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still less for becoming its opponents. Bad we played
our usual part and instigated them to take up arms; had
we bribed them into hostilities with France, then no
sooner would their avarice have been satisfied than
they would have haitoned to shrink from a contest in
which their heart had no share. As it is, they
cannot betray. us, without betraying themselves. There
is also another powerful guarantee for their fidelity,
which did not furmerly exist. In all their anterior wars
With France and Napoleon, they had never offended
him beyond the hope. of pardon. They fought then to
retain or to regain a few provinces, not to shake the
pillars of his throne, or threaten the duration of his life.
They might purchase peace by giving up the contested
object, or if they broke their faith to their Allies,
night be rewarded for their desertion with extended
empire. But now such hopes are past. They have
waged a personal war upon him, and what increases
their criminality in his eyes, have waged it successfully.
They have not only stripped him of his foreign conquests ;
they have not only redeemed kingdoms from his
yoke, reduced his titles and his power : they have torn
the Imperial diadem from his brow ; they have banished
him from the land which he had so long governed, and
whatever colour may be put upon the fact, they have con-
fined him, like a convicted felon, in a small island of the
Mediterranean. Now that he has burst the bonds : now
that the sceptre of empire, and the sword of power are in
his hands, they dread, and therefore anticipate his -ven-
geance. Submission, they feel would not obtain mercy.
Divided, they would fall speedy victims to his superior
strength ; and as it would be vain to calculate on a long
period of complete union amongst themselves, they profit
by the time when it exits, to make a common effort
against him, and secure themselves, by his destruction,
from all apprehcp.sions of future punishment. With
such a motive ;or forming the present coalition, there
is little doubt of their fidelity, and although we are not as
sanguine in our hopes of its successful issue, as it seems the
fashion to be, we believe at least that it will not be dis-
graced by any instance of treachery like the part, and
that if the struggle should prove unavailing, and peace
ith Buonaparte unavoidable, that peace will he con-
cluded with such an union of spirit and interests amongst
all the Powers as will diminish its disadvantages and in-
crease its security.

Twelve Members, ;milted off in the Mouse of Commons, on
Thursday night. The whole number of Membcrs present,
including the four tciless and the Speaker, must, therefore,
Lave been 440.

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OVERTURES OF PEIOE FROM THE EMPEROR

NAPOLEON

LETTER ?nom C‘UTAIINCOWIT TO VIICOVNT CASTLEREAGH,

M•ATE') P tßiu, 4th APRIL, 1815.

My Lord—The Emreror vt as anxious to express directly to 114
no,al the Prince Regent the Aentiments which imtpire
him, and to mak, known fn hi,n the high value which he place* on
the manitensewe of the pracP happily existing between the two
rotinties. lam elyntilimleil in eon.rqnenee, my Lord, to address
to von the annexed letter. and to twit your Ex elbowy to present
it to hi. Hcvsl Highness - The first wish of the Emperor being that
fir repow a' Etoope st hi remain inviolate. hin Mairsty hail beets
OX loMft to maniremit this q•po.ilioni to the Sovereiesis who are still
assembled at Vienna, :yid to all other Sovereign.. I have, &e.

(Signed) CAULAINC-ERT, MC de Victnce,

LETTER FROM M. RR CAUL iI+COLIRT TIP VI.;CRIPST CASTLEREAGH.
I/ %TYR PARIS. APRIL 4, lit!)

My Lard The expectations which bidticed hie Majesty the
Emperor, my Angtt-t Sow ign. to 'Omit to the greatest sacri-
fices, have not keen fulfilled : France ha* not !yetis eel the price of
the devotion of its Monarch : her hopes have been lismeutably
rcived. After souse mouth- of !miens! restraint. her sentiments,
concealed with regret, have at length manifested „themselves in ate
extraordinary manner : by an universal and . pontaneons impulse,
she has declared as her deliverer, the man. from whom alone site
can expect Site guarantee of her liberties ard independence. The
Emperor has appeared, the Royal Throne ha* fallen, and the Bone
bon family have quitted our territory, without on. drop of blood
having beets sited for their defence. Borne upon tln: arms of his peo-
ple, his Majesty has ti aversed France, from the point of the coast
at which he at first touched the ground, as far as the centre of his
capital, to tlrnt residence which is now again, as are all French
hearts, filled with our dearest reineinbranees. No ob-taeles have
delayed his Majesty's progress; from the instant of his
re-landing upon French ground. lie resumed the government of his
empire. Scarcely does his first Irian a;spear to have been for an
instant interrupted. Every generous passion, every lineral thought'
has rallied around him ; never did any present a spa, aele
of more awful unanimity. The report of this great e% eta will
_have
reached your Lordship. lam commanded to announce it to you, in
the name of the Emperor, and to request you will convey this
(icvloraiirn to the knowledge of his Majesty the King of Gicat
Britain, your iigtist Master. This Restoration of Ilse Emperor to
the Throne of ri.a!tee is for him the in sst brilliant or hi. triumphs.
His Nlajeiy prides himself above all, on the reflection, that lie
owes it entireiy to the love of the French people, and he has no
other wish than to repay such affections no longer by the trophies of
vain ambition, but by all the advantages of an holsoinable reposes
and by all the isle-sisals of a happy tranquillity. It is to the data.
tion of peace that the Emperor look- 11.rward for the accomplish-
meta of Isis noble•I intentions. With a disposition to reApect the
rights olother nations, Isis Majesty has the pleasing hope, that those
of the French nation will remain inviolate. Tue Maiistenance of
this precious deposit is the fiist, as it is the dearest of Isis duties,
The quiet of the world is for a long time asautedo if all the other