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

'c) line, ,rt.liosni n`:-....mff77 to
down,' and pintish7:i-ICire,puila7nces
ably ekelisde every th4t :oich
,eputa. , or conte:.,.
t'ransinit,an+
The.: Aiiet! Powers have. not for an- instant
cooed tfi rec-agniSe. his Va.st Christian Majesty.as'
King of France, arid consecitiently th, ITcognise
—the rights which belonged to him in tUt capacity;
they have not tor an instantcea,ed to be with him
in relations of peace :and amity,
•Svhich ;lone
conveyed with it the engagement 'to respect his
Tigl.is; they took upon' them thit engagement in
a farina!,
_though implied:manner, in the.declara-
tion of the 13th of March, and in the Trcatyolthe
25th. They rendered it more strict by-tnaking the
King enter,
,by'his accession to that Treaty, into
their alliapee. against' the common enemy; 'for it.
you cannot make conquests from a friend, you Can
. still less do it from an ally. And let it not be said, that
the King could not be the allYofthe Powers, but by
co-operating with them, and that he did not do so;
if the total defection of the army, which at the time
of the treaty of the 2.5 th March, was already known
and deemed inevitable,did not permit hitn to bring
regular troops into action, the Frenchmen, who,
' by taking up arms for
,him to the tunnbee..of 60
or 70,000, in the departinent of the West and
the tiont t hose who;.sheWing theniselvJs
ed-to take them up, placed the P'sfirper wider the,
necessity of 'dividing -his forces auci -those %ilia,
after the defeat of Waterloo, instead'of the— re-
soprees in men and money,xvhich he demanded,
left him no other butt that of abandoning eyery •
"thing, 11 ere, for the Allied Powori, a real co-one-
rat ion,u ho, in proportion as their forces advanced,
into 'the 'French povinee,, re-istahlisried there
the Ki.vg!.s authority, a ineaure which ‘v'ould have
can,ed covgisest to cease, had these provinces been
really emiquere.l. It is e3ident, then, that the
demand which is made of-territorial cessions can-
not 'be loan:led neon conciaest:
ISeither can it have as aticto;ll e reason the ex-
penditure made. by the Allied Powers; ; for if it be
joist that the siwrilices to which they have been
forced by t war, undertaken f<n: clie coinniOn good, 1
but for the 'mire particular benefit of France,
;should nOt reinnni chargealde- oil th;ein, it is etinAilv 1
jitst that they should satisfy theinselves.witn an
indemnification of the same kind with the.sacii-
flees. Tie Allied Powers, however, have made 'i
no sacrifice of trrritory:

- We live at a period 1l'iletl„ more than at any
other, it is important tostrt!ngt hen confidence in the
tvord of Kings. 'rite exaction ,4 cessions ft ont his
Alost Christian Majesty, would product. a quite
contrary ttrect, aft et*the Declaration in which the
Pi3weis announced, that they took up arms only
against. Buonaparte and his adherents ; after. the
Treaty, in which they engaged to maintain against
all infraction Ow integTity ref the seipultitions of the
30th Oftly, 1814,--4hien',eannot miintan.ed
artless that ot France is, so ; after the pi ocial‘na-
tions•of their Generals in Chief, in which the
shine assurances are renewe.d. •

The ooetiott Of ces•sions from his •1110St.CIWIS-
tiait 31:!ijesty, would tkepr:ltl hitn:of the weans:Of
extifiguishing totally aiid for evil. anio1101)e peo-
Pie ilLtt 1)pil it of eOtiquest, fanned•by tlie,Usurper,
and which 'would it)evit.,•iblY reki.otrw tlte•sie-
sire of recovefitig that vd:i.ch Fr:itite %%hold ne%er
believe she bad just:y lost. . , • •

Cessions exacted trom.l.;,s Most Christian
. • •
.lusty would be imputed_ to him as a kji:,'k!; AS if he
had thereby purcijased the iAid of the Pol‘;crs, and
would_bc.anobsacle to the contirtuati:t •of the
Royal Government, so iioportant for the. legiti-
mate dyn itt►d necessary to Cue repose or
Europe, In ;I; I r as that repose is connected. with
thesinternal tranquillity ,Of
In line, the exaction of ressions froni his Most
Christian Aljesty would destrOy, pr at least alter
that equilibrium, to the establishment. of wh;ch
the Powers- have devoted so .tu,iny sacrifices,
,forts, and earci. It was theniSelves who fixed the
ea tent that Franceyought to have. flow should
that which they deeme'd ;necessary 4: year ago,
have ceased to exist ? There are upon the Conti
neat of Europe tr..o States, that surpass France. hi
extent and in population ; their relative greatness'
tome' necessarily increase in the sliiie,Troportion
as tlw absolute g eatnes3. of France •119,i1d be di-
Would this be eOnfoituable to the in 7
tere,ts of Europe ? Would it even be, witable to
the part icid-or interots of these two Slates, in the
order of relations in which they are placed toward,
each other?

