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VIE NATIONAL lIMISTER.

asassamas.,
recreate l'iat so tbrtni,Lble French cavalry, %hick at Ratishou and
at ‘Vill•,t .ort had decided victory; that the itioraent had artived for
again raising the Austrian Eagle--tor humiliating the French Eagle,
and cuisine.; France return to her ancient limit'.
Froth the mouth of 'April the Cabinet of Vienna occupied itself ;
it proismise,i the elielli:e% of France to be, on the Will of June, upon
the field of frame with 130,000 men. Whilst Austria openly armed,
the C 'biota rattled on a war of ii•ittuation% to weaken France by
seiolamag her Allies. It sheaved Austria to Denmark, to Saxony, to
113.1vari,m, to startemberg, amal even in Naples and in Westphalia, as
a frierd, ally ot F, ance ho wished for nothing but peace, who
desmr.:f nothing tor herselt ; it engaged them not to make useless
27111i011alits, not to give France smiecours, as the point. was not to
ILitt, hut make peace ; Austria had 150,000 men to place in the
baliemee, agait,st which of the two Powers %visited to continue th..
w ;sr 'mu 601..5 could 110 t tYlOillelit but oli Cabl-
Iletti so iltt!e a tiligateoed a- to bailey c in the disinterestedness of tha
Anse Alts. Itit the i•attles of lanai n and \Vol-schen, still more
than the di-asters N ovemeimer and December, astooished those
wise nati so incan, of France, and so little foreseen
eve:. s ; perhaps they would have bten Oak: to I clrwe their steps,
1 was ; it ilidcavoorcd to Otribitte the new
rietorie. to e oises. imalepunilamo of the fhue of the Frerch armies :
how, er, it cloceeitioas became nacertain ; it advatteed the mo• t
contraiiictors pretemerons ; it %rishiai to be the ally of France, by
pireimmo in reserve all the eatt•es of the treaty of alliance ; it. w ished
10 be maediat or, and remain bound to one enemies. We as sweied
Jt, 1,..0 knstria was at liberty to renounce the alliance; that France
o I ' n .1 be lint 1 ; :.ut that she eill not likeahose half measures,
the Intel result:ill: of irresolution and w t Ant ss. We accepted
the •pt. a Congress, ;Minitel' we timresaw that it would not
lea e p mart tassel t for the present
iea e
war,. but as the means of keep-
in; te _t elltios 0!le day lead to peace. I will
Jot pt,iit out ill what Mallller the Cabillei of Vienita extreised.
the'medial we of Nme ilia. Neither shall I dwell upon the details ot
the to.e.oves at Prague ;it has sot existed. After the battles of
,u,aco orschen, Russia and Prussia would have have been
she tociy disposed to treat, if they lout not had the hope of drawihg
Ansi Fir into their twat rel. and throwing upon Our the burthen of the
war. Seelt is the vieions circle ell whmlch the Cabinet of Vieuna has
piaced Futope ; it pretended to be the bearer of peace to oar rue-
nmit•N : by connecting itself with them, by taking upon itself the
great, r part of the chances, dangets, and sacrifices, it encouraged
thorn to %vol.. It thonglit it led the Powers ; it was led by them ;
tia'y drove it to war for their own interest. Russia (moped, by rais-
ing the people from the Vistula to the Rhine, to erect between her
and es it warier of distmler and anarchy ; that attempt having been
tia-neee.fmal, antiter mode otlered—she seized it ; she precipitated
Austria into war.
Could the ostriiin Cabinet seriously think, after the serious
proota which it 141 hail of the power of the (Temps armies, to drive
tis in some mouths within onr ancient limits F Twenty years of vic-
tory would bta reqrisite to destroy' %%hat twenty Years ot victory have
created. !tut siaec such was her thought, why, after the peace
of
It:at), did Austria disband her armies? Why, in 181 did she ally
Lersell vrith France ? None of the proceedings of time Cabinet of
Vienna escaped that of the Tintilleries. Frian the month of Novem-
ber the wstrian change of system was foreseen, and if the Govern-
ment demanded extraordinary levies from the nation,on the treason
of General Vorea, because it made it foresee time defection of Prus-
sia, it demanded tress ones on the defection of Prussia, because it
made it foresee that of Austria. It is this foresight which has
111)0001 all the comidaation of time Cnbieet of Vienna, and which
La's placed the French armies in a condition to make lend against
all their enemies Ilia, Sire, the coalesced Powers feel that to
attempt the accomplishment of the designs which at last they have
eeaital to dissemble, they must make the greatest etorta. It is neces-
sary a your Mujesty's voice numerous battalions arise in the bosom
of Frant e to plata, your powerful armies in a (-tradition to carry on
the war with slew vigour, and in order to provide for all chances,
when all Ent epe is anus ; when, indepetalantly of replier armies
she coalesced Generals call to battle the Landwchr, the Landaturin,
anti make (vet y nrhn u soldier, the French nation owes it equally to
its safety as its glmy, to evince fresh energy ; it must concentrate
to the cm:quest of a &rabic peace, 1-9'orts proportioned to those
hich its enemies make to realize the projects of an ambition
which knows no bon ods.
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The Duke of II ASSANO.
Mini-ter for Foreign AWairs.

