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I ~' •. , . 1:74, , • Of Rreat interests, from which it is not permitted to depart, whatever might be tho provocation. Russia knows what she owes to herself, and the undersigned will not here dwell upon either the false - •assertions, or the form of the, French paper, each pa • togrvlinf which is . either an accusation against the Nediatory flower, or an insult to Russia—a contra diction or a subte rfuge. Nevertheless, Europe ought to know from whence the obstacles proceeded winch have prevented the accomplishment of so salutary a • work as. that which should have taken.. place at •• Prague,. , • It is Upon this poin t exclusively, that the Under ,, signed,demands.t6 publication of facts-tea publica tion which eludiy interests the dignity of Mediator Which • his, Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias accepted in such a frank 'and positive manner, with regard to the accusation,' that Russia merely sought by - the negotiations to compromise Austria •no per son can know better than the Minister of his imperial and Royal Austrian Majesty, by Whom the Armis tice was proposed, and how it was accepted, so that it is scarcely possible to say whom the insult 'affects the nearest; whether 'a wise, puissant, and enlight ened Court, which was not aware of such a strata gem, or Russia,.which has proved by facts, since her armies passed the Vistula and the Oder, that she de. sands no more than to offer her hand to a reasonable' and solid peace, and to agree to any arrangement, .• which should havti for its .result 'the happiness and tranonillity of nations. • Austria had prepared the elements for it, by charg ing liervelt with the mediation; but it appears it was not the intention. of his Majesty the Emperor of the French tnpermit their developement. These truths stand in no need of demonstration, and the undersigned confines himself to repeat offi cially to his Excellency, the Mediator's Plenipoten tiary, what has already formed the subject of his preceding official notes ;- that being convinced that a Mode of negociation which is strictly conformable, 'whatever the French Plenipotentieries may say to what Was done at the Peace of Tesiben, and having solemnly accepted it, he persists in it. He will ask at the same time; and to destroy by a single Fo=o,, the . vain and' sophistical verbosity of the I:leach Ncite-,-whith is the party that wished for , peace, and Which is the party that did not wish for it ? The undersigned has been at Prague since the 22d of Jelly, and has doubly legitimated himself on his 'powers ; and it was ott the nth August, that is to say, four, days before the final term, that the French Plenipotentiaries opened the active Negotiations to eitablishcontradietory forms by themselves, in order; • intait, to lose sight of the' grand object which ap paired to have brought them to-Prague. ' Tfie undersigned hats had no other view in thiii present Note, than to expose to the Mediating Power the rummer in which he.considers the questions of the moment in their' consequences towardS her, because • . his conduct during . the continuation of his residence at Prague has beet, irrevocably regulated by the obli gation of his Court. towards that whose mediation she had accepted. (Signed). D'ANSTELL. COPY DM A leDrtt FROM M. DE HUSABOLDT TO MS EXCEL LZICT COURT DE awl -ryas ten. - , . Prague, Auf,ust 7 , 1811. The tindersigned Minister of State and Plenipo tentiary horn Ins Majesty the King of Prussia, yes terday received the Note of the French Plenipoten tiaries, which his Excellency Count de Metternich, Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs, and Pleni potentiary to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, had the goodness to coniniunicaw to him. When their Majesties the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia hastened to accept the mediation of the Court of Vienna, and thereby proving both their desire of terminating the calamities of war, and their defe rence fir his Imperial and Royal Austrian Majesty, they might have supposed that their adversary would have equally resyected this mediation, and that they • won'd have been sate from seeing so false and injuri ous an interpretation given to their intentions. -The note which has been just communicated to the under signed proves that this expectation was illusory.