The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-28 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

The High Contracting Powers, sincerely de-
siring to give effect to .the measures with which
they occupied themselves at the Congress of Vi-
enna, relatively to the complete and universal
Abolition of the African Slave Trade; and hav,,
.ing already, each iu hiS respective States,
bited, without instruction, their colonies and Sub.; •
jects front taking any part whatever in this tragic;
engage to unite again all their efforts to ensure the
'final success of the priUciples Which they have
proclaimed in the Declaration of the 4th Febrinu:y,
1815 ; and to concert, without loss of.t.ime.,l?),
their Ministers at the Courts of London and
- most- efficacioits
the entire and definitive abolition of-a traflic so
odious and so highly repugnant to the laws of
religion .and of nature.. The present additional

Article shall have the same force and validity as

f it Were in..,erted.Word for Word in the Treaty

of this day. It shall he comprehended in the ra-
tification of the said Treaty.
In-tes-timony whereof, the respective Pleriipo-
tentiaries have signed it, and affixed to it The seal

of :t I)eir arms.
Done at Paris, the '2 0t h Nov. in the

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Year of Grace, 181.5.. .SI6NATURr.S.I
The same day, in the same place, and at the
satne mont:ent, the same Treaty, as well as the.
Conventions
.and Articles annexed to, it, was

signed between France and Great Britain ; France

and Prussia ; France :and Russia.
SEPARATE ARTICI4E—(Signed w•itlr
In execution at the Additional 'iTitiele-6f the
30th May, 1814, his Most Christian Majesty en-

gages to send without delay to'Warsaw one or. more

Commissioners, to concur in- his ika'ine,
to the terms of the said Article in the examination

i ...,,,, ~t.---mt: vticliy of Warsaw, awl in ali the It'
raukemcnts t'eletire 'to them. flis :Most CElri'.
tianAla 1.0
jeSty recoizes, in r'esp .1
ect to, the 1:111Pe.
Vcii• of Ril'isiai ;in his fituility oficitig of.Pdati•d'
1
th!e sa-lillay the Couventi'on of Bayonne, well'
: I
of •
1 iiiidei4el)64 ;that this disposition cannot receive,
. „
:" •iifitit.' f '• .
an 17,4) dna Jll,. conforthatry- to-tlit.princilll'c
4-:es.taolizlic.ril in_ the CoWventions mentioned is ti.",..

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9th ArtiCle of the Treat .of this day.
The prevent separate Article shall have the
same force and validity as if it .vitc:-'e inserted word
for weal in, thefreatv of this 'da.y. It shall b(4,
,
ratified, and the ratifications shall. be etchanges

At the same time.

Thrinitestirnony whereof, the Plenipotentigrie4
Dave sib ntd it, and affiY.ed to it the .eal of their

arms.

Dcni at Ittris, 20th Nov. in the
• Year of Grace, 1915.

The rending being finished,rrtfit:'SllllGitlltret7;"l:o3"/
ceeded •
Such are the stipulations which the Ministers
of the King litiV't believed they cOnlilno IQnger
refuse to subscribe. The engagements tybicli
France has just contracted, arc as an ine/itabl6
result of the extraordinary circumstances in whicb;
.by, the fatality of events, she finds herself
placed at this day. In a different situation, and
in other times, we should but present to tb6.
Chamber one of those acts, the genera!lY
form series of which accompany the historic''l
body of the public law of nations ; we should
make it our duty to discuss all the articles of it,
and we should take pleasure in .clplaining Uli the
motives of them ; but it is not the same ‘viti)
•
transaction which we have to present to you
effected (elle se rasent), it is effected by the Sl'
tuation in which each of the narties is resPec'...
tively placed, as by the interests and consider
tions.whkeh result from a state Of this: gS 11:1Pari.
leletLin history, unique in its nature, and chid:'
most necessarily .be so in its consequences.
. After five and twenty years of ;rouble s and di"
orderly efforts, which, in an.uninterrupted 56'6'3
.ot,invasions, corquesfs, and destruction; ince"'
sandy renewed without distinction, comprol-:
the political existence; and tkreatened .ecen 111
ts::eila)rteohrtg:etritiozattiiite:peoafc-apll States, the restolobti(ji:
of the legitimate Monarchy of FranCe, ha(' --e°
of th
penden ce, our territory, our external o
s
rlti, ”r i
cio,:sitl:rie;
Lion; and our had not suffered fill
national alteration.
tos
Sovereigns of.Eitrope felicitated 0.107°_
on the leappy reconciliation which 'l!Teli'l€t. ,0
established between France 'and coher o'l3 r
•
that conformity of principle.v, that recir'''-ci
maxims and viemi.s; icee'oMC, by'a ii,q)py"couc,,
the most encouraging pledge of its iratitrilli
and of the prosperity of all:
I The work of public felicity was advancio;
towards its perfection, when alt alarnling
came all on a sudden, to suspend and errest

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Tr :ogres*.
vv.'
los.t an entire .arm• y, detached flO
ful Sovereign,. who alone had aright to dispose of
St'paraced by the perfidy of some Chiefs, 3114
byanitgatitatiop (eutrainemeno without Pallinel:
from the nation, in the bosom of which it had beet-
in% a
fonned ; an army -whose courage was elnP—:e
to impose an Usurper upon France, and au
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pressor upon Europe, provoked the struggle s
if he
was to bring - npon itself, and upon us, 3" t
disasters and all the calamities Which have

lowed it.
The King as Sovereign, and Prance 93
State, have not ceased to of pose this guiltYL"":
meta, but bs.a combination, of flcr"P
there is no example, while the military
,„s cl
was' deaf to the voice of the one, and Oc::.1
the sentiments of the other, both were rcserv-'
osc
to stiffer, both from the effot ts of attack: art
of resistance, and by ,the brilliant so.cCcsses •
ed
c.t. •
the, prodigious/reverses which have ciora.terl
-this short and memorable campaign• h.
Such are the events which have with(-lc
in sonic manner the actual destiny of the Stag
from the action of its Government; has beell'
obliged to compound not only with -the preen'
sions, but with the alaims, which this fatal.reb°7
lion has excited in Europe ; and unabliE_ to coo"
ceal from itself, or to- balance the incOntestibl6
superiority which demanded painful, though in a
great Measurer temporary sacrifices, it has nut
been able to see in these.necessary sacrifices any
thing,but'. a :means of arriving at that period of
hope to W-hiefi all France aspires, and which will
permit her at length. to enjoy in peace and secy.'
rity her 'permanent advantages.
Far be- it from us, Gentlemen, the imprudent
thought of forining for the present, or of throw'
ing into the fUture time seeds of an
and
dangerous discontent. It is from this Chamber,
in, which the benevolent voice of the Niog, and
his enlightened discernment, bay.; united all who,