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Emperor that yOu have fulfilled the extent of your duty. " Accept, Sir, the assurance of my perfea deration. g‘ CHAIIpAGNy.- VIE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S APPEAL TO THE SAXONS. " Saxons !—The Prussians have . over-run your territory, •lenter it as your ddliverer. They have forcibly broken the connexions which united your troops, and have joined them to their own army.— You are called upon to shed your, blood for an inter-, est to which you are not only strangers, but which is even in oppOs;tion to your interests. " My army • was upon the point. of • evacuating Germany when your territory was violated : it shall return to France as soonas Prussia has acknowledg ed your independence, and renounced the execution of the p'an she had formed against you. " Saxons, your Pritke had, till tlrat moment:re -fused to enter into an .alliance •so opposite to his duties; if he has since consented to the conditions imposed upon him, it has•only been in consequence of being compelled to it by the irruption of the Pros-, sians. " I was deaf to the idle provocation which the Prussians offered against my people. I was deafto them scylong as their armaments 'were confined to the Prussian States, and my Minister did not quit Berlin till your territory had been violated. " Saxons, your destiny is in your own hands ! Will ybu remain undetermined between those who would be . mgyouunder the yoke,and those . who would defend you ? My :vii-:tories. shall secure the hide ,ppndence of your. Prince and your nation. The con quests of the Prussians will only rivet, your chains. But what 801 say ? Have they .not already tried every experiment, Have they not, for a long time past, used every, effort to compel your Prince to ac knowledge a sovereignty which, once imposed upon you, would erase you from the list of nations ) • YoUr independence, your constitution, your liberty, -would then only exist in the pages of memo ry ; and the shades of your fore-tattlers, those valiant Saxons, would . disdain you for suffering yourselves to be reduced to slavery without resistance—a slave ry prepared for you so long before-hand-.-and thus becoming witnesses of the degradation of your coun try into a Prussian province. " Given at our Head-quarters at Ebenidorft ‘ 1 Oa. - 11, 1806." " NaroLtox." ' On the 3d olOaober the following Order of the Day was issued to 'the Grand Army : "The Marshals are informed that the EmPeror Las created a Legion of the North, under the com mand of General Z.visAscitEK—tWo-thirds ,of 'the Ofgcers Must 'be Poles. In consequence of this Order, all deserters who shall be found at different points where the' army niAy arrive, shall be provid•: . ed with passports to proceed , to Landau, where the Legion shall be for Med. Within a feW'days several Polish Oifeers will join the. different corps of 'the army ; and it is his Majesty' . s orSer, that an Officer in every corp§ shall be nowinated by the Staff, to receive deserters, and to convey them to The first corps of the Grand Army shall be formed at Mentz, where another corps will al6o be. formed, tinder-The King of Holland, which will take the name of the Advanced Guard of the Artily of . the North." COPY OF THE SECOND NOTE TO P 4. DE NOBELS.• 11.41EFF, DATED SEPT. 13, 1806. " The Und,•rsigned 'has laid bcf(re his Majesty the Emperor and King, the Note that his Excellency M. DE NOSELSDURFF. yesterday did litm the ho ribur to address to him: " His Majesty has found therein, with pleasure, thCassurance.that Prussia had not entered into any concert hostile to France; that the arinatnent she.. has made had, no other cause thin misunderstand, ihg ; that the departure of the d irrison of Berlin, though it happened since the Letter written nyliis Ailajesty the King Of Prussia, ought only to be con sidered as the execution of an anterior or4er, and that the movements — marhel out fore the PrusSian troops would cease as soon as it.wis known' at Ber lin what his Majesty the Emperor and King was pleased to say to M. M. KNonEr.soottu and Lue'- CiIESINI 'in the private audiences, which he grant them. • His Majesty has ordered, in consequence, that the communicittions which were to haVe been 'made to the Senate on Monday next, shall be deferred.; itrid . that no troops, besides those that are iCtually-on their march towards the Rhine, shall be put in,tho tion, until his Majesty learns the determinations of the measures that the Court .of, Berlin shall have taken, after the report that 'M: "M.