The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

. THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

vetter which corresponds with f, being placed underneath it►
hit:. u, is that which is to he noted down. To decypher the
Proclamation, of course the coder of reference must be in-
derted, by looking for the corresponding letter to n, in the,
ivision opposite that letter L, which stands in the column.

TRANSLATION.

Frenchmen! your coun.ry was betrayed; your Emperor
atone can replace you in the splendid.state suitable for France.
Give your entire confidence to him who has always led you
to glory.
His eagles will arin soar on high, and strike the nations
*lib astonishment.

• The nidel w.ia actually made, and exhibited in Spring-gardens.

.1411PO1tTANT STATE PAPERS.

LARD C tSTLEREAGII TO PRINCE lIADENBtRG.,

Mop PIiiNCE-I nave the houour to acknowledge the rceeipt
nf your ktter ut 3esterday, together with its esiclositues, and I lose
no time in explaining myself upon their solijeet. with that frank•
'less which I have ever observed inwards vein Highness. is
tin priocip'e of European policy to winch I attach more importance
than the substantial re-establishment of the nossiaa Power. The
glorious services which she has rendered in Vic last war, give her the

most eminent claims on our gratitude. But a still noire poweifol•
motive exists in the necessity of considering the Monarchy
as the only solid basis of atty at rangement with a view to secure the
North of Germany from the iminimait daogers with whit:lilt might
be exposed. In such a crisis it is over Plussia that it is our duty to
' Watch. We must smite our Garee with her's, and in this view, it is
nee, vary that Prussia-. be substantial and strong, possessing all the
attrilontem of an Ind pendent state capable of making herself re-
spected, and nt inspiring her fiends with ci,nfidence. With regard
to the question of Saxony, I declare to yon, that if the ineorpotathm
of the whole of that country with the Prussian Monarchy be neces-
sary Jou the attainincot of an object so important for Europe, what-
ever pain I must personally emit Helier from'the idea of seeing an
ancient family in such a state of affliction, I should entertain no ob-
jection, either moral or political, against
_the measure itself. If
ever a sovyreign was placed by his own acts in a sititatiun to be
fairly sacrifieed to the Mime tranquillity of Europe, I conceive the
king of Saxony to have been so placed .by his perptanal terciversa.
• times, and beeati-e he has been not only flue insist devoted, but the
ipyst favoured of Boiripartra vassals ; contributing with all his
means, and wills tic greatest vat], in the double capacity of a Ger-
emu as well as Poled, Sovereign, to extend the general subjection,
even into the lic,art of Russia. lam aware that many instances arc
to be fiteind lu Germans of a similar political immorality. lam
acquainted however with none which is• equally revolting.
And in the vicious course in which the German Staters have'
considered themselves as almost warranted in proceeding for some
time past, as ail cannot be punished, and the gi eater number haves
made reparation4ty subsequent services, I shall'intt regret., that, inj
pardoning the guilty in the mass, one example be made from amongst
them, in ()ides- effectually to arrest the progress of such an While
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tilde evil. 1
Yost Highness will see from dirk-declaration that I can have:
no hesitation its assenting to the principle of the proposed arrange..
Moot, if it be necessary, in ostler to placie Prussia in that situation
which the- interests of Europe require that she Should maintain :
lint if this incorporation is to be regarded as the means of imiemni—
fviaK Prussia for any loses she may sustain limn the alarming and
- dangerous pretensions of Russia amid tinder the jdea of induciog
- her to submit, without a frontier ,o(dekuce, to •an evident state sirs
dependence on Russia ; in the latter
.pasition, which, tOr the Hi.
terest s f all, and more ?au ticularly t.f Itntisia herself, I should deeply
lament, I do not consitrer myself as:Nowise(' to give your Highness
the best season to hope that Great Britain would evor consent, in
the lace of Emope, to sue-b an arraugement.
" In the full persita-ion that a result so incompatible with the
principle. of the alliance, could neither be props-ed on the one
Hand nor accepted on the other, I have no objectless that Saxony be
..ontided, as your Highness desire's, .to the previsional administra-
tion of his Prn-sian Majesty. lam the more willing to give my
consent at once, to this me:mire, which appears to me both just and •
retelytialite in itself, its a pledge of the sincerity of the assn.-Alicia ,
'above,given, and in the confilient hope that the King of Prusaia will i'
sat lefpl himself to any arrao,,teimmt inenamatible.With...the causally
IttlitiaQuvent us with the permanent seettrity or his dominions.

