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

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If, pe.,vinces, rendered our situation complicated. Perhaps that
very feelisig which causes us to wish above all things for the
repro woo of every pi ieciple of internal dissention, would have pre-
vented me, in spite of myself. from considering in so serious a light
the ane iacing dispositions which are manifested abroad. The rapid
di-persion of the enemies of our domestic tram:pointy relieves me
from all delicacy of that kind. The French nation has a eight to
hear that tends front its Government ; and never could its Cloven,.
'nteot have, as now, so ftlorig a wish, or so powerful an interest, to
tell it tic whole truth. You resumed your crown, Sire, on the Ist
of M. ch. There are events so far Iscytutil the calculations of human
reason. )hat they escape the foresight of Kings and the sagacity of
their Ministers. On the first report of vour arrival on the shores of
uveoce, the Monarchs assembled at 'Vienna still considered your
Majesty .s no more than the sovereign of the Isle of Elba, when you
already rriened again over the French Empire. It was only in the
palace of the Thuilleries that your Majesty learned the existence of
tl eir tecluratten. The persons who signed th;:t unaccountable
document alreaily understood of themselves that your Majesty had
no oeca,ion to make any reply to it. Meanwhile all the'prociantati-
ons, all the a xpsessiona of your Mtkiesty, loudly attested the sincerity
of your wishes lei the maintenance of peace. It was my duty to in-
form tar French political agents, employed abroad by the Royal
novereoseot, that tlieir functions had expired, and to apprise them
that year Majesty intended to accredit new Legations immediately
In your desire to leave no doubt respecting your real sentiments,
your Majesty ordered me to enjoin those scents to be the interpre-
ters of them to the different Cabinets. I obeyed that order by
writiog on the SOtti of March to the Ambassadors, Ministers, and
other an'ento, the aithjoined letter. Not content Kith this first step.
your Majesty determined, under these extraordinary eirennistances,
to give to the manifestation of your pacific dispositions a character
more anthe'ntic and soh .nn : you thought that you could not
stionp more erlat upon the expressinit of them, than by stating them
in at letter yourself to the foreign Sovereigns. You-directed me at
the Kann- time, Co make a 'similar tieclaration to their Ministers.
Tlie.e two 14:ttera copies of which I annex, dispatched on the bth
'net. arc a monument which must for ever -attest the honour and
inti.;!rity of the intentions of your Imperial Majesty. While the
movement's of your Majesty were thus ocetspie , and as it were
abseil bed by one single thought, what was the conduct of the dif-
ferent Powers? In al. ages. nations have taken a pleasnre in pro.
stinting the mutual communications between their governmenta;
end cabinets themselves base matte a point of hennaing these
' cominsinieationa. In time of peace the object of those 'elation's is
to prolong its duration ; in war they tend to the ;monition of
peace ;in both circionatunces they are a benefit to humanity. It
was reserved ter the present epoch to behold an association of
Airrnsrrh forl,idslinei simultaneously all connection with a great
ewe, mid clor isle the avenue to its mineable assnrance*. The coo-
iers Isom Paris on the SOth of March, ter the ditiereot
t•o have 1101 been able to reach- the places of their destination.
0 .r could proceed no farther than Strasberg, anti the Austrian Ge.-
octal N‘lu. cumniamis at Kehl, refused to allow him a passage even
upon condition of I.:s couseotinz to be aeconspanied by an escoW
Another sent titf tar Italy was obliged to retorts from Turin without
accomplishing the object of his mission. A third, destined for Ber-
lin and the North, was apprehended at Mentz, and ill-tteated by
the Minot:an Coromateiati I . His dispatches were seized by the
Austrian General who command, in thief in that place. I have
already learned, that anneal: the conriers di-patched on the Sib
ittstaot, those destined fur Germany and Italy were unable to pass
the froidiess. I have Ito account of those who were petit off from
. • the North and for England. Witten an almost impenetrable bar-
. rier is thus set up between the Fiend' linistry and its agelsts
tibiae* :; between the Cabinet of your Majesty and those 'of
other Sowers Igo% your Minister, Sire, has no other means than
the pnl,lic acts Of foreign Gev,efushents of judging of their listen-
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Nonstu
EAOLANIE—The Constitution of. frosaland impOses on the Mo-
narch used obliaatioust towards the nation which he goveres, As'
it is not in his power to act without its concurrence. he is obliged to
.00stinintsicate to. it, if not his formal, at least his probable resolutions.
lit: message transmitted to Pits hutment ou the atlt instant. by the
Pence Regret, is not calculated to excite any vciY extensive coal'
desire in the friends of peace. I have Ike honour to submit this
prom to your Majesty. A first remark must paintithy atket thoae.
who tire acquainted with the rights of nations, and are anxious to
Me them notice-red by trines. The only motive alleged by the
liegeiii to justify the measures which be anuounees the.
rswmtiots of
.solopline is, that eveuts have Occurred in France, eon.
4 0 4 Ift engageneonts conttactea by the allied Puwery with one