The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-13 00:00:00

IUBLE FORMATION OF THE CO,
AT VIENNA.

Two documents have appeared, which are calculated
to throw au important light on the proceeding,
of the Congress at Vienna, and which we now I-
-efore our readcrs. They will see that the
Allied Powers, or rather Austria, Russia, and
Sl4, adopted an arrangement, to which Lord Coo
remits was afterwards Wetted to accede, by whicWit ,-
determined that there should be two Congresses •
secret, fur regulating the territorial distribution
themselves, of the Bitchy of Warsaw, of Berman),
of Italy : and a public one. to which, after they
agreed about tho Shares, Fiance and Spain should .
admitted.
It would seem, from the Protocol of the Secret Sitting
at which this arracgetnent was agreed on, that the High
Allies considered the deception of France to be t
tially necessary to the Caine they were then pisyit
" There would he," they say. " an extreme ineonveni.
mice in acting otherwise. ll' France is not admitted
.ater the four Powers are agreed among themselves,
mill not the less make all the objections which she
Oonceivesnitahle for her own security, and fur thegeneria
interest of Europe, but she will make no other k -
dons. But if she is present at the first discussion, ,
will take part for or against each question, whethercon.
elected with her own interest or not ; she will favour
or oppose this or that Prince, according to her parti•
ruler views, and the petty Princes of Germany will b
invited by these means, to recommence their system
intriguing and caballing. which has been in a great
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sure the cause of the misfortunes of Iste years." The._
here seem to have had their misgivings with respect
Saxony, the transference of which, they thought w
be greatly facilitated by the absence of Talleyrand.
amuse France and Spain in the wean time, it ems
sary to do something. Accordingly they determine
" that to obtain for themselves all the :itne necessary
for these preliminary discussions, the Plenipotentir
will endeavour to discuss in the wean time, and till
opening of the Congress with the two others, questions
of another nature, in which all the six hare a right '
enter, as principal patties is the discussion.
These documents speak for themselves. One .
cannot fail to strike most readers. England, which
the life and soul of the European Confederacy, till 1
the defeat of Bonaparte, seems now to he consulted 1
after the three other Allies have discussed and fixed 1
arrangements. The burden of the war and the dim,
tuition of the plunder are two distinct things, and our
high Allies knew that they could now have the latter
all their own war. The discussion became then very
simple. When Lord Castlereagh objected to the dan-
gerous pretensions of Russia, respecting Poland, "My
Lord," said the Emperor Alexander, " I have live hun-
dred thousand men there." The Emperor of Austria
had an equally cogent reason of the same kind to offer
respecting Italy: and Lord Castlereagh coald not do
less for it than sacrifice the pledges to lienos. The
schooling whirls they had had in their former partition-
ing of Poland, proved of signal use to them on this oc-
casion:—

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