Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-05-24
Foreign Intelligence.
Note of Prince TaNeyrand to Prince
.Hetter7,ich, dated Dec. 10, 1914.

have fastened to fulfil the wishes
of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, ex.
pressed in your highness's letter, ard
have transmitted to his most Christian
Majesty the confidential Note which you
addressed to Prince Hardenberg on the
10th inst. and which you officially COM
municated to me. To prove the satisfac
ton which the resolutions announced in
that note will give to the King, it is sufii
cient to compare them with the orders
which his Majesty has given to his Am
bassadors at the Congress.
|" France had not to bring thither any
views of ambition or self interest.-Re
placed in her ancient boundaries, she no
longer thought of extending them, like the
sea which makes no imoad on its shores
but when it has been reused by storms.
Her armies loaded with glory, no longer
aspire after new conquests. Delivered
from that oppression of which she was less
the instrument than the victim, happy on
having recovered her legitimate Princes.
and with them, that repose which she had
reason to fear forever lost, she bad no
reclamations to-. make, no professions
which she wished to form she has not
put forward any, and she will not.
8. But it remained tor her to desire
that the work of restitution should be
carried into effect for tie sake of all Eu-
rope, as well as for her own that the spi-
rit of revolution should even now and
forever cease; that every legitimate right
should be rendered sacred, and that eve
ry Kind Of ambition or enterprise should
find both its condemnation and a perpe-
tual obstacle, in an explicit acknowledge
ment and formal guarantee of those We
ry principles, of which the revolution had
been only long aid fatal oblivion. This
wish of France must De that OF every Eu-
ropean state which is not self blinded
without such an order of things none car
deem itself for a moment CERTAIN as to
the future. Never was n0bler object
presented to the Governments Of Europe:
never was such result more necessary;
and never could the hope of its attainment
be SO strong, as at a period when all
Christendom was for the first time sum
moned to f1rm Congress.
g Perhaps it would already have been
completely attained, if, as the King had
hoped, he Congress on its first meetings
had by laying down its principles, liked
the limits. and traced out the only road
by which it can be reached. Doubtless,
in that case. we should not have seen
more powers employing that as pretext
for destruction which can only have con-
servation for its end and object. Ger
tainiy, when it was the spirit and mean
ing ofthe treaty of the S0th OF May, that
the ultimate result of the proceedings of
tie Congress should be real and dura-
bic equilibrium, it was not then under
stood, that territories and nations were to
be thrown into one single mass, in order
to be afterwards divided according to GER
tain promo, tons. It meant that every le- |
climate risI,t should be respected, and
tat vacant territories, (that is without a
sovere;on) should ie distributed in con-
form.ty to the principles Of political e
o,lilibriu.n. snd, which is the same thing, |
to princirlas conservative OF the rights of
each, and repose of all.
(. It would besides be very strange
error. to consider the quantities which
political ar:thmeticians number out, as
tbe only element Ct this equilibrium
Athens. Observes Slontescuieu, lad with
in herself the sane physical force both |
when she ruled With SO much glory, and
when she was in base Subsection. The |
balance Of power would be mere idle
words. if it be separated not from that |
ephenelal aud deceitful force which the |
passions nroGuce, but from the true mo-
raj force which consists in virtue. But
in the mutual relations of states, the first |
virtue is justice.
{: Penetrated with these principles, the |
Kingias prescribed it to ms ambassa-
doris as an invariable rule, to pursue in
preference to every thing, that which is
lust. never to swerve from it in any case
or upon any account whatever-never to
subscribe to or acquiesce in what is con-
trary thereto; and in order OF legitimate
combinations, to adhere to such as may
most effectually contribute to tile esta-
b!ishment and maintenance Ut a real e.
quilibrium.
:. Of all the questions to be discussed
at the Congress, the King would Fave
considered as the first, the greatest the
nest eminently European, beyond all
with any otlers-that OF 70
Ial.d, had it been possible for him ohore
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