The Sun.
London, England, 1814-04-11 00:00:00

DUTCh PAPErtS.

ILUSSELS, APRIL s.—The Duke of Saxe Wei-
mar, the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt, and Count
Lottum, are returned from Handers.
General Maison has succeeded, after a severe
action, in which he suffered very considerabh.! loss,
in cutting his way through the corps of General
Thielman, and has got back to Lille. Meantime
other French troops appeared with cannon and
some mortars before Tournay, which place, being
dismantled, had a weak garrison, and only 7 pieces
of cannon. After a cannonade of six hours, the
French attempted to carry it by storm, but were
repulsed with loss by the brave garrison.
The Swedish army of 30,000 men, after several
orders and counter-orders, is at length moving
towards Belgium.
RAGUE, APRIL 6.—The accounts from Bremen
say, that they were rather uneasy there respecting
the plans of Marshal Davoust. A part of the
garrison had been sent over the river at the end
of March, and had plundered several Villages near
Haarhurg. It is thought he will leave Hatubur,ll
and try to get either to Wesel or Magdeburgli.
After fighting three days with the troops in the
neighbourhood, the corps that had sallied out was
driven back into the town.

To shut up the enemy more closely in future,
the Hanoverian Landwehr is gone to Haarberg,
and 5000 men of General BENNINGSEN'S army
have crossed the Elbe.

BERLIN, MARCK 29.—Glogau and Magdeburgb
have proposed to capitulate ; a uegociation for
that purpose is on foot.
FRANKFORT, MARCH 30.—1 t is certain that
there arc 80,000 Russian troops in Saxony, be-
sides those in Hesse and elsewhere ; so that, in-
cluding the Allied troops in Bavaria and otli:T
partt of Germany, it is clear that the artaies in
France may be reinforced by 150 or 200,030 men.

DORSTEN, APRIL 3.—The French, having wade
a sally from Wesel, have been repulsed with very
great loss.

INsrnucK, MARCH 23.--Officers who passed-
through this place on the 20th, coming from Leg-
horn, relate, that a fleet of 44 sail of English
transports, with troops on board, is arrived there.
There were two English regiments, the rest were
foreign troops in English pay. They amount to
twelve thousand men, under Lord W. Bentinek.

Letters of a late date from Copenhagen con-
firm that Prince Christian has made a Convention
with General Essen, who is appointed Swedish
Governor of 'Norway, for the evacuation of that
kingdom, which may accordingly be expected
every day.

[Here follows a long Proclamation by the King
of Sweden to the Norwegians, on their Cession
by Denmark, for which we have not room to-
day.]

IMPORTANT STATE PAPERS.

DECLARATION OF THE ALLIED POWERS

ON THE BREAKING OFF OF TIDE NEGOCIATIONS AT

CHATILLON.

.:The Allied Powers owe it to themselves, to their
people, and to Yrance, as 'soon as the ntgocia-
tions at ehatillou are broken off, publicly to de-
clare the, reasons which induced them to enter.
into Negociations with the French Government,
as well as the causes of the breaking off of the
the Negociations.
Military events, to which history can produce
no walk!, overthrew, in the month of October
last, the ill-com:structed edifice, known under the
name of time French Empire ; an edifice erected
on the ruins of States lately independent and
happy ; augmented by conquests from ancient Mo-
narchies, and held together at the expence of the
blood, of the fortune, of the welfare of a whole
generation.

T The Allied Sovereigns, led' by conquest to the
Rhine, thought 'it their duty to proclaim to En,
rope anew their principles, their wishes, and 'their
object. Far from. every wish of domination or
congnestr animated solely by the desire to see
Europe restored to a just balance of the different_
'Powers, resolved not to lay down their arms till
they had obtained the noble object of their
forts, they made known the irrevocableness. of
their resolution.by a public act, and they did not
.hesitate to declare themselves to the enemy's (io-
vernmentt in a manner conformable to their un-
alterable determination.

• The French Government made use of the frank
declarations of the Allied Powers to expresS incli-
nations to peace. It certainly had need of the
appearance of Ihis inelidation, in order to justify
in the eyes of its people the new exertions which
it did not cease to require. But every thing,
however, convinced the Allied Cabinets' that it
merely endeaVoured to take advantage of the ap-
pearance of a negociation, in order ro prejudice
public opinion in its favour, but that the peace of
Europe was very far from its thoughts. '
The Powers, penetrating its secret views, re,
solved to go and conquer in France itself the.long
deiired peace.
Numerous armies crossed the 'Rhine ;. scarcely
were, they passed the first frontiers, when the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs appeared ap
the outposts.
ill the proceedingS of the French Government
had hendefo.rth no other object than to mis-
lead opinion, to blind the French people, and to
throtir on the Allies the odium of all the miseries
attendant on an invasion.

Thc course of events had given the Allies a

prof of the foll power of the 'European league.
The principles which, since their first union for
the common good, had animated the councils of
the Allied Sovereigns, were fully developed; no-
thing inure hindered them from unfolding the con-
ditions of the recoustruction of the common edi-
fice ; these conditions must be such as were no
hindrance to peace after so many conquests.
The only Power calculated to throw into the
scale indemnifications for France, England could
speak openly respecting the sacrifices %Villa it was
ready to make for a general pence. The Allied*
Sovereigns were permitted to hope that the expe-
rience of late-events would have had some info-
ence on a conqueror exposed to the observation
of a great nation, which was for the first time
witness, in the capital itself, to the miseries he had
brought on France.
This experience might have convinced that the
support of thrones is principally dependant on
moderation and probity.—The Allied Powers,
however, convinced that the trial which they
made must not endanger the military•operations,
sav that these operations must be continued dur- •
ing the negociations. The experience of the past
and 'afflicting recollections shoved them the ne-
cessity of this step. Their Plenipotentiaries met
those of the French Government. '
Meantime the victorious armies flpproachcd the
gates of the capital. The Government took every
measure to prevent its falling into an eneiny's

