GENERAL HISTORY. 
ia conjunction with the emperor 
of Austria, engaged to unite their 
resources for the purpose of main- 
taining entire the conditions of 
the peace of Paris in May, 1814, 
and the stipulations of the con- 
gress of Vienna, and preserving 
them against all infringement, 
particularly from the designs of 
Napoleon Buonaparte. Each of 
them agreed to keep 150,000 men 
in the field; but by a separate 
article, his Britannic majesty was 
to have the option either of fur- 
nishing his contingent in men, or 
of supplying his deficiency by the 
payment of 30/. per ann. for every 
cavalry soldier, and 20/. per ann. 
for every infantry soldier. His 
most Christian majesty was to 
be invited to become a party in 
this alliance. By an additional 
convention, his Britannic majesty 
engaged to furnish a subsidy of 
five millions sterling, for the ser- 
vice of the year ending April 1, 
1816, to be divided in equal pro- 
portions among the other three 
powers. Other papers were, a 
letter from M. de Caulaincourt to 
lord Castlereagh, dated Paris, 
April 4, 1815, announcing, in 
triumphant language, the resump- 
tion of the government of France 
by the emperor (Buonaparte), 
and his desire of maintaining peace 
with all other sovereigns. Ano- 
ther letter from Caulaincourt, 
containing the emperor’s request, 
that the above shouldbe presented 
to the prince regent; anda note 
of lord Castlereagh, acquainting 
him with the prince regent’s de- 
clining to receive it. There fol- 
lowed, a letter from lord Castle- 
reagh to the earl of Clancarty, 
. enclosing the overture of Caulain- 
-eourt, with a direction to com- 
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municate it to theallied Sovereigns 
and their Plenipotentiaries at Vi- 
enna; and lord Clancarty’s an- 
swer dated from Vienna, May 6. 
The latter paper, after mentioning 
a similar address from Buonaparte 
to the Emperor of Austria, to 
which no answer was returned, 
states the views andreasons of the 
allied powers in the war about to 
be commenced. The following 
is the most material passage on 
this topic:—‘“In this war, they 
do not desire to interfere with any 
legitimate right of the French 
people; they have no design to 
oppose the claim of that nation, to 
choose their own form of govern- 
ment, or an intention to trench, 
in any respect, upon their inde- 
pendence as a great and free peo- 
ple: but they do think that they 
havearight, and that of the highest 
nature, to contend against the re- 
establishment of an individual, as 
thehead ofthe French government, 
whose past conduct has invariably 
demonstrated, that in such a situ- 
ation he will not suffer other na- 
tions to be at peace,—whose rest- 
less ambition,—whose thirst for 
foreign conquest, — and whose 
disregard for the rights and inde- 
pendence of other states,» must 
expose the whole of Europe to 
renewed scenes of plunder and 
devastation.”? Together with these 
documents was presented ‘a de- 
claration onthe part of the Prince 
Regent, signed by lord -Castle- 
reagh, May 18, purporting, that 
the eighth article of the treaty of 
March 25, wherein his. most 
Christian majesty is invited to 
accede under certain stipulations, 
is to be understood as binding the 
contracting powers, upon: prin- 
ciples of mutual security, to a 
