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FRANKFORT, AUGUST 12.
Preparations :,ve making for assembling the Diit
of the Germanic Federation, which is to meet at
Frankfort on the In of September. Deliberations
on the affairs of Germany will be resumed there.

HANOVER, AUGUST n.
report is in circulation that the Kingdom of Ha.
Roder will have Viceroy, who will reside in this city.
it is likewise said, that Hanover will have an Order
of Knighthood of its own, for the reward of distin-
guished services.
WARSAW, AUGUST s.

The Polish Deputation co his Majesty the Emperor
of Russia, our King, has departed for Paris.

VIENNA, AUGUST 16.
EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROAI PARIS, DATED
AUGUST 10.

" The arrogance of the Bonapartists is without
bounds ; but why should they act otherwise ? If
one of them jostles an Officer of the Allies in the
Palace Royal, he quietly walks on without-murmur-
ing, thus justifying the old proverb, that to make a
German angry you must give him two boxes on the
car, and if you want to put him in a violent passion you
most give him lour—nor is this all, whenever the anger
of Providence has thrown down these Frenchmen ,
our t ulers lift them up with the greatest pity and the'
most affecting politeness, accusing themselves of their
awkwardness in having run over them. It is so natural
and hum me to let them, though vanquished, pass
forconqucrors ; and th...y are conquerors, for the
so quest with arms is only the roughest kind, and in
the war of the understanding the diplomatic leaders
ate alway-s beaten, howe%er brilliant may be victories
gained by the Generals. In this Fouche is a master,
and knows so well now to command his people, that
it is amusing to see him.
" Gruner, with a few assistants and little money,
h employed to establish a kind of counter.police
against him, who can dispose of half a nation, and
oi the treasures of so many robbers, who are honoured
and feared—he must laugh when he sees such nma-
sures, and hears the half dozen clerks so busy about
1:13). The King has nothing to do but to distribute
the order s of the Holy Ghost and the Lily, which is
d.lne so liberally t:- at the last is given to shoemakers,
tailors, and boys .1 ten years of age. The Boor-
bonists still retain all the miterer of old times, and so
do not st e the abyss which their attentive servants arr
digging under their feet."

EXIIIACT l'itoM A PRIVATE LETTER FROM! BALTDIO4

OF THZ 2D OF JULY.

" Here, as every where else in the United States,
there is an ahs.tlute schism between the French of the
Roya;i:t party, aid those who adhere to Napoleon ;
th:y h lee even gtae so far as to fight several duels.
With ti ese patties the Americans side, according as
they are the friends of either. The public paper fflat
favour tie one or the ocher of these partie
the effervescence, and take no pains to aliay the u
tions among the fcreigners. The liberty of the pi -ss
is can icni to an extreme in the United States, and it is
the papers that in s ate measure regulate the steps of
the authorities, or, at leass point out to them such or
such a measure which it v:ould be proper to adopt.—
The American papers are the oracles of the people,
and the thermometer of then passions. It seems that
the Brntapartists are in this country superior both in
number and boldness.

They do not hesitate to bestow upon their ad-
versaries the most opprobrions epithets, who in their
turn call them soi-dirardi. Many Americans execrate
the white cockade as much as the King's enemies do,
and this animosity is carried so far, that even children
are encouraged by their parents to run and hoot after
dyne who wear it. White cockade has thus become
a term of reproach in the mouth of children; he who
vicars this distinctive mark of royalism, if he should
attempt to tike refuge in a house, would not be re-
ceive,t, at least by any democrat, and even a fede-
ralist would liard:y venture upon an act of humanity
to save from a mob of children the person exposed.
Frenchman, known as a royalist, would not dare
to go with the white cockade to the suburbs of The
town where he resides, without being under continual
apprehensions for his safety; he passes with fear a
French coffee-house, where he perceives a groupe at
the door ; in a word, the citizen of France, whose re-
ligion is not that of his common fellow-countrymen,
has nothing to hope from them in the United States;
he may at his ease vegetate and die there—it is an
enemy less, and that is all.

