The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-07-19

.s5Strdet Of IMPORTANT Parliamentary IA
rsrs.
CORRESPONDING ON ALLIANcE AGAINST
FRANCE.
Ylscoun! CistieyeGgh 70 tAe earl of Cl1nccr-
~, dated Foreigi, Office,
April S, 1915.
Ny LonD,
herewith inciose copy of an
Overture this day received from NJ. de Cau-
iincourt, with the answer returned. You
viii communicate the same 20 the allied So
vercigns ao<i plenipotentlares at Vicuna, for
their I'M rnat0o.
lhave the honor TO be, &c.
(Sigued) CASFLERLACIS.
Earl Of Claucarty, &c.
2Ae Earl Of Clancarty 70 yis4pu-c Castle
TcdSh.
NIENnA. May 6, 1915.
AdverIng to your lordship's dis
patch, No. 8, and to it's several enclosures.
conveying proposal made by the existing
government in France, aud Your lordshipis
answer thereto, have the honor to acouaint
yon, for the information OF his majestv's po
Ternment, that at a conference held on the
Cd instant, his highness prince Metternich ac-
1uainted US, that vi. de Strassant, who had
been stopped on his way hither, at I.ntz.
from noe having bsen furnished with prorer
passports, mad addressed q letter TO his Inn
perial majesty, & Herewith forwarded some
unopened letters which the emperor had
directed him to Lnsesls in the presence of
the plenipotentaries of the allied powers.
These proved to be a letter from Roma
parte, addressed to his majesty, PROCESSING q
desire to continue at peace, to observe the
calculations of the treaty OF Paris &C. and
letter from M. de CaulinCourt to prince
Niette.nich, containing similar professions.
After reading these papers, it was consid-
cred whether any, and what answer should
De made thereto, when the general opin-
ion appeared TO be, that none should be re-
turned, and no notice whatever taken of the
proposal.
Upon this, as ihdeed upon all other occa-
sions subsequent TO the resumption of authori-
ty by Bonapartc, wherein the present state of
the continental powers, with regard to France
has come undSC discussion, but one opinion
has appeared TO direct the councils of the Sc
yeral scvereigns. They adhere, and from
the, commencement have never ceased to adj
here, to their declaration of the 18th of March.
with respect to the aceua, ruler OF France
They are in a state of hostility with him and
his adherents, not from choice, but from ne
cessity, because past experience has shewn
that no faith has been kept by him, and that
no reliance can be placed on the profession of
one who has hitherto no longer regarded the
most solemn compacts than it may have
suited his own convenience to observe them :;
whose word, the only assurance he can af-
ford of hispeaceable disposition. is not less in
direct opposition to the tenor Of his former
life, than it is TO the military position in which
he is actually placed. They feel that they
should neither perform their duty to them
selves or to the people committed by Proyi-
dence to their charge, if they were now to
listen TO those professions of desire for
u, l,oxv
themselves thus to be luiled into the SUPPOSE
zion that they might now relieve their people
from the burthen of supporting immense mill
tary Masses by diminishing their forces to a
peace establishment. Convinced as the seve-
raj sovereigns are from past experience, that
no sooner should they have been dsarined
giau advantage would be taken of their want
of preparation, to renew those scenes of ag-
eression and bloodshed, from which they h ad
hoped that peace, SO gloriously won at Paris,
would long have secured them.
They are at war, then, for the purpose of
obtaining some security for their own indie
pendence, and for the re-cenquest OF that
peace and permanent tranquility, for which
the worl! has SO long painted. They are not
even at war for the greater or less proper
ton of security which France can afford
them Of future tranquility. but because
France, under its present chief, is unable to
at Jrd them any security whatever.
In this war, they do not desire to interfere
with any legitimate right of the French "a c.
pie they have no design to oppose the claim
of that nation 20 choose their own form of
government, or intention to trench, in any re-
spect, upon their independence as great &
free people but they do think they have a
right, and that of tile highest nature, to con-
TEND against the re establishment of an indi-
Viduai as the head Of the French government,
whose past conduct has invariably demonstra-
Ted, that in such situation he will not suf-
fer other nations TO BE- at pcace-whose rest
less ambition, whose thirst for foreign con-
guest, and whose disregard for the rights and
independence of other states, must expose the
Whole OF Eur pc to renewed scene of plumber
and devastation.
However general the feelings of the sove-
riggs may be in favor of the restoration OF
The king, they no otherwise seek to influence
the proceedings of the French in the choice OF
tils or of any other dynasty, OF form of &C.
vernment than may be essential to the safet;
aad permanent tranquility of the rest of Eu-
rope such reasonable security being afford
ed By France in this respect, as other states
have a legitimate right to claim in their own
defence, their object will be satisfied and
they shall joyfully return to that state OIL
peace, which will thea, and then only, be o.
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