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STATE PAPERS. LITTER TROWI U. TALLETRAND TO COIIIT C1111111:111, ON HIS SENDING HIM ♦ MEMORIAL ti ANSWER TI MIS ROTS OF SEPT. 3. The underfigned has the honour to fend to his Excellency Count Cobentzel the annexed Memorial, drawn up in consequence of the Note of the Cabinet of Vienna, which Count Cobentzel'addreffed to the underfigned on the 3d September. Since that Memorial received the approbation of His Majelly the Emperor of the French, the Aultrian army has paired the Inn and invaded Bavaria. If the pacific fentiments with which his Majelty the Em. peror of Germany and of Außria fays he is anima, ted, be real, he muff b: aware that no negotiation can he entered upon, that no propofition tan be liftcn ed to, unlefs the Anarian troops reefers the Inn and return to their due limits. If the Court of Vienna refufes to withdraw them, it is the intention of his btijeßy to compel him to it by force of arms. The calamities which muff be the inevitable coneequences of fuck a war, will wholly redound upon the Houfe of Aullria, and viftory will declare againft the op preffor in favour of the weaker opprerfed. The underfigned has received from his Majeßy the Emperor and King expels orders to declare, their' no cafe his Majeity will Coffer Auftria to aggrandife berfclf in Germany, or to make acquifinons in Ba varia, and accomplifh the projed the has often lie 'rayed to extend her frontiers to the Lich; anJ to drive the Eleitor of Bavaria to the left Batik of the Danube. Such a projea is too decidedly Wile to the interells of the Germanic Body, to thofe of France, to the promifes in which his Majeffy the Em peror and King has bound himfelf, to the engage ments into which he has entered to maintain the in tegrity of Bavaria. After this pofitive declaration ofa refolution which, in every circunitiance that may arife, will be an in variable rule of conduti for France, it will be fo; the Houle of Auflria to confider if it be her intereft to incur all the hazards of war, merely becaufe the wither, but without any well grounded hope of being able to accomplith her with, to obtain a part of Ba varia ; for fruitlefs would be her efforts to conceal what is now notorious to all Europe. that fuch in reality is her only obje&. The underfigned requefls the affurances of his high confederation, &c. (Signed) TALLEYRAND PERIGORD. MEMORIAL REFERRED TO IN THI pittrunito NOTE, AND CONNECTED WITH THE DOCUMINTiO.9: Without dwelling upon the allegations which per vade the Note of the Court of Vienna, (of the 3d of September) attention will only be paid to the no tions of peace which that Note holds forth. The Court of Vienna has made levies of men and preparations of all forts : the now allows a foreign army to enter her territory. Her only obje& to liften to her affurances, is to oblige France and England to make peace ; but if fuch be the object of the Court of Vienna. how has it happme4 that the forgets to make known the bath upon which that peace ought to be concluded ? Is the balls to be the Treaties of Luneville, or of Amiens, or thefiattirkafein of the two Nations, as feemed to be the with of Auftria when the fird over tures were made for the lah peace ? Or after all pre tenfions drawn from the fame fource as the allega tions now directed againa France ? Erom an attansiva pcs Oil of the note of the Court of Vienna, it would appear, that Auliria would af. fume for the balls of furore negotiation, the Treaties : of Lunevtlle and of Amiens ; but will Eogland, who .not long fine refufed to re-eftablith peace upon thefe principles, accede to them at prelent ? The Cabinet of Vienna has Paid nothing upon the fubjee, and Monti it happen that England would not adopt them , his Majefty the Emperor of Ger many, who would not affume the charatter of medi ator, unlefs be were really iusefted with it ; a cha /alter which effentially confals in an impaffiblejuttice, a perfect impartiality, has, no doubt, in concert with other Powers, adopted ineafures for obliging England to ac knowledge his principle of acediation, as he has taken to the fame effect to compel Fiance": doubtlefs he has fleets ready equipped, cruizers on foot—in fine, all polfible means put in force which are indifpenfably neceffary to the attainment of his objeCt. The Note of the Cabinet of Vienna affords no light upon a..