The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-07-16 00:00:00

RI I _ _ ' •i'9E STA" ~. . COPT - Matti PIO TIM unarms rem, , AMOY *ream TO COOFT pLOWITTOII, 41113A1,A• Dot or 'iuslMPeßlal :Cts twat: itAJI,WITi At. sT. earls:mu arm. 64 .Dresden, Map la. 1812. " I have the honour, Count, to send-you emg&es' of two notes from Prince Kurakin, dated the 30t1 of April and 17th of May ; of a note which I ad. dressed to dem Ambassador en the ()that the same month, and of the answer which he returned to me on the same dsy ; and lastly, of a note of the 12th' of May, Which reached me yesterday, and by which Prince Kerakin renews, In the most pressing man nes, his demand of his passports. " His Majesty, Count, could never have believed that his Ambassador would have taken so much upon himself : be thinks it fit that you should, by a note, addressed to the Count de Soltikoff, demand pass. ports for yourself, in order to proceed to the Count de Romanzoff to Wilms, or to any other place of p meeting that shall be appointed. Yon will announce to Count Soltikod, that the ,communications with which you are charged, and which you cannot make but to the Chancellor or to the Emperor himself, are as important as they are urgent. " You will show Count Roman:off all the docu ments which I transmit to you. You will express the astonishment which his Majesty must have &lt when I gave bins an account of proceedings so unexpected, and so contrary to the dispositions which the Emperor Alexander manifested to your self; when be perceived, that in the notes of the Russian Ambassador, the evacuation of Prussia was put forward as a condition upon which France was not even to deliberate—a condition such as his Majesty had never proposed after the greatest vic tories ; when , in fine, by the • demand of the inde pendence of Paula, his independence was violated, inasmuch as the destruction has been insisted on of those political engagements which he has con tracted in the exercise of the right which belongs to all Sovereigns. You.will, Count, make it by felt sensibly, hew much the notes of Prince Kurekin are, in their form, and by their contents, opposed to those pacific dispositions of which that Ambassa dor had given the assurance; by what spirit of con ciliation his Majesty is induced to suppose, that in presenting their notes and combining to them the de mand of his passports, he has transgressed the bounds prescribed to him, and with what regret, if they Were really the expression of the intentions, and the re sult of the orders of the Court of Petersbnigh, his Majesty would see every hope vanish % of succeeding, by a negotiation, which he has been constantly pen ciling for nearly two years,. in the adjustment at last of the differences that divide the two countries.—You will insist, Count, on obtaining explanations, which may still leave the way open for an accommodation. "I have the honour to be, ikc. &c." umememememen sear. I suet Net canoed free your Excellency, gaged for the purpose, and with respect to whom, that as this is the point of view la which I must con- not being able.to send them away at the appointed eider any sew delays which may prevent my reeeiv. 1 time, I have suffered a less of the price agreed on W a categorical answer to the communications which i with them for the carriage tram here to Prody. I hare made, pursuant to the orders of the Emperor, 1 " Your-Excellency has not thought proper to ace: my master; I must, therefore, assure you, my Lord ewer the three communications I made to-you on the "Duke, that if, in the course of the interview whiclt3Oth April anskthe 6th and 7th May, with respect .to yen have fixed for to-morrow, I should be still as I the more important ohdects of our iate rr ourse , not unfortunate as to find you un provided with Inatrac. !withstanding the eetabliebed - custom t if answering floss from the Emperor to give me an answer to my ; every official communication made by an Ambassador, propositioas, and that an answer assuring me that la a manner so autiontiO, and under such pressing they are accepted without any modification what- I circumstances. N'elther here you written to me, ac soarer (for your Excellency is fully aware that : corsibig to promise, to acquaint me with the mo lt am not Authorised -to admit of any), I shall Zia tires which induce you to consider an arrangement apt case Ind arrelf, in consequence of the do. ' between the two Powers as yet possible and whim *ass ur e of his adidesty, the Emperor and Riog, ! you think shook) determine me to prolong my stay which is announced for to-morrow, and which at Paris, and not to press for my passports.