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f sUPPLEMEhTART PAPERS. RELATIVE TO TREATICS,Scr. IPSESEISTID SY HIS MAJESTY'S COM - MAIM, TO SOTH /MUMS OS PILICLIAMIWT, 3D AND ATM EEIS. 1806. LIST OF PAPERS. No.l. Estrada from TifpasciesoTSTrArthur Paget, K. B the Right Hosanna& Lord Mulgrave. No. 11. Emmet' from Difpatchcs of Lord Coonville Lcve(o Gower ruche Hight Honourable Lonl Mulgrave 14.11 L Extradta from Communications from his Fzecilency Count Woronzow to Ids Majetty's Government, marked (A) Plan of Operations propolid by the Court of Vienna. 'formation of ditto. (It) Remarks, by the Cabinet of St. Peterfburgh, on the Plan of Operations. Trarmation of ditto. (C) Protocol des Conferences i Vienne, 16 Juilld, tBO5. Tranflation of ditto. Two Marche-Routes annexed. (D.) Exuma from a Difpatch of Count Rafumowfki to Prince Caartorllka, agth this Mar, 1805. Tran Cation of ditto. No.lV.l.ztradts front Papers communicated by Count Stah n.mherg to hi. Majefty's Government, viz. Ilemelre fur la Situation des Makes. Trarmation of ditto. ltat dc la Farm de l'Annie Imperide et Royale qul feel en Cnotpagne k 1 Odtoiwo, acts. No. V. Ault/1 an Declaration. Tranilatimi of ditto•. Note of Talleyrund to Count Cobeotzd, 13th of Anguß, 8.15. Trot dodos of ditto•. • Decimation of M. Talkyrand, 16th of Auguß, 1105. Tnuillstion of dnto•. LimPtror of Cie m.ny's Proclamation, dated Bruno, tat► November, t8•,5. Trarmstion of ditto}. • Vi.le the Star, Sept. 27. 1105. f Vide the Star, Dec. 4. 1803. No. t. Copy of a Difratch from Sir Amber Paget to Lord Mu'raw.. (No 47) dated Vienna. June 3, Otos. My Lord--When I as with Count Cobentzel yellerday morning, I found him confiderahly agitat ed, on account of the intelligence he had received from Genoa. He began by telling me, that he was extremely anxious for my arrival here, in order to commarti. Cate to me Tome information which had been reeeiv. ed by him the preceding evening by a courier. He then fent for the difpatches he had received from the knPerial,Stiniller at Genoa, and gave them to me to read ; the fubflance of them is contained in my preceding originals had been fent in the night to the Nosperne at Prague, and the Vice Chancellor was jutt difpatching an ellafette with the intelligence to St. Put: (burgh. I wrote a few lines in his room by this cpportuni. ty, to antize his Majetly's Atnbaltador at that Court of their eircumflances. Count Cobentzel afk- ed me if I meant to franlmit the account by a mei /roger ? and indeed teemed rather defirous that I thould ; but, upon calculation, it appeared certain 'that Government would have received it fooner through France. This, however, led me to ufie the Vice Chancellor, what he conjedured to be the fen tiraents of the Government upon this important event ? to this nnelli ti he replied, th.st I mull be aware that it ippd made a very deep and !ethnic im prellion upon his Imperial blajelly's Minifters • but that, in the Emperor's abreact, he could not take up-' on himfelf entirely to fay more; that he conceived. that the WI order he mould receive from his lame. vial Majelty, would he to recal the whole miff nn from Genoa. (Signed) •RTHUI !AGIT. Copy of a DKgarrh, iN ss) from Sir Arthur Paget to Lord Ildoierave, dard Villook PSC 2%1803. My Lord.— It is, I believe, telt rue, mar the an vexation of Genoa and Placentia are ads which nn. thing but an appeal to arms can afford a proper fa .itisbodion for ; accordingly, I do not find that the ' Emperor has broken upon thole fithjeds. it has been lately a futbjed of deliberation in the ,Military Councils here, whether, in the event of being , attacked. Venice fbould be abandoned, and the quer tion has been decided in the negative. General Devatre a an engineer officer of great merit, in this fe , viee, feta Znt within this day or two, in or der in put the followirg places into the heft ?offible Rate of defence, viz. Venice, Trevilo, Trent, sod .Brixen. