The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-10 00:00:00

NATIONAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday the Half-yearly Examination of the
Children in the National Central School, Bald-
win's-gardens, Gray's-Inn-lane, took place in the
presence of the Archbishop of CANTETBURY, Earl
Of LIARROWDY; the Bishops of LONDON.aIIfI CAR-
LISLE, Sir J. NicnoLL, and several other Mem-
bers of the General Committee, and their Ladies„
and a numerous assemblage of visitors. The pro-
ficiency evinced by the children, in religious and
moral instruction, the regularity-of their attend-
ance, and their general orderly and respectful be-
haviour in the school, as attested by the Super-
intendant, the Rev. Mr. Joussox, were circum-
stances highly gratifying to the persons present
on the occasion ; and it is to be hoped that this
Institution, under the blessing of Providence,
will be the means of producing a very material
reformation in the character of the lowiar orders
of the people, more particularly in this metropolis,
as well as throughout the country at large ; and
that we shall soon see a considerable reduction in
the number of malefactors with which our jails are
crowded, and whose mimes for the most part
have originated in the want of a religious and
moral education. To aid this benevolent object,
the Instruction of the Poor, there is a line of
schools upon the plan of the National society,
from the Westminster National Free School to the
extremity of Whitechapel.

Mr. WELLESLbr Poi.a, as Master of the Mint,
is introducing many new regulations in that de-
partment, which are calculated to facilitate busi-
ness, and save expense.

TO BE OPENED ON MONDAY, FOR TITE FIRST TIME.
AI)ELPH[ EXHIBITION
OF THE
PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON • BITONAPARTE.
Painted within the last Fotir Months of his Government.
HIS celebrated Picture of BUONAPARTE,
B. on which so much praise has been lavished in Paris, is
now arrived in London ; the Exhibition of it is opened at the
Adelphi IL use, Adam-street, Adelphi, Strand ; and it is
likely to challenge the particular attention and animadversion
of Our Royal Academicians, it hcini considered as the chef-
d'cruvre of the present great School of Portrait Painting .n
This Picture is now on public Rxhibition, in a commodious
Room, centrically situated in Adam-strect, Adelphi, Strand.
Admittance One Sloping each.

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.s:)f,EM QUIS DICERE FALSITAI AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
S4TUI?D.IY, DECEMBER 10, 1814.

We yesterday laid before the Public the first
Official Notice of. the Congress, which has ap-
peared in the Organ'of the French Government ;
and to-day, by the exclusive possession of Vienna
Papers to the 27th ult. we are enabled to present
them with the first Document of the same de‘scrip-
tion NVhich has issued froth the Austrian Press.—
Our Readers, indeed, arc aware that there have
been an endless multitude of speculations upon this
vitally interesting subject copied from the French
Papers, but that these as we have assured them,
from consulting regular series of the Vienna pe-
riodical publications,- never appeared in German
Journals, and had uot the slightest claim to be
considered as authentic.

The important statement which follows is of
another complexion—it may be depended upon
as affording a correct awl accurate account of the
Proceedings of Congress. We translate it directly
from the Austrian Observer, a publication of high
credit, and well known to speak the sentiments
of theAustiian Minister Prince METTEXNICII, and
its contents will shoat how unworthy of serious
attention have been all the fanciful theories and
details With which we have been hitherto amused,
concerning tl►e course pursued, and the decisions
taken by this great Deplomatic Body.
We shall not waste time by enumerating its
prominent features, but leave it to the public con-
sideration as a truly important Exposition of the
'real state of affairs at Vienna near the end of No-
ven►ber.

" The business of the Congress is prosecuted

without noise ; but, neverthess, steadily and with

effect ; and we arc daily more and more convinced,
that if the Cabinets dispensed with all trouble-

some formalities, this was done only for the pur-

pose of accelerating the decision of the great
points referred by the Treaty of Faris to this Con••

press, as much as the multiplicity of the relations

connected with them will admit. From the de-

darations of the Bth of October and the Ist of

November, it is evident that the Powers who

signed the Treaty of Paris feel themselves like-

wise authorised to give to the article which re-
ferred'the solution of the questions that still re-

mined open, its precise bearing and application.
It requires not profound political penetration
to be aware that this Congress of Vienna could

not take any preceding Congress for its model.
The subject of the Mo.otings which have hitherto
borne this name, was, a mode of proceeding found-
ed on the law of nations, between two or more Parties
prepared for War or engaged in hostilities, with a
view to the preservation or restoration of Peace.

In this instance, peace has been already conclud-
ed ; the daerent Parties come forward as friends,

who are willing to exert themselves, though with
more or less divided interest, yet conjointly,

to confirm and consolidate it ; and the various

subjects of Negociation are contained in ques-

tions partly prepared by previous decisions,
and partly as yet entirely undecided. The Powers
who concluded the Treaty of Paris were incon-

testably most authorized to determine the signi-

fication which should be attached to the word

Congress, in this perfectly new combination, and
consequently to, fix the form also best adapted
to the accomplishment of the object which they

had in view. This, their just riglA, they exec•

cised in a manner equally ativan:3sc°- I. Oil
as 1"
the parties more immediately interested' by tbi
'l'la
the general welfare of Europe, wilerb
upy co.
Declaration of the Bth of October/ to
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upon all the Plenipotentiaries assemble-8
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to negociate the matters at issue betwe--
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the most speedy and efficacious mdoner' 6

say, the Confidential. ;n
'Congress entere-A
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functions without any formal opening' °,
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previously prescribed ceremonial, which II:
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was qualified to impose upon it. It lils 1
or
teution of the Powers by whom it was /11°1101(1i'
the
daily summoned, to retain merely
with°
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fringing upon the rights of individual °LI 01
p rSa
pletely independent parties. 13Y tb Ad
gene. t p,
presence of so many Monarchs, Cabinetgisijet
Plenipotentiaries of the greater and 51:
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never could have existed. The firs` tjt.°ll
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the same time, the principal Gera% l nioP
assembled to deliberate upon the fu'Cferi
laws of the Federative Constitution of the
man States, announced in the Treaty of r
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according to the best accounts that 1 b3ce

able to procure, is as follows :--- jot
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business, is composed of the eight l'''''4e des
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Courts. By means of the Constituti°'
ed for it, Germany will again beco toe
political body, and thus, consolidate °ltforcis'l
self; and perfectly formed for all purposes' Pc
and domestic, it will be, by its situAti(llieof
midst'of the civilized world, the keY'st°ll.pit°
political edifice that should afford t° an tilcOriti
of Europe a permanent guarantee °f tbe"
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