-17YE-KiJOAELS DOEFF and LuccaEs'ltix have made';' and irtheSe deterininations are'Such, that the Fregeh Army in Germany shallbc . no longer menaced, and that. all things shall he replaced between France and Prussia on the same footing as they were a month ago, his Majesty will'inrfeSiately: Order the'retrograde 'march of the. troops- 'who are aelually- advancing to the Rhine. • " His Majesty 'expeEts that this singular rnisun-: derstanding will be . cleared up: . He" eNpeetS to be enabled, without any miittire:pf "uncertainty or doubt, to restiiie himself to-- pipse sentiments of which he has given so marry pToOfs to the Court of ' Berlin, and which have been alwaYs'thoseof A faith'- till. Ally. " The Undersigned prays M. DE KNOBELgIIORrF to receive the assurances of his high consideration. (Signed) " C. .M. TALLEYRAND; " Prince of Benevento." . . . • • " • COPY OF THE. THIRD NOTE. ADDRESSED •BY THE _ MINISTER. OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO M. DE KNO BELSDORFF. " The undersigned Minister of Foreign itelations has expressed to his Excellency M. DE KNOBELS DORFF,, in the'rNote Which he had the honour to write to hiin on - the i 3th of September, the con fiding dispositions with which his Majesty the Em peror received the assurances given by 'M. DE rilco . BELSNRFF . , that the military movements of the, Court of Berlin were not the. result of any hostild concert against France, but simply ,the...effeEtof a rainunderstanding ; and that they wduict'icease the Moment when the first communication of his Ex- cellency shoald.have arrived at Berlin. " .Nevertheless.-the news received every day bear # , ,'N7 so tnuch.all the charafter of an impending .War, .n that his Imperial Majesty must feel- some regret at the etitagernebt hek mafle tiet ref tb call. "but this te serve, and to defer the COnstitutional Notification, after which all the Fortes of the Nation would be placed at his disposal. Ile will fulfil that engage ment ; but he shall think it 'contrary to prudence and the interest of his people, not to order, in the in- . terim, all the measures, and all the Movements of the troops, which can take place without previous notification. His Majesty has, at the same time, charged the Undersigned to 'express again to M. DE KNOBELS.- DORFF, that he cannot 'yet conceive, by what forget fulness of her interests, Prussia should be willing to renounce her ties of amity with France. Warbe tween the two Countries appears to him a real po litical monstrosity; and from the moment that the Cabinet of Berlin shall return to her pacific dispo sitions, and shall cease to menace the Armies of Germany, his Majesty engages to countermand all the measures which prudence commanded -him to take. He' 'will Seize with pleasure, as he does not cease to do in all circumstances, the occasion of tes tifying to his . Majesty the King of Prussia the price he attaches to his friendship ; to a union founded on wise policy, and on reciprocal interests ; 'and to prove to him that his sentiments are always the same, and that no provocation has been able to al ter them. The Undersigned is haiwy in being able to give to ,his , Excellency M. DE KIsTOBELSDORPF sb formal an assurance of the di:pisksitions of his Majesty, which are so foreign to all idea of war with Prussia, that he has already committed a very grave military fault, in retarding hi4,military preparations for one month, and in consenting to let fifteen days more pass over without calling out his ReserveS and his National Guards. • " This confidence, which his Alajesty wishes to }reserve, proves what a value he sets upon what was stated to him by M. , DE KSOBELSDORFT, that Prus sia had entered into no concert with the Enemies of France and that the assurances that he had re ceived, in putting a term to the misunderstanding which has .just. arisen; would cause the cessation. of those Armaments which were the consequences of it. (Signed) " C. M. TALLEYRAND, &C." Paris, Sept. tg, lao6. SECOND NOTE OP M. DE KrTolitLsiaionrr TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " The .undersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, received yesterday the . Note addressed. to him . by his Excellency the Prince of BENE-• v.v.ic-ro, Minister for Foreign Affairs. If, in this communication, the Undersigned has found again, with extreme satisfa6tion, the assurance formerly given, in the Note of .the 13th of S(Tternber, that his Mjestythe Emperor and King 'would fulfil the engagement which he had made to wait the result of the explanations given to M. DE LUCCIIESINI and the General KNORELSDORFF, be fore taking any measures respe6ting: the Constitu-' tional Notification, which would put . all the forces of the French Nation at-the disposal of Goverment, he has learned with infinite pain, that his Majesty should - have had any.regret at that engagement ; and that, in fulfiling it, he thinks it necessary to order, all the measures 'and all the moven-lents of -Troops which can -be taken without previous noti *zition. . " The Undersigned hastens to reiterate to' his Ex cellency M; the Prince of Benevento, the assurance that hiS Majesty the King of Prussia, - far,' from hav ing had an idea of renouncing his relations of amity with 'France, participates in thatSrespea all the St.',ll - of his nnperial'and. Royal Majesty express rd in • the communication to which this Note is an nswer; that- tar from having entered into a con i art the : enemies of France, his Prussian Ma jesty' has . always sought to calm all resentments for facilitating the re-establishment ofa general peace; in' fine, that far from menacing the French armies in Germany by