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cotW*ission Were
.if as one Of those
productions by which con*
mih endeavor to mislaid
OU>n.
But the examination of the pro*
*. Oeediiurs that have <a£ en place at MetX
. ."/sand the ifife*rogatories of couri■
let/re no ground, to douht, that, |
“ it—n—■♦ton has been f6rwa-' , ‘ > '* Kx
eir of Warand a* to possessions,, to
preserve them or to lose them, to en
large or reduce tjbem; and toot any de-
toe mmd, and to divert public opi- sign, menace'pf. attempt, against the
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life of a
ther, is acri
war against ano-
rdofin the histo
ry of nations and of the European
ibinets.
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members of :he Frenc
•enna, and is therefore
r| ej» xaoi .
that In that passionate, violence and far
ed by the ' getfulness of principles, which charac-
m at Vi- terize the declaration of the 13th of
onsider.' March, are recognized the envoys of
? shalSissemble hi the Champ
5, inthe presence of tlie tmper
jug been sdoptedaud signed the same prince, the organs ofthfc same
1 council, whose ordinance of the 9th
March in the same manner declared
Napoleon an outlaw, invited the dag
ger of the assassin to strike him, and
moreover, offered a reward fdf his
head. ^ ;
Nevertheless, what has Napoleon
done? He has honored by his protec
tion men of all nations, insulted by the
Ayjthwa;
' It is on that first point of view that
the commission have deemed proper
•to examine that production, without a
|lel in the annals of diplomacy,
in which Frenchmen, clothed
with a most respectable pub'ic charac
ter, begin with a sort of outlawry, or
Sti plainer terms, by provoking the
assassination of the emperor Napolc- infamous mrision to which they were
on.
We agree’
ith the minister of po-
that this declaration must be the
iuction of the French'plenipoten-
ries ; because those of Austria,
ussia, Prussia and England, could
nnt have sighed an act thi&Jthh sover
eigns and people, to whom they be
long, would instantly disavow.
In thte first place, some of those
plenipotentiaries, who were co-opera-
tursin the treaty of Paris, well knew 1
that Napoleon was there recognized
.as having retained the title of emperor,
invited. He has shown himself mo
derate, generous, and a protector even
to those who had devoted him to
death- ? -u .- f ‘ .
When he spoke to general Excel-
mans, going to the column that closely
followed Louis Stanislas Xavier, to
general count D’Erion, who was to
receive him at Lille, to general Clau-
sel, then at Bordeaux, w here the duch
ess of Angouleme, then was, to gene
ral Grouchy, who was on his march to
suppress the civil disturbances excit
ed by the duke of Angouleme, in
m
the tniperor.
The result of the general • scrutiny of
the-votes shall be proclaimed, and the
act supplementary to the constitution^
shall be promulgated and sealed with
the seal of the state. * V-1
6. ' 'After the bath of-the emperor*
each assembly of electoral colleges, hi
succession and in alphabetical order,
shall take through the medium of one
of its members, the oath of obedience
to the constitution, and of fidelity to
the emperor.
7. Eagles shall be distributed in the
irfiins, had tojfpwf
Murat niude two
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S itiiftl&porit. i
gjf^ksAtp.uii .ikon
the 8th and 9th, but was repulsro in'-
each. He fell back*''upon C^arpi.—
Thither marshal Bianchi followed and
attacked hrfti'ou the 11th. The con
test was long and bloody; but at
length the enemy werd driven out of
the place, with the.loss, of 12 officers
and 500 men. ReggBplvas next aban
doned, and they took the route to Mo
dena. The column which proceeded
against Ferrara ,l)ad begun -operations
against ir, when on the 12th, the Atony!
trian generals Mohr and Nieppingat-
assembly of the Champ de Mai, to the tacked it. drove it offthe field* destroy-
electoral college of each department for ed its works, and pursued it
ftnd as sovereign of the Isle of Elba; short, every where orders were given
they would have designated him bv
it title, and could not have departed
m the respectful forms thereby re-
uired.
They would have perceived that
bccordi-'g to the law of nations the
Weakest prince, by either the extent
' or population of his states, enjoys, as
IIS— onr1 piimI olmfootpr fKp
political and civil character, the
rights that belong to all sover
eign'princes, aod is equal to the most
powerful monarch; and Napoleon ac
knowledged as emperor and soyereign
prince by all the powers, cannot, more
than any other of them be responsible
io the congress at Vienna.
That such principles could have
Leen disregard'd by plenipotentiaries
Who weigh the rights of nations with
Reflection, wisdom, arid mature con-
ale to suppose;
sideration, it is imp
but it is not to be wondered at when
manifested by some French ministers,
whose conscience reproaches more
than on treason, in whom fear has pro
duced inconsiderate passion, and
whose remorse misleads their reason.
These are the men who may have
xisked the fabrication ai d publication
of that pretended declaration of the
13th of March, in hopes thereby to
stop the march of Napoleon, and to
deceive the French people on the real
sentiments of foreign powers.
