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rienuttrwc; OFFICE &Met NKr 16 zoos . THE COMMISS/ONERS fee VICTUALLING HIS MA'Y ASTI'S AA 7r, do inch gice maia, That on Tsthallay the ld of Cdtoher next 111 r. Thomas nee% their Agent at Dover. will be ready, at his oMcc, at the Mallon Dieu, to t.ce!e:. T.mcier- in ver:tiog, (fated up) and treat far FIVE HUNDRED QUARTERS of GOOD CLh AN WH ,` AT. Not to weigh kis than fifty fix vunds per boatel; to be &IN ercd into His Mojeity's Vie - lea:ling stores at that port, and to Le ; for by bills payable with intertft ninety days after date. In the Wheat Mould weigh more than 514.5 x pounds per bufhel. the overweight will be paid fur. The Conditions of the Cut:urea may be feta at the Viduelling Office at Dover. No Tenders will be received after twelve o'clock, nor for a Ids quantity than One Hundred Q_uartera. STATE PAPERS. TWO DECLARATIONS IN THE FORM OF NOTES, DELIVERED BY M. D. TALLEYREND, MINISTER OF FO REIGN RELATIONS, TO COUNT PHILIP COSENTZEL, •T PARIS. FIRST NOTE FROM WOE TALLLYRAND, sieraveaco ON TUE 13Th OP ANGUS!' , 180 r. The underfigned has haaLned, on the termination of the conference which he has had the honour of holding with Count de COBENTXEL. to tranfmit col Boulogne the lieclaration delivered to him by Ills', Excellency (alluding to the known Autlrian Decla ration of the ph of Augutl), and he has received orders from the Emperor and King to return the following anfwer The Emperor could not fail of beingfenfibly af ft:fled by the fentiments of moderation Ihewn in the aforcfaid Declaration, and by the amicable readinefs of his Majefly the Emperor of Germany and Auaria, to batten, by his interpofition, the termination of the evi;s caufed by the war to the French Empire. But the more his Majefly knows how to appreciate the imprrtance and the value e•f the good offices of his Ma jefly the Emperor of Maria, th e - more he is grateful for the intention with which the offer of thole good offices is made, and the more does he feel, that his very fentiments of gratitude forbid him to make ufe thereof; if, on the one hand, from the nature of things, and, on the other, from the fituation of cir cumstances, it is not even pet:flitted to hope, that they can be employed with advantage, nor confe quently without compromifing the dignity of the Me diator. This motive alone would be decilitre for his Majelly, even if it were poffible to forget how the Cabinets of London and St. Peterlburgh have very lately anfwered'his moll noble and magnanimous behaviour. M. de NOVOSILTZOFF was coming to France, without the Emperor knowing his intentions.— The King of Pruffia had required pallports for this Chamberlain of the Emperor of Kuala. The paffporcs were immediately granted without any ex planation. What benefit has his Majefly derived from this extraordinary conceffion ! An offenfive Note, replete with falfe affertions, was the foie refult o f a miffon, which the Emperor bad neither occa fioned nor required. Being thus attacked in his honour, it is no longer poffible for him to require, or expect any thing of Rutlia, who, inflead of being delimits of peace, finds her own interea in war, and founds on its renovation hopes, which the attempts in vain• to conceal. when her behaviour unveils them even to chore eyes which are the leafl penetrating. For a twelvemonth pall the Emperor has received nothing but infults from the Ruffian Cabinet. His charaaer and his difpofitions are too well known for it to be believed that he will expofe himfelf to freffi injuries. It belongs to the Emperor ALEXANDER to judge which alternative appears molt advantageous , for him ; whether to perfitt in a fyfiem, to the adop tion of which he was moved by foreign influence, or to return to more moderate, more jult, and wirer fentiments. He has a greater interea in returning to them, than France has to lead him back thereto. This :Act ation mutt be the relish of his own confide ration, and cannot form an object of any kind of ne gotiation. As to England, his Majefly made an attempt, eight months .Igo, to incline her to peace, which at tempt Eutope knew how in appreciate, and which would not have been in vain, if England had depen ded folely upon her own refources ; but, from the Anfwer it:trotted by the Cabinet of St. James's, it it was clear that it would not think of a peace, till • it had 101 l every hope of fetting the Continent in flames, and of coveting Italy with blood and car nage. With this intention, and with this intention alone. it called upon the interpofition of Ruffla.