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" ith onh liave Acktlovtietr i c riarty per. : ohlitroqions to vos.w Exocl.l`criCv, I shall con rter it as. a greater proof of -friC'titfship thlnt ha ve yet 'honour - ed me with, if se lf to enatie ine to rinit a place whieli-you a ware_ it cannot he otherwise than extreitkely r .llll tonie t 7 continue in since the d TArture (It hh .1 1 ,°Yal and imperial M a j es ty, an th a t of your 124-xedleney deprive me of the satisf talon of thini:- Ing that I am. capable of effecting any thin°. use ful. :` ram .about to quit Paris,- never to return 'nigher. I sh:;11 remain at my country house at Lyres, till your Excellency shall have sent me 111,y. Passports. I shall there . anxiously expect Veal . I : 4xc ellency's-an, - ,wer to enable me to set off, hav- Oready made every necessary arlinz.einerit. fur 4 1 s ne Purpose. and sen t awa y suc h p ar t o f my house old as I coni di tense with, only retain*. the Aew servants who are to accompany Me -on my .Journ ev " I renew, my Lord Duke, the assurances of my 4%h consid,iation. (Signed) " Prince ALEX. KURAKIN." No: I"):q. COPYof the Ansyc:er of Count. Romanzoff to the Note of. the rereign Relations of the 25th April. " %Vilaa, May 7 (19), 1812. " 11,1- Y Lozn T I UKE—The - Count de Narbonne : L a s given m e th e di s p a t c h w hi c h your Ex ce ll en c y 'u'ilfided to him, I have not delayed a moment to ' P la ce it before the Emperor: His Majesty, always u thini to th e li ne o f con d uct w hi c h he originally marked for himself, always persevering 'in a mere I l Ystere of defence, in short, always more mOderate '! 1 proportion as the development of his powei t n ahlcs hint to repiilse with greater, vigour such hi i _ s as might he*made against,the interests of tS tuipire,•all:l the diguity of his Crown, is satis ieci to adhere to the wish with w hi c h y ou , m y ti 'rd Duke, con c l u d e the int erest i ng communica b°ll-of your Court. Constantly seeking to prove . , ° ` i ‘7 much h e has'it-at heart to avoid every thing Vi might infuse- into • his conne c ti on w ith a ranee a: spirit of animo s ity . an d acer bity, suc h k 5 ,1 141 endanger its continuance, he has directed tn It to enter into any refutation pt . ' alleged :eievances., nor to oppose assertions 'which; for „, most part, are grounded upon imputed fat& -I.ll'te destitute of probability, and bypothe ;‘ altogether gratuitous. The dispatches ad dfe'3sed to Prince Kurakini by the Baron de Ser ,ein, have partly anticipated the answer to all e a ccusations which have been made. 10; al conduct have represented, in-its true light, the conduct which the Emperor , has observed tviall his relatio n s w ith F rance. The y h ave g i ven, t l , td respect t o our arme.ments, explanations, con z'd.ill i such a . degree, as app u ear to have even s t:ipped th e h o p es o f t h e E mperor N apo l eon. ' of e, notwithstanding the me n ac i ng moveme n ts tit 'ls, armies beyond a line, where, for the sects ,of Our frontiers, they ought to have , stopped, r Continue here in the same state as at the i l ' o ' t e Of the departure of the last Courier. Indeed, single m an h as e nt ere d t h e terr it ory o f Pius or that of the' Duchy of 11 7 arsaw, and no pew t o t acie ha s ten d e d on our part to prevent t h e, 11 , t,i nuanr;e of peace. t 1 the. contrary, the last instructions which 441 1 ;re -Kurakin has received, furnish him %(-ith of Pc means of „terminating all differences, and eniug the negociation whi c h -'y ou Court -s ,l ire s te ‘c We have leained with satisfaction, the re t e t ion our propositions hare me t with "on 3 , v. part of the Emperor Napoleon. The offiCial ‘ 'Paw • • dad which your Excellency s h a ll g i ve t o them, Which we ark desired by Prince Ktirakin to ti o Pect will_tiefinitively settle the important guts of peac e or war. _ The moderation which marks that I have the honour of, addressing to you, offers you, ia Iv Lord Duke, ample security that any overture 0., may be made o f a p ac ifi c nature w ill be unxi 4ty accepted. nis M a j es t y i s muc h pleased. with .The step Q. o ' l ch has b een taken with . respect to the British thp ve jninent. He is g ra t e f u l f or th e a tt en ti on o f Xt; l 'Anreror Napoleon in i n f or thi ng hi m thereof. ..alw a y s duly appreciate the *sacrifices which th,` Sovereign shall make, in order to promote h te ' ttt c onclusio n o f a general peace, for the attain of which ga'eat and attractive object, no 'aces Can, in his opinion, be to 6 considerable. kl have. the ho nou r t o o ff er t o your Excellency (signed) " . COUllt DE ROMANZOFF fr , ea. No. X. . • ''' a Letter from the Minister for ForeigO Affairs, to n ~,etintg.4 