The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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am! of misery. This Treaty was even au immense It for a roosis
try, reduced by the madness of its chief to the most disastrous situ-
ation(4). The Allied Powers would have betrayed Muir jokiest*
rind their ditties, if, as the price ago notch moderation and gear.
rosily, they had not, on signing the treaty, obtained some so:ii
advantage ; but the sole object of their ambition yea,* the peace of .
Europe and the happiness of Frauce. Never. iii treatiog with 800.
naparte, would they have consented to the coedit ions
granted to a government, which, " while offering to Europe a Wedue
of security and stability., relieved them from iequiring from France
the gnarantees which they lout demanded under its former govei
inem."(s) This clause is inseparable I.rion the treaty of Paris; .
abolish it, is to break this treaty. Tile formal /consent of the ,
French nation to the return of Lonaitarte to the throne would he
equivalent to a declaration of war ;realm' Europe: f,ir the state of
peace did not exist between Europe and France, except by tl e
treaty of Paris, and the treaty of Paris is incompatible with the
power of Bonaparte. It this reasontog had need of further sup-
port, it might be blond in the very otler Ilemaparte to ratify the
treaty of Paris. This treaty livid Lieu seinpidosisly observed and
executed : the tram:m.lloos of the (:oogiess.' of Vienna were only ,
its snoplements and developments; aiiti without the new tatempt
of Itimaparte, it would have been ti,r a long sr tics of ).ears one of
the of the public 1011 of rotor : het thfs order of thing
has then place to a new revolution; and the agents of this revn!o.
alhough they proclaim incc santiv'' that (6) oothino has been •
changed." conceive and feel themselves that all is chanced arouna
them. The question is no longer the maintenance of the treaty
of Paris, but the snaking qf it afresh. '1 lie Poln ers find themselves
with respect to France, iii the condition in which they were on the
:11st of March, 1314. It is not to prevent war, for France has io •
fact rekindled it, it is to terminate it that there now offers itself to
Europe a state of things essentially different from that en w Licit
the peace of 1814 was founded. The question; then, has ceased to
be a question of right : it is no noire than a question of
calculation and foresight, in which the powers have only to console
the real interests of their people and the common ioterest of '
rope. The Committee thinks it may dispense with emitting Isere
into an t xposition of the considerat.o.na which, under this last view, •
have directed the measures of the governments. It will be sot- •
lo a rat to recall to notice, that the man, who, in now offeriug to
sanction the treaty of Pails, poem]. to substitute his guarantee
for that of a Sovereign, whose loyalty was without stain, and be-
nevolence without measure, is the sitar who during 15 years ra-
vaged and laid waste the earth, to find means of satisfying La
ambition, who sacrificed of victims, and the happioesn of
an entire gem:ration, to a system of ci:nipiests, whom tutees, little
worthy of the mune of peace, have only rendered more 01,1)1(.9..v:et
and more odious; (7) who, after having by. mad eoterprizes tired
fortune, armed all Europe against him, and exhausted all the rneanal
of France, wa4- forced to abandon his projects, anti abdicated po..vi r
to save some relics of existence ; who, at the moment when the
nations of Europe were giving themselves up to the hope of
durahle tranquillity, meditated new catastrophes, aed by it don tee
perfidy, totwarcls the powers who had too geiverons:y spared !um,
and towards a government which he could not attack withotit t're
blackest treason, usurped a throne which he had renounced, an I -
which he never occupied except tOr the misery of Fiance and the
world. This man In.'s no other guarantee to propose to Europe
than kis word. After the cruel experience of 15 years. who would.

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(4) 'lite Entperor, convinced of tlie critical situation iii
lie hae placed France, mid of the impossibility of it hit/Nell;
appeared to resign liiinvelf and consent to an ttilite and iniconil+-
tional abdication.—Lotter otAlai Ney to lie••

(5) Preamble of lire Treaty of
(ti) idea recur: perpetually is the t,:port of the Conneil et;
State of Bonaparte, published in the lioiii‘ettr..lpril 13. 18;5.
(7) The Committee here think it r;glit to ad.} toe Tithilr::tht 04-
servaticm, that the greater part et' die iiivasinos, at d fin red
of which Bonaparte formei suceessivelv what he e3Ped the Grua
Empire. tout: place during those pertidio4t4 intervak of peace,
more destructive to Europe than even the war.' with which it w,ot
tormented. It wag thus that he toi,k possession of Po.:(:mont,
Parma. Goma, Lucca, or the State: of Rome, of . of
eountrieg composino the SA ;vltlitary Division. It v..as thus
period of peace (at least with all the couthient), that he sti tick the
first blow against Poi to:4A and Spain, and he Ilioneht to have
finished the conquest of tito‘e couw.rea by cinning.
when the pattiotiqn a,td energy or the itrpple of the Pcininsr,ll
drew him into a sitogstinatv whr,:,:the.i.cogusasretment of :.i!
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