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COPY OF Tric. KITE VT THE MINISTER OE FOREIGN A F LATH, s r4+E CHARGE D ' AFFAIRES OF RUSSIA, DATED PARIS, TI.OREAL 26, AN. XII (MAY 16,1804). " I Fefore the Fitt"! Conful the Note, dat ed Irioreal (:‘!.iv 12), which you did me the to none to ndJ:els to :nt% ' , The Firtl Corfai fcs with regretthat the ir.flJence of the enemies of Franc has prevailed in the Cabi net of St. Pete, (burgh, and that it at prefent tends to interrupt that good underllanding eltabliffied be. tween the two dales with fo much difficulty, and which onglit, it wo.ild appear, to have been confoli dated by the happy ;t produced. " His Majeff y the Emperor of Germany, and his Majefly the King of Pruflia, who are, no doubt, the two powers molt immediately interdict" in the fate of the German Empire,have under food that the urgency and prelfure of circuit). (lances had fufficiently authoriz ed the French Government to carafe to be art died at the dinanee of two leagues from their frontiers re bellious Frenchmen who were confpiring againfi their country, and who, by the nature of their plots, as well as the horrid publicity which they gave to them, had placed themfelves beyond the proteftion of the rights of nations. The German Princes then having been fatisfied, the Firff Conful can have nothing to fay to his I‘ , l4jelly the Emperor of Ruffia in regard to a point which does not at all affeft his interelis ; but he will always make it a pleafure to (peak to his Majelly the Emperor of Ruffia with that franknefs which all Europe acknowledges in him, and which alone is fitting to Ittr-qct and powerful Oates. " If the prefent oirjzei of his Maiefty could be the formation of a no.v coalition, and to recommence the war, why employ vain pretences ? And why not aft in a more open manner ! However profound might be the grief which the Firft Conful would ex perience from the renewal of hollikties, he knows no perfon on earth that can intimidate France ; no per fon whom he will (offer to interfere in the internal affairs of the country ; and as he does not interfere in the parties or opinions by which Rullia may be divided, his Majelly the Emperor has no right to in terfere in the parties or opinions which may divide France. 4 , In the Note, Sir, which you have tranfmitted to me, you demand' that France will employ the molt effedual means to tramptillife the Governments of Europe, and that the will put an end to an order of things, too alarming for their fecurity and indepen dence.' But is not this independence of the Elates of Europe attacked, when it fees Ruflia fupporting, at Drefiien and Rome, the hatchets of plots, who endea vour to abufe the privilege of their refidence, to agi tate the neighbouring countries ; and when the Ruf f►an Minifters, at moat of the Courts of Europe, pre tend to place tit:,:cr the pr, tedion of the rights ofna tions. individuals, natives of the countries where its Minifters reticle, as M. Meacort• :and to do at Pa ris, in regard to a Genevefe ? There are real attacks againti the ftates of Europe : it is thefe which ought to excite the meft fpirited remonffrances ; and the fad of which Raffia fo much complains is of a very different nature. 8 , By the treaty of Luaeville, Germany and France entered into an engagement to give no afylum on either fide to men who might difturb their reciprocal tranquillity. The emigrants who were at Baden, Fribourg, and Dreldcn, ought therefore not to have been tolerated in the German empire, and this cir cumflance Rill thews how really inconfiftent is the condud of RA - fa. France requires of it, that the emigrants who were employed by it at the time when the war esißed between the two States, tbould be tent nut of the countries where they are known, only by intrigues againfi France, and where Ruffia per fats in maintaining theme • s. leThe Fir II Conful hopes, that his Majelly the Em peror, whore excellent difpofition and noble charac ter are fo wcll known, will coon or late be fenfible that there are men who employ every means to irri tate France, and who in this manner Endeavour to make a diverfion, and to kindle up a war favourable only to England. This war will never take . plice with the will of the French Cord - 14 : but whoever may de clare it agrinft him, he will prefer it to any flare of things that might tend to wound, to the detriment • Sonic fentmees are hue omitted in the originals in our pof -I:ffion. They alluded to the death of the late Emperor of Ruffian end were of fo indecent a nature igainft cite precut Eaarrar, that at scts titottglat viva to unfit t!taila„ of France, the equality of the Great Powers; and as he does not arrogate to himfelf any firpremacy ; as he does not interfere in any of the operations of the Ruf fian Cabinet, he claims in that rcfped pet fed reci procity. " I entertain, Sir, a firm hope, that explanations fo frank will be fully appreciated by your Court, and that the effea of them will be to diffipate thole clouds diffufed with melancholy fuccefs between the two countries. Accept, Sir, the affurance of nay perfea confederation, 4c. NOTE U. COPY OF THE NOTE OF THE CHARGE D ' AFFAIRES OP RUSSIA TO THE FRENCH MINILTER, DATED PARIS, JULY 21 3 1804. " It being necatry that the Note which the Ci tizen Mini(ler of Foreign Affairs, delivered to the underfigned Charge d'Affaires of his M4jefty the Emperor of all the Ruffias, dated 