his armaments, these only took place in consegeenceof the advice received at Berlin, and which ‘ was so alarming, that it was not possible to negle6 measures of precaution, demanded by pru dence -for the welfare' of the State. " The Undersigned is ?leased in renewing to his Excellency the Prince of Benevento the assurance, that in taking these measures his Majesty the King of Prussia has not renounced, for a single: instant, the assurance of seeing the clouds dispersed that have been raised between him and France ; and General KNOBELSDORFF is persuaded, that such will be the result of the explanations that have taken place. In begging M. the'Prince of Benevento to make known to his Majesty the Emperor and Kihg this.answer to his comthunication, the Undersigned has'the honour w renew to his Excellency the as surance of his high consideration. (Signed) " General KNOBELSDORFF ." Paris,: Sept. 20, 1806. • , . SECOND REPORT ADDRESSED TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND RING, BY THE MINISTER OF FO ...,IitEIGN. RELATIONS, OCX. (3,,,1806. . " SIRE, . _ • " When in the Report that a few-days back I had,: the ,honpur: to address your Majesty, I esta r blished,., that .if Prussia -had any personal t reasons which lepl her to make War, it cook! only be . from aclesire to enslave-Saxony, and ;the Hanseatic Towns, , was faf:,from _perceiving, that' she would .ever dare avow such,a .motive. • It is nevertheless, an avowal which sh i q has' not feared to make, and es press in a note that .M.: De, K. 011SDORFF -has sent me from Metz, and which I . have the, honour to address to your Majesty. Of the three demands which that note contains, the first and the third are only mad® to disguise, if it be - possible, that no real importance may be attached to the second. " Prussia, after having seen with a tranquil eye the French Armies in Gerrnany during a year, could not be alarmed at their presence when their numbed were dirninished—When they were dispers ed in small bodies in distant cantonments—when, above all, your Majesty had solemnly announced, that they should return to France, as soon as the affair of Cataro, the cause of the prolongation of their stay in Gerniany, should be settled by an agree- Ment with . Austria, and that already the order for their return was given. . . " Prussia, who speaks of a nepciation to fix all the interests in question, knows well that there is DO point of interest.whatever in question between the two States; the amicable discussion Which • defintEtvely roc the fate of the Abbeys of • Essen and Werden, has not been deferred by any delay of the French Cabinet':'. The French Troops have evacuated those territories which the Grand Duke of Berg had caused to be 6ccupied; in the perfect persuasion that numerous documents had been given him, that they made part of the Duchy of Cleves, and that they were comprehended in the cession of that Duchy. d • " Thus the demands of Prussia, on these different points, and others of the same nature, and the pre teOded grievances which, she seems to indicate, do not offer the real mind of. the Cabinet of Berlin: It does not reveal it. It lets its . secret escape only, when it demands that, no farther obstacle whatever shall be Made, on the part of France, to the forma tion of the Northern League, which shall embrace, without any 'exception, all the States not named in the fundamental 'Aa of the Confederation of the Rhine. " Thus, to satisfy the most unjust ambition, Prussia consents to break the bonds that united her to France, to call down new calamities upon the Continent, of which your Majesty would wish to cicatrize the wounds and.to assure the tranquillity, to provoke a faithful, Ally, to put him under the duel necessity of repelling.force by force, and once more to snatch his Army from the repose which he aspires to make it enjoy, after so ulanilatigues and triumphs. . . " f say it .with grief,.l lose the hope of the ability ~ to preserve peace, from the moment it is made to de pend'upon conditions that equity and honour. equal- • ly oppose—proposed as they are, in a tone, acid in forms that the French people• endured in no time, and from no PoWer, and which it can less than ever endure under your Majesty's reign. (Signed) "C. M. TALLEY RAND, 8Z(:." Mayence, °Eider 6, 1806. NOTE. " The Undersigned Minister of his Prisssian Ma jesty, by the same Courier who brought the 'Letter to his Imperial Majesty, which he has had the ho nour to transmit to-day to his Excellency the Prince of Beneventa, has received orders to make the fol lowing Communications. Their object is to have the relations of the twolCourts no longer in sus pense.. Each of them is so imminently interested in remaining no longer in doubt ,upon 'the senti inents of the other, that the King flatters himself that - his Majesty the Emperor will applaud his frank ness. His Prussian Majesty has expressed in the Letter mentioned above, his entire thoughts, and the whole view of the subjects of complaint, Which, • from a faithful and honest Ally, have made him become a neighbour alarmed for his existence, and :necessarily aroused for the defence of his dearest interests. The perusal of it will recall to his Ma jesty the Emperor and King what Prussia was for a long :time to France. \Viil not the rementi)rance of the past be for her the pledge of the future ,? And what judge would be blind enough to belieVe that the King could have been for nine years to wards France so consistent, and perhaps so partial, in order to place himself voluntarily . with her in a • different relation---he who more than once might have ruined her, and who• knows now only too well the progress of her power ? . But if France has in her recollelons,. and in : the nature of things, the pledge of the sentlinents of Prussia, it is not so with this last Power : for recolleCtions are made to alarm her—she has beets careless, neutral, friendly, and even in alliance. The destruction•that surrounds her, the gigantic increase of a Power essentially military and conquering, Which has injured her successively in her greatest interests, and menaces her in them all, leaves her now without a guarantee. This state of things can not. last. The King, sees almost nothing around him but 'French troops, or vassals of France, ready to march with her. the Declarations of his Imperial Majesty announce, that this attitude will not change. Far from that, new troops issue Irons the Interior of France. Already the Journals of his capital indulge themselves in a language against Prussia, of which a Sovereign, such as the King, can despise the infamy, but which does not the intentions and the error of the Government that Suffers it. The ,danger grows every day. It is necessary to he heard, at once, or be heard no more. Two Powers who esteem each other, and who fear each other no snore than they are able, with- - out ceasing to esteem themseLves, have no need to go about to explain themsek es. France will. not be less strong for being just, and Prussia has no other ambition than her independence and the secu rity of her Allies. In the actual position of her af fairs, both one and the other would risk every thing in protracting this uncertainty. The Undersigned has received . orders in consequence, to declare that the King ekpeas with• justice frcm his Imperial Ma . That the whole of the French troops, which are called by to fair pretence into Germany, should immediately repass the Rhine without exception, beginning, their march on the very day that the King expe&s the AnsWer of the Emperor, and cort tinue it without halting ; for this immediate and complete retreat is the only pledge of security that the King can receive at the point to which affairS have been brought. ‘2. That no obstacle shall be raised on the part of France tts, the formation - of the League of the North, which *ll include, without any exception, all the States not named in the fundamental Ad of the Con, federation of the' Rhine. '3: That' a - Negotiation shall be immediately open ed, to decide in a permanent manner on all the points in dispute, and that for Prussia its preliminary basis shall be, the separation of Wesel from the French Empire, and the re-occupation of the three Abbeys by the PrusSiart troops. " The instant that his Majesty is assured that this basis is accepted,.he will resumd that attitude which he has quitted with regret, and will become to France that frank and peaceable neighbour who for so many years has seen, without jealousy, the glory of a brave people, for whose prosperity he has beefi anxious. But the intest intelligence of the March of the French troops compels his Majesty to ascertain imMediately what he is ,to do. The Undersigned is charged to insist on an immediate. Answer, which, at all events, must reach his Ma jesty's Headquarters by the Bth Of. ; his Majes t? still hoping that . it will arrive there time enough, that the unexpeEted and rapid_ progress of events,. aid the • presence-of the troops, should 'not put either party under the. 'necessity of providing for'his . . " .the Undersigned is particularly instruaed- to declare, in the most solemn manner, that Peace is the sincere xi•ish of his Majesty and that he otny rvcitnres that which can contribute tp make it per- : tilanent., The causes of his apprehensions, the claims which..he had for another connexion, from France, are unfolded in the Letter of his Majesty to the Emperor, :and are calculated to obtain from that Monarch the las(' permanent pledge . of a new order of things. •• , , " The UtWrsigped,enlbraces this opportunity to renew to the. Vrince of Beneento the assurances of his high consideration. „ (Signed) Paris oa. sc 6. " kNotELSDORTF." The Senate referred the Comti;tmication to a dal Commission. , . NAPLES, SEPT. 28.