The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-09 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPIIRS.

A Bamberg Journal, tinder date of .Vienna the
9th, `having stated that the fate of 'Saxony was
not then (lecitled, and that the House of Austria
• would never. abandon the Saxon Dynasty, the
Moniteur has some remarks thereon, which acquire
importance from appearing in the Official Organ
of. tho French _Goyernment ; after an introduc-
tion, it proceeds :
" How should the Congress sanction the right
to dispose of conquered Saxony, whilst the legi-
timate Sovereign has made no renunciation, and
the Saxon people re-demand their ancient dynasty!
A King who, during nearly 50 years, has caused
his Government to. be blessed ; a. King, honest,
and ever a stranger to,amhiiion, happy in having
from the beginning of his reign repaired the evils
of a long war, and unfortunate only for desiring
to avoid the evils of that -which already reached
his capital; does he deserve to be despoired of the
patrimony of his fathers, when his subjects, vic,
tints not of his error hut of misfortune, stretch •
their arms towards him- from the midst of their
ruins ; and to be treated as a criminal, without
form of process and without judgment, Whilst all
the other Sovereign are .united by a reciprocity.
of regret, of forgettidness, and of indulgence ?
"There is a Sovereign_ whom, in the midst of
misfortune and resignation, Providence has pre-
served from the general contagion, who, restored
to his rights from the dawn of European rei,tora
tion has been the first to shew himself a stranger

to ambition and vengeance, and who got oulof
,disputes, by a treaty which will serve as a basis
for a[l others, and applied to his Government,the
maxims of magnanimity and of wisdoiu, which
are about to become the common property of the
civilized world. That Sovereign alone, perhaps,
would have a right to judge, and be absolves the

King of Saxony.
" Will k be said that his lodgment is com-
manded by the interets of his policy ? No; it is
not the policy of France which commands it, it
is the policy of:Enrope ; and since we rarely ren-
der to Killg.'the justice of believing them guided
by moral considerations, let-us consider the ques-
tion with respect to its influence-in the syStem of
general equilibrium which the Congress at Vienna
is called to establish.

" The abject is, that Prussia, united with Aus •
trig, should guarantee the independence of Ger-
many, that she should be. strong against France,
and strong against Russia.
" How could Germany see the guarantee of its
independence in Prussia, who, by mere right of
force, should have made herself mistress of two
millions of Germans, .contrary to their wishes,
and in contempt of all the sentiments which at.
tach them to their •Prinee ? We will not here dis-
cuss the question,, whether, by being united to a
great state, they might or might not be better
protected, less taxed, more tree, and more happy.
It appears, at least, that the Saxons place in the
balance with all these advantages-, national exist-
ence and the recollections by which they live in
history. There is iii the German character an
attachment to certain sacred habits, of which one
of the most sacred is obedience to native Princes.
Let strong institutions firmly combine the Ger-
manic Federation ; let identity of manners, lan-
guage, And literature create a national spirit, and
the independence of Germany will be secured.
" It is evident that the repose and security of
Germany will in future depend on the union of
Austria and Prussia. Would the eircrnnstance of
these two powers, so lately rivals, touching each
other by a long line of frontiers, prove a pledge
of that anion ? Will not Saxony, by remaining
intermediate, weaken this contact, and"soften any
mutual shoeks'?

" Fiance can have no objection that, in, the
general system of the balance of Europe, Prussia
should _he strong both as against France and
Ruisia; but that policy which some still asttribe
to her who take a pleasure_ in confounding times
and interests_the.most dissimilar, would doubtless
rejoice to see an union effected which, by sowing
,distrust, and spreading the germs of lengthened
discord in Germany, would probably create very
speedy opportunities of turning it to advantage.
Prussia, doublers, requires to be. strong
as against Russia ; but at present personal friend-
ship connects the two Sovereigns ; and should
these fortunate relations ever cease, Prussia alone,
however strong, 'would never be sufficiently sO
against Russia. Should a successor of the,ma,-
nanimous Alexander wish to avail himself of the
power of that immense empire, to clear the last
rivers which flow towards the Baltic, it then
would not be any one single State, not all Ger-
many alone, that would have to unite for preserv-
ing the balance and the liberties of Esarope ; and
it would he then that the work of the Congress

of Vienna would have to sustain its rudest

But Prussia, too weak against Russia, too strong
against Germany—united to the former to-day,
perhaps, in friendship, and to-morrow by ambi-
tion or fear—will she present no danger to the lat-
ter, when, by her incorporation of Saxony, she
shall have weakened the pledge of her respect for

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the principle of public law ?
" These are the principles Nvhich it is important
at this day to consecrate. The morality of Go-
vcrnmen►ts can alone confirm that of individuals,

Without which nothing can secure the repose and
the duration of States ; andlhe more that civilised
E►►rope, at this moment so .big with futurity, is
anxious to approximate her different political so-.

cietius towards,one summon centre of peace and
prosperity, the more she watches with-solicitude.
the conduct of those to whom, she has cbnfided
such weighty interests. May none of Om Mem-
bers of the Congress of Vienna, entrusted with
the most solemn legislation, infringe before-band
those laws which it is their duty to enact !
" These reflections have been naturally called
forth by the Article which we hove gived from the
Bamberg Gazette, and which Inis appeared the
more interestin to us, as it will fortify our
g
readers against other TICWS respecting Saxony, to
which they might be tempted to asctihe "an of_
cial character. We think, also, that the lamenta-
tions in the Gazette de France of the Ilth of No-
vember were premature, and that Saxony and Eu-
rope still do-not require those consolations which
some have been. in such baste to give them."—
(Non itttur,)