— will pretlude all hope of the expected an.' This anew., on your part, places me exactly la ewer, placed under the necessity of canaidering I the same situationts when I first required them. i the withholding of such -answer as an Indication of 1 c c Not having been able to obtain from you to:, an election being made of war, and my far th er stay official and writtes explanation which I required, dr, at Paris as altogether superfluous • and deeply re- I the reasons which shonid induce me to poS mi pone gretting that I have not been able t o contribute to the departure—au esplaisatioto which I reckoned op preservation et that peat* mid alliance, in the esta- 1 being able to submit to the notice of my appal , bbillneat of which it has boa the greatest happiness Master, in order the more fully to acquaint him.tli aay life to have potted for the last Ave years, ! the hope which you enter ta ine d of the still existin g ' 11 _ilea be obliged ro dia demand passports from your ! possibility-0f an accommodation—l find myself cow. Ihmelloaray s to usable me to quit France, and I ' paled to renew my most pressing solicitations for labmeally request that Is sack-case you will obtain passports, grounded upon the unhappily too great cer wafts from his Imperial sod Royal Msjosty to grant tainty that my presence here can no longer be of use. Ilona without delay. Receive, my Lord Doke l as- I beg your Excellency may have the goodness to make elleamees of my high coasideraffoo. his Royal end Imperial Majesty acquainted with die Mend) • "Prince Ktlat11111." formal requisition on my part, the first time tile, you may have any .communication with him. I is, MST OF A SOTS mots TIM mrsussaa rotroairtan dulge a hope, that his Majesty is too well aware e 4 RIULATIONS TO mums EUSAILIN, seta RUSSIAN and will too readily call to mind , the personal at. AMBASSADOS. tachment which has caused me so zealously to fulfil " Paris, 9th May.lBlt. my duty, in endeavouring to preserve peace and coo: Sta,—l have received the notes which you did me cord between the two Empires, to admit of his sup. the honour to address to me on the 10th of April sod posing, that the requisition I make for permission' to the 7th of May. Before I can possibly answer them, whether quit my post is grounded upon any thing but the I mast enquire of your Escellencey, complete and painful certeiuty I feel, th a t every have full powers vested in you to form, conclud you e, and hope of being able, in _ the character of a Nege. sip au agreement of the differences which have arisen cil?r, to bring about a reconciliation is cut off. between the two Powers ; and in case. you have re- Although I have to acknowledge many personal leaved such powers, I must beg, that, in conformity obligations to your Excellency, I shall consider it al he the custom of all Cabinets, you will make a pre. a greater proof of friendship than you have yet as liednary communication to hat effect. I have the soured me with, if you will exert yourself to enable honour of offering to your Excellency fresh assurances of my high consideration. me to quit a place which you must be aware it cannot (Slimed) "Tae Duke of BASSANO... be otherwise than extremely painful to me to'continue in, since the departure of his Royal and Imperial Majesty, and that of your Excellency, deprive me of the satisfaction of thinking that I am capable of effecting any thing useful. - ( " I am about to quit Paris - , never to return thither. I shall remain at my country-house at 1 Sevres, till your Excellency shall have sent me my' passports. I shall there anxiously expect your Ex cellency's answer to enable me to set off, having al. ready made every necessary arrangement for the pur pose, and sent away suchlaart of my household as I could dispense with,. only retaining the few servants who are to accompany me op my journey.—l renew, my Lord Duke, the assurances of my high consi deration. - (Signed) " Prince ALEX. KURAKIN." an answer, and ♦►hich, from their nature, even (I, not afford any means of correction hi sufficient tim e to avoid the lamentable consequences, all the error ' all the misunderstandings, which may be commit. •Oed on either side, and which are even nearly iueii. .talde ? 