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PARIS, 
parated violently the wife from the hufband, the fon from 
the father, and that during diftrefting circumftances, 
when the firmeft foul has need of looking for confolation 
and fuppcrt to the bofom of its family, and domeftic af- 
fedtions. 
3d 1 y. The duchies of Parma and Placentia were given 
in full property to Maria-Louifa for herfelf, her fon, and 
her defendants; and, after long refufals to put her in 
polTeffon, they gave the finifn to their injuftice by an ab- 
folute fpoliation, under the delufive pretext of a change, 
without valuation, without proportion, without fovereign- 
ty, without confent: and documents exifting in the fo¬ 
reign-office, which have been fubmitted to us, prove that 
it was on the folicitations, at the inftance, by the intrigues, 
of Talleyrand prince of Benevent, that Maria-Louifa and 
her fon have been plundered. 
4thly. There thould have been given to the Prince 
Eugene, adopted fon of the emperor, who has done honour 
to France which gave him birth, and who has conquered 
the affedtion of Italy which adopted him, a fuitable efta- 
blilhment out of France ; and he has obtained nothing. 
Sthly. The emperor had (Art. 9. of the Treaty) ftipula- 
ted in favour of the heroes of the army, for the preferva- 
tion of their endowments on the Monte Nnpoleone *. he 
had referved on the extraordinary domains, and on the 
funds of the civil-lift, means of recompenfing his fetvants, 
of paying the foldiers who attached themfelves-to his def- 
tiny : all was carried away and kept back by the minifters 
of the Bourbons. An agent for the French military, M. 
Breffon, went in vain to Vienna to claim for them the 
molt facred of properties, the price of their courage and 
blood. 
6th!y. The prefervation of the goods, moveable and 
immoveable, of the family of the emperor, is Itipulated 
by the fame Treaty, (Art. 6.) and they have been plundered 
of one and of the other; that is to fay, by main force in 
France by commiflioned brigands ; in Italy, by the 
violence of military chiefs; in the two countries, by fe- 
queftrations, and by feizures folemnly decreed. 
7thly. The emperor Napoleon was to have received 
2,000,000, and his family 2,500,000, francs per annum, 
'according to the arrangement eftablifhed in the 6th article 
of the treaty. The French government has conftantly 
refilled to fulfil this engagement; and Napoleon would 
foon have been reduced to difmifs his faithful guard for 
want of means to fecure their nay, if he had not found, 
in the grateful recolledlions of the bankers and merchants 
of Genoa and of Italy, the honourable refource of a loan 
of 12,000,000 which was offered to him. 
Sthly. In ftiort, it was not without a reafon that they 
wifhed by all means to feparate from Napoleon thofe com¬ 
panions of his glory, models of devotednefs and conftancy, 
the unfnaken guarantees of his fafety and of his life. The 
ifland of Elba was fecured to him in full property, (Art. 
3 of the Treaty;) and the refolution to fpoil him of it, 
which was defired by the Bourbons, and folicited by their 
agents, had been taken at the Congrels. 
28. And, if Providence bad not in juftice provided for 
him, Europe would have feen an attack made on the 
perfon, on the liberty, of Napoleon, banifiled for the future 
to the mercy of his enemies, far from his family, and fepa- 
rated from his fervants, either to St. Lucia, or to St. He¬ 
lena, which was intended for his prifon. 
37. France has been treated by the Bourbons like a re¬ 
volted country, reconquered by the arms of its ancient 
inafters, and lubjedted anew to a feudal dominion. 
38. Louis Staniflaus Xavier did not recognize the treaty 
which alone made the throne of France vacant, and the 
abdication which alone permitted him to afcend it. 
39. He pretended to have reigned nineteen years, 
thus infulting both the governments which had been 
eftablifhed in this period, and the people who had confe¬ 
derated them by its fuffrages, and the army which had de¬ 
fended them, and even the fovereigns who had recognized 
them in their numerous treaties. 
