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:THE STATESMAN.

and that any thought, any threat, any attempt Complete ♦iolation of the engagements entered into; return, as it is expected' they will• do, to just and
against the life of a Prince at war with another, is a- with him, and resigning himself personally to the moderate sentiments; if they acknowledge. that the
thing unheard of in the history of the nations and fhte prepaied for him, td abandon'also his spouse, his ..existence of France in a respectable and independent
CalOopts of Eulopii. , son his family, his faithfullernitits, td their fright- ; state, as far from conquering as from being conquered,
"By the le Tel desti; ? Ifr cl,-nrittating as from beil subjugated, is neces.

.sy the violence, by the anger, by the. neglect , my . .rom dominating as i..... Jsig , ijugak ..,
of principles which characterise the Declara:iou of I, 66 Such a resolution seems beyond thee enclorance, sary to the balance of great kingdoms, and to WE
March 13, we recognize the Envoys of the same of human nature; and yet Napoleon would have 1 guarantee of small states. •
Prince—the organs of the same counsels which, by embraced it, if the peaie and happiness of France I " Nothing has been changed :if respecting the
the Oidonnance of the '9th of March, also placed i bad been'the price of this new sacrifice. He would) rights of a great nation which wishes to respect the
Napnleon nut of the protection of the law, called up 'imve devoted himself for the Erench:people, 'lrma'. rights of all others, which, high-minded and generous,
against him the daggers Of assassins, and promised a, whom, afhe Will declare in the face of Europe, itritt- his been lowered but !lever degraded, they allow it to
reward to those who should brine. in his bead.
~ebbs-glory to hold every thing, whose good shall bil retake a Monarch, awl give itself a Constitution and
r•A tid, meantime, What has Napoleon done? littithetribjeet of ill his endear-ours; and to Whom alone; laws suitable to iti manners, its interests, its habits,
has honoured by his security the men of all nations j-he,will be answernble for his actions, and 'devote his and its new waritC '
who were insulted by the infaissous missioil on : life: ' I " Nothing has been changed: if they do not en-
which it ens wished to employ them ;he showed ! 66. It was for France ilone, and that it might avoid , deavoor to constrain France to submit age nto a
ilimself moderate, generous, and a protectOr even to !the evils of an intestine war, that he abdicated the': dynasty which she dislikes, to the feudal chains
those who had devoted' his head to death. I Grown in 1814.. Ile restored to the French people I which she has thrown oft, to the seignorial or eccie..
" 'When he spoke to General Excelmana, march-1 the rights which he held from them ; he left them at • siastical press, rations' from' which she has ' liberated
ing towards the column which followed near upon liberty to seek a new mister, and to found their I herself; if they do not Wish to impose laws on her,
Louis Stanislaus Xavier; tothe General Count d'Er. *liberty and their happltieSs 'on institutions for the ,to interfere with her internal affairs, to assign a form
lon, who was to receive him in Lisle; to the General , prOteetion or both. I of Government to her, to glee mesterei° her to satisfy
Clausel,who went to Boardeant,wherethe Duchess of i 46 Hit hOperi fot the nation the preservation of all, •the pleasure or the passions of her neighbours.
Angorilerne was; to Geer:rid Grouchy, who marched , that it had acquired in 26 years of combats and. 46 Nothing has been changed: if when France is
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to suppress the troubles excited by the Duke of An.; glory, the exercise of its Sovereignty in the choice, occupied with preparing' the net* Soiial Pact which
goilleme,—every where, in short, orders were given ' of a dytoasfv, and in the stipulations of the c.-ntli-'shall guarantee the' liberty oilier citizens,. the tri.
by the Emperorthat their periotts should be respected, ' lions en which that dynasty would be called to reign.. umph of the generous ideas which prevail in EstrePe,
put in safety
,against any attack, detageN. or vlo-1 66 He eapeeted'from• the new Government the re* and which can no lenger be soppresse4, they do not
lenee, in their progress on the French territoiy,alid : 'Ott t'or'the glory of the armies, the rightilof the,. tome her to withdraw herself for hostilities from those
to the moment when they should teareit. lbravei the guarantee of all the new interests, of . pacific thoughts and means of internal prosperity, to
Nations stud posterity will judge on what side at those interests which have been in existence and sup. ! which the people and the Chief wish to consecrate
this e'en' conjuncture, has been shown respect for ported for half a century, resulting from all the po- themselves iti a happy accOrdance.
the sights of people and Sovereigns, for the rules of litical and civil laws, observed and revered during " Nothing his been chatged : if, when the French
star, the principles of civilization, the maxims of that time, because they are identified with the man- nation only delnaeds to remain at peace with all.
religione and civil law. They will pronounce be-' ners, the habits, and the wants of the nation. , Europe, an unjust coalition does not force, it to de-
tepee Napoleon and the House of Bourbon. I 46 Par from this, every idea of the Sovereignty of fend, as it did in 1792, its will and its rights, and
" If, Lifter tiering examined the pretended De- the people wag set aside. ! its independence, and the Sovereign of its choiCe.
