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London, England, 1815-05-23 00:00:00

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.37e1 ,PAPERS.
111ORRESPONDENCE of 4iI2.IANCE AGAINST FRANC*
(1911,11$11NTZD ro Dorm ININIES Of TAIIIIASUNT TWEIDAT.)

VISCOUNT UASTLERE.%OIII.II,- TIII EARL OF CLANCATT.
st Foreign-06u, April 11, 1815.
" Mr I.OaD-1 herewith iticlo,e a copy of an Overture this
day ric,ived from M. de Caulaiticourt, with the an4wer returned.
Nov will cornmunicate the same to the Allied Sovereigns and
Plenipotentiaries at Vmatta, for their information.
" I hire the honour to be, Bcc. (Signed) " CASTLIMEAOII.
" tiarl of Claticarty, Bcc."

THE EARL OE CLANCARTY TO VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH.
" Vienna, May 6, 1815.
" Mr Loan—Adverting to your Lordship's dispatch, No. S.
and to its et veva' inchseire., couveying a proposal made by the
existing Government in France, and your Lorelehip's answer
thereto, I have the honour to acquaint you, fur the information
of his Majesty's Government, that at a conference held on the
3el instant, his Highness Prince Metternich acquainted us.., that a
M. de Su:feline, who had been stopped on his way hither, at
Lintz, trent nut having been furnished with 'proper passports,
had addressed a letter to Isis Imperial Majesty, and therewith
furwari!ed sumo unopened letters which the Emperor had di-
reeted him to unseal iu the presence of the Plenipotentiaries of
the Allied Powers.
" These proved to be a letter from Bonaparte, addressed to
his Majesty, profes'.ivg a desire to continue at peace, to observe
the stipulations of the treaty of Paris &e. and a letter from
M. de Caulaineourt to Prince Mettetnich containing similar
prieessiorts.
" After reading these Papers, it was considered whether any,
and what answer should be made thereto, wben the general opi-
nion appeared to be, that none should be returned, and no notice
whatever taken of the repeal.
" Upon this, u indeed upon all other wagons, subsequent
to the resumptiou of ate hority by Bonapartea wherein the present
State or the Continental Powers, with esprdeti France, has come
under ascussion, but one opiniun has appealed to direct the
Councils of the several Sovereigns. They Where, and from the
commencement have never ceased to adhere to their Declaration
or the 13th of March, with respect to the actual Ruler of France.
They are in a state of hostiety with bias and his adherents, not
from choice, but from necessity, because past experience has
'hewn, that no faith has bean kept by him, and :Nu no reliance
can be placed on the professions atom who has hitherto no luoger
regarded the most solemn compacts than as it may have Suited
his own cuiveutentie to observe them, whose word, the only
a•su*ante he can afford for his peaceable disposition, is not less
in direct opposition to the tenor of his former life, titan it is to
the mileary po.it•on in which hr is actually placed. They feel
that they should neither perform their duty to themselves ur to
the people tomcatted by PaovsucNcL to their charge, if they
were now to 1 eten to chose professions of a desire for peace wh eb
have been made. and stiffer themselves thus to he lulled into the
supeceitien that they might now relieve their people Irons the
butihen of sup pursing immense military masses, by diminishing
the it forces to a peace establishment, convinced, as the several
Sovereigns are, from past experience, that no wooer should they
have been disarmed, than advantage would be taken of their want
of pr-paration. to renew those scenes of aggression and blood-
shed, from which they had hoped that the Pelee so gloriously
won at Paris, would ling have secured them.
" 'l4ev are at war, then, fur the purpose of obtaining some
security hit their own iudependence, and for the re-coequest lit
that peace slid permanent tranquillity, for which the world has
se less pauted. They are nut even at war for the greater or less
prop:a-rem of security which France can istfurd client of future
tratiqudltty, but because France, under its present Chief, is un-
able to all eel them any fecurity wigs:ever.
" to this war, they do nor .:.sire to interfere with any legiti-
mate right Of the ',rend& pe..ple ; they have no design to oppose
the clami of that natkni to chonsu their owns form of Govern •
meat, or intention to trench, in any respect, upon their ande-
-1,: nd.nce as a greet and tree people : but they Jo think they have
a eagle, and that to the highest nature, to coteend against the re-
e.taelestintent of an individual as the head or the French Govern-
ment, we-ese past conduct has invariably de ((((( norete i, that in
such a *statue he will nor suffer other natlents to tie at peace—
Whose restless aneetion, whoa,. then for fur eign nonqoest, and
wt ese•ei•ieeani tor the rights arid inekeendence lit othreStates,
must eapuse the whole of Europe to renewed scenes of plunder
aad devastation.

