Fincastle Mirror

SECRET TREATY OF VERONA.

The following state paper (in French) was communicated to us by a correspondent, with an assurance of his having ground for believing in its authenticity. We publish it as we received it, without giving any positive opinion on the subject:--

"The undersigned Plenipotentiaries, especially authorised by their Sovereigns to make some addition to the treaty of the Holy Alliance, after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles--

"Art. I. The High Contracting Parties, well convinced that the system of Representative Government is as incompatible with the monarchial principle as the maxim of the sovereignty of the people is opposed to the principle of Divine Right, engage in the most solemn manner to employ all their means, and unite all their efforts to put an end to the system of Representative Government wherever it is known to exist in the States of Europe, and to prevent it from being introduced into those states where it is not known.

"Art. 2. As it cannot be disputed that the freedom of the Press is the most efficacious means employed by the pretended defenders of the rights of nations, to injure those of Princes, the High Contracting Parties reciprocally promise to adopt every possible measure for its suppression, not only in their own States, but in all others in Europe.

"Art. 3. Being of opinion that religious principles are those which may still powerfully contribute to maintain nations in that state of passive obedience which they owe to their Princes, the High Contracting Parties declare it to be their intention to support each in his own states the measures which the Clergy, with a view to their own interest, are enabled to carry into effect for the purpose of maintaining the authority of princes, and they in common offer their acknowledgements to the Pope for the part he has already taken in this respect, soliciting his constant co-operation with a view to the subjection of nations.

"Art. 4. The situation of Spain and Portugal uniting unfortunately all the circumstances to which this Treaty refers, High Contracting Parties, in confiding to France the task of putting an end to them, assure her of assistance which may least compromise them with their people and with the French people, by means of a subsidy on the part of the two Emperors of 20,000,000 francs each per annum, reckoning from the day of the ratification of this treaty, and during the whole term of the war.

"Art. 5. In order to effectuate in the Peninsula the restoration of the state of affairs existing previous to the Revolution of Cadiz, and to secure the entire fulfilment of the views pointed out in the stipulations of this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties give a reciprocal assurance, that so long as their object shall remain unaccomplished, they will, rejecting every other idea of utility or expedience, cause to be expedited the most precise orders to all the Authorities in their States, and to all their agents in foreign parts, to the end that the most perfect agreement may be established between those of the four contracting Powers, with reference to the object of this Treaty.

"Art. 6. This Treaty shall be renewed, with the alteration required for its object, and adapted to the circumstances of the moment, either at a new congress, or at one of the Courts of the High contracting Parties, as soon as war with Spain shall have terminated.

"Art. 7. The present shall be ratified: the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris within two months.

"Given at Verona this 22d Nov. 1822.

"For Austria, METTERNICH.

"For France, CHATEAUBRIAND

"For Prussia, BERNSTORFF

"For Russia, NESSELRODE."