The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-28 00:00:00

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Feist and guarantee of the greatest Powers in En.
rope—lastly, they may be fully convinced that
Vrossia'i greatest strength will consist in the general
eqeetn and the firm confidence of all nations; and
that to those extraordinary exertions of power which
she displayed last year, she unites the greatest mode-
ration and equity, and the truest benevolence and
disinterestedness.

NOTE
OF PRIVOF. TALLEYRAND TO PIINCE METTER-
NICH. RESPECTING THF. FU URE DEsi 'NATION
OF sAXONY AND POLAND.

•
" I am called upon to reply to the intentions of
I is Majesty the Emperor of Austria, expressed in a
letter which your Highness did me the honour to ad-
dress to me, and I have submitted to the King the
Note that you transmitted on the 10th inst, to his
Highness the Chancellor of State Prince Ilardenberg,
and which you officially communicated to me.
"To prove the satisfaction given to the King by the
Resolutions contained in that Note, it is necessary
only to compare them with the orders given by his
Alajesty to his Minister at the Congress.
" I o the views which France there took, she was
aerated neither by ambition nor personal interest.
Haring retired within her ancient limits she no
longOr sought to extend them, like the sea which
never bursts its bounds but when it is swelled by the
storm. Her armies, covered with glory, required
no new conquests. France, delivered from an op-
pression of which she was less the instrument than
the victim, happy to have recovered her legitimate
Sovereigns, and with them the tranquillity that she
feared she had for ever lost, had nothing to reclaim
and no pretension to be considered. Nevertheless,
she was anxious that the work of her re-establish-
ment should be completed, as well on her own ac.
count as for the sake of Europe; that the spirit of
revolution should vanish wholly and for ever ; that
all legitimate rights should be preserved ; that ambi-
tion or ambitious enterprise, should find its censure
as well as a permanent obstacle, in a declaration and
formal guarantee of those principles of which the.
Revolution was a long and melancholy oblivion.
" The design of France ought to be, that of all
the States of Europe that are not blended by them-
selves, without such an order of things not one of
them can feel assured for a moment of its security.
" Never was a more noble object proposed to the
Sovereigns of Europe—never was the result more
necessary—and never was there more reason for
hope, than at an epoch when, for the first time, the
Sovereigns of Europe have been convoked to form a
Congress.
" This end would, perhaps, have already been
obtained, according to the hopes of the King, if the
Congress had, soon after its assembly, fixed the ob-
ject and traced the Hoe that would lead to its
attainment. Then, doubtless, we should not have
seen any Power raising a pretext to destroy that
which it ought to have been his object to support.
Assuredly when the Treaty of the 30th May decided
that the result of the important operations of the
I'. Congress should forma necessary equilibrium, and
in one mass, to be afterwards divided according to
certain rules, it had in view that every legitimate
dynasty should be either preserved or re-establish-
ed
; that all riehtt should be respected ; and that
the portions of territory without Sovereigns should
be divided according to the principles of the
political equilibrium, or what comes to the same
thing, according to those which concern the preser.
ration of the rights of each individual, and the re-
pose of the whole. It would be a singular error to
consider, as the sole element of the equilibrium, the
accounts of numbers furnished by political arith-
metic. Athens (says Montesquieu) had upon its ter-
ritory the same number of combatants, at the time
of its glorious superiority, as at the period of its
bumili.iting subjection. She had 20,000 men when
she defended the Greeks against the Persians, when
she disputed the Sovereignty with Sparta, and when
she attacked Sicily : she had the same number of
men when Demetrius Phalerius made the enumera-
tion. Thus the equilibrium would amount to. no
more than an empty word, if the abstraction were not
made of this ephemeral and illusory strength, which
gives rise to passions not calculating on true moral
strength, nhich cnitsists in virtue ; --besides, in the
Consideration of people and people, the first virtue is
juldiCe.
64 Penetrated with these principles the King pre-
icribes as an invariable rule to his Ministers to em.
ploy themselves above all in asserting justice and
right, and not to abandon them, in any case upon
my consideration ; to sign nothing, and consent to
nothing in opposition to them, and among the legi-
timate comtuations to stop at those which may con-
tribute most effectually to establish and maintain a
true equilibrium.
64 Among all these questions which are to be treat-
ed of at the Congress the King had regarded as the
first, as the greatest, as the question most exclusively
European, and with which no other can enter lute
comparison—that which concerns Poland ; if it had
been possible for him to expect as much as he desires
/t, that a people so worthy to inspire interest to all
others by its antiquity, bravery, the services it has
done Europe, and its misfortunes, could be put in
possession of its former and entire independence.
64 The partition which effaced it from the number
of nations was the prelude to the derangement which
Europe has experienced. But when the force of
circumstances, prevailing over the most generous'
and noble intentions of the Sovereigns to whom the
Polish are submitted, had reduced the question on
the fate of Polatul to a simple affair of partition and
frontiers, to discuss among the three Powers inter-
ested, in which France took no part in pursuance of
its former treaties, it only remained for her, after
having offered to support the most just pretensions,
to hope that Poland will be couteuteds that she her-
self may be so.
Vienna, Feb. 13."

In the report of the trial, CURREY v. SMITH, in-
stead of " the Stratford Coffee-house, in Oxford-
Aired," read " the Stratford Club-house, in Strat-
ford-place," as the Stratford Hotel and Coffee-house
belongs to Mr. BENNETT, and not to the Mary-le-
bonne Club.

The LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the meal-
Weighers returns, ordered the price of Bread to con-
tinue the sateen last week.

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PRICE Ole STOCKS TIIIS
Mat 237 i
3 per Cern. Red. 64 it
4 per• Cent. Comfit 3
4 per Cents. Mil
5 per Cent. Navy 95ti