osperity hitherto unknown in France. comparatively unloaded by debt, untithes, game laws, excise, and turnthe English government saw that not been done; and that, somehow France must be rendered worse off; ere could be no safety for borough- tithes, and debt, in England. I he reader to go over the foregoing ain; and then to proceed with e proposition which I mean to make vhich it is of the greatest possible imthe cause of truth to make clear to of my readers, is this, that the Enment most anxiously wished for the Napoleon to France. France. Whether it ntrived it the reader must be left to mself, I wishing to lead him into no ot fully borne out by the facts of the have seen how discontented this gowas with the result of the Treaty of have seen the effects of a few months th France; and how alarming those , and necessarily must have been, to government; and, let us now look uct of that government with regard be of NAPOLEON from ELBA, and of es it was fully prepared to adopt the landed in France. 224. NAPOLEON landed in the bay of JUAN on the 1st of March, 1815. Common mortals were struck with surprise at this event. This government had him a safe prisoner in a small island in the Mediterranean Sea; this govern ment had an officer living at ELBA to watch NAPOLEON; the sea was covered with English cruisers of all sizes; how was he to escape in a little sloop, and, with divers persons along with him, safely land, without interruption, in France! The officer stationed at ELBA to watch him came to England immediately after NAPOLEON's retum to France; and, instead of being censured and disgraced, was highly honoured, and was presented to the Prince Regent, and received with every mark of Royal approbation. How is this to be accounted for, unless we believe, that the English government desired to see NAPOLEON return? But, besides these circumstances, there are two others, without looking at which, we have but a comparatively feeble light upon subject. At the time when NAPOLEON landed, the plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, England, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain, and Sweden, were all assembled at VIENNA. They were there for God knows what real purpose; but the pretence was, to settle some matters which were left unsettled by the Treaty of Paris of May, 1814. Now, look well at the dates. He landed in France on the 1st of March; on the 13th of the month, only eleven clear days after these plenipotentiaries issued what, the "Declaration of the Allies," : ration was in the following words : LARATION OF THE ALLIES. who have signed the Treaty of Paris, assem-¡ gress at Vienna, being informed of the escape UONAPARTE, and of his entrance into France force, owe it to their own dignity and the inorder, to make a solemn declaration of the ch this event has excited in them. By thus onvention which has established him in the Buonaparte destroys the only legal title on ence depended-by appearing again in France f confusion and disorder, he has deprived himection of the law, and has manifested to the. there can be neither peace nor truce with him. nsequently declare, that Napoleon Buonaparte self without the pale of civil and social relaas an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity e has rendered himself liable to public vendeclare at the same time, that firmly resolved ire the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814, itions sanctioned by that Treaty, and those ve resolved on, or shall hereafter resolve ou, l to consolidate it, they will employ all their 1 unite all their efforts; that the general peace, he wishes of Europe, and the constant purpose s, may not again be troubled; and to guaranry attempt which shall threaten to replunge the disorders and miseries of revolutions. And ely persuaded that all France, rallying round Sovereign, will immediately annihilate this last criminal and impotent delirium; all the Sove ope, animated by the same sentiments, and same principles, declare that if, contrary to all here should result from this event any real dan ger, they will be ready to give to the King of France, and t the French nation, or to any other Government that shall be attacked, as soon as they shall be called upon, all the assistance requisite to restore public tranquillity, and to make: common cause against all those who should undertake to compromise it. The present Declaration inserted in the Be gister of the Congress assembled at Vienna, on the 13 March, 1815, shall be made public. Done and attested by the Plenipotentiaries of the High Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris, Vienna, 13th March, 1815. Austria.-Prince Metternich, Baron Wissenberg. France.-Prince Talleyrand, the Duke of Dalberg, Latour Pin, Count Alexis and Noailles. Great Britain.-Wellington, Clancarty, Cathcart, Stewart. Prussia.-Prince Hardenberg, Baron Humboldt. selrode. Spain.-P. Gomez Labrador. 225. Now, besides the next to impossibility of all these people having had time to be duly informed of the landing of NAPOLEON; there is a perfect physical impossibility, that WELLING TON, and his assessors, should have received any instructions upon the subject from their govern ment; unless we allow that government to have been gifted with the power of foreseeing events. There were only eleven days, observe. The news did not reach England until the 15th of March, or thereabouts; so that it is absolutely impossible that WELLINGTON and his assessors I could have received any instructions on the subject on the 13th of March. How came WEL d his associates, then, to sign a dewar against NAPOLEON? How came such a liberty as this? How came r into an alliance for the purpose of POLEON? In short, it is impossible ve that his return was in the contemhe English government; in its conat least; and that WELLINGTON had tructions accordingly; for it is quite to believe that any ambassador to gress appointed for other matters, out specific authority, have joined in n of war against a sovereign de facto, the French nation, beforehand, and y act of aggression committed on e other circumstance strongly corrothis that, after the conclusion of the ARIS, in the month of May, 1814, the ernment had gone into the war against States of America with tenfold fury; s had been sent thither; the most fare had been commenced; it had 7 declared in the House of Commons there was to be no peace with Amehe President MADISON should be dethat there could be no peace for ernment until the republican constituerica should be put down. This was n England; it was the fashionable |