26th Floreal, year XII. (May 16, 1804), Ihould be tranfmitted to Pe terfburgh—The underfigned is obliged to declare that he incurred the difpleafure of his Court for ac• cepting a paper, which was in no manner an anfwer to the note that preceded it on his part, and which was not of a nature fit to be addrefred to his augua Mailer. • " This paper, however, having come to the know ledge of his Majetty the Emperor, he has fern with furprife, that the contents of it are compofed only of affertions and reafoning, which, betides, being un founded, have for the molt part no connection with the object which gave occafion for the note of the z ad. 4 4 The Emperor feeling for the Calamities which profs fo heavily on the greater part of Europe, and the dangers that threaten, in particular, the German Empire, in the fate of which Ruflia, in confequence of its engagements, ought to take efpecial intereft ;•T-- having learned the new violation of the rights of na tions, lately committed at Etteaheim,has thought it his duty to invite the Diet and Princes of the Em pire, to unite their effcrts with his, in order to remon (trate on this fubjett with the French Government, to which his MajeQy manifelled alio in a dire& manner the fame fentiments, hoping thereby to induce it to make reparation for the injury done to the Germanic Affociation, and to tranquillife Europe, in regard tp its fears of feeing funilar at% of violeme Rill repeated. The French Government cannot fail to anfwer this note of his Imperial Majelly, or cannot anfwer it as it has done, only in an illufory manner, without being wanting in its duty to Rullia, to the German Empire, and to itfelf ; and without endangering that good underftanding which it aliens it defires, but the happy effetts of which have not yet been perceived by Ruffia. 4g We no longer live in thole times juffly called barbarous, when each country had no other intereas than thole which direaly concerned it. Modern di plomacy, founded on the rights of Nations, has eflab lifhed others more confonant with the general advan tages of States. No one under the circumflances al luded to, could fee with indifference an event, which made fo fatal an attack on the independence and fe curity of nations. The quality of guarantee with which Ruffia is charged by the peace of Tefchen,and of Mediator in the German Empire, give it a more ineonte:table right, and impofed on his Majefty a (till greater duty of not obferving Mance on this (re cation ; and if the French Government, invetted with the fame titles, thinks Wilt - allowed to violate the neutrality of Germany, and to aft in it in an arbi trary manner, it would be difficult to conceive how it should not belong to his Imperial Majefly to cfpnufe the caufe of this Empire, the fafery and independence of which he has guaranteed. It would be lofiug time to endeavour to explain in any other manner a fiep, the motives of which are as char a: wcll founded, and to fearch in it for the refult of the influence of the enemies of France, ,chile the foie caufe of it is the wretched (tate to which Eu rope is reduced by the influence of the French Go vernment. If the objea of Ruffia were to form a new coalition for the purple of reviving the war on the Continent, it would doubtlefs have no need of fearching for vain pretences for its juflification, the French Government having long furniffied reafon.r, which are only too valid, for breaking the bonds of that good underflanding which the moderation alone of his Majefty has hitherto preferved, and which he could have wifhed to preferve for ever. " The objeft by which the Court of Peter (burgh has been conllantly guided cannot be miffaken, arid cannot be unknown in particular to the French Go. moment, his Majelly having taken the ear - Heft oppor tunity, even before the commencement of the prefent war, to manifelt to it his opinion on the neceflity which exifted of confolidating the peace, and again preventing the convulfion of Europe, by carefully retina /in?, all caufes of miftruft, and leaving each fiate to enjoy, without diflinaion, the advantages and in dependence which of right belong to it. Ruffia at the fame time teflified to the Cabinet of the Thuilleries how much it could have wilked to fee it contribute towards the eflablifhmcnt of an or- der of things fo defirable, in giving, by the example of its moderation and difintereflednefs, a hope to Europe, that after the unfortunate Ilruggle, which had coil fo much blood, each Government might at length, with fecuiity, employ itfelf tranquilly at home in promoting the happinefs of the 'pcople en trufled to its care. Inflead of walling to rekindle the flames of war on the Continent, his Majefly Would have Peen the accomplilhment of his utmoft wilhes; bad he been able to make them every where mare ; bin he could wifh alto, that the French Go"ernment, fince it declares that it entet tains the f ant fentiTnent•, would leave at tell th. , fe who have had the fli °ova deure not to take any part in it. " Such has been the foie ()Ned, and unhappily for mankind, the fruitlefs wifh of Ruflia, whofe conduit has never deviated from thefe principies ; its repeated and always unfuccefsful anemia's with the Cabinet of St. Cloud, fupported by engagements which it entered into with it, have never had any other end. The mediation propofed to the two powers at war, and which was not accepted, was fcunded on the fame