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PARI S. 
liberations, and the fovereigns bad announced their de¬ 
parture for their refpedlive capitals, when the intelligence 
of the landing of Napoleon at Cannes unexpectedly 
burft upon them. To the aftoniffiment with which every 
ftatefman was at firft overwhelmed, fucceeded apprehen- 
fion and difmay. Although the force which he had 
brought with him from Elba was feeble and contemptible, 
they knew not how foon thedifcontented foldiery of France 
might flock round his (tandard, and enable him once 
more to menace the peace of Europe. It was therefore 
neceffary, by fome prompt and unequivocal manifefto, to 
declare their refolution to oppofe him with their united 
forces. Lord Caftlereagh had departed from Vienna for 
England, and was fucceeded by the duke of Wellington. 
The intelligence that Napoleon had quitted Elba arrived 
at Vienna on the 7th ; but his real deftination was not 
known. On the nth Talleyrand received a difpatch, an¬ 
nouncing his landing on the coaft of France : and on the 
13th the following Declaration was publiffied. 
“ The powers who have ligned the Treaty of Paris, af- 
fembled at the Congrefs at Vienna, being informed of 
the efcape of Napoleon Bonaparte, and of his entrance into 
France with an armed force, owe it to their own dignity 
and theintereftof focial order, to make afolemn declaration 
of the fentiments which this event has excited in them. 
“By thus breaking the convention which eftabliffied 
him in the ifland of Elba, Bonaparte deftroys the only 
legal title on which his exiftence depended ; by ap¬ 
pearing again in France wdth projedls of confufion and 
diforder, he has deprived himfelfof the protection of the law, 
and has manifefted to the univerfe, that there can be 
neither peace nor truce with him. The powers confe- 
quer.tly declare, that Napoleon Bonaparte has placed him- 
I elf without the pale of civil and focial relations; and that, as 
an enemy and difhirber of the tranquillity of the tvorld, he has 
rendered hiinjelf liable to public vengeance. 
“ They declare at the fame time, that, firmly refolved 
to maintain entire the Treaty of Paris of 30th May, 1814, 
and the difpofitions fanftioned by that treaty, and thofe 
which they have refolved on, or lhall hereafter refolve on, 
to complete and to confolidate it, they will employ all 
their means, and will unite all their efforts, that the ge¬ 
neral peace, the objedt of the withes of Europe, and the 
conftant purpofe of their labours, may not again be 
troubled; and to guarantee againft any attempt which 
fl'.all threaten to replunge the world into the diforders 
and miferies of revolutions. And, although entirely per- 
funded that all France, rallying round its legitimate Sove¬ 
reign, will immediately annihilate this lajl attempt of a cri¬ 
minal and impotent delirium, all the fovereigns of Europe, 
animated by the fame fentiments and guided by the fame 
principles, declare that, if, contrary to all calculations, 
there (hould refult from this event any real danger, they 
will be ready to give to the king of France, and to the 
French nation, or to any other government that (hall be 
attacked, as foon as they (hall be called upon, all the af- 
fiftance requifite to refiore public tranquillity, and to 
make a common caufe againft all thofe who (hould under¬ 
take to compromife it. 
“The prefent declaration, inferted in the regifter of 
the Congrefs affembled at Vienna, on the 13th March, 
tSi5, (hall be made public. Done and attefted by the 
plenipotentiaries of the high powers who figned the treaty 
of Paris: Vienna, 13th March, 1815.” 
Here follow the lignatures, in the alphabetical order 
of the courts. 
Austria. —Prince Metternich, Baron Wiffenberg. 
France. —Prince Talleyrand; the Duke of Dalberg, 
Latour du Pin ; Count Alexis and Noailles. 
Great Britain —Wellington ; Clancarty; Cathcart, 
Stewart. 
Portugal. —Count Pamella Saldonna Lobs. 
Prussia. —Prince Harden berg; Baron Humboldt. 
Russia. —Rafumowlky, Stakelberg, Neffelrode. 
Spain. —P. Gomez Labrador. 
