The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-17 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL IiEGIST

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incere desire of peace, would ever have started. " There remained,"
" but a Itw days Or the most important of negotiations."
Why difi th:sre remain only a few days What had the Armistice in
common stith the ? it not possible to oegociate fight-
ing ? Whal sew ddys more or lea:, when a treaty of peace is
in question ? 1: t,1.• r,ibito-t of Vienna did not wish to negociate, hot
to ?h.:A .te, as cm!: • are dictated to a besieged place, a few days
; but than ‘i by did it riot propose a eapiiidution ?
reavai:o•il iew days for dn• most important of nagociations.
riation, then, i, ;hat which can be concluded in a few days ?
•Tin

••.try %%lieu s.iii•fatl4,ry explatitition is wished. but

ft •-• %t lit) ha, .al;Pit hi< deteralitrution bet.re-baud.
}tc.w • .110,1 Frailce, sonic days wore or leBs may he
!•.'•?. /tea to I :it It.

IVe ,uu•t bore do josike to the penetrution of the Cabinet

••‘. Yitcoit. No doubt a te.ate sncli :IF the Attivd S„veleigos desired,
was foteinli to the wt-11.•s of Franc,.; in I.kc manner as such a peace ns
Fr nice Api)tove must have h-en contrary to tile w•isites of the Al-
lie 14.,e.er that enttis into inTociation wishes for all that it
watt obtain ; but wlo.n there is a inerin.tia, he infrron.cs between these
ntrary wishes. Ent •Loft was nut the pail
which the Austrian Ca-
Noel had assigtwd ,tseif. It never was a mediator; it was att enemy
f;,,in t time when, aceorditip, to its own conles,ion, it I..ishrd no
i.ther peace then that %% Inch was wi•bed by one nnly of the parties
Nit what was the peace which the Cabinet of Vienna wished ? It it
re.nly wished peace, a peace of kind. why did it not explain
itwn ? Why, bre tine it had adopted all the pretensions of Bau,sia,
of Ptussia, stand at Vila.and ; and hecatve it had, besides, pretensions
of its owl-, o t which It did not wish iii give way, because it hind re-
solved on wit'.

Note M. France proposed tl:e mpetirka of. a Con,JP.s because ,he
sine..iely wi.lted peace; becatt,e 4):- flattered herself OH, her nipo
t tiktotries, when ilk the pre‘ever of those of Itucsia and would
!owe to an underbtand.og ; hecatkse t Ci+llgre,. even Wider the MC-
diulivin of Akan.k,k, would b a otea,s to escape the dangers of the in-
bilist4t:.ons which the Cabiott of Vi,mtia circulated.

France :ICC•'l)tetl the uveil:l6,m of Anstiia, hrom.e, supposing in
th • Cabiatt id*Artennir the ambitious ‘tervt, of which we had no dotibt,
iir was to be b-lie‘ed that it would find itself clamped by its part of
Nediatoi, and would not dare, in a public ne•gociatlou, imileitaken
for its st.l interest, It; our moderat- views, and the sacrifices
which we were disposed to make for peace; bre mse, nt floe, if it had
been otherwise, aid if the 11, awl our enemies had been agreed
on do it reciprocal pre.len••it-nx, the Cabine► of Vienna would pro•
pose an ultimatum, which would excite the indignation of Fiance and
1/er Allies.
Note N. Aor.t!il, then, was already united in principles with the
enemies of France. Wlto ,!'quire( from her this confession ?
The Calnint of Victind leared lest France should prevail in a ne-
gnci.,li'`n to sepa-oe Austtia 1•f um her powerful enemies. No doubt
is Austria had united with then► to prevent their making pence. and
with the firm resolution of making war against us. she must hare•feared
a tiegeriation, in which our moderation might have offered them more
advautageoter chances in peace than in war; but why, then, did the
Cahinet of Venom otter its mediation, and cause Europe to resound
with its wishes for pence ?
Note 0. Austria wiThes to establish an order of thing•, which, by
al% ise distribution .4 biters, places the euarantre of peace tinder the
aigi• of an of itidependeot States. Si e will not make peace
till an equal disbibittitin of to- ces shall guarantee the independence of
each State. '1•o obtain this ste ought immediately to aggrandise at her
ri Alt expense liar aria atilt Saxony ; for the great Powers must desceed,
in order that the nrnk.'r Powers may become their equals. When it
shall 1. rye glee() thi;t example, it will have a right to demand that it
shall be imitated. Thus the Cabinet of Vienna wi•:bes to fight,--to
rt :pier ull Powers a lleptiblic of Sovereigns, the elements of which
shall be perfectly eyed ; and is it to such reveries, that the repose of
the wo:Itl is to be sacrificed ? Can public reason, and the ()trillion of
Lurope, be tow., openly sported with ? In drawing up manifestoes, as
lee 11 as in the regulatom of its conduct, the Cabinet of Vientra has not
listened to the coanseh. of wisdom.
[These Documents to be continued.]

STATE OF THE FRENCH. ARMY.

A number cfletters have !wen intercepted by the Allieti troops,
%%inch prest.nt a Inf.:l melancholy picture of the unhappy situation
of the iml.vitloal composin; tl:c *French army. The solilicrs %cent
to have b;ct (hat confidence in themselves Nt-Iliell was toinially their
char;‘cteri‘tie in a peculiar degree.--There are oppresive miseries
for the present, vvi!hoot hope in the future, and actual Wretched-
uess, agiravatv..l by the it usvect of a snbzequent increase olmisfer-

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