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" ' qv 1 / 11 4•• 4 • 7 .7: - tAri * bia, she weakened the barrier between rrance and the principal States of the South of Gerinanv, and when, by a combined system of oecnatistra ions, pre tensions, caresses, and Menaces, she was incessantly aiming to secure to herself an exclusive. u iiversal, and arbitrary influent e, over that part of the G. r man Empire. She, therefore, evidently vii.lated the .existing ere sties, and every one of her efts may he considered as an iiifratlion of the peace. Since the rupee of the Treaty of Amiens, Austria bad, on mine than one occasion, shown a pariah' y to Eng land. She had recognised by her arts the pretend d right of blockade, which the Cabinet of St. James's has dared to arrogate. and, accordieg to which. a simple declaration ot the English Admiralty • suffi cient , o put under iiiterdia all the coasts of a vast empii•-• ; she had suffered, without remonstrance or complaint, the neutrality of her flag to he continu ally violated to the detriment of France, against whom all the violence, offered to neutral flags were evidently directed. All these filets were known to the Emperor: many of them excited his solicitude. These were real grievances : they would have been just motives for war ; but Po the love of peace, the Emperor even abstained from all complaint, and the Court of Vienna received ft m him only new testi monies of deference. He had made r law for himself, to avoid every thing that could give offence to Au stria. When called by the wishes of his pc .pl e sf Italy, be repaired to Milan. troops were assembled, camps were formed. With the nineie view of mixing military pomp with religious and political solemio ties, and-of preseethig the Sovereign Majesty in the midst of that spleedour that pleases the eyes of the people. The Emperor will allow, tha; he had also some pleasure in seeing his companions in arms re assembled in the places, and on the very spnts,which were consecrated by their viEforir• ; but wishing to prevent the uneasiness of the Court of Vienna, if it were po,sibite that Court could feel any on the occai , 'ion, he caused that Court to be Aimed of his paci fic intentions, by declaring that the camps which had been formed would he raised after some days, and this promise was really fulfilled. Austria answered by protestations equally friend. ly and pacific. and the Emperor quitted Italy with the pleasing hope that the peace of the Continent would be preserved. But how great was his asto nishment, when, scarcely arrived in France, while at Boulogne. hastenitig the preparations for a • expe dition, which he was at length on the point of carry ing into effea, he received from all parts the intel ligence, that a general motion pervaded all the forces of the Austrian Monarchy ; that they were advan cing by forced marches nn the .Adige, in the Tyrol, and on the banks of the Inn ; *hat these absent on furlough were recalled ; that magazines were form ing ; that arms were manitlefluring ; that levies of hot set were raising ; that they were ereding fortifi cations in the defies of the Tytoi and about Venice; and that every thing was doirg which announces • ay is charaaeristic of an impending war. he Emperor ci iiid not at first believe that Austria se riously sshed for war; that she wished to commit to new hazards. and to condemn to new calamities her people, fatigued by so many reverses, and ex hausted by so many sacrifices. Having had it twice in his power to deprive the House of Amnia of half as hereditary States. far from diminishing its power, he had increased it. If he could rot count on its gratitude, he thought he could rely on its faith. He had given it the highest mark of confi dence it W.ll possible for him to gide, in leaving Lis Continental frontiers ungarisened and dis armed. He believed it incapable of abusing this confidence, because he would have been so him self. There are suspicions which cannot enter into renerous hearts, nor find place in refleeling minds. The Emperor took pleasure in confirming himself in his feviotrable presumptions, and he did not fear to shew to what point he desired to see them establohed. The Court of Vienna omitted nothing to prolong the illusion. It multiplied pacific declarations ; it protested on its religious attach ment to treaties ; it authorised its Ambassador to make the most assuring declarations ; it sought, in fin-, as well by plausible explanations as formal de nials. to dissipate the suspicions its measures may Wye