— The Cabinet of Vienna is too enlightened not to per ceive this, though the projeas and motives of Eng land were not known to it, from the prefling folicita tions, and from the offer of fubfidies, with which fhe has conaantly befieged die Court of Vienna, to in duce it to take up arms. It cannot be hoped that Inch a power will lialn to the advice of moderation and juttice. It would even he ufelefs to fpcak to it of its intet ell, which ought to be deatca to it. Blind paffions induce it to miflake chide intereas. The voice of perfualion would avail nothing ; but that which the good offices of Aullria cannot induce England to do, Auftria can oblige her to do. She needs neither exertions nor menaces for this purpofe, hut merely to obferve a very fimple pro cefs, which will convince England of her impotence. nglani knows, and has more than once declared, Ruflia alone cannot afford her any afliaance, ',at a diverflon will be of no ufe to her, fo long iffi t and Auflria will not co-operate with her. Ala has declared at all times, that the will in no ,ter into any hollile proje& againil France. Let ai.peror of Auaria make the fame declaration, ie Britifh Cabinet will immediately feel its own •ii, as it is no longer deceived by , unfounded inati .11 , , and is informed by the opinion of the inlightened people of that country ; it will im tely fee the neceffity of returning to the aipu , of the Treaty of Amiens, and the will find her iefs in this neceflity. Then the Emperor of !any will not only have a claim upon the grati. of the Emperor of the French, but he will have id more for his own advantage than if he had ten battles againa France; for an immediate pence of the peace would be the performance obligation which his Majelly the Emperor.of each has taken upon kimfelf, and which he re-, 'newt with r.!-antre, cf feparating the Crowns -of France and a • • If. on the other hold. Aniiria, by indecifive mea- Awes leave a doubtful and uncertain opi n io n thereby the r.u.horizea the affertions of she linglifh Miniary, that the belongs to a Coalition ; if the con tinues to keep 73,0c0 men in Italy, the E mperor will he obliged to f)elieve that the feet, with a fecrct joy, a war which weaken. France. and that the thinks the moment favour a bl e for tefuniing tiro& hollilities, of which the prefrpt generation iputt be tired of b:ing made the vi6ims. _ His 14i1 tje'l y, who has-only so,ooo men in Italy, ts,ooo of whcm are at the extremity of the kingdom of Naples, fees his moil important frontier expofed to danger, and cannot provide it with frefh troops, without drawing the troops from his Army of the Ocean ; he cannot therefore confider Attalla in any other light than that of making a diverfion in favour of England, which is as impreffive and more trouble come to him than would be an open war. His Excellency Count Commit. will have re marked what great and extraordinary fubjeits the prefent c ireumttances offer. Such circumflances ren ' der meafures neceffary anfwerahle thereto. It is a truth, of which all cnlirtett•za men are fenfible, and of which his Majelly is penetrated—when Fast:maw ' the Second law that a war was intended againti him, he was beforehand with his enemies. The Houfe of Aunria has more than once drrne the fame ; at pre fent the Emperor of the French fees preparations making in Poland and in Italy. Even the places where they are made. thew that they are the refult of an agreement, and point out againft whom they are intended. The Underfigned mutt afk of Count CoasturzeL, what would the Emperor of Carnally do. if he were in the place of the French Emperor ? However, the Emperor will be happy to fuppofe the beg for futurity, as it . depends on Außria to make what is to come happy for Europe, and as he takes the fentiments, expreffed in the note, which the underfigned has received of CouniConsNTZat , fora good omen. May Autilia atm the fame declara tion which Pruffia has made ; may ffie, by ads con firm that declaration, and reduce her whole force, and the whole artillery, B:c.. of her army, to the peace eitablithment ; may (he no longer keep Thooo men in Italy—may the order back t their garrifons the regiments affembled to form an army in the Tyrol, and