Lanfisto, Anibas sh . dOr of -his Imperial and Ituyal its 4t, St. Petersburg _ _ _. " Dresden, May 40, - 161/r tftr have th e honour, Cunt, to send you copies of t ' 7 o notes,. frOtti Prince K'urakin, dated The 30th vi.dApril and 17th -of May; ,of . a note which-I t kli re s-ed to that Ambassador on the'9th of the e tilonth, and of the answer which he return ..L o of me on the same( day ; And lastly', of a note dd Ith of May, whicl, reached me yesterday, I)re ''' by which Prince Kurakin renews r in-the most 3 ' 4l E, Manner, his demand of his passports. ir t li e` "A. illalesty, Count,' could never have be `Qd that thi s• A tn b asaa d or wou ld -h ave taken so tl i el ; upon hi mse lf : h e t hi n k s it .fit. that you ti,. °41 .( 1 , by a note , a dd resse d to the Count de Sol jt."°ff, dem an d passports for y ourself, in order to o De eed to the Count de Romanzoff to Witha, or other olaee of meeting that shall be ap t7l a :-I t te d• Non' will announce to Count Soltikoff, ch ar t he communications r with which you are th -r ged, and w hi c h you cannot make but to the I) ol , a , n eeilor or t o th e E mp e ror hi mse lf , are aa-int ccuNtltas are urgent., • ou wilrshew Count Romanzoff all the do tb.-"ents -;,. - hich I trans m it t o y ou . Y ou w ill express h titptusbment which his Majesty must have felt li i)e t gav e hi m an - account o f proceedings so I vh .xl l eeted, and so con t rary , to t h e -di spos i t i ons I=4 ° ' the Emperor Alexander manifested to your- When he perceived, that in. thoonotes of the • . 4. 58 4 u. Ambassador, the evacuation of Prussia I N , Put forward as a condition upon. which France 111, ; even to delib era t e — a con diti on suc h as hi s ' to r L es .tY had never _proposed after -the greatest vic ite4cr when, in tine, by the demand Of the inde euee of Prussia, his independence was violated, -Att. inasmtlch 'as the deitruclloti has been insisted on ,of those political engageine;its which he has cmi tracted id the inicercise of the right which helonp SoVereigds. You ,Nt;i11;• t;ount, make. it be felt, sensibly, how *inch the notes of Prince En rakin are, in their fOrm, and by their contents, op:- peed 4o those pacific dispositions, of which that Aluhassador had given the assurance ; by what spirit Of conciliation his . Majesty is induced to suppose, that in presenting these notes and wni biniug with them the: demand of his passports, he has transgresed the bounds prescribed to him, and with what regret, if they were really. the ex. preSsion of the intentions, and the result of the orders of the Court of Peterburg, his Majesty would see every hope vanish, of succeedimg, by a ncgociation, which /he haS been constantly soli citing for nearly twoyears, in the adjustment at last of the differences that divide the two coun tries. . " You wi ll insist, Count, on obtaining expla nations, which may still leave the way open foz an acconiuiodati•.n. I have thellonour to be, &c. Sze.- No. XI. Copy of a Letter from Count Romanzoff to Count Lauriston. Wilna, 27th May (Bth June), Evening, 1619. Ma. AMBASSADOR-His Imperial Majesty has just been informed by Count Soltikoff, that your Excellency had demanded passports, for the pur .posubfattending his Majesty, with a view to ek ecute in person the orders which you had received from the Emperor, your master. - " Thbugh, in s the midst of his troop's, ,his Ma jesty would have felt pleasure in withdrawing himself for a short time from his present occupa tions, in order to receive near his person - the Am bassador of a Sovereign, his Ally); but a dream stance, totally faeign to .1:1 his Majesty's thoughts, prevents him. " He has just learned that 'the course of the post,' by letters between his Empire and foreign nations, has been suspended at Memel, and, ac cording to every appearance, all communication with his' Empire prohibited: He - has since been infcirmed, that one 'of- his Couriers, returning from one-of his missions to his Majesty, has been unable to obtain permission to pass the frontier into his States, and that it has been necessary for bini to turn back. "Acts so extraordinary require to be cleared up. His Majesty not being Freviously apprised of the nature of tile communications with which. your Excellency is charged, faithful to his own - system; wnich' is to follow the ordinary course of thingg in the relations of the two Cabinets, invites you, Mr: Ambassador, to choose rather not to quit St. Pe tersburg, and to have the goodness to do me the honour to address to me, in writing, die commu nications which you have to make, or else to con vey' them, in writing,"directly to his,lmperial :Ma jesty, at your own option; and in to afford you the means of so doing, his Majosty has cotia .manded me to place, for this purpose, at yoUr dis posal, the Sieur Baereus, ,an Officer in the corps of Field; who will have the honour- to deliver to you this Letter. " I entreat your txc'elfency.,.