given rise to: still, the hostile preparations re . - cloueliog every day in extent and a.tivity, became more difficult to be justified. The Emperor order ed that Count Philip de Cobentzel. Ambassador of the Court of Vienna. should be invited to fresh con ferences, and that the correspondence of the diplo matic and commercial agents of His Majesty should •he communicated to him. For four successive days M. de Cobentzel waited on the Minister of Foreign Relations, who placed before his eyes the dispatches previously received, and those which arrived succes sively from all parts of Germany and Italy. The Cabinets of Europe will find, in their archives, few examples of similar communications made in cir cumstances in which suspicion was so natural. The Emperor could not give a more convincing poof of his good faith ; he could not carry sincerity or deli cacy tarther. The Ambassador from Vienna took a view of the most positive, the most iniontestittle documents, which, from all parts, annohnceil the speedy breaking out of a war, always preparing, though so studiously concealed. What anewu could he make? Up to that motnent, peace had been loudly protested by his Court at Paris, and at Vienna; but on all its frontiers war was at length openly or ganised. The Emperor, however, was unwilling to 'cies, all hope of accommodation. He persuaded himself that Austria may have been led .sway by fo reign suggestions, he resolved to do every thing to bring her hack to a sense of her true interests. He represented to her, that if she did not wish fix war, ell her praparations were without an °lira, insn. much as all her neighbours were at peace; that, therefore, she was unconsciously, and contrary to her intention, semi g the cense of England, by making in her fivers a diversion not less powerful. nor less inju cious to France, than a declared war would Ise. If she wished for war, he made her see its pro hable consetpiences. Superior to ell the considera ti ms. which are bars only to woekness, he did not dissemble that he dieaded war : out that after so Many bash s fought in the three parts of the old *oaf. he coirld tear dangers, so often braved, and so often suimounted; but he feared war on ac count nt the t,100,1 it causes to be spilled. ,stn account of the sacrifices without number it must cosr to 'Eitrope ; and, in conseqaence of a love, per. ace. heconjured Austria to de which, is the present stets haps. erre s rr, for peace. i eid liven preparations. wL • V of Europe, and in the particular situation of France, could be considered °illy as a declaration of war, and as the result of an agreement made with Eng land. Still further, be desired, that similar repre sentations should be addressed to the Court of Vi. ilia by all his neighbours, who, though strangers to the cause of the war, whatever that cause mac .se, had to fear being the viCtims of it. The coodnn of the Court of Vienna weakened the hop', every day. : ar from ,11-%istiog trom its pretensions, it increased them. It terrified by us armaments tne petiole of Bavaria and Su.tbia. It gave the people of Helvetia reason to dread seeing ravished from them the repose which the aft of mediation had restored to them. All in voked France as their support, as the guarantee of their rights. However, it dissembled still, and as a pledtte of its pacific intentions, it offered a sort of in tervention which it is difficult to charafterise. but which, ciansidering only it. apparent objeft, could be regardedmerely asidle and puerile. .1 he Emperor of Russia had caused passpoi is to be detianded for one of his Chamberlains, whom he had an intention of send ing to Pal is. che Empqj or knew not what were the views of the Cain! st of etersburg+, they had never been communicated to him ; hut .elways ready to seize on every thing that could contribute to an ap proximation, he had granted the pas-ports withriut delay, and without explanation. All Europe knows what WAS the reward of his deference. Ihe Ernpe :or learned aftersv.ir 's, by Milner% ways, and also by the re! orts that were ci aulate 4 through Europe on the subjeCt, that the design of the C t of Rnssia had been, to try by means of parleys to in troduce 4 Paris is very strange system of negocia titan, by means of which, she would, at the same have stipulated for England, from whom, as she said, sill had lull powers, which proves how much P rigland was sure of her, and have negotiated on her own account. So that while nominally a mediator, she would have been its fan a party, and that by two different