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which she held
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ceitful promise.
the Continental t
appeare.l disposed
or her men--

At ease respeaing
nent, the Emperor •
maritime war,
created. Fleets
Camps were for
Emperor had •
empire; and
Lis inspeftion
preparing for
the dangers with which she was menaced. She wish.
ed to obviate them by crimes. Assassins were thro art
upon the coast of France. The Engfsh Ministers
to neutral Powers became the agents Af a warfare,
infamous as atrocious, of a warfare of conspiracies
and assassinations.
Toe Emperor saw into these pitiful conspiracies,
he treated them with contempt, and was not thereby
prevented from offering peace stn the same terms
which he had before proposed.
So much germroney could not assuage. nay.
seemed even to augment the frenzy of the 'iabillet of
St. JAIIICS's. Its answer chewed clearly.. that it
would not think of peace, till the hope should Ire en.
tinguishe i of deluging the Continent with blond and
carnage. But it was sensible, that to accomplish
such a design, the association, in its views of a
Power, by its positin almost as unconnected wish
the Continental system as England, would not be suf-
ficient ; that not having Any thing to expea flora
Prussia, whose sentiments were too wel: known, its
espeaations would be vain, as ''rag as Austria
should remain faithful to her nest; ity.
Austria, which had twl.e experienced, at 'be end
of two disastrous wars, at the time t f the Treat es
of Camon Formio and of Lunevill the generosity
that France was disp •sed to stew towards a v.in.
qnished enemy, d-d not by any me • s pry the
same religious observance to treaties, as F
Votwithitanding the formal stirula:iou of th se
treaties, the debt of Venice was net Jisch. rod ; it
was even Seciared extinguished. The Emperor was
aware, that his subjeas of Milan and Mantua, ex-
perienced a den:At of justice, and that toe Conn of
Vienna had liquidated none el their defamed., its
contempt of the solemn engagements which it had
entered into. He was aware, that the tam*. -reial
relations of his kingdom of Italy with the heredetry
States, were subjeta to obstruaions, and :liar hi, sib.
jeas of France and Italy found in Anse: is a very
different reception from tha: which a state of peace
gave them a right to expea.
In the distribution (lithe Indemnities in Germany,
Austria had been treated with a partiality toot ought
to crown all her wishes, and -urpass even her ex.
peaations. Yet her cundua chewed. -that s'-ie was
fir from being satisfied. She alternately em.sloyed
arts and menaces to procure from the petty Rime*
the cession of such p isosssions as suit-d her. f has
it was that she had acquired Lindau on th • Like of .
Constance, and the Isle of Menau in the same Lake,
which placed in her hands noe of the keys of Sven-
zerland. She obtained the cession of Altkousen
from the Teutonic Order, which m• is her mistress
important post, the port o' Rhinau. She bad
enhaged her territ isy by a number of oth.w asottisi-
tions, and was meditating fresh ones As a means
of aggrandisement, she was not afraid to employ
evident usurpations, w'ich she sought to conceal un-
der legal forms.
Thus it WAS, that, under cotior of a right para-
mount (a right which she had le.-4 anted by a trea-
ty) :and the exercise of which wasiii- e seri latiirle with
the execution of the recess of the Ge. a:-.'c Empire,
she appropriated to herself some p seession , a bich
she affrfttli to consider in a state of disherison and
without legal proprietors; though the recess ha
formally dis,-ised (.1 them towards the division of
the Indemnities. By these mr,ns she disappAinted
many Princes of these pos. essions which it nod been
thought just to assign them, under pretence of this
same right paramount, which, so far as regarded the
Swiss, she called the right N'lncernseration), she car-
ried off considerable sums from Switzerland. She
sequestered the Fiefs of a neighhourinePrince in Bo-
hernia, under pretence.of compensations due to the
Elea it of Saltshurgh, of which, cutler try to every
right, she claimed to be sole arhitres S'ie persisted,
with menaces, to keep recruiting porti.-s in the ha.
vernal provinces, in Franconia and Suabia, and in.
terropted, by every means in her pow s, the Con.
scription for the Eleaoral Army there, abusing the
prerogatives formerly grunted to the head of the
German Empire for the corn 'iron berm& of the Slates
composing it, and now fallen into disuse. She re•
rived them, in order to interlope the 'se; rise of their
sovereignty by the neighbouring Princes, in those
possessions which fell to their lot in t e division, and
to deprive them of the incre ise of influence in this
Diets, ahich ought to result from these possessions.
1 he recess of the Empire, a consequence and ful-
filment of the treaty 01 t.uneville, had for its ots.
jeer, exclusive of the division of the Indemnities, to
establish, by moans of this distribution itself, in the
South of Germany, an equilibrium, which might
insure its independence, and to prevent those even-
tual causes of misunderstanding and war, which an
immediate comas% between the territories of France
and Austria might frequently give rise to. such
was the view of the Mediators and of the German
Empire; such was the view of justice, of reason, of
an h male policy, :said cont. Trimble to the true in.
terns,, Austria herself.
thus Austria reversed what the recess had so
wisely established, when, by her acquisitions in Sus.

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indocesher to look upon herself at mistress
seas, and which is the only foundation of the
rdinary despotism which she exercises upon
r cause then that France had to defend, was
Ise of Europe. and it was natural to suppose.
tither the intrigues of England, nor the gold
she held forth to all those who might be dis-
t* be subservient to her ambition, nor her de-
promises, could engage in her quarrel any of
intinental Powers. No one of them, in fan,
•e.l disposed to accept either her propositions
recommendations.
ease respecting the dispositions of the Conti.
he Emperor turned all his thoughts to the
me war, for ...hich every thing was to be
d. Fleets were built ; Ports were e aaaaa ted
s were formed on the shores of the ocean: the
ror had assembled there all the forces ;if his
!..; and his troops, fermi:lg themselves en 's;
spefUon for operations altogether new, were
ing for new triumphs. England per lived