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many coalitions had he deftrcyed, becaufe they did not 
coalef'ce !—Had the allies acfed together in !793-4, when 
they were the enemies of France, as they did in 1813-14, 
when they declared themfelves her friends, where would 
France have been ? As it was, however, Burke declared 
that it was vanifned from the map—he could not fee it 1 
But lord Liverpool declares in the houfe of lords, (May 
jj, 1814.) that, when our Wellington firft entered his ca¬ 
reer againlt Bonaparte, “ we had leen almoft the whole of 
Europe fubverted, and reduced to a blank; and fcarcely 
any country remaining upon which the eye could reft, 
except France! By whofe potent and magical operation 
was it, then, that (upon our own confefiion) the word 
France was a l mo If fynonymous with that of Europe f —by 
his, raoft alluredly, over whom we may write, if we now 
luppofe him politically dead, and entombed at Elba, 
“ Here re Its a man brought low by the treachery of his 
friends and the unanimity of his enemies.” 
We read in the Gazette de France, that it is the inten¬ 
tion of Bernadotte to renounce the fucccjfion to the Swedilh 
crown in favour of the fon of Gultavus IV. We have 
no doubt but the duke of Sudermania will relinquiffi, at 
the fame time, the pojfejjion of the crown to the rightful 
owner; and that Gultavus will be a king again. With 
this monarch may Louis (hake hands with the mod unre- 
ferved pleafure, and without any vexatious recollections; 
for never was a more inflexible enemy to the ufurper of 
the French crown than he; he loft his own in fruitlefs at¬ 
tempts—mad attempts they were called—to oppofe him: 
(fee p. 198.) He will now, it is hoped, meet with his re¬ 
ward. 
A Convention, fomething in the nature of a prelimi¬ 
nary treaty of peace, was figned at Paris on the 23d of 
April, by lord Caftlereagh and Talleyrand prince of Be- 
nevento. The following is the’fubftance of it s All hof- 
tilities to ceafe. The allied powers fhall caufe the French 
territory to be evacuated by the ift of June, 1814, fuch as 
it was on the ill of Jan. 1792; and the French to eva¬ 
cuate all without thofe limits by the fame date. All pri¬ 
soners to be immediately reftored on both Tides, without 
exchange or ranfom. 
A decree of Monlietir, dated the 21ft of April, publifhed 
in the Moniteur of the 1 ith of May, direds the reduction 
of the French navy, on the fignature of preliminaries, to 
13 (hips of the line, 21 frigates, 27 cutters, 15 brigs, and 
fome Imaller veflfels. 
We are every day in expectation of feeing our metro¬ 
polis graced with the pretence of the emperors of Rullia 
and Auftria, and the king of Pruflia, accompanied by the 
brave generals to whom the caufe of Europe is fo much 
indebted— Blucher, Schwartzenberg, Platoff, &c.—And 
it is (aid to be determined that the congrefs, for the nego¬ 
tiation of a general peace, fhall be held in London, and 
the treaty to be entitled the Treaty of London, in confi- 
deration of the part which Great Britain has atted, and 
the fuccour, as well as example, fhe has given to all the 
belligerent allies. The following is the outline : Great 
Britain retains the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, the Mau¬ 
ritius, and Tobago ; but cedes all the other French and 
Dutch colonies tt> thofe powers refpedively, except Gua- 
daloupe, which is fecured to Sweden. Ruffia retains the 
Grand Duchy of Warfavv ; as Auftria does Venice and its 
dependencies, together with Mantua and Pefchiera. The 
kingdom of Saxony is to be divided between Auftria and 
Pruflia. Murat is to retain Naples; and king Ferdinand 
Sicily, with an indemnity in Italy for his Neapolitan pof- 
felfions. The Scheldt is to be open ; and the (hips at 
Antwerp to be divided between the French and the Dutch. 