• of chefs points. It is aftntial how ever to know : tft, Whether the Court of Vienna is aware whe ther the Treaties of Luneviile and of Amiens are to be taken as the balls of . ..the new negotiations, or whether thole Treaties are to be abolithed ? idly, In the latter fuppofition, upon what bafisdoes the Court of Vienna underhand that the negotiations are to be let on foot ? • idly, Witether England has declared her readings to adhere to the principles of hi; mediation ? 4thly, In cafe of refufal on the part of England, what meatures have been taken by the mediator, and what means has he at his difpnfal to compel her to adhere to it ? • If the Court of Vienna has not put there queflions to itfelf, and if it requires time to anfwcr "them, this alone fhould make it fenfible, that it has afted with a precipitancy contrary not only to all the afrurances it had given, but alto to the end it declares to have , in view; and it may further be attempted to obforvs, contrary to what the enlightened policy nf the Houfe of Austria would advife it to adopt. Be it as it may, r,,rrnach;ng circumfiances will decide,whethet it has been guided by a jolt conviClion of its own intciens, or alba) , by blind prejudices. The remonitrances and alTurances to which the Coon f Vienna here alludes.:'are mere she made no obrervation, the preferred no complaint —no, not mare than the Court of France has made refpefting the incorporation of Lindau, and All the other annexations that have been made by Attfiria in Suabia. The threats of armaments, and the preten ded determination to uphold by force what the Court of Vienna Myles innovations, have a Rill les real ex illence. The free and falutary organization of a country previonfly governed by law. arifing oat of accidental circurnftances, molt affuredly does not re quire to he fupported by threats, or guaranteed by hoftile armaments. And how can it be Paid, with any fh td , w of probability, that the Emperor of the Fiench was threatening Anftria, at the very moment of the -atett ativity of his preparations again* • ItlllOlllll 111110TATION1 TOM THI HOTt OP Tilt COURTOT VIENNA, Of Till 3D sarramasa. Upon this vague indefinite expolition, which fete! out with mutinous and explanations, and which ex plains and proves nothing, there is only one ' doter's- . lion to be made , and that obfervation will be peremp• tot and recite. Switzerland, Holland, and Italy, have freely ells hlifhed the Conititution which they walled for. In what rape& does this legitimate ale of the primitive tight of all Rates infringe upon the particular tights ef Anti ria ? During the negotiations at Luneville. Aullyia required the evacuation by the French troops of the territory of the Italian, Helvetic, and Batavian Republics, and France refuted to comply. France required of Au Aria to guarantee the independence of there Republics ; and Aufiria, it is true, manifetted the nunoft repugnance to accede to this demand, but at length contented. Thefe three" Rates therefore ought. in the fenfe it was underßood by Aultria. to remain free ; and neverthelefs Rill continue to keep a French army on their territory. How can this inde pendence have been altered by the fpontaneous efta blifhment of that fixed form of government which has put an end to former uncertainties ; and of - the . federal fy Rem that has contented them in . alliance with France ? If Außria will go back to the times antecedent to there new eflablifhments, the will find that France was miflrefs of all Italy : the pottered every power, even the legiflative authority ; and the power that governed had been eftablilhed by the French Gene rals. In Switzerland, in Holland, the French ar— mies costaituted the only organized force that fecur- ' ed the public fafety. Let Außria quote a tingle ar; tide of the treaty of Luneville that has. precribed the departure of the French troops. Let her cite a (Ingle note of her's, or any one tingle Rep formally taken by her fince the concluflon of that treaty, which had for its ebjea to reqoire that evacuation. If Aufiria confiders the prefent (late of things, let her fay in what refpett conftitutions adapted to times, to places, to.the interefts of countries, and al ready approved from an happy experience, furnifh grounds on her part for rev et at the pall, or unea liners retpefling the future. What fort of •intereft is that which prompts one to deplore the happioefs and the fccurity of nations ? What kind of benevo lence is it that would advife Rates to