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rthinau. She' had enlarged her territory by a num ber of other' acquisitions, and was meditating fresh ones, As a means ofaggrandizerrient, , she was not afraid to. employ evident usurpations, which she sought to conceal under legal forms. Thus it was, that, under colour of a ,right para mount (a right whiCh she had renounced by a trea ty); and the exercise of which was ineenipatible with trgOxecution of the recess of the Germanic Empire, sheapprepriated to herself, some possessions which she ,attbllied to consider in a state of disherison, andvvithent legalpreprietors, thottght.the recess had formally disposed of them towards the division of the indemnities., By these means.she disappointed many Princei of those possessions WhiCh it had been thenght just to assign' them. Under pretence of this same right parannitint, whieh, so far as regarded the Swiss, she called 'the right d'heam.eratiait, she carried -otf- considerable sums froth Switzerland. She 'seqiiestered , the Fiefs of a neighbouring Prince , in Bohemia; under pretence of compensations due to the Elettor of . . Saitz,burg.; of which, contrary to every right, she 'claimed to ; be sole arbitress. She persisted, with menaces,. to keep recruiting parties ni the Bavarian Provinces, in rrinconia and Suahia, and interrupted, by every Means in her power, the censeription for the Eledoral Army there, abusing the prerogatives formerly granted to the head of the ,German Empire for. ,the common benefit of the States composing it, and now fallen into disuse. She .revived them in order to interrupt. the exercise of 'their sovereignty by the neighbouring Princes, in- those possessions' which fell to their lot in the divi sion, and to deprive them olthe increase of in.; ihtence m the Diets, which ought" to result . from these possessions. The recess of the Paripire,' a consequence and : 0141,1inent of the "Treaty of Luneville; bad "for its objett, exclusive of, the :division .of ,the Indemnities, to establish, by means of this distribution itself,- in the South of. Germany, an equilibrium, which : might insure. its independence, and` prevent those es ;:litual causes, of.misunderstandi and War, Which an immediate contad between• the . Territ'ories of France and Austria might frequently, give. rise to.- 7 Such was'the vieW ef the Mediators and of the Ger . , inan Empire ; such was the view of instice, of rea .Son,. cot ap ; lunaile, policy, and conformable to the Artilo interests of Aaistria .herself. ,'Vhus .Austria ,reversed , What the recess had so ,wisely established, when, by her, acquisitions in Siaa .bia, ?•,1t43 weakened:the barrier between France and the principal States of the South of Germany, and when, by a combined system ofsequestraticins, pre tensinns, caresses, ;once menaces, she was incessan4y aiming to secure to herself an exclusive, universal, and arbitrary infltience over that part :of the Ger man:Empire. She, therefore, evidently violated the :existing treaties, and every one of her aEts may be oonsldered as an-infraCtion of the peace. :Since. : tlie rupture . of the, Treaty of Amiens, Austria had; on more than one occasion, shewn a partiality to Eng land. She had recognised by her ads the pretended right of blockade which the Cabinet of St. James's has dared to arrogate,. .and according, to which a; simple declaration of the, ~and Admiralty iq spin. Cieut to pot under interdiet all the coasts of . a vast empire; she had suffered, without remonstrance Or complaint, the neutrality of her flag to be centite ally violated to the,. detriment of France, against whom all the violentves offered to neutral ft s were evidently directed. All these Silas were known to the Emperor : many of them excited 'his selicitude. Theie were r.:al grievances ; they would have been just met:ves, for War but, for the love of Peace, the Emperor even abstained - frern all complaint, and the court of Vienna received from him only tieW monies of deference. He had made a law for himself to aVol.'l every thing that could give offence. to Austria. "When called by the wishes of his People, of Italy, lie repaired to Milan, troops were assembled, camps were forme!, with the single view of Mixing Mi litary pomp with religious and political solemnities, awl of pre;;enting thcfSoverign Majesty in the midst o!' that ,e;itN4.lor that