contracting parties
agreed that Holland should have an increase of territory; that the
lesser German states should be independent, and united by a Germanic
federal league; that Switzerland should enjoy its independence under the
government of its own choice; and that Italy, beyond the limits of the
Austrian dominions, which were to be restored, should be composed
of sovereign independent states. France recovered her colonies from
England, with the exception of Tobago, St. Lucie, and the Isle of
France with its dependencies. Malta was to be retained by England, which
country had recently obtained the Cape of Good Hope by a separate treaty
with Holland. French Guiana was restored by Portugal, and the rights of
France of fishery on the bank of Newfoundland were all to be restored
as they were by the peace of 1783. As a proof of their sincerity in
the repeated declarations they had made, that they meant no ill to
France--that they waged war only against Napoleon, the allies agreed
that their armies should evacuate France, and that all the French
prisoners should be restored. This treaty was considered final as
regards France; but there were other affairs of an extensive and
complicated nature still to be settled, the greater part of Europe
requiring reorganization, and her past misfortunes demanding some
preconcerted defences for the future--and it was therefore agreed in a
separate article that all the powers engaged in the late war should send
plenipotentiaries to a congress to be held at Vienna, for the object
of completing the pacific dispositions of the treaty of Paris, and of
preventing the recurrence of such a war as that in which they had for so
many years been engaged, and by which the countries of Europe had been
desolated.

HONOURS CONFERRED ON WELLINGTON, ETC.

The news of the important events which had taken place in Fiance arrived
while the spring session of the British parliament was sitting.
Loud acclamations were heard from every part of the house when Lord
Castlereagh, who had been our negociator at Paris, appeared again in the
house; but louder and longer still were the shouts of applause, when the
great general, who had recently been raised to a dukedom, took his seat
among them. A splendid provision was settled on him by parliament. In
addition to a former grant of L100,000 the chancellor of the exchequer
moved a farther vote of L300,000 for the purchase of an estate for him,
but at the suggesti