Kis royal highnefs the prince-regent has thought fit to 
make a molt commendable exception to the rule which it 
is faid the fovereign had preferibed to himfelf; and we 
take credit to ourfelves for having in fome fort forefeen 
that fuch an exception might occur. See the article He¬ 
raldry, vol. ix. p. 4x5. 2d edit.—On the 3d of May, the 
marquis of Wellington was created Marquis Douro, and 
bon. 395 
Duke of Wellington in the county of Somerfet; and, on 
the 10th, a meflage was delivered to each houfe of parlia¬ 
ment, dating, that “ the prince-regent, dtiirous of further 
manifefting his fenfe of thole great and eminent Cervices 
which have exalted the renown of the Britifti arms, efta- 
blifhed the fafety and independence of Portugal and Spain, 
and contributed largely to the prefent tranquillity of Eu¬ 
rope, recommends it to his parliament to enable him to 
grant fuch an annuity to Field-marlhal the Duke of Wel¬ 
lington, and the heirs of his body fucceeding to the title 
of Duke of Wellington, as may tend to luppcrt the dig¬ 
nity conferred upon him, and at the fame time be a lading 
memorial of his royal highnefs’s feelings and of the gra¬ 
titude and munificence of the nation.” 
The meifage was taken into confideration the next day 
in the houfe of lords ; and the addrefs in anfwer to and 
concurring with it was carried nem. dijf .-—The duke of 
Norfolk faid, that he felt more proud of having a perfon 
like the duke of Wellington (landing in the lame rank 
with himfelf, than if he claimed that rank only from he¬ 
reditary defeent. It added more dignity and grace to the 
peerage. 
In the houfe of commons, on the tath, it was agreed to 
vote to his grace, to be annexed to the dukedom, an an¬ 
nuity of 13,000!. per annum, charged on the confolidated 
fund ; but with a provifion authorifing the lords of the 
treafury to advance a fum not exceeding 400,0001. to be 
inverted in land to be annexed to the dukedom. Upon 
purchafes to that amount being completed, the annuity 
is to be cancelled, or parts of it in proportion to the amount 
laid out in land. This 13,000k a-year, in addition to 
4000I. a-year and ioo,oool. in money granted before, will 
make the whole parliamentary allowance bellowed upon 
the duke of Wellington about 22,000k per annum. 
On the fame day, (May 3.) the prince-regent was alfo 
pleafed, in the name and on the behalf of his majefty, to 
grant the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland to the following military offi¬ 
cers, companions in arms with the duke of Wellington, 
and the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz. 
Lieutenant-general the Hon. Sir John Hope, K. B. by the 
name, ftile, and title, of Baron Niddry, of Niddry, in the 
county of Linlithgow. Lieutenant-general Sir Thomas 
Graham, K. B. by the title of Baron Lynedock, of Bal- 
gowan, in the county of Perth. Lieutenant-general Sir 
Stapleton Cotton, Bart. K. B. by the title of Baron Com- 
bermere, in the county palatine of Chefter. Lieutenant- 
general Sir Rowland Hill, K. B. by the title of Baron Hill, . 
of Almarez, and of Hawkeftone, in the county of Sa¬ 
lop. And Lieutenant-general Sir William Carr Beresford, 
K. B. by the title of Baron Beresford of Albuera, and of 
Dungarvon in the county of Waterford.—Three of the 
above noblemen, lords Lynedock, Hill, and Beresford, 
are to have penfions of 2000I. per ann. each; and lord 
Liverpool ftated that, with refped to the two other dif- 
tinguifhed officers ferving under the duke of Wellington, 
who had been fo jullly honoured by the prince-regent in 
being raifed to the peerage, they were in circumftances to 
decline any provifion being made for them by parliament. 
He had, therefore, with refpeft to them, only to hope that 
they might long enjoy the honours which had been fo de- 
fervedly conferred upon them. For the armorial bearings 
of the lords Niddry, Lynedock, and Hill, fee the article 
Heraldry, vol. ix. Plate C. 
That the fervices of the navy might not pafs unre¬ 
warded, the Gazette of May the 14th announced, that 
the dignity of a Vifcount of the United Kingdom had 
been granted to Admiral Lord Keith, by the name, ftyle, 
and title, of Vifcount Keith. And alio-that the djgnity 
of a Baron of the United Kingdom had been conferred 
on Vice-Admiral Sir E. Peliew, by the name, ftyle, and - 
title, of Baron Exmouth, of Canontaign, in the County 
of Devon. Admiral Cornwallis has been created a Vice-¬ 
Admiral in the room of Vifcount Bridport, deceafed ; and ■ 
Admiral Young,.a Rear-Admiral. 
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