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derision of the Congress under this first aspect, it , 66 The principle on which the whole political and ! (signed) " The Minister of State, Prebideut of the
is discussed in its relations with diplomatic Conven. moral legislation has rested since the Revolution, has 1 Seetssa of the rinattres,
firms, with the Treaty of Fontainbleau, of April 11, equally been set aside. I " Else ceu..l BEFI RMON.
ratified by the French Government, it will be found " France has been treated by the Bourbons as !al " Tie Minister of State, President of the
Section ~f Ow o The Count Itl GNAUI Dli ST. J Interior •
i,) EAN IYA.N.GELY•
that no violation is imputable, but to those who : revolted country, reconquered by the arms of its i
reproach Napoleon with it. ancient masters, and subjected of new to a feudal . " Toe Presid.nt of the Seethe' of . tegisbui a,
". The Treaty of Fontainbleau has been violated domination. " Tlie 'Omni BOULA Y.
by the Allied Powers, and by the House of Bour- - " Louis Stanislaus Xavier has misunderstood the "The' Ph... Meet of the Seeti4n of War,
bon; in what respects the Emperor Napoleon and Treaty which alone rendered the Throne of France " The Count AN DItEOSSY.
his family, and in what respects the interests and vacant, and the abdication of which alone entitled
the rights of the French nation. ; him to ascend it.
"1. The Empress Maria Louisa and her sett were , 66 He pretended to have reigned 19 years ; in.
to obtain passports, and an escort •to,seimeir to the suiting in this manner the Governments established
Emperor; but far from performing their trumise, the since that time, the people who consecrated them by
husbasni and wife, father and son, were separated , their suffrages, the army which defended them, and
nifttiejtainful circumstances, whet' the firmest mind. Bien the Sovereigns who acknowledged them in 'their
hit °erasion to seek consolation and,sopport in family !numerous Treaties.
and domestic affections. I • 66 A Charter drawn up by the Senate, imperfect
" 2. The security of Napoleon, of his Imperial .as it was, has been consigned to oblivion.
family end their suite, were guaranteed (Art. 14 of I " They imposed on France a pretended Con-
the Treaty) by all the Powers • yet bands of assassins stitutional Law, as easy to be eluded as to he re.
were organized iii France under Ike eyes of the : yoked, and in the form of simple Royal Or-
French Government, and even by its orders, as will ; donnances, without consulting the nation, without
soon be proved by the solemn proceedings against even listening to those illegal bodies, the phantoms
Sienr Demotihreuil, fur attacking the Emperor, his of the national representation.
brothels, and their wives. In default of the success! " And as the Bourbons have issued Ordonnances
hoped for from this first branch of tie plot, an incur- ' without rights, and promises without any guarantee,
:warns was prepared at Orgon, on the Emperor's they have eluded theta without sincerity.
route, in older that so attempt might he made on his " The violation of that pretended Charter was re-
life by some brigands. The Sieur, Brulart, an as- strained only by the timidity of the Government, lire
1 c'ate of Georges, had been sent as Governor to extent of the abuse of authority was wily limited
Corsica, in order to prepare and make sure of the by its weakness.