64 The principal object, the maintenance of peace, would never be attained. It is b ecause th e E mperor, any mister, was thoroughly sensible hew Tojurious delays are on occasions so critical, that he command ! ed me to proceed to the Emperor Alexander, an your Excellency, in order to clear up all the donbts, and to remove all the difficulties upon importal,t points, with respect to which explanations are I.r, practicable, except in this way, if the hope be to b. cherished of an arrangement which has been inn. viably the object of his wishes. 'ln the uew atiou in which your Excellency's letter places me, it remains only for me to take the orders of my Cut it as to my ulterior conduct. I dispatch a Courier 14 solicit instructions. 6 ' As to myself in particular, Count, I cannot conceal from your Excellency, that I am deeply at. !feted at, a refusal, which I cannot but consider a s personal to myself, inasmuch as any person than to,. self directly sent by my' Master, whether a Genera! or an Aid-de-Carep, would, without doubt, have obtained a favour which has been refused to me.— Not having any intelligence direct on the subject of the communications, which your Exoellency assures me are suspended between Russia and foreign couu. tries, I cannot repiv t* that paragraph of your Jott er. 66 Ihave the honour, lite r , (Sired) " Count de LAURISTON." COPY OP A LE2TOR PROM THE MINISTER ERR 104 REIGN RILATION9 TO COUNT LAURIsTos. Thorn, Jane 12, 1814. " You have seen, Conn't, by the letter which I bad the honour to write to you on the 20th of last month, that the declaration made by Prince Kurakin, on the 31. th of April, and the repeated demand of bis passports, had appeared to his Majesty such proceed. ings, so strong, so decisive in the existing circum. stances, so contrary to the language which this Am. bassador had held till then, that his Majesty found it difficult to believe that he had not takeu too much upon him. We have since learned, that the Russian Government had communicated to different Govern ments, the condition insisted upon from his Majesty, of the evacuation of the Prussian territory as a pre cedent stipulation, indispensable to any negociatinn. " The letter which you have done me the honour to write to me, of the 22d of May, informs me, that this declaration is known at St. Petersburgh, and I find it mentioned at the same time in the English Papers, as you can perceive by reading the accom. panying sheet. " No doubt, then, can be an, briger entcrtiined, ' Count, but that Prince Kurakia has fully compre hended his instructions, and conformed to them is his declaration of the 30th of 'April, and when he made and renewed the demand of his passports. The conduct of Prince Kurakin had determined his Majesty to set out from Paris ; the publicity which has been .giien these transactions, has made him sensible of the necessity of quitting Dresden, sad of drawing nearer to his army. " He had hoped, until the last moment, that con. femme, might still take place; bat this hope va. nished when he sew that the propositions which were really to be submitted to him, were incompa tible with his honour. • At Austerlitz when the Russiaa army was destroyed; when the Emperor Alexander saw even the safety of his own person en dangered; at Tilsit, when there no longer remained to him any means by which to support that struggle in which all the forces of his Empire had fallen, his Majesty did not propose to him any condition which would offend his honour. COPY 01 ?NZ ANSWER OF PRINCE It:MARIN TO Tilt ANOFE NOTE. " Paris, April 47 (May 9), 1814. " MT Loan fluax,—l have just received a letter from your Excellency, dated this day ; and you will permit me to evince my cleat surprise at the ques tion it contains, and which I imagined I had com pletely obviated by the frankness with which I had communicated, without any reserve whatever, the • final. instructions which I received from his Imperial COPT Or A LETTER PROM COUNT aonartzorr to Majesty, my august master. Your Excellency is COUNT LAUAISTON. aware of the conciliatory propositions which form " Wilna.97tb May, (sth June), Evening. 