APRM 16

" I breve conceived your Highness must be desirous of being made
acquainted without delay with any opinion upon this latter subject,
and as soon as Prince Metternich shall consider himself at liberty to
come to an explanation rpon the points to which your Highness's
;eller refers, I shall be ready to enter with you npou the whole mat-
ter ; and I am very desirous of bringing to a conclusion an arrange.
►neat which appears to be essenti.illy connected with the best in.
terests of Europe.
" Vienna, 11th October, 1814.

" CASTLEREAGii."

COPT OF THE LETTER OF THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND TO
LORD VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGII, DATED VIENNA, DEC. 151
1814.
" M v Lon n.— Von desire me to snake known to you in what nunt-
ncr the affair of Naples ought to be seined in Co, gress ; for as the! e is
4 necessity of settling it, it is a point upon winch the!, ought not
to be one moment of uncertainly in a mind like onlit
he for ever a subject of reproach, and I will say, even an eternal
subject of shame, if the right of sovereignty noes an areient and tine
kingdom, like that of Naples being contested, Europe milted f.r
I the first time (and probably for the last) in genera! Cuegress
should leave undecided a question 01 this nature,
in some degree, usurpation by its silence. shouhl-give ground for the
opinion, that the only solace of tight is force. I have. nut at the
some time to convince your Excellency, of the rights of Ferdinand
IV Engine(' has never ceased to recoubize them. In the war in
which he lost Naples, Etieltiod was his ally. She has been since,
and is so-still. Never has she recognized the title that the persou
%rho now governs at Naples assumes, nor the right which this title
supposes ; therefore, in cbsieurring to assure the rights of King Fer-
theand, England has only one plain thing to do—which is to declare
in Congress what she has always recognized, that Ferrite:OW IV. is•
the legitimate Sovereign of the Kiogdom cf Naples.
" Perhaps England. heretotoie the ally of Ferdinand IV. desires
still to be so. Perhaps she may believe her honour demands that
she should assist, it need be, with her forces, for his regaining the
Crowe of which he has been recognized the Sovereign—but this is
not an obligation that ran flow from a pure and simple acknowledg-
; ment of the rights of this prince. because the recognition of a right
does not naturally carry %volt it any other obligation, than that of
doing nothing that may be contrary to swell tight, and of not sup.
porting any pretension that may be sti rip against it. It doe) not
carry with it the obligation of fighting in his defence.
" It may be that I deceive myself, but it uproars to me infinitely
probable, that a frank and unanimous declaration of the Powers of
Europe, and the certitude of the persent who now governs at Na.
pies, that he would not be supported by ally one, would render use.
less the employment of force; but if the contrary should happen,
those only of the Allies of King Ferdinand would be necessary, who
should think proper to lend him their support.
" Is it feared that in dnn case, the war should spread beyond the
limits of the Kingdom of Naples, and that the tranquillity of Italy
should again be intermitted? Is it feared that foreign troops should
again traverse Italy? These fears may be obviated by mil:elating
that the Kingdom of Naples should not be attacked by the Italian.
Continent. Austria-appears to be engaged towards him, who go-
verus at Naples, to guarantee him from all attack on this side ; and
if, as we are assured, Austria has only engaged herself for this (how
can it be supposed that the Emperor has given his guarantee against
the rights of a Millet!, at once his uncle and his tather-iielaw, to
'the poAession of a kingdom which he lost ID linking common came
with Austria). she cannot be embarra=sed in reconciling with jUSlice
and with the natural scutiments of affection, the engagements auto
which extraordinary circumstances made her cuter.
" It appears to me, therefore, that we may at one and the same
time satislyeall our duties, and all our interests, and all, our engage-
, ments by an 'Article such as the tolloviing
" Europe, united in Con.res, recognize, his Majesty Ferdinand
" rv. as King of. Naples. r•All the powers engage to 4.ne another
gg not to favour, nor to support directly or indirectly any Kette-nat.
" opposite to-the rights which 'appertain to him in this title ; but
" the Wimps which the powers, foreigo to Italy, and the Allies of
"• his said Majesty, may march to the support of his cause, cannot
k traverse Italy."
" I persuade myself, my Lord, that Y. E. is suffiriently autho-
rized to subscribe such a clause, and that you have no reed of a
twee special authorization ; but if you slnerld think otherwise,
shall request or yoo to require this 4411t9rity without delay, as you
h eve hero g I enoneh to permit me so to do (ahisi litt'ele a hies
eoulu me le per mel i re). " Agree. tl/4c'
(Signed) " Le Prince diTALLEYRAND."

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FRIDAY, APRIL 14.
No business of importance this day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. .