imagine them. felvesoppreffed, when they are in poffeflion of laws and ofa government, ;he work of their own will, the refolt of their common fuffrages and choice ? Of what nature in fine is that juttice which propofes war, to bring back diforder and confufion to thole coun tries in which at prefent prceail order, tranquillity, and confidence ? But the Court of Vienna again reforte to generali ties : but from under the veil of Inch vague allega tions, one may difcern the views of a policy timidly jefuitical, that would dexteroufly flip over recollec tions. and prepare Wilt' for difavowals. The Empe ror of Auflria has not hefitated to acknowledge the changes that have taken place in Switzerland, since he has a Minifter at Benie : nor thole changes that have happened in:Holland, (ince he has accredited a Minifter at the Hague : nor thofe that have arifen in Italy, (ince his Majefty's own letters, as well as thofe of his Minifter, M. Da COWIN rz EL, mien them. But now the Court of Vienna would endeavour to get rid of all thole previous meafures. It it to be fup poled that the King of the Romans would not recog nize the ads of the Emperor of Germany ? or does the prefent afped of affairs appear to him more fa vourable, and from the confcioufnefs of being fup .ported, would he now difavow all raft engagements ? It was thus that Austria tejeded the treaty of Cam po Formic.. Then, as-at prefent, she attributed to the necellity of moderation, to delicate and critical circumftances, to an anxiety to remove greater dan gers, flipulations formerly entered into, But it may be neceffaty to fay, that the circumflances are not wholly alike. When Austria declared that the peace of Campo Fortnio was broken, the had gained a battle. Now the thould at leaft have waited for a vidory before the became fo oflentatious of the Orange principles that have guided her condud. The reflextons the here indulges in, are literally taken from the Englith papers. Not one of them but furnishes a text for the daily declamations of tirofe writers, who doubtlefs did not flatter themfelves with being ho noured by fuch plagiarifm. As to the imputation made againft France of her endeavouring to exclude Ruflia from .a participation in affairs of general interefl, it appears fomewhat extraordinary, after the well known Reps taken by France to solicit the mediation of Ruffia in the out let of the prelatic war with England. This imputa tion is pat ticularly new on the part of Anal ia, who Curdy cannot forget that it was France, that in de. fpite cf Auflria, brought in the intervention of Raf fia in the arrangements of the Germanic Empire.— , Was it not Autiria who requefled a thoufand times , and in the molt urgent manner, that Raffia shoul d take no part in the affairs of German), and it is Aufltia neverthelefs that reproaches France with en deavouring to exclude RrilEa from every kind of inte-. rell in the maintenance of the gene a! Itdance. Neither has France more pretended to fuck influence with - re. fped to England. Does not the Treaty of Amiens contain flipulations with refped to obj ects foreign to the two contrathng Powers, and cutely relative to the general fyftem ? Aultria freaks of the rights of , Maary, after the peace ha: pat an end to them ; rattly, and France likewife acknowledges Chic principle, while Auflria not only attempts to revive, bat to ufurp the rights of vidory after the conclu sion of peace; and, indeed, what vitlory has given her a right to refufe paying the debt of Venice? Had Austria conquered Venice? What viaory gave her right to annex to herfeif, in Suabia, a mnltitude of poffeflions , by fortifying which, fire weakens and alarms the neighbouring States ? Had Auftria been vidotious in Suabia? What vidory, in fine, has given her a right to torment Bavaria with pretentions, upheld by open force, and to ruin Swit zerland by fequeflrations I Had Auftria conquered Bavaria or Switzerland ? Mott certainly vidory Ihould not be abufed, but kali of all; would it be jolt or reafonable, to take advantage of viaories that have-not been gained. It is potato that attempts may have been fucceff. Belly made to alarm the Emperor of Germany, and to perfuade him that his fecurity may one day be threatened by France; burhe will feel, Arhaps, too late, that the Power 'he has molt to dread, is not France, and that his dangers are ;Bich an* nil ankh greater on the part of that Pak, vitiate at. he for the fecond