" However general the feelitsgs of the Sneer, igns may be in
ilastot;r of . the restoraroa of the King, they no i.therwise seek
to inil .once the proceedings of the French in the choice of this
or of any other tlynat•ty, or form of GJvcrqinent, than may be
essential to the safety and permanent tranquillity of the rest of
Europe; such reananabte security being afforded by France in
shw asitett, res other Ste:6Bl*my a legaiiinate right ao claim ht
their arm defence, their offset w:11 be masked ; and they
oblll joyfully return to that state of peace, which will then,
and then only, be open to (Kenn, and lay down these anus
which they have only taken tip for the pui-pose of actin ring
that iransp.illi.y so eagerly desired by them on the pan ut their
"evacuee Empires._

avy I.ore, are the getirral sentiments of the Sovereigns
an i of their Mitiisten here aasenibled ; and it should scam, th.t
e giuricrus forbearance observed by them, when mistrrs of the
Friatch capital in the early part at the last year,. ought to prove
to tte French, that this is not a war against their inceJom and.
in 'v.rt o.troce, or excited by any spirit of ambitiou, or ii. sire of
conquest, Ina one arisirg nut of nrceistty, urged on the principles
of self-preservation, and (sounded on that legitimate andincon-
trovertible right cif Obtaining reasonable security fur their own
tranquillity and Independence—to which, if France has on her
part a ciaim, other cations have an equal tide 'to clam at the
Lands at France. _ _ _

" 1 this day laid before the Plenipotentiaries of the Three
Allied Powers in conference, the Note proposed to be dahvered
Span the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of the 25th
larch. After the opinions which I have detailed as those with
terhich the Allied Sovereigns are Impressed, with respect to the
ebiect of the war. it is scarcely necessary for me to add, that the.
explanation afforded iu this Note, as the construction put by his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent on the eighth article of that
), was favourably received. Immediate instructions will
cnisequently be issued to the Ambassadors of the Imperial
Courts of Austria and Russia, and to the Minister of his Prussian
is-ajesty, to acceet of this Note ou the exchange of the ratifies-
lions ut the •Ireaty in question.
" In order to be assured that I have advanqd Nothing in this
diva ch which does not accord with the Vit:Ws 91 the Cabinets
of the Allied :sovereigns. I have acqu tinted the Plenipotentiaries
al the high Allied Powers with the coutents thereof, and have
the honour to inform you, that the. sentiments contained in it
entirely coincide with those of their respective Coarts.—l have
the bower to be, &c. (iiEned) et.sNc.tarr."'
OVER'CURE FRC)NI DONAPARTS.

LETTER FROM M. DZ CAULAINCOUKT TO VISCOUNT
CASI'LZHEAGII, DATED PARIS, APRIL 4..

" MY Loan—The expectations which induced his Majesty
the Emperor. my August Sovereign. to subnitt to the greatest
sacrifices, have not been fulfilled; France has not received the
pette of the deviation of its Monarch : her hopes have been
lamentably deceived. After unite months of painful rfistraint,
'er sentimenta, concealed with regret, Dave at length nrsniiested
themselves in sit extraordinary manner by an univirsal and
spolitantous impulse, she has declared as her deliverer, the man,
trout whom alone site can expect the guarantee of her. liberties
and independence. lhe E:nptror has appeared, the Royal
Throne has fallef:, and the Boterbon family have gutted our ter-
ivory, without one drop of blood having been shed for their
delei ce. Borne upon the arms of his people, his Majesty has
tiaversed Fiance, from the point of the coast at which he at first
tone •rd the ground, as far as the centre of his capital, even to
that residisee which is now again, as are all French hearts, filled
with our atarest remembrances. No obstacles have delayed his
lklttlesty's triumphal promo: from the instant of his relanding
upu., French ground, he resumed the Government of Ids empire.
11.' a. c. ly does his first reign appear to have been for an instant
interrupted Every generous passion, every liberal thought, has
• railo.d ..round him ; never did any nation present a spectacle of
more awftd unanimity.
" flee report of this great event will have reached your Lord-
ship. I stat conusianded teannounce it to you, in the name of
the Emperor, sod to request you will convey this declaration to
the kt.ow ledge of Lis Majesty the King of•theat Britain, 'your
Abgust Master.
64 I bis Restoration of the Emperor to the Throne of France Is
for Juni the most br iliantof his triumphs. His Majesty prides
Jinsos,li above all, on the reflection, that be ewes it entirely to
th. kite of v.e Freud' pnuple, and he has no o:her wish than to
:slay so* a/Egoism no loom by the trophies sf vain ambition,