titles. Such was the end of the intervention Russia had projeCted, and which site herself renounced, with out doubt, because refiellion made her feel the in convenience of it. But it was precisely this same intervention which the good offices of Austria had for their objeCt to re produce. It was not likely that France should have suffered herself to be placed in a situation in which her real enemies, tinder the plausible name of mediators, dared to Bauer themselves with imposing en her a hard and insulting law ; but the Cabinet of Vienna, perhaps, without hoping that its good offices w iuld be ac cepted, found a great advantage in offering them, that of abusing France for a longer time, making France lose time, and gaining time itself. At length, throwing off the mask, Austria has, in a tardy an swer, manifested by her language what she had an nounced by her preparations. To the representations of France she has answered by accusations.—She has made herself the apologist of Englind, and an nouncing, that she was opening her States to two Russian armies, she avowed ()peaty the concert that exists between her and Russia in favour of England. This answer of tile Court of Vienna, full at once of injurious allegations, of menaces, and of craft, tend ed naturally to excite the indignation of the Em perm ; but thinking, that through those insults and threats, he had a glance of some ideas which per mitted him to hope, that an arrangement would be still possible, the Emperor made his natu ral pride yield to cceisiderations all-powerful over his helot. The interest of his people, that of his allies, and of Germany, which was going to become the theatre of war; the desire, too, of doing a thing agreeable to a Prince, who, repelling with an honourable constancy the insinuations, the instanzes, the offers so often repeated of England, and those shehad seduced, ha 4 shown himself always ready to contribute by his good offices, either to the re-establishment or the Maintenance of peace ; all these motives led the Emperor to make his just re fits:lion!. He determined to demand of the Court of Vienna explanations, which should snake knoym the basis upon which negotiations could be carrisd on. He ordered the Minister of Foreign Relations to prepare a Note to this circa. The courier who was to be the hearer of it was on the point of setting our, when the Emperor was informed of the invasion of Bavaria. The EleCtor had been summoned to join his army to that of Austria, and, as if his antici pated refusal to make common cause with Austria, from which he never received hot evil, against France, from which he never received but good, could have been to the Court of Vienna a just motif* for war, the Austrian army. without any previous declaration, in contempt of the duties which his situation of Emperor of Germany imposes on the Emperor of Austria, in contempt of the Ger manic Constitution, of the Germanic Empire itself ; in contempt, in fine, of all the most sacred rights, passed the Inn, and over-ran Bavaria, in profound peace. After such an et of the Court of Vienna, the Emperor could have no longer any thing to demand of it. It became evident, that even this Congress proposed, with a tone so imperious, and with views so visibly hostile to Prance, was but a new snare for its good faith : that Austria, irrevocably determined on war, would not return to its pacific ideas, and that she was not even free to return to them. The course of exchange, at all places, proved evidently, that a part of the sums graired to the English Minister, to answer his purposes on the Continent, had reached its destination ; and the Power which had so bartered its alliance, could no longer spare the blood of its people, the price of winch it had received. All farther explanation with the Court of Vienna having thus become impossible, the appeal to ATMs is the only resource compatiisle with hontur. Let England applaud herself for having at length found allies ; let her rejoice that blood is about to flow over the Continent; let her flatter herself that her blood will be spared t let her hope to find safety in the discord of other States ; her joy will be of short duration; her hope will be vain, and the day is not far distant, when the rights .of nations will at length be avenged. The Emperor. obliged to repel an unjust aggression, which h..: had in vain exerted himself to prevent, has been obliged to suspend the exceutios of his first designs. He has withdr-awn from the borders of the ocean those veteran bands, so