ceafe the ettablithing of magazines, and the for tified camps, which announce an approaching war, and nothing will further difturb the peace of the Continent ; this peace, fo clearable to all partieg, fence France has nothing to gain by a frefh combat. Außria will gain nothing by it, and the maritime peace will food follow. When Anaria shall have de clared, that the remains neutral, and will remain neu tral, a peace will be the defire and hope of England; it will be concluded, and the Treaty of Amiens will be reaored before the month of January. The Crowns of France and Italy will be feparared for ever: Europe, enjoying fecuriry and tranquillity, wiil owe them to the wifdom of Atittria, which, by an oppo lite behaviour, would have precipitated Europe into a fituation, which neither the Cabinet of the Thuil ler ies, nor the Cabinet of Vienna, nor any other, could calculate or forefce. His Excellency Count Conan rz Ix will fee, that in thofe communications, which the Underfigned has been ordered to make to hint, it was impoffible to his Majefly to proceed with more opennefs, dignity, and fincerity. For the interea of Auaria herfelf, and for the glory of her Sovereign, his Maj efty wiffies that the Emperor of Germany may avail himfelf of the opportunity which is offered to him. The fate of his own States, and that of Europe, is now in his hands. In one hand he holds the diflurbances and revolutions; in the other, the general peace. An impartial neutrality is fufficient for him to obtain what he defires,and to infure the peace of the world. The moll efficacious mediation of peace which Auf tria can make, confias in the prefavation of the molt perk& neutrality, in the ceifetion of armaments, in not obliging France to make a diverfion, and in leaving no hope for England of bringing Anaria over to her fide. The under figura can have no doubt, but his Excel lency Count COBEUTZEL will fet a due value upon the fulljees difcuifed in the prefent note, and contribute, 'by his influence, to have them confidered in their true paot of view. He feizes this opportunity to renew to his Excel. lency, Coant Coast:l-z EL, the alTurance of his highell chem. SECOND NOTE FROM M. DETALLEYRAND. nrtivaitto ON Tilt: f It or AucesT, ritas. His Matlifly the Emperor had placed the greater reliance on the pacific and amicable affurances of Aufiria, as he thought he had a right to depend upon the good difpolition of that Power, confidering the manner in which he behaved towards it after two wars, the entire advantage of which was on the fide of France, and in which the greaten part of the Auf trian poffenions had been conquered by his arms.' Entirely occupied with the war which England has raifed, he hoped, fence he had given Aunt is no caufe of complaint, that Aufiria would preferve the IlriSelt and molt impartial nem, ality ; but , the movements cf troops, and the other h Mine difpofitions which have taken place in the Hereditary States, and at which Europe is ei th er uneafy or allonifhed, compel his Majefly the Emperor to demand not only a categori cal explanation, but a moll fpeedy one. The repeated accounts. which the Emperor re ceives from all quarters, compel him to poll one his projeOs again ft England ; and, thus Auf iria has done as much as if flits had commenced hollilities— for the has made the molt powerful diverlion in fa vour of England.,. Aufitia Aerates an army in the Tyrol, whilft France has catenated all Switzerland. His Excel lency Count Coevarz Lt. knows very well, that An aria has nearly 72,000 men in. Italy, whilst France has not 50,c00 there, ts,ooo of whom are on the Gulpls of 'Trento ; and this is the very caufe that has principally detcrrnined him to fufpend his pro jects. Austria railer camp fortifications every where as if a war were already declared, or very near at hand. All the Auflrian troops are in motion ; all have quitted their gatrifons in which they were quar tered ; all are marching in a direelion which an nounces war ; and how, indeed, could his Majefly the Emperor of Get many and Auftria, alembic fo many regiments with a pacific int-nion, in a coon. try fo barren and poor as the Tytol, where he can only mentaln them to the detriment of his &wee Wi.j fhould he etiablith magazines Why amid he ()Met the baking of bruit ? Why fbould he take up fo many draught horfes ? It 'is a principle ht the public law of Europe that