" Th.! French Consuls themselves dare not display
the trial k which ought to make their character re-
spected, when it is the Royal Government that they
represent. But it they adhere to that of the usurper,
the tti-coloured cockade is a passport to such as re-
sen.l)le. them ; they have no kind of correctional police
to exercise against those who disturb the peaceable
titizen, and their jut', action •has. no known extent
hitherto, since the rethip of the King in 1814.
" The Consuls sent to the-United States by Louis
XVIII. having le :rne I before they felt France, the
return of Bopaparte, have not dared to make them-
selves oificiZy known.
" The whit- flag of the frigate that arrived at Bal.,
timore from Guadaloupe, was changed for the tri•
cnlused flag without any cllEctilty. Thus then when;
those in autoority are guC•,,- of the first infidelity to,
S .vereign. the conduct of the people is pointed
on: to thkm, and rebellion is the order of the day.
" It remains to he seen what measures the King of
France will take to make his autholity respected in
America ; all will depend on the choice of the Am-
bassador." •

The private letters from Paris state, that in come--
qucnce of the amount required by the Allies to de-
lta) tine expences of the war, arrangement* arc making
in France to raise a loan of 609 millions of Francs,
(nearly ,E21,0u0,000). but the Government being
-trnwi!ling to hazard so hold a prop skim', it is ex-
pected to be deterred till the two Chambers assemlslel
It is said, that to obviate all objection respecting se-
curity for the repayment of the loan, it has been pro-
pelled, that the Allied Sovereigns should themselves
btcome geiaratets, and that this pr. jfct has been lis-
tened t« w ith attention, but on the express and indis-
pensible c edition, that, eertaht duties and imposts,
conititioing the avenue .of Irtitrice, shall-be placed
its a seem ity in their hands, aria that their own Corn-
Intss:onert shall be employed to superiutend and re:
dive them: "
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57',.11-E PAPERS.
REPORT '
TO TIIE KING ON THE SITUATION OF FRANCE, AND
ON TILE RELATIONS WITh TILE FOREIGN ARMIES.' IT
FOUCIIIII MINISTER 01' TILE GENERAL POLICE.
46 SIRE—The devastation of France is at its height.
Every thing is ruiued, wasted and destroyed, as if we
had neither to hope for peace nor composition. The
inhabitants fly before undisciplined soldiers—the
forests are filled with unhappy beings who seek in
diem a last asylum—the crops are perishing on the
ground ; in a short time despair will no longer listen
to the voice of any authority, and this war, under-
taken for the triumph of moderation and justice, will
equal in barbarity those deplorable and too celebrat-
ed invasions, the memory of which is handed dawn
in history with honer.
46 The Allied Powers have too loudly proclaimed i
their doctrine to allow us to doubt their magnanimity.
What advantage can be derived from so many useless
evils ? Shall there be no longer any bond of connec-
tion between the nations ? Do they wish to retard
the reconciliation of Europe with France? One of
the views of the Sovereigns seem.d to be to secure
the Government of your Majesty, and yet its autho-
rity is incessantly compromised by the state of impo-
tency to which it is reduced by them. Its power is
even rendered odious by the evils of which it seems
to be the accomplice, because it is unable to prevent
them. Your Majesty signed as ally the treaty of the
'2sth March, and yet the most direct war is carried
on against you.
44 'Die Sovereigns are acquainted with the degree
of intelligence possessed by the French—no reason-
ing, no description of faults, no kind of propriety
escape the penetration of that people---4hough humi-
liated by necessity, they resign themselves to it with
courage. The only evils which. they cannot support
are those which they cannot comprehend. Has not
your Majesty done every thing for the interest of the
Powers and for Peace which depended on your
efforts ? Bonaparte has not only been d;spossessed,
but he is in the hands of the Alliesi his family is
' equally in their power, as it iswithin their ter, itorics.
The Chambers have been dissolved. Scent dune will
be no men in public functions, but those who may be
depended on and friends to peace.
-11 The Boaapartists were dreaded, though none of
them can any long:r be dangerous. Your Maje;.ty,
however, has on this steij(ct.granted every thing that
could be granted or renewed by way of example.—
If after. vanquishing France they pretend that it
ought still to be punished, this langwe, which
ought not to have been expected after the promises
of the Sovereigns, requires that they should weigh
well all the con:equences. For-what do they wish
to punish us ? 16 it to expiate the ambition of one
man and the evils which it has produced ? We were
ourselves the first victims, and we have 'twice deli-
vered Eurote from them. It is not in foreign coun-
tries, but in France, that terror has constantly trou-
bled his repose notwithstanding his power.
" He was never able to render the war national;
instruments are not accomplices. Who does not
know that the person sell., ext.iclses tyranny finds
always in the multitude a sufficient force to make
himself obeyed ?
46 We are even reproached with his successes : they
were compensated by a number of reverses. What
image did the announcement of his victories holdup
to. us, but that of the conscriptions which perished
and closed their short career, only to make new con-
scriptions which were again to be mowed down..in
battle ! We were saved,' like the rest of Europe, by
the same mournings and the same calamities.
46 The army is submissive to your Majesty, but it
still exists. We ought to explain 'ourselves on this
subject without any reserve. What remains of the
army is now only attached to peace and the public
tranquillity. Its state of re-union, tar from being an
evil, prevents the evil trcm extending. The return
of the soldiers into the bosom of the people will be
attended with no danger when the conclusion of the
war shall allow the pe-sple the means of resuming
their occupations and their habits, but before that
time, and so long as the fermentation is not extin-
guished nor obedience established, the mingling the
soldiers with the citizens would be only throwing
new inflammable matter into the flames.

