The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-17 00:00:00

/tifr IktATTOSTAL REclisiTll.

ign the i►rtegrity of his dominions. Although those
'ere known by Sweden, she offered in 1807 to make
. with France i►► the war she was pr, paring against
.Majesty would consent to gnarantee Norway to her,
ted, without other rights, without other titles, than
Your Majesty considered this •proposition as an
Insideration could induct on. to betray the interest

o seek elsewhere a support which your Majesty re-
'bair). She joined your enemies to rob.your Ally.;
!o Russia, as the price of her good offices in taking
against France, the employment of forces that would
le acquisition of Norway A special article of the
t Petersburg') on the v4th of March, 1812, deter-
he e% rut of Denmark consenting to the cession of
would be granted her which could only be
French territory. These engagements, unexampled
nations, have become common to England; and by
,n the Sd of Ind May, that Power acceded to the
•eatly existing between Russia and Sweden, and gua-
`ing of Norway. to his Swedish Majesty's dominions.
Treaties, Sweden placed herself in a state of war
*sty ; but already fur a long time she had violated
lie 61h of 3antiar, 1810. Forgetting the getwrous
r Ilajesty had granted her—.despising the obligation
dee,: as the price of the restoration of Swedish Po-
tting her pm is against English commerce—she open
he very same year : they became true English colu.
:onsuls residvd in the m : and altlcingh Sweden had
mist England, the fleets and convoys or that Power
and remained in her roads. (7olouial produce and

eenmulated in the ports, to he transported into Po-
Irom thence imindatte the toutineet. This was not
ci4iuo fur Sweden ; she came to open arts avinst von)* Nlaiests's
subjects ; they were assassinated in the port of siraisoml, Withont
its hein,g possible to obtain sufficient reparation for this offence.
Two vessels bearing your Majesty's fur, were ill-treated in the open
sea by ships belonging to the Swedish marine •, one of them, the
Mercury, attacked by main force, in the Sound, by the brig of war
the Yenta-Lille, was conducted into a Swedish poi t, where her crew
were pia in irons. All the representations from your Majesty's
flovernthent hasiug been useless, von ordered that Ponn•rania should
hr occupied till the moment that Sweden should have given that
satisfaction which she owed to the dignity of your Crown. four
Majesty regretted using rigour towards a nation that yon esteem,
.and which for neatly •iOO years had followed the system of France.
Those dispositions,. Sire, which had no other object than to Whog
back to mole just sentiments a friend who misunderstood his obli-
gations, struck at-an enemy already engaged against us. It is in
execution of these engagements, the principal stipulations of which
I ant going to place before your Majesty, that the Swedish troops,
at the commencement of this campaign, dated to invade the FreIICII
territory. Your Majesty, by a new Treaty with Denmark, drawing
closer the bonds which attach you to that Power, and uniting your-
self more closely to her cause, has taken the reciprocal engagement
of declaring war against Sweden. I propose to your Majesty to
cause the state of war between France and Sweden to he published,
and at •the same time to order that the Treaty ot the 10th of July
last, concluded between France and Denmark, be communicated to
the Senate, as the law ot the State, conformably to our constitntions.
(Signed) The DUKE: of BASSANO,
• Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Dresden, Aug. 20. (A true copy.)
[Here follows the treaty concluded at Copenhagen on tlic ]oth of
July, 1813, between Baron Alquier and Niels Rosenkranz, which
reciprocally guarantees the integrity of the territories of the con-
tracting powers, whether European or colonial,, and deela:es war by
From,: and D.esnark against Russia, Sweden, and Prussia.]

REPURT TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING ON THE WAR

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WITil AusTut s.
[This reporthegins with a sketch of the four 'preceding wars with
Austria, in which that Power is represented as having been eon-
htantly the agcsessor, though entirely indebted to the enemy for the
means of aggression which she retained.] It then proceeds:
In tine, the Cabinet of Vienna seemed to understand its real in-
terests; to think, at last; of only repairing its losses ; tO heal the
wounds which the paper moony had received, which consumed the
public fortune and that of individuals ; told to found the return of
the prospoity of the'state upon a wise poli:y mid a long peace. It
disbanded its army, anit the wants of it, interior organization tied
all its attention.