often vittorinus. and he marches at their head. lie will not lay sown his arms till he has obtained full and entire satisfaaion. and com plete security, as well for his own dominions as dome of his allies. . MEM will eolleCt. the enlightened and and-,•• love to their couirry, an 1 ot th 'it M nareh, will arecipitate the French solJiirs into the min ?anzers. • The Chiefs of the Foreign Powers and Armies, having separate interests, unite for a na-ment b treaties, lo qpitrel Afterwards on the+ ereuriou Though they ag•er in _their Cabinets, they v•Ido a, ree in the camp, ard . till ionic iat•v , &ra t i i.;ener&s aloft:m[li each other io the Beld of NA , In Frame, on the contrary, in the - Council an in the array, one •p•rit mires all Minds, fixes all r. wrests, co ineas all th • forces, plans all t..l. re soul ces, creaes all tie means. foresees all th! .l ctiatics, has all, the atfeclions at disposal, directs I the movements, prep nes every succ •ss ; and n I spirit is a corn/snit:ld of the hive and col,tiJeate the nation, and of the g n'us Of its Chief At any ra.e, Sire, Your Majesty know., ti even to her tavou•ites,, Forione newer givPs, often dearly sells them, viCtory ; Fa:her.ot Ii e pie, as well as of the arniy, you • ili be I net purchase, with the blood et your aoldratit. the sii. umpi,s to which you will lead tb: ml but, Sire, a noble h.rntimeni of devotion and oi patriotism. will give to the people, 11% 10 the arr ,, , the courage to will and to marry tie necessary crifices. One brave soldier will r piace en Orr ; the battalions t reserve, always c mp.eze, Yoi.r Majesty! will be stire always to !Ind en u is to fill the void left by bat.le in the battalion, of w Ir. The conscripts whom you will calimplu v ill vie with d., veteran warriors of your legions liar zeal and fide lity, readineNs 111 J courage. I call to witness, Sire, that much of your army from the coast of the ocean to ti e h .skis i't the Rhine—that match, almost within] , h &ig, durntg which, not one soldier has qui.ted has caret call to the wish. of thote cniscrepts, whe are anortifiod at ..eirg condemned to :he .naet;on of a dirt, and who have claimed then p aces in the rank iif the • coops which are engag-d in oatile. The Fteach people, Sire, have put in'o tour hands the righ to will for them, and their lire, hidd, and tour 'genus will is, like.yours,•r• siainiopim tie i..t-griiy of rhrir terri'orq, and to def-nd their inter est,, their gusty, and all ilte hearths *lnch they de rive from Your M..) _any. Your `raj I.y will uphold, with your forces, with the energy of your in•piring looks, tie force and the eery of the na i. , n, and v• it will wit pronounce, you will not let them .:ear the tunic of peace, before they are by you ave..gcd and vizi rious. Such, Sire. is the wish of Fiance. to tb..e ace2m p ishment of which the Senate raid eon ribuireri y ordering •a . levy of 80.000 so) tjers. to n,use battalioas anlisquadrens bemg always c rnpiete, Aug always-re:levied Until .the last v.et•iry. When Yobs Majesty„wh•le [arson "rid And are indefatigable; Mikes ladour a .lacy which ockav•vs, you by day. and aiwidkes you. n i rifuri yr arc ving to expose to t.,e liar:n . .l •4 - war your exalt ei head, the French, Sire, we j idge of them. are ws swear for them, trout our oen hearts, will soh vie in emulation, re:Unless, And der: titan ; the sor row will ail be reserved for those, e Ito, being soh je& to other duties, or condemned to follow anet'e lase, cannot aspire to the honour of sharing the perils and the glary of your brave ioldiers. of bra ing dangers with them, and of conveiing or ityis under Your Majesty's eyes, for you, aad for country. [Here follows the Imperial Decree fur tai 60,000 Conscripts.] [The Coun ,ellor of State, Segur, in a long ad2ress, prefaced a Proje& for a &ALP tIV Co/iridium for re organising the former Natorusl Gairds, thin the tratuptiliisy a the interior, to guard die fortress. s and the coast, &c • [ Mere are, m,•reover, twi Imperial Decrees we recruiting the army. The obje•t of the first is to raise a flying corps of caw-illy of 800 men. Tae ohje& of the 2J, three armies of iesarres erne Boulogne, to he commanded by Cenral rrUlel one at Mentz, _ by Lefebre ; and one at fitrastnegas by General Kellerman. • To this force is to be added thre e flying- camps : one at Rennes, com manded by Gen. &Ter I one at . Narilcon, cons- mended br a*General of Brigade I and a:loather at AlexaUdria, colturianded u before]. rams, SETT. 23. This day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Coaasellors