balls ; and when the French Government, after the rupture, thought itfelf per mitred to occupy with its troops, and deprive of their commerce, countries which vainly remonftrated in favour of their neutrality, his Majefly alarmed, not for himfelf, becaufe tile iirength and fituation of leis Empire might have permitted him to remain an in ' different fpedator of thefe dißrelling fcenes, but for the fafety of the left of Europe, after having re pealed feverat times, and always without effect, his juft requeft to the Government of the Republic, to guarantee at leak lilac countries whofe treaties with Ruffle and France impofecl on the latter the obligation of refpeding their neutrality, did not conceal his mode of thinking from the expofed flutes, which are in danger of participating one day in the fate of Italy, a part of Germany and the other countries which the French Government holds al ready under its dominion. Seeing, notwithfianding his care and reprefentations, the danger increafe ; fceing the French troops on the one hand bordering on the coatis of the Adriatic, and on the other raif ing contributions from the Hanle Towns, and threat ening Denmark, his Majefiy determined to pet his forces in a condition to oppofe farther incroachments, the theatre of which in this manner might approach his own frontiers. Thefe fads are known to all Eu rope: the Emperor was defirous, in particular, that they might be known to France, and the explanations between the two Cabinets have always turned on the fame objects. Never, tLerefore, did any Govern• iment ad in a more open manner than Rulla, and in regard to an ()hied which has lefs need of b ing con cealed, or which is lefs fufceptable of a falle inter pretation ; and if this condt o be not 'rank and loyal, if it can be confislered as offenfive to France, no cif ference ought to he made between evident wiongs on the one part, and the ju't refentment which mull re fult from them on the other; between the attack and the defence ; between the oppreffion and protection of the weak. " We (hall not here enter into the queftion of pub lic right, whether the French Government can pur- Cue, in all countries, the individuals it has banilhesl, and if it has the right of prefcribing the manner in which foreign powers ought to treat or employ the ci-devant emigrants who have been long in their fer vice, and naturalized as their fubjeels. It will be filificient to remark, that this do&rine is entirely con trary to the principles of equity, and at variance with thole which formerly were proclaimed info fo• lemn a manner by the French Nation. It would, however, be firangely confounding no tions and words to be Ferfuaded, that it is Rnina which attacks the independence of the (fates of Eu. rope, by not permitting that one of its fervants, in a foreign country, (hould be difm:iTed at the pleasure of the French Government, and by claiming an in dividual naturalifed in Rufria, who has been delivered up by a third flare, without any trial, and contrary to every appearance of right. " His Majefly never gave protedion to the contri vers of plots; his noble and frank charader is too well known to all Europe, to require that this affer tint., as Life a; it is indecent, fhould be contradided. The French Government is itself perfuaded of the contrary, and needs only to recoiled thai his Majefly at feveral tlmea made known to it, that provided it could produce againft any one of the Ruffian Agents proofs of the accufation above announced. it would halten to punifh in him a ;rime which it confiders as of the molt odious nature. The Cabinet of St. Cloud never returned an anfwer to this jull infinuation, nor offer ed any proofs to fupport its demands, confequently has no complaints to make in regard to the back. wardnsfs (hewn to comply with them. In a word, when Portugal has been obliged to purchafe its neu • trality ; when the Kingdom of Naples, which was not able to prtferve it, has been forced to contribute at an enormous expence, towards the maintenance of the French troops who are there Rationary ; when all Italy, with it's republics, to which independence and happinefs were promifed, Switzerland and Holland, can no longer be cimndered but as French provinces; when a part of the German empire is invaded, and other detachments of 'french troops execute arrefts in contempt of the facred rights of nations ; the Em peror readily appeals to the judgment of all thcfe countries, and to the impartial opinion of the Cabi net of St. Cloud itfelf, to determln: the queition, which of the two, Ruflia or Fraacc, threatens the fecurity of Europe ; profelles principles molt favour able to the independence of States, and is guilty towards them of the moll arbitrary ads, by interfe ring in their government and internal police Though the grief which his Majeßy has experi enced from a Rate of things fo painful and alarming, and the light in which he confiders it, mutt he already fufficicntly known, his Mak ay has thought himfelf on. der the obligation of erpretrng them a•itlt as ninth publicity as prlffible, in order that it may net be bid '4l that at a err& fo fatal to mankind, no Government on the Continent had the courage to lift up its voice in favour of joflice ; and that Ruffia might nr.t he re. proacheJ with not having forewarned its co clines of the terrible confequences which would neceffirriiy re. fult from a pr(Jonged forgetfulnefs