The Sun.
London, England, 1815-05-29 00:00:00

FIRST QUESTION.

Has the position of fluonaparte towards thePoivers of Europe
been changed by the first successes of his. enterprise, or by
the events which have occurred since his arrival at Paris?

The Powers informed of the landing Of Mona-
parte in..lA...nce, could only see in
,him a mal
who;iby entering, the French.territory in arms,
arid with the avowed. intentiou of 'Overthrowing
the established Government, by_„exciting the
people and the army to r.ebellion,againit the legi-
timate Sovereign,. and
.nsurping •thelitle'of*Em-
peror of the• French, (1) bad. itictirred the pe-
nalties which. the laws of all countries pronounce
against' similar criminal undertakings ; man,
who, abusing the. good, -faith, of the-Sovereign,
bad broken a :solemn Treaty ; in a,wcntL 'a :man,
who, by bringingback, upon France, then happy
and tranquil, all the scourges of
,internal and ex-
ternal war, and upon- Burepe; at the moment
When the blessings of peace were about to con-
sole her for her long 'sufferings; the sad necessity
of a general arming, was justly regarded as the
implacable enemy of the public welfare. Such
was the.origin, such were the motives of the De-
claration of the 13th ; a Declaration of which the
justice and necessity have been universally ac-
knowledged, and which general opinion has 4anc-
tioned.

The 'events which have led Buonnparte to Paris,
and have given him back, for the moment, the
exercise of the supreme authority, have, un-
doubtedly, changed 4/12e/0 11)e position in which
he was placed .at the period of his arrival in
France but those events, .prepared by criminal
intelligences, by military conspiracies, and by
revolting acts of treason; can have dented do
/right they are completely void in a legal point
of view ;; dud in order that Buonaparte's:position
should be essentially and legitimately changed, it
would have been necessary that the theaiiireS which
he adopted to establish himself 'int ilte ruins of
the 'Government which he has-oxertl►rewn, should
have been confirmed by spine legal ?ale of .any
kind.

Boonaparte lavt down in his proclamations the
principle, chit tlig will of the, Vrench nation in
favour of his restoration to 012 throne is suNcient
to constitute tliat legal title.

The question,` to be exatrii'ned by 'the 'tio"‘.verg,.
resolves itself into -the follow* -consideration
May the consent, real or fictitious, explicit or ta-
cit, of the French nation, to the re-estahlisiment
of the power of Bucnaparie.", Operate in his posi-
tion towards foreign Powers, a legal'cha'nge,- and
constitute a title obligatory,upon those Powers ?
The commission,is of npiniou, that such a con-
sent cannot have that effect, and the following,are
the reasons on Which thiS opinion is founded.
.The Powers are too well acquainted with the
principles which must guide them . in their re-
lations with an independent country, to un-
dertake (as they are. charged with doing), " to
,impose laws upon it, to interfere its af-
fairs., to assign it a
.forni of Government, to
give it masters, to suit the interests the
passions of its neighbours." But they elso
know that the liberty which
a nation., enjoys
of changing its Government, must have just
limits, and that if foreign Powers have no
.right
of b y have Eu
, e the use w that
a t ienaastr lndnu
ionitayu t maketedi
y
that, of protesting against _ t.h.c.abuse which SIA:
make of it to the prep;ltce .0..4" their lute.

,
rerts. •Ittr-restcti %%len . the rower?,
dr, qt)T-tou•sider tltetnstives authorised. to impose a
e't itardnt upon tranc'e; 13:it they trill never
g,vr It, thl i:4111 f-rrek:•uoting that, nutlet. the
title »f Govttntner!t, there slrottid be established
fn FriTlC(t H tileitS trouble., convulsions for
tyth,: St.tes, •They -tvoll 'respect the liberty of
Fr trier, heti. vet it gill not be itttnnipatible with
;heir own safety, anti trie general tranquillity 'of

In the present case, the right of the Allied So-
vere;.,:,s i,tte•ttere h the question of the inter-
n:, ,ettlement of Prilme is the inure ineontestible,
as the :11) lition of the power Which it is now at-
tempte :a restore, was the fundamentli condition
cf P. Treaty of Peace, on which re•sted all the re-
latiutis ; it'h7rll, until tienonaparte's return Paris,
:subsisted between France anti the rest o! &trope.
On the; tky of their entrrihg Paris, the Soverekos
doelared that they wohlel never treat of peace with
Buonaparte (3) This Declaration, highly ap-
plauded by Fra.irr and by Enrooe, led to the ab-
dication of Na:oleon, and the Convention of the
l Ain't!. It forincd the basis of the •chief
ne;;ociat hitt, and was expressly inserted in-
to •ti -T2 preamble to the Treaty of Paris. The
French Nation., even supposing that .she should
be cont;ilvtely free and unanimous, cannot elude
this tinidamew al coalition, without destroying
the Treaty Paris, and alt her present relations
With .the Enroinmn. system. The Allied Powers,
on the other insisting.on the fulfil-
ment of this condition, only exert a right which
it i 3 Impossible to deny them, unless it should he
admitted that the most sacred compacts may be
dittigured and altered, as it may suit the conye7
nience of either of the contracting parties. -
.1-lenee it follows, that the will of the French
Nation is not sufficient to re-establish, in a legal
sense, a Government proscribed by solemn ,en-
gagemei is taken by that very nation with all the
P.mers of 'Europe, and that it is nut practicable,.
tinder any pretence, to urge, in opposition to