1812: the object of them, and which clearly - and decisively "lilt. AMEAssADOR,—His Imperial Majesty has prove the anxious wish of my august master, to pre- just been informed by Count Soltikoff, that your serve peace and his alliance with his Majesty-the' Excellency bad demanded passports, for the pur- Emperor Napoleon. I am always ready to arrange I pose of attending his Majesty, with a view to ere with you es to the most proper form to give them, COPY or THE ANSWER OF COUNT aosuozore To cute in person the orders which you had received from by a Convention which I will sign with you, nib spe Tlx sore or Toe MINI ITEM volt roause 2111. the Emperor, your Master. Though, in the asidat oil rmi, although unprovided with particular and special Limon or THE 25V" APRIL. his troops, his Majesty veld 'have. Mt pleasure in powers for the purpose ; and I can safely loner ..Wilna, May 7 09)0.812. I w ithd ra wing himself f o r a short time from his pre- your Excellency, in conseqbence of the perfect gg MY Loan DUKE, — The Count de Narbonne i sent occupations, in order to receive near his. person I !knowledge I have of the intentions , of the tea. has given me the dispatch which your Excellency the Ambassador of a Sovereign, his Ally ; but a cir- ' 1 peror, my master, and of the intelligence L have confided to him, I have not delayed a moment to: cumetance, totally forei,gn to all his Majesty's received of his design to transmit to me full place it before the Emperor. His Maje s ty, always : thoughts, prevent him. He has just learned that the and special powers, that in the event of the basis faithful to the line of conduct which he originally ! course of the post, by letters between his Empire C:Llby me being agreed to by his Majesty the marked for himself, always persevering in a mere i and foreign nations, has been suspended at Memel, and King, the arrangement which I shall system of defence, in short, always more moderate , and, according to every appearance, all communi uign, will be ratified by his Imperial Majesty. I in proportion as the development of his power en- i cation with his Empire prohibited. He has since must observe to your Excellency, that even if I were ; ables him to repulse with grater rigour such attempts , be en i n f orme d, th a t: on e .o f hi s C our i ers , re t urn i ng In possession of, at this time, full special power ! as might be made against the interests of his Empire, from one of his missions to his Majesty, has been for the purpose, according to established custom, I and the dignity of his Crown, is satisfied to adhere to , unable to obtain permission to pass the frontier into Still the ratification of the two Sovereigns would be 1 the wish with which yolf, my Lord Duke, conclude his States, and tlyit it has been necessary for him to necessary, before the act could receive full and 1 the interesting communication of your Court. Con- turn back. Acts so extraordinary require to be complete validity. I have to express my deep re- ! stantly seeking to prove how much he has It at heart . cleared up. His Majesty not being previously sp gret, that, in the midst of such urgent circumstances, 1 to avoid every thing which might infuse into his con- r prised of the nature of the communications with when every instant may produce the commencement 1 nection with France a spirit of animosity . and seer- 1 which your Excellency is charged, faithful to his own of hostilities, the silence which has been observed 1 bity, such as would endanger its continuance, he has ; system, which is to follow the ordinary course of by the Minister of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, ! directed me not to enter into any refutation of al- 1 things in the relations of the two Cabinets, invites during the long period of fifteen days, with respect to I leged grievances, coI to appose assertions which, for f you, Mr. Ambassador, to choose rather not to quit Corr or a front or court. LAURISTON TO ColislX the manner in which his Majesty has viewed the basis the most part, are grounded upon imputed facts, quite I St. Peterthurgh, and o have the goodness to do me I sourieorr. of arrangements which I have been ordered to pre. destitute of probability, and upon hypotheses alto- ! the honour to address to me, in writing, the coma- 6 ' Prince Kurakin, after having made the comma- Nat to him, should have so considered the possibility nether gratuitous. The dispatches addressed to manic:lolone which you have to mate, or else to con- aications which had been brought to him by the Mt of concluding them. Prince Karakin, by the Baron