Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-01-25

ions in the Congress of Vienna, relative
to the completes and universal abolition in
the trait; of Negroes of Area anu hav-
ing already in their several states inter
DICT d their colonies and subjects f. om 90.
ny part whatever therein, engage anew TO
unite their efforts in order To ensure Tue
final success of the principles which they
have proclaimed in the declaration of the
18th February 1915, and to concert without
loss of time, by thcir ministers at Lordon
md Paris, ON the most ellicac,ous measures
tpprocurs the comp exc and deEnitive abo-
luton OF Il commerce as odious as il is high
ly reprobated by the laws OF religion and of
nature. The present additional article
shall have the same force and validity as if
1t were inserted verbatim in the treaty of
th's day.
In faith whereof, the respective plcnipo-
tent aries have signed these presents, and
have hcreunto affixed the seas of their
arms.
Done at Paris, the Goth November, year
of grace, 1915.
Signed, &c.
On the same day, in the same place, and
at the same moment, the same Treaty, to-
gether with the Conventions and Articles
thereunto annexed, was signed between
Lf0HtC anu bJCQt-SnfsUW, france ana
Prussia, France and Russia.
DUKE or RICHELIEU'S SPEECH.
The following it the Speech of the Duke of
Rchelieu to the House of Deputies, on
the 20th, on presenting to them the trea--
ty Of the Allied Powers concluded ON
the Goth November, and VIII ch IS alluded
DIN the Paris article fthe 18th, trans
lated for our st
Such are the stipulatiors, to which the
Ministers OF the King have thought that
they could no longer refuse to subscribe.
The engagements which France has cou-
tracted, are the inevitable result OF the ex-
traordinary circumstances, in which, by the
fatality of events she finds hersef placed {:
in different position and in other times,
we would not present to the house any
thing but one of those acts, the series Of
which generally uniform, composes the
historical body of the public law of nations :;
and we would make it our duty to discuss
all its articles we would take pleasure in
explaining all the motives of every orc of
them but 1t Is not so in regard to the
transaction, which we have to present to
you. France is affected /; she ought ne
cessarily to be effected /; by the situation
in which each of the parties finds itself res
pectively placed, as by interests aud
considerations, which result from state of
things unheard of in history, unique in its
nature and which ought to be so, in its con-
sequences.
After twenty-five years Of troubles and
disorderly efforts, which by an unnter-
rupted succession of iuvasions, of couuues;s.
and OF distinctions renewed without ceas-
ing, have indstinctly threatened the pc
litical existence and even menaced the co..
cial organization of every state; the res
toraton OF the legitimate monarchy of
France was the prelude of the peace of the
world: our independence, cur territory,
our external weight and our real resources
had not suffered any important alteration.
The SovcrcignS Of Europe fe icitated them
selves at the happy reconciliation, which
was about to establish between France and
other nations, that conformity of princi-
which had become by happy concert.
the most assuring pledge of the franc u;lity
and prosperity of al.
The work of the public felicity was
proceeding every day towards psrfcc-
ton, when an alarming crisis, sudden
ly arose to suspend and to arrest its pro.
gress.
An army almost entire, detached from
its legitimate sovereign, who alone had the
right To dispose of it, separated by the per-
hdy of some chiefs, and by delusion with
out example from the nation out of whose
bosom it bad been formed, an army whose
Courage was employed in imposing an u
supper ever France. and an oppressor over
Europe, has provoked the contest which
has brought, beth upon itsrif and upon us,
all the disasters and all the calam,ties
which have followed it.
The hi 8, IS n sovereign, and France as
a state, did not cease to oppose itself, to
his culpable movement ; but by a combjn
alton perhaps unexampled, while the mil
itaFy faction despised the voice of the one.
and betrayed the sentiments of the other.
both were reserved to suffer both the eff
forts of attack and those of resistance. and
the brilliant succt sses and the prodgious
rcverses which have characterized this
short and memorable campaign.
Such are the events which have wrest-
ed, in measure, the actual destiny Of the
STATE from the cOntrJul of its own govern
ment. 1t has been obliged to compound not
only with the pretensions. but with the a.
larns with which this fatal rebellion has
inspired Europe, unable either to contenn
or to balance either TIE ncontestible SUI
periorlty which demanded some painful.
though in great measure, temporary
sa rfices. 1t has seen in those necessary
fees. the only means of arriving at
that period Of hope, after which all France
sighed, and which at last VIII permit her
to enjoy in peace ahd with safety her per-
manent advantages.
Far from us, gentlemen, be the impru-
dent thought of forming for TIE present, or
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