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STATE PAPERS OMITTED. 
NOTE 
Delivered in by Viscount Castle- 
reaghtothe Allied Ministers, and 
placed upon their protocol.— 
Paris, September 11, 1815. 
EPRESENTATIONS hav- 
ing been laid before the Mi- 
nisters of the Allied powers from 
the Pope, the Grand Duke of Tus- 
eany, the King of the Nether- 
lands, and other Sovereigns, claim- 
ing, through the intervention of 
the high Allied Powers, the res- 
toration of the statues, pictures, 
and other works of art, of which 
their respective states have been 
successively and systematically 
stripped by the late revolutionary 
governmentof France, contrary to 
every principle of justice, and to 
the usages of modern warfare, and 
the same having been referred for 
the consideration of his court, the 
undersigned has received the com- 
mands of the Prince Regent to 
submit, for the consideration of 
his Allies, the following remarks 
upon this interesting subject :— 
It is now the second time that 
the powers of Europe have been 
compelled, in vindication of their 
own liberties, and for the settle- 
ment of the world, to invade 
France, and twice their armies 
have possessed themselves of the 
capital of the state, in which these, 
the spoil of the greater part of 
Europe, are accumulated. 
The legitimate Sovereign of 
France has, as often, under the 
protection of those armies, been 
enabled to resume his throne, and 
to mediate for his people a peace 
with the Allies, to the marked 
indulgencies of which neither their 
conduct to their own monarch, 
nor towards other states, had 
given them just pretensions to 
aspire. 
That the purest sentiments of 
regard for Louis X VIII, deference 
for his ancient and_ illustrious 
House, and respect for his mis- 
fortunes, have guided invariably 
the Allied Councils, has been 
proved beyond a question, by their 
having, last year, framed the 
Treaty of Paris expressly on the 
basis of preserving to France its 
complete integrity, and still more, 
after their late disappointment, 
by the endeavours they are again 
making, ultimately to combine 
the substantialintegrity of France, 
with such an adequate system of 
temporary precaution as they may 