de Serdobin, have : vey them, in writing, directly to his Imperial Ma- courier, which he received from Russia, having de " I must express to your Excellency my asto.. p a rtly anticipated the answer to all th e accusations jesty, at your own option.; and in order to afford mended his passports, and three times repeated that mishment at your thinking the explanation into which I which have been made. I you the means of so doing, hie . Majesty has cons- I demand, his Majesty directed that they should be I have entered, or rather repeated ,. necessary ( as I' Is Th ey have re p resen t e d, i n it s t rue li g ht, t h e intended me to place, for this purpose, at your dia., given to him. lie commands me to demand mine, have bad already the honour of very explicitly de -1 loyal conduct which the Emperor has observed in all . pow d, the Sleur Baereus, an Officer in the corps of 'my mission being finished, since the demand which tailing in our former interviews every thing thatj his relations with France. They have given, with I Fi e ld, w h o w ill h ave th e h onour t o d e liver to yo u P r i nce Kurakin made ot his passports decided the constitutes the present question), before you could ' respect to our armaments, explanations, confirmed , this Letter . —l e n t r eat you r Fateliency, &c. rupture, and since his Majesty, the Emperor and answer my motes of the 30th of April and the 7th in such a degree, as appear to have even outstripped I , . ( (Rigged) '• Coot de iiOMANZOVV." of May. the hopes of the Emperor Napoleon. fiance , not- 1 King, considers himself froth this moment in a stata *sr w ssia. ifit* Ru" a . • " Yell, Excellency does not mention dud a 0., Withstanding the veirniernttimvernents of Ms armies: eat: or A =mat rum dorms nu' tat:morrow ftll .• . clt • •-•--- Oth of Ma j•., to which I have an equal right to re- ; beyond a line, whefo„fge -the security of one Iron- . i COUNT IfOWANEOFr i . 001114/F 'A Linn room THE MINISTER FOR FO • quire, and doequally require an answer. I earnest- ' tiers, they ought to ,bpee stopped, affairs condos. " st. Pelenberitis. 31.1 may (12th Jane). 1914. imam RELATIONS TO PRINCE KURARIN. ly entree: that you will let me have the three answers ; here in the same state - es at.tbe time of the departir I " Saf i !! CdOwc,—The 'goodness which I have ex- " norm, June 1 2 , 1812. as soon as possible. They must contain explanations' of the last courier. Indeed, not a single man Mani- perien on the part of his Majesty the Emperor 4 ' Mit. Asseassaeoe,—By your note of the 30tb which are indispensably necessary to enable me .to i tared the territory of Prussia, or that t of the Decay : Aleiander, the marks .f confidence with which be , of April, you have declared that an arrangement be fulfil the very positive duties imposed upon me by of Warsaw, and no new obstacle has tend .d on our , had condescended to honour tare, prevented me from ' tweet) our two Courts was impossible, unless his Ma. the situation in which lam placed.—lteceive, my Lord ' part to prevent the continuance of peace. On the ; foreseeing any obstacle to the journey which I pro.' jesty the Emperor and King should preliminarily ac- Duke, fresh assurances of my high' consideration. contrary, the last instructions which Prince Kumla" posed to stake to Wilna. I had, therefore,' made cede to the peremptory demand of the entire evacua' (sped) 4 Prime ALEXANDER XDRAKIN." I has received, furnish : hititiith ample means of termi. ; arrangements for my journey, notwithstanding the tion of the Prussian States. 1 • i :patine all differences, and of opening the negotiation : very violent rheumatic pains which I have suffered 1 " When your Excelleucy first made known to me • Tomatoes of the 6th at May relates to a private business, , . forei g n to oh s al , m ust uo s e xisting ha w' , u the two calori es . w hich your Court desires. . I for many days, sensible of all the importance of the verbally this proceeding, I did not disguise from I " We have learned with satisfaction, the reception ; commenicatiens which I wits charged to make to his ' you all the consequences of it. After the battle of COPE OF A LETTER FROM Patrice stuaaato To The which our propositions have met with on the part of; Majesty, or to your Excellency, under circumstances Austerlitz, when the Russian army was set ounded; MINISTER FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS. i