— The conduct of the French Plenipotentiaries is defi cient in all the respect due to the mediating Court, and destroys at once all hopes of peace, by gratui teusly supposing, in the Allied Courts, views. con trary to its . re-establishment ; and they pervert, in stead of answering in a plain and natural manner, the notes of the Mediator ; so that throughout there' has not been one represented in its true light, which was presented on its proper day. The undersigned abstains from analyzing the pas sages which regard the mediation of Vienna. To re peat its words would be to hurt the sentiments which his Court has continually professed towards his Ma jesty the Emperor of Austria. The most simple no• tions of mediation, and the mere perusal of the Con vention of the 30th June, will be sufficient to enable us to form a judgment upon it. '4i:form of the negociations could not be agreed 1 upon separately at Dresden between tha medaling 'C in and the Fre nch Government. The unlimited confidence of the Allied Courts at the first rendered all further explanation useless on this point. The ' French Plenipotentiaries, therefore, cannot be asto nished at not seeing the conferences opened, which, according to the proposal for the form of the trans actions in writing, could not take place. But the undersigned . might have expressed his just • surprise at - the delay in the arrival of the French Plc ni.poieatiaries, and the length into which the negoci 4klUtl. was protracted,: if it had not been the re solution of los Court to refer whatever concerned this • nepOciation solely to the Mediating Power. -14 was hit.regerd for the benevoleet negotiation of his Imperial wail Royal Apostolic Majesty, which elope could rouse his Majesty, the King of Prussia to 'condescend to suffer his Minister to wait during fif teen days to no 'impose for the French Plenipoten- Defies ;. and his. I.4e'ellency Count de Metuanich would certainly feel i,i natyial, that Without the same sentioroats, the undersigned should deem it his duty hot tu continue his aho./e-liera autil the actual mu. rnesite nor expose i,iunself to see a false If;ht thrown hy'kraties oil the pure, upright, and beatevulesst teetions of the Alla ft l Courts. • , . /e tHrOD of negticietioo proposed in the Note of tia..French..Plenipeitentiertes ) may be judged by it-, self,..Aµ urger of the two opposite -1441 s of tr4n4- swiss), by writing and ciinfereocer, was not possible, 441.4e5s by so depriving the.former.of the advantages Which caused it to be proposed, that they wouig only a 4 ~% • • he pi eserteedz i regauce ; s ilierefora it would not have been is any manner ; and! the ender• signed thinks it 'almost superfluous to say, that he ought to continue in insisting on the form proposed bf his Excellency the Count de Metternich, and which has served for the basis to a !;town and memo rable peace. Although the note of the French Plenipotentiaries affects to apply solely to the conduct and views d i the Court of Russia, (an. affectation which is exten ded to the Ministers of. the two Courts,) whilst the steps of Prussia and Russia, as likewise those of their agents, have constantly prevented the most perfect concordance, the undersigned has no need to say, that his Majesty the King-his master can but doubly resent that passage in it which concerns his August Ally ; and that it is impossible to apply to it the name which it deserves. It would be .beneath all dignity to vouchsafe a reply to it. The people cannot be mistaken as to the authors of their evils. The Sovereign, who, after having re pulsed the most unjust aggression, and - after having succeeded, by the efforts of his faithful subjects, in destroying au army which had dared to invade his empire, has professed the most pure and the most noble desire of re-establishing a stable and solid peace, is not the one that should ever be charged with the wish of putting it off, or of prolonging the miseries of war. The great and important question in the present transaction is, without doubt, that of peace.; and Europe and posterity 'will easily judge which of tl.e two parties has opposed itself to its prompt establish ment; whether it be the Allied Courts, which, as well as the mediating Court, have, by departing from the grand e rinciple to which they will ever remain faithful, of restoring a state of good order, and the general balance of power to Europe, have done every thing not to lose a single instant of those precious moments, which the repose of arms offered for the work of pacification, or whether it is the Government which, after having deferred, without any plausible pretext, the commencement of the negociation ; and after having followed up one by another, does not hesitate in causing to be sent, four days before the expiration of the Armistice. a note, similar to that which the undersigned has just examined. not with out a lively and deep sense of pain, in seeing those questions, on which the • welfare and tranquillity of nations depend, treated in such a manner.—The uti dersigned has the honour, &c. (Signed) HUMBOLDT. NO. 37.