&c. - (Signed) " Count-D - 2, Rumjacto Fr." No. XII. Copy - of a utter, from Count De Laurigon to Conrit Ro - . • mairzolf. " St Petersburg, 31st Nlak (12th aline), 1812. SIR, POUNT — The'goodness which. I have ex perienced on the part of his Ma e'sty the Emperor Alexander, the mai ks‘ of confidence with which Ile had condescended to honour me, prevented w from foreseeing any obst tole to the Journey which I pro posed to make to Wilna. I had, therefore ; made arrangements for my journey, no withstanding the very violent rheumatic pains. which I have suffered fer many days, sensible of all the importance of the . commuukationg which I was charged to make to his Majesty, or to. your 4xceilen c y, tinder circum stances when the smallest delay. might be injurionsi , . " What, then, was my astonishment 15 n receiv ing your Excellency's, letter ! I Saw all my . hopes ; vanish I saw that I had de c ei ve d m y se lf in the idea I had of the confidence ‘Vhlch I supposed his Majesty would be pleased to confer ou are, inas much.as he refuges me any.ditect communication either with. himself or with your Exceiitncy, \ at a moment when, this confidence, which. believed I had merited by my conduct, by my invariable zeal for the maintenance of the alliance, might be, as I have no hesitation to, say it would have been, of the greatest advantage to the t wo empires.— The. reasons even which your Excellency . has put forward to prevent my- departure., would, on the contrary; as appears to MC, prcnar it more neces sary. • 17 ' In circumstances so urgent, what advantage . could result.from- Nii:itten communications, when eight clays would be scarcely. sufficient for receiv ing an anSwer, and which, from their nature, even do not afford any means 0f.J.:, - orrection in saicient time -tom avoid the lamentable consequences,. nil the errors, all ,the, misubdefstandings, which may be committed on 'either side, and which are :even -nearly inevitable ? • " The principal object, the. maintenance of peace, would never be attained. - It is beca use th e Emperor, my master, was throughly sensible bow injurious delays are on occasions so critical, that he commanded me to proceed to,-the 'Emperor Alexander, and your Excellency-An order to clear up all the doubtS, and to remove all the difficulties. upon impOrtant points, with respect to which ex planations are notpracticable, _except in this way, if the hope be to be cherished of an arrangement which has been invariably the object of his wishes: In the new situation in which your Excellency's letter places me, it remains only for me to take the orders of 'my Court as to my ulterior. conduct. • I dispatch a courier to .solicit instructions. " As to myself in particular, Count, I 'cannot conceal from your ;Excellency, that I am . deeply affected at a refusal, which I cannot but consider as perSOnal to Myself, inasmuch as any person than myself directly sent by my master, whether a 'General or an Aid-de-Camp, would, without doubt, have obtained a favour which has been re fused to me. "-Not having any intelligence direct on the subject of the communications, which your Ex cellency assures lue are suspended_ between Rus sia anti foreign 'couritries, I cannot reply to that, pataghilAi QE xpur I have the honour, &c. (Sigaetl) ec Count D..l.44ußisroN." NJ. XIII. Copy of a Letter from the Minister for Foreign Relations-to Count Lau F iston: " Thorn, Juue .12 ; • • ‘.`• You have seen, Condi, by the letter which r had the honour to write to you on the 20th of last month, that the declaration irr3de by Prince ku rft kin, on the 30th of April, and the repeated demand of his passports, I; . ad appeared to his Majesty such proceedings, so strong, so 4eci.,iive in ti#e existing circumstances, so contra.ry to the language which this Ambassador had held, till then, that his Ma• jesty found it difficult to believe' that he had not taken too much up6n him. +.le have since learn ed, that the Russian Governthent eonimuni tilted to different Governments, the condition in sisted upon fr`ona his iviajety , , of the evacuation of the Prussian territory•as- a precedent stipula tion, indispensable to any . negociation.' " The letter which von have done zne the ho nour to Write to me, of the 22d of May, informs rue, that thiS declaration is known at: St. Peter 4 burp;, and itind it mentioned at the same time in the E' Papers, as you can perCeive by read the accompanying sheet. " No doubt, then, can he any lonc:er enter= tained i