The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

" It may be remembeta d, perhaps, that the Manifesto of the
Duke of iilrunswick irritated the pride of a great people. In fact.
even those who did not join in the opinions prevalent at that period
when they read this insulting Manifesto. found them elves 4h:sided
in the national honour. Another language has therefore been
asanmed. Europe fatigued, has more need t f repose than of
passions.
" lint if there be so mita moderation in the councils of our
enemies. wherefore. while they continually speak of peace, do they
still menace our frontiers, which they bad promised to respect, when
we should have no other barrier than the Rhiae ?
" If our enemies are so moderate, why have they violated the
capitulation of Dresden ? why have they not done justice to the
noble complaints et the General who commanded in that place ?
a If they are so moderate h..' e they not established the
exchange of psi occurs, conformahly In all the usuages of war ?
" Finally, if this e protectors ofthe violas of nations are so mode-
rate, why have they not respected those of the Swiss Cantons?
Why does this wise and free Government, which, in the face et* all
Europe, had declared itself neuter, now see its peaceful vallies
and mountains ravaged by all the scourges of war ?
" Moderation is sometimes only a diplomatic artifice. If we
choose to employ the same at tifices, attesting also justice and good
filth, how easily might we confound our accusers with their own
arms
" Does the Queen escaped from Sicily, who, from one place
of exile to another, has fled In her adversity to the Ottomaus, prove
to the world that our enemies have so much respect for the royal
dignity ?
" The Savereig,n of Saxony has placed himself at the disposal et
the Allied Powers. Has he met with actions cunformable to the
assurances given ? Unhappy reports are spread in Ilurope • may
they eot be realized ! Can it be desired to punish for fidelity to
his oath, the brad of a Sovereign, bowed down with age and
afflictions, and crowned with so many virtues ?
" It is not from this tribune that Governincors are to he insolted,
even those who should allow themselves ta insult us ; but we may
lie permitted to appreciate at their true value, those aesient and
well-knonn reproaches, poured forth against all such powers as have
acted a great part, from Charles the Fifth, to Louis the Fourteenth ;
and from Loris the Fourteenth to the Emperor.
" The system of bee-alias, of preponderance, of unirersal monarchy,
ties been always a rallying cry for all coalitions; and from the midst
of-these coalitions, astot.i•lred at their cwri imprudence, often arose
a power still more amintions than that whose ambition was ex-
claimed against.
" The abuses of power are marked in bloody characters nn all
the pages of history. All nations have erred; all governments have
Committed excesses ; all ought to pardon each other.
" If, as we are willing to believe, the Allied Power's form sin-
Isere wishes for peace, there is no obstacle to its being restored.
We have demonstrated by the abstract of the official papers, that
the Emperor desitcs peace, and will purchase it even by sacrifices
in which his great soul seems to neglect his personal glory, to at-
tend only to the wants of the.nation.
" When we cast our a yes on this coalition' composed of element'
which repel each other; when we see the fortnitone and strange
niocture of nations, whom nature has made rivals: when we reflect
that many of them, by incousiderate alliances, expose thearvielves
stingers which are nut a chimera; we cannot believe that such as
assemblage of interests so different can be of long situation.
" Do not I behold in the midst of the enemy's rank', a Prince
torn with all the French sentiments, in the country where they are,
perhaps, most lively ? . The warrior, who formerly defended France,
cannot long remain armed against her.
4' Let ns remember, toe, that a monarch of the north, and the
atiost powerful of ell, did but lately reckon among his titles to glory,
the friendship of the greet man with whom he now combats.
" Our eyes tarn with confideuce to that Yariperor, whom so
many tics minds to our's; who gave ea the fairest present in a
'eim eil sovereign ; and who beholds in his grandson the heir of the
Reach E:npire.
4' With so many motives to agree, and to guile, can peace be
difficult ?
" Let the place of conference be immediately fixed; let the ple-
nipotentiaries on both eideir come forward with the noble wish to
give peace to the world : let moderation reign in their councils as
well as in their language. The Allied flossier* have themselves said,
ii - nation dots not lose
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pect of your Committee, if, in proving to demonstration the pacilii:
intentions of the Emperor, our last words did not iemind the peo-
ple of what they owe to thenselves,—what they owe to Lie nio-
Hatch.
" The moment is decisive. The foreign powers hold a pacifc
language, but some of our frontiers are invaded, and war is at our
doors.
Thirty-4x millions of men cannot betray their glory and their
destiny. Nations distinguished in this great quarrel have experi-
enced numerous reverses : more than once they have been put fors
de conduit ; their wounds bleed still. France has also re:seived some
wound:; but she is far from being cast down ; she may be proud Of
her %snoods as of her past triumphs. Despondency in adversity
would be more inexcusable than boasting in prosperity. Thus, then
while we make peace, let the military preparations be accelerated,
and support the tiegociations. Let us rally round tie diadem where
the splendour of fifty s ictories shine through a passing. cloud.
" Fortune is not long wanting to nations who are not wanting
to themselves.
" This appeal to the national honour is dictated by the love of
peace; of that peace, v'. Lich is not obtained by weakness but by
firmness : of that peace, in short, which the Emperor, with a new
species of coinage, promises to grant at the price of great sacrifices.
1 "We have the soothing confidence, that his wishes and our's will
be realized ; and that this brave liation, after such long fatigue, and
.1 so muds bloodshed, ;till find repose under the auspices of a throne,
I which bad enough of glory, and w !licit, tor the future, chooses to
i be btu rounded only with images of public felicity."

