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fact, altered the position in which he wasat wa the itace of Europe and the happinea of wiip feESToii. j v '.
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Foreign.
r- - ; , oilEVTy MAY 23.
The king of France js finished collecting a
jound bint all the foreign ministers who com
posed the diplomatic body at Paris. Baron
Vincent, minister plenipotentiary of Austria,
Baron YValtersdorff, minister of Denmark, and
I. de Signenl, Swedish charge dfoffaires, haye
riecntfy arrfvJ,d liatl Jienee of his ma-
CONGRESS OF VIENNA. . '
Extract from ' Minutes ;"af Conferences ,of the
Powers who sighed the Treaty of Paris.
' - Conference of May 12, 1815
The committee appointed on the 9th inst. and
charged to examine, whether, afte thiJ events
. which have passed since the return of Napole
on Bonaparte to France, and in consequence of
the documents published at Fans on toe ae
chration whieh the powers issued against him
on the 13th March lasr, it'would; be necessary
to proceed to a new declaration, presented at
the sitting of this day the follo wing report :
Report of the Committee. The declaration
published on the 13th March last against Na
poleon Bonaparte and his adherents, by the
powers who signed the treaty of Pri&,Jiaviag,
ince his return to Paris, been discussed in va
rious shapes by those whotuheas employed
for that purpose : these discussions haviae ac
quired great publicity, and a letter addressed
by hint to all the sovereigns, as well as a note
. addressed b j the duke of Vicenza to the heads
ef the cabideti 'of Europe, having been also
published by him with the manifest intention of
iiinaencmg and misleading public opinion, toe
committee appointed in the sitting of the 9th
inst. was 'charged to present a report on these
topics; ami considering that in the above-men
tioned publications, it has been attempted td in
validate the declaration of the 13th of March,
' by laying it down, ' .
j. That tb declaration, deereed against Bo
apiTrrestntK'pejri coast ol France; Was without application, now
ttat he has Idid hold of the reins of government
-wit how 4fjA rf'SMtiiimad tm fket atif-
ficieutly provmg the wishes of the nation, he
! had not only re-entered Into possession of his
old rights, in regard to France,, but that the
question even of the legitimacv of his govern
ment had ceased to be within the jurisdiction of
the powers:
2. That'by offering to ratify the-treaty of j
Jrans, he removed every ground of war against
him: . ., .
The committee has iieeri specially charged to
take into coi-sideralion ' '
1. Whether the position of Bonaparte in re
. gard to thn powers of Europe has changed by
the fact of his Arrival in Paris, and by the cir
cumstances that accompanied the; first success
of bis attempt on the throne of France ?
2 Whether the offer to sanction the treaty
of Paris, on the3l6t of May, 18 14, can deter
mine the powers to adopt a system different
from that which they announced in the declar
ation of the 13th of March ?
3. Whether it be necessary or proper to pub-
litary eoftspiraeiof by revolting troasonsi.-can
create nomrht : thev are absolutely nun in a
legal point of view; and in order to the posi
tion of Bonaparte being esseittfally and legit
imately altered, it would be necessary that the
steps which he has taken to establish himself
This
Paris :
on the ruins of the government overturned . by to aboliuh it, it to. break this treaty. The or.
him, snoald have been eonnrmed by some leeai mai eouarm oi me rrene naiion to tne return
oi ouunue i me tnrone wouia oe equivalent
to a declaration of war against Europe ; for
the state of peace didnot exist between Eu
rope add France, except by tlu- treaty cf Paris,
whhplhiy granted tea gverinoen which, jtttrtefttedfurnislf the ftjgwtrJd Ihelast
while offering to Europe a pledgeofieaurity question irhicfi remains to Be examined. It cou-
ana siaoiiiiy,rciievea mem irom requiring iromisiaert,
France the guarantees which they had demand-! ,t That tie declaration of the i3th of March
wis dictated to th powers by reasons of puch,
ed : under its former government." (6).
