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stable, et seen at the just demands of the Conti-
res.ntal Powers became totally irreconcileable with
tNe pretensions which might he urged by the French
....e.seernment, in virtue of its successive usurpations;
;I,e obligation also which His Majesty feels, in the
'resent melancholy and difficult circumstances, of
• 11l his Alic+ whose safety and even existence is
. seriously threatened ; and, in short, of affording
th,tet not an illusory, hut an effselive, immediate,
a ud energetic ass;stance ; all these motives unite in
tesclibing the only line of eondua which His Ins-
ierial Majesty has to pursue.
llnssia cannot now recommeete the negotiation
which has been broken of, under any circnmstance,
until she (as placed herself ill A iiteation to be able
assist her Allies at the moment when they might
• attacked, and to preserve iiumpe from total sub-
t-rsion. Her measures muss be so 4. • ,nibinect as to
.afford a well-groanded hope tha• a nt•gociation for
te.tce will augur happier resul., than those which
were c,:peZted from all the pacific advances hitherto
made, ;sad which unfortunately hive bi:en extin-
:pushed only b) the want of stieseet shown on the
oast of France to the remonstrances and proposi-
.ions of fiuuia and other Continental Powers, and
Ur a cmitinually progressive increase of the dangers
f Eurtsies.
•• In r:onscquence of the above considerations,
LY,idersigned has it in charge to notify t+ the
Ministry et His Imperial. Rosa!, and Al.ostolic
Majesty, in answer to the Note presented by Count
VOll Stadion to the Cabinet of St. Peter:burgh.
oss the 26th of Juiy (741 August) that His Nlajesty
the Emperor of ail the Russia:, upon the subjeft
•liereof, has come to the following resolutions :
Po accede to the request of renewing the negoeia-
i4sn fsr peace, whirls : a•' been brAten off by the
'e;il of is!. Noviviltsoff, and to take m-asures
Pr that purpose, as soon as the Head of the French
uovernmeat should minifesr a similar disnosition,
without delay to march two armies of 50,000 men
each, thruegh Gallicia to the Danube, as a mea-
-me of precaution, in order to combine the suppott
it. a powerful army of observation, with the nego-
ciations for peace; which army %mild be in a situ-
ation to prevent all further aggressions during the
period of pacification, and to secure at its comple-
te., Austria, and all the neiosourisg Powers,
against any farther attack on the part of France;
—to invite His Imperial and Apostolic Majesty,
and some other Poweys, to co-operate on their
part in this salutary niii,sure, the propriety of
which the French Goverment itself, upon an im-
partial consideration of the case, could not fail to
see.

•".Vhilst the Undersigned acquits himself of this
duty towards the Austrian CAblitet, he must like-
wise. in compliance with the stria injunelions of
the Emperor his Master, add, that nothing but the
sincere wish of restoring peace to Europe afluates
his condat t:prn this occasion ; that Russia will
manifest the most conciliatory disposition in any
negociation for peace, and adopt every measure
•bat limy promote its happy completion; and His
Imperial Nlapesty solemnly declares, that he is
1.-ady to recall his troops, as soon as the much-de.
sired security of ail the States of Europe shall be
chtlised.
" H s :inperial Majesty formally invites His Tm-
pesial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty to j,iin in the
measures which he has adopted ; and the Under-
signed is fully audios ised to concert wins the Aus-
trian Cabinet every thing connected with the pre-
seat Important state of Affairs."

ercown DECLARATION OF -ME COURT OF
vIIINNA TO THE YRENCH COURT;
111.011 VIRIINA TO P•lti, 051 Ti‘E
3D OT it PTLIA SFR, 180.5.
N Titt COPY! of Vienna yields, without delay, to
the request which the Emperor of France ha, made
of a cattgorical explanation respelting the motive
of its Preparations. The Court of Vienna has no
other motive than that of maintaining peace and
friendetip with France, and securing the general
tranquillity 1 the Continent. It has no other wish
than that the h.mperor et the French may entertain
correspondirg sentiments.
" The maintenance of Peace, however, between
two States, does not merely consist in their not at-
taeltlng ea, .h other. It depends not less, in reality,
rn the toltilment of those treaties on which peace is
f sunded. That Power which transgresses in so es-
sential a point, and refnws to attend the reclama-
tion, to which such a condii gives rise, is as much
tise aggressor as if it openly and unjustly attacked
the other party.
'• The peace Notween Austria and France was
fidonded upon the Tyra; yof Luneville. 0,,e of the
ankles of that treaty stipulated and guaranteed the
todependence of the Italian, Helvetic, and Batavian
P. and left them at liberty to chow their own
:••••rimvuts. Any mtasures, therefore, which
:r..d compel thew States to chose a Government,
Constitution, or Sovereign, otherwise than according
to their free•will, or otherwise than is consistent
with the maintenance of a real political independ-
ence. is a breach of the Peace of I.uneville, and it is
the duty of Anstri• to complain of such a violation.
" A wish to maintain reciprocal friendship, to ac-
quire confidence, to secure the public tranquillity
from great daasers, may., under crq:cal and delicate
circumstances, induce the reclaiming party to adopt
precautions, to shew great moderation in complaints,
and to defer the discussion of thetas to future negn-
r;ations • This conslufl does not imply any contra-
diction of the stipulations of the Treaty ; hat that
pcwrer which goes farther, which refuses all explana-
(lea, which avoidaall mediation, and employs me-
naces instead of the means of reconciliation, forget.'
as much the laws of friendship, as the sacred rights
of peace.
" The maintenance of general tranquillity re-
quires that each Power should confine it-elf within
its own trootiers, and respell the rights and inde-
peoleuce 01 timer States, whether strong or weak.
That tranquillity is troubled, when any Power ap-
per )))) iams to herself a right of occupation, pro.
sretian, inauence, when that sight is neither
soon led on the lows of nations nor on treaties—
when she speaks after peace, of the right of con-
finest ; —when she employs force and menaces to
p itsc,i44 laws to her neighbours, wad compels
alerts to situ treaties of alliance, concession, sub-
j. tiory or incorporation, at her will;—when she.
ahn+e ail, in her own Journals, attacks every So-
v.veign, after another, with language offensive
ttitheir dignity ; —when, finally, she sets herself up

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