hands.
The Plenipotentiaries of France received orders

to propose an armistice, upon conditions which

were conformable to those which the Allies then:-
selves judged necessary for the restoration of a
general Peace. He offered the immediate surren-
der of the fortresses in the countries which France
was to give up, all on condition of a suspension
of military' operations.
The Allied Courts, convinced by 20 years ex-
perience; that in negociations with the French
Cabinet it was necessary cat efully to distinguish
the apparent from the real intention, proposed,
instead of
.this, immediately to sign Preliminaries
of Peace. This measure would have for France
all the advantages of an Armistice, without ex-
posing the. Allies to the danger of a suspension of
arms. Some. partial advantages, however, ac-
companied the first motions of an army collected
under the walls of Paris, composed of the flower
of the present generation, the last hope of the
nation, and the remainder of a million of warriors,
who, either fallen on the field of battle, or left
on the way from Lisbon to Moscow, Ithve been
sacrificed, for interests with which France had no
concern. Immediately the negociations at Chu-
tillon assumed another appearance. The French
Plenipotentiary remained without instructions,
and was away, instead of answering the Repre-
sentatives of the Allied Courts.

They commissioned their Plenipotentiaries to
give in the projet of a preliminary treaty, con-
taining all the grounds which they deemed ne-
cessary for the restoration of a balance of power,
and which a few days before had been presented
by the French Government itself, At a moment,
doubtless, when it conceived its existence in dan-
ger. It contained the ground-work for the re-
storation et Europe.
France restored to the frontiers, which under
the Government of its Kings had insured to it
ages of glory and prosperity, was to have, with
the rest of Europe, the blessings of liberty,. na-
tional independence, and peace. It depended ab-
solutely on its Go;•cruuient to end by a single
word the sufferings of the nation, to restore to it
with peace, its colonies, its trade, and the resti-
tution of its industry. What did it want more ?
The Allies had offered, with a spirit of pacifica-
tion, to discuss its wishes upon the subject of miss
teal convenience, which should extend the fron-
tiers of France beyond what they were before
the wars of the revolution.

'Fourteen clays elapsed withont any answer be-
ing returned by the French Government.
The Plenipotentiaries of the Allies insisted on
the fixing cif...a clay for the acceptance or rejection
of the conditions of peace. They left the French
Plenipotentiary the liberty to present a contre
projet, on condition that this contre projet should
agree .in spirit and its general contents with tl►e
conditions proposed by the Allied Courts. The
I Oth of March was fixed by the mutual consent of
both parties. This term being arrived, the French
Plenipotentiary produced nothing but pieces, the
discussion of which, far from advancing the pro-
posed object, could only have caused fruitleSs ne-
gociations. A delay of a few days was granted,
at the desire of the French Plenipotentiary. On
the 15th of INlarch, he at last delivered a contre
pl'ojet, which left no doubt that the sufferings of
France had not yet changed tl►e views of its Go-
vernment.

The French Government receding from what it
had itself proposed, demanded in a new projet
dna nations which were quite foreign to France,
• which a domination of many ages could not- be
amalgamated. with the French nation, should now
remain a part of it ; dint France should retain fron-
tiers inconsistent with the fundamental principles
of equilibrium, and out of all proportion with the
other great PO W Cr 3 of Europe, that it should re-
main master of the same positions and points of
aggression, by means of which its. Government,
to the misfortune of Europe, and that of France,
bad effected the fall of so many thrones, and so
many revolutions, that members of the family reign-
ing- in France should be placed on foreign thrones;
the French Government, in short', that Govern-
ment which for so many years has, sought to rule
no less by discord than by force of arms, was to

remain the arbiter of the external concerns of the

Powers of Europe.
By cimOining the ncgociations under such cir-
cumstances, the Allies would have neglected
what they.owed to themselves; they. would from
that moment have deviated from the glorious goal
they had before them ; their efforts would hav9
been turned
.solely against their people.
By signing a treaty upon' the principles of the
French prgjet, the Allies would have laid their
arms in the hands of the common enemy ; they
would have betrayed the expectation of nations,
and. the confidence of their Allies,

It is in a moment so decisive for the welfare of
the world that the Allied. Sovereigns renew the.

solemn engagement, till, they shallhave attained

the great object of their union.

Prance has to

blame its Crovernment alone for its st:ift.rings.--.
Pence alone can heal the wound which a spirit of
universal domination, unexampled in history, he
produced. This peace'shall be the peace of Eur" Pl---:
no other can be accepted. It is at length 001-
that Princes should watch over the welfare of.t?“'
people without foreign influence, that nation
should respect their mutual independence, 0.'71
social institutions should be protected from Bail}
revolutions, property respected, and trade free'
All Europe has absolutely the same 'wish to
make France participate in the blessings of. ply
—France, whose dismemberment the Allie.;
Powers neither can nor will permit. The coir
dence in their promises may be found in the ply
ciples for which they contend.
,But whence shall the Sovereigns infer o°tt.
France will take part in the principles diet "wise
fix the happiness ,of the world so long as they" se
that the same ambition which has brought' -le
many... Misfortunes on Europe is still the
spring that actuates the Government, that. whi
trench blood is shed in torrents, the -genet:
interest is always sacrificed to private ; whencr'
under such circumstances, should be the guar:
tee for the future, if such a desolating, system fog%
no check in the general will of the nation ? ,hell
is the peace of Europe insured, and nothings °,
in future be able to disturb it.—(Har:eem,
sterdam, and Rotterdam Courants, April 9.)