the adembling of troops, eflab!ifising of magazines, baking of bikuit, taking np of draught horfes, art confidered by all powers RS a declaration of war, efpecially if ditch prepara tions are made on a frontier, which is left unprovid• ea by a power employedelfewhere. at an oppotite and very di!lant f. o ;tier. His Majeayrdefirous of rce.mcil ing thole difpofitions with the pacific exprefßons of his Majsity the Emperor of Germany, is which he has always placed the firongeß confidence, can only reconcile them on the fappofition that ti is Monarch knows nothing of the wrong that has been done to France ; and that the diverfion nccafioned by his ar mament is tantamount to actual hoalities. His Ma jeßy is Rill delirous of perfuading himfelf, that that Monarch really knows nothing of it; but the natu ral confequences of a fimilar error are equally detri mental to France as pofitive betide intentions, and for this very reafort his Majefty's intereit requires to be beforehand with them. It is no longer protefiations which can fatisfy his Majelly. His Majeity cannot adm4 any intermedi ate Rate betwixt that cf war or of peace. If Au!tria wants peace, every thing in Aufiria mutt be reilored to the peace ellablahment. Should Aeatia . defire war. his Malay will have nn other alternative than to throw back upon the aggreffor all the evils which he would bring. not only upon the prcfcnt genera tion, but alto (his Majaay dares to utter it with pride) upon his own States and his own Family : for his Malay will Ratter himfelf to obtain, in a new war, Similar viaories as in the preceding; and to fe cure himfelf againft thofe diyerfions which are, as it were, the &ft Rep of a coalition in favour of Eng land. The underfigned hits, therefore, received orderF, on the fuppofition molt agteeable to his Majefiy, namely, on the fuppofition that Außtia is defirous of peace, to demand, s. That the twenty-one regiments, which have been ftnt to the German and Italian Tyrol, Shall be withdrawn, and that thole troops only (hall remain in both the laid provinces, which were there fix months ago. a. That the camp fortifications be difcontinued.— The Emperor does not require, that • Auftria 11141 not ere& real fortifications. The right of crating them belongs to all Bates, and precaution often makes it the duty of a Prince. But as Venice is certainly no fortrefs, the works carrying on there at prefent are nothinf elfe than camp works. 3. That the troops in Styria, in Carinthia, in Fri uli, and in the Venetian let ivory, be redueed the numbers at which they Bond fix months ago. Lailly, That Auftria declares to England her firm and unfhaken determination to preferve an exaCt and fcrupulous neutrality, without taking a part in the prefent difpute ; becaufe it is the duty of Au aria, if the will preferve a fyllstn of neutrality, tri do nothing, either mediately, or immediately, in fa vour of England. The Underfigned has alto received orders to de clare to his Excellency Count CoasaTzst., or rather, to repeat the declaration fo often made to him . , that.' the deareft with of his Majelly the Emperofof the French, is the continuance of the peace with the' German Emperor that his Majeßy w.sold unwil lingly•take thole Reps'which he would bc. MijeJ to' take, by a pofilive refnfal, or even an evasive or di latory anfwer, to the demand.; which the Under figned has been diretted to make ; but that it; a situ ation like that of Auftria, Prince CHABLIS would not hefitate, as that Prince is too good a foldier not to behave in a fimilar manner; and that if his Ma jefty is obliged to repel force by force, he will not commit the fault to wait until the Ruffians• have joined the Aultrians again( him. • His Excellency Count Coserrrzat ; knows ton well , the importance and urgeky of the prefent circum.; fiances, for the Underfigned to think it neceffary to invite him to flatten, as much as is-poffible and de. pends on him, an Onfwer; which his Majefty expeCts with an impatiefice that is juffified on fo many grounds. The Underfigned takes this opportunity, &c. ~.... DECLARATION. DELIVERED AT VIENNA PT THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR, COUNT RILSOLIMOWSKT, ON THE 31ST of AUGUST, 18°5. lt would he fuperflitoirs to revert here to the mo. Lives which have induced his Majetly the Emperor of all the ltisffias, to recal the Plenipotentiary whom he had fent, in