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ARTHUR PAGET. Cppy.of a LiCpateh from Sir Arthur Paget, K. E. to Lord hitd• grave, dated Victim, July 6, 1803. (No. 5.5.) My Lord-... The French AmbaWsdor demanded i at the beginning of this week, an interview with the Vice Chancellor, who being himtelf too unwell to accept it, deputed the Under Secretary of State to 'receive him. The purport of the communication made by Idonfleur de Rochefoucault, was to inf-rm this Court, that the different encampments which bad lately tak:n place in Italy, had been formed for the foie putt:giro of exercifing the troops, and that, having been infpeded by Bonaparte, they had broken up. *ad the troops had returned into their re fpedive criart:rs : That Bonaparte could not be i ignorant of. or infenfible to the great military pre parations which have of late been making in this country; that he trufled, however, that the Empe ror, guided by a mutual defier to remain upon tering of frloodthip and amity with France, would give the fame unequivocal proofs of it. Two or three days after this communication, the Vice Chancellor law the French Ambalfador, and gave bim the fame fort of anfwer he had already done nn nearly ,rt fiatilar occation. He informed him, that the military prep:trillions alluded to, had been determined upon in corfeimence cf the French army in Italy having been cm.flcrably atymented t th at precaution therefore had rendered them ncoairy ; that it was. and al ears would he the Emperor's firm refolution, to adopt loch a iyllene as the Lacy of his dominions appeared to require ; that the prepara tions in quellion were within thole dmoini ns, where as Bonaparte had collated Lis troops in a country which did not belting to him. The above is the titbit:nice of %that has paffed upon this occall •n tietween the Vice Chat.cellor and the French Amb.tlTaclar, as related to me by the former. I have the honour IA be, Pte. (Signed) •111111.111 PAGIT. Copy of a Difpatels from Sir Arthur Paget. K. S. to Lord Mil grim, dared Vienna. 29th Ausiiii, 18c1. Na. 7 1. My Lord— I have at length been pot in prolefr"n, ht the Vice Chancellor, of the whole negociathat which has been carrying on between the two Imperial Courts, fince November 180. s. 1 =cited alto, three or four doylies°, flora Lord G. L. cower, by an Außrian Meffenger, copies of the Declarations exchanged between him and Cuunt Stadion, on the gth infant. In the one prefented by his Lordfhip, it appears that hi, linver , al M.ll. ay La, e. ,, ‘L•nted to adopt the modifications propofed by the Emperor of fkuffia to the arrangements for the •enetaal pacification of the Continent. The remaining point, therefore, to be fettled between the tun Courts, is that of Sub fulies. And, in the firit place, I have to acquaint your Lordfhip, that, at an interview I had with Count Cohentzel, immediately after the receipt of Lord G. L. Gower's letter, I defired to know whether the Emperor would ratify Cound Stadion's declaration, and confent to the conditions under which our offer of Subfidy was made to the Außrian Government. In anfwer to which application, I was this day in forrhed by the Vice Chancellor, that, although he had not as yet received his Imperial Majellv's Goal commands, yet he had no dOubt that the ratification to the above declaration would be fent to St. Peter!: burgh by the fird Mellinger. It is obvioufly untieceffary for me to enter into a calculation of the difference between the Subfidy Is& feed, and the fnm demanded. For the year t 814, she I - flotations are, as „t . am informed by the Vice Chancellor, mutually under- Rood, and agreed to. It is therefore f..r the Subfidy of the prefent year, that his Majefty's ultimate decifion is antionfly awai.ed ; and, with a view to accelerate, as much as wobble, the conclufion of this Wines, I conceive it to be the with of the Emperor's Miniaers, that it fhould henceforth be treated diteetly between the Cm/its of London and Vienna. From the prefent appearance of things, it is evi dent, that a war with France will now no longer de. pend upon the payment of r or zoo cool. more or lefs ; I mull neverthelefs obferve, that Count Oi bentzel has infionated tome, that the language which the Emperor will loon be called up 'n to hold to the French Government, would naturally be heightened or lowered in proportion as he may be provided with the means of making gond his prerentione. His Ma. jelly's Government may certainly tepee/ that the fubfidiary demands of the Court of Vienna, beyond the oim which has already been offered by his Ma jetty's Amhatlador