66 It is grievous to think that this state of things
originates in the error of some Cabinets, in the judg-
ments formed by them on the situation of France.—
The fulfilr.-.ent of all their desires depends on them-
selves alone. There ate no sacrifices to which an
enlightened people will not readily submit, when
they see the object fer Which they are exacted, and
finding them the mons of avoiding greater calami-
ties. Such is the disposition, such the wish of every
Frenchman.

" But if they, on the other hand, wish to obtain
preparatory intasnres tor• unknown plans, they de.
mind a thing irupos3ible. There is no Each thing
as blind obedience in !•r.tnce. The Powers have not
yet published any of their designs; no one knows
what idea he ought to entertain of the Government,
c•; the authority of your Majesty, or of the future.—
Anxiety and suspicion are at their height, and every
thing appeal-1 a subject of terror in the midst of this
obscurity. But a single word would change every
dispcnition ; there would no longer be an obstacle to
an/ measures, if they made a part of a general plan
wnich should altogether afford some conciliation to

" Let the Sovereigns then deign to explain them.
selves. Why will they persist in reio.ing this act of
justice ? Let them deign to bring forward all their
demands as so many conditions of the repose of the
nations, and let our concession to their views make
part of a reciprocal treaty, and there will no longer
be any difficulties.

" The Sovereigns do not, perhaps, sufficiently re-
mark the circle of embarrassments and obitacles in
which they place both us and themselves. We require
good order to second them, and their explanation to
re.estahlish good order. Are they desirous of sacri.
faces winch require repartitions and prompt obedience?
It is only requisite for this pu, pose, that the authority
of your Majesty should be lull and entire, nothing is
possible, nothing can be executed, it peace does not
exist in reality, at least provisionally ; and far from
being in a state of peace, we experience all the Cala-
mities of war.
• " Let,llbe Sovereigns bestow-at least some.attenti• n

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.to their own interests. When every thing shall be
ruined and devastated around their armies, how will
they find means of subsistence ? Is there no danger
in dispersing the troops ? All arms will not be taken
away, and arms of all sorts -are murderoui in the
hands of despair. With respect to warlike contribu-
tions, what new sacrifice can be. demanded, where
every thing has already been destroyed by the sol-
- With respect to armed force, When once dis-
cipline is relaxed, it is not easily re-established.
" Germany is far from expecting, after a glorious
campaign, to receive back her soldiers, corrupted by
a spirit of licentiousness, rapine, and pillage.

