Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-11-11


moment So much of sol;citude for the
rights and Independence Of nations, when
those sacred rights have no attack to
Gcead>
Are they not the same princes who, af-
ter having called all the nations to arms,
der the preteXt of delivering them from
tne yoke of France, have crushed them by
the weighs of domination. more odious
than that which they have pretended 10 de-
stroy ?
Are they not the same princes who, to
the 31st OF March, when thcrc still eXis-
ted national army, laid snare for the
French nation. by the promise to respect
In 1t the right of giving itself constitution,
tor the purpose of Imposing on it govern
ment under which, in place of this consti-
tu'ion, the nation had no alternative but to
accept the charter which it pleased that
government to grant ?
Are they not the same princes, who, de-
stioying the hope which they had gwen to
the Gcnoese, of receiving national exis-
tence, have made this ancient republic
province OF the King OF Sardinia
Are they not the same princes who, Sc
condeI in their efforts against France BY
the states or Germany, have attempted, by
way OF recompencc for their sacrifices, to
despoil them Of all those rights of severe gn-
ty secured 10 them by the Golden Bull, III
guaranteed by the peace of Wcstphalia,
and Which were also preserved in that
Conf d ration of the Rhine Which has
been represented as SO oppressive for
ihems
In five, arc they not the same princes
wheat having at Leips derived so much
advantage from the detection of the Saxon
troops, were willing, as a finishing stroke
to the pertidy of their politics, to erase
Saxony from the list of nations, and COM
pei the most virtuous of kings to descend
from his throne d q not the English and
Austrian ministers OF foreign affairs. by
their notes of the 10th and ed OF October,
sign the entire spoliation of the Nestor of
sovereigns ? And if public indignation at
that time, set some bounds to their nius-
tice, have they not, nevertheless, torn from
him nearly half of his dominionSl
The note of prince Metternich, of the
Oh OF May, contains nothing more than the
particular assent of the Austrian cabinet to
the INTERPRETATION given to the treaty of the
25th of March, by the explanatory areticI
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 tn have added some weight TO their
FIRST declaration. Reason is confounded,
and seeks in vain to find in it motives of a
nature to serve as basis for its conclusions.
The whole may be reduced to the asscr-
tion, that the title of your majesty to reign
over France, is not legal, because it does
not please the potentates t recognise it as
such. In announcing that they respect the
VIII Ut France, they reserve to themselves
the right of protesting against the use
which the French would make of their lib
erty. Certainly, this right to protest a.
gainst the acts of nation would be lee;tl-
the day when the use she would make
OF her liberty, should be to attack the
rights Of other nations but when, immov-
able IL the circle which has been prescribed
TO it, the French nation only occupies itself
with is laws and domestic interests, by
what tile do the potentates believe them
selves authorised to place 1t under tlre an
athena of a nlUrderous protestation, to give
effect to which, million OF men are to be
put in motion?
To support the efforts Of the continental
powers, the Treasury of London has been
GRAINED to pay the ccmbatants. Never,
at any period, did the English government
submit to such oncrous engagements. In
dependently of the exhorbitant sums with
which it has charged itself to compensate
the potentates, Independently OF the obi
cation which it has contracted to keep on
foot COCO effective men of English troops,
il furnishes the money necessary TO keep
up a separate force OF 100,0 900 men Of Rus
slams and German soldiers so that the
contingent of England may be considered
as amounting to 10000 men. Ia the mere
manner Of furnishing this contingent may
be seen that practice for so long time
condemned by public opinion, so dishonor-
able for cabinets, but too often resorted to
by them, of selling to England the blood
Of their people, and of placing in a horri-
bic balance, the men of the continent and
English guineas. communication of Sc
verai treaties Of subsidy, was made 10 par
lament on the 22dof May; they were pre-
coded by u message from the prince regent
on the Dist, which annex hereto. II has
been Lu6ASAed in tie United States.
Your majesty will remark that this mes
sage is conceived in the same spirit, and
almost in the same terms, as that of the
5th OF April last. 1t still repeats that it is
tie evcntS zOhich hare recently tux 81 Mace
~ France, in c0ntraUention Of tie freafy
concluded az Paris, that have occGsioned
the preparations for aggression as if
treaties which trace lines of territory, pre-
scribe any other duty to nations, than that
Of remaining within the limits which are
assigned 10 them as If the treaty Conclud-
ed at Paris in 1914, had imposed upon the
French people the obligation to preserve
forever, the form Of government which ex-
listed at that epoch. If, by the treaty of
the 3Oth, of May, France had submitted to