at St. Peterfbuigh, and accepted by Count-Stadion, will he strongly prelfed upon. According to the hell information I baste been able to obtain upon the fubjeet, the Anftrign -arMaments have already occationed an expenditure cf about thirty-fix millions of florins. What the refill' of them may be, i. lumber queltion ; but I omit admit, hat . they could nor have heel carried on a more ex. tenfive and more formidable kale, and with greater aelivity, had that fum been previoufly placed in their Bank. I have received the fame flatemint (lithe expendi. titre from Ceuta Cobentz 1, and he has in fad re• quelled me to imprefs as tirmigly as ociflible upon the minds of his Kielty 's Minifters, that, c .nlidering the wretched Hate of the finances of this country, tb-Em. peror fully relied upon the genernfity of hi.. Maj.-lty, and had, confequently, not hefitated at once to place , his armies upon the mat formidable footing. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) AATNUR PAGET. Copy of a Difpatc% from Sir Arbor(Paget to I .ord Mulgravedated Vie na, Aug ty. No. 73) 1 Mr Losn—l have the honour to inclnfe a Rerle mese which was publifhed yetterday, by and which tfe army is declared to be upon the war eitahliinntent. In order to avoid your Lordlhip an immediate. eonteß with the probably bad German in whicir ibis RegleMent is written, I have caufed a tr anflation to be made of the effential points contained in it, which I IsevevA:h enclofe. The opening of it, infer% is the moll important of the whole. I . wed to •nbe in Count Cobenzel's Cabinet yeflerday morning, reading fome papers, when the French Ansbafrador arrived in the adjoining audi• once, with the, Reglement in his hand. The inter views though very ( hurt, was, I fancy, rather a boi.. • lternus one. M. de la Rochefnueault, alluding to this Regle menu, began Sy raying, as Count Cobentzel informed me immediately afterwards, • Vous voulez dune la guerre et bien you, l'aurer,' the converfation did not in other refpeils appear to be very novel. The Vice Chancellor contended, that the ...Emperor's views in arming were to maintain peace, and that, at all events, he armed in his own country, whereas Bona parte's armaments were made in a country w4ichdid• not belong to him. It is unneceffary that I timid fay more upon this fubjeB, as your Lordfhip will have already received: through Count Starhemberg the moll recent commu-• nica•ions which have taken place between the Court ut Vienna and the French Government. I have the, honour to be, &c. (Signed) •RTHUR PAGCT. Cnry of a Difpatch from Sir A. Paget, K B. to Lori Mulgraya dated Vienna, Auguß 30, 180,5.—(N0. 75 ) My Loan—A Ruffian Courier arrived here Teen day with an account that the fill body of the Ruffian troops under Geneml Koutnufof were to enter upon the Aultrian territory on the 26th init. I have the honour to he, &c. (Signed) ARTHUR PAC FT. I Copy of a IWpatch from Sir A. Pipet,': R. to Lord Mulgrave, (UAW Vienna, S,p.. 5, tirit.—(No its.) _ _ _ Ddv Loao---Orders have been tranfmitted within there three or four day, to the Ruffian Ambaffador, fro. 04 embarkation of the Ruffian troop, at Corfu. aunt Razamnfsky is not informed of the place where this force will difembark ; this is to be decided according to circumtlances by the Coinmander ; but it appears probable, that they will proceed at once to Naples. It is prelomed, that Sir Jame Craig has been inarated to co-operate with the Ruffian Gene ral fire the disunion of the French from that king dom, Ihnuld affairs take that torn. tint Cobentzel bas lcd me to cape& that a com monication will very loon be made to me, relative to the crooperation ti the forces under Sir Jas. Craig. Extraft of a Diftratch from Sir A: Paget to Lord Adolgr4vaMated Vienna, Sept. 14, 1110.4.,•-(N0.87.) I am to fee Count Cobentzel this evening. It is pfliule that the nature of the enn.munieation,l ex . pee to receive, will relate to the Bavarian bulinefs, And may induce me to fend a mWrenger to England. L e ft it ihnuld be otherwile, 1 will now inform pnir Ln.dlhip, that the Eledlor of Bavaria, after havinq in the moll tole= manner, bound himfelf to join hi. :woo l° thole of Aultria, precipitately left Munich, having even orders for the whole of his army to tollow him into