" This war ought to have been in every respect
distinguished from others, instead of imitating and
surpassing in France the excesses against which the
Sovereigns took up arms—Will their glory even be
satisfied ? On our part we have dune whatever they
desired ; and on their part every thing which had
been announced to the world is fulfilled, one point
excepted. What a contrast between what is actually
passing and their solemn promises I This is the age
of reason and justice, and the public opinion never
had more power. Who tan explain such excessive
evils after such promises of moderation ? The pre-
' sent war was undertaken to serve the cause of legiti-
macy. Is this manner of carrying on war calculated
to render the authority of your Majesty more sacred?
41 They were desirous of punishing the individual
who sported with the calamnies of nations, and they
inflict on France the same violence, the sam' inho- ,
manity. It was thought by all Europe that t'.e entry
of the Sovereigns into Paris would put an eal,i to C:•..
war. What will Is- thought on learning that it was
then only that the excesses of oppression commenced
without combats, and witlren resistance ? The evils
which we are reproached with having• inflicted on
others, were never so great ; they never took place
when the use of arms had no object ; and though it
were trite, that we had given the first examples ut
such an abuse of force, ought they to imitate what
they impute to us as a crime ?
44 It is known in the North, it is known in Prussia,
that ciur want of'mnderation gave birth to energy
and public spirit in our enemies. 'There will no
longer he any end to the evils of humanity, if mutual
vengeance. are to become the rule of war, fur nations
never die.
44 Your Majesty will deign to permit me to insist
on me final consideration—So long as France shalt
have any thing to preserve, by the hope of maintain-
ing its integrity as a nation, no sacrifice will b.
and all the plans of an equitable policy may
be executed ; but the day in which the inhabitants
shall have lost every thing, in which their ruin shall
be consummated, a new order of things—a new se-
ries of events will be seen to arise, because there will
no longer be either Government or obedience. • A
blind fury will take the place of resignation. They
will only seek counsel in despair ; on both sides there
will be ravage—pillage will make war on
Every step of the foreign soldiers will be marked
with blood. France will be less ashamed of destroy-
ing herself than in allowing herself to be destroyed
by others ;—the moment approaches ;--already the
national spirit takes this frightful direction ;—the
most opposite parties are blending into one—La
Vendee itself unites its colours wito those of the
army. In this excess of evils what line of conduct
remains to your Majesty but that of removal? The
public functionaries in the cam: manner will quit
their places, and the armies cf the Sovereigns will
then be at issue with individuals freed from An social
ties.

s, A nation of SO millions of inhabitants may un-
doubtedly disappear from the face of the earth, but
in this war of man to man, ;he oppressed and tlwir
vanquishers will lie t.gether in more than one grieve.
,(Signed) Foucfi

We have also r,-ceived the Answer of the French
Ministers to the Otlicial Note addressed-to them by
timed the Allied Powers, nem- three weeks past, in
which they appoint Military Governors, and order
their troops to be dispersed over the Provinces.

ANSWER OF TIIE FRENCH MINISTERS TO THE OFFICIAL
NOTE OF THE ALLIED SOVEREIGNS. •

N The King's Ministers have received the Official
Note addressed to them by the Ministers of the Al-
lied Powers. The latter wish to persuade the King's
Ministers that the measures which they have com-
manded to the Government of Paris, are such as may
contribute to diniiniai the exactions of the war, and
to re-establish the Royal Authority. The King's
Ministers, however, unfortunately, cannot regard
these measures in that point of view. They owe it
to tl,e Sovereigns, to France, and to themselves, to
explain themselves tin this subject. The Sovereigns,
Jrubtless, are the masters, and can do whatever they
desire, but at any tee let them not say, that in taking
every step calculated to ruin the cause of his Majesty,
they wish to confer any favour on him. There is al-
ready in France too much odium and ill will against
the Bout bons, to render it necessary still more to revolt
every heart by making the nation experience the
greatest losses and the deepest humiliations. What
humiliation can be more afflicting than to see in a
time of peace all the departments subjected to your
Military Governors—what misfortune more to be de.
precated than the dispersion of your troops over the
whole face of the country ? The Sovereigns declared
that they only made War against Napoleon, and yet
all their measures belie their words,• since at the pre-
sent moment, when the war ought to be finished, it
is only about to commence. The present position of
France is so much the more afflicting, as were war
openly declared (which it is'not), it is utterly impos-
sible that she can suffer in a greater degree all its
evils, and all its horrors. Every where, wherever
the armies are (always excepting the English), pil-
lage, fire, rape, and murder, have been carried to
their fullest extent; avarice and vengeance have left
nothing for the officers or soldiers to desire. To speak
with freedom, they exceed even the atrocities of which
the French armies have been too often justly accused.
The measures, however, alluded to in your Note can
have no other results than to extend the limits ot this
devastation. The armies spread themselves iri our
Provinces, and all the horrors which we have depicted
follow in their train. `;:u.li are the sentiments ot the
King's Ministers on the new Deem, and their answer
to the appeal which f ben made to them.

" They have the honour w silt:oo6hr themselves,
" With the highest conlideratian,
" TA il.ka RAND,
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