of good order, and of the principles on which their happinefi and eternity depend. In the prelim difcuffion it would certainly be difficult to prove that, when Ruffia pro. tells againft a manifeft violation of the Right of Na tions, committed beyond the frontiers of the Republic in a neutral territory of the German empire by a poner a guarantee and mediator, it is an interference in the internal affairs of France which have nothing at all to do with the object in queflion, and in which his Majelly never had any idea of meddling, or tak. ing any part. Every State may, no doubt, declare an inclvi. dual within its own boundaries out of the protedion of the law, but cannot of its own authority place any perfon beyond the protedion o: the Right of Na tions; for the latter does not depend on its decrees, but is lubjzet and rells upon the unanimous will of all fovercign (fate:. The French Government then, after the Treaty of Lunesille, could at molt only re quire of the Princes of the Empire that the Emigrants living in their Rates, who had not yet adopted a country, and againft whom authentic proofs could be produced, (hould be removed, but in no manner en. ter with armed men to remove them by force. "It w 11 fcarcely be believed that to fupport an erroneous principle, the Cabinet of St. Cloud fnould deviate from what decency and propriety require, fo far as to filed from the examples to be quoted, that which was the leali fir for that purpofe, and to call to remembrance, in an official paper, the death of a fa ther * to the fenfibility of his auguß fon, by making, contrary to all truth or prob Ability, an atrocious charge againft a Government which that of France does not hefitate continually to calumniate, becaufe it is engaged with it in war, " Betides, though the moa extraordinary fuppoli ?ions may be made, none of them can effect the leaft change in the Gate of the queflion, nor juaify and render lawful an arbitrary ail, which attacks the fundamental, and hitherto unconteaed principles of the right of nations. r• This analyfis of the contents of the Note of the Citizen Minifter of Foreign Relations was not necef -1.4/.7 to render it clear, that it is in no point fatisfaaory in regard to the end propofed by the Emperor, in tranfmitting the Notes of the 7th and 12th of May to Paris and Ratifbon, and to thew evidently that it is the intention of the French Government to irritate more and more the jul► refentment of his Mdjefty the Emperor, by the evafive and improper manner in which fo important a quellion is there treated, and which it has preferred eluding to examining with candour. " The Emperor, fuperior- to every fentiment of hatred, and placing foremoft among his motives the intereft and tranquillity of Europe, does not hefitate to make a lag effort (till to preferve, if poffible, far ther rektions with France. The only with of his Majesty would be, that peace may be revived in En rope ; that no ore in it may be defirous of arrogating any kind of fupremacy, anal that the French govei nment may acknowledge the equality of the rights of the weaker (taus. but which are as independent as itfelf. Ruffia, it canner be too often repeated, has no defire and no intereft to make war. It is the urgency of circuraftances which will dilate to it the part it (hall chonfi: ; but it has a right to flatter itfelf, that the French Government will grant it In much elieem, as to be convinced that it cannot fee with pave indif ference the new ufurpations which it may allow itfelf to make in future. His Imperial Majesty neither fears nor withes to intimidate any one ; it is on the footing of the moth perk& equality that he defires to continue his relations with the French Government, and as the firft condition to obtain this, is to fulfil fcrupu loufly the engagements mutually entered into ; it is only on this condition that the two States, after what has paired between them, can hereafter prefcrve far relations. •4 The underfigned has confiquently orders to &- dare, that be cannot prolong his Ray at Paris, unlefs the following demands (hall be previonlly granted : • _ I. That in conformity to the 4th and sth articles of the Secret Convention of Odober It, rem, the French Government will order its troops to evacuate the kingdom of Naples, and that When this is executed it will engage to refpedt its neutrality dur ing the prefent and future wars. 11. That in conformity to the 7.d article of the fame COIIVC2Ie tion, the French Government will prornife to eflahhili from the prefcnt time, an intimate concert with his Imperial Majeßy, for regulating the bales according to which the affairs of Italy may be terminated. . 111. That it will engage, agreeable to the 6th article of the fame Convention, and the promifea fo often repeated to Ruffle, to la demnify, without delay, the King of Sardinia for the lora he b- 1 fuftained. IV. That in virtue of the obligations of a common guaranty and mediation, the French GovernMeni will promise to caufe its troops immuliately to eva:uate the whole of the North of Germany, and enter into an engagement to refpedt ft:idly the neutrality of the Germanic Body •, The underfigned in concluding mull add, that he has orders from his Government to demand a ca tegorical anfwer in regard to there points, and cm braces this opportunity, Sm. • This alludes to the pelages fupprered in the preceding note, (To k caockded to-ittorrow.)