of State repaired to the Tribunate. The business of the meeting was kept secret. His Maksty the Emperor and King set off yrs• terday for the Army. Yesterday, at half-past three, the Council of State went to the Tribunate. Utters from Milan wale, that Marshal Jourdin set out for Paris en the 14th of last moot':. A letter from Strasburg of the 21 st Slptemlrr, gives the following particulars : The near approaching arival of the Empi within our walls, has brought hither a great won of strangers, both French and Germans. In ale .e days several Princes of the German Empire wi l oe there. Some officers have arrived rrom the Court of Carlsruhe, and have engaged almost all the apart ments of the Mahan Reuse, for the Eleatic of Ea den, the Electoral Prince, and the Margtava Louis. We likewise erpett the Margravine, veral Princes of Hohenlohe, the Landgrave and Hereditary Prince of Hesse Darmstadt, as wen as the Deputies of the Imperial city of Frankfort. His Majesty will arrive at Strasburgh, by the newly.c.m. strutted road, which passes through Wass-lon.x. The Mayor µill deliver the keys at the Whi-e G tie. A trismphal arch has been eretted Wl' h:n the c ity, at tile place where the white suburb termi tee*. • SEPT The Empress has accompanied His Majesty for the army. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was yesterdar to take his departure for Strabbutgh, to armed the Emperor. Gen. Marmont arrived at Mentz on the 1 Sth tilt. SEPT• ZS. In the public sitting of the Tribunate. hid pfs-i terday, a repots was made from the Comringsion ap• pointed to consider of the commu..ication nt t►e Government relative to the thlrAsi.,.l of Bavaria Of the Austrians. by which it was pr ynsed, t:tat An It.:• Jleis should he presente to the Emperor. exoresi yr of the Jevot m of the nation to its Chtel, and of us thanks for all the personal sacrifices whiten tie h Made to maintain peace. This proposition was wore niviou.l7 adopted. - .. . —gaillll . SPEECH OF TUE FAIIPIROIt if ATOLEON, TO 711 S 141.14C1i I I' Under the witi tang circumstance+ bf Edeepo. t feel it ah argon ditty In appear among Au, and to teak, plp fully a - is/Undated with nay sentiments. " I art just Roving ins capital, in under to else, myself the head of the army, to c.irry speedy aurtoars to my allies, alio to priiter.t the dearest interests of my people. a' The wishes of the eternal enemies of the Contine n t .r has commons...el in the midst of Ciwrnany; --Austria and Russia have united with England; and "ii , generati ..gain involved in all the citainines of wai. a very few days ago I still cherished a hope that nesee would not be distu.b d Thre its and ottuagas milt the Nei :,at they 'Si•' make no impression upon me, but the Augusts lotto, puwd the lin tfu,,na isnoird rite Eleacir of Illavagia is 461811 from his capital : all iity hopes are, therefore, v molt Id. " Such is the moment that has ittiveilA mischievou.. machinations of the 110.“11.4 of the Continent They are still a'ariti.sl at tie mann...station I lia'e made, of m; deep and de termined desire 6.r inure. Thee arenourehensive thai Austria, at the eyed of the gillolt they hail prepared to SVIA toe her, might listen anew to the di9,tes of indite and mode , atioit; the;. have huiro.l her into a war. I tremble at the idea nt the Veld that must he spilled in Europe; but the French will einem+ with renovated and inciessed lone. S when at your desire, at literati of the whit* of the Froich People, I placed n,,ott my heal the Impsia. Crown, I receiy-d I a , eon, loos @weir Cilium ' the solamii promise to ni mitato its hollow pure an.t mutinied. MY' people have on ?very occasion, afforded me proofs of their eitnficien .e and vie ..ion—they wsl da us the banners of their Eni . ieros, ant o' his army, who, in a few days, will have passed over the frntiers. * M igistrates, &Viers, Citizens, all are resolved In resent the oniony from the i.illuiswe of F.ng'and, who, if she prevail would gradt us thdy a pg.,, maned with ignominy and shame; an l lit which the principal co:Winans would be to Mint our Meets, to ibut Up our ports, and to estinguiih out industry. " What premises I have made to the French people 1 have fulfilled. The French poop'e, on their pat, have enteiesi into no engigeinent with me, which, they have not more than per formed. At a moment, to important for their glory, and for min., they will prsist in martin: the nine of the Prople, - a name with which I greeted them in the midst of the fields of draih and of goo. " Frenchm-ii, your Emperor will