pleases the eyes of the people: Emperor will allow that he had also some plea- sere in seeing hiscompanions in arms re-assembled in the places, and on the very spots which were con : secrated by,their L ivietoFies but .wishing to prevent the,uneasineha of the Conic of Vienna, if it were passible that 'Onti rt ,ceidd feel any on.,the occasion, . he caused that Court to be. assured of his pacific intentions, by declaring that the camps which had 4Cell 'tie quid be raised after some days, and this promiSe *as exatfly Austria answered by:protestations equally friendly and pacific, and the Emperor quitted Italy with the pleasing hope that the peace cif, the Continent - tvould be preserved. But how great was his asto pishreent„ when, scarcely arrived in France, while At Boulogne, hastening the preparations for an Expe dition which he wiw at length on the, point of car ' rying into elle& he raceiVed from all parts' the in telligence, that it general ,nicition pervaded all the Foras of the Austrian:Monarchy ; that they were ad- vancing by forced niarehess on ihe Adige, in the T and on the banks of the Inn, that those; abse n t Y on furlough were recalled, that magazines were that artnN weol mannia y. ;St pe u'ritig, that levies of hOrtcai were raising, that the ficaiiont, us the ciAles of the ly r oi re L tc6 b ing fo ve. rti " and that 'every thing was 'actin a which out riounce4 and is (~41arii6tevistie of an impending g The Emperor could not at first believe t A " ' stria seriously. wished for War ; that she "- commit to new hazards, and to condemn to n e w ( e t e () latiddes her People, fatigued by so many reverses, exhingted by- so many sacrifices. . Havingliad it twice in hi s po w e r to deprive the House of Austria of lull' its Hereditary States, far -from diminishing its power, he had Increased it. he cOuld not coriiit on its gratitude, he thought be could rely on its faith. He had given. it the highest mark of con fidence it was possible for him to give,- in leaving his Continental ',metiers. ungarrisoned and disarmed. fre believed it incapable of abusing. - thi conUenee, betause he would have been so himself. There Ore suspicious which cannot enter into generous - hear , s, told 'a place. in refie6ting minds. The Lutperor took pleasure in confirming himself' in his favourable presnropti6tis .and he did not tear to show to what point he desired to 'See them established, The Court of Vienna omitml notiung . to prolong the innsion .it multiplied pacific deelarationsm—it protested OD its • r6tl4gious attachment :td l'reatiest aotborized its tp ttialo 410 most assuring declarations- - it p!..AllOt, ati Weil by plausible explanations ....n;pinns its MPS.. sures may have given rise to : Still the Midis, pl. parations redoubling every day in extent and aflivitr,,, became mere diffieplt tobe justified. The Emperor ordered. that Count PHILIP DE Com/TEEL, Am-, bassador of the Court of Vienna, should be invited to fresh conferences, and that the correspondence of the diplomatic and commercial Agents of his Ma jesty should be 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 successively from all parts of Ger tnany and Italy: The. Cabinets of Europe will find in their archives few examples of similar corm - Mini:. cations made in cucumstances in which suspicion Was . so natural. The Emperor could not give'a more convincing proof of , his good, faith ; he could not carry sincerity or delicacy farther. The Ambassador from Vienna took a 'iew of ,the most positive, the most incontestible documents, which, from all parts, announced the speedy breaking out of a War, always preparing, though so studiously concealed. What answer could he make ? Up to that mo ment Peace had been loudly profested by his Court at Paris and at Vienna ; but on a: ita frontiers War was at length openly organized. The Emperor, however, was unwilling to reject all hope of accommodation: he persuaded himself that Austria may have been led away by foreign suggestions ; he resolved to do every thing to bring her back to a sense of her true interests I he represented to her, that if she did not wish for War, all her preparations were without an objea, inasmuch as all her neigh bours were at Peace ; that therefore she was uncon sciously, and 'contrary to her intention, serving the cause,of Englani, by making in her fayour a diver sion not less powerful, nor