The National Register.
London, England, 1814-11-27 00:00:00

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But the charge against the King of Saxony is, that fill
this arose 44 from mere imbecility of intellect." The Edi-
tor of 4 The Times' produces this charge as a vindication
of the conduct of the Congress towards the King of
Saxony:" therefore," says the unprincipled writer of this
atrocious paragraph "he was unworthy to reign." If the
journals of revolutionary France are consulted—if all the
infamous and violent acts of every government were em-
blazoned, there can be found no sentiment equal in de-
pravity' to this. We would ask the civil Doctor where he
learned his morals? In the same school perhaps as he
practises his law. But, we can assure him that in
tuch princip!cs he stands, thank God! without a rival.
There is another circumstance to be considered, viz.
that if Saxony- had joined the Allies after the battle of
Lutzen, Buonapette in all probability would not have
be II defeated. Ile must then have withdrawn to the
:Rhin-, and there, as was evidently proved by the offer of
the Allies in November, he would have seemed almost
all he wished.
But, there is another powerful reason, that is the at-
tachment of the Saxons to their Sovereign. These peviple
certainly deserve consideration, and to use the words of
a French writer, if we admit that " the King of Saxony
1•• deserved punishment, did not the people of Saxony,
" joln those armed against the oppressor of nations and
K'ng-s. Did not the Saxon army range itself under the
" Banners of the Tyrant's enemies, and thus contribute
" to the success of the cause of liberty." Hence this
people deserve consideration.
But reasons without end may be quoted. This trans-
fer of people is not sanctioned by any thing like either
policy or justice. It was the original scheme of Napoleon,
and miserably will its outline be tilled up. The sagacious
Editor of the Times, coming to his senses, at the end of
his diurnal diatribe, seems to apprehend some danger,
and wi,ely warns the Allies to think of the fate of his
Empire, and attributes its fall to the want of coherence
tind moral amalgamation. But, had not Napoleon lost
an army in his foolish campaign in Russia, we should have
found that his Empire would have required n o other sup-
pert than his armies, and those of his vassal Sovereigns.
Another powerful objection is, the hold it gives France.
To her in R period of distress, we presented the status ante
helium. In France, the most powerful military nation
in Europe, has this principle been applied, when it is
solely abandoned in the case of all the subordinate Pow-
ers ; and in addition to this stimulus to a mighty
vation, we furnish her with her means of future sue.
cess in the heart of Germany, for it is too evident that
France, feeling, perhaps, her present exhaustion,protests
formally against the arrangements that are made, and re-
fuses to accede to them. She thus lays the foundation of
tt new war, as soon as her finances shall be recruited; and
we well know that a very few years will revive her
strength ; since though her Exchequer be now empty, the
progress she has made in all the arts of peace, in agricul-
ture, and manufactures, will soon put her in a posture to
act on the protest which she now enters against the spolia-
tioos that are decided on.
We hear, also, that Austria, not content with Italy,
turns her eye also to Switzerland. Is it to he believed,
that peace concluded on such a violation of all ne.ighbour-
bood can be durable? The Swiss may be trampled on
for a time, as Buonaparte trampled on them, but there is
the ds that unfits them for the abject state

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