Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-11-11

that the despatch addressed by Lord Clancarty
to his government runs. III this despatch. nc in
ai those which have recently issued from the Al.
lied cabinets, one finds nothing more. throurh
long crcumlocutons, than those futile Alterations
already SO often repeated, and which have for
ueir sole object to establish, that The rights and
independence OF nations are compromised by the
sMBie iact OF the return ofyour majesty. And
VINO are the irreproschable nlonarchs that show
at this moment so much OF solicitude for tho
rights and independence of nations, when those
sacred rights have no attack to dread
ARE 0hey not the same princes who, after hav
mS called all the nations to arms, under the pre-
textot delivering them from the yoke of France
nave crushed them by the weight of domination
more odlous than that which they have pretend
ed TO destroy
? Are they not the same princes who. to the Sis,
OF March. when there still existed national
army, laid snare for the French nation, by the
promise to respect in it the right of giving itself
constitution, for the purpose of imposing OMIT
government under which, in place of this con-
ttituton, the nation had 10 alternative but to &C.
cept the Charter which it pleased that govern
ment to grant
Are they not the same princes who, destroying
the hope which they had given to the Genoese OF
recovering national existence, have made OF
TINS ancient republic province of the king OF
Sardinia
Are they not the same princes who, seconded
m Their efforts against France by the states of
GermaI'y, have attempted, by way of recompense
LOT tDeir sacrifices, to despoil them of all those
rights of sovereignty secured TO them by the
Golden B"l q guaranteed by the peace of West.
Phana, and which were also preserved in that
confederation of the Rhine which has been re-
presented as so oppressive for them
In hne, are they not the same princes who, at.
Ter having at Leipsic derived so much advantage
rnfra 49,, - al.
wiling, as finishing stroke to the per6dy of
,neir politics, TO erase saxony from the list of ma
TONS, and compel the most yrtuous of kings to
descend from his throne Did not the English
and Austrian ministers OF foreign affairs, by
thelr notes OF the 10th and 22d Of October, sign
me entire spoliation of the Nestor of Soveregns :
AND ifpublc indignation at that time set some
pounds to their injustice, have they not neverthe-
less, torn rom him nearly half ofhis dominons
The note of prince Metternich, of the 9th of
May, contains nothing more than the particular
assent OF the Austrian cabinet to the interpreta-
lion gwen to the treaty of the 25th of March, by
oe explanatory article Of England
As TO the declaration OF the 18th of the same
month, it being the common work of the allied
powers, it would seem that it ought to have add
ell some weightto their first declaration. Reason
is COMPOUNDED, and seeks in vain to find in it mo.
tives of q nature to serve basis for its conclu
SONS. The whole may be reduced to the asser-
ton, that the title of your majesty to reign over
France is not legal, because it does not please the
Potentates to recognise it as such. In announcing
that they pect ie will of France they reserve
TO themselves the right OF testing against the
use which the French would make of ti,cc': Lber-
w. Certainly, this right to protest against the |.
acts OF a nation would be legitimate the day when
the use she would make of her liberty should be /
20 attack the rights Of other nations but when.
linnoVeable IN the circle which has been prescri.
49,, .. g. .se inch nation only occupies ITSELF
Ni,h its laws and domestic interests, by what
tide do the potentates believe themselves autho-
rzed to place It under the anathema of murder |
protestation, to give effect to which million
Of men are to be put in motion
To support the efforts of the continental pow
ers the treasury of London has been drained to
paw the combatants. Never, at any period, did
the English government submit to such onerous
engagements. independently of the ex rbitant /
sums with which it has charged itself to CON-
pensate the potentates, independently of the OBJ
legation which it has contracted to keep on foot
$4,000 effective men of English troops, 1t fur.
nshes the money necessary to keep up separate
force of 100, 900 men, ofRussisn and German sol |
diers so that the contingent of England may be
considered as amounting to 10000 men. In the
mere manner of furnishing this contingent NAV
be seen that practice, for so long time condemn
ed by public opinion, so dishonorable for cabinets,
but too often resorted to by them, of selling TO
England the blood of their people, and ofplacing
in a horrible balance the men Of the continent
and English guiness. A communication of Sc
yeral treaties Of subsidy was made to parliament
on the Odd Of May they were pFoce eded by a
message from the prince regent on the 21st
which annex hereto. Il haa deen published IN
NE United .SiGtes1
Your majesty viii remark that this message is /
conceived ia the same spirit, and almost in the
same terms, as that Of the 9Th of april last It'll
Sill repeats that it is the events which have re.
GENTLY taken place in France, in contravention of
the treat concluded 1T Paris. that have occasion
ed the preparations ior aggression as iftreateo
which trace lines OF territory prescribe any other
duty TO nations than that Of remaining, within the
limits which arc assigned to them as ifthe trea.
~ concluded at PARIS in 1914 had imposed IN.
on the French people the obligation 10 preserve
forever the form Of government which e5 sted at
that epoch. II, by the treaty Of the 3Ou Of Nav,
France had submitted TO such conditions then
France would have been enslayed, anal the con.
sequences Of that enslavement, which would have
resulted to the interior administration, would in
DO wise have been obligatory on her but when,
in fact, there exists no stipulation of THIS kind,
how can it be said that France, exercising ia.
Guilty which is without rslation Of dependence or
analogy with respect to public law, has infrnged
a treaty which, by is nature and its object. is
compreheuded within the limits of that law
Poland presents a noted example of the consc.
quences Of foreign Intervention in tie internal
afaifs of nation, and the deplorable result is
boz t01 eel known.
The feigned iuquetude Of the allies at the eff.
feels Of tie return OF your Majesty their appa.
fent zeal for the defence of nations of which they
only are the oppressors, will not Izisead the well