clause is inseparable from tHe treaty of I
Bonaparte lays it down in his publications,
that the wishes of the French nation in favor
of his re-e6tablishment on tho throne suffice to
constitute this, Iegat title. ,
The question tor the powers to examine may
be stated as follows : Can. tho eonsent, real or
facXkious ernlieit irtaeiti of the French m-
tton to the re-establithmeBt of Bonaparte's
power, operate a legal change in the position
oflhe latter, in regard tojToreign "powers ij and
form a title obligatory on these powers ? -
The committee are of opinion that such can
not by any means be the effect of sueh consent:
and the following are their reasons :
The powers know too " well the principles
which ought to guide them in their, relation
with an independent country, to attempt (as it
is endeavored to aecuse them) " to impose upon
it laws, to interfere in its internal affairs, to
prescribe to it a form of government, to give it
masters according to the interests or passions
of its neighbors." (2.) But they also know that
the liberty of a nation to change its system of
government must have its just limits, and that
and the treaty of Paris is incompatible with the
power of pom
'. m ml. I
Iftl
apatrtcu
ainar had need of further sapport,
l n4in me vyer u souy
to rattV the treaty of Paris. . 'i bis ineaVU
been scrupulously pbs
transactions of the congress of Vienna were
only its supplements and developments ; and
without the new attempt of " Bonaparte it
would have been for a Ions series of years one
of the bases of the public right of Eu-
evident justice and such decisive, weight, that'
none of. the sophistries by wLich it is pretended
to he attacked cat at all affect it : . ,
, S. That these rcMons remain in all their force
and that the chanees which have in fact oenr
red since the Declaration of the isth of Maeh"
naje produced vt alteration is the positUn of
BoTiaparte and of France l with rejtard to the Al
lies.
if foreign powers have no right to prescribe to (It is not to prevent war, for France has in fact
it the exercise which it shall make of that li- i rekindled it, it is to terminate it that there now
; k.-Tbt the f itftfigjw J Pari.
Therrfoe7theCommtttee fs ef; oplaioa iliat
it would be oseless tb publish a fresh declara
tion... . ' .V,.."-., . .., $
The Plenipotentiaries of the powers who
signed theTreatyof Paris, and who as sueh
are responsible for its execution with
up. w.v .i. ut in ill uau ji t u iuc at ccuitlg JT VtrS, HaVlflg InKing intO CODSl-
place to a new revolution ; and the agents of deration, and sanctioned by their approbation
this revolution, although they proclaim inces-' the preeediog report, have resolved, that there
santly " that (6j nothing has been changed," shall be made to the. Plenipotentiaries of the
conceive and feel themselves that 'ail is chang- other, royal courts a communication of the mi-,
ed around them. The question is no Ion- nutes of tfiis day. They have further ordered,
ger the maintenaoce of the treaty of Paris, but ; that an extract of the said minules shall be made
the making of it afresh. The powers i find them-' public.
selves, with respect to France, in the condition! Here follow the signatures in the alnh&betieal
in wuicr luey were on me ist oi iviareu,
berty, they have at least indubitably the right
t protesting against the abuse which it may
make of it at their expense. Impressed with
this principle, the powers do not deem them
selves authorised to impose a government on
France; but thiy will never renounce the right
of preveptins the establishment in France of a
focusvof disorders and of subversions to othgr
slates, tinder the title of a government. They
will respect the liberty of 1 ranee in every way
in whicli.it sljall not be incompatible with their
own security, and the general tranquility of
Europe. 4
; In the existing case, the right of the allied
sovereigns tdinterfer in the qdestion of inters
nal government of France is the more incontest
able inasmuch as the abolition of the $ower
whick now claims tn h ritnhliahfl therp.
w te fundamental condition of the treaty
of peace, on which rested all the relations which.
'up to the return of Bonaparte to Paris, subsis
ted between t ranee and the rest of Europe.
;n tne day ot their entrance into Pans, ?the so
vereigns declared that thev would never treat
of peace with Bonaparte. (3) This declaration,
lOUdlV annlaUiied )iv b ranffP nnd hv Knrnnp. nrn.
