The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

TTIE NATIONALREGISTER.

Id all the Powers have decreed the destruction of

first care, as our first duty, has been to cause a
iecessary distinctiou to be recognised between the
the peace and the oppressed French nation.

Iful to the ininciples which have always guided
Sovereigns, our Allies, have declared their inten-

pect the independence of France, and to guarantee
ity of its territory. They have given WI the most
;urances that they will not interfere in the internal
'nt, and it is on these conditions that we have re-
,ccept their generous assistance.

Usurper has in vain attempted to sow dissentions
,em, and by a feigned moderation to disarm their
tment.. His whole life has for ever deprived him
)wrar of impoi-ing, upon good faith. Despairing of
•ess of his artifice, he seeks, for the second time, to
f.e with himself into the abyss, the nation over which
terror to reign. He renews all tfie departmenjs of
iticn, in 'order to fill them wholly with men sold
,rannical projects; be disorganises the National
whose blood he intends •to lavish in a sacrilegious
feigns to abolish rights which have been long since
he convokes a pretended Field of May, to multi-

•
•complices .of his usurpation; he promises to pro-
iv, in the midst of bayonets, a derisory imitation
'onstitution which, after twenty-five years of dis
calamities, had for the first time founded on a solid
iberty and happiness of France.
iy, he haS,CollStlmmated the greatest of all climes
r subjects, by attempting to separate them from
,reign—to tear them away from our family, whose
, which for so many age! has been idenlitied with
le nation itself, is still at this moment the only thing
7uarantee the stability of the legitimacy of the Go-
, the rights and the liberty of the people, the mutual
France and of Europe. •

hese circumstances we rely with entire confidence on
rents of our subjects, who cannot fail to perceive
Ts and the miseries to which they are exposed by a

In assembled Europe has devoted to public ven-
All the I),,wers know the dispoOions of France.
assured of their amicable views, and of their sup-

aclimen!—Seize the means of deliverance which
•ed to your courage. Rally round your. King, your
'le defender of all your rights; hasten to him, to
in saving you, to put an end to a revolt, the-pro-
of which might becvnie fatal to our country, and,
Inishment -of the author of so many evils, to accele-
Ta of a general reconciliation.
'n at Ghent, the second day of the month of May,
of our Lord 1815, and got-h year of our Reign.
(Signed) " Lotus."

FRANKFORT PAPERS,

OFFICIAL ARTICLE.
NNA, APRIL 26.—The Declaration of the iSth

is known in France, as is proved by the article in-
he Journal de Paris of the sth of April. This
on is the unanimous expression of the wishes and
of nations. The article which pretends to refute it
us with the most scandalous abuse thit ever has

e of the facility of speech and of human reason
enlightened people.
developeme&t of the principles which dictated the.

act of the Congress of the 13th of March, will demonstrate to
the French station that it has not spoken, that it never will
speak, the sacrilegious language, which its upprtssor attri-
butes to it, will separate its cause from his, preserve to the
nation its real dignity, and open to it a prompt and honour-
able way still to rally to the rest of Europe.
" The Congress has not deliberated upon suppositions.-
It has proscribed Buonaparte. This man cannot and ought
net to find any further asylum among civilized nations.
Still less can he govern them. Such is the principle of the
act of proscription denounced against him. It is founded
upon justice, as well as upon the legitimate interests of na-
tions, it is therefore irrevocable. Assistance has been of-
fered to the French_ nation, and to its Government. it is
still offered, It may nobly decline this assistance, by re-
jecting from its bosom.the principle of the war. It cannot
do without it, as long as it shall bear the yoke of a man who
seeks to dishonour it, by making it guilty of a two.fold per-
jury. A compact united it with its Sovereign. A treaty
had reconciled us with Europe. Buonaparte, in arrogating
to himself the supreme power, has made it violate both. He
replunges it into the horrors of civil war, anarchy, and mi-
litary despotism. Is it possible that he dares to promise
France liberal institutions, and the empire of The laws ? Is
it possible that this man can have the affrontery to promise
to foreign nations that he will respect treaties, and not inter-
fere in their affairs? Is it he who pretends to n►,:ke the in-
dependence of the French respected ? His leavoig the Isle
of Elba, his arrival in France, the titles with whico he dares
to invest himself, the authority he has seized upon, the delu•
sions with which he surrounds it, those whichile is p:eparing
to support it, all these crimes, if legitimaied by the vssrort of
the European Powers, would threaten social older With com-
plete destruction, and nations with the yoke from which they
have just been delivered.—No ; No experience has been lost
for Europe; after so many years of suffering and calamity
none will be lost for France herself. She knows the count=
less evils which the monstrous despotism of a single man has
caused to weigh upon her as upon the rest of The universe,
which her nations feel what they owe to their dynasty, as
members of the European family, and to their internal pros-
perity as individual States. This sentiment having become
common to all people and all Governments, created a new
moral force in political combinations, which alone made the
grand alliance prosper, and enabled it even to conquer the
general peace at the gates of Paris. This force exists it is
indisputable, because it is composed of the most porserful
motives (springs of action), and of the dearest sentiments,
those of religion, patriotism, and national honour.
" The Treaty of May So, Lid down the basis of the resto-
ration of the public law of Europe, and it established by its
consequences a happy concord bttwcen the progress of the
spit it of the age. and the perfecting of the institutions calcu-
lated to guarantee to each people the enjoyment of iis glory
and its liberty. The Congress of Vienna was on the ere of
completing the work of the re•consti uction of the political
system of Europe. The same Congress, the line of conduct
which it has followed, proves that all interests have been ma-
t.turely weighed, and its labours offered the consolatory result
which insures to nations the-inalienability of their indepen-
dence.
.it is no longer the will of the strongest which ,rifles
the voice of truth, and crushes the most legitimate resist-
ance. It is the right.; of each---it is the general interest. It
is justice and political reason, (raison d'etat) no lunger ar-
mies whi(h decide.
*4 Europe desires peace; she has doubtless need of it. But
she will not think she has obtained it, till it shall be founded
on the immutable principles inherent in each State, and on