the. crime ; and, in fact, several detached assassins 66 Tire dislocation of the army, the dispersion of
have attempted, in the !bleat( Elba, to gain, by the its officers, the esile of several, the degradation of
murder of the Emperor, the base reward which was the soldiers, the suppression of their endowments,
promised them. : the depriving them of their pay or their petitions, the
" S. The Duchies of Parma and Placentia were reduction of the allowances to the Legion of Ho-
given in full property to Maria Louisa, for her- nour, the spoil of their honours, the pre-eminence of
self, her son, and their decendaiits. After a long the decorations of the feudal Nlonarchy, the con-
refusal to put her into possession, the injustice was tempt for the citizens, designated of new under the
completed by a complete spoliation, under the il- name of the Tiers Etat, the spoliation prepared and
lusory pretext of an exchange, without valuation, already commenced of the purchasers of national
proposition, or sovereignty, Berl without ber consent. estates, the actual depreciation of the anise of
And the documents in the office for Foreign Affairs those which were brought to the market, the re- ,
prove that it was on the solicitations, amity the instatement of feudality into its titles, its pri. '
intrigues of the Prince of Benevente, that Maria alleges, its available rights; the re-establishment
Louisa and iier son were despoiled. ,of ultramontane principles, the abolition of the
" 4. Et!gerre, the adopted son of Napoleon, was liberties of the Gellican Church, the annihilation of
to have obtained a suitable establishment out of the Concordat, the re-establihment of tithes, the re-
France, but he has had nothing. airing intolerance of an exclusive worship, the domi-
" 5. The Emperor had stipulated for the Army nation of a handful of nobles over a people Rerun-
the presersaiion of their rewards, given them On tomed to equality—this is what the Bourbons have
Monte Napoleon. He had reserved to himself, first, done, or wished to do for France;
to recompeese his faithful followers. Every thing "It was under such circumstances that the Em- '
has been takers away, hut reserved by the Miuisters peror Napoleon quitted the Island of Elba ; such are'
of the Bourbons. M. Bresson, an Agent_ from the the motives of the determination taken by him, and
Army, was dispatched to Vienna to assert their claims, not the consideration of his personal interests, which
but in vain. weigh little with him, compared to the interests of
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(Cmlifiett elnin,rm)
" The klio,,ter Serretar. of State.
i " The Duke DE BASSANO."
MILAN, I".vett. ,I.—A corps of the Neapolitan
army has occupied Rome. The Pope set out on the
22d ult. rifler having established a Council of Atate.
The King of Naples had demanded of the Pope a
passage through his states for two of his divisions:
his Holiness refused.. the two divisions, neverthe-
less, entered. Besides, King Joachim had many
partisans at Home, who seemed to expect him with-
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greai. impatience. ..
. The Pope, thinking that the molt prudent phivi
' was to withdraw himaelf, arrived at Florea.ee wn the-
25thr at eleven o'clock in the evening.:
Cardinal Pacca, Pro-Secretary of State, Cardinal
Opposini, Archbishop of Bologna, as well as the
Spanish and Austrian Ministers, who were at' Rome,
arrivid.en the 26th et Esoteric!. On the-28th" his
:4folifiells set' out' from Ftorehie' for Bologna. • .After
:having passed through Poona and elacentie,‘
,be or-
rived on the evening of the 31st ;at. Belgio4iososo,
where he passed the night. He is.expented tire! at
Milan, where the Archbishop's polace prepared
for his reception.
i 'The Austrian troops being taken uffirwares, are in
motion, and proceed towards the line of the Po.
A camp is formed at Placentia, and another in the
plains of Ghinni. We are assured that the Neapoli-
tans have attacked and taken an Austrian corps at
Forli, with its entire park. of artillery. ft was
yesterday preta_Oetl," that • they had Made in incur-
sion as far as Ferrars.,"(ind Oven entered the city:—
It is very certain that Joachim has frapkly-declatedj"
that he has decided triion raisiogihe standard of war,
after having seen that* was betrayed by the
whose cause he had served, and tudre particularly
after the last resolution of Congress, to restore to
the Pope those countries which. Were guaranteed to
his Majesty. The outrages which the Bourbons
countenanced (luring the last year,• the machinations
which they constantly made eserfor his dethronement,,
have determined his Majesty to display all his forces,
which now form a grand weight in the political ha-
' lance.
• The greatest exultation prevails here. A single
NMI has set in motion millions of men. The presence'
of Napoleon has reanimated every hope ; Piedmont
is not less agitated--the Piedmontese Commandant

" G. The preservation of the property, moveable the nation to whom he has consecrated his existence.
and immoveable, belonging to the Emperor's family, "He has not carried war into the bosom of France;
was provided for, but all was robbed—in France by he has, on the contrary, eatiwzuished the war•which
commissioned brigands, in Italy by the violence of the proprietors of national estates, forming four-fifths
the nii!itary chiefs. of the French proprietors, would have been forced
•• 7. Napoleon was to have received two millions, to carry on with their spoliators; the war which the
and his family 2,300,000 francs per annum. The citizens oppressed, degraded, and humiliated by the
French Government has constantly refused to dis- Nobles, would hate been forced to declare against

at Nice put under arrest a nephew. of Marshal Masi. i
sena, for having enpressed his joy at the arrival of '
Napoleon. A famine desolates the three Venetian
departments of Bacchiglione, Tagliamento, and the
Adriatic. The news of the approaching arrival of
the Austrian troops aggravates this calamity. A
Central Committee his been instituted at Venice to
afford relief to this diluter.