Franconia. The French Minifler I had alio let out for Wurtzhurg. I cannot, as vet, inform your Lordfhip of the mea. fines, which this conduit of the Elerlor may lead the Court of Vienna to adopt toward. Bavalia. I believe that that the fall accounts at prefent fay, the Aulltians have now orders to advance as far as the Lech. Copy of a Difpateh from Sir Arthur Paget to Lord Malgrave, dated Vicuna, zyth September, 88.) My Lord, I have the honour to inclofe a duplicate of my difpatch of yeaerday. I have now to inform your Lordfhip, that the French Ambaffador yellerday demanded his pall pout, which he was infltufled to d 3 as foon as he received information of the Auflrians having entered iota Bavaria. Inftrttilions have been fent to the Attarian Minf fler at hltinich to follow the Elector of Bavaria to Wurtzhurg, and to employ promifer, threats, and every means of bringing him back to his engage ments. This had already been done by Prince Schwartzen berg. Mr. Dural will offer more. We fhall fee whether Mr. de Mongelas will t e more tradable with him. The Bavarian forces do not, as Count Cobenzel titentirmed to me 101 l night, am tint to more to or t Coo° men. The Eleitur of Bavaria, in his firft in. teimitiv with the Ptince, promifed every thing that was demanded; be confirmed his promife in a few lir,es he 'rote him.: he fent General Negarolla here with a letter toille Emperor, which commencesnearly in there *fords r .4 I have ordered my Minifler to fign a treaty with Prince Schwartzenberg, by which I join my troops to thefe of your MaJelly." When the above Officer arrived with this letter, the Emperor had already heard of the Elaine of Pa varia's departure. The Ruffians aa.e to be at Brttnn on the zoth. Couriers have been fent off to requeft, that they may advance by forced marches, General Meeafeldt is to be attached to thefe ccrps. Trait Government has, within thefe few days, had aceuunts of the whole of the French army having quitted the Coall, and being in full march for Stral . - but g and Mayence. It is laid, that Bonaparte will command in Ger. many, with lgarfhal Ney under him. It is reported that Infeph Bonaparte will command in Italy, hav ing Maffena attached to him. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ARTHUR PAGET. Coy) , of a Difpateh from Sir A. Paget, it. B. to Lord ' dated Vicuna, 18th September, 18a5.—(No. 9 . 1.) My Lord—The Emperor feu out ?or the army to marrow. His imperial Majefty, aftefhaving con ferred with Mena Mack upon the different objefts for which ha undertakes this journey, will, I under hand, return to Vienna for the tranfaftion of bufinefo, I premiord to flis Snot departure to take the command of his armies. My Lai letters will have informed your Lerrdlisip th..r the Aufirians Were advancing to the Lech. 1 have now to antiounet a Rill more forward move ment to the flier, or, in other words, to the pofition of Ulm. According to the laR accounts which have been rcczivet.: here, it is fuppofed that the army under bonavarte, wbieh is ,alrembling at Stralbargh and Mayence, but,partipalatly the latter, will amount to a is.ooo.men.s kadependent of this. there is the army under Bernadotte, which is underfinod to be march ing in the diredinn of Franconia, with the view pro. bably threatening Bohemia. It will, therefore, probably become neeefrary to firengthen the AuHrian army in Germany, which can only be done by drawing troops from the Tyrol. This et.nfideration, together with the determination which had been taken of not commencing operations in Swifferland, have induced the Emperor to accede. to the demand of neutrality made by the Serifs Gn vett-anent ; accordingly his Imperial Majzly, in his anfwer to the Landamman, has figned to that Go vernment his confent to admit the neutrality of Swif ferland ; but his Impetial Majefly has at the fame time declared, that his obfervance of this engagement will depend entirely upon a (hid adhereece to fuch a fyltem on the part of the Swift, and that, from the moment they permit the pall'age of the French troops, or grant fupplies of any fort ; in general, that they deviate in the flighefi degree from the neutrality they have propofed, he fhall, without further explanation, look upon the agreement as diffolved. The neceffity of