Like them, they are not able to judge
toe merits of a nation they have not
known how to appreciate, that they
have betrayed and delivered to foreign
euros.
That nation, brave and generous,
revolts against whatever bears the
character of baseness and oppression ;
by the emperor to respect, and protect
their persons from all danger of attack
or violence, on their march on french
territory, at the time when they were
departing from it.
Nations and posterity will determine
onwh.it side, during that great junc.
ture, the greatest respect has been ob
served towards the rights of nations
and sovereigns, to the rules of war, to
the principles of civilization, the max
ims of civilized and religions law.—
They will decide between Napoleon
and the family of the Bourbons.
After having examined the pretend
ed declaration of the congress, under
that first aspect, it has been discussed'
as it respects the diplomatic conven
tions, with the treity of Fontainhleau
of the 11th of April, ratified by the
French government, and it Will he
found that its violation can only be as
cribed to those who reproach it to Na
poleon.
(To be concluded in our next.)
Trori the Moniteur of the 24th.
IMPERIAL DECREE.
Extract from the Minutes of the De
part -ent of btate.
jit the Palace of the Eli/see, April 20.
Napoleon, by rhe Grace of God
and the Constitutions, Emperor of the
French.
We have decreed, and do decree
as follows.
Art. i. The assembly of the Champ
de Mai, convoked for the 26th of the
month of May, shall be composed of,
1st. the members of all the electoral
colleges of departments and arron-
the national guard of the department,
and to the deputations of each of the
corps of the military and marine forces.
8. Our ministers are charged, each
in his department, with the execution
of the present decree. Napoleon.
By the emperor:
The minister secretary of state.
The Duke de Bassano.
Pxirrs, April 29. \
The prefect of the Moselle to the Min-
« ’ ister of General Police *
“Meiz, April 27, in the morning,
The king of Prussia had ordered by
proclamation, the inhabitants of the
' right Bank of the M.oselle, which is
I ceded to him by treaty, to take the
' oath of fidelity to him. A proclama
tion Ksuid by the Austrian commis
sion at C renbyhach, forbids obedience
to that of the king of Prussia.
VVe are assured, that the Dutch
are relieving the Prussians at Luxtm-
burgh.”
French Funds, 56 1-2.
Bologna. ... ;i;; . m
The third Column under Pignatelli
had entered Florence. Two more
attacks were made upon him on the
10th and 11th, but the enemy were
each time repulsed with considerable
loss in killed and wounded.
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From the Mercantile Advertiser.
New-York, June 16.
FROM FRANCE.
The brig Georgia, captain Smith,
arrived, at this port this morning, in
40 days from bochelle t aptain S
has favored us with Paris papers to
the first of May, which are in the
hands of a translator.
By this arrival, we learn verb illy,
that the emperor Napoleon had not. left
Paris on the 1st of May, but that it
was reported he would soon quit his
capitol and repair to the frontiers.
\yhere it was said 2 or 300.000 men
had marched. Hostilities had not
commenced between the allies and
France.
Just as our paper Is putting to press,
a; friend has put into our hands a cojjy
Of an address from the congress of yi-
eiina to the people of France. *It is
indeed the most wicked and diabolical
state paper that we have ever read, hot M
excepting the manifesto of the duke of*
Brunswick, in 1792, nor the declara
tion of the allies of Mareh\13, •
Philadelphia Press. , l . ; .\ /
From the London “Pilot.”, of. April’26.
JVe announced in the Pilot ofyester-
day the arrival of an overland dispatch
from India. No partoftts contents has
been sujferedftb transpire. Jfe IF™
reason to fear from the stqterflenti
private letters brought by the San
portunity, that- the intelligencejjtL rr<r . -
rived is of a disastrous nature-fymd SNt
hope that at the rising of thefvbu/t of*
Directors this (lay. some official comrnu-." «
mcation will be made to relieve the pub
lic mind from the anxiety and suspence j.
into which it has been thrown Ay the
p 'rtial disclosures that have been made.
One of the private letters mentions that
an action had taken place near Bunkot- >
wah. on the Napaul frontier, between
the British and the NapafOcse troops, in
which we regret to learn, the ffyrmejfjr
defeated, and that General (Sjjwjp^nf
its-afiections arc exalted when their disements of the empire; 2d, of the
object is threatened or struck by a deputations which shall be nominated
great injustice,
and the assassination by all the corps of the army and navy
provoked by the first phrases of that
declaration, of the 13th of March, * i:n
2. Immediately on their arrival at
Paris, the members of the electoral
find no hands to execute it, neither colleges shall repair to the ministry of
among the 25 millions of Frenchmen,. the interior, where a reference will be
whose majority have jfollowed. guard- given to the place appointed for hold
ing the meeting, in one single assem
bly, of the members of the different
colleges of each department.
