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London, England, 1815-02-20 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAP,Eia. .

BRUSSELS, FEDWARY 14. •
The Paris Journals have announced the ialcing. of
Rome by the Neapolitan army, the retreat.of his Ho-
liness to the Cutle of St. Angelo, and many Other'
'events which are mere fables, destitute of all founda- '
tion. We regret having noticed these reports, which
are spread in Paris out of malevolence. We have
before us letters from Rome of the 24th of January
his Holiness had officiated the day before in public at
St. Peter% amidst an immense crowd of the faithful.
Every thing was perfectly tranquil at Rome when
these letters cause away.
Some French papers continue to publish articles,
sometimes under the head of Antwerp, sometimes of
Ghent, of Louvain, or of some other town, which
sewlto he dictated by the spirit of lying and perfidy
which reigned under Banaparte. These reflections
occur on:lading in the Ginseng de France of the loth
instant, an extract from a private letter written from
Ghent by Si Flemish Magistrate : this pretended letter
is a forgerafgoirsthere cannot be in Flanders, I wilt
not say a trate, but any man so stupid as to
combine ignorance and imposture to such a degree.
Here is the proof—lt is asked (says this letter of
French manufacture) where is the deliverance, and
from what are we delivered ? certainly it is not from
the &sits mail, nor from the conscription, nor from
the contributions, *cc. _

We know not whether we ought most to admire
the fully or the ill faith of such an assertion. What !
a Paris journalist dares to tell us, that the conscrip-
tion exists in our country, and he h4s the impudence
to attribute this imposture to a Flemish Magistrate.
That is too much. No one is ignorant that onr na-
tional army is recruited by voluntary enrolments;
that all chase soldiers who leave foreign service to re-
turn to their country, may go to their own homes, as
soon as they have set foot on their native soil. The
military service is free in the strictest sense of the
term.

It the droits rural:, now called the indirect taxes,
still exist, they are greatly diminished ; viz, salt
under the French Government cost 45 cent:mies a
pound, now it costs 10. On the other, h.ind, the
spies, the informers, the worthy retinue of the an:
cleat administration of the droits remit, have disap..
eeared with it. You asked from what are we deli-
vered ? I answer, from your chains, your dungeons,
your usoveable columns, which filled our country
with despair, from the proscription of our venerable
bishops, from the infamous treatment shewn to the
young men of the seminary at Ghent, kom the hor-
rible abuse of all kind of pow's% we are delivered
also from a certala proprietor the Gaseite de 'mow.
who made Antwerp and all Zealand tremble by the
arbitrary measures of hir police.
To hear you, one would 'apprise that in your
happy France, there were no *as retails, no •contri-
butions,*and that manna falls in ithondance from
Heaven for the fortunate inhabitants.
IF I remember, hoviever, the Ceunt d'Artois,
the, .of his Majesty Louis XVIII. when he en-
tered France by the way of Alsace and Lorraine, did
proclaim with that noble generosity which distin-
guishes his character, the abolition of the bait
but we know that the King has not confirmed this
measure. Have we not lately seen courts of justice
in Burgundy bring actions against persons who re-
fused to pay the draft: rola, which they thought
abolished ? These facts are nut communicated to us
by magistrates of Lorraine or Burgundy, but merely
by the newspapers. •

TrAIT PAPER; .
NOTZ OF PRIKII 614%11211MR% CHAWCILLOR OF PRUSSIA,

TO PRINCI 111117TERNICH.