time, had the imprudence to accept. Is it Auftria that Tenpins to be taught if that Power be formidable to its naighbourst If h hatact Barks the aggranditement which feats to be /he objet of its political fyliem ? if it be easy to agree With it, re (petting the operations of war, or the combinations of peace ? if the maintenance of its armies be not burthenthme to thole countries that admit them ? if the difiance of the places from whence they come, does not prolong their day and make their return more difficult ? in a word, if the depredations com mitted by its light troops do not leave behind them every where indelible veftiges of their paitisge ? But this is the language of reafon; but the Court of ettna has an ear only for the voice of paflion and of a thoughtlefs refentment againd France. It was hardly to be expeaed to have found among the complaints of the Houfe of Audria, the rues of the Empire, which was worth to her the Bitboprick of Eitchted. of Saltzburgh ; territories which the has not ceafed to extend, tights which the has conti nually endeavoured to exaggerate ; and in fine, of indemnities which the had no reafon to copal from the Treaty of Lunevil'e. Betides, was not that rem the cited of the power which Auftria now conoeas with her complaints and her caufe ? States of Ger many, it is to you that thefe remonstrances are addref fed. Should the Houfe of Aufiria prove fuccefsful againß France, the rect.: will be annulled. All the States of Germany mull coped to fee demands of indemnity made upon them for the indemnities they have received. Such is the refpea in which Aufiria holds her engagements I Such is the protation the holds out to feeble States. The next article contains its own refutation. The explanations given by France have been sanctioned by events. It is a queffinn de faao, to afcertain if yin lence was or was not done to the will of the people in-the countries that have improved their conflitu tion? Allegations of conftraint in this refpeft cannot well be admitted on the part of a jealous Power.—lt was natural for France to have a/jibed that thole countries thnuld be happy whom the had feparated from a foreign domination; and the is well aware that the only means of enfuring the happiness of a country, is to leave it the choice of its inflitatinns and its laws. The preponderance of France over Italy and Switzerland is in the fiat instance the re fult of her viBories; and in the next place it has been cnnfecrated by the very Treaty of Laneviile, fince it did not exclude the French troops, and that at a time when thefe counttiei had no conditution. At the time of the treaty, they were in the'pnlieffion of the French army ; they did not exhibit a Repub lican, or any form of Government. The faired ufe which ,France could make of her preponderance, was. no doubt, to leave to the countries the time' of I fettling theinown conditutinns. They have bellowed their attention upon that fobjest for 'duce years, and their time has not been mifpent. Since the Houfe of Andria, who had only an internal regttlation eflablifh in her Italian Provinces, did not succeed in eltablithing it. The States of Venice are not yet organized. This allegation is no lefs falfe than the - preceding ones. The Reps taken bye France toward, a peace with England have been public. All the docurnentu of this negotiation are confined . to a fir l ige kart, and we may defy the Court of Vienna to find in this let ter, that the Emperor of the French hadlaid it down as a chute of the pacification, that England fhuald not interfere ia the affairs of the Continent: Fngland has returned no antwer to the overtures of France. Firff of all, the willed to afcertain whe ther it might be poffihle to renew a coalition. The coalition is formed, and England is difpenfed from anfwering. Thin refirittion is a chimera, and the re lations which then called between the Courts of London and Peterlburgh, were by no means fo dole as they have fince been. England had no other mo tive than the hopes of difeord, which the has had too much (tweets in realifing. It was when the inttiga lions of England had acquired weight in Raffia, that the yretended mediation between England and France was determined on; and it was becaufr this media tion had not been founded on principles of modera tion and impartiality, that it was revoked almoll as loon as announced. What the Court of Vienna al ltdges here, refpaling the