing the patient, leave behind the germ
of a flesh disease, more cruel than the first. Yet that

OCT . 29.

wouid he the inesitalde result of a cotnhinalon •of true
Roialis'•: with h seine- wl o, after •he 'estoration of
France, int:zlit ente.taio the desire of causing their
erroneous opts ono, to prevail and who would thereby
expose 'is to 'elapse into the disorders from which we are
searcels etne,ged. I knov., 'ha• men are only accountable
to God for the oi;inions whioh they possess at the bottom
of their souls, nec I do not presume to usurp his right;
but they re r;ccountahle to the snyeseign authority for all
manife,Jation of orinicn. henry IV. forgave the head of
the League. hilt he exterminated the League itself, and its
chiefs (the Duke de Ma%enne the foremost) became zealous
Rttyalis •. ('ha:les I. made use of Monek, but Monck re-
stored him his crown, such as his father had enj ).yid it
befo:e the Long In these times, all who are
true woether they have always been sn, or, that
they have sincerely aliju ed their erti)rs, ate worthy of
oiler tini; in the RF‘''TORATION OF MONARCHY, be-
~.ause they akile labour with good faith to re-establish
it cn solid 1.. t) da: ions : those who have hitherto persist d
in their ono's, ma.'
%et repent, but the great cork once ac-
conm'icherl. the time 1 inda(genee is no more."
To this loge; the authi.r adds--“ lam certain that this
ntiYerable charter was a!waus in opposition with the King's
principles: it could never he his work. All the evils of
which this Charter has been the cause therefore fall on his
rash And pe!fidi;;ll, advisers, who, abusing the confidence
of so hi,/ aod cntiehteticd a Prince, have presented him with
this disas•low- invention as a means of arriving at the re-;
stora'i.in of Frlnce."

Mite fd!ows a long declaration of the King, dated in
1795, the fist year of his reign. This declaration is en-
tirelf; in the spied of /he letter we have just gii.cn. To this
document is .:übjoined by the author of the pamphlet, the
following observation on the present House of Deputies:—
"Who could, in so respectable an assembly, be rash enough
to propose mainiaininir the Charter? The wisdom Of its
menthe's dente that it is n perfect harmony with the King,
with justice, and with reason ; and that they will propose to
his Majesty, of whom indeed they Inc in only the Council,
THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OV OUR ANTIQUE CON-
STITUTiON, and thus put an end to the calamities of our
wretched country."