—The Neapolitan' Journal has published the jt:lstrnaions given - by the English Ad miral, Sir SIDNEY SiNitT ti (of *lnch the Govern me hi has the original), toGUARIGLIA, the Chief of the MasseS. The folloWing is the comniiSsion of GUAE.IGLIA. : • " SECRET ORDERS. " Palermo, june iRc6. " Major OU , kR IGLIA, belolighlg to the Bug Militia of Palermo, will reside at Capri, .anLI c , 41- form hinicelf to the following histrudions:—To Make all his partisans rise,in insurredion, to excite the country to revolt, to "point out the houses which should be given to pillage, to give the names of the persons declared rebels and enemies to. the State, wilco should suffer military exectitioti, and to direct the other operations. , .He is to neglect. nothing to pro cure all possible information as to the position of the enemy,.frOm Scales to Salernum, as well as all the information relative to the ruis4ion that i 5 'confided to (Signed) " Sithar SMiTii." This Order kvas accoMpanied with an instru6ticrz in 14 articles, on the inanner in which was to execute the orders of the Adrnirai. TO s 4 that those pieces have fallen into'the hands of the Military Authorities of the Kingdolt of is to announce that ,the most secret intrigut2s Of th...t. English do not escape the a&ive superi . WictiddiiCt;: of Government.—Gazate de France. LoaoN, SEPT. 30.—At length the English Squa dron, commanded by Lord ST. ViNer,NT, has quit ted our Port:. It 'brings away Lord IlossLY&,. the Negotiator Extraordinary, who has obtained not 11ing from our. Court., It isLto the firmness andenlighten ed zeal of the Chevalier D'ARANJO, for the in terests of his Sovereign, that Portugal is iodebied this time for not being drawn into that vortex. where so many ill-advised States have been s-,,vllow ed up. _ . Lord Sr. VINCENT had only six Ships of War in. the Port of Lisbon, so as not openly to, exceed the number mentioned in, the clauses of the subsiting Treaties ; but the remainder ofliis Squadrop, com posed of a much greater number,. of .Ships,. was cruizing at• some. distance WY the Coasts of that Kingdom. , FRANKFORT, OCT. 16.---General,A. Generai. ALKREUTII, who commands the left wing of the Grand Prusf;ian Army, has effeeled his junation with Prince Ho 114tsiLoatt. This Division has, advanced to Plauen, and taken a position between that town and Neu stadt ; the advanced guard was at 'Jolt: It was in this that an Otlicer of the Staff - brou4ht to — Prince HonENLoHE.the orders t 8 begin his march immediately, in order to connea himself with the other wings of the army, in . order to occupy the whole Forest of Thuringia. The advanced guard, under the orders of Prince LOUIS FERDINANP, was advancing. upon Coburgh. It was in this march that it was encountered by the division of Marshal LANNES. NIMEGUAk, OCT. 1.5.-A considerable quantity of provisions are colleaing in different places upon the Weser, which are fit for establishing magazines. It is said, that these proVisiOns are on account of the Emperor :Of Russia, and destined for the Russian troops who are to land at Mecklenburgh. The.for tress of Hameln is provisioned for six months; that of Nieubourg for four ; they are, besides, provided with all manner of necessaries. His Majesty the of Holland has received from the Emperor of the French the command is chief of tile Army of the North. MINISTRY OF THE GRAND JUDGE. THE GRAND JUDGE, I%ll'll'3l'ER GF JUSTICE, GRAND OFFICER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, TO THE IMPERIAL ATTORNIES GENERAL OF THE COURTS OF CRINIINAL JUSTICE. " Paris, ()a. 11. iSc6. . " The partisans of , war have at length, G:nue men, succeeded in establishing their deplorable in fluence at the Court of Berlin ; and when the Em peror, touched with the Misfortunes of Europe, was endeavouring to place the peace of the Conti nent upon lasting foundationci, • which might at length allow. the Nations to breathe, and which should remove, for a long time, the calatui4s of war, a King whom. so many motives should have induced to remain closely united with France; takes, all - of a sudden,. an attitude menacing to France ; and so far from the moderation of the Emperor having put a stop to those unexpe'cled, demonstrations of hostilities ready to begin, they: have dared to diaate to France, vieloriouk, such conditions as even in the midst of reverse:her august Chief would have reje6ted with disdain.— Moderation has its bounds ; a just resentment must succeed it when a Nation is outrageously insulted; and when it is provoked by aggression the most in conceivable. May the blood which is now going to flow be for ever a matter of reproach to those sinister Counsellors who mislead Kings, and who; blinding theth as to their real interests, plunge them into dangers which may shake their thrones ! The Emperor marches at the head of his brave legions, always animated with the same spr:r, al waysifaithful and devoted to him. Let us, in the interior, imitate his noble and generous example; and 'if it be not permitted tts, as to our brave young men, to shed our blood for the most just of all causes, at least let us serve it with all our efforts, and all our means. No Frenchman can. be indifferent_ about such dear interests without being criminal ; but independent of those obliga tions which' are common both to Public Function aries and other citizens, they have particular duties to fulfil, and which they shooldAwa'ys re met-Tiber in such' a, coujunOure . as we are tow placed in. Thervfore, during the absence of the Ern4