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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



which its Government, to the mis- 

 fortune of Europe and that of 

 France, had effected the fall of so 

 many thrones, and so many revo- 

 lutions ; that members of the fa- 

 mily reigniniJf in France should he 

 placed on foreign thrones ; the 

 French Government, in short that 

 Government which, for so many 

 years, has sought to rule no less by 

 discord than by force of arms, was 

 to remain the arbiter of the ex- 

 ternal concerns of the powers of 

 Europe. 



By continuing the negociations 

 under such circumstances, the 

 Allies would have neglected what 

 they owed to themselves, they 

 would from that moment have de- 

 viated from the glorious goal they 

 had before them, their efforts would 

 have been turned solely against 

 their people. By signing a treaty 

 upon the principles of the French 

 projet, the allies would have laid 

 their arms in the hands of the 

 common enemy ; they would have 

 betrayed the expectation of na- 

 tions, and the confidence of their 

 allies. 



It is in a moment so decisive for 

 the welfare of the world, that the 

 Allied Sovereigns renew this so- 

 lemn engagement, till they shall 

 have attained the great object of 

 their union. 



France has to blame its Govern- 

 ment alone for its sufferings. 

 Peace alone can heal the wounds 

 which a spirit of universal domi- ' 

 nion, unexampled in history, has 

 produced. This peace shall be the 

 peace of Europe : no other can be 

 accepted. It is at length time 

 that Princes should watch over the 

 welfare of the people without fo- 

 reign influence, that nations should 

 respect their natural independence. 



that social institutions should be 

 protected from daily revolutions, 

 property respected, and trade free. 

 All Europe has absolutely the 

 same wish to make France partici- 

 pate in the blessings of peace ; 

 France, whose dismemberment the 

 Allied Powers neither can nor will 

 permit. The confidence in their 

 promises may be found in the prin- 

 ciples for which they contend. But 

 whence shall the Sovereigns infer 

 that France will take part in the 

 principles that must fix the happi- 

 ness of the world, so long as they 

 see that the same ambition, which 

 has brought so many misfortunes 

 on Europe, is still the sole spring 

 that actuates the government : 

 that while French blood is shed in 

 torrents, tho general interest is 

 always sacrificed to private ? — 

 Whence, under such circumstan- 

 ces, should be the guarantee for the 

 future, if such a desolating system 

 found no check in the general will 

 of the nation ? Then is the peace 

 of Europe insured, and nothing 

 shall in future be able to disturb it. 



DEPOSITION OF NAPOLEON. 



Extract from the Registers of the 

 Conservative Senate. Sitting of 

 April's, under the Presidency of. 

 Senator Count Barthelemey. 



The Sitting which had been ad- 

 journed was resumed at 4 o'clock, 

 when the Senator Count Lam- 

 brechts read the revised and adopt- 

 ed plan of the decree which passed 

 in the sitting of yesterday. It is 

 in the following terms : 



The Conservative Senate, consi- 

 dering that in a constitutional mo- 

 narchy, the Monarch exists only 