-NOTE FROM THE COUNT DE METTBBNICD TO • • 11 71 II ag 4 THE PLENIPOTENTLARIFA OF FRANCE. Prague, August 9, 1513. The undersigned Minister of State And for Foreign ' Affairs to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Plenipotentiary !tom the mediating Court, at the , same time that he discharges himself of the commu nication of the official paper, dated 7th, from the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and Prussia, thinks it his duty to reply. on his part to the Not! which their Excellencies the Duke of Vicenza and the Count de Narbonne, 'Plenipotentiaries ft, m his Majesty the Emperor of the french, King of Italy, did him the honour to address to him the day before yesterday. As a Negotiator of the Convention of the 30th June, he never cons2nted to the two points anterior to the signature of the act of which mention is made in their Excellencies' Note. To demonstrate the error which has dictated this assertion, it will be suf ficient to assure that it would have been contrary to the dignity of his august Court to enter into an en gagement of being impartial, as that of not binding itself by any Convt tion, even eventual, during the negotiation; and the parts of Mediator and Arbitra tor are too widely different for Austria, in charging itself with the former with the consent of the Powers interested, ever to think of arrogating to herself the attributes of the other. Neither can the undersigned admit that he has de tained his Excellency tlie Duke of Bassano, by the form of the conferences to be adopted in the negocia tion. The particular attention which the two Courts of Russia and Prussia might, with regard to their political attitude, find themselves inclined to observe, relative to the choice of that form of negociation, has in truth been the subject of several conversations be tween the undersigned and his Excetlency the Duke of Bassano; but the forms of a negociation could not be unilaterally regulated by the 'Mediator and one of the Powers concerned in the negociation, to the exclu sion of the other parties ; and the arrival of the French Plenipotentiaries having experienced some delays, the mode of negociation was touched upon by Count de Bubna, by virtue of orders which were addressed to him under date of the 17th July, and the conferences in this respect did not lead to any result. The undersigned formally protests against the as sertion, that the pretended concert established on this subject, was caused by the manifestation of the inten tion of Russia to open the negociations, with a view of compromising Austria. His Majesty the Empe. ror would not have charged himself with the media tion between the Belligerent Powcrs, if he had not had confidence in their reciprocal good faith, and his pc netration could no more be taken by surprise, than his impartial sincerity. The form of negociation proposed to their Excel lencies, the Plenipotentiaries of France, could not have been unforeseen, as they being specified in the over tures made in this respect by Count de Bubnaj and they are so far from being unusual in similar transac tions, that they were adwitted as the basis of the ne goci.uions Teschen acted in support of the propo sal made by the nndersigned. The reasons which engaged him to prefer them at that time, still subsist, and he renews his invitation to their Excellencies to adhere to them oa their part. (Signed) The Count de MErmuncii. [to be conti.Jued.] FROM THE FRENCH PAPIiaS TO THE i 7th INSTANT. NUREMBERG, OCTOBER 4. I The Luke of Padua has his head-quarters at Leip. zic. Several French divisions are posted between Maekrenstett and Lutzen. Other divisions, which were between Wurtzen and D.uben, are marching to the same side. At the date of the last intelligence.. a report was in circulation that the whole of the Prince of Moskwa's army was marching against the enemy. Austrian ceps, which marched from Boi.ernia into the E'zegebiirg, and from thence upon Alten bourg and Zeist, has been beaten, and obliged to re tile to Zwekau. The euelvy'a hAve Illrectioued . - •tl-I .1 "111 ' Wtrfot Boson, Os a conquered cointry t They have Wad conuibutices, and their troops have piltiged all the countries into which they love penetrated. RASTADT, OCTOBER s. • A great number of troop; have gone out from Mayence and Frankfort t• they are marching upon Geisen and Marbourg. The formation of a camp in. the neighbourhood o f Friedberg is talked of, and a reserve camp upon the heights of Bergen. near Frankfort. MUNICH, OCTOBER a. Sinte the retreat of the Austrian troops from the Tyrol, very detailed reports have been received from Brizen. That town was only occupied by a few troops, composed of Austrian light troops, and about 100 soi distant Tyrolean chasseurs, but who were nothing more than a collection of deserters and re fractory conscripts', commanded by one called Eisen steken, of Botzen ; some vagabocds and bad subjects Of the country joined them. Eisensteken wished to organize an insurrection in the Tyrol, but his projects failed, and every Where, from the Pusterthal to Star ' zing, at the foot of Mount Brenner, to which he had advanced, the landholders, the inhabitants of consi deration, and the clergy, employed their influence to maintain tranquillity. Under the Military Report, the high deeds of the enemy were confined to the taking of the ruined fart of Mulbach. Troops be longing to the Italian division of General Bonsanti, 'have occupied the greater part of the Pusterthal, and are marching upon Leintz. AU the Bavarian Tyrol is very tranquil ; it is ,the same with all the other Circles of our kingdom. VIENNA, SEPTEMBER. 