The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-23 00:00:00

APRIL 15.

rise b,. 1.1-t .e t. the dispositions of the
try. I Am intorrned that a couv.y of I'lo
French prisoners from Russia, has been stopped
kmunt. lu waiting to derive' correct informa_ point,
and to demand, if necessary, redress for such a proceeding, I confine
myself not, to the statement of it to your Majesty, considering the
hoportance which it receives from its conuection with other circum-
stances whiell'are developed around us
Upon all parts of Europe at mice, they are arming or marching, or
ready io march. And against whom are the armaments directed ?
sire, it is y our Majesty they name, tut it is France that is threa•
tent (I. The least favourable peace that the Powers ever dared to
op, you is that with which your Majesty co nteuts yourself. Why
do toe) not now wish what they stipulated at Chamoont,—what
they willed at Mai.? It is not then against the monarch, it is.
agdii:st thy French nation,.against the independence of the people,
a„ ,lost ail that is dray to us, all that we have acquired after twenty.
five )...r of •iitlering and of glory, against our liberties. oyr lusting-
lion., I:iat tiostile passions wish tontake war : a part of the Uour•
Lon fiaiiiy, and some men wi:o have lung ceased to be Freuch, en.
tr., raise all the nations of Germany and the North, in
the Imps of re-tinning a second time by force olarma on the soil which 1
41i-claims and wishes no longer to receive them. The same appeal
has re-winded fur a moment in wine countries of the Roush, and it
is from Span:sli troops that s me, people are'redeinanding the crown
of France : it is a family again become private and solitary which
tins implores the assistanee of fineigners. Where are the public
hoictioliaries, the troops of the line, the national guards, the private
inhabitants, who have Accompanied it in its flight beyond our fron-
tier, To mean to reestablish the Bourbons once more, would be
to declare war on the whole French 'stipulation. When your
maj'esty eii;eted Paris %khan escort of a feWrneto ; when Bordeaux,
"'unloose, Marseilles, and ail the South art disentangling themselves
in one day trom the snares laid for them, is it a military movement
slat w 14. s these miracles'; or rather, is it not.o national nrovement, •
a niiou tricot common to all Frenchhearts,which mites ih one
feeling the love of the country and the love of the Monarch who
know how to defend it ? It
,will then he to restore, to relish'
upon us, 4 family which belongs neither to out age tier to our man-.i
tiers ; witch knew neither how to appreciate the elevation of otir
souls, nor to comprehend the extent of tow rights ; it Will be to re"-
pie, onr necks the triple yoke of absolute monarchy, fanaticism,
awl fendality, that all Europe would appear to/We itself up to an
immense rising 1 One would say, that'France, c,aithied within its
ancient limits, While the limits of other powers have been prodigi-
ously exteorled, -that France, free, rich only in the great character
%illicit its revolotions have left it, still hold so much Apace in the
map ofworld. Yes; if,,ecartrary to the dearest wish of your Ma-
jesty, foreign Pbwers give list signal of a new war; it is France her-
oil, it is the whole tuition Whom they mean to attack, though they
pretend on'y tdattaek its Suvrxrign, though they eflect7to separate •
she nation from the Emperor. The contract of France .with your
31.je.ty is closer than any that ever' suited a nation to its Prince.
The people amid the ntottareh can only have lhe sante friends and the
11111 C elli'lllieg. Is the question one of mere personal provocatirds
lietsviall one Sovereign and auotker ? That can be nothing else ,
kilt an iiiilioary tintil. What- did Francis I. in his rage against
Cli:irles V / He 'seta hint a challenge. • Rut vie distinguish the
chic i of a nation from the nation itSeIT, to protest that nothing is
nu-Ant hot against the person of the Prince, and to parch
alone s million of 'men, is playing too 'much • ,
With tie cruelty of the nations. The sole, the rest object
%Sikh the foreign powers can propose to-themselves on the hyrsothe-
air of a new coalition, must be the exhaustion. She degradation, of
France; and to attain that object, tire surest means in-their view of
it Will be to impose upon it • a goeernment without force and
out energy. This policy on their part, is not,'hesidess a new policy;
the. sample has been given• theni by great masters. Tlista the Bo-
in" ploserihed such men as Mithridatea and Nicisil while
f Hlll3,
they coy red with their haughty protection the A ttalusea•and the
Prfisiases, who, priding themielves in the title of their liteed.men,
acknowledged that they only held from them their states and their '
eructs, Thus the Fresels nation would he assimilated to t46se
itglaric nations, to wltosts 'the eain le ee of Rom gave for Ki s.
Princes whose s n übmissio and dependence were secure I In v.:.
view, the efforts which the Allied Powers may now attempt to
make, Would not have for their precise object to taring-us bade
ruder a dynasty rejected by public opinion. It would trot be the
Bourbons in pas titular they would wish to protect; ;tir;akiiimig I;nee
past, their cause, abandoned by theniselvcs, liar been so by all Ett-
PtOe ; and that unfortnnate family has every. where-been 'objected
W a disdain but too- Cruel. 'rho casket of thirtiaGnar.:l4 *Oa they

