The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

.7%0411 as to that of Berlin. In acquitting himself of this coin-
mission, the undersigned requests his Excellency Mr. Canning
hat►e.ti►e goodness to lay this offer of. mediation of his Im-
perial Majesty before the King of England, and he ventures to
bope that his Excellency will not refuse t►► inform him as soon
as possible of the resolutions taken by his Britannic Majesty on
this !oat ject.

.The Count de Storhemberg embraces this opportunity to re-
best' to his Excellency the asburanco of his 1141‘ consideration.
London, April le, ism.

. (Nate referred to in No. I.)
The Emperor Francis I I. could not behold without the deepest
concern, the rupture which took place last Autumn, between
hi. Nlajesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and his
11Iajcsty the King of. Prussia; and he was shortly afterwards
still more painfully atfeeted, by the extension of hostilities ever
a coociderable part of Europe. If by ohserving a strict and
sernp ohms impartiality froui the very commencement of the
war, his Imperial and Hosal A postolick Itiajesty, has had the
sat 6; ciOla to maintain lsi system of neutrality in circumstances
croica!, an:: to preserve his people from. the ravages of war,.
he slid not enter the ir!-5 folly itdo the miseries which were mul-
tiplied around his qtatr. and in his just solicittale for the tran-
tptillity anti thrt security of his Nlonarehy, he could not but be
sensil,l., to Inecoruienally renewed alarms upon his frontiers, or
to the fatal effi•els which they iitevitahly produced in various
btanchrs of his inte;ier dministra t ion. The Eniperor, uniform-
ly animal( d with the same tire*, has had no other view
t fhe commencement, and during the coo ra. of hostilities, than
to endeavour to bring about a reconcili:::ittn,. and to avail hien-
seif of every propttr opportunity to. trit. cod to the calamites
of war: lie judges he could not better cif' c t this desirable result
thud by coastanCy impreving the Bellegerent Poy..ers with his
senti•nents of tm,deratiGn and of conciliation, and in giving his
whole attention io wards producing in them a similar disposition.
The reception ty hick his first overtures to this effect have ob-
tained, appears to announce that the moment.of so desirable a
rcconciliatim. is not far distant. Iti the confidence inspired by
lon consolitary a prospect, the general welfare and the interests
of his own dominions call upon his Imperial Majesty to offer to
the Belleor.ent Powers his friendly intervention ; and in conse-
quence of this, he does not hesitate to make to his Britannic Ma-
jesty the offer of his mediation, and of his good offices.
But in considering ;how very complicated and extensive the
presentrwar is become, the Emperor would.think that he had
but imperfectly expressed his fervent desire for peace, and the
hope of its compleat and speedy re-establ ishanent, if he did not
at,the same time state the entirooonviction he feels, that it is
only by the united endeavours of the Powers principally con-
cerned in the. mar, and by a negotiation in comatou, which
should embrace the whole of their reciprocal interests, that per-
manent tranquillity and a securit and solid peace can be attained,
a peace which should secure tho future political relations of
Europe,
His Imperial Majesty, from that firm persuasion (which the
frankness of his sentiments will not permit him to dissemble),
conceives that this pacific overture should he made by him in
common .te those Cabinets which are, in the first instance, to
take a part in the conferences; and it is therefore a ith earnest-
ness that he equally invites time Cabinets of Petershurgh, of Bei.:
1111, and
.of the Thuillerie,, to adopt the same conciliatory
views, and to enter into negotiations for a peace, in which the
essential relations of all the parties interested should, as faros it
is practicable, be combined.
Tile Emperor has thus generally testified his wish for peace.
lie will not take upon himself to suggest the particular mode of
nerciation, aed still less to anticipate the iutentions of other
Powers, or to decide upon those measures which it may be
thought t*cessary previously to settle, in order to determine
the principles of the preliminary overtures betucen tic Belle-
gerent Powers.
Nevertheless, in the hope that this friendly offer of his inter-
position will be appreciated in such a manner as the rectitude of
!Ili intention authorises him to expect, his Imperial Majesty is
eager to 'propose (in order that the opening of negociations may
be facilitated
.by his good others) any place in his &minim s
t hft sittiation and locality of which might, be reciprocally crne-
nient, and which, from this consideration, ought not to be too
near the theatre of war t and, in this respect, as in e‘ery other
point, the Emperor will feel pleasure in contributing to ac
celerate the period of so desirable a meeting.
LOUIS COMTE IA STARUEMBP,G.
London, April 18, 1801.