less injurious to France, than a ddelared War would be. If she wished for War, he made her see its pro bable consequences. Superior to all the considera tions, which are bars only to weakness, he did not dissemble that he dreaded war : not that after so many battles fought - in the. three parts of the old World ;he could tear dangers, so often braved, and so often surmounted—but he feared war on account of the blood it causes to be spilled, on account -of the Sacrifices ' without number it must cost to Etr ripe; and in consequence of a, love, perhaps exces sive, for peace, he conjured Austria to desist from preparations, which, in the preseet state of Europe, and in the particular situation of France, could be considered only as a Declaration of War, fled as Ufa' result of an agreeMent made:with England, Still further, .he desired that siMilar.representations should be addressed to the Court of Vienna hyall,his neigh hours, who, though . Strangers to . the cause of War, whatever that cause may be, had to fear being:the victims of it: The conduct ril the Court of Vienna %veal:cued the hope every day—Far from. detisaing I . :on) its .pretosiops, it increased. them. It terrified by its armaments the People of Bavaria and Swabia. It gave the People of Helvetia reason to dread seeing ravished froin theni the repose whiCh the a& of me diation had restored to them, All invoked France as their : support, as the guarantee of theft rights.— However, it dissembled still, and as a,pledge..of its paeifie intentions; it :offered a sort of 'intervention whirl) it is difficult to Chargierise, but which, con, sidering only its apparent objea,, conic' be regarded only as idle and puerile. The Emperor of 'Russia had caused passports to be demandqd for.one of his Ilartiberlains, whom he bad an intention of sending 10 . Pari. The Emperor knew .not what' were the views of the Cabinet 'Of St. Petersburgh, they in never been communicated to hint ; but, always rr4dy to seize on every thing that could contribute to an apProximation, 'he had grapt:d - the passports without delay and without otplanation. 1111 littrope knows what was the reward of his def!rence. : The Plape. 7 tor learned afterwards, 'by indirea ways, and, also by the reports that were circulated, through Europe on the selijeCt., that the designs of the Coert 'of Russia bad been, to try, by means of parleys, to illirOduce at Paris a very- strange system of Nego tiation, by means of which she would , at the same time I*o Stipulated flrEtigland,ftain whom, as she : said, she-had full powers, which proves bow 'much England was sure Of her, and have negotiated on her own account.' So that. While nominally a mediator, she would haVe been in 'faCt a party,. and that by two different title:;. Such was the end of the intervention RnSSia had . . .... ~. , . prejeCtecf, and which she herself renounced, with out doubt, because refleCtion made her feel the in convenience of it. But it vit as precisely this same intervention which the good offices of Austria had for their objeEt to re-produce. It wa s not likely that France Should have sitiffered herself to be placed in a situation in which her real enemies, under the plausible nanie of mediators, dared to'flatter them , selves with imposieg on . her a ,hard and insulting law ; but the Cabinet of Vienna, perhaps, without hoping that its good offices would be accepted, found mgreat advantage in offering them—that ofabusing France for a longer time, making . . France lose time; and gaining time itself. At length, throwing off the mask, Austria has, in a tardy answer, manifested by her language what she had announced by her preparations. To the representations of France she has answered by ifccusations. She has made herself the. apologist of England; and announcing that she was opening her States to two Russian Armies, she avowed Openly the concert that exists between her arid Russia in favour of England. This aniwer of the Court of Vienna, full at once of injurious allega tions, of menaces„ and of craft, tended naturally to excite the indignation of the:Emperor; but think .ing tlitit through the insults and threats lie had a &nee of'some ideas which permitted.him to hope that an arrangement would be still possible, the -Em peror made his natural pride yield to considerations . all powerful over his heart, 'the interest of his Peo ple,, that of hie, Allies, and of Germany, which was going to beeOrne the Theatre of War; the desire, too, of doing a thing agreeable to a Prince, .who re pelling with an honourable constancy - the insinua tions, the instaeces, the offers so often repeated of England„,and' those she had 'seduced, bad shewn l a h n n ee sel p f t a . always ready r i ea a c i l l y th t: e coi t t n t o ri t l:i e te s b le y o h t i h s . 