27... The communications of the Grand Army with France are completely free, and the roads as wife as they ever were. LIMBOURD (UPON THE LAHN), OC ['OBER 7. His Majesty the King of Westphalia passed through here to-day, on his return to Dusseldorf. G, OCTOBER 4. We have received accounts, that, dining the first fifteen days of September, several brilliant sorties were made by the brave garrison of Dantzic, and that the blockading corps under the orders of the Prince of Wurtemberg, had suffered considerably. It has alto lost many men in the attacks which it made against the lines .of defence of that fortress. RASTADT, OCTOBER 6. A French corps d'armeee composed of troops which have come from the left bank of the Rhine, has as sembled in the neighbourhood of Erfurth, and is pre paring to march. The works to be added to the for ,titications of Erfurth are nearly completed ; that town is nnw a very important place of war. We learn that the works and redoubts which are erecting round the new Wirtemburgh town of Frederickhaven, upon the lake of Constance, are greatly advanced. This tows has become a place of exercise for the new levies. FRANKFORT, OCTOBER. 7. We yesterday received positive intelligence that the enemy's pArtis:tris who had penetrated at some points into Westphalia, retired on the sth instant. The force of this corps was much exaggerated ; it was es timated as high as from 5 to 6,000 men, but in reality only consisted of 1,200 under the orders of General Czernicheff. The inhabitants conducted themselves perfectly well during the stay ut the enemy. LBIPZIC, OCTOBER 3. Since the arrival of the Duke of Ragusa with an army which supports the considerable corps of the Prince of Moskwa, established at Dessau, and in communication with Magdeburgh, our attitude on this side has been most imposing. By the move ment it'hich the Duke of Castiglione has just made, j there will be 140,000 between Jena and' Magde burgh, where the. Prince of Eckniuhl has sent a con siderable reinforcement. AUGSBURGH, OCTOBER 4. The greatest tranquillity prevails upon all the fron tiers of Upper Austria, and the country of Salzbourg. General Count Wrede's head-quarters were still at Brannan. BAYREUTH, OCTOBER S. Marshal the Duke of Tarente, on the 22d Sep tember, acted on the offensive against the Silesian army. He advanced from Schmudefeldt upon Bis chofswerda ; the advanced guard of the Allies, com manded by the Russian General Pardocewitz, and the Prussian Colonel Katzler, thought proper, on the evening of the 22d, .to evacuate - Bischofswerda. The Duke of Tarente continued his attack the fol lowing day, and penetrated to Gordan. In the night between the 24th and 25th, the French corps d'armee took a position near Bischofswerda. Oc-F. 7.—The Prussian Colonel de Blucher, who was made prisoner on the 14th September, on the Bohemian Frontiers, is to be exchanged for Colonel Count Talleyrand Peregod, who in a charge of some reg iments of cavalry against the advanced guard o f Count Tauenzein, was taken prisoner on the 19th of the same month. FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, OCTOBER 6. We now know that the Austrian corps d'armee, which from the neighbourhood of Commottau, in Bohemia, marched to Marienberg •and its environs, was commanded by General Klenaw. His intention was to march upon Leipzic, to effect his junction with the coalesced army of Berlin, which was to have marched upon the same town ; but the good disposi• tions of the French Generals spoiled *is plan. The enemy's army not being able to pass the Elbe, Gene ral Klenau retired upon the Bohemiao Fro niers.— This General again marched on the `2.7th 6.!pteenber to Zwikau and Altenburg, but ou the '2Bth the Auh• trians were driven into Bohemia. The deserter Thie4nano, during the excursion which he made into Saxony, with a corps of light troops and Cossacks, pillaged and exercised ail kinds of ravages, although he had, in a proclamation, pro mised to respect property. Hr destroyed. among others, the fine establishment ofiteunersdorl, where the King of Saxony had collected the tinest Merinos, to improve the breed of the Saxon sheep ;* he carried <4 the cattle iie found there. The French tro,:ps have established a bridge of boats above Merchwia. The Saxon cuirassiers have nad a very brisk engagement with a corps of Prus. cavalry. It is General Tauenzien who com mands the enemy's corps d'armee posted on this side. He has been repulsed beyaad Icaslerwerde. FRENCII PIPER:Tom tattarstimr. French Funds, October 17-411fraob SO cents. PARIS, OCTOBER ts. Letters have today bassi received from Barnme i *they announce that the armies were still in presence of each other, but that no event had takm place.