HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
‘ken off were unknown, the intelli- 
gence of lord Lauderdale’s departure 
from Paris was received at Lloyd’s 
Coffee House, with bursts of appro- 
bation and shouts of applause; a 
disgusting proof of the indifference 
with which men can contemplate the 
calamities of their species, when they 
conceive that any personal advantage 
can accrue to themselyes from the 
continuance of them. In this in- 
stance the policy was as short sighted 
as the feeling was contemptible. The 
capture ef Buenos Ayres had raised 
yisions of conquest and of wealth as 
extravagant as those of El Dorado, 
and though the ministers could 
Scarcely have been the dupes of that 
delusion, they took littie pains to un- 
deceive the pegple. Perhaps a go- 
vernment weakéned by the loss of 
its most efficient member, could 
hardly be expected, at the moment 
of breaking off a negotiation for 
‘peace, to check a feeling so well 
calculated to reconcile the public 
to that calamity. Though there is 
no réason to suspect that the in 
fatuation was encouraged by those 
in power, it was by no means con- 
fined to the city of London. It 
spread through every part of the 
country, and as it is cur duty to 
record the opinions of our country- 
men, as well as the events which 
gave rise to them, we must with 
shame acknowledge that the preva- 
lent.sentiment of the nation was joy 
at the prospect of extended com- 
Merce and conquest in South Ame- 
rica, rather than disappointment at 
the failure of peace, or grief at 
the protraction of the horrors of’ 
war. 
The preliminaries of peace signed 
at Paris by D°Oubril and refused to 
be vatified at St. Petersburg, con- 
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tained the following articles. Russia 
gave up to France, Cattaro and all 
the places occupied by her troops in 
Dalmatia; ia return for which the 
French emperor consented, at the 
request of the emperor of Russia, to 
restore Ragusa to its former state, 
and to abstain from hostilities 
against the Montenegrins. ‘The re- 
public of the seven islands was de- 
clared independent, but the Russiaus 
were allowed to station 4000 troops 
in its territory. The independence 
of the Ottoman Porte was recog- 
nized, and the integrity of its pos- 
sessions guaranteed by both parties. 
The French were to evacuate Ger- 
many within three months, and the 
Russians to withdraw all their troops 
from the Mediterranean, except the 
corps they were allowed to leave in | 
the seven islands. No mention was 
made of their Sicilian majesties in 
the public treaty, but one of the se- 
cret articles is said to have contained 
a slighting declaration on the part 
of France, that the emperor had no 
objection to the late king of Sicily 
and his wife finding an asylum 
wherever they could. There was 
no stipulation about Sicily; but by 
another secret article, Majorca, Mi- 
norca and lyiza were to be trans- 
ferred from Spain to the duke of 
Calabria, with the title of king of 
the Balearic isles, on condition that 
the ports of these islands should be 
shut against the English during the 
continuance of the war. ‘The only 
article in favour of England, if it 
could be so. called, was an admis- 
sion on the part of the French em- 
peror of the good offices of Russia 
for the aitainment of a maritime 
peace, 
When this treaty was brought to 
St. Petersburg, it was laid before a 
couneil 
