The National Register.
London, England, 1812-07-19 00:00:00

l'U fiK EY.

BuctrAutsr, BLitt 29.—The attend Vizier haying authorised The
Ph nipotentiaries to sign the Treaty of Peace, it was concluded ye,ter-
day. Nothing respecting it has transpired, but it is certain that the
Pruth will serve us a boundary of the two Etnpires. It remair sto be
known if the Grand Seignii,v will ratify this Treaty, a copy of which
has been forwarded him to Constantinople. The few troops that are
in the principality diminish daily. Preparations are making at Bucha-
rest and Jassy, which
nave reason for presuming that vary shortly these
provinces will pass uNder the dominion of the Ottoman.

STATE PAPERS.

RUSSIA AND FRANCE.

NOTE ADDRESSED BY THE FRENCH MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
TO COUNT ROMANZOW, CHANCELLOR OF RUSSIA.
Paris, April 25, 1812.
COUNT—His Majesty the Emperor r f Russia had acknowledged, at
Tilsit, the principle, that the present generation should not have looked
to the enjoyment of happiness, but on the ground that the nations in
the full enjoyment of their sights, might give themselves up freely to
the exercise of their industty : that the independence of their flag
should be invi, table; that the independence of their flag was a
right belonging to each of them, and its protection a reciprocal duty
of the one towards the other : that they were not less bound to protect
the inviolability of their flag, than that of their territory ; that if a
Power cannot, without ceasing to be neuter, allosir its territory to be
taken away by one of the Belligerent Powers, so neither can it remain
neuter, in permitting to be taken away from under the protections of
its nag, by one of the Belligerent Powers, the property which the
other has placed there; that all Powers consequently have the right
of exacting, that nations pretending to neutrality, should cause their
flag to he respected, in the same manner as they enforce respect to
their territory ; that so long as England, per:istng in its system of
war, should disavow the independence of any flag upon the seas, no
Power which is possessed of coast, can be neuter with respect to Eng-
land. With that penetration and elevation of sentiment by which lie
is distinguished, the Emperor Alexander also perceived teat there
could not be any prosperity for the Continental States, but in the
establishment of their rights by a maritime peace. This great interest
was predominant in the Treaty of Tilsit, and every thing else was the
immediate result of it.
The Emperor Alexander offered his mediation to the English Go-
vernment, and engaged, if this Government would not consent
to conclude peace upon the principle of acknowledging that the
flags of all Powers should enjoy an equal and perfect ini!ependence
upon the seas, to make common cause with France, to summon, in
concert with her, the three Courts of Copenhagen, Stockholm, and
Lisbon, to close their ports against the English, to declare war age'. st
England, and to insist upon the adoption ct the same measure by tha
various Powers. The Emperor Napoleon accepted of the mediation
of Russia, but the answer of England was a violation of the rights of
nations, till then unexampled in history. She, in tbe midst of peace,
and without any preliminary declaration of war, atta,ked Denmark,
surprised her capital, burned her arsenals, and took possession of her
fleet, which was dismantled and lying secure in her ports. Rtissi in
conformity with the stipulations and principles ot the Tie ity of Tilsit,
declared war against England ; proclaimed anew the principles of the
armed neutrality; and engaged never to swerve trem this system.
Here the British Cabinet threw al' the mask, by issuing, M the month
of November, 1807, those Or 'ers in Council, by virtue f which
England levied a toll of from tour to five millions upon the :eminent ;
and she compelled the flag of every Power to submit to the regulations
which were the result of her principles of legislation on the one
side, she made war upon at Europe • and, Cu the other, sl•e secured to
herself the means of perpetuating the duration ct thst war, by found-
ing het financial system upon the tributes which she arrogated to her-
self—a right of imposing upon all people.
Already in 1806, and while France was at wsk with Prussia and
Russi I, she had proclaimed a blockade which had laced under an
interdict the entire coast of an empire. When his Majesty entered
Berlin, he answered this monstrous presumption by a decree of
blockade against the British Isles. But to meet the Orders in Coun-
cil of 1507, more direct and specific measures were ne:essary, and his
Majesty, by the Decree of Milan, of the l'ith of December of the
same year, declared all those flags denationalized, which should permit
their neutrality to be violated, by submitting to those OrOers. The
attempt on Copenhagen had been sudden and public. El,Kland had
prepared in Spain new attempts, hatched with reflection 414 in the
dark. Not having been able to shake the determination et Char e• IV.
she formed a pa:ty against that Prince, who would not sacrifice to hot