40. A Charter digefted by the fenate, all imperfedl as 
it Was, was thrown into oblivion. 
41. There was impofed on France a pretended Confti- 
tutional Law', as eafy to elude as to revoke, and in the 
form of fimpie royal decrees, without confulting the na¬ 
tion, without hearing even thofe bodies become illegal 
phantoms of the national reprefentation. 
44. The return of feudality in its titles, its privileges, 
its lucrative rights, the re-eftablilhment of ultramontane 
principles, the abolition of the liberties of the Gallican 
church, the annihilation of the Concordat, the reftora- 
tion of tithes, the intolerance ariiing from an exclufive 
religion, the domination of a handful of nobles over a 
peopleaccuftomed to equality; fuch was what the Bour¬ 
bons either did or wifhed to do for France. 
45. It was under fuch circumftances that the Emperor 
Napoleon quitted the ifle of Elba; fuch were the motives 
of the determination which betook, and not the confide- 
ration of his perfonal interefts, fo weak with him com¬ 
pared with the interefts of the nation to which he has con- 
fecrated his exiftence. 
46. He did not bring war into the bofom of France; 
on the contrary, he extinguifhed the war which the pro¬ 
prietors of national property, forming four-fifths of French 
landholders, would have been compelled to make on their 
fpoilers ; the w : ar which the citizens, oppreffed, degraded, 
humiliated, by nobles, would have been compelled to de¬ 
clare againft their oppreflbrs ; the war which Proteftants, 
Jews, men of various religions, would have been compelled 
to fuftain againft their perfecutors. 
47. He came to deliver France ; and was received as a 
deliverer. 
48. He arrived almoft alone; he traverfed 220 leagues 
without oppcfition, without combat, and refumed with¬ 
out refiftance, aniidft the capital and the acclamations of 
an immenfe majority of the citizens, the throne deferted 
by the Bourbons,, who, in the army, in their houfehokl, 
among the national guards, were unable to arm an indi¬ 
vidual to attempt to maintain them there. 
49. Anri yet, replaced at the head of the nation, which 
had already chofen him thrice, which has juft defignated 
him a fourth time by the reception it gave him in his ra¬ 
pid and triumphant march and arrival ; of that nation by 
which and for the intereft of which he means to reign ; 
what is the with of Napoleon ? 
50. That which the French people wifh ; the indepen¬ 
dence of France, internal peace, peace with all nations, 
the execution of the treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 
1814. Napollon. 
Two days afterwards, pacific overtures were made by 
the French government to all the courts of Europe. 
Thefe were accompanied by a letter in the hand-writing 
of Napoleon himfelf to each of the fovereigns. On this 
occalion, the minifter of foreign affairs (Caulincourt) fent 
a letter to lord Caftlereagh. That letter was accompanied 
by another, which inclofed one from Napoleon to the 
prince-regent of Great Britain. There is nothing fuffi- 
ciently remarkable in either of thefe documents to make 
them worth infertion. Lord Caftlereagh, in his anfwer 
to the duke of Vicenza, informed him, that the prince- 
regent had given orders to tranlinit the letters to Vienna, 
for the information and confideration of the allied fove¬ 
reigns there afl’embled. 
Although nothing decifive had been refolved on by the 
Britilh minifters, yet no doubt exifted of their determi¬ 
nation to join the allies in a war againft Napoleon. This, 
however, was a meafure of fuch ferious confequenee, 
that many members of parliament hefitated to concur in 
it without fuller proof of its political neceffity; and fome 
felt conliderable doubts as to the moral juftice of drawing 
the fword to compel a nation to difcard a ruler whom it 
had with apparent confent adopted. Under the impreffion 
of thefe feelings, Mr. Whitbread, on the 28th of April, 
rofe to make a motion for an addrefs to the prince-regent. 
He began by commenting upon the grofs delufion prac- 
tifed 
