380 ANNUAL REGISTER. 1816. 



which they had filled, or their 

 conduct, or their political o|!i- 

 nions ; but it was never intended, 

 and could not be intended, to 

 prevent either the existing F; ench 

 government, under whose autho- 

 rity tiie French commander in 

 chief must liave acted, or any 

 French government wh ch shouUl 

 succeed to it, from acting in this 

 respc-ct as it niiglu deem fit." 



It is obvious from tiiis lettei', 

 that the Dulse of Wellington, one 

 of the )jarties to the capitulation 

 of Pai i-;, considers that that in- 

 strument contains nothing which 

 can prevent the King from bring- 

 ing Marshal Ney to trial, in such 

 manner as his Majesty may think 

 proper. 



The contents of the capitulation 

 fully confirm the justice of the 

 Duke's opinion. It is made be- 

 tween the commanders in chief 

 of the contending armies respec- 

 tively, and the first nine articles 

 relate solely to the mode and time 

 of the evacuation of Paris by tlie 

 French army, and of the occupa- 

 tion of the British and Prussian 

 armies. 



Tiie tenth Article provides, that 

 the existing authorities shall 

 be respected by the two com- 

 mtuulers in chief of the Allies ; 

 the 11 th, that public property shall 

 be respected, and that the Allies 

 wdl not interfere " en aucune 

 mani^re dans Icur ad.ninistration, 

 et dans lesir gestion;" and the 

 lyth .-Article stat -s, " seront pa- 

 reillement resj)ectees les personnes 

 et L's piopriete-. particulieres, les 

 hutiitans, et en geneial tons les 

 invidus qui se trouvent dans la 

 capitale, continueront ajouir de 

 leurs dioits et libeite^, saus povi- 

 voir etre inquietees, cu recheiches 



en rien relativement aux fonctions 

 qu'ils uccupent, ou auroient occu- 

 j e^s, a leur conduite et k leurs 

 opinions politique^." 



By wht(m were these private 

 properties and persons to be in 

 like manner respec ed ? By the 

 allied generals and their troops, 

 mentioned in the 10th and 11th 

 Articles ; and not by other par- 

 ties to whom the Convention did 

 not relate in any manner. 



The 13th Article provides, that 

 " les troupes etrangcres" shall not 

 obstruct the carriage of j)ro^isions 

 by land or water to the capital. 



Thus it appears, that every Ar- 

 ticle in the Convention relates ex- 

 clusively to the operations of tiie 

 different armies, or to the conduct 

 of the Allies, and that of their 

 generals, when they should enter 

 Pai is ; and, as the Duke of Wel- 

 lington states in his dispatch of 

 the 4th of July, with which he 

 transmitted the Convention to 

 England, " decided all the mili- 

 tary points then existing at Paiis, 

 and touched nothing political." 



But it appears clearly -that not 

 only this was the Duke's opinion 

 of the Convention at the time it 

 was signed, but likewise the opi- 

 nion of Carnot, of Marshal Ney, 

 and of every otlier person who 

 had an interest in considering the 

 subject. 



Carnot says, in the Expose de la 

 Conduite Politique de M. Carnot, 

 page 43, — " II fut resolu d'en- 

 voyer aux Generaux Anglois et 

 Prussiens une commission spe- 

 ciale, chargee de leur proposer 

 une Convention purement mili- 

 taue, poiu" la remise de la Ville 

 de Paris fintre mains, en ecartant 

 toute question politique, puisqu'on 

 he pouvoit prejuger quelles se- 



roient 