If in a sriall democracy of antiquity, the people,
in a body, learning that one of their Generals had
to prt?t►ose to them :Something-, advantageous but
not just, exclaimed unanimously, thitt they would
not even hear it mentioned,,io •it possible to doulkrt
that the Monarchs at Europe shi4itld mit be una-
nimous in a case where that, which is not just
would even be pernicious ?
It is theretOre, with the most entire confidence,
that the undersigned have the honotir of submit-'
ting to the Allied Sovereigns the preceding.ob-
servieions." • •

Notwithstanding, however, the inconveniencies
attached in actual circumstances to every territo-
rial cession, his Majesty will consent to. the re=
establishment' of the. Ancient limits, in all th,e
points in which additions• were made to old
_France 'by. the Treaty of the 30th May. His Ma-
%vill also consent to the, payment of such art
ihtleamity as shall leave means of supplying; the
wants of the interior administration, Without
‘viiieh it x,vould be impossible to arrive at that
settlement of order and tranquillity which has
'been the object of the war. ••
Mis Majesty's-ill likewise consent to a provi-
sional occupation. Its flirtation, the numher of
fortresses, and the extent of country, to be occu-
pied', gill be the subject of negociation ; but thd
King doe's 'not hesitate to declare at present, that
an occupation of seven years, being absolutely
Compatible with the ipternal tranquillity of. the.
.kingdom, is
.uttcrly
. Thus the, King admits in principle, territorial
cessierts a;- to Whit did not. appertain to Old
France ;'the payment of an. indemnity ; and a pro-
visional. occupation byaillumber of troops, and
-for a period to ,be determined.
Ills Most Christian Majesty flatters himself,
that the Sovereigns, his allies,' will consent to
establiOr the negociatioes'on the footirig of these
three principles, as \yell as to carry into the cal-
culatiou of conditions taut sPirit of justice;, and

erlt-rA.O:Yn tli,eni in 0fit,..,0
14);..iy /IA! t
speedily, Add %% i; 11. dud dal
these should not Prft.ll(lpted, 'the diff'
cirsigned arm not receivc or prbpuse
any other.

REPLY OF THE MINISTERS OF THE ALLIED
SoVEMIIGNS.

PARIS, SEPT. 22, 1815.

. The undersigned,. &c. &c. have received the, note
in which Messieurs tie Plenipotentiaries of France
have replied to the cointunnications made to them
in the conference of the 20,h of,this month, with
referenee to a dcfiuitive'arrangetnent. They have
been surprised to find in it along-series Of observa-
tions on the tight of 'conquest, on the nature of
those wars to which it is applicaide, and on the
reasons Odell should induce the Contracting
liowers not to recur to it in the present instance-,

The Undersigned consider themselves so much the more,
fully en-mpted firom the necessity of following the Plenipo-
tentiaries of France in their reasoning, inasmuch as no one
of the propositions which they have made; by command of
their. august Sovereigns', with a view to the regulation of .the
present and future relations.between Europe and France, was
founded on the right of conquest, and because they have
carefully avoided in their communications whatever might
lead. to.a discussion of that right. The Allied Powers, al-
ways coil,;,!vriog the restoration of order, and the confirtna-,
tirrn of the royal authority in Fr:ince as the principal object
of their proceedings, INt persuaded at the some time, that.
Fiance canmot enjoy a solid 'peace whilst-nei4hbotthing nab
lions cootintte to cherish with regard to [ter either bitter tmi-
:posit ies or perpetual alarms, have, recognised the principle of
a just satisfaetiuri fur losses and past sacrifices,as well as that
of a sufficient guarantee, for the future security of neigh-
bouring countries, eta the only means of putting an end to all
discontents and apprehensions, and consequently as, the only
true bases Of every solid and durablelarrangement.

It is only upon these two principles that the Allied Powers
have fixed their propositions, and in drawing up the pr. jet
which the Undersigaca have had the infneur to transmit to
the Plenipotentiaries "of France, they were distinctly expressed
in everc one of its articles.

