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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 Empqjor 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.

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