political cadence of other independent States, is a trite pretext. The organi zation of thefc States is a natural confequenee of their pofition, their wants, and their dangers. This orga. nization is as indifferent to England as to Aulliia, and can excite only the regret of England. It but ill becomes Continental Powers to defire that there thould be no State on the Continent, which might improve its marine, and protect itftlf againll the ma ritime npnreffion of England. For the maintenance of peace, Anita* has begun by the invafion of Bavaria. Thus it is, that the has above declared, that the end of her meafures was go. vented by pacific fertiments, and that the was not arming with any }wade view. As to the Emperor Azszawnea, if he had been in clined to peace, he would have known, that it was not by intuiting great Powers that they were to be , conciliated. If he had *wifhed to be a mediator, he I would have remained impartial between France and England. We do not here canvass the perfnnal dif volition: of the Emperor AzaIANDIR ; we do not in the lead doubt, that they are jail, humane, and mo detate ; but the experience of all times has (hewn, that, on every occafion, when they with, the diplo matic agents of Raffia depart from the principles of their Sovereign, and pnrfue each their pahilons and their individual political bias. Betides, the Court of Vienna fhonld leave to that of Raffia the office of de claring what arc its intentions and views. Every Power that appeals to general principles, on its interference in a quarrel between two other Powers, ought, it fhnuld teem, to hold the fame lair, guage, and to employ the fame means with retpea to both. As then, Auflaa and Raffia declare that they have timed, in order to oblige France to filen to terms of accommodation, why do they not make known what they have done, in order to compel En gland to submit to their mediation ?—They fend ar mies againd France—why do they not alto fend squa drons againff England ? They fay, that the balance of power on the Continent is changed; are the rules of maritime law, eflablieted by England, fatisfaaory to them ? Does it appear to them that the neutrality of the fcas has been obferved ? Do they find that the Enghfh fleets retpea their flags, and do their preten- Sons witb regard to ;he blockade pf pone appear ", ••• • 1 •• • .1 • • t t ieik legitimate sigh ts ? When The condna of two 1 belligerent States is under confideration, differekr itandardsof weights and meafures fhould not be tc i forted to. If the two imperial Courts were really dirpored t.: peace, if their intention was to place the negnciatiqu beyond the influence and didation of England; Read of employing vague aad indeterminate exprci. lions, loch as "ea she moji ramkrate :emu, compatible mitt the paeral roofi and ficarity," they would h ave P a i d, that their intention was to obtain. by an bonourabl: and fincere mediation, the full execution of the trek. tie! of Amiens and Luneville. • We are too far removed from thofetimes, when Powers arrogated to themfclves the right of interfer. ing in the internal Alain of France, to fet any value on the :enunciation of this right. The fole mention of this tidiculJus retention fo long abandoned; is in itfelf an indecency. If the fentiments of England be analogous to thole of :he Imperial Courts, we ought then to judge of the feptiments of the Court of Vienna by chore of Clig gland ; of its jnfrand impartial policy by the uniform coodull of England ; of its bewevolence to the feeble, And of its juake to neutrality, by the moderation of England. If England entertained pacific fentiment i , if the was jiift and nloderate, there would be At pre. tent no war upon the Continent, becaufe there would have been no maritime war. • The doubts"cif the Emperor Naroiton are wholly removed ; you with for Bavaria; but it is neeeffiiry, that you too flionld not remain in doubt refpeaing the intentions of the Emperor tiapokeon • he will inset fuffer you to retain Bavaria. As to te gene. ral queßion, it is not more complicated. When Raffia, [hall make a declaration of her intentions, we (hall be able to judge of them, and there will be no dilfunky in anfwering her ; fo far as England is concerned, it would be vain for A:lariat° endeavour to reprefent her as kill in her pretentious, or mode. rate in her views. We !hall give credit to the jut tice of England, when (he (hall have contented to come back to tbufe engagements which (be entered into by the Treaty of Amiens, and which the h 4 violated. FRAM THE FIUINCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. AUSTti/141 Vastoma, SIFT. 13.Tb.0 French here hue taken down two bridges on the EMI, in Ve. rona..an4 the third is guarded by a Irong corps of Itifantry auk Artillery. The Commander of the Italian Verona has given notice tb•Cretteral BM). GIAILDe, that henceforth nobody coulsrbe allnwed to pats, bebridgr. Marlhal Massass• is Kill in Italian Verona. His army has been reinforced with 4.bao car VAKUke, Seri'. 