The Plenipotentiaries of France ihtlaselves admit the first
'pf these priaciples, whilst they remain silent with respect to
the second. It is, however, abundantly clear, litat the neves-
of guarantees for ti:,; future has- become more sensible-
and urgent than at the period of the ;gnature of the Treaty

of Paris. The subsruent events have carried consternation
and alarm to every part of Europe; at a moment when the'
Sovereigns and their people flattered themselves that after so '
many atilietions, they were aboat to enjoy a long intern=al of
peace, these events have everywhere produced agitatiow, us
,w;,11 as the burthus and saerCiees inseparable from a g'enoral '
arming. It impossible so soon. to tile: min,;,
contemporaries the r6collection or sach a convulsion. That
which VMS sarlicieut tai satis':y j?,O, canpit contvut-
them in 1315. Till: line of dcti.arcat;'.ni which appeared to
guarantee the sci;arity of the States bordering on Fram.e, at

the epoch of the Treaty, of the nth. May, can nu longer
the just pretensions whieli they now prefer.
•
It is in•lispensible, that France should olIc( some. uetN: pledge
of security. She ou.!lit t i t:Ile this stub., as will fronr

•
• ,
;it of justit:e. atv! vxp-di,;,acy, tts from Lrr Qllll
•Acell oticierstuod. For, 1.11 order that the FiCAjt may Le

a:?(.1 trzAnTiil, it IS ith,ohttely mc,ssau that
.their

nvighbouri F:slJunkt be.ll:titpy irmliquil

Surgh ale Ole iww.eritil th;lt c iswinccdilte

?Mkt! I':+a•rrs to ile.avtud of Fr.ince some

The inchn4c!ei cxtvit of Lllese.

tij.ltt, of the I,)i.tts ;Gott I:cy bear, :1-11f:4:1c:1:1y
that, they 1;m-e ::ethittg ia cot with views in' Aggrantlise-

Went. ay!d cuuquest, and that, the security of b.,r•rcipt;

lions is their ou'..obji-ct. cessions are of a nature
•to coinpromise.the su!tstruitial integrlty of France. Tln'y em-
bract pnly delactled iiistricts or points remote from her terri-
tory; they eanuut: real!): Nve::1,11 her in any relation eitio:r
administrative or military, nor can her defca,ive systein
affected 1.4 them.: Pruner vtill remain not the lesstone of the
'best rounded and, best fortified States of Euriye, ns well at.
cue of tho richest in means of every description for resi.ting

the -danger of invasion.
Nyithout entering iatnthese higher cOnsiderations, tile Plc,
nipotentiarics of FraneeadJuit, however, the principle of ter-
ritorial cession, as far as respects the points 'added to old
_France by the, Treaty of Paris.
The Undersiped end it d'acult to understand upon what
thiat distinctiAi -can he finvitird, or under the point of view
adopted. by the, Allied Powers; in what the essential differ-
ence between ancient and recent territory consists. It is im-
pOssible to suppose, that the Plenipotentiaries of France wish
to revive in the actual state of affairs the dUctrine of the pre7
tended inviolability of the French territory. They too tell
know ,that this doctrine, put forward by the Chiefs and
Apostles of the Revolutionary System, formed one of the
most revolting chapters: in. that 'arbitrary code which they
wished to impose on Europe. It would be to destroy entirely
every idea of equality between the different Powers, if it,
were once ettabislied as a principle, that France may
without dillieulty extend her limits, acquire new provinces,
and unite them to her territory, either by conqueit'Or treaty,
whil.it she alone shall tojuy the pririlege of never losing any
of tier ancient possessions; tither by the wisfortuncs(of war,'
or .by the political arrangements that may result froM it.

With regard to.the latter part of the note of the Plenipo-
tentiaries of France, the Undersigned reserve themselves for
a serious explanation in the next 'conference which they
will have the honour of proposing to the Plenipotentiaries of

Frank.
(Signed; ILISUNIOFFSKY, METTERNICH,
• CA HARDENIIEfiG,
WEISS.EI3ERC=,
HUMIIOLDT,-

The Abbe de:PRADT.is, it. seems, writing a His-
tory of the Cobgress at Vienna : a we
imagine, Ono small difficulty.

•
A:person of the name (it PlEtillt LABORD2RIE,
a %vine Inerehatit of Bon-Meaux, e•mvicted •of
,having used seditious expres•sions-, teas been eon-
dimmed. by. the Assize .Court of the C-.liyonde, to
five y)..ars linprisonpieut,. and, a fine at :Ut) fr4tie3.

\Vorkaten are now 'employed in efF•;►.ein, tl►c Lti,
seriptiott upon the column ifillte-Plare•VendUme. •

1 '
A nett' r. Ort.co(• ito:)0( 'ls, it
is saA, os the, point of being established, in con-
stvence of the Electorate being ,exalted to the
rtink of a kingdom. It not iv? c(mlined to
GettnAn