The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-17 00:00:00

": y . sd -; ! irtAk.* 650 """•7 1 .111w 7 7" - WIP • to that Sovereigi engagements wei a common cause • Russia, if your. 4 which she covet( her convenience, affront. No coil of your Ally. Sweden hail ti fused to her amb she proposed to part in the war a insure to her the Treaty signed at mined that, in 111 Norway, indem taken from the I in the annals of R transaction on conventions alee e,enteed the unit Ey these two) agaiii•t ycor the Treaty ot ti conditions your she had contract nicrania, of shut ed throi to it th nics; ilriti•li declared war ag ti eely eeitct eti F.agli:ll goods at mei villa, utul II cluiugh lur Swe hubjeet4 ; they v it% !mina puiviL Two vebsels heal sea by ships bi • Mercsiry, attack thee Venta-Lille, were put in iro / tifr IktATTOSTAL REclisiTll. ign the i►rtegrity of his dominions. Although those 'ere known by Sweden, she offered in 1807 to make . with France i►► the war she was pr, paring against .Majesty would consent to gnarantee Norway to her, ted, without other rights, without other titles, than Your Majesty considered this •proposition as an Insideration could induct o n. to betray the interest o seek elsewhere a support which your Majesty re 'bair). She joined your enemies to rob.your Ally.; !o Russia, as the price of her good offices in taking against France, the employment of forces that would le acquisition of Norway A special article of the t Petersburg') on the v4th of March, 1812, deter he e% rut of Denmark consenting to the cession of would be granted her which could only be French territory. These engagements, unexampled nations, have become common to England; and by ,n the Sd of Ind May, that Power acceded to the •eatly existing between Russia and Sweden, and gua `ing of Norway. to his Swedish Majesty's dominions. Treaties, Sweden placed herself in a state of war *sty ; but already fur a long time she had violated lie 61h of 3antiar, 1810. Forgetting the getwrous r Ilajesty had granted her—.despising the obligation dee,: as the price of the restoration of Swedish Po tting her pm is against English commerce—she open he very same year : they became true English colu. :onsuls residvd in the m : and altlcingh Sweden had mist England, the fleets and convoys or that Power and remained in her roads. (7olouial produce and eenmulated in the ports, to he transported into Po- Irom thence imindatte the toutineet. This was not ci4iuo fur Sweden ; she came to open arts avinst von)* Nlaiests's subjects ; they were assassinated in the port of sir a iso m l, W ith on t its hein,g possible to obtain sufficient reparation for this offence. Two vessels bearing your Majesty's fur, were ill-treated in the open sea by ships belonging to the Swedish marine •, one of them, the Mercury, attacked by main force, in the Sound, by the brig of war the Yenta-Lille, was conducted into a Swedish poi t, where her crew were pia in irons. All the representations from your Majesty's flovernthent hasiug been useless, von ordered that Ponn•rania should hr occupied till the moment that Sweden should have given that satisfaction which she owed to the dignity of your Crown. four Majesty regretted using rigour towards a nation that yon esteem, .and which for neatly •iOO years had followed the system of France. Those dispositions,. Sire, which had no other object than to Whog back to mole just sentiments a friend who misunderstood his obli gations, struck at-an enemy already engaged against us. It is in execution of these engagements, the principal stipulations of which I ant going to place before your Majesty, that the Swedish troops, at the commencement of this campaign, dated to invade the FreIICII territory. Your Majesty, by a new Treaty with Denmark, drawing closer the bonds which attach you to that Power, and uniting your self more closely to her cause, has taken the reciprocal engagement of declaring war against Sweden. I propose to your Majesty to cause the state of war between France and Sweden to he published, and at •the same time to order that the Treaty ot the 10th of July last, concluded between France and Denmark, be communicated to the Senate, as the law ot the State, conformably to our constitntions. (Signed) The DUK E: of BASSANO, • Minister for Foreign Affairs. Dresden, Aug. 20. (A true copy.) [Here follows the treaty concluded at Copenhagen on tlic ]oth of July, 1813, between Baron Alquier and Niels Rosenkranz, which reciprocally guarantees the integrity of the territories of the con tracting powers, whether European or colonial, , and deela:es war by From,: and D . esnark against Russia, Sweden, and Prussia.] REPURT TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING ON THE WAR • WITil AusTut s. [This reporthegins with a sketch of the four 'preceding wars with Austria, in which that Power is represented as having been eon htantly the agcsessor, though entirely indebted to the enemy for the means of aggression which she retained.] It then proceeds: In tine, the Cabinet of Vienna seemed to understand its real in terests; to think, at last; of only repairing its losses ; tO heal the wounds which the paper moony had received, which consumed the public fortune and that of individuals ; told to found the return of the prospoity of the'state upon a wise poli:y mid a long peace. It disbanded its army, anit the wants of it, interior organization tied all its attention. War between France and Russia became imminent. Anstiia outstripped the itvishes of France, and pit posed her alliance. A treaty was