Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-04-06

ted, that no negotiation was entered
with tat government, and as the NJ
quis OF Lansdown observed, that !, Sr
| matter OF notoriety, that the provis;." -
government offered to negotiate, il W."
ne understood that such offer was ma
a refusal, to which Lord Liverpool ass. W
ed. His Royal Highness the Duke of e.
SIX also asked a quest ON RESPECTING ~
holy league, as it had been termed We
treaty between Russia, Austria, and p.N
STA, which we published a few d ,ys SIM
and Lord Liverpool admitted that trees
| OF that nature was signed at Paris ny
document was likewise alluded to ;n,
House of Commons, by MIR. Broueh,S
who justly inferred, that more was me-
by it, than was Immediately apparen,
The learned gentleman also adveited r.
still more important document, wb;ot
forms prominent point in the secret n,
tory OF these negotiations, namely, a fra
ty between Austria and France, and
which third power (not namely is STAFF
to be party, the stipulations of which A..
said to be intended rs guarantees ag:,;n..
Russia. The existence of such a trea..
Lord Castlereagh did not DENY. II ,pG
thus be seen that voluminous as the name
are that have been laid before Parlamen,
the whole case arising out of the late ne
gociations, is not brought forward, and
that questions of the highest importanrs
remain altogether unex lained. 1t is mn,
| little singular, that the convention os1
Paris, the construction of which involves
matters of high interest, has been altooe
Their omitted in the documents commune.
ted, and that it has become NECESSARY
to make specific motion for its prn.
duction.
The nation is already aroused from one
end OF the kingdom to the other, on the
subject of the Income Tar The univers.i
feeling is, that in attempting to impose it a.
gain, Ministers break their solemn hYo,,ise
and cannot again be trusted, either on tbis
or on any thing.
Marshal Soult, it is said, has received
an invitston to enter into the Russian SER
vice, and many other Frenchmen distin-
guished by their talents for command. or
for military administration, have been
pressed by the Emperor Alexander to set.
tie In his empire. Several persons who
have cultivated the sciences with distinc
ton, have also been invited, under very
encouraging circumstances, to settle in
Russia. Lacep~de, the naturalist, aud
Chaptal, the chemist, and ex-minister Of
the interior, have declined the Invitation
and are preparing to set out for the Uni
ted States of America. Several other lit
erati mean. it IS said, to pursue the same
destination. Such are tn, results of that
narrow policy, which is warning against
every thing and every person, that is dis.
tinguished for liberality in France.
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Another day has passed without any ar
riv of Frra h papers. Three days Jour-
nails are now due.
Some further discussion took place last
| night in the House of Commons respecting
the treaty signed in January, 1915, against
Russia, to which it is now openly stated g.
Britain was party. Lord Castlsreagh
endeavored to get rid of the subject by as
serting that it was mere historical fact.
1t is fact however, of too much curiosity
and Importance to be passed over with that
Indifference which his Lordship chooses to
affect.
A new embassy to China is on foot, Lord
Amherst to be the Envoy.
Two Hamburger Mails arrived yester-
day. The papers mention that Prince
Leopold, of Coubourg, the intended Con-
sort of the Princess Charlotte of Wales.
was about to setou for London, in conse-
quence of the arrival of a courier from
hence. The following was the preamble
to the publication of the Holy League at
St. Petersburg:
ST. PETERsBURG, Jan. 49,
The FLOWING is the Manifesto which his
Imperial Majesty published on Christmas
Day.
by the Grace of God, We, Alexan-
der the first, Emperor and Autocrat
Of all the Russians, &c. hereby
make known
AS we have seen from experience,
and from the unhappy consequences that
have resulted for the whole world, that the
course OF the political relations in Europe
between the Powers has not been founded
on those true principles upon which the
wisdom of God in his revelations has
founded the peace and prosperity of all ma
tons:
1--WE have consequently, in conjunction
VITA their Majesties the Emperor Of Aus
tria, Francis the First, and the King of
Prussia, Frederick William, proceeded to
form an alliance between us, Ito which the
other Christian Powers are invited To ac--
| cede,) in which we reciprocally engage,
both between ourselves and in respect to
| our subjects, to adopt, as the sole means to
attain this end, the principle drawn from
the words and doctrine of our Saviour Je-
sus Christ, who breaches not to live in en-
nifty and hatred, but in peace and love-
We hope and implOre the blessing of the