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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

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CONDUCT OP THE ALLIES.

Je treaties have been ratified; all the grants have
lade. Europe has sent forth her Declaration, and
sword is not drawn. Peace, as though reluctant
the earth, still derides the menace of armies—the
!oes of kings ; and delays, if she cannot prevent,
olation of mankind. To many, whom it fills with
and awe, this pause appears unaccountable.
.he note of preparation has sounded for three whole
hrough all the states of the continent, they think
lave been answered and obeyed. They compare
with time, and consider that all the troops of
ition might ere now have stood embattled within the
of the enemy. Taught by the experience of the
inanity of professions, and the fragility of pro-
.hey yield to despondency and doubt, and dream
(erections which have no reality. We demonstrated
last the force of the ties which bind the present
more closely than any of the preceding ones.

there is no hope of mercy from an enemy, there
no desertion to his side. This was proved in the
Peuinstilikty Hit minket of As French themselves, who,
tired and disgusted with an unjust, inglorious,
iarassing warfare, never passed to the Spanish posts,
nought but assassination awaited them. It will he
.onfirmed by Ake constancy of the Allied Powers, who,
can expect no forgiveness from the man they had
will only seek for safety in his destruction. We
now endeavour to show, that even supposing the
itions of the Allies had been completed, and the
of entering France at an earlier period attained,
present delay is neither inconsistent with good po-
lor with the interests of the great cause which they
engaged to support.
\ fidence in the honour and loyalty of the French na-
prevented the Allies from seieng the first, and the
'venrab!e opportunity, for defeating the rash at.
Napoleon. They would not insult a gallant peo-
sending foreign troops to defend a Monarch, who
to reign in the affections of his subjects. They
not believe that the protestations of fidolity, the
assistance, and the demonstrations of love, which
forth in every quarter, were only intended to de-
They thought that France had resumed her an-
Iracter, and that the spirit of chivalry was rekin-
the souls of her sons. They left her the defence
Sovereign of her choice, and the guardianship
own honour. If their hopes were
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multitudes, prodigal of oaths, were sparing of their
blood; if no hand waS raised to support the throne, and
avert eternal infamy, yet those hopes were justifiable.
They honoured those by whom they were formed, and
the people on whom they were founded. As events
have shown them groundless, it may be matter of regret
that they were entertained—it can never be /natter of
I blame.

If the appearance of twenty thousand British and Prus.
shin troops in the French territory at the time Buonaparte
approached Lyons, would have encouraged the adherents
of the King, restrained the military, and for ever stopped
the progress of the Invader, the Allied Monarchs perceived
that treble that force would be insufficient to shake hia
power, when, sanctioned by the great legaliser of usurpa-
tions, Success, it was reseated in the capital, and wielded
all the resources of France. They were too fatally ac-
quainted with the energy of his character, the activity
with which he would press every menus into his service,
and the hypocritical pliability with which he would seek
to conciliate the fa►our of all parties, not to regard him,
even in the infancy of his renewed authority, as a mighty
foe, whom it would be ruin to attack without an over-
whelming force. Partial acts of hostility could not fail
to tarn to his advantage, as he could easily repel them;
and the impression produced on the pul;;ic mind in
France, by the gain of a sing], triumph, wcu!d
give him the willing support of a rop!el 04)!t.
consider the brilliancy and not the justice of
tart' exploits. Hence the Allies did not ru:,hunguardc:Uy
to battle, however great was the force which they bad
assembled, when they knew that they could collect a
~greater. They had too often witnessed the successive de-
feats of separate armies, to endanger the fate of the coa-
lition by untimely acting on appearances which might
prove deceitful. They wished to ascertain that a coin_
neon spirit reigned amongst them and that all the strength
id their respective states had been fully put forth, before
they ventured to open a contest, in which the political ex.
istence of nll is at stake.

These reasons, it will be said, may account for the de-
lay which has already taken place ; but now that the.•
whole force of the Allies is said to be assembled on all
the points of intended hostilities, what can justify inac-
tivity ?
It may not be generally known, but it will be easily
credited, that in their late invasion of France, the Allies
suffered great privations, and were considerably checked
in their movements, by the necessity of cms ing along
them their own magazines for the subsistence of

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