STATE PAPERS. 



S79 



Prince Blucher and youi- Grace, 

 you would enter into any engage- 

 ment whereby it should be pre- 

 sumed that his most Christian 

 Majesty was absolutely precluded 

 from the just exercise of his au- 

 thority in bringing to condign 

 punishment such of his subjects 

 as had, by their treasonable ma- 

 chinations and unprovoked rebel- 

 lion, forfeited all claim to his 

 Majesty's clemency and forbear- 

 ance ; yet in order that no doubt 

 shovild be entertained as to the 

 sense with which this article is 

 considered by the Prince Regent, 

 in conveying his entire approba- 

 tion of the Convention, I am com- 

 manded to state, that his Royal 

 Highness deems the l^th Article 

 of it to be binding only on the 

 conduct of the British and Prus- 

 sian commanders, and the com- 

 manders of such of the Allies as 

 may become parties to the present 

 Convention by their ratification 

 of it. I have, &c. 



(Signed) Bathurst. 

 His Grace the Duke of \\'el- 



lington, &c. 



tended, to bind any other persons 

 or authorities whatever, unless 

 they should become parties to the 

 Convention. I have, &c. 



(Signed) Wellington. 

 The Earl Bathurst, &c. 



3. Copy of a Dispatch from the 

 Duke of Wellington to Earl 

 Bathurst ; dated Paris, July 

 13, 1815. 



My Lord ; — 1 have had the ho- 

 nour of receiving your Lordship's 

 letter, marked " separate," of the 

 7th inst. regarding the Conven- 

 tion of the 3d. 



The Convention binds nobody 

 except the parties to it ; viz. the 

 French army on one side, and the 

 Allied armies under Marshal Blu- 

 cher and myself on the other j 

 and the 12th Article cannot be 

 considered, and never was in- 



Memorandum of the Duke of Wel- 

 lington, communicated bif his 

 Grace to the Ministers of t'le 

 Allied Powers. 



It is extraordinary that Madame 

 la iMarcchale Ney should have 

 thought pioper to publish in piint 

 parts of a conversation which she 

 is supposed to have had witli the 

 Duke of Wellington, and that she 

 has omitted to publish that which 

 is a much better record of tl>e 

 Duke's opinion on the subject to 

 which the conversation related, 

 viz. the Duke's lettei- to the Mar- 

 shal Prince de la Moskwa, in an- 

 swer to the Maishal's note to his 

 Grace. That letter was as fol- 

 lows : — 



" I have had the honour of re- 

 ceiving the note which you ad- 

 dressed me on the 13th of No- 

 vember, relating to the operation 

 of the capitulation of Paris on 

 your case. 



" The capitulation of Paris of 

 the 3d of July was made between 

 the commanders in chief of the 

 allied British and Piussian armies 

 on the one part^ and tlie Pi ince 

 d'Eckmuhl, commander in chief 

 of the French army, on the other, 

 and related exclusively to the mi- 

 litary occupation of Paiis. 



" The object of the I'^th Ar- 

 ticle was to prevent the adoption 

 of any measures of severity under 

 the military authority of those 

 who made it, towards any jjersons 

 in Paris, on account of the offices 



which 