'ERNICII, DATU) PRAGUIC, AUG. 1/.

~f State for Foreign Afrairs is charged'
aolOitt Mojesty, to looks Ow follow•iw,g

declaration to his Excellency the Count-de Narbonne.
from his Majesty the Emperor of France, King of It'
Since the last peace signed with France, in Oeto,
Imperial Majesty and Apostolic King has directed all
not only to the establishing with that Power relations
and confidence, which she made the basis of her pc?'
but made use of those relations to support the peace
Europe. She flattered herself that this intimate
mented by a family alliance contracted with the
Fiench, would contribute to give it, in its political proceedings, the
only influence it was jealous to acquire—that which tended to
communicate to the Cabinets of Europe, that spirit of moderation,
that respect tior the rights and the possessions of notependeet States,
which she her!-ell. possessed. His Imperial Majesty was nut long
able to indulge in such flattering hopes. A year had scarcely
elapsed, from the epoch which seemed to have taised the sr:Hit:ay
glory of the Eltp eri.itor of France to the highest pitch, and entitle::
appeared to be wanting to his prosperity, as far as depended upon
his attitude and his influence abroad,—when new additions to the
French territories. of States, till then independent, new par-
celling out, and dismemberments of the Empire of Germany, (A)
awoke the apprehension of Pawers, and prepared by their filial
re-action npon the North of Enrepe, the war which was kindled
in 1811 boo reit France and Russia. (B) The French Cabinet
knows 'better than any other how mull the Emperor of Austria
had at heart to prevent its breaking out, by all the ways which his
interest for the two) Powers, and fur those who would fiat! them-
selves drawn into the great contest which was preparing, dictated
to him.
tis not him whom Europe will ever accuse for the incalculable
evils which have been the consequence of it. (C)
In this state of things, H. M. the Emperor not being able to pre-
serve to his people the benefits of peace, and mailitaio a happy neu-
trality in the midst ot that vast field of battle which on all aides sur-
rounded his States, only consulted in the part he adopted, that !iii
fidelity to relations so recently established, and the hope he loved
to still cherish, that his alliance with France, by affording him the
most certain means of having ptodent counsels hearkened to, would
place hounds to inevitable evils, and servo the cause of the return of
peace to Europe. (I))
Unfortunately it has not (hums happened; neither the brilliant we•
ce%ses of 1812, nor the unexampkd misfortunes which marked the
conclusion of it, were able to bring, back into the councils of the
!'tench Government, that spirit of moderation which would lave
turned the first to advantage, and diminished the effect of the
latter.
His Majesty did not the less, on that account, take advantage of
the moment win n both parties. reciprocally exhausted, had akick-
ened the active operations of war, to convey to the Belligerent
Powers pacific sentiments which he still hoped to see received, on
either part, with that sincerity which had dictated them.
Persuaded, evertheless, that he would only be able to snake them
be listened to, by supporting them with forces, which would promise
to the party with whom he accorded in views and principles, that
support of his active co-operation to terminate the great contest,
(F) in offering his mediation to the powers, he deterohwd upon the
effost most painful to his heart—an appeal to the courage and
patriotiern of his people. The Congress proposed by both parties,
assembled in the midst of 'military preparations, which the success
oftiegociations would render useless, were the Emperor's wishes
realized ; but would, in a contrary case, lead, by new efforts, to the
antic result which his Majesty prefiAred obtaining .witlionlieffa-
-14011 of blood. (G)
By obtaining from the confidence placed in Imperial Majesty
the consent of the other Powers for that prolongation of the armis-
tice which France judged necessary for the negociotions, the Em-
peror acquired with the proof of their pacific views, that of the
moderation of their principles, and of their attentions. (11.)
In them he acknowledged his own, and from that moment per•
mailed himself that it would be from their side he would meet with
sincere dispositions to concur in the re-establishment of a solid and
durable peace.
France, far from manifesting analogous intentions, gave but ge-
neral assurances, too frequently contradicted by public declarations,
which gave no hype that s'ge would make these sacrifices for peace
that would be sufficient to bring it back to Europe(()
The proceedings of the Congress could leave no doubt in this re-
spect ; nor the delay in this arriving of the French Plenipotentiarie-s
under pretexts which the great end of its assembling ought to have
reuderud nugatory. (3)
The insufficiency of their instructions upon objects of form, which
caused an irreparable loss of time, when a few days only remained
for the most nnuortant of negotiations (K) ; all those eirtunistaticti

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