0 g u e n o: p i. c c:: : 61;:si,weitinh4erkeoktnhoo:ne-teisiteabblaissristt,ntlepnotnorwthhiecl3ont. to make' his just refieetions.- He determined to ae, m anci' of Conit of Vienna explanatiOns, which tiatios could be carried on. He ordered the Ml. & st e t . of , F o r6ge ,Re'la'tions - to ,p'repare.n ' Note to this effedi The ceurier who . was , to he the bearer of it was on t.,le poi;lt of setting out, when the gin.,, mar was informed dram invasion of Bavaria. The Valor had been summoned to join pis Army to that of Austria; and, as if his anticipated retusal to make a common : came with Austria, from which he never received pelt evil, against Prance, front which he never received but good, could have been to the Court of Vienna a just motive for War, the Austrian Amy, without any previous declaration,in con tempt of the duties which his situation of Emperor of Germany imposes on the Emperor of Austria, in contempt of the. !Germanic Constitution, of the Germanic EMpire itself, in contempt, in fl ue, of all the most sacred rights, passed the Inn, and over-run Bavaria' in profound peace. After such an aft of the Court of Vienna, the Eui'EROR 'thuld have no longer any thing to demand of it. kbecame evident that.even this Congress, proposed"with a tone so imperious, and with views so visibly, hostile to France, was but a new snare for its good faith : that Austria irrevocably deter mined-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 evi dently that part of the sums granted to the English Minister to answer his purposes on the Continent, had reached is destination ; and the Power which had so bartered its,alliance could no longer spare the blood of its People, the price of which it had re ceived. All farther explanation- with the Court of Vienna having thus become impossible, the appeal to arms is the only resource compatible with honour. 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; let her hope to find safety in the discord of other States ; her joy will be of short duration; her hope will barain, 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 he had in vain exerted himself to prevent, has been obliged to.suspend the execution of his first designs. He has withdrawn from the borders of the Ocean those veteran bands, so often victorious, and he Marches at their head. He will not lay down his arms till he has obtained full and entire satisfaaion, anti complete security, as well for his own Dominions as those of his Allies. • SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE FRENCH SENATE. " 'Under theiexistino circumstances of Europe, I feel it an urgent duty to appear among yeu, and to make you fully acquainted with my sentiments. " lam just leaving my Capital in order to place myself at the head of the Army, to carry speedy succours to .my Allies, and to proted the dearest. interests of my People. " The wishes of the eternal Enemies of the Con', tinent are accenipliihed :—War has commended in the Midst of Germany ; Austria and Russia 'have united with England; and our generation is again involved in 'all the, calamities of War. But a very few days ago - 1 4till cherished a hope that Peace' Would not be disturbed. Threats and peerages only shewed that they' could make no impression upon !ix : but the Austrians have passed the inn: Munich invaded: the Elektor of Bavaria is driven from his Capital : my hopes are therefbre vanished. " Such is the moment that has unveiled' the niis chievon4. machinations of the Enemies Of the Con tinent, They are still alarmed at the manifestation I have made of my deep arid determined desire for Pea Ce. They are apprehensive-that Austria, at the `.aspen of the gulph they had prepared .to swallow her, might listen anew to the dilates of justice and moderation ; they have hurried her, into a War. I tremble at the idea of the bleed that must be spilt in. Europe; but the French name will emerge with renovated, and increased histre, " ,Senators, when at