The undersigned, Chancellor of State to his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia, and to whom the Emperor
of Russia' as condescended to grant an interview, on
the arrangements to be adopted in regard to the Du-
ch); of Warsaw, hastens to communicate theiresults of
that conference to Prince Metternich,. In order not to
expose ad object of such high importance to the um
certainty which might result from a verbal converser
don, be has thought it his duty to commit to writing
what he then said, in the adjoitied note of the 2d of,
Decedsber (No. 1.) On the 10th of December he re-
ceived front Prince Metternich.thereily (No. 2) with
the schedules annexed.
The contents *of this note,' in as far as Aigards
Saxony, were the Mbre calculated to surprise the un-
dersigned, inasmdch is they are discordant with de.
claratums previously made, both viva voce and in
writing, particularly with the Adjoined paper of
Prince Metternich, (No._ S.) Bithis Note, as well
as by that of the same date, to .Lord Castlereagh,
and containing absolutely the same declarations ai the
'nose No. !1.,. tbv Austrian Court gave, under' certain
conditions, its consent to the union of all Seemly' with
Prussia. In consequence the undersifir has been
the more astonished At this change of guage,. be-
cause it is now recommended to leave only a portion
ofilaxony to its Sovereign, as a means of conciliation
to satisfy all parties, while at the same time it is wished
to retain four-fifths of Saxony, and to leave only one
part to Prussia.
The undersigned confined himself on the alth of.
December to the making of snmeremarks on all this,
adding, that be fek lumself under the necessity of
demanding from the King, his august master, pre-
cise in:unctions, before being able to make any alter.
rior declaration. lo the interval. Prince hletternich
gave him to underst3nd, that what was offered by
him as to Saxony, was not to be considered as an
ultimatum.
It was primarily nircepsery to rectify the tables an:
"end to the note of the 10th Decembei. With this
view is faithful statemt•at was given in (N 0.5.), which
proves completely that Prussia, instead of having, ac•
cording to the said tahls, a greater population than in
1805, would have a letd by more than 4200"0.
Seedily herielt is most materially interested in the
clecision.• The Most powerful reastine operate against

het belay Wowed down—the welfare and tke
of the nation, the word of the Emperor Alexandtr,
the interest of Prussia, as well as that of all Europ
Hitherto it has never been denied, that in order io
maintain a balance of power and tranquillity, Prusst
must be strong. The wish is, that she should
ha
such extent as may give her the means of self-defent %
ansleihich way not send her in perpetnol search
"aggeaitaisement to maintain the, force indispens.tb -
to her defence.
Treaties, also,Tive her assurance of the number
inhabitants which ;he had in 1805; it is true they Li y
nothing of the precise p/;:sessi ; but they se
recur
t
her at least a State geograplin:. ees'llY
spects: Justice demands that she-eis..?"ld be rei,„orc
unded ;all r.
in the same manner as all the Allies are: s" 'z"`
otl:cr States have been. Where is she to pi ocr.s.Z-'. 44:
this, unless the whole of Saxony is given to ha !
Ifsiould be expedient, in every point of view, cc
found another establishnient for the King of Salotty
and his successors. His ulterior existence in &son,
presents a situation which, far fronibeing satisf...ctt tr
to himself, could, on the contraly, only be bunt,:
some and precarious: His possessions "would be
ways cramped by the two barderingpoteers,
and Prussia. The inhabitants of the territory Mac:.
h- might retain would necessarily by in constant IN
latioitship with those of the ceded portions ; which,
would occasion disputes and.discontents equally pit.
judicial- to the Sovereigns and tiiefr subjects. Jr
would become the centre of intrigues and tai lc,
which would incessantly endanger the internal nab
quality of the two States, and even the haus ny
which should always reign becweses Ausuia A 261
Prussia.

The Kik; of Prussia has offered, und.n very caw
conditions, Munster, Paderbore, and Corvey, v.!1.1
a population of 310,00() tool', in order to form t;
establishment ;Nulled for the House of SAxony.
Should these offers apprAr insufficient, the unln•
signed is charged to prrpose possessions of twice
their extent en the left bank of the Rlii le, anti 17s
which there is a city calcul.ited to form A very aArr r.
able residence. Luxembourg would in tli3
become a fortress common to thew..ole Gam
Confederation.