thost Por:tl-si- the right of recalling to the throne
the wan, whose exclusion had been the previous
conditio. for entering into any pacific engage-.
mein with France. Tice will of. the French.
People, even if it were fully ascertained, would
net.ert h eless be Min and of no effect with Europe,
aviien re,,toring a L'ower against which all Europe
has been in a state of permanent protestation.
from the 31st March, 1814, to the 13th .I‘larch,
; and in, this point of view, Buonaparte's
p 'anion is
_exactly the same at preteut, as it was
at those different periods. , .

Vrance, lists Leen ctiin;•ielled to tetY6iince 1 i 3 prr:-
jects, and has abdicated his powet,i',.i order, to save
some *reeks of his eldstence ; who,.al h tiwc when
the nations of Ilurope gave theitiseiVes up to the
hope of enjoying lasting tranquility, has Meditated
fresh catastrophes, and through an' act of double
treason, both towards the 'Pavers) who Inid too
generously spared him, and towards a GoVtrn.:
ment which he could only attack through the
blackest treachery,has, usurped a throne,which lip
bad renounced, and which had only occupied to
Inflict misery on France and on the world. This
man has no ather guarantee to propose to Europe
but his Word. 'After the cruel experience of 15'
years, who would be rash enough to accept that
guarantee and if the French nation has really
embraced his cause, who would have more respect
for that which she may offer ?
. .

Peace with a Govern Meta placed into such
hands, and composed of such elements, would only
prove a perpetual state of uncertainty, of anxiety,
and of danger. No Power could really disarm :
Nations would not enjoy any of the advantages of
a true pacifietion ; .they would be crushed by
charges of all kinds ; as confidence would no
inhere revile, industry and commerce would every
where languish : there would be no stability
in political relations ; gloomy discontent would
sit brooding on. every country, and at a day's
notice, alarmed Europe would expect tres;,i
-explosions. The Sovereigns have certainly
,not mistaken the interests of their suhjects,
when they have thought that open war, w►th all
its incouveniencies, and all its sacritices; prefer-
able to such a state ; and the measures which they
have adopted, have met with general approba-
tion. The opinion of Europe has pronounced it-
self on this great occasion in a most positive and
most solemn manner. Never has it,been possible
more clearly to ascertain the sentiments of Na-
tions:and more faithfully to interpret them, than
ar a tne►ment when tl►e Representatives of all the
powers were united' to consolidate the peace of
the world.

THIRD Q.UESTION.

Is it necessary t‘`) publish new Declaration ?

The observations ..which the Commission has
just- -presented, furnish the auswer to the last
question which remains for. examination. 'lt con-
siders—
I. That the Declaration of the 13th of March hae been
teed to-the Allied Powers by a justice so evident, atul at the
same time so decisive, that none of the sophistry by which it
wasT attempted to impugn that Declaration could in the least
tefute,it.

2. that thoce motives still subsist in full force; and that the
changes de
.facto, which have oerveard since the declaration
of the 13th a March, have not in the Team, affected the rela-
tive situation in which 13nonaparte and France stand with re-
spect to the Allied Powers.

..That the offer to ratify the Treaty of Paris, cannot, nn-
eer any poirit of view, change the situation of the Allied
t'owers, consequently, the Commission is of opinion, that
it wouid bc ;lit:less to issue any new declaration.

Thu
,p,caiporenriaries of the different Powers
who hnve signed the Treaty of Paris,and %vim, as
such, are responsible to the Powers•whO have ac--
ceded to it, for its execution; having taken into
consideration, and sanctioned by their approba-
tion the preceding Report, have resolved that com-
mimication shall be made of the Protocol of this
day,- to the Plenipotentiaries of the other loyal
Courts.—They have further resolved that this ex-
tract from the above-mentioned Protocol shad be
made public.
The following signatures are placed according
to the illphabetical order of the respective Courts
AUS TRU. The Prince de mErrEaNica:
B;,ron do WESSENBERG.
SPAIN. 'P. GEMEZ LABRADOR.
FRANCE. The Prince de TALLEYRAND.
Duc de DALTIERG.
Count ALEXIS DE NOAILLES.
GREAT BRITAIN. CLANCARTY.
PORTUGAL. Count de -PALMELLA.
_ . - SALDANHA.
LOBO.
PRUSSIA. Prince de lIIIIDENBERG.
Baran de HUMBOLDT.
Count de R.ASOUMOUSIC.Y.
Count d. STACK ELB ERO.
Count de NESSELRODE.
Count de LOEWENHIELNI.