concert with his Britannic 'Majeliy, to riegociate with the Head of the French Government on the fubjea of 'peace. Theli grounds are too jug and obvious not to me rit the attention of all Europe. They are enntained it the Note which was tranfmitted to the Miuiters of his Prnffian Majefty, by M. Novosiwrzorr, on the 38th June (July to), and the conclufion to which' they have given rife, is a confequence of thofe very fcntimcnts and principles which have led his Imperial Majelly to exert himfelf with inceffant anxiety for the refforation of the general tranquillity. Since the rupture between England and France, his Majedy has beheld, with aftonifhment and corn. miferation, the greater part of the States of the Con. tiuent compelled, in fucceffinn, to bear the burden of a war, which in its origin is plainly of a maritime nature, and foreign to their dire& interests. He could not, however, cherilb the hope, that this melancholy hate of things might be put an end to, by means of a frank and tiiendly negotiation, when he perceived that, without the (lighten regard to thefe folemn seeding.; which tended to the refloration of peace, and even at the very moment when Rullia offered to neptiate for its attainment, the number of. States which. loft their independence continued to increafe. When his Imperial Majelly refolved to recall his Plenipotentiary, he was aauated merely by the con lideration that this million eetild not produce any pacific refult, and not from his having, in any refpea, renounced his ardent defire of reftoring peace to Europe. . Of this difpolition the Emperor gave the most convincing demonftration, in his acceding to the ap plication triode by his Imperialltoman and Apolloiic Majeily to England, France, and Ruf6a, with the view of renewing the negotiation which had been broken off. His Imperial Majelly, however, cannot at the fame time, conceal the potability that a con. dn&, on the part of France, Groilar to that w!:,et: has already compelled the Emperor to tread his firft fteps towards a ri:gotiat•ion for peace, a a y likewife render nugatory the negotiation which Its. this is defirous of cameo mg. The painful apprehenfion is jullified by cape:;- ence, that new ufirrpations might be accomplifbed at the moment when the negotiation was recommenced, or whilft it was carrying on. The apprehenfion that ftill greater dangers might arife to the happinefs of Europe, from a meafureolie obvious tendency of which is its entire deliverance; the certainty that thefe dangers would become inevitable, as foon ar tit: jolt demands of the Continental Power s b ecame totally irreconcileable with the pretensions which might be urged by the French Government, in rir. sue of its fucveffive ufurpations ; the obligation alfo which his Majelly feels, in the prefent melancholy and difficult circumftances, of aiding his allies, whole &fey and even esillence is kr feriougy threatened. and, in short, of affordir them not an Mutiny, bei an effective, immediate, and energetic affigance; al' thefe motives unite in prefcribing the only line of con. dug which his Imperial !virility has to purfue. Ruffia cannot now recommence the negotiation which ho e s been broken cff, tinder any circumilance, until the has placed beacht in a fituation to be abl e to affift her allies at the moment when they might be attacked, and to preferve Europe from total lobster lion. tier meafures mull be fo combined as to afford a well : grounded hope that a negotiation for peace will augur happier refults than tli..re which were ex peeled from all the pacific advanc.:s hitherto made, and which unfortunately have been dikingaifhed only by the want of refpea (hewn on the p ar t o f Fiance to the rentonftrances and propotitior.: of Rd. Pia and other Continental Powers, and by a Conti. nually Progreflive increafe of till dangers of Europe. In confequence of the above confider:chin s , the underfigned has it in charge to notify to the Mi niftry of his Imperial, Royal, and Apaftolic Ma. jelly, in anfwer to the Note prefentcd by Count VON STADION to the Cabinet of Sc. Peierfburgh, on the 26th of July (7th Augult), that his Malay ; the Emperor of all. the Ruflias, upon the rabic& thereof, bas come to the following refolutions : To accede to the requeft of renewing the negotiation for peace, which had been broken of by the recal of M. Novostwrzcfr, and to take matures for that pur. pore, as foon as the Head of the French Government !boatel manifeft a limilar dirpnfition; witanut delay to march two armies of so,con men each, tbro' Gallicia to the Danube, as a measure of precaution, in order to combine the rapport of a powerful army of ot*r. vation, with the negociation, for peace; which army would be in a fituation to prevent all farther aggref lions during the period of pacification, and to fecure at its completion, Anttria, and all the neighbouring powers, againft any farther attack on the part of France—to invite kis Imperial and . 