The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-12 00:00:00

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1818.

clouds ant may partially darken the political horizon.
As the Sovereigns met principally to decide on Cie af-
fairs of France, their personal presence Will be given
no longer than they are terminated. The Ministers
will remain here some time longer, to settle some
other matters of less importance ; but as they are re-
solved not to open a door fur general discussion, or to
receive, like an Amphictionic Council, the grievances of
particular States, they have given, it is said, positive
information to Spain, that they do not mean to enter.
tain the question of dispute between her and her cold.
vies. It is said, however, that Cvallos, the Spanish
Minister at Vienna, is coming here to try the effect of
his representations and persuasions. We hear, in a
manner less positive, that urrarn will be pro-
posed by the Congress, to settle the diarence between
Bavaria and Baden. This has been obtained, it is said.
by the intervention of Austria."

Count Caraman arrived at Paris also with the above
news. It is stated that all the details of the arrange-
ments regarding France may be probably settled by the
18th or 20th instant, and that the time of convoking
the French Chambers was regulated by the hopes of
this arrangement. Lord Castlereagh also is said to
have been desirous of meeting Parliament with the
treaty in his pocket ; and his Lordship is represented
to have confirmed, in some degree, the conjectures pub-
lished within these few days, with respect to the period
at which Parliament is to meet, by specifying the
month of November. What the consequences of the
evacuation of France are likely to be, so far as con-
cerns the temper and feelings of the nation, well-in-
formed and impartial men agree pretty generally in
sentiment. The continuance of the army within the
frontier must have dcne incalculale mischief, if it were
not productive of evident and extensive good—that is
to say, that if it did not actually keep down the spirit
of insurrection against their Government, end of ag-
gression against foreign Powers, among the French
people. That such a spirit does not now (we cannot
say exist at present in France, but) prevail throughout
the body of the nation, every thing conspires to indi-
cate. The Ministers of Louis XVIII., the foreign
Ambassadors at Paris, the Duke of Wellington him-
self, have had ample means of judging whether the
King's Government has established itself sufficiently
to maintain itself fer the present without foreign as.
sistance. His Grace, we have been told, has long since
expressed himself as if he thought that the House of
n, and its foreign Allies, would gain in moral
influence and popularity with Frenchmen, more than
they could lose in their military position, by the re-
moval of the rivl.), from the frontier. Of this we
suspect there can be :ittle doubt—that if the Allied
troops were to have been retained in France agninst
the voice, and in contempt of the wishes, of the people,
the quantity of exaaperation niusi augment front hour
to hour ; and as the army prolonged its stay, it must in
self-defence reinforce its numbers : so as to bold out to
Europe a prospect which, horn the very nature of
things, must end in some terrible convulsion. The
great-measure now resolved upon, we thence conclude,
may have prevented evil, but cannot create it.

ELEG ANT COMPLIMENT.—His Grace the Duke of
Wellingten stmt in. the morning of the ‘29th ult. one
of the Russian Aides-de-Camp toioquire what time it
would be most convenient for hi, Mijeaty the Emperor
of Hussiato receive his homage ; the Emperor, with-
out returning a direct answer to the menage, privately
doseemied Um staircase, and ordcring his carri,v to he
brought drove off to the hotel of his Grace, to pay him
that compliment which the latter was noxious to pay
him, awl to anticipate an nicer of respect by conferring
a delicate and unexpected It moor.
Lard St. Vincent left itocherts on Thursday, and
crossed the Tliames at Tilhnry Cal, on his journey in
the South. of France, I.:bac he intends to pa.ss the
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winter.

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