order to arrive, in the shortest possible time, at a formal arrangement, and have consequently determined, 1. That a general Treaty shall be drawn up, upon the bases above laid down, and adding to them such articles as, by common consent, shall be judged necessary to complete it. The French Government will nominate, on its part, the person who is to unite with those whom the four Powers have charged with the drawing up of the Treaty. 2. That the Commissioners appointed for the military affairs shall proceed, conjointly with the Commissioners whom the French Government shall appoint for this purpose, to draw up a plan of Convention to regulate every thing relative to the military occupation, and to the support of the army employed in this occupation. The same Commissioners shall also determine the manner and the periods of the evacuation of all such parts of the French territory as are not comprehended within the line of the military occupation. 3. That a special Commission appointed for that purpose by the contracting parties, shall draw up, without delay, a plan of Convention to regulate the mode, the periods, and the guarantees of the payment of the 700,000,000 of francs, to be stipulated by the general Treaty. 4. The Commission formed to examine the reclamations of several Powers, relatively to the non-execution of certain articles of the Treaty of Paris, shall continue its labours, with the understanding, that it is to communicate them as soon as possible, to the Plenipotentiaries in the principal negociation. 5. That as soon as these Commissioners shall have terminated their labours, the Plenipotentiaries shall unite to examine the results of them, to determine on the definitive arrangements, and to sign the principal Treaty, as well as the different particular Conventions. This process verbal having been read, the Plenipotentiaries have approved it, and (Signed) RASUMOWSKY, CASTLEREAGH, RICHELIEU, WELLINGTON, WESSENBERG, HARDENBERG. London, Foreign Office, Nov. 23, 1815. Mr. PLANTA arrived early this morning, from Paris, with the several Treaties and Conventions, for the restoration and maintenance of Peace, between His Britannic Majesty and his Allies, on one part, and His Most Christian Majesty, on the other; signed, at Paris, on Monday, the 20th instant, by LORD VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH, and the Field Marshal his Grace the DUKE OF WELLINGTON, as Plenipotentiaries of His Majesty, and by the Duc DE RICHELIEU, as Plenipotentiary of His Most Christian Majesty. NOTE-Additional particulars of the Battle of Waterloo, and the co-operative movements over Switzerland and Italy, the Progress of the body of Austrian and Russian forces, with much other unpublished information, will be found in the sequel to this work; being, together, a detailed account of the operations of the confederated Allies against the power of France under General Bona parte. Printed by J. Barfield, 91, Wardour-Street, Sobo, MILITARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE FALLEN HEROES. DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. <To record the virtues of the departed brave," is a pleasing though painful task to survivors; and the pen is never perhaps exercised with more immediate advantage, or future benefit, than when paying a due tribute to the worth and excellence of those, with whom Providence has adorned society for a time, and then by some sudden event has swept them away, and left their image alone to memory. At the head of these may be placed His Serene Highness the Duke of BRUNSWICK OELS, who was killed on the spot by a wound in his side, whilst fighting gallantly at the head of his troops. His remains were brought to Brunswick near midnight, on the 22d of June, accompanied by the physician and servants of his household. Several thousand persons went to meet them. At a mile distance from the town, the horses were taken from the hearse, and drawn by the people to the Palace. This Prince had put his army, amounting to 14,000 men, in mourning ever since his father's death; and made his soldiers swear never to leave it off, till they had avenged the insult offered to his father's tomb by the French. FREDERICK WILLIAM, Duke of BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBUTTLE, OELS, and BERNSTADT, was the fourth and youngest son of Charles William Ferdinand, the late reigning Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, who died on the 10th of November, 1806, at Ottensen, near Altona, in consequence of the wound which he received at the unfortunate battle of Jena.* He was doubly allied to the Illustrious House which sways the British sceptre +-his mother being the sister of our beloved Buonaparté refused this Noble Character burial among his ancestors. + The seven sons of William the younger Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, furnished the most striking instance of fraternal affection. The right of primogeniture had not yet been introduced into the Dukedom, and the death of each reigning Prince had till then given occasion to a division of power, H Monarch, and his sister the wife of the Heir-apparent to the throne. He was born on the 9th of October, 1771, at the time when his father was still Hereditary Prince; but already highly honoured by the princes and people of Germany, on account of his exploits in the seven-years war, and the attachment of Frederick the Great to his brave companion in arms. The whole North of Germany was suffering, in that unhappy year, the horrors of famine from a failure of the harvest. Brunswick was besides oppressed by the disorder of the finances, from which there was no relief except through the Hereditary Prince. He thought it his duty to give, in his own family, the example of the economy which he wished to introduce into his country. This generous resolution, and the numerous military and state affairs which occupied the time of the Hereditary Prince, did not fail to influence in some measure the education of his sons. Frederick William being the youngest, his future elevation to the sovereignty could not be calculated upon in his education: but whoever observed him and his way of life, not only what immediately surrounded him, could not help believing him destined for something great. His large and ardent eye added the expression of energy, to the mildness that was announced by the mouth and other features; a finely formed forehead, and a Grecian nose, completed his agreeable countenance. His form was elegant, yet muscular; and he hardened himself against the fatigues of war, eagerly pursuing the exercises which are considered as its image. It has been often remarked, that the most lively minds are the fondest of the abstruse