The National Register.
London, England, 1813-12-26 00:00:00

SUNDAY,DtCEMBEit 9.6? 1813.

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2'o SAMUEL Wiling? EA f.,52. M. P.

WAR IN DItiGUISE.

Bit,—.-The Declaration to which its authors have affixed
the name of Allied Powe:s, may be compared to our
seers which only become secret, when they have
left aut. shores, and t»iuisters their opponents, aud the news-
paper writers cannot say to what quarter the wind ma y have
. carried our.fieet,
_Since Mi:ijsters themselves have attested
the Frankfort Declaration, that t4eial document has re-
main: d involved in mysterious oh •curity, which N A poi, EON'S
speech t ► The Legislative Body, and Lord CASTLCREAGI-1.::
intended dep4rwrie for the sentinent, baye only served to

thicken,
Befare proceeding further on this subject, I take pleasure
in doing justiee to your conduct in the short debate on the
• state of our relations with our Northern Allies, ‘rhieli has
elreited a doubtful ljght 'that has produced such different
efferts in the mind of those who attentively follow the course
ctf public events. • You have acted fairly and 6.0t/4s/eat/lb
And I have no doubt:hut in future you will only oppose the
pleasures which y 0.9 really disapprove, iiistead of systetnatt-
. rally resistin4 gtli those that •proct+d frian_a cortain tat of
hiPicifport' foil as aq enlightened ..tpp‘vsition is neeeil.,
, +Airy toJito sopport of our excellent Coitstitutton, party
spirit is fatal to the proper.action Coyernrnent
in critic; l
ircurnstam es. •
I have no occasion to remind you of the que4tions
• answars that have been•put and reA:iyed in both Houses of
partiarxworetetive to the Declaration of theVlied Vowels.
It results fawn them that this document has been.franlzki and
puYtished at Franicfort without any previous commUnicatlon
with this evontt y, although we have no fewer than th!
ee
Ambassadors extraordinary at the head:quarters of our Allies,
*Arise duty is certainty not confined to writing iniiitaq rep;
ports. ;Ministers having returned no reply to the qnestion
whether the offers of the Allies had been rejected, it was tie-'
turaily concluded that• they bad been accepted, and NAP -
it,Eott's speech had confirmed that supposition. Bat Lord ,
C 4.sT 1, ERE c!i's departure involves us once more in thoubt
gad o)setli ity •
Opcalculating dates, I find that our *Northern Allies no
sooner reached Ole banks of the #bine, than they offered
• peace to Napoleon, 'and accompanied their proposals, with
• that of granting qan augmentation of territory greater
than ftance ever possessed under her kings." They puh-
_ jishe4 this op the jet of December (p"te this attenti‘:eiy), in
• ammo to a Prprec of the
.B,enate, trthring a new I.ery
10p,000 nip'. Bence? mgy we pot conclude, that on the
i.t ni Pm. fiapoleoi) hail not yg. accepted what he terms
f' Vut Preliminary Basis of fhe Negociations," vhlch,
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OW stale; wp'e to take place pt ,NjoibFirP,
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Ministers, eirho have found it quite natural; that
should have published their Declaration, without pommy-
nicating it to our Ambassadors, though actually ,)rgvizt tit
their head-quaiters, attempt to excuse that otnissioe, by as-
suriug us, that the most perfect concord exists between 011ie.
GOyerntnent and the' Allies, who are in possession of our
views. Wherefore then, does 'the the Secretary for PoreiisS •
Affairs of Great Britain, set .00 for the Continent iritme-
diately after the artival of the *couriers dispatched from
Frankfort, the Cih and 7th inst.-and of Napoleon's Speech
I have heard it said by persons, whose eoaljtion with Mi.
nisters is not of a date anterior to your own, that the events - •
that have lately occtirred in 1-Inila-nd .acre the cause of 'Lora
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CasTt.rae:nott's sudfleu departure. 1 own that I thipk too
well of Ministers to believe fur a moment that all thp Powers
~0 who were petfeetly well: acquainted with their views,l •
should have offered to Bu ort AP A ITE, a preliminary basis, 71
in which the independence of Iio!h should not have beets
...tipnlateil. The proposal of encreasin the territories of ••'.
France under her Emperor, cannnt be a meson for ceding
any part of Holland, nr even,of Austrian Flanders, for it is
weil known that Austria. !roving gieest up the low countries
Ito *ranee under her Kings, (that is -to say, when she per:.
Nsfsf,Laless extpasive territory than she now does) pn
that she ;honk) assist in the reconquest of Sites;a from
trionaechy, Vin; land deeiated that she opposed
that eessipn, .the ettetny's ,naval estahlishrneols. at
Antwerp a 7'.easa4 •w• ky we' should now adopt a c'.lfferet)t
systetu
• IC,II the otii.-r band, those who are acquainted with w.hat
passes in Ministet ial circles, say, that Lord e ca EAc ft
Play goes to the Coni inent as our 2,litiister at the Coretc:=4
mentioned by NAeOLKQN. This woad appear more likely,
bece:use,, should our northern Allies and Bvois: a r A'tvr E hare
greed that a Congress should bo holden •It l',latilteitn, Mi-
nisters would not have even the shadow of a pretence to keep
it secret, unless the " pet feet eoncot d" Whitels,. had , ‘tibe
sisted until the appearauce of the Declaration °#t-"It le Ail,es,
should have ceased to exit: end that is my opinion.
remark, with pain, the„t since the arrival of the Allied
Armies on the "banks of the ithine, they have remained its
almost total inactivity. • 1 also notice that the CRctINI:II
PRINCE, who had informed our lkilittiiter, Mr. `fast', i-ros,
that -he should • enter and leave DA VOUST, }Mtn.
burg, &c. to Generals BEN liICSEN, W A LMeV EN, and Tale
TEN abe.ist, has, on the contrary, mot...eft away from' the
patch teititory. 1 see that we have heel) compelled to ten 4
to that country troops which would have b. ell much more
usefully employed under ford Wet.t.iNGToe, to aeocieratet
the conclusion of peace, even with N A FOI.ECij, 3!`,f,41, .
without at) encrease territoeial • domains on the sari 4

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