•In the Note of the 29.3 of October, Prince Met:
nich consented, in the name of his Sovereign, undo
certain conditioni, that all Saxony should be uniteti
to Prussia. He confined • himself to expressing a
wish that a portion of Saxony bordering on Bohemia
should be retained to its Stivereign. The imporC,,i7
lity of acquiescing in this:with was set forth. The
possession of a considerable country. whose inhabi-
tant's profess the same religion as the birg, was
lered as an alternative, whirl,. in point of power,
would give him rank imroediatelf-after- Baden a..
_welLas.a.asote.in.a.be.ferse4eitheil—of-tire-enntet4r.l-

Lion, it-being evident that the sitnationof this district
.of tOnjitrY isfitheiVlnalgailiaingiraraCCNOSirlf-lhe
subject of continual Jealnysy between Prussia and
Austria; it would thus be preferable in every view to
his retaining part of-Barmy, which would 4 qc less se-,
cure and independent: -
May I now be permitted to examine thicanilitiens.
on which Prince Metternich gave.hiseensint • .-
1. That this object should remain_coopeclsadwith
the other territorial arrangementstnr-etermenfilhat.
in regard to this connection, hit Imperial Majesty
aunsiders the most perfect •equilibriena- between
Austria and Prussia in Germany ns ii 1. so that
in the defensive system of Austria and hump Aei-
ther of these Powers may directly encroach on the
other. But should the equality of protection or of
influence of the two Gerinan !taws cease to exist,
his Majesty would then consider the line um the
Mein, including Mentz, as necessary for the deleire
Southernof Germany, and the security of his Mo-
narchy ; the course of the Mein and that of the
Moselle would in consequence be considered as the
southern line of defence : and the portions of territory
which might serve as indemnities or compensations
to the Princes of Northern and Sonthern"Germany
would next fall to be regulated accordingly.
2. Upder the express reservation.of airangemeats
to be concluded between the twn Powers, in regard-
.to frontiers, to the fortification of certain places, and
to the commercial relations anil free navigation of
the Elbe.

S. His Majesty reckons on the perfect agreement
of the two Courts, and their mutual support of each
other as far as relates to. the affairs of Poland.
As to the first point, Prussia enters completely into
all the views and, principles of his Majesty the Em-
peror. She is quite disposed to yield to Austria the
influence and the arrangements in questioo, both en
the left bank of the Mein and the right bank of the
Moselle, without entering into any immediate discus.
sion of the question, whether the fortress of Mentz is
more necessary for the defence of the north than the
south of Germany, The necessity of preserving it,
for the benefit of the common country, is so evident,
and so•distinctly declared by the majority of the Ger-
man Princes, that Prussia, which has never enter-
tained the design of augmenting its possessions by
that fortress, has no other with but to consider it as
a common bulwark of the Confederation- This for-
tress would be guarded by the troops of the Germa-
nic Body, and kept up at the common expense.
In regard to the second point, an engagement has
been made not to fortify Dresden. The undersigned
knows not any other frontier Point or place which
can become the subject of discussifit on this head s
but the arrangements to be made in regard to Dres..
den, to the relations of commerce and mutual benefit,
and to the tree navigation of the Elbe, are not liable
to any difficulties.
Ifs *ll4lll "I the third pOillt. Prussia has already
done pa much, as far as her means extend, that we
may hope to see it adjusted ip It satisfactory manner.
With the exec= —I the undersigned does
not know any power which has declare
against the union-of all Saxony with Prussia.
• That Power intimates it does not wish that the ft:
derAtive compact should be established en a basis.
which, by combining with it the incorporation done
of the fit it States of Germany, might give it alarm
for its own security. But was not the existence of
Germany, and the safety of its members, menaced
in a such higher degree, whet the King of Saxony
remained obstinately attached to the cause of the
enemy till the last moment I
The King of Prussia flatters himself that the Em-
peror will consent io the incorporation of Saxony with
Puna, sad will represent 4o the King of Saxony.
end the members of his. funny, the advaatajol which

they will derive from the esbabl;shmeat sterna an
the left bank of the Rhine. His Majesty desires
nothing more ardeatly thane on the ooe band to con-
tribute as much as possible to whatera nsay preserve
the union between the great Allied Powers; but on
the other he cannot consent to any arrangement Which
would impose an Prussia altM%e a permeate' sacrifice.
His majesty demands that which be sear justly lay
claim to, from treaties, and for the tarts he has
made.