discharge his duty; Qty soldiers will do their'si you will also discharge your'...' CAUSES Of THE DECREE Of THE saNATR FOR 11•ISING MONTY THOUSANIS CONSCRIPTS, SENELD TO Till CONSERVATIVE SENATE, EV RE ' CNACI.T (DE ST. JEAN anGeLY)• Sire, the eagles of your armies were about o cross the seas ; the violator a of the Treaty of Arnie tormented by remorse. agitated by fear, were n the point of being punished by your justice but - a few days more, and the liberty of the seas might have k.en conquered for the world, even in the vet) , seat of the tyomny of the seas. There is another aft of perjury, which calls Wit Majesty to fresh combats. In spite of the faith pledged at Luneville. the Emperor of Germany threatens the French Empire. He is marching against your frontiers both his own ant! the Russian troops—the broken remains of those whom Your Majesty vanquished, or sent home unransnmed. Your army, Sire, formed of the same legions which conquered the Austrians and the Russians, completed by French citizens takea front every class and quarter of the Empire—your army, whose strength is increased by the nature of its compost than, whose devotion to your person doubles ids energy—your army, which knows how to feel and think. as it knows how to fight, whose indignation will. if possible, incre.tse its valour—your army is sufficien: to light and conquer ; and the diversion, so dearly paid for by Etightad, will only have the Kelt of retarding her humiliation, sad chaagin4 the scene of your first triumphs. But if; while preparing, on the one hand, to combat Great Britain, and confiding, on the other, on the fidelity of your allies, perhaps trusting to the plain sentiment of their interests, which, at any rate, should have counselled them to neutrality, Your Nfojesty have not increased your army, and have not prepared, by extraordinary levies, for a successive recruitment, different circumstances de mand different measures. • In the years which followed the peace, as in those which followed the war, Your Nlajesty has only called for the same number of conscripts : you wished to leave as many as possible for the purposes of agriculture and the arts. At present, Sire. your wisdom requires that the French youth should pre pare to pay their country the whole debt, and even before the period when she would otherwise have called for the payment of it. The Orators of your Council demand your or der to the Wise Men (Sages) of the Empire, to arm a more considerable part of the strength of the na tion ; and to order a levy of eighty thousand con scripts for the year 1806. Several reasons have combined to make it the duty of the Senate to decree this measure. It is true. that the raising of the conscription has been ordered up to the present time, by the Ana of the Legislative Body. The proposition offered to the Senate will not alit turb the order, nor destroy the usage heretofore followed ; it will only form an exception, which cir cumstances justify. And first, when His Majesty is at a distance, lead ing his legions to viftory, prudence prescribes his preparing. berme he quits the centre of his Empire, all the means of success which his wisdom has conceived. The delays necessary fur the convoca tion of the Legislative Body, would retard those measures, the quick execution of which, now be. come necessary, is guaranteed by the intervention of the Senate. Secondly, the alteration of the Kalendar pro longs the exercise for the year 14, which will be the same as that of 1806, until the lath of January, 18u7, and it will consist of fifteen months. Hence results the necessity of a change in the period of conscription for the year 15. Following the plan of the division of the year, which France has just abolished. this conscription ought only to include those young meat, who will have attained, nn ti . e 22.1 of September 1805 (the last day of the ye.tr t :), the age of twenty. Sire, Your M 'jest y has declared in Your Coun cil, that your armies already are sufficiently strimg in men and arms, and that they possess all ti: means of triumphing over the antrpeacd attack and the ill advised pet risi , oustiesi of your enemies. A league more numerous and more formidable, was formerly established against France; and the allied armies, inrretsed and swollen like the waves in the tempest. were broken, like them. against the mounds that our battalions, under your guidaice and protection, have opposed to them. The cold aed bard sentiment of passive obedic-ce wrfll effiy ihi troops L 9 the fight that our enteruesei