The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-01 00:00:00

MP IMP' Fir .. r ♦ w FEB. 1. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . 7 %0411 as to that of Berlin. In acquitting himself of this coin mission, the undersigned requests his Excellency Mr. Canning hat►e.ti►e goodness to lay this offer of. mediation of his Im perial Majesty before the King of England, and he ventures to bope that his Excellency will not refuse t►► inform him as soon as possible of the resolutions taken by his Britannic Majesty on this !oat ject. .The Count de Storhemberg embraces this opportunity to re best' to his Excellency the asburanco of his 1141‘ consideration. London, April le, ism. . (Nate referred to in No. I.) The Emperor Francis I I. could not behold without the deepest concern, the rupture which took place last Autumn, between hi. Nlajesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and his 11Iajcsty the King of. Prussia; and he was shortly afterwards still more painfully atfeeted, by the extension of hostilities ever a coociderable part of Europe. If by ohserving a strict and sernp ohms impartiality froui the very commencement of the war, his Imperial and Hosal A postolick Itiajesty, has had the sat 6; ciOla to maintain lsi system of neutrality in circumstances croica!, an:: to preserve his people from . the ravages of war,. he slid not enter the ir!-5 folly itdo the miseries which were mul tiplied around his qtatr. and in his just solicittale for the tran tptillity anti thrt security of his Nlonarehy, he could not but be sensil,l. , to Inecoruienally renewed alarms upon his frontiers, or to the fatal effi•els which they iitevitahly produced in various btanchrs of his inte;ier dministra t ion. The Eniperor, uniform ly animal( d with the same tire*, has had no other view t fhe commencement, and during the coo ra. of hostilities, than to endeavour to bring about a reconcili:::ittn,. and to avail hien seif of every prop t tr opportunity to. trit. cod to the calamites of war: lie judges he could not better cif' c t this desirable result thud by coastanCy impreving the Bellegerent Poy..ers with his senti•nents of tm , deratiGn and of conciliation, and in giving his whole attention io wards producing in them a similar disposition. The reception ty hick his first overtures to this effect have ob tained, appears to announce that the moment.of so desirable a rcconciliatim. is not far distant. Iti the confidence inspired by lon consolitary a prospect, the general welfare and the interests of his own dominions call upon his Imperial Majesty to offer to the Belleor.ent Powers his friendly intervention ; and in conse quence of this, he does not hesitate to make to his Britannic Ma jesty the offer of his mediation, and of his good offices. But in considering ;how very complicated and extensive the present r war is become, the Emperor would.think that he had but imperfectly expressed his fervent desire for peace, and the hope of its compleat and speedy re-establ ishanent, if he did not at,the same time state the entirooonviction he feels, that it is only by the united endeavours of the Powers principally con cerned in the. mar, and by a negotiation in comatou, which should embrace the whole of their reciprocal interests, that per manent tranquillity and a securit and solid peace can be attained, a peace which should secure tho future political relations of Europe, His Imperial Majesty, from that firm persuasion (which the frankness of his sentiments will not permit him to dissemble), conceives that this pacific overture should he made by him in common .te those Cabinets which are, in the first instance, to take a part in the conferences; and it is therefore a ith earnest ness that he equally invites time Cabinets of Petershurgh, of Bei.: 1111, and .of the Thuillerie,, to adopt the same conciliatory views, and to enter into negotiations for a peace, in which the essential relations of all the parties interested should, as faros it is practicable, be combined. Tile Emperor has thus generally testified his wish for peace. lie will not take upon himself to suggest the particular mode of nerciation, aed still less to anticipate the iutentions of other Powers, or to decide upon those measures which it may be thought t*cessary previously to settle, in order to determine the principles of the preliminary overtures betucen tic Belle gerent Powers. Nevertheless, in the hope that this friendly offer of his inter position will be appreciated in such a manner as the rectitude of !Ili intention authorises him to expect, his Imperial Majesty is eager to 'propose (in order that the opening of negociations may be facilitated . by his good others) any place in his &minim s t hft sittiation and locality of which might, be reciprocally crne nient, and which, from this consideration, ought not to be too near the theatre of war t and, in this respect, as in e‘ery other point, the Emperor will feel pleasure in contributing to ac celerate the period of so desirable a meeting. LOUIS COMTE IA STARUEMBP,G. London, April 18, 1801. No. ll.