STATE PAPERS. 



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roient les intentions des AUiees 

 loisqu'ils seroient leunis." 



It appears that Marshal Ney 

 fled fiom Paris in disguise with a 

 passport given to him by the Due 

 d'Otrante, under a feigned name, 

 on the 6th July. He could not 

 be supposed to be ignorant of the 

 tenor of the l^th Article of the 

 Convention, and he must then 

 have known whether it was the 

 intention of the parties who made 

 it, that it should protect him from 

 the measures which the king, then 

 at St. Denis, should think proper 

 to adopt against him. 



But if Marshal Ney could be 

 supposed ignorant of the inten- 

 tion of the l^th Article, the Due 

 d'Otrante could not, as he was 

 at the head of the provisional 

 government, under wliose autho- 

 rity the Prince d'Eckmuiil must 

 have acted when he signed the 

 Convention. 



Would the Due d'Otrante have 

 given a passpoit under a feigned 

 name to Marshal Ney, if he had 

 understood the l^th Artidt^ as 

 giving the Marshal any protec- 

 tion, excepting against measures 

 of severity by the two comman- 

 ders in chief? 



Another proof of what was the 

 opinion of the Due d'Otrante, of 

 the king's minister, and all the 

 persons most inteiested in esta- 

 blishing the meaning now at- 

 tempted to be given to the 12th 

 Article of the Convention of the 

 3d of July, is the King's Procla- 

 mation of the 24th July, by which 

 nineteen persons are ordered for 

 trial, and thirty-eight peisons are 

 ordered to quit Paris, and to re- 

 side in particular parts of France, 

 under the observation and super- 

 iutendence of tiie police, till the 



Chambers should decide upon 

 their fate. 



Did the Due d'Otrante, did any 

 of the persons w!io are the ob- 

 jects of this proclamation, did any 

 persons on their behalf, even then, 

 or now, claim for them the pro- 

 tection of the 12th Article of the 

 Convention ? 



Certainly the Convention was 

 then understood, as it ought to 

 be understood now, viz. thai it 

 was exclusively military, and was 

 never intended to bind the then 

 existing government of France, 

 or any government which should 

 succeed it. 



Convention between the Emperor of 

 Bussia, the Emperor of Austria, 

 and the Klig oj Friasin. 



In the name of the Most Holy 

 and Indivisible Trinity. 



Their Majesties the Emperor of 

 Austria, the King of Prussia, and 

 the Emperor of Russia, having, 

 in cnn.sequence of t!.e great e\ents 

 which have marked the course of 

 the thi'ee last years in Eiuoj'e, 

 and e.'^pecially of the ble-sings 

 which it has pleased Divine Pro- 

 vidence to shower do^^n upon 

 those States, which place their 

 confiJence and their hope on it 

 alone, ac(|uired tlie intimaty con- 

 viction of tiie noces-ity of found- 

 ing the C'lnduct to be obser\ed by 

 the Powers in their leciprocal re- 

 lations f.p^n the sublime truths 

 which the Holy Religion of oui- 

 Saviour teacl.e.« — 



They solemnly declare that tlie 

 ])resent act has no other object 

 than to ptddish, in the face of the 

 whole world, their fixed resolu- 

 tion, both in the administiaion 

 of their respective states, and in 