. r , j j .
duced the abdication of Napoleon, & the conven
tion oflhe 11th of April ; it formed the princi
pal basis of the negotiation j it was explicitly
pronounced in the preamble of the treaty of Pa
ns., the French nation, even supposing it
perfectly free and united,' cannot withdraw it
self from this fundamental condition, without
abrogatingihe treaty of Paris and all its exist
ing relations with the European system. The
allied powers, on the other hand, by insisting
on this very condition, only exercise 'a right
tvhich it is impossible' to contest to'lliem, unless
it be maintained that the most sacred compacts
can be perverted, as suits the convenience of ei-
lish a new declaration to Wfirm or modify that! ther ?f t,,e contracting parties. - . -
of the 13th or March? . ? , It hence follows, that the will oflhe people of
ine committee naving; maturely exammeu rmice is oy no means sumcient to re-estabtisn
these questioos, submits to the assembly of
plenipotentiaries the following account of the
result of its deliberations :
TIR8T-QUESTIOK.;
Is the position of Bonaparte in regard to the
he the less null and of no effect in regard to Eu
rope, towards re-estahlishinc a power, aeainst
which all Europe has been in a state of pertna-
to
the
in a legal senle, a government proscribed by so
lemn engagements-, which that very people en
iered into with all the powers of Europe ; and
that they cannot, under auy pretext, give valid
ity as aeainst these powers to the risht of recal-
pottws of Europe altered bu the first success of. line to the throne him whose exclusion was a
his enterprise, or by the events which have pass- condition preliminary to every pacific arrange -tdsince
hirarriral. in Paris ? Iment with France j the wish of the French peo-
The powers, informed of the landing of Bo- P'e even if it were fully ascertained,, would uot
' Tiatiaw& 1?Hn aJL . ! l. . . 1 n Kp t tl O laca null an 1 .P IV.. . . 1 JLA iL 1..
Vufa, c iu rioiniT) vuuiu cc ill u I ill uiujf a man
vjio, by advancing' on the French territory,
with force and arms, and with the avowed pro
ject of overturning the established government,
by exciting the people; and the army to revolt
against their lawfuf sovereign, and by usurping
the title of emperor'of thoFreneh, (1) had in
curred the penalties which all legislations pro
aounee against such outrages & man who, by
-abusing ther good faith of the sovereigns had
broken a solemn treaty,: a man, in fine, who,
oy recalling ipon France, happy and tranquil,
ollthe scourges of internal and external war,
ana upon Europe, at a moment w hen the bless
ings of peace must haye consoled her for her
long sufferings, the sad necessity of anew ge-
, neral armanent, was justly regarded as the im
placable enemy of 'public welfare. :. Such was
the origin, such were the prnunds of the tlenlar-
Tllolrrb r Tliie? 3 1 H Tof M arc I i ;s " a" rl e e I arat io ' :
wmeti itic justice and necessity have been uni
versally -acknowledged, and which general
opinion has sanctioned.
yTe events which conducted Bonaparte to
i Tl16 first rtfle'f Jthe : convenfion of the Hth a
P'i' 1814,Jsias foH6ws.'' The emperor Napolcbni re
nces,'tur himself, his successors, and descendants, as
v wen m tor att the memhers of his familv, alt Hgitsof so
E wi11 of P'ot-oniyoverhe French Empire
- Nm0"!, Italrbn a,so er every other country."
V'r vn- 5orm!,r renunciation, Bonaparte, in
.G5 Ulrent , Wlamations from the Gulf of Juan, from
tZ bK:4n tyonsj entitled Jifmself, " by the
:i ?nd t,,e conititt'o of the empire, .Em.
to one of the first places in the European system
could reasonably desire, and only took from her
that which was to her, under the deceitful exte-.
rir of great- national celat, an 4nexhausttl)le
source pi' sufferings, of ruin, and of misery.
This treaty was even an immense benefit for a
country, reduced by the madness of its chief to
the most disastrous situation! " (4) l'i 7
The allied powers would have betrayed their
interests and their duties, if, as theprice of so
much moderation and generosity, tbey had. not,
; (2) Itjs thus that Bonaparte's council of state express
themselve n their report on the intentions of the Pow-ers.-Ste
wUonitrur of h& ljtb -April." ;-
j(3) Declaration of tfieSIst of Jtlarchi 1S14. ?
"' f 4 J J ho emperor, convinced ot the critical situation
in which he had placed France, and of the impossibiLty
of saving )t himself, appeared to resign himsclCand con
sent to an entire and unconditional abdication. -.Lcttef'Of'
Marshal ey to thePrince of Jlencvcnto.
offers itself to Europe a state df thins esseh
tially different from that on which the peace of
1814 was Jbuded. The question, then, has
ceased to be a question of right j it is no more
thaq a qtCstion of political calculation and
foresight in which the powers have only to con
sult the real interests of their people and the
common iiterest of Europe."