employing frefh efforts appears to be felt here ; I am informed by Count Cobenteel that not only all the Referees, hut what is called the Dou ble Referve have been called out. The Archduke Ferdinand left Vienna yellerday to join We army in Suahia. I ha►e the honour In be, Ike. (Signed) ARTHUR FACET. Ceprof a Difpatcl4 from Sir Arthur Paget, 13. to Lord Mul - crave, dated Vienna, Sept. at, (No. 94.) My Lord—l have little to trouble your Lordetip with by this port. The reports from General Mack are of the moil fatisfaeti.ry nature, and the apprelisnfions which were at one time entertained from tl , e immenfe force which Bonaparte is bringing into Germany gradually de. creaks. The deferiton of the Bavarian► to the Auf. ttians is raid to be confider:l6le. Count Cobentzel's information, however, refpea ing the number, of the Battalion army,uos.inecorred. They may, I believe, be eitimated at zo,oco men. Copy of a Etifpatch front Sir Arthur Paget, K. 8. to Lord Mul. grave, dated VICIIO2, 2311* btptrillbtr, i& u. (No. gr.) My Lord—Acconntiwere rather unexpthedly re ceived here yclicrday. which announce the arrival of the Emperor of Ruffia at Brecz. • Prince Sehwartsenberg will fet nut from Vienna this evening, to attend upon his Imperial Majelly during his flay in that Country. The Ruffian troops are advancing in carriages. I have the honour to be, &c. (Sig,ned) ARTHUR PAGET. Estrada( a prima (rani Sir Arthur Paget, K. B. to Lurd Mul• grave, datedVkru.a , 2J °donee. No.9r. My Lord—li has been feveral times tepin tea here that the French had eroded the Rhine ; the accndnt which arrived here yellernay ot that event, appears to be credited by this Government. Should it be trite. or whenever it may happen, General Mack, as C•unt Cnbentzel allured me lad night, has orders to advance and give them battle. It has been found maul to reinforce the army in Ge: many, bj draw. ing thirty battalions from Italy : a circumitance which appears to have created Come difpleafure in the.Archcluke Charles. The Emperor's departure to take the command of the army, is fixed for the azd cf this month. The head nt the firfl Ruffian column will have paired the Danube at Krems on the sth, (1711) inflant. It is calculated that the whole cern. under General Ku. tofow will have joined the Aultrians by the 22d ink. I have the honour to be figned, (Signed) /MTH UR PAQIT. Copy or a Dirpateh from Sir Arthur Paget F. 11. to Lord Mul• grave, dated Vi:nti, 24th Odtober, 0301—(No. zoo.) My Lord—lf the fire operations of the campaign have been attended with la. and difadvantage,whielt from the prefent alpeet of affairs, it is, I am griev. ed to by, not too much to prefirme, we may, amen other cattle', attribute our ill fuccers to the Tor— lowing : The firft and principal fault which has been corn. mitted, was to have taken the field with too fmall s e force ; fince the very felt appearance of a rupture with France, it has been proved, almoit to demon. Oration, that the Theatre of war would be in Ger. many. Bonaparte liiinfelf publicly announced it, in the fell Note prefented by the Charge d'Affaires, at Ratitbon ; and it was otherwife not difficult to calculate, that the whole army of Bonaparte would rather be direded towards StrAtugh than Verona. Maffena cannot have more than 70,0d0 men uni der his command. The armies under the immediate command of Bonaparte Cannot be ettimated at left than 140,000 ; notwitillanding which, the campaign has been opened in Germany by, abnut 80,000 Auf trians—whereai, to attack or oppnfe Maffena, nei ther of which he has hitherto done, the Archduke Charles has not left than from one hundred to one hundred and thirty thoufind men. I cannot explain this Orange, diftributicm dad Mifapplication of the forces, but in the two follow ing ways : Firft—lt is probable that General Mack, aware Of the jealoufy, or, perhaps, the decided hatred borne him by the Archduke, was unwiliing tO inflame that animofity by a propels!l to withdraw from Italy *nr very confiderable number of the troops, which, in the commencement of the preparatiens, it Was judg ed expedient to place under the command of hits Royal Highnefs in that Eountry. To this falfe and mifplaced delicacy, therefore, are in a great meafure owing the pre'ent misfortunes. And