Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-10-04

'he safety OF Ecrope, which could never be fran
All or happy while single legitimate sovereign
was not in possession of his states Now, howe
yer, the treaty of Fontainebleau no longer exists,
and her imperial highness the archduchess Maria
.onsa has no right or title TO the three sIuchies
N like manner As the emperor OF Austria has no
reason fcr continuing 20 occupy them, nor to re.
ceiye their revenues, while the soyereipns wI,,,
derived them from Nelr ancestors, are wan
derers, and owing their subsistence 10 the rene.
rosi,y OF their relatives. As It is high time this
state OF things should cease, the ,rl,le signed re-
quests frnce Me;ternich to lay tins reclamation
peiore ms imperial majesty whose love of justice
IS SO well known that II Is impossible the k,np
81 Entrilria should not obtain from it that which
- due; or that ifany unforeseen obstacle prevent
ms imperial majesty from dong this, Prince Met
erhcn VIII have ne goodness to TX an early day
Tor submitting the contents of this note to the
congress, the undersigned being unable to believe
.nat tie powers who signed and published the
'eciarausn OF March viii refuse TO put in execu-
'ion ai essential part of it, CIRCUMSTANCE which
would furnish the malignant, and the partizans
OF 'ie usrrper, with reasons for hoping that the
same thing may happen as 20 other matters
INC Spanish plcnpotentiary might complain of
the strange turn which has from the first been
even to his reclamations in favor of the House OF
rarfna He might remark, that in the confer
e',ce OF me 10th OF December, a committee, of
'strt, WAS appointed TO dis
cuss me business, and that this committee has
never met thing unexampled in all other con-
Sresses' and even IN this one, so extraordinary in
,'l'u.yfespec's. That project having been given
py member OF the committee i'm January to
rr'nce Metternich, herepled thereto by coun-
er project winch was officially communicated
70 me undersigned, who accepted it in substance,
a'u sent IL 10 has court. That the latter deemed
|. very extraordinary that il was refused to re-
s.ore 70 'ne King ofEtruria the city of Placenta,
tne only point OF the three Dnches which Austria
ciaiiheo 70 retain, and that because Placentia was
II was sad, military point; as If a power which
hau - millions of subjects had need of military
positions against a neghbor who had not 200, 600,
OF as II the treaty of Paris, which is TO remain
untouched, had not fixed the Pc as the boundary
OF Austria In fine, that on the occasion of the
ssid counter project, the undersigned was order
ed by ms august severe On to insist on the entire
restitution the three Duches, and to sign no
contrary convention, nor the treaty which is to
efmnate the congress, without this preliminary
cohdtlon, IN the like manner rs the protest which
ne made ON the union of Genoa to Sardinia Ru,
Ill these observations become unnecessarv in con-
sequence OF The declaration of the 18th of March.
ana Its execution, in rs far as concerns the deyo
luton OF the three Duchies to his Majesty the in
ant Dor Charles Louis, speedils repairing the
wrongs which his Majesty has had hitherto to
complain OF, VIII impose on the undersigned tn.
agreeable necessity ofkeeping silence both with
regard to these facts, and the cause to which they
owe their origin.
lie pegs his hghness Prince Met.ernich to ac
cePt inc assurance of his high consideration
loigned) p. GOMEZ LABRADOR