The committee thinks it may dispense with
entering lere' into anexposition of the consi
derations ivhich, under this last view, have di
rected tin measures of the governments. It
will be sifficient to recal to notice, that the
man who, 'n now offering to sanction the treaty
of Parisr f retend to substitute hit guarantee
for that ofa sovereign, whose1 loyalty was with
out stain, And benevolence without measure is
the same Jho during 15 years ravaged and laid
Wus?o the evrt!i, to tind iStcam f salUfviu his
ambition, -uho sacrificed n illions of victims',
and the happiness of an entire generation? to
! . . . .
a system oi conquests ; wiiom ' truces, nine
worthv cf filename of peace, have only render
ed more oppressive and more odious; (7) who1
alter having by mad enterpnzes, tired fortune,
armed ill Europe aeainst him. and exhausted
all the ileans of France, was forced "to abandon
his projects, and abdicated ower tp save some
relics of existence j who at the moment when
the nations' of Europe were giving themselves
up Jo the hope of a durable tranquility, medi
tatednew catastrophes, and by a double perfi
dy towards the powers who had too generously
spared fcim, and towards government which he
could mi attack without the blackest treason,
usurped a throne which he had renounced, and
which he never occupied except for the misery
of '"Tfa'heTT ami the" world: This man has' no
other guarantee to propose to Europe than his
word. After the cruel experience of fifteen
yearsy uho would have the courage to accept
this guarantee ; and if the French nation has
really embraced his cause, who could any. lon
ger respett the security which it could offer?
Peace vith a government placed in such
hands, and composed of sueh elements, would
only be a perpetual state of uncertainly, anxie
ty and danger. No power being able effectually
order of the courts.
Austria. ,
Prince METTERNIQH.
Baron WESSENBERG,
Spath (Espagne.)
P. GOMES jLABKALOR.
. Fbanc.
Prince TALLFVR AND,
Duke of DALBEKG,
Count A. d'NOAUXES.
- Gbkat BkitaK."
CLAKCARTY,
ToHTrOAt.
The Count de PALMELLA,
SALDAN1IA,
LOBO.
V PBTTfiSTA.
Prince HABDENBERG,
Baron HUMBOLDT.
. Rvssia.
CountRASOUMOUSKY,
Count STAKELBERG,
Count NESSELRODE.
StTEDKN.
Count L0SWENHDSI4I.
CaTHCART,
STEWART.
v The undersigned Plenipotentiaries, approv
ihg the whole of the principles contained in the
present extract- from the minutes, have affixed
it it their signatures.
, Vienna, May 12, 1815. ' . --.
Bavaria.' - Sihjiiktia.
Count EEeitBERGr-" The -MtntleirPrMARBAlf;
CoiintROSSI.: fi
Saxosi. ,
Cohnt SCHtLEMBUG.
Two SSciuJKSi ; i
Tlie Con ir t, wrytw
DCNMAHK.
C BE RNSTORFF,
trBERN STOJiFF.
HAfftfvint.
Count II " RbENBCRGiH.
NyTHERLANllS.
FlaronSPjEN,
Barori GAGERN.
Count W1NZ1NBURG,
Baron LINDEN.
' " , Frum tlie Loidon .tyn of Jlcy 22.
. We this day present em readers with ex
tracts of two Tery-mportant' documents-' the.;
manifesto of the Kiag of Fra:ire. drawn up by
the celebrated M. tally TollendalhnA ihr re
port iff the state ?o( France, which comes front
the pen of M. De Chateaupriand. , It is to be
believed that the eloquent and powerful argu
ments of men so famous for their talents, and so
much respected for their virtues, will weigh
greatly with all the reflecting part of the
French nation.
EXRACT3 FROM THE MANIFESTO OF THE RISC
tor taANCE,1: ""1'4"4'
Addressed to the French Nation: ,i-
It begins with stating, that it has been the
first care of the'Kinglo instruct his ambassa
dors to represent to foreign courts the real
course, of events, and condition of things in
France, that t France might not he caluriinia
ted dishonored, exposed to unjust Cohtetnpf,
and unmerited indignation."
" This first care: has been fulfilled. AH the
powers of Europe now know, that the king of
"A-
-4
nent protest from the 31st of March. 1814, tip
the 13th of March, 1816 s and in this view t
position of Bonaparte js precisely at this day
what it was at thelast mentioned periods, "
SECOND QUESTION.
