The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

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No. 56 I.—Voz.. XI.

POLITICAL DISQU ISITION.

'TIE L vre, CONGRL'iS A C AIX L% CHAPELLE.

WE this day present our readers with the grand
of result of the trimsaethms at the late Congress.
The last protocol and declaration of the All;ed So.
vereigns, or their Ministers, towards which all thear
ruasultations have tended, and with the signature of
which their assembly is finally broken up, and its illus-
trious members dispersed. These documents arc interest.
ing, in point ofform they exhibit the completion of the
work which has lung attracted so much attention ; but,
otherwise, their contents arc modestly expressed. Thera
is little for ingenuity to carp at ; and thankful as
France may be for the alleviation which she has obtained
from the conferences at Aix-la-Chapelle, there is, we
twat, with this partial good, as little general evil united,
as ever did result, or ever can reset, from the meetings
of personages who possess, we may say, conjointly,
millions of men at their command.

The first document is an acknowledgment of the four
allied Powers, of the tranquil state of France, of her
fullil-
went of all her existing engagements, of the adequacy of
the pledges which she ofrers for their completion, and a
conseluent acknowledgment of the propriety of
withdrawing the Army of Occupation. The King of
France then invited to make one of the Congress.
This invitation is in the second document accepted, M
kis Sovereign's name, by his Minister, the Doke of
Richelieu, whose signature is of course affixed to the
two acts, which have relation to the general interest
of Europe. These two acts, the last of the Con-
gress, will be variously canvassed : but we do not
think that uny iil can be drawn out of them. We
.should say, that they might be productive of good, if
the passions of men were to be controlled, as often as
temptations or provocations arose, by previous resolu-
tions of disinterestedness and honourable conduct.—

The Sovereigns, in the Protocol and Declaration, bath
dated November 15, hint at,the probability of future
conferences for the good of Europe; but declare, that
in all their dealings with each other, and in their
Occii,ions on the appeals of those Powers which take
no part in the quintuple alliance, they will be governed
only by the law of nations. Neither do they make it
obligatory t►pon other States to request their interfer-
ence ; it is only if called upon, that they will decide by
this law. Should these determinations hold firm, we
suppose we may look forward to a lusting peace ; man-
kind may forget the art of war, and aspiring Statesmen
turn all their attention to Vattel and Grotius.

General Taylor, who was of the dinner party at
Cambridge-house, Kew, on NVednesday, met with a
very serious accident in returning to the palace. The
General, after having dined at the table of the Prin-
cesses, always returns to the palace through the Botanic-
gardens, to the door of which, ut the extremity of the
Birdcage-walk, he has a key. Oa Wednesday night,
imniediately after the departure of the Prince Regent,
he left Cumbridge-house unattended, and, in passing
along one of the avenues, near the menagerie, owing to
the darkness of the night, fell over some gardening im-
ph:roe/its, (which had been imprudently left there by
some of the workmen) and fractured the small bone of
the right fore arm, and also received a consider..ble
iajury in the knee. Mr. Julius, surgeon, of Richmond.
was immediately sent for, and the fracture, after some
thee, was reduced. The General was able to walk out
on Thursday morning and pay his respects to the Prin-
cesses : but the accident is truly unthrtunate at the
present moment, as in his capacity of Private Secretary
to the King and her late Mojesty, a considerable portion
e; responsibility in the approaching solemnities devolves
upon him. Ever situ e the death of Her Majesty, the
General, and two of his secretaries, have been ultaust
constantly employed in writing.
The trAns-Atluntic journals cannot agree amongst
themselves, whether Florida belo:lgs at this moment to
Republieau Ucvcrnwedl, u: te tli.tt ofSpaiu.