The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-18 00:00:00

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A*Swrit nF TFI N.ENirt.rlENTlA:tit's OF PRANG,
'in MK PluipwSlTloNs (,:z VIE ...).01•11 c'r?.FT.
Pleuipittentiaiie3 of his Most
- , Vttlesty,, • fortf) before him.. the
COM/Iltl4linAti6tlS'.whjch. were:trode.to them in the
conference of yesterday., by their Excellencies the
Pforlipotetitiury of die four (mired Courts,
respecting the de6uiti've arrangement, »s basessOf
which" tlie:r Exei...4len-ies lini7e proposed :
, The ce:.”lon.; byltis Most Christian Majesty, of a territory
•e;.1.10 to twolbirds 4Witat *as adtlea to old France by the
tre—aty of the3olh May, and in which shonld be comprehend-
the fmteesses if Cotrde, Pitilippetilie, Marienbourg,Gicet
•aad Cicirlernont, Sarre:Louis, Landau, and forts Joux and

2. The demolition of the fortress-:s of Honing:nen.
3. The payment of two sums ; the one of GOO millions, un-
'der the denomination of indemnity; the other of 200 millions,
to •seree'for the construction of fortresses in the 'countries
• e;:nterminons with France.

4. The military occuriation, during. seren years, of thefort-
'res'ses'of Valenrietrnes, Itunchain, CandiraY, Nlaulyenge, Lau-
drecy, fxquesnoy, Avesue, Rocroy, Long.ry,
,Ilitehe, and the tote-du:pout of Port Louis, as well as of a
line along the northern and e‘ast ern frr;nliers, by an a;•tay of
150,901 men, under ;he orders of a t;eneral nominated by the

1111 h-N, rind try sn:;:ed by Prance. •
itlaiesty,•ardcntly desirous. of hastening as
far as lie's in his power, the conclusion of :-,"-
rai•igrment, the delay of which has caused to Ilk
•• evili which he daily deplores, and
bas prolon;,ed in Fr;ince, and ,still prolongs, that
internal agitation which has excited the -solicitude
'Of the Powers, but still more animated by a desire
.to -Tnak:l known" hii good dispositions to So-
vereigns his has wished that the under-
"flgued communicate without delay to their
ncies the Plenipotentiaries of the four,
Courts, the principles on which he thinks the ne-
jociation ought to be prosecuted, relatively to
each of the bases proposed, by Ordering the no -
dersigned to present the tollo‘Vping considerations
on ;he first of tlivse bases------thilt respecting 4: ri
twin! which that important object is
Cxatti:nvd, in the twofold relations of justice anti
tit ilk y,ri!tic h it would be so daugerous to separate.
The want of a common Judge, !Flying -
tity and power.to terminate the dkputes of Sove-
reigns, leaves. no other course, when they cin-
pot, come to ,an atnicable agreement, but that of
referring t!,c decisiOn of such disput'es to the fate
of arms, Mich coust itutes bet ween.them the state
of war: If in this state, possessions of the one
Are occupied lty the forces of the .other, the-c
pie,sessions are, under conquest, by right of which
the occupier acquires the full epinyment.of them
daring all the time tha-the occupies thew, or Until
the re-establishment ot, peace. Lie is entitled ro
ijetuand as a condition of that re-establishment,
that the territory which he occupies should be
exiled to NW in whole or in part ; .and the cession,
when it has taken place, transforming the enjoy-
Incut inlO'nronerty- from mere occupier of it lie
i4ecomcs the Sovereign. '1 his is a mode Of ac-
gokitiop which the law of nations authorises.
But. the state of war, conquest, and the right of,
ekacting cessions, are things which propeed from
and depeud upon each othcr;in such way that the
first, is an absolute condition of the second, and
die latter of the third ; for out of the state of
Ntiar, there can be no conquest made ; and where
col3(pi: st has not htieO made, or no logger exists,
tfe right of demanding territorial cessions canoot
t•inee a claim cannot be !mule to retain that
which one has tint, that which he no longer
hits. •

T!,ere can he no conquest where there is no
state of trite, 'and as you. cannot.take from him
Wlmo has nothing, you can only make cocvest of
what. a man posse3ses ; hence it Inflows that in
ordzr to constitute the possibility of conquest,
there inn t have lmetn war by the om:caplet. on the
possessor, that is,on the Sovereign ; right of pos-
session of a country aml sovereignty bLing things
imisrpar'able, or rather identical. •
If then you make war in a country, and against
A.tlimibd• more or. less considerable of the inhabi-
tants of that country, while the Sovereign is ex-
cepted therefritm, you do not :make war on the
cOuntry, the laiter Word being merely alrope, by
Nviiich the domain 'is put for the possestor. A
however, mast: be constdefed as ex-
cepted fr'oni the wac tvhiali foreigners Carry on. in
iii eonntry, when they acknowledge him, and
talti;ttant uith'lmiln time hccustoined 'raition4 of
peace. Ti;e" war is then Made ktpinst men, to the.
tights of whom he who cOmnhats them cannot
'Btu-Teed, because they lulus no' rights, and front
witorn it is impossilile to ermquer what does not
• bOt?ug. to them. Neither time objvCt•nor the ef-
',feet of such a war can he to make conquests, but
to• recover. l,le, howcyt!r, 'whp recovers that.
Which does not belong to him, cannot recover it
Lot for imiut whom he acknotvledges as the legi-
timate piyssessor.
I.'9' entitle you to deem yoursell. ai war with a
comintrv; withoutbeim4.; vo. with him who has been
prlniotistY zlcknotyledged as .s.;overeigo, two thimCgs
twist aticess4rily happen; the one is that of
i,:g in hohl hill', as such, and to regard the sove-
4iS transferred to those wboin you light
by the .s.ery• art for which you fight
agahmst them : that is to say; you then recognize,
pnrstie, and reaction those doctrines which hare
Oretihrown sit many thrones, shaken them all,.
rind against Europe was under the' ne-
cessTiy orarining or, you must lielieve that
tims.overeigi..ty can 'be • (Inutile while it is esseu-
Mid incapable...llf division ; it may exist
' nailer different form's, be collective or
bot not each of these at once in the same country,
cannot have. two, Sovereigns at the same

'ltie Allied Powers, however, haveneithcr done
nor bctit!s:ed either theione or the other of these
l~ro Lhings. . .
They have considered the enterprise of Po4onn-,
pitfie as the grentest crime that couhl he commit-
ulem, iftld the very attempt of which alone
phio•ti Jiim without the law of natiotis.,' In 'his
LOLL:rents they viewed only accomplices of that