“Dear Sir,—When the Emperor
of Russia and the King of
Prussia said concisely and emphatically ‘the
confederation of the Rhine must be dissolved,’ my assent was
instantaneous and unfeigned. But after the atrocious system of usurpation,
rapine, and oppression, which has lately been formed—after the violation of
every principle, which secures the independence of nations—after an interchange
of secret articles, which unite the parties in a bond of alliance against
England, and every other country in Europe, daring to assert their social
rights, or to resist internal despotism—I say, without disguise and without
qualification, the conspiracy of Vienna must be resisted. Should the just
indignation of Norway, Italy, Belgium,
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