your desire, at tisi call of the whole of the French People, 'I placed upon my head the Imperial Crown, I received *Cal you, from every Citizen, the soleMn promise to maintain its honour pure and unsullied. My People have on every occasion afforded me proofs of their confidence and ale-Won—they will fly to the Banners of their Em peror, and of Isis Army, who hi a' few days 'will have passed over the frontiers. " Magistrates, Soldiers, Citizens, all are re . solved to rescue else country from the influence of `England, who,. if .he prevailed, would grant us only a peace marked with ignominy and-shame ; and of which the principal-conditions would be to burn our fleets, to shut up our ports, and to extinguish our industry. " What promises I have made to the French Peo ple I have fulfilled. The People; on their part, have entered into no engagement which they have not more than performed. At a moment so im portant for weir giory and, for mine, they will per sist in asserting the 'mine of the:Great People, a name with which I geeted them in the midst of the fields of death and of glory. " Frenchmen, your Emperor will discharge his duty—My Soldiers will do their's—you will also dis charge your's." THE TIOLIUNATE. SECRET SITTING OF TIII TRIDUNATR, SEPT. 24. The Orators of the Council communicated to the Tribunate, by order of his Majesty, his Expose of the reciprocal condu& of France and Austria, and of the causes of the present War. Onc of the Orators of the Council of State having, read the Expose, began his Address to the Tribu nate in these words • " Tribunes, you have heard the Expose read : War has commenced on the Cortinent. The event will be affiieting l to every friend of Intwnity, but ter rible only to the enemies of France." He then alludes to the proposition for Peace, made by the Emperor to England, in the midst of the ter ror which he had excited in her, and of the Wonders which he performed to restore the French flag to its former glory. The usual charges of exciting assassinations, &c. are repeated against iEngland, and Austria and Russia are said to be blinded by passions, or they would have deciated themselves against the absurd system of blockade by such an Armed Neutrality, as did so much honour to many Sovereigns during the American War. He abuses Austria for assembling its forces to Italy and the Rhine, and asserting that it was for the maintenance of Nee. 7. I T • 4 ‘ Atlstrig hls, in tine, without any provnaatton on the put'et° the 41eaor of withcaut the slightest appearmac of 4\411 mo4vei, just ityNtied . a • part of his States. Austria ot ir Emp has not e ror treated then cott. fined itself t o menaces, which with disdain ; she has attacked our All nced the ies—the E m peror of Germany has therefore comme War." The Orator then prays that the evils which may be the consequence of the War may fail on the heads of those who have produced it ; he pays soma fulsome compliments to the armies of France and the Emperor's genius, which alone could etfea the salvation of France, and extinguish somer divi sions ; and asserts, that the charges of ambition against the GovernMent 'of France are ill fonadelif' but justly applicable to the progress of the English Government in India, - and to the Russian State, which is of three times greater extent than Franco. The President d the Tribunate replied in: the Ole style •‘ ' . . " Gentlemen' Orators of the Council of State, .r, Posterity will scarce believe, that, w hilst are were combating fig the independence of the fie'''' and for the commercial liberty . of all ntions, tho Emperors of Austria and Russia wera disposed to make a diversion in contrary the common disposed t ° coalesce with him to their own inter°, t' s • and to the faith of treaties, and to d e clare an * lst and absurd war against us. This urlexPeaed. aggression is the rneJancloll result of the antlent hatred vowed by thc el jur AlA t of Vienna against France, and of the corruptingg' ‘l ° i l f' d ri Et t i he n d g l e tC :o v ar u l in l r s f : o s d rc o v : f e l u i S s c b , t h t.i r slj t t h l a d e rnY o c i e 'is t s) j r.u : s s' p lue E din :s : 4 l. F; t t o i a lfe i d _ l i ns t Oi LION Aias at length on the point of electiu m o • ' 3 the English Government: ' . cot . ohfa%‘l,inl.eßg4uortactilhNevewedinextgQraotoriticenairia tivrirityedopfuttiturit. and the Monarch whom France hacl twice dery .of one-half of his Hereditary State_s! will rely foreignT t P o rL i i s de re n ai t t- co bint4 n .eC cl re : ln dt tsti.3ll"c o l:itt4h confidence in the genids and f t° °f 13°"ri'll'' and . the firmness and unanimity of the French 1.)eo pie, 'amongst whom all - attempt:9 to excite divisio would. be fruitless. • ' V I :r e fur op region , 5 ; o o ti ve; In the Senate a C ............ the,,r , , . Wall, 11171, ale 44 ePtgillber, to leli)i'tBo,oWo3os Year fBO6. • i ' There a • rcei Or - • • re, moreover, two Imperial Pec 0 rreF,!uiting the Army. The Ohio of .the fiot ri,o_ raise a 'FlYing 'Corps of Cavalry of 800 Moll. 7, yp4l:of. the 2d, three Arleies of ItOerVe, one J . 9uli)gne, to be commanded by Ocrieral lisv",-,' cite at Mentz, by LEVEBR2:; and one at SWOT oY Lateral KELL . , r . • cario.: creosonslc7diptitspll,7l, ..k, 10 tbp fOrCe 6to be a:lded tlit;ee Flyaig '• one 'at liennes, cotninanded by Geberal D 01.14: One at Napoleon, comtnanded by it General OiPI,A, gae; atid another at Alexandria, commaaded as w: fore. • , - . CAUSES or THE DECIXES OF THE SENATD FAA to 11,X:5' ING EIGHTY THOUSAND CONSCIOrr) P/111S.,11.:11,1,i', TO THE CONSERVA.TIV.E OFNATZ, DV' 00?'-'" , (Da ST. JEAN ANgELy). " S• , fi lit t° ire, The eagles of your Armies wer-r-Abtt°ienot cross the Seas ; the violators oftherTreatY ' 4',ebe tormented by remorse, agitated hylear, wei' -but ,a I.?°",t of being punisitera by-your justlceht rew days more, .:rid the lii,erty of the ScDl' , vet/ have been conquered for the world, even in tilt, seat of r, : ' .ill. tyranny of the Seas. L,„11 0115 t: r • nere is another alit of perjurf; Wine filth y. 01.7 Majesty to fresh combats. In spite 01,,froiii pledged. at linneville, the Emperor of Vow% threqtens the' French Empire. kit' is lassilili against your frontiers both bis own and the 1 yot Troops—the broken rernains of tbeselvend, Majesty vanquishedor sent •home anr.tarortoo which : cony Army Siire, formed of the 001 JO, • classo ?e s dot, 7 sufficient energy--your r) i retarding :1)a ii dearly eet Ipnt de at c paid ,1 d 1 0 to 11. f 7 ter e quarter Frencho t.t diehe :ci:lntiszpuhleiio,osnstiltntiedttr tAlf?roell'ii,;:ipteto44 sthtreinkig,tialiiii tr,isnhy,,tn increasedkno by the nature of its. hte.i itsi don, whose devotion toyour persin ae‘'‘'`olos will, if possible, increase its Valour--Totir -.ilotid te h(fioarglblythuaEtmindigl'Avicolaaltntli:idqc:u,Ngerviankniliti:°;:d;:tollgse:dign:tlb:6,l'll:6:il.o..il of your first triumphs. • , • an, ohs " But if, while preparing, on the on uw o"rintigfiTeletitty'Borif tayolitl; .A.lanldiescu,ipelfirdhilalpgs tristi,,'9(r°ol plain sentiment of their interests, which at should have counselled them to neutralitY%7-00„ jests his not increased your AVIV! gill' „eceir prepare& by elctrnordinary levies ter s' 4 il' recruitment, different circUrnstan'ces deri' ferent measures.o ill In the years which followed the Peak',..,, pi those which followed the War, /oar *PI joo only called for the same number of ConPv: ..,, wished.,to,leave ai many as possible fig th?,, t yet, of agriculture' and the arts. M presnt, L'lltlia pre ~wisdom requires that the French yon,ril ill),06 ev6l pare to 'ply their country the whole debt, ~, boi called ftobrethPeeprialtne. erd4 oer " The Oriit ON of your Ceuneil demand y :0 year 1 so 6. b::ftiree Wise Men (Sages) Of the...6llll)lN', 9,0 Si more considerable - part of the strength (?`tts'ior tt `tier, and to order a levy thltetotfshite.,‘ would otherviov llti i/ duty ‘ B.etyte. hreal Senatere a s on to ohdaev:erfecB;;;:tilosocrrt7 . . _, II itl ''" It is true, that the raising of the Conscry.rrai, been ordered up 'to the present time, by 111* the Legislative Body. • • Senate will II disturbe i r c‘,4,tunTAisiliehadie: tires,crl iil e 5 irt: °it'll. of( leer eas t r !at; tthi ql el 96„bee,bibii followed ;it will only 'form an er.ol°"“ . Ilecitisdpinregpal:.i. Aire, all the means of soccesg 0 litus for di° C4°‘ eenceived. The tieleYs necCsarri 'tempi tiwse is tion of the Legislative itody w.otuu ' . ,d tot the inter! surer, the quick eqeu vdoit:rnlYesl'.ll;:ii:lerivic'lle;i.onticre99:;l necessw, is gutaranto, „ gl,itlivies: fill' olf grYene. t°hheise!fiatsi the t: cii:efffitirie‘4llnpi.4l(lll,l;l;i Senatx traiehder lir. l'onc%.Sectlie°ell6Y.cjiste(l,i4a.lterMi°4 °f 1)43 ILA 4 WLII c r h. ygg /4° 11%'`'.-- ---- -,..,._.:.......,