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sr.ttr; PAPER.
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VIENNA,'APIIIi+ 4.
The undersigned. Ambassador Extraordinary and'
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Spain to
the Congress of Vienna, has the honour to claim that
the States of Parma, Plicentia, and Gtrastalla,
mili-
tarily occupied by Austrian troops, be given up with.
out delay to their sovereign. the Infant Dun Charles
Louis, King of Etruria, the only obstacleoPPoted
to
this act of jur.ice having been removed by the decla-
ration of Congress of the 13th of March.
He hopes that his Majesty the Emperor of Austria
will givohis orders to this effect; and this done, that
measures will be taken, without the extraordinary de-
lay hitherto experienced in this affair, for the restitu.
tinn of the territory which the French Giererntrient
detached from the Duchy of Parma to unite it to the
Duchy of Modena, and for a suitable indemnity for
that ceded to Austria by the Treaty of Paris on the
left bank of the Po.
Although the Kiag of Etruria' has other rights to
reclaim, the undersigned confines himself at present
to requiring the restitution of the hereditary states of
his Majesty, as an immediate consequence of the said
declaration of Congress in its sitting of the 13th
March. By that d:claration the Powers who*signed
the Treaty of Paris, some of whom also signed that.
of Fontainbleau, announced in the lace ut Europe,
that the Treaty of Pontainbleati, which placed Bona.
parte in'the Isle of Elba, and gave the Archduchess
Maria Louisa the three Duchies, was broken by the
escape of Bonaparte and his forcible entrance into
France.
In truth, the Powers who by the Treaty of Fon-
tainbfeau gave to the Archduchess Maria Louisa the
three Duchie., disposed of that which did not belong
to them, for military etcupatien forms no title. But
when it was wished to insist on this observation.
which admits of noleply, endeavours were made to
persuade that it was necessary to turn our eyes from
this contravention of the law of nations. to fix them
on the inestimable benefits thus procured to Europe,
which had been saved, it was said, by that Treaty.
A. single difficulty remained for solution, that of de-
monstrating that the Sovereign ot was under
obligation, by any treaty, to devote himself, for all
the other Sovereigns of Europe, and that he ought to
lose his entirb political existence to preserie that .ot
others, and esen to procure them not only immense
aggrandizements, but also the glory and the happi-
ness of procuring them for Princes their relatives,
allies, or their iarotesis.
Doubtless we must not apply to politics the pro.
verb, that 66 there is nothing new under the sun ;"
for it would be impossible to find a similar example
in the history circa of the French Revolution, though
so icrtile in extraordinary maxims and deeds. But,
notwithstanding this. the Tre.ity of Fontaiith!:,ati was
sinned by Powers so respectable. and who had deser-
ved so well of Europe, that it was proper to qmak of
it decorously, though at the same time avowing that
It attacked, in regard to tho House of Parma, the
sacred principle ot legitimacy, at the same time tisat
it founded on that very principle die restoration ot
the French Monarchy, or more properly speaking,
the safety of Europe. which coul-I never be tranquil
or happy while a single legitimate Sovereign was net
in possession of his Mates.
Now.. however, the Treaty of Fontailibleau no
longer exists i and her Imperial Highness, the Arch-
Duchess Maria Louisa has no right or title to the
three Duchies, in like manner as the Emperor of,,
Austria has no reason kir continuing tveccupy them,
nor to receive their revenues, while the Sovereigns
who derived them from abeir ancestors are wanderers,
and owing their subsistence to the generosity of their.
relatives.
. • As it is high thus that this state of things should
cease, the ttttattrstgned requests Prince Metternich to
lay this rielainauon before Isis Imperial Majesty,
whose love of justice is so well known, that it is im-
possible the Hang of Etruria should oat obtain from.
tt that which is his due; of that, if any unforeseen
obstacles prevent his Imperial Majesty from doing
this, Prince Metternich will have the goodness to
fix an early day for submitting the contents of this
note to the Coogress, the en&tigned being unable'
to believe that the Powers who signed and published
the Declaration of the 13th of March, will refuse to
put in execution an essential part of it, a circum-
stance which would furnish the malignant, and the
partizans of the Usurper with reasons for hoping that
the same thing might happen as to other matters.
The Spanish Plenipotentiary might complaih of
the strange tura which has from the first been given
to his reclamations in favour of the House of Parma.
He might remark, that in the conference of the 10th
December, a Committee, of which he formed a part,
was appointed to discuss the business, and that this
Committee has never met, a thing unexampled in all
other Congresses, and even in this,one so extraordi.
pary in many respects : that a project having been
given by a member of the Committee, in January, to
Prince Metternich, be replied thereto by a counter.
pteict, which was officially communicated ;o the un-
cle:Signed, who accepted it in substance, and sent it
to his Court: that the latter deemed it very extraore
dinary that it was refused to restore to the King of
Etruria* the city of Placentia, the only point of the
three Duchies which Austria claimed to retain, and
that because Placentia was, it was said, a military
point, as if a power which had twenty-five*millions
of subjects had need of military positions against a
neighbour who had not 400,000; or as if the 'neat).
of Paris, which is to remain untouched, had not fixed
the Po es the boundary of Austria: in fine, that On
the occasion of the said counter.projet, the under-
signed was ordered by his august Sovereign to insist
on the entire restitution of the teree Duchies, and to
sign no contrary convention, nor the treaty which is
Ito terminate the Congress. without this preliminary
condition, in like manner as the protest which he
made on the nnion of penoa to Sardinia. But all
these observations becosne unnecessary in coeseqnence
l 4 the Declaration of the 19th of March, and its exe-
cution, la as tar as concerns ;lie devolution of the
'three Duchies to his Majesty the infant Don Charles
Louis;sfiesdily repairing the wrongs which hislda-
jesty has had hitherto to complain of, will impose sin
the *undersigned the egreeable necessity of keeping xi-
lewe, both Witie mud to there facts and the cause to
which diey owe titir
Hebegs hi tbatinev Prince Metternich to accept
the assurance of Ina lsilJi consideration..
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