signed on the 1 Ith Maa('ll, 181.2: an Austrian army marched with the French army for the defence of the grand inter ests of the Continent ; and Austrian blood flowed in the battles against the Russians - . Politicians who considered the principles hitherto professed by the Cabinet of Vienna, were astonished at an alliance which they knew to be contrary to its secret scutiments ; but other politicians, not less enlightened, judging its dispositions according to its real situation ; seeing Austria, after so many sacrifices, come out of contest which had four times been fatal to her ; considering the dis astrous state of her finances, the embarrassment of her administra. lam, the complication of its interior organization, thought that she would rene..v the system of liannitz, and insure herself . , as by the treaty of 1756, a long peace, which would give her time to recover her ancient prosperity : they thought her interest, well understood, would keep - her in the alliance. As a particular transaction, the treaty (tithe 14th March %vas a fault of the Cabinet ; but considered independently of the war with Russia, which was but the occasion and the 'corollary of it, viewed as the basis of a sy•tein which was •to ensure forty years of peace, the alliance appeared to he dictated 11% views; it was t h e most ellicaeicoii ,4 tneaut. to cicanize so many wounds st hick snit bled. TI considerations, all striking as they were, did not rove founded. The alliance of 161'4 was not the result of a system, but the etleet of circumstances. Ascoo:: as the disasters of th^ months of November atel D e em. her last were known hy the Cabinet of Vienna, it judged that France was abandoned by fortune; it hastened to pass to.aoother sssten) : from an allied Government, Austria became an enemy. The auxiliary corps which fought wills the French army, was th e ground-work of the principal army destined to tight France. Never theless unexpected events baffled all foresight ; they had not entered into the calculations of Austria; Sbe was tvitnout finances, without armies ; it is proved that all her efforts did not succeed in placing 60,000 men under arms in January last. flaying taken her resolution previously to having the means of supporting it, and calculating that six months were requisite to be in a comlition to present an army upon the field of battle, the Cabinet of Vienna felt the ri cc's. sits' of concealing In r intentions under the appearance of fidelity to her enuagements, and the love of peace. It tittered its mediation to the r ilelligerent Powers ; but, at the same time, began its levies and ran to arms. The Minister who directed the finances, entirely devoted to the restoration of the monarchy, altle:ugh he personally • nairished hatred towards France, adhered to the aliiance as the only means of succeeding in the re.establishment of interior eco nomy. Ira o pposed the greatest resistance to the war, and a suc cessor was appniated to him. Immediately a new paper money for too m illi o ns of franks was created; the plans of order and economy hitherto pursued were overthrown, and the Cabinet precipitated it. self into war. In vain did enlightened men represent that the army no longer existed ; that the skeletons could only be tilled w ids ►e.- emits ; that the materiel was destroyed; that out less than 13 months were-requisite to re-organize the ntilitaly slate of Austria ; that the affairs of great nation.; carte not conducted by starts, ator a great system instantly composed ; that since they had not retused to enter into connections with rrance, it was requisite to have re mained neutral in 181.2, and been occupied in re-establishing lira army ; but that having adopted the alliaitecoftlBl2, it was requi site to persist in it in 11113 ; they represented, that by a wise pulley and a little management, Austria might derive advantages from cirrnmstances, by reaping real advantages, without exposing her self to the chances of a war, in whit-.e she would become a principal, which demand( d armies in Silesia, in Saxony. in Bavaria, hi Italy : that to present herself in this serious contest, without being pre pared for it, was to expose herself to iatal eatastroittili(ii generala tes,oi:v least toeasrt. to nge herself all the uncertainties of a long :i into which she was geeing to plunge Europe ; that it, never finless, circuntstauces were favourable for enabling Austria to recover fur influence, they wert deceived in not perceiving that the basis of all grandeur for a State is good finances, or a good money system, and armies well organised, well equipped ; :net that a good army does not consist in a grea). number of men, but in the quality of the soldiers: that by pertevering some years in the system of the alli ance, Austria would have recovered its ancient prosperity, and %vitt' it, that mid independence, for which a good ;titular and militaiy administration lays the foundation. Ilia the partisans for the wrir replied, that they reasoned as it France was the satue, whilst her fortune had changed ; as if she had att»icg, when tf,r elite of her aoldiers had been destroyed by the severity or wint‘a-. said, that if Austria had cuts . recruits, it would be aarainst tecruits she fought, and that It was beyond the power of any Coarnment to '!! foitnne had changed ; as it - she Han m artcg, ire tine HI HIT • twAttiers had been destroyed by the severity or wiot‘A . . They said, that if Austria had euly rt emits, it would he airainq lecenits she fought, and that it WB9 beyond the power of any C o vcroment to