154—The pjale of troops con. -doom uninterrupted, and the number of thofe whirls had been brought hither by lea from Krain and Hungary is very cenaderabie. Our Lagunes have chartged•their appearance; every (mall itlind looks likca (mall fort. LUCIIIII BONAPAIMII left. Pefaro lately to pay a AG( to ate Pope at Rome. 'FLOM TH I TYROL, S PT. .14.—r There are in this province -4c5,000 troops, of ;OA the Archduke Jolts the centre, Feld Mar (hat Lieutenant Nit- La's, and Field Marflial Lieutenant Jazzacnics, tits Q. . . • - The Atillrfan fitio3s from the Venetian,States, are advanced in great firce on the Adige, and are fol lowed by a numerous train of battering artillery.... I STO C ItHdt.ll; St FT. 17, r -711M are now th e port of Carlfcrona twelve (loins of the line and tigh t frigates ready to fail, and &Wiled for an expedition. R•TtS Spli t So PT. 20.—Our neutrality has been formally acknowledged by Aufiria and France. The Imperial head-quarters are not, as the newfpapers affect, at Nrmphenburgh or Getting, but they - were, on the 18th, at Huhenlinden, and bad orders to break up. The Ichduke Fermium:, oar, expeited there en the fame day.. It appears not very dubious that Praffia has ac cepted the mediation between France, Auttria, and Raffia, and that a Pruffisn Mellinger Extraordinary has left Berlin for Vienna. It is even afferted, that the first condition is, that fuch troops as have ad vanced shall go back to their own territory. It is not known whether this is meant to refer to the Ml trians alone, or whether the Ruffians are included. Thus mach is certain, that it is afferted npon good authority, that the propofals made at Berlin, on the part of the Fiench Emperor, have not difplearcd the Prutlian Minillry, and that the King has littered to them with pleafnre. A Pruffian Courier from Berlin mull have arrived at Vienna fo early as the isth.— The refult thereof, which will probably be notified to the French *mbaffisdor at Vienna, and tranforit i ted from that capital direa to Strafburgh, where the French gmperor will arrive about the asth, will de l s cide tho cineaion whether hostilities (hall commence, or be.finpped until affairs are finally fettled. The,srencle Envuy at Rati(bon expels a Courier from Vienna to-morrow, whofe, diTpatches will be ,forwarded to Strafburgh. The decifive moment draws - trey siear. It is uncertain whether the con tents of the difpatches will be fuffered to tranfpire here on their arrival, or whether they will 0,,1y be made public - after they (hall have been laid before the French Emperor, PA Mil, Seri. zo.--Auflrian rerments contione to arrive daily .from the interior of the Empire, to follow the army. To-morrow the tan troops are ex paled, when the army in the Brifgau and in Ger many will confift of one hundred and tweoty.Sve thoufand men, whereof thirty-two thoufand are ca valry. According in official intelligence, the tau first columns of Ruffians, crmlliting of thirty-eight thoufand men, of whom eight thoutand are cavalry, ate expeaed at Lintz on the 16th and sad of Oflober, which will make the c..mbined army amount to ene hundred and hey-three thouland men,'who will forna a line froth the Lake of Conaance to the Palatinat:, under the command of the Arc duke FFRDINAND. Our army has advanced by l , .ng marches fince the 17th, and Weezpeet to hear that it has taken the po• fitiou of Stockach, where batteries will he ereaed, and the army will not advance to the Rhine before they are completed. This itation at Stockach will be notified to the different corps, as a point d'anpuit where the army, if, after having advanced, it thould be obliged to retreat, thall take its appointed pofition. Upon the whole, the Aufirian plan, for the precut campaign, appears to be to aa merely on the defer.- . lire Get many, but on the offeiaAve is hair. of the greaten activity a j England. 4