Should the offer to sanction the Treaty -of Paris
Changethe disposition oj the Powers ?
: France has had no reason to complain of the
treaty of Paris. UliTs treaty reconciled France
withEufope ; it satisfied all her true interests,
secured all her real advantages, all the elements
of prosperity and glory, which a people called and more faithfulfy interpreted than at a moinent
to disarm, the people would enjov none of the I France and the French nation, more than ever
aniages oi a irue peace ; iney wnuiu ne o-.uiuieu uy an mai tap umn u-
tween a good king and a good people, were
suddenly betrayed by an army Unfaithful to
the prince and its country, to lionor and its
oaths: that however among the first, generafs
of that army, these .whose' flames jfconstitiited its)
glory, eithfer rallied under thejpolors of the
kine, or at least abandoned those of the usur-
ner : that Cliieis oi corps anu umctie oj ait
a j (
verw helmed witu expanses oi ail Kinds ; con
fidence not-being able td establish itself any
wlref-udu8try-nd--cominereeJ. would every
where languish; nothing would beatable in po
litical relations 5 a sullen discontent would
spread over all countries ; and from day to day,
Europe in alatm would expect a new explo
sion. The sovereigns have eerta?nly not mis
understood the interests of their people, in judg
ing that an open war, with all its inconveniences
and all its sacrifices, is preferable to sueh a state
of things,, and the measures wkleli they have
adopted have' met the general approbation. . "
The opinion of Euiopeon t his great occasion
is pronounced in a manner " yefy positive and
very solemn Y never could the, ral Heiitwneiits
ot nations have been more accurately . Known
whenthe representatives of. all the r powers
ranks dailv follow this example i that dhlonffe
the multitiideof soldiers draw n into a defection
jiinexampled in niilitary annals, there are many
of thosfi wh0vtti experience had delivered up to;
SeductioniLtvhoJiave Jieen led to repentance by
oflptirtn. a itH uhose misleadinc must be en
tirely laid to the cLargef their seducers. . -j
Europe kuows, in fiiie that with the exception i '.-''-Jr-
of ; that portion of ' the army beeorne unworthy r '
of its past glory, and which has peased to be
long to the French army jj With the exception
of a handful of voluntary accomplices; who
have furnished tbeltstirper with i men ambitious !
withoutineAhfiVanderm
the whole French nation the good citizens of v
the towns, the good inhabitants of the country,
corps and Individuals, of both sexes a.ndof all
a-esr have followed and recalled the king with,.
a?l"their wishes, have imprinted on all his foot
steps a new homage of gratitude atfd a" new? -r
oath of fidelity. Europe knows that in1 Paris,
in Beanvaisjin Abbeville, inthat great ajid glo
rious city of Lille, 6f which treason occupied,
the gates, and;threatened to ensanguine the
walls, in the face and under the ery swbrf of?jr
traitors, all arms were exfended : towards the .
king, all eyes offered him the ribjita of their Q
... .11 vninpa nr;irt'nt:t to him. "return t
lean, an tvv.d ' mM-. , .
(5) .Preamble of the, trtaty of Pai'is. , i
Thw ideajrrewiira-
council of state of Bonaparte; published in thcMpriiteur,
April 13, 1815. , ' ?': -
(7) The "committee litre' think it right to add the
important observation,- that the greater, pari of , tlie in
vasions, and forced uiiions,"Of tvhich Bonaparte formed
siiccessivelyvhat he called the great etnpirei Joiuk place
during those, perfidious intervals of peacej more destruc
tive to Europe than even the wars With w hich it was tor
mented. -It W9 thus that -h took. posses sion of Pied
mont, Parma, tGeti6a, Lucca, of the states ol' Ron-.e, ot
Holland,.. of the countries composing1 tlie 32d militai-j'
division It Was thus at a rtrioxt of pence C&l least w ith
alt the Continent. that lie itruck tlie first blow ao'mtit
Portugal and Spain, and he thought to have finished the
conquest of those countries ' by icimnniif and afiducity
when tlie patriotism and tneigy of Jhe. people of the
Peninsula drew Jum' mto a sangiuafv vir, tlie com!
mwiecmcnt of Jiis downfall, and.of 4he alytioif6ajtv .- J-l.W Vcnr sublectB.'vEurop&-MI
n