Count, but that Prince gin:akin has fully comprehended his instructions, and conformed to them, in his declaration of the 30th of and. when he i-nade and renewed the demand of his passports. ' _ _ _ - "The conduct of Prince Kurakiq htld detr mined his Majesty to . set oat from Paris the pub licity which has .been given these transactions, has made him sensible of the necessity of quitting Dresden, and of drawing nearer to his army. " He had hoped, until; the last moment, that - conferences might still take place ; but this hope ranished . wten he saw that the propositions which were, really to be submitted to himt were hicom . patible Ivik) his honour. At Austerlitz, when the Russian Army was destoyed when the . EM perm. Alexander saw-eve; 3 the sttfety Of his Own person endangered 3_ 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 ha') fallen - , his Majesty did not pro pose to him any condition which would offend his' honour. " It is now too certain, Count, that the Go vernment is resolved on war, for which reason it might be inconv,enient that On should remain still longer at St. Petersburgh. His Majesty enjoins you to demand your passports, and to repaq the frontlet. , You will make the deniand by address: lug a not-a, a minute of which is' subjoined, to Count Soltikoff. " I haN7e the bon'Oui, &c. Cze. {Signed) " The . Duke of BAE SANC." N. Copy of a Note of Couut Latzri7.ton to Cc,:nt " Prince Ktirakiil, after having made the cora 7 ny.:l - 3ications which li(id - beenbrought to him by the-last cotifier, which Ire received fil • om Russia, baying, aemanded : his passports, and three times repehtecr that demand, his "Majesty directed that they should 'be !liven to him. Ire commands me to ~ einatid mine, my mission being finished, since the demiind which Prince Kurakin made of his passport; decided the rupture, and since his Majesty the Emperor and King considers himse3f from this moment in a state of War with Russia." No. XV. Cqty of a Letter froth the Minister for Fofeign Relations to Prince Kurakin. • / " Thorn, .lane 12, 1812. ff MR. AmßAsiAnqii—By your note of the 30th of April-you have declared that an arrangement between our two Courts was impossible, unless his Majesty the Emperor and King should pre-: liminarily accede to the peremptorvderaand of the entire evacuation of the Prussian States. • When, your Excellency, first made known to me verbally this proceeding, did not disguise from you all the consequences of it.: After the battle. of Austerlitz, when the Russian army wa7,. surrounded, after the-. battle of 'Friedland, .in which it had been defeated, his Majesty skewed his :esteem for the "Nalo.ur ,of this army; for the 'greatness of the Russian nation, and for the &la 'rafter of the Euiperor Alexander, in not requir ing any thing from hinlcontrary to 'honour. It was not possible to suppose that in the existing circumstances of Europe, your ',Sovereign, who, with,vut doubt, contemned neither the character of the Emperor, nor that of 'the French nation, Iso faithful to honour, would hive been disposed .to dishonour France. His Majesty', the Emperor and King, could not contemplate in th'e condition of .the evacuation of Prnssia, as •. preliminary' to any neg,ocition, any thing but 'a positive refusal to negociate. " You have confirmed this opinion, Me. Am bassador; by the demand Which you have made of your passports - on the 7th of May, and 'pith you • have repeated on the llth and 24th. I have, nevertheless, deferred , replying to your Excellency, because his Majesty was still willing to believe that you had exceeded your in, structions in 'giving in such a note—in establish ing that as a formal . eondition which might be the result of a negociation, and in cutting short all discussion by demanding your.passports. " But since the receipt of Count Lauriston's dispatches, reports l which arrive „by divers chan-• nets, and . even the pubFicaticns in the Engiish- Newspapers, apprise us that your Government has informed its capitaland all Europe of the resolu tion which it has taken not t 9 enter auto ne gociation until 'the French troops shall have .re tired to the Elbe. I have acknowledged, Mr. Ant bassador, that I was mistaken, and I ought tc render justice to your experience and intelligence, which should have prevented you from resorting to a course so extreme, if your Government had not made it your positive duty. " His Majesty being no longer able to doubt the intentions of your Court, has commanded me to send you your Pwports, the repetition of the drmand for which he considbaas a declaration or war. " I have the honour to be, . - (Signed) " The Duke of BASSANO." *IIIRD BULLETIN OF , THE GRAND ARMY. " Kowno,4une 2G, 