MONDAY, APRIL 10.

recently hrminoted, the aggression was unquestionably from the United
itah'St that out cause was just. But the war was of a nature and
character 'hat the greatest success on our parts could be attended but
with a small degree of glory, while the smallest degree of defeat could
he attended mils, with bitteruess and disgrace. The Ira hen of his
Lordship's speech referred to the condeerl;f the negocintions, which lie
characterised as impnlitie, absurd, and it judicious, and in many points
of view disgraceful on the part of this country. The principle of ss Inch
a great part of the negociation on our part proceeded, he' censured as
aggressive and unjustifiable, and as directly in the teeth of those prin.
oiples, which, for the last 2.5 rears, we had been contending for in other
' quarters, lie more particularly censured the propositirm made for a
'sew line of demnrcation south of the Lakes, as a new boundary for
Canada, and which was termed by the British Diplomatists, accurdiug
to the principle of Anacharsis Clorox. the orator of the human race, the
" natural boundary of Canada" The Noble Marquis condemned the
I destruction of the public buildings at Washington, and declaimed
against the inflictimi or all retaliation, except on a defensive principle.
fir the conclusion of his rldres., the Noble Marquis asserted, that by
the Treaty we had en'ored nbsolutely nothing hut the•discominuance of
sv'r, and the abolition of the Slave Trude. No tine pine.t in dispute
had been settled, and therefore the Treaty was no more titi.n • simple
cessation of hostilities. Ile concluded by moving au Address to the
Prince Regent, praying him to direct copies or extracts of alt the Lei-
respondence between his Majesty's Itlinisters and the United States of
America, relative to the late Treaty of Peace, to be laid before the
11,ause.
Earl Ifsvntrnmr said, the effect of this motion, if acceded to, would
be that of reviving feeling of animosity in this country agaiest the
people of America, now we were at peace with them, and when all that
had passed ought to be forgotten and burtert in oblivion. His Lord.
ship tea: a retrospective vier, of the late American war, tracing it
(rain `.ls commencement to its correlosion, sou} defended Aliiiisters ors
the points objected to by the Nlorquis' Wellesley. He then alluded to
the capture of Washington, which haft br,•ketethe tinhornl prime of the
America's, and pissed the hieliest etiktdorn on Ole bravery and disciplino
of our troops; whe by sill the !rises of war, might have beets justified iii
destroying and plundering the eiry, its consequence of the iefasnous at-
tempt 'to assassinate our gallant Commander, after the place laid sur-
rendered. lint except the destruction of the !louse from which the shot
was fired, no excess whatever was cominitted.
Lord Sr.s Nrropn said a few words support of the motion, which on
a division was lost—
Contents SO—Non-Contents 83—Majority .59.

11fr. Wnyrnereo cnmplained of the defic-:-ncy of papers err-great
public transactions and enquired of Lord Castlereagh, it a State l'apef
in the Morning Chronicle of that day, which purported to he (ruin his
Lordship to Ilardenherg, coniicruing to the strengthening or
Pros•ia at the expertce of sacriiieing the tertitorlts of Saxony, were
authentic
Lord CASTI ERF, AGIT replied, that the letter. as far as a garbled
translation of a translation could go, wits h/3; but he was bound to say,
it was a very iinnrrCect represtowition of what lie had said in the origi-
nal, lie objected to the itregularity of midi questions, insisted that
the mode adopted was injin tuns to the public, and particularly censured
Mr. W. for continuity, on every occasion, to calimmia:e Alinistets and
the Allies.
Sir J. MA CKTNTOSII gave notice, that lie should to-morrow sermight
submit a motion to the House on the subject of the DeLlaration issued at
Vienna hs the Allies.
The Cu.oact.t..con of the Exertr Qv re movf d, in a Committee of
Supply, fur som, or 3,983,435/. Corium'', with :he gum of 9,000k03/.
voted in the la‘t, and of 7,009,000 i. voted iii die present Session, a
ti tat of nearly 10.010,0001. being the amnion f the Army Extraortli-
naries for the year 1714.—A long conversation arose relative to several
of the items of the espeuditure, and particularly that of the Commissariat

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. The Afsrquis Wsirirst.er roar; ,e,Atic forwar i his Motion for the
HOUSE OF LORDS. . production of tariber documents iti'.... their Lordship to form a
ptoper judgment of the merits of the liii,aly with America. The Noble
_
Marquis prefaced his motion by a speech which occupied thiee yours
Neither on MONDAY nor TuEsnAv was there any business of in- and a hair; in the course bf which he observed, it was certainly some
!mot transacted by their Lord,liips. cotiqatati,.n to reflect, that in the warfare with America which had been