—Note from Mr Secretary CANNING, to the Count Ds Sr* RR tMISICRG, dated April 25th, 1801. The Undersigned, his Majesty's PTincipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid before the • King his Master, the. Note delivered to him by the Count de Starhemberg, Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Imperial Males, ty the Emperor of Austria, King of Ilungary and Bohemia, in which his Imperial Majesty offers himself as the Mediator of a General Peaee. The Undersigned has received the orders of the King, to trans. mit to the Count de Starhemberg the inclosed official Answer t►t the Note of his IMperial Majesty. Rendering the fullest justice to the motives which have actuated his Imperial Majesty, in the proposal of such a mode of negotiation, as can alone, by em bracing the interests of all parties, conduce to the establishment of a solid peace. and to the permanent tranquility of Europe, the King accept 6, so far as his Majesty is concerned, the offer of his Imperial Majesty's mediation, subject only to the condi tion of alike acceptance of it on the part of all the other Poweis who are engaged in the present var. Inevecuting this ditty, the Und6rsi„,med is happy to seize the opportunity of renewing to the Count de Starhemberg the assur ance of his high consideration. Foreign Offirr, April 23, 1801. (Official Note, referred to in No. II.) His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has received, with ajust sense of the consideration which is due to every communication from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and of the motives by which, on this occasion, his Imperial Majesty has been actuated, the offer of his Imperial Majesty to become thu Mediator of a General Peace. GEORGE CANING. The King, who has ne-er ceased to consider a secure and durable Peace as the only ol*'( t of the war in which his Maks-, ty is engaged, and who has never refused to listen to any suggri tions which appeared likely to conduce to the attainment of that object, cannot hesitate to declare llis entire concurrence in the opinion expressed by the Emperor and King, that a Peace of such a item iption is only to he attained through Negociations, which shall be common to all the Powers ptincipally engaged in the war. To such negotiations, whenever the consent of the other Powers interested in them shall be obtained, the King will wil lingly accedes and his Majesty will loose no time in communi cating with such of those Powers as are connected with him by the bonds of amity and confidential intercourse for the purpose of a<Tertainitig their views; and if these views shall be favour.- able to his Imperial Majesty's preposzl, of concerting:with them the mode in which sacs negotiations should be opened, and of agreeing upon the principles which (according to the suggestion of his Imperial Majesty) it might be expedient previously to establish as the basis and foundation of a general discussion and, arrangement. With respect to the place which should be selected as the seat of the negociations, his Majesty would not object to any place which, in addition to the indispensable qualification, proposßd in the Note of his Imperial !Majesty, of tieing sufficiently retool( from the immediate influence of the events of the war, shoalil have that of atlording to his Majesty, in an equal degree with all the other Pon et, concerned, the opportunity of a prompt and uninterrupted communication with the Plenipotentiaries who s!!otild be affiliated to represent his Majesty at the Congress. Foreign-Tiler., pri! 23, 181)7. GEORGE CANNING. No. III.—Not" from the Prime STARTIrmsunG to 411 r. Seeretari C ANNIN G, daLd November 20, 1807. I,(1 nth) n, .Vor. 10, 1807. The Undersigne3 has the honour to inform his Excellency Mr. Canning, Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Af fairs, that he has received positive orders from his Court, to make to the British Ministry the most earnest representations on tic importance of putting an end to the struggle which still ex- iits between Ln p tland and France ; and the etrects of.which may produce to the rest of Europe . the most fatal conseqOuces. His %injesty the Froperor and King, animated by a comtant desires . effect the' restoration of, repose and tranquillity, cities 'not he .4tate t.) request officially all4l earnestly his Britannic Majesty to d dare his intentions on this point evincing to him his dispo siton to enter into a negecia:ion for a maritime peace upon a oasis suitable to the recipratal interests of the Powers 'who may take a part in it.—The Cabinet of St. James has explain el itself ton often respectiag its desire for the re-establishment of peace, fir the Undersilord not tb &Met himself that hellion' 71 4 7 sO. C 1: - .._.