1812. " on the 23d of June,' the Icing. of Naples , (Murat)), who commands ex cavalry, transferred Lis headluarters to-within two leagues- of,the ,Nienien; upon its left bank. This Princehas under hiS irmnediate 6rders the corps of cavalry. com manded by Generals Count Nansolty and Mont bran : the one composed of the' divisions Wet, the 'command of Generals Count ,Bruyeres, St. Gerrnain; and Valance; the other, consisting of the divisions under . the onkn o Gr..nera's . B iron Battier, and Gen,itars Counts Sebastiani and De france'. • " Fririce commanding the 'rst corps, mbved his head-quarters .to the skirts of the great forest of Piiwisky. The Second corps, and the I!nperial Gum's, followed the line of march of the first Corps. . The third corps took ,the 4irectioll of Mari . enpol ; the Viceroy, with i.,(4 fonrtb and sixth Corps, which remained in, the rear, marched upn . Kawarry._ " The Elifig cif Westphnlict prcreeded to Novo with the fifth, seventh and eighth corps: _ " The first Austrian corps, commanded .hy.the Prince Schwartzeribel'g,. quitted 'Lemberg on the naade a moven - lent on its left, and drew FlCarej: to Lublin. The Pontoon train, under the orders of Gen. Eble, arrived on the 23d within two leagues of. the Niemen: " On the 23d, it two in the morning„ the Em peror arrived at *the advanced posts nelr tool: aliolish cloak and Cap. from one of th,(2. Eght cavalry; and inspected the banks, of the Yemen, aocompahied by General Hato, of the engineers, " tart eight in the evening, the army vas again in motion. At ten, Connt Morand, General of Division, passed over three companies of -volti genrs, acid at the same time three brides were 'thrown across the Niemen'. At eleven, three co lumns deboucied over the three 'bridges. At a - quarter past one, day began to appear. At noon, General Baron Pajol drove before him a cloud of cossacks, and took possession of Kowno, with a single battalion. " On the 24th, the Emperor proceeded to. KOWIIO. ." Marshal the Prince of Eclimuld pushed for ward his head-quarters to Roumchicki, and the King of Naples to Eketauoui. • " During the whole of the `24th and of the 25th, the army was defiling by the three bridges. In the evening of the 24th, the Emperor ,c,iused new bridge to be thrown over the - Vilia opppsite KoWno, and directed Marshal the Duke of Regio to - pass it with the second corps. The Polish light horse of the guards crossed the river by swimming. TwO men were drowning, when. they were picked up by two swimmers of the 26th light infantry.— Colonel Guehengue haVing iniprudeuay exposed himself to afford them assistance, had nearly fallen a sacrifice himself : a swimmer of _his regiment saved him., . • • " On the 25th, the Duke of Elchingen pushed on to Kormelon': the King of Naples advanced to Jigmoroui. The , enemy's light troops were driven in and pursued on every side. " °lithe 2,5. f, l'slars'aiil the Duke of Elchingen arrived et Skoroule. The light divisions of cavalry covered the whole plain to within ten :leagues of Wiina. " .ilarshal the Duke of Tarentum, (rho com mands the 10th corp, , :, compsed in part of 'the Prussians, p-,ssed the Niemen on the 24th, at and moved upon Rossiena,- in order to clear the right bank 'of that river, and to protect the navigation. " Marshal k the Duke of Hunt), con, malrling the ninth corps, and haying wider his orders the division.; Neudelet, Lagrange, Durette, and Par tonneaux, occupies the country between the . .L:.be` and the Oder. " The General of Division Count- Thlpp, Go vernor. of Dant'zic, has under his orders the division Dicndels. The General. of Division Count HOgendorp is Governor of Konigsberg. The-Emperor of Russia is at Wilna with his guard, and one part of his army occupying aoni 'kontoni and Ne,Ytronki. " The Russian Comerai Bagawort, commanding the !second corps, and a part of , he Russian army, haying been cut off from Wilna,- had nw other means of safety than by proceeding tov.-aris the Dwina—(the Drina we should ratter suppose.) - " The Xiemen is navigable for vesis .of 2 or 300 tons as far as Kmrno. The 'comuninicatiOus by water arc also secured as far . as Dantzic, ;IA the "Vistula, tine: Oder, and the Elbe. • Ark itpmense supply of brandy - , flour and bisciw, is passing from Dantiie and KonigSberg towar Kowno. The ,'ilia, - which flows by Vilna, is navigable for very small. boats from Kowno to Wilna, the capital of Lithuania, is aVo the chieftown of all Polish Russia. The Eniper.':r Of Russia has been for several months in this city with a part of Iris Colut. The possession of this pl2toe wi,;l:beiliejitst,truit of victory. Several Cos sack °Ulcers,. and plieers charged with dispatches, have been captired by the light cavalry."