3 The assembly of the members of
the colleges of the same department shall
people of Germany, who, in this solemn form itself under the presidency:,of the
juncture, have not pronounced his president of the electoral colleges of the
name but with a respectful recollec- department After having appointed
«d, and protected Napoleon; from the
Mediterranean to the capital, nor
the 18 millions of Italians, the
six millions of Belgians and the
^borders of the Rhine, and numberless
tion; neither among the irritated
British nation, whose honorable senti-
xnents disavow the language so daring-
jjr ascribed to sovereigns"
The nations of Europe are enlight-
tlieir secretaries and scrutineers* the
assembly shall proceed to the examina
tion of the votes of the department.
4. The assemblies of the colleges of
each department shall severally nomin-
zned, and ableto judge the rights of ate a deputation of five members to car-
Napoleon, the rights oftheallied prin- ry the scrutiny of the votes of the de-
ces and those of the Bourbons. They partments to a central assembly, which
toll known that the convention of shall take a general scrutiny oi the votes,
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
New-York, June 14.
A London paper of the evening of
the 2d May has been received by the
cartel shin Dorset.
It confirms the account of the re
pulse of Murat in the late attack upon
the Austrians in Italy, and contradicts
the report of the king being wounded
at Occhio- Bello. The officer of rank
alluded to in the first details, was gen-
eral Ambrosio, who was struck with
a ball, and was remoytd to Bologna.
The Militia of Belgium has been
called out by the government; it com
prehends, with certain clauses and re
strictions, all males fit for service from
18 to 25. The head qu :rters of the
Bplgic army was at B usssels, where
general Boumouville had arrived.
Abut the 20th May, it was expect
ed there would be an army of 80,000
pie and many Europeans were among
the killed. The object, of the attack
upon the Napaut country had, in conse
quence, been abandoned for the present;
but hostile operations were to be resjtm-
ed as soon as competent reinforcements
oj troops should arrive.
%From our New-York-Correspondents.
June 15—Noon. *
LATEST FROM SWEDEN.
The ship - Superior, captain Coffin,
arrived at this port yesterday from Got-
tenbuCgh, from whence she sailed on (
the 29th April. captain C. informs
us that the crown prince of Sweden
Bcmadotte, was at Stockholm. It was
generally understood at Oot f enbftrgh,
that Sweden would not enter into the
contest which it was expected was ap
proaching ; but would keen lip a
formidable force to protect its own
neutrality, or to act acrording*fd any
new circumstances Which may arise.
■ —. ■ * % * 1 * ’*<?
New-Yohk, June 15. t
Captain Parker, in 20 days from
Carthagena, informs that generafBo-
jkgl
)&
Russians on the Rhine—by the 30th; livar had embarked for Jamaica in a
another army of the same strength British brig of war * A number of the ^
were to arrrive there; and a third army j Carthagenians had rallied round’ his
of 50,000 men were to pass to Italy j standard, for the purpose of opposing
through the Tyrol. Besides these; the Spaniards in the interior. -ftrivas
reported that the troops formerly com
manded by general B, had disarmed
all the Carthagenian troops, and plac
ed the officers ■—’—
100,000 Russians are to form an army
of reserve on the Oder.
Accounts from Calais of the 26th
April state, that there was at that time
no change in the communication with
England. An English vessel arrived
there the day before laden with sugar,
coffee and cotton; and the English
merchants write that cargoes may be
sent with perk «t safety, and that they
can ensure th( se sent.
Jontainbleau is a treaty between soyer- under the superintendance of the arch-
iJkfljgjgns j its violation, the return of Na- chancellor, who shall convey the result
.„eon op the French territory, could, to the emperor.
■no more than any other hostile inva- 5. AU the members of the electoral
sion, but provoke an ordinary war, colleges, and of the deputation from
the result of which cannot, as to the the military and marine force, consti-
peron be any thing more than van* Turing the assembly ef the Champ d«
London, May 2—evening.-— 1 Gov
ernment have received more detailed
accounts of the operations in Italy —
They are all satisfactory. One of Mu
rat’s columns, which he commanded
in person, advanced towards Occhio-
’Bello; a second towards Ferrara; a
Wot
ST
under arrest; "'rhe
Royalists had advanced within 60 miles
of Carthagena, and in their progress
had taken possession of Mont-Postand
Bovencellia, and several other -towns
nr villages. The Spanish j fleet was
daily expected, and it was supposed
would meet with very little opposition-
A British frigate and sloop'of. war
protected the property' of toe
chants. ,• .
mer.
The London Pilot of April r25th»
states, on the authority of privgtepil-".
ters from Paris, that a splendid monu
ment is to be erected on *
third under Pignatelli marched upon where Bonaparte landed on his ret urn
Florence. The Austrians in the first
instance fell back ; Murat advanced
el«ie te OccbiorBdle, where the Aus
from J Elba. This monument, -it is
said, is to bear Ibe following inscrip-
fr»n; ,
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