Ido not fed any thing imptnbabte in this formife, fot it das not until the lag extremity; thit thirty battalions of in.: fantry were, in fad, ordered from Italy, to reinforce the Archduke Ferdinand's army, and we know that Ithis very meafure gave a great deal of umbrage to the Archduke Charles. aelly—ln fettling the rlan of the cintttaign, le mutt have been calculated, that, previoofly to the opening of it, the Ruffians would have joined. This, in truth, however Lille and extraordinary, was the calculation which was made; upon what it was foun ded I cannot exaßly fay. Confidering'the irnmefife tirePatatiOns which toCre carrying on here, the return of M. Novi:El%dr, an.; flounced in the middle of July, the notions which, br that time, Bonaparte mull more or lefs haft acqnt red of the negotiations carrying on between his Ma. jelly and the two Imperial Courts, it was hardly to be expeeted that the deception could be carried oil beyond the month of Auguft, and this was, in faft, the epocha at which it ceafed. On the other hands it might have been, and was afcertained, that the French troops woul dl quit the coalt in the firft days ot September ; it might alto have been calculated, that, according to the prodigious rapidity of their move ments, and the immenfe aftivity of their Chiefs, they would reach their deltination at the end of the fame month. Equally well might it have been known, that the fir) Rnainn army could not have arrived upon the Inn before the middle of ()Bober I from whence it became evident, that in opening the campaign in the vicinity of the Rhine, the Auftrians voluntarily,andwith their eyesopen,chofetncommence fingle.handed, againtt the French. This (latement, if it be a true one, and I think it cannot be refuted, places, it fhniild feem, Gen. Mack in the fol lowing dilemma :—Either the Anarians were in fuf ficient force to contend alone againfl the French, or they were not. In the firll hypothefis, why firould the pofition of the Iller have been chofen, never to have been abandoned ? In the latter, why rifle fo forward a movement ? If, however, General Mack, in taking up his pofition on the Iller, under the above mentioned circumftances, could have felt himfelf con dent of being able to maintain it until the arri val . the Ruffian!, it is natural that, with a view of rippling a barrier to the progrefs of the enemy int• the Empire, he lhould have chofen it in preference to a more backward pofition. One Cannot fuppofc, that he could have been direaed by any other mo tive ; but we have had the mortification to difcover the fallacy of it. _ _ _ There was, unqueftionahly, fomethin; I:dein/ding in the idea cf opening the campaign an Suabia or IVirtemberg, rather than in Bavaria ; but it is to bd prclumed, that had the latter eledorate been fixed upon as the frll fcene of 24:1i0n, various advantages would have r4ulted from it. In the firii place had the Au('dans advanced nel farther than the Inn or the Ifer, or even the Lech, the French would have required eight or ten days more to have come in conied• with them, and the Ruffians might have joined them in as many days left. —Thus the Archduke Ferdinand's army of fo,ooo men, the Ruffians. with a corps of Aufirian cavalry, making together 60.000 men, would have been con centrated and ready to ad together at the l!gnal given. ;Idly. By this plan (fuppofing the Auftrians to have taken their firft pofstion vu the Inn) it Is pantile that the fcandalous defeition of the Elea°, of Bavaria might hare been avoided. Placed between two powerful armies, he would perhaps have maintained his neutrali:y until the moment of the explofion. Had viClory attended the Aultrians, he would bate become an ealy pry to their armies; at all events, the im menfe micchitf which both his army and hie cubjetts in general have done in Germany lince the commence ment of hnllilities , would have been averted. idly. It is true that the countries of Baden, Wit.- ten:berg, and parr of Bavaria, would have equally hcen devoted to the ravages of the French armies. This evil was not to be prevented but by the occu pation of tbc whole of the Snnth of Germany by the Aullrians, and the condutt of there princes create, little regret for the oppreffica they have undergone. T 111 I] Cr