No. ll.—Note from Mr Secretary CANNING, to the Count Ds
Sr* RR tMISICRG, dated April 25th, 1801.

The Undersigned, his Majesty's PTincipal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, has laid before the •King his Master, the.
Note delivered to him by the Count de Starhemberg, Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Imperial Males,
ty the Emperor of Austria, King of Ilungary and Bohemia, in
which his Imperial Majesty offers himself as the Mediator of a
General Peaee.

The Undersigned has received the orders of the King, to trans.
mit to the Count de Starhemberg the inclosed official Answer t►t
the Note of his IMperial Majesty. Rendering the fullest justice
to the motives which have actuated his Imperial Majesty, in the
proposal of such a mode of negotiation, as can alone, by em-
bracing the interests of all parties, conduce to the establishment
of a solid peace. and to the permanent tranquility of Europe,
the King accept 6, so far as his Majesty is concerned, the offer
of his Imperial Majesty's mediation, subject only to the condi-
tion of alike acceptance of it on the part of all the other Poweis
who are engaged in the present var.
Inevecuting this ditty, the Und6rsi„,med is happy to seize the
opportunity of renewing to the Count de Starhemberg the assur-
ance of his high consideration.
Foreign Offirr, April 23, 1801.
(Official Note, referred to in No. II.)
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, has received, with ajust sense of the consideration
which is due to every communication from his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and of
the motives by which, on this occasion, his Imperial Majesty has
been actuated, the offer of his Imperial Majesty to become thu
Mediator of a General Peace.

GEORGE CANING.

The King, who has ne-er ceased to consider a secure and
durable Peace as the only ol*'( t of the war in which his Maks-,
ty is engaged, and who has never refused to listen to any suggri-
tions which appeared likely to conduce to the attainment of that
object, cannot hesitate to declare llis entire concurrence in the
opinion expressed by the Emperor and King, that a Peace of
such a item iption is only to he attained through Negociations,
which shall be common to all the Powers ptincipally engaged
in the war.

To such negotiations, whenever the consent of the other
Powers interested in them shall be obtained, the King will wil-
lingly accedes and his Majesty will loose no time in communi-
cating with such of those Powers as are connected with him by
the bonds of amity and confidential intercourse for the purpose
of a<Tertainitig their views; and if these views shall be favour.-
able to his Imperial Majesty's preposzl, of concerting:with them
the mode in which sacs negotiations should be opened, and of
agreeing upon the principles which (according to the suggestion
of his Imperial Majesty) it might be expedient previously to
establish as the basis and foundation of a general discussion and,
arrangement.
With respect to the place which should be selected as the seat
of the negociations, his Majesty would not object to any place
which, in addition to the indispensable qualification, proposßd
in the Note of his Imperial !Majesty, of tieing sufficiently retool(
from the immediate influence of the events of the war, shoalil
have that of atlording to his Majesty, in an equal degree with all
the other Pon et, concerned, the opportunity of a prompt and
uninterrupted communication with the Plenipotentiaries who
s!!otild be affiliated to represent his Majesty at the Congress.
Foreign-Tiler., pri! 23, 181)7. GEORGE CANNING.

No. III.—Not" from the Prime STARTIrmsunG to 411 r.
Seeretari C ANNIN G, daLd November 20, 1807.
I,(1 nth) n, .Vor. 10, 1807.

The Undersigne3 has the honour to inform his Excellency Mr.
Canning, Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign
Af-
fairs, that he has received positive orders from his Court, to
make to the British Ministry the most earnest representations on
tic importance of putting an end to the struggle which still ex-
iits between Lnptland and France ; and the etrects of.which may
produce to the rest of Europe.the most fatal conseqOuces. His
%injesty the Froperor and King, animated by a comtant desires.
effect the' restoration of, repose and tranquillity, cities 'not he-
.4tate t.) request officially all4l earnestly his Britannic Majesty to
d dare his intentions on this point evincing to him his dispo-
siton to enter into a negecia:ion for a maritime peace upon a
oasis suitable to the recipratal interests of the Powers 'who
may take a part in it.—The Cabinet of St. James has explain-
el itself ton often respectiag its desire for the re-establishment
of peace, fir the Undersilord not tb &Met himself that hellion'