Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-11-11
Report made to the Emperor, By the Minis
ter Of Foreign .9fairs.
PANS, June z, 1875


| PARIS, June z, 1915.
SIRE-The expose which had the no
nor to submit, on the 18th of the month of
April, (a) to your majesty and the council,
upon the state of the relations of France
with foreign powers, has, up to that period,
made known how far the dispositions of the
greater part of those powers had been from
a concurrence in the moderate and pacific
sentiments of which your majesty had given
to them the example. The same difference
has since continued to manifest itself. Eve
ry thing, on the one side, has for its object
the maintenance of peace on the other,
| every thing breathes war. On the on hand
are seen the most tranquillizing explana-
tons : on the other, declarations which cha
racterise the most open state Of hostility !:
here, all the advances which the national
dignity ought to permit there, disdain-
ful refusal to reply, which common deem
cy ought to have prohibited in brief, in all
the proceedings of your majesty, sincere
desire to prevent the renewal of the Gala
mites of Europe and in those of foreign
cabinets cold indifference to the fate of
nations, making, to all appearance, assport
of delivering over to the extravaganza OF
individual passions all the chances of the
future. This glaring contrast cannot fail
to strike in lively manner enlightened
men OF every country, and above all the
French people, who are such good judges
in cause to which they have united all
their destinies.
| Four nations, in particular, present
themselves to us under menacing aspect {:
England, in her quality of natural and
! constant enemy of the French power.
Prussia, who, by too rapid growth, be-
ing thrown into cOntactwith our territory,
fears the establishment in France of any
authority capable of repulsing the inva-
sions # an unlimited ambition.
Austria and Russia seeking to prevent
a rupture between themselves by their
agreement in war of which they hope the
results will furnish the means of promoting
a concurrence of interests and of inhu-
ence difficult to reconcile.
We had allowed ourselves to think that the
frs declaration of The congress co. was The preS.-
pltate work of confused feelings, WHICH =; IN a,
were unable TO RESTRAIN Self love every M, :,
tive of vanity and PRIDE, were thrown into ar ION
and produced as 1t were oy surprise, ali inyoIun
tary remuneration taxaspegs- ed also by theii
connexions old s..Trnoslties reassumed their for
| ner VundICtIveness but il was permitted TO hope
NC wisdom would finally succeed in MAKING
herself heard in their councils, and that the pas
| ssns gradually subslding, they would be induc
ed 10 listen to the voice of reason Your males
ty was pleased to cherish tins hope, and it is moi
without regret that you find yourself compelled
10 redouiicc IT.
Such is almost the inevitable consequence OF
actng upon first impressions. The difficulty OF
| retracing false step, induces them TO go for.
ward and the mlserIes oftne people ought no
explain 10 the world the pretended infalllbIlty O,
princes. In other respects, demons rat,ons OF
enmily, carried beyond certain bounds sometimes
serve 10 disguise deliberate combinations, and
IN that case, hatred Itself becomes u subject OF
calculation. 1t Is, ncontestibly, from thls dou.
bic principle that proceed the determlnatl ions OF
the allied powers
The first consequence of their declaration OF
the 18Th March was the CONCLUSION OF the treaty
On The 25th OF the same month. The one and
The other OF these were directed by the same spl.
rit. Although it has been pretended IN England
that al that epoch the powers supposed that the
royal court would have quilted PARIS, positive da.
ia, drawn from the dispatches themselves of the
pieupotatiaries of France at the Congress, have
made known to your M, esy the fals ty of tins as
sertlon. Ii was then, stIlI passion which on tbe
18th ut March, signed treaty at Vienna; but Il
was cold blood which RATIFIED 1t at London on
: the 9th of April
| Public OPP mon has already pronounced final
! judgment concerning the nature OF thls conyen.
ton, the nsldous tenor OF winch rel terates with
OUT ceasing, tine name Ofpeace, IN order 20 found
upon 1t declaration of war To represent th,s
convention a renewal of the treaty OF Chau
mont, (c)ls masterpiece ofrldlculous REASONING.
which pretends to find IN the substance of an &C,
to which the peace of PARIS has ef, nothing but 2
defensive character, the elements of an agrees
sIve alliance.
have the honor to place before the eyes OF
your majesty this convention of the 25th OF
March, accompanied by some observations IN up.
on those points which are the most shocking and
the most contradIc cory in the stlpuiauoHs OF
which 1t IS composed, and IN the motives allede.
ed TO justify them. The substance of all the mo.
tlves IS a prodgIous affection of lnquIetude for
the future and from these fears tor posterlty
they draw the inference that It is necessary "a
disturb the present generation. They disguise
the attack under the mask of defence they con.
ceal the sword behind the buckler.
III we are authorised to believe that il is the
chsgrin of deceived presumption which retain.
some cabinets in the false route in which the,
have engaged their soyereigus, there $ one OF
them upon which these secondary causes do not
operale, and rom which profound policy con
stantly directs all Their proceedings. This cabi
net is that OF London. Its politics have inyaria
1 -
| ca The expose referred to has already beer
published in the newspapers ofthe United States
| C6) Denouncing Napoleon as an outlaw and
| giving him up to the vlndictive fury of the peo
pie II has been published
4 Co The treaty Of Cbaumont was entered into
between the allied powers in the year 1914, and
by each Of them was 20 furnish contingent OF
troops to form an army to prevent the encroach.