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ot- Femme •wowld -ke of-little iiiienrionce
/ saw there seated with him w eauesa
ionld be the most sensible witi..fge that
be , bononr of is taagnaninions and rename. na-
tion. It is that which has already most deeply wounded. French
hearts, and of which the renewal would be the most imply°, table.
Altlitmgii hi the latter months of 1813, that &mons Deelartitiou w. •
published at Frankfort, by which it was solemnly announced that
they wished France to he great, happy% and fife. what Wail the result
of those pompons assurances? At the same moment they violated
the Swiss neutrality. When, in short, on the French soli, io order
to -cool patriotissu and to disorganize the interior, they co,, 1 itiurti
prortase to France an existence
towid liberal laws; the es exit soon
sliewett what cordiatuce was tine to such engagements. Eilligiaeurd
by experience, France has its eyes opened; Iliac is not one of its
citizens tilt° does. not observe mod judgp what .passes aroti..d it
inclosed within its ancient frontier, whets it cannot give otre..re to .
other governments, every attack against its own sovereign is a
tendency to interfere in its internal affairs, and will appear only an
attempt to divide its strength by civil war, and to complete its
ruin and dismemberment. However, Sire, even to: this day, all is me-
nace. and as yet there is 5o hostility. Your Majesty will not wish that
incidents proceeding from the individuaidispositionsofpai I ieulat corn-
, marldersicither little scrupulous observers of the...oral (4 of their court.
or too ready to anticipate their supposed iidentioos, should be consi-
dered as sprineilig fi out the will of those powers, and as having
broke the state of peace. No official .10 has pi oved the determination
of a/opt-ore. We are retiticelitovague conjectures, to report pedlars
false. It .appears certain that an the V oth of Mai ch a new agree-
ment was MOMd in which the, powers consecrated the (nuns alli-
ance of Chaninont. If the object of it is th.leitsive, it enters into
• the views of your Majesty yourself, and France has no cause to coin-
Oahe ; it it were otherwise, it is the independence of the French. ata-
tion which would be attacked, and France would kriow how to re-
, pet an Regression so odious. The Prince Regent of England de.
dares thatlie wishes, leefliie lie acts, to come to an understanding
with the other powers. All those powers un- armed, and tiny deli-
berate. France, excluded from these deliberations of whieisit is
, lis not et aimed.
tie p
' eirircnteintipsatianoibe. sc st o;:i.iffitapsiro;tf.lneioitindrtiliiiteerniiitde:t e y
psuf those 'Mice' taiii-
ties as to the real dispositions of foreign powers, disposition s
.whose exterior acts are of a nature toinithorise just alarms, the
,sentiments anti wishes of your Maje.sty An. t lie itialketiance of peace,
-and of the treaty of Paris, ought not to prevent legitimate preeale-
tiows. I therefore think it my duty to call the Attention of your
Majesty, and the reflections of your Council. to t IC measures which
the pteservation of her rights, the safety of her territory, and the
defence of the national honour, ought to dictate to Ftatice.
(Signed) . • CAULAINA.:OI;RT, Duke of Vieenaat

CIRCPLAR ADDRESSED TO AMDASgADORIT'IWINISTFAS) -AND

OT/lER AGENTS. OF EIiANIE
Paris, Moth :m, 1613.
Stn.—The wishes of the French nation never rewired to recall'
the Sovereizii of its 'choler, the only Prince who can guarantee to
it the conservation of its liberty and independents.. The Emperor
appeared, and the royal govermnent no longer exists. At tilt
sight of the universal movement which carried both*, the people; .
and the army towards their legitimate I%.lottarels the Nattily the
flotations perceived that theie remained no other course tor them
hut to
~take refuge ,in a foreign country. They havil qititt.d il,e
French soil, without a single musket having been fired, or 'drop
of bloisl shed io their defence. 'rne military household which at.
compartied them has collecled at Bethune. where it 'deelarrd
onbinission In the orders of the Emperor. It Nis given tip its Gorses
mu!. arms : more than half of it 'has entered our ranks; the rest,
few in number,. are retiring to their armies, bailey to tints its
asylum in the generosity of his Intpetial Alaiesty. the most pro-
found tranquillity reigna,thrmighmit the whole extent of the empire.
vAry yht•re4be same* cry is heard Bever did a tuition present
spectacle of more complete etianitniiy iu -the etprelp:ion of its
Intppilless anti joy,, this 'great Change has been only the work of
a:few days.. It Vs the finest ti lamp,* of. the Confitlctiec of a morarrh
in; :the love of icis.people; it at the sifllir time the moat extra-
.ordittery mit or the of a nation which knows its Hello' and its
dillitP. The. functions entrusted to you by the royal government
have tcyntjaateti; atS I am about to take, without delay, the
tirderkof his illajegy the Emperor, in cider to accredit a .new
legation. You mut Lionned:Arly, Sir, assume the tri-enlouretl cork-
Acie,,and. anise it to be. taken by the Prenehnien who are &blurt
'you.. II; At bid 1114aUCItt of ellittlug the Con t where you resides

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Sovereign of that coml. *should phice on. the thione of
0 men, and 12 'Accra, to the Allies. provided they
pped 0:1 the side of Tim- and pusillanimity : this wo
Formation on this point, ' could be done to the honon