Star. — 1815-04-29 (London, England)

XVIII. who Nall desired to be a party to it. The Allies declared, that the restoration ot the House of Bourbon was the direct object of the war. Great Britain said no, and declared so for fear of misleading. It was not contending whether the executive government of France should be imperial or r oyal ? but when it came one step farther, it said to France, 44 True; but we won't interfere with the form of your government, but one particular man shall nut he your Ensperor." If the question were viewed ab.tractedly was there any casuist so subtle, any politician so h 2. wildered, as to take a distinction that we did not in. terfere with the PM of a government, we only intafered with the man whom the nation had elected to the head of it ? Suppose the case your own ; suppose at the time of our Revolution any nation had presumed to say to us " you shan't have any man of that family ;" and yet this was the very purpose for which Ministers were wing to commit the country in a war, which there was no man who did not acknowledge that if it were not successful by a certain time, it must be given up. An anathema against Bonaparte was an anathema against millions of people, and the Declaration of the Allies had dis. gusted every independent man in the nation, and caused him to feel shame that the hand of the Duke di Wellington was subscribed to it. It preached up the doctrine of assassination in so many words ; it declared Bonaparte to be out of the pale of civil society, had rendered himself liable to public vengeance, and had destroyed the caly legal title on which his existence depended. What was this bat saying, for him there is no law, no protection; for you who may choose to take his life, you may plunge a sword through his body with impunity, in. asmuch as be is the disturber of the repose of mankind ; and therefore you need not fear p7inishrn: nr, but will entitle yourself to the thanks of maratini.l ? Under this declaration, would not any man be !Intl. fled in bringing him to immediate execution without the form of a trial ? The present afforded us an in. fr the fi time the history of the wrrld,  • E;. • • 1.1, Ll • , . I EJ r•  decided upon in their stance, for the first time in the history of the wrrid, they should adopt as ne- of a war against one man ; for what was Bon-yam:a e whimsical. description power unless supported by the people of France ? to give of his amend- The tint article of the Treaty of Vienna pledged the im ; it was, however, no Allies to nuke tlie resources of their respective States request to the Regent, against the designs of Bonaparte, and the whole was night be taken as would written in the spirit of murder and assassination cf rof the country, and its the Declaration of March IS. It pledged the Allies to us peace in preference to the sf union of all their efforts against Aim, and against tans any thing by this, it all who have already joined his faction, sr should kn.. to resolve such an Ad. off join it, in order to force him to desist from his uld of coarse advise it. projects, and to render him unable to disturb in fun of the House, when cure the tranquillity of Europe and the general peace, moment when Ministers under the protection of which the rights, liberty, and use hopes. and holding independence of nodose had bees tecently placed it power, that the Noble and secured.* He ogled the attestant of the House decided upon fAking the. to the eritiatitel Mows of the bluer pan of slue •