chsrge its engagements, and Napoleon would have • their oppressors; the war which the Protestants,
soon been obliged to disband his faithful guards for' Jews, 'and men of different religious proteossions
w tut of the means of paying them,had he not found au would have been forced to maintain against their per-
hoouurahle resource in the conduct of some bankers aecutor6.
and merchants of Genoa and Italy, who. advanced ' " hie his come to deliver France, and as a De.
t welve millions, which they had otlered to him. . I timer he has been every where received. • r.
" 8. In tine, it was. not withoot a cause that it I 7 64 He arrived almost alone ; he advanteekr 220
was desirable by every means to remove from .Nppo. ; leasers without obstacles, without combats, and has
Icon thescompanions of his glory, the unshaken sure- misstated, without resistance, in the midst of the
ties of his safety and, of his existence.. 'The Island capital and of the acclamations of the immense mo-
or Elba was sioigneci to him in pecpetiity,,bt, the ...wily of the .citizens, the throne abdicated by the
resnlution of robbing him of it was is.t,the instigation .Beerboirs, who in their army, in their:household,
of the Bourbons, tjxod upon by the clearest,— Had in the Natives! Guards, in the people, could not
not Providence prevented it,p EturopeAspeta have , arm a single person to endeamiur to maintain them
seen on ottetipt made ott the pergola nu ,iibirty ef. in it.
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Napoleon; left hereafter ae,the mercy etiNs..wisted s", And now replaced at the bead of the nation,
roies, and transporred4.fir frpm:iiis friends, i'd dot-:which bad thrice already made choice of him, and
loners, either to Sr. 'Atte, or St. deletes, which brit I, whith has it fourth time designated him by the 'mei).
b..en pointed nut as hicprison. thin which it bad given him, in his rapid and triumph.
'.' And when the Allied Po#ors, yielding 'to the I ant march and arrival ; what does Napoleon wish . .
imprside”t, wishe,l, Ce the creel instigations .of the ; from this nation—by which, and from the interest of Letters froM Haste, of the 4th irist. •state positively.
Knelt! of • BoUrbon," condeseeittled to aielale the which, be wishes to reign ? that accounts halt .bOati received from • the South of
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solemn crtract, on the 'faith .of which Napoleon 1 66 Whet the French people wishes,— i indepen. [tidy, In which it was dettlared, that tee Court of
liherated4he Prinich net' from Its oiths; when he ; dente of f rare, 'internal pears, peacapyrith
.01l Naples would coalesce With Float for the •establish-
himself and VII the Members of his family saw them. i nations, the elevation of the Treaty of l Vent of mt
Iris of the Niroom on ihti Thiene. of Chet country.
selves menaced, attacked in their pertons,''in their. 30th of bishollit4. The same advice' mention that Hip Cantons •of Snit•
properties, in ,their atfeoons, in all the rights sti...l 66 What is the change, then, which has Otto Ace zerland in getieral were favourable to the views of
pulated in Their favptir as Princes in those even se- in the-state.of Europe, and in thehopeof vise which BbilAeittie, and that` their, intentiens with regard'
cum; by the laws to.private citizens—what was Na, was proujisecl.to it ? What .voice is raisecno &mu" to hits, bid been geeitly calarepreseated. - •
poleon .10440 ? ... . . assistance, ,which, according to the Deciiiiliori, ought ,:the telegraphic communication hitt wean 'Moon,
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66 Was he, ailer'dinluiing so many offences, sup. i only to be given when called for? il. Wise and the Admiralty *He/4100d en Wediiii& '
orting A) many .act of injustice, to consent to the l " Nothing bas been changed :-. it the Allied Powers day.. .. '..
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Aram 2.—The agitation which reigns in this city
has arisen, because Gen. Belligarde
.has deemed it
his duty to place it in a state of siege; Yesterday he
instituted an extraordinary' Tribune'. Composed of
five Judges and three Military Osednll.lo try the
disturbers.
The Holy Father, who was *meted here, has
changed his route; it appears that his Holiness
would not hnve thought himself herein safety. We
are assured that the Deke• bf Afiodena had barely
time to quit his capital ;• he has serout for Vienna.
Travellers, who arrive every hourl announce that
the Neapolitan cavalry have entered Modena and,
Reggio. Gen. Frimont is about to set out ; he :191
appointed General in Chief of the Austrian army in
Italy. Gin. Coati% ftentrati..is every .moment eg-
pfcted; he is to replace .I.4en.'l3ellegatde in the ge-
neral Government of Italy.

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