the Emperor Napoleon, The official answer which ! when thnsmillest delay might be injurious. ; after the battle of Friedland, in which It had been de . a , Paris, 29 April (11 May), 1812. . your Excellency shall give to them, and which we I • " What, then, was my astonishment on receiving feated, his Majesty showed.his esteem for" the valour "ME Loan Doaa r —l Intended going this morn- are desirOd by Prince Kurakin to expect, will defini- your Excellency's letter .! I saw all my hopes va- of this army, for the greatness of the Russian Do ing to your Excellency ' s, for the purpose of remind -' tively settle the important question of peace or war. I nish ; „row that I had deceived myself in the idea g tion, and for the character of the Emperor Ale' lug you that I had not received an answer to my let- 'Die moderation which marks that I have now the + had of the confidence which I supposed his Majesty ander; in not requiring any thing from him contr : , ter of yesterday, when I rece i ve d that which you honour of toldrowitoli to you, nfers you, my Lord would be *abed to foaee on me, inasmuch as he to honour. It was not impossible to suppose that ii did me the honour to write me last night, some hours D u k e , am pl e secur ity th a t an y ov e r tu r e theft may be refuses ,me any direct commenicatien . either with him- the existing 'circii en of Europe, your Sore previous to your depart ure , w hi c h, f ro m what yon made of a pacific natOrev will be anxiously neepted. I self or with your . Excellency, at a usemat whew reign, ,without don ntemned neither the dm bad the goodness to state to me, I did not suppose " II:s Majesty is much pleased with the step which j Shia cessidetice, which I believed I had me r it e d by . racier of the Emperor, .nor that of the French ea would have takee place for two or three days longer. has - been taken wlek,relpie to the British .Gerera..l my eondoct, by my iniariable end for the sada.' lion, so faithful to honour, would have been. dig.. Although you are so hied as to say I shall have the meat. lie is retsina fork ilth attendee of the Ea. linens of the alliance, might 'be, ai Ilan: no hesi-A, posed to dishonour France. His Majesty, the Em passports which I required, I have received only p eror N apo l eon l o f o r oes h ig hi m th er eof. •He wig' Wiest to my It would have been, of the greatest It. pens: and King, weld mot _ contemplate sii the con that for the Gentleman of the Chamber, Kologrkoff, a l ways d u ly ' • widgefilpat So. er 01 4 ' twillitee, The • ' &Hon , of Prussia, as preliminary on which even it is not noted that it is fora c • Arier Ter & h a lt so,„ , go I tbeMißcleo \ positive refusal going to PMershosgh. • • • mon of a gegen' - " I beg your klice4, to send use * the three grea t an d a y e : others which you promismA me for the persons at- o pi n i on , 1,- tacked to my chapel and heamehold, s t ud who aft Ur ellit iO lit a with elwrior drivosi'll( YilitlOPs* ad, 6°' 46 It is now too certain,' Count, that the Govern ment is resolved on war, for which reason it might be convenient that you should remain still longer at St. Petenbargh. His Majesty enjoins you to de mand your passports, and to repass the frontier. — You will make this demand by addressing a note, a minute of which is subjoined, to Count Soltikoff. . 66 I have the honour, &c. &c. (Sigued) " TM Duke of BASSANO." Ambits of y9u! Yea kW: I • ' .. S • .1 II --- c . _ _. . a - dedy aopreelet e the seer is ees er goktsiot So. vantagt to thq two empires, The reuses eves iliti;a of the evacuation of Prussia, as prel t hat oak% in . order to p romo *. tbo,o o o l do., whislayeet Ezealitiecy bas pet forward to preveat.i:te tiny menciatlee, soy thing- bat a positive a peseta! passe l for the atlaiola•444olkielki would, on the e entrer g , 'es & Wa f er M ani s t° ' od sugactirt i l e eelikertioaktoo lt **Fie sae s ismer it asoreasoessayy, , 4 ! eis kayo' confirmed this *Olden, Mr. , too tee hepooe so 4 4 ...4114 ebtonistanear So' etvgdet, what sanative Woe; ai , &e devil / et width you bare made yogi *osilssisi; s lbra Sem c 7 • ; 0 , : I . °mg** beta *Maw cammenleatioas vir a l orts Oh the Tth of May, .aiicA which yo (*KO ' 6 Cu* • walla be sargelY. 51114 1nt ;Owl' 161 / 1 11 101Alki till 'la 2401, ....••••• / '~~ 1 i i I: r ~. . 'i. ~+ ~ 01. 4, Arr. ppLIC r cr p ert P 4". 1 per !Long. Yla Nhiet irtl, ray a troop quer( that