DIFPOIIT TO MIS MAJESTYThe EMPETIOR AND KING.
Site. I have the honour to lay hetisre your Majesty the dispatches
of your Legation at Berne, ausiouuring-, that the territory and the
neutrality ofSwitz: rki.d have been violated by the Allies.
1 subjoin the lettjr brought by Mitsgrg. Rs ttiman and Wieland,
Euvoys.cxtraordimry from the Swiss Diet, and your Majesty%
aus‘ver, coutirmiog the recognition already made by your Minister,
of the uentrglity of Switrerbuol.
While these Envoys presented to your Majesty the letters they
brought, other Envoys repaired to the allied Sovereigns at Frank-
fort, who premised to recognize the nelitrality of Switzerland, and
the Commander in Chief of their armies every w hoe gave orders le
respect it.
Confiding in these promises and orders, the Swiss had limited
their Free:lotions to the placing elf a mere cordon. Your Majesty
had no troops: on that frontier, vrishing to remove every idea of the
tient rality of Switzerland bring in danger on that side.
But the Allies have not only violated the neutrality of Switzer-
land, they have sent M. (le Sent to Herne. to require, that Bwitzer-
land shall renounce the art of mediation, the con•eiretices of niii(h
have for these ten years rendered it so happy. M. de Senft accom-
panied this demand, with the declaration, that the Allied Army was
going to enter So itzerland.
At the same moment M. Anhns snmmoned the troops of the CAD-
federation to cvacnate their posts : the bridge of Basle was forced,
and the silliest army entered at different points.
fly viu)nting in this manner the territory of a pearefol people and
it., neutrality, which Enrope has respect( d for three centuries, the
Allies themselves have given the measure of the confidence
their promises merit, and show, what is in fact, the respect it
they profess for the rights of nations.
The Minister for Foreign Afl'airs,
CAULA NCO IRT, Duke of Vicenza.
Paris, Dec. IT, 1313.

(Signed)

[Here follow the letter of the Lindamman of Svritrerland to the
Ymperor, announcing the neutrality, the declaration of the Diet,
both d4ted Nov. 18; and linonaparte's kiltr to the Landman:in,
recogniving the neutrality, dated Dec.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER FOR FORMS* AFFAInS.
Sir,—Yesterday morning General Militia had a conference witit
Colonel Herrenschvrand, who commands the Swiss troops from
Basle to Lauffinburg, and declared to him, that the Allied Army,
160;000 strong, would enter Switzerland, in the night of the 20th,
by Basle, Rheinfeld, and 'stein. It is said, that Colonel Herr( tiglt.
wand wai required to give information of it to the Laudamman,
and to General Watteville ; and it seems that the Swiss battalions
which were on the Rhine have fallen back, some to Solenre, ant 4
some to the head-quarters, which have retired from Aran to Lentz-
burg. It is announced, that on the 26th, 10,000 men, chiefly Ans.
Irian cavalry, will arrive at Berne; and that soon afterwards two
similar divisions will paw tittougti there, which will successively
ekt tbs rvid is Gegen.

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