sciences: thus the Prince took great delight in Mathematics. His education was, upon the whole, much the same as that of his brothers, who were but a little older than himself, till the military profession, for which he was destined, required an appropriate course of instruction. When he arrived at maturer years, and became Sovereign, he regretted the want of a more extensive education. which must in the end be the means of considerably weakening the grandeur of this sovereignty. Immediately after the death of their father, which happened in 1611, the seven brothers resolved to make a regular family convention, in virtue of which it should no longer be permitted to dismember in future the Ducal Domains; but, on the contrary, to unite them under that part of their posterity to whose rule they might hereafter fall. They agreed at the same time, that one out of the seven should marry, and that they would draw lots to determine who should be the prop of their house. They all agreed to this proposal, and the lot fell upon Duke George, the youngest but one: his elder brothers affectionately embraced him, and strictly observed every article agreed upon. The posterity of this George are now in possession of the Throne of England. In 1785, he was nominated successor to his uncle, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Oels and Bernstadt, in case he should die without issue; an arrangement which was confirmed by Frederick the Great, and his nephew, Frederick William II. as sovereigns of Silesia. The Prince in his 16th year went to Lausanne, accompanied by M. Langer, who still holds the situation of librarian at Wolfenbuttle, and who had, a few years before, attended his brother, the hereditary prince, to the same place. After a residence of about two years in Switzerland, the Prince immediately commenced his military career. He was appointed captain in the regiment of infantry then in garrison at Magdeburgh, commanded by Lieutenant-General Langefeld, governor of that place, who died in 1789; a regiment which previously had for its chief the Prince's great uncle, the hero of Crevelt and Minden. The Prince here devoted himself with the whole ardour and perseverance of his soul to the duties of his profession, and was rapidly promoted; the army divided its attention between him and Prince Louis of Prussia, at that time a promising young hero like himself. How did his father delight in him; with what transport did he see himself honoured in the person of his son, on whose breast the star of the Black Eagle blazed! How did he rejoice at the encomiums which the youth, then only nineteen years old, received on being promoted to the rank of Major! Thus Frederick William began his career, surrounded by the remembrance of the great examples of his house of the lion-hearted HENRY, who served his Emperor and friend, and, after he had lost all through him, still preserved a heart for him; of the accomplished JULIUS, who disregarded money, where Art or Science were in question, and yet always had more money at his command than other princes of his time; of the high-minded CHRISTIAN, who was still a Knight when the days of chivalry were no more, and who understood how to derive more advantage from his defeats, than others from their victories; of that illustrious commander FERDINAND, whom the great Frederick sent instead of an auxiliary army to beat the French, and lo! what the King had said was done; and lastly, of LEOPOLD, who had just ended his sacred vocation in the service of humanity in the waves of the Oder. The Prince, whose mother was sister to the King of England, and whose grandmother was sister to Frederick the Great, lived and formed himself in those recollections, and in the love of his father, brave as a Henry, and noble as his brother Leopold had been. In the war with France, which commenced in 1792, the Prince ac companied the Prussian army. He gained experience; and the mili tary talents and intrepidity which he more and more developed, were conspicuously, displayed by him on every occasion. This courage, this buoyant sense of youthful energy, which banished every idea of personal danger, impelled him, in several instances, beyond the bounds of prudence. On the 27th of November, in the last-mentioned year, he incurred the most imminent danger of his life, in a skirmish which took place in the village of Etsch, near Wurges. He here received his first honourable wound, from the effects of which he did not recover till after a considerable time. His father, whose permission he had obtained to be present at the action, received the news of his wound with admirable composure and suppression of his affliction, as is testified by Massenbach, who brought him the intelligence. The treaty concluded at Basle on the 5th of April, 1795, again gave repose to the Prussian army. Prince Frederick William, after being for some time commander of the regiment of Thadden at Halle, and afterwards of Kleist's regiment at Prenzlau, was, in 1800, promoted to the rank of Major-General. The latter regiment had long distinguished itself in the Prussian army, and, under the conduct of the Prince, who bestowed on it the most assiduous attention and many sacrifices, confirmed the character and reputation which it had acquired. His father, who had not yet had the pleasure of seeing grandchildren in his family, had long wished that Frederick William should marry; and his unmarried brothers were willing to cede to him their rights to the succession. But this wish of the father and brothers remained unfulfilled, because love alone was for a heart like that of Frederick William, the price of love. As, in the ancient heroic times of Germany, the houses of Welf and Zaehringen had been in the most intimate friendship, as Henry the Lion rivalled the wise Duke Berchtold IV. of Zaehringen, so it now happened that the Duke CHARLES WILLIAM of Brunswick emulated the Margrave Charles Frederick of Baden, in the glory of making his people happy. Economy and beneficence, old German probity, and the enlarged ideas of later times, all was turned to account; their subjects blessed the one as well as the other, and the Princes honoured each other. This mutual esteem of the fathers, became the tenderest love between their children; Frederick William was devoted with his whole soul to the gentle Maria, grand-daughter of the venerable Charles Frederick. The Princess was beautiful, and still more amiable than beautiful, by the charms of her angelic pious mind, by the natural delicacy of her sentiments, and by the mental polish which she owed to her excellent mother, a second Landgravine Amelia of Hesse, both in character and Her policy was the more admirable as it was wholly without name. |