— The Duke of Dalmatia bad received some reinforce ments, and was still to receive more. . , It appears that some important operation is prepa ring in Sunny ; sevtral corps have assembled in the plain of Leipzic. • ARMY OF CATALON:A. SKTRACT OF A LISTTEI4. WitITTZN TO WS EICCLLYNCIi TUC bllmsTan AT WAN, BY GENLRAL COUNT pka:Alia, • COMMANDING DM CATALONIAN ARMY. " Germs, October 1, Hit f. Motessmmn---1 had ordered the general of Division, Lamarque, to march upon Mot. Peth's bii gade, composed of the 67th and 113th regiments, and a squadron of the 29th, in order to observe the movements of the Spaniards, who were said to have some designs upon La Cerdagne, or the frontiers of France. 4 , General Petit manoeuvred according to the its. structions he had received. On the 28th September he was at Campredon t on the - 29th he returned to Olot, and on the lit and 2d October he marched to the foot of the Grad, .and towards St. Prtvat. and took advantage of the presence of his troops to exact payment of the contributions, and collect some requi , sitions for the subsistence of his brigade. , g The Spaniards, annoyed by these movements. approached Olot on the 2d, and took a position, is number from 3 to 4000 men, .upon the heights of St. Pri vat, d‘ General Petit reconnoitred them on the Sd : be resolved to attack them on the 4th, and drive them from his neighbourhood, which was executed with vigour and judgment. General Petit set out front Olot at brealeof day ; he arrived about seven in the morning in presence of the enemy he found him stranger than on the pre ceding evening. The regiments of Burgos, Tura. gona, Ansonia, &c. crowned with. two lines of infantry the mountains to the right and left of St. Privat. A squadron of St. Narcisse's hussars was in order of battle in the. valley, protected by the infatttry. The French brigade halted to form and take a little rest ; the enemy took this as the effect of hesitation he de scended with loud cries, and briskly attacked some companies off' voltigeurs, which formed the advanced guard. General Petit immediately ordered the charge to be beaten ; his four battalions instantly marched in the directions which had been prescribed them ; the enemy, astonished at this attack, retired from po. sition to position : they were all carried, and covered with his dead. The difficulties of the ground, which slackened oor march, allowed the Spaniards to fre quently rally : the fire was very brisk from eight o'clock till noon, and lasted to four in the evening. Every thing was at last obliged to give way before the indefatigable courage of our troops, who pained the enemy several leagues from the field of battle. and completely dispersed him. We only took some psi aoners from him; but he lost many men in his re. treat by the fire of musketry. sad a great number in their flight threw themselves down the precipices. 44 This action cost us two Officers and seven sub officers or soldiers killed, seven Officers and 61 sol diers wounded. I have the honour to remit with this to your Excellency, a state of each parti:ular regi meat's loss.. The good dispositions and conduct of General Petit are worthy of eulogiums. He has been excellently seconded by the devotion of the 67th and 113th regiments, the mounted chasseurs, and a batta lion of the nth regiment of the line. Some compa nies of this battalion placed in reserve upon Mount Olivet, undbr the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques, made a skilful and bold movement, which was useful to the general attack. 44 I shall have the honour of sending your gin& lency, by the first courier, the names of the Officers, sub-officers ? and soldiers, who particularly distin. guished themselves, and who have been recommended by the General of Division, Lamarque.—l have the honour, &c. (Signed) 6 4 COUill =CAM," FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 12. We haire just received Westphalian Monitors to the 10th instant. Several columns entered on the Btb, as well as General Alix, who has caused different Pro clamations to be published. One of these Gazettes contains the following article Certain intelligence given by General Regaud, commanding a corps of French troops at Rotham. bourg announces that the Prince Royal of Sweden, beaten by the French army, had been driven to the right bank of the Elbe, alter having suffered a consi derable loss." BRUNSWICK, OCTOBER 7. The Hanseatic Departments continue to be very tranquil, notwithstanding the resumption of hostile. ties. • 'Their repose has not been disturbed for a sin. gle moment. A single district of the department of the Mt:tubs - of the Elbe was for a moment exposed to the incursions of a corps belonging to Walmoden but the enemy has nut been Ale to maintain himself in any part. The army commanded by the Prince of Ecketuhl, of which the Danish auxiliary corps forms a pa:4 is still established in the neighbourhood of biorin and katzebourg. It covers by its position Hamburgli and Lubeck : it is presumed that its movements are subordinate to those of the Prince of Moskwa. - The advanced guard of Central Walmoden has had seve ral engagements with the Prince of Eckmubl's ad• vanceJ guard, hut wi;hout ;h.; most triling.advatitage. !PI .4 [ a I