Sweden. —Lafmenhelm. 
• Vol. XVIII. No. 1261. 
The return of Napoleon to France, at the head of an 
armed force, had annulled all the rights which the treaty 
of Fontainebleau had given him, and had again placed 
him in a date of hoftility with the coalefced powers. 
Until he had fhown that the treaty had been previoufly 
violated on the part of the allies, and that he was again 
acknowledged by the French, and re-invefted by them 
with the fovereignty, he w'as a mere brigand chief; not, 
indeed, the proper fubjedt of private affaffmation, but ame¬ 
nable to the legal vengeance of the country which he had 
invaded. 
As it had been whifpered that there were confiderable 
mifunderftandings between the principal courts ; and as 
Bonaparte had affirmed that he was fecretly fupported by 
fome of the allied powers; that Auftria was his affured 
friend ; that his return would be immediately followed 
by that of the emprefs and the king of Rome ; and that 
England and Ruffia, tired of war, were indifpofed to in¬ 
terfere in a quarrel in which they had no concern;—it 
was neceffary for the members of the Congrefs to con¬ 
vince the world, by fome folemn and ftriking proceeding, 
that they were determined to complete and confolidate 
the work which they had begun, and that they were rehdy 
to combat againft every one as a common enemy who 
(hould threaten, by a new war ora new revolution, to 
difturb the general peace of Europe. On the 25th of 
March, before the arrival of Bonaparte in Paris was 
known at Vienna, but after it had appeared evident that 
no eftedlual refiftance could be oppofed to him, the fol¬ 
lowing treaty was entered into by the allied powers. 
“Their Majefties the Emperor of all the Ruffias, the 
Emperor of Auftria, the King of Pruffia, and the King 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
confidering the confequences which the entrance of Bo¬ 
naparte into France, and the prefent fituation of that 
kingdom, may have with refpedt to the fecnrity of Europe, 
have determined, in thefe weighty circumftances, to 
carry into effedt the principles confecrated in the treaty 
of Chaumont. They have therefore agreed, by a folemn 
treaty, mutually figned by each of the four powers, to 
renew the engagement that they will defend the fo-hap- 
pily reftored order of things in Europe againft all viola¬ 
tion, and to adopt the rnoft effedtual meafures for carry¬ 
ing this engagement into effedf, and alfo to give it that 
neceffary extenfion which exifting circumftances imperi- 
oufly demand. 
(Here follow the appointments, in the ufual form, of 
the different plenipotentiaries vvhofe names are under- 
figned.) 
Art. I. The high-contradling powers folemnly engage 
to unite the refources of their refpedlive dates, for the 
maintenance of the treaty of peace concluded at Paris 
on the 30th of May 1814, as well as that of the Congrefs 
of Vienna ; to carry into full effedt the difpofitions con¬ 
tained in thefe treaties ; and to defend them againft every 
attack, and efpecially againft the projects of Napoleon 
Bonaparte. Towards this end they bind themfelves, 
(hould the king of France defire it, and in the fpirit of 
the Declaration iffued on the 13th of March, with com¬ 
mon confent and mutual agreement, to bring to juftice 
all fuch as may have already joined or (hall hereafter join 
the party of Napoleon, in order to compel him to relin- 
quiffi his projedts, and to render him incapable in future 
of difturbing the tranquillity of Europe. 
II. Although fo great and falutary an objedt does not 
permit that the means deftined to its attainment (hould 
be limited, and although the high-contradling powers 
have refolved to devote to this objedt all fuch refources 
as they can, in their refpedtive fituations, difpofe of; yet 
they have neverthelefs agreed, that each of them (hall 
conftantly have in the field 150,000 men complete, of 
whom at lead one-tenth (hall be cavalry, with a propose 
tionate artillery ; and to employ them in adtive and uni¬ 
ted fervice againft the common enemy. (His Britannic 
majefty lhall have the option, either of furniftnng his con¬ 
tingent in men, or of paying at the rate of thirty pounds 
6 P fterling 
