The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-27 00:00:00

[l7lO OE SEVEN PE NCV ;.

FO ITT G NIUE LI GE NCE. •

GEOIAN 2.NI'EIN.

• •
PARIS, Nov, 30 bc.a.,reeable
to ycta (CU. Editor of theArrgslmrgir fitrzrtie), to
receive to!inepartiznlii.rs of -,be I
As
r neglseia—•
Lions at Paris, 'which as. you 'kitty., souroc
Irota whence they are derived, you Crdi
tee to y)iir readers as genuine and exact. Ii
negoc:•ations were not s,witer:eompieted,
wns certa:nly owing to th‘e extent and ,
objects to be treated of, and -not to 'any
want at (int activity, or tot Slowness in cite Ma- -
nagement of the business. he ,Mit,ivcriql cattle-.
re,ces, 'ot which the negociatians wiA)
France made ()illy a part , ana which at the saute time
a number 0' •mast important lel:11..4)1)S hetwer n the
Allied Courts thenselves was to he regulated,
were contended for months‘withour interrnption.
The Ministets-AsSembled r‘jery day at 12 o'clock, •
at Lord Castkreagh's lintel, formerly lintel
Dargliese, whi.•ll since last 'year has been the hotel
of the English Embassy, and Whure also were. the
bine:Ms-and archives belotigin..3,- to the caplet ences.
The conferences lasted regularly till three o'clock,
and often flinch longer ; 'the evenings were, be-
sides.dedicated to manifold separate deliberations..
The Duke of W Ilington and Laid Castlurcagh,'
Prince Metternich, and Baron Wcssenberg, Prince'
Haidenberg; and 11 troo Humboldt, Prince Ita-, •
sumovesky, and Count C.+llo d'lstria, were the pro-
per and constant members ortliese conferences.—
Though the business was carried on withoat any
cereoundons and pedantic forms, it w s however,
adopted as a general tale, that the p• 0t0e0.% and.
the acts relating to the negociations with Vraitee,
tilundif be signed by all the Ministers (a City,
were all emi)owered to negociate,) and ott the
other hand,ll that was drawn tip in the name of
the four Cabinets, should be signed only by the
four Chiefs or Representatives of these Cabinets,
viz.:—Castleeclgh, Metternich, Hardenburg, amt.
Cairo d'isiria. The Ministers hail in coniunni
appointed fir. Gertz to be their principal Secre-
tary, who that quality has attended all thg.con-
ferences, and ilraNn up all the protocols, notes,
tieatiei,-8.;!. touter the direction of the Nlinisters;
Front what I hrte here said, you inay judge how
touch credit is to the assert ion'of a celebrated •
German parr (which, dor.ng the course of the
negociations at Paris, has produced a number of
bold fables,) that " severiL men of consequence,
when they perceived the nature of these negocia,
tions, had tviihdrawn front the conferences." •

In some of,the earlier conferences, wil.ll only
military matters. were treated of, the lto9Sirn Ant»
bassador Paris, Count Pezzo tie Borg°, anti
some Austrian and Pritssian Generals, were now
and then admitted s but, as they never appeared
at them except when they were invited, it cannot
be said that 'they withdrew ; and in the (nuttier
progress of the bitS.int:ss, duriiig the whole course
of die proper 'political negociations, no person;
except the eight ,Ministers, was admitten to the
ministerial conferences. The only exception was.,
that in the beginning of Noveinher, in tile delibe•
rations upon the Convention tp be .coaclutied
witit-
hiancc.on 3CCMAIIIt of the peinini-ary payments, the.
Prussian Minister of the Finances, Air. Von
was present three or four Even Field-Mar-
shal Prince Sell wart teniturg; though appointed by
the Emperor one of the negociators, was present
at
:only two or three conferences, because, just at.
the time that the.direct negociat ions for peace be,
gall, his situ in. Paris was at an end. Tile share

which the French. Cabinet had in these confe-
rences may he easily fixed, when the following
circntostAnces are considered :

The King had 'tattled as his Plenipotentiaries
Prince Tqlleyranti, the Duke of Da!berg, and
-Baron. Louis, late Minister of the Fin Antes.
The4e three Ailnittters appeared in the conference
of the 20th of Septetiiher, when the Original pro,
ice( of the general Treaty with France %t as. runi-
ntunicated to them, in which proje,A' only t
'single material point hits since hcen Clanged,
'the cession of Conde to the Klieg of the Ne-
:iheattods. By a strange continuation of circum-
stances, this conference of -September 20 %Airs
the • first and lust. at which these Ministers were
,present; they indevd 14:4'e in on the following day
a !tote of considerable leng-th, in which-they en-
deavour to .oppose the pr(tposals of the Al:ictl
Courts, without absolutely rejecting them, upon
•the principle•that the right of colluest, was tint
•applicable to the late war, nntl an energetic an-
swer to this note was.numediately resolved upon,
and actually drawn tip ; but hel:ore this itote conic(
'be sent away, it was found the whole French Mi.-
nistry had that very day received their d:scharge.
The ',..)nke. de Richelieu, who hencelorwdrd took
the hosiness entirely' upon hiniself, intinediately
abandoned the course taken by his predecessors,
.of a vain discussion of general principles, and
seemed to proceed upon the conviction, that in
the actual situation of. affairs, every opposition
on the part of the French Cabinet could only tend
.to prolong the di“resses of the country, without
producing any considerable change to the advan-
tage of France, in the determinations of the Allies.
.13e has acted exclusively on Ellis principle ; 1113
personal character ensured him general esteem,
and contributed essentially to the ininiediate re-
lief of the country. As nevtciatoig Minister he
Was almost wholly passive ; lie appeared but seldom
iii the ntnisterial conferences, generally not with...,
011 i a fannal ictriiatiun, The AliniSterS of the
Allied Courts It Id invited the French to ;:eliaa
Commissioner to take a share in the drawinz tsp
of the general 'Treaty, ;not of the secondary
editions ; trnd the Councillor of Slate, L,a Vei.