4pottalic hlajef. ty, and fome other powers, to co operate on their parr in this falutary !mature, the propriety of which the French Government irfell, upon an impartial con. fideration of the cafe, could not fail to fee. While the Underfigned acquits himfelf of this duty towards the Atiftrian Cabinet, he mull likewif-, hi compliance with the aria injunctions of the Empe ror his Mailer, add, that nothing but the finer, with of tailoring peace to Europe, atluates Ills con4atft upon this occafion ; that RuMa will manifett the molt conciliatory difpoOtion in any negotiation for peace. ) and ackipt every tituafure that may promote its happy completion ; and i:; Imperial Majelly folemoli de clares, that he is ready to recall his troops, as loon as the much dcfired fecurity of all the states ofEurve than be obtained. His Imperial Malay formally invites his Impetial, Royal, and Apoilolic Maiefly . to join in the nieafpres which he has adopted; and the Undettigned is folly a ilium i zed to concert with the Autlrian Cabinet every thing conneded with the prelim important date of affairs., SECOND DECLARATION OF THR COURT OP VIENNA • TO THE FRENCH COURT; TRANSMITTED FROM VIENNA TO PARIS, ON THR 3001 . • - SEPTEMSE4, 1805. • The Court of Vienna yields, , s iihout delay, to the requefk which the Emperor of ranee has Made of a Categorical explanation relpeding the motive of its preparations.—The Court of Vienna has no other motive than that of maintaining peace and friendflup with France, and fecuring the general tranquillity of the Continent. It has no other with than that tf.F Emperor of the French may entertain cnrrefponding fen timent s. The maintenance of Peace, however, between two States; does not merely conlid in their not attacking each other. It depends not lefs in reality, on the fulfilment of thole treaties en which peace is founded. Tbat Power which tianigrefies in lo tffential a point, and refutes to attend the reclamations to which filth a conduft gives rife, is as much the aggreffor as if it openly and unittaly attacked the ether party. The peace between Autiria and France was foun ded upon the Treaty of Luneville. One of the Ar ticles of that treaty stipulated and guaranteed the in dependence of the Italian, Helvetic, and Batavian Republics, and left them at libel; y to chufe their own Governments. Any meafures, therefore, which tend to compel thefe (Wes to chufe a Government, Con- Ilitution, or Sovereign, otherwife than according to their free will, or otherwife than i confaent with the maintenance of a real political independence, is a breach of the Peace of Luneville, and it is the duty of Aultrta to complain of fuch a violation. A with to maintain reciprocal friendfhip, to acquire confidence, to fecure the public tranquillity front great dangers, may, under critical and delicate ell - - cumitances, induce the reclaiming party to adopt precautions, to thew great moderation in complaint', and to dtfer the difeuflion of them to future trgo ciations. This conduit does not imply any contra didion of the flipulations of the treaty ; but that power which goes farther, which retufes all explana tion, which avoids all mediation, and employs me naces instead of the means of reconciliation, forgets as much the laws of friendfhip as the facred rights of peace. The .maintenance of general tranquillity requires that each Power lhould confine itfelf within its own frontiers, and rcfped the rights and independence of other States. whether ttrong or weak. That craw quillity is troubled, when any Power appropriates to herfelf a right of occupation, protedion, or influence, when that right is neither founded on the laws of Da- • • Lnitl that R tha as PI uf cafe eni the En . and the intereli imAgin, er rnedimo lations 'lapping Germa Lode of effeeted . gained - confeql Of the the Fre r7r