War between France and Russia became imminent. Anstiia
outstripped the itvishes of France, and pit posed her alliance.
A treaty was signed on the 1 Ith Maa('ll, 181.2: an Austrian army
marched with the French army for the defence of the grand inter-
ests of the Continent ; and Austrian blood flowed in the battles
against the Russians-.
Politicians who considered the principles hitherto professed by
the Cabinet of Vienna, were astonished at an alliance which they
knew to be contrary to its secret scutiments ; but other politicians,
not less enlightened, judging its dispositions according to its real
situation ; seeing Austria, after so many sacrifices, come out of
contest which had four times been fatal to her ; considering the dis-
astrous state of her finances, the embarrassment of her administra.
lam, the complication of its interior organization, thought that she
would rene..v the system of liannitz, and insure herself., as by the
treaty of 1756, a long peace, which would give her time to recover
her ancient prosperity : they thought her interest, well understood,
would keep-her in the alliance. As a particular transaction, the
treaty (tithe 14th March %vas a fault of the Cabinet ; but considered
independently of the war with Russia, which was but the occasion
and the 'corollary of it, viewed as the basis of a sy•tein which was
•to ensure forty years of peace, the alliance appeared to he dictated
11% views; it was the most ellicaeicoii,4 tneaut. to cicanize so
many wounds st hick snit bled. TI considerations, all striking as
they were, did not rove founded. The alliance of 161'4 was not the
result of a system, but the etleet of circumstances.
Ascoo:: as the disasters of th^ months of November atel Deem.
her last were known hy the Cabinet of Vienna, it judged that
France was abandoned by fortune; it hastened to pass to.aoother
sssten) : from an allied Government, Austria became an enemy.
The auxiliary corps which fought wills the French army, was the
ground-work of the principal army destined to tight France. Never-
theless unexpected events baffled all foresight ; they had not entered
into the calculations of Austria; Sbe was tvitnout finances, without
armies ; it is proved that all her efforts did not succeed in placing
60,000 men under arms in January last. flaying taken her resolution
previously to having the means of supporting it, and calculating
that six months were requisite to be in a comlition to present an
army upon the field of battle, the Cabinet of Vienna felt the ri cc's.
sits' of concealing In r intentions under the appearance of fidelity to
her enuagements, and the love of peace. It tittered its mediation
to therilelligerent Powers ; but, at the same time, began its levies
and ran to arms. The Minister who directed the finances, entirely
devoted to the restoration of the monarchy, altle:ugh he personally
• nairished hatred towards France, adhered to the aliiance as the
only means of succeeding in the re.establishment of interior eco-
nomy. Ira opposed the greatest resistance to the war, and a suc-
cessor was appniated to him. Immediately a new paper money for
too millions of franks was created; the plans of order and economy
hitherto pursued were overthrown, and the Cabinet precipitated it.
self into war. In vain did enlightened men represent that the army
no longer existed ; that the skeletons could only be tilled w ids ►e.-
emits ; that the materiel was destroyed; that out less than 13
months were-requisite to re-organize the ntilitaly slate of Austria ;
that the affairs of great nation.; carte not conducted by starts, ator a
great system instantly composed ; that since they had not retused to
enter into connections with rrance, it was requisite to have re-
mained neutral in 181.2, and been occupied in re-establishing lira
army ; but that having adopted the alliaitecoftlBl2, it was requi-
site to persist in it in 11113 ; they represented, that by a wise pulley
and a little management, Austria might derive advantages from
cirrnmstances, by reaping real advantages, without exposing her-
self to the chances of a war, in whit-.e she would become a principal,
which demand( d armies in Silesia, in Saxony. in Bavaria, hi Italy :
that to present herself in this serious contest, without being pre-
pared for it, was to expose herself to iatal eatastroittili(ii generalates,oi:v
least
toeasrt.
to nge herself all the uncertainties of a long :i
into which she was geeing to plunge Europe ; that it, never finless,
circuntstauces were favourable for enabling Austria to recover fur
influence, they wert deceived in not perceiving that the basis of
all grandeur for a State is good finances, or a good money system,
and armies well organised, well equipped ; :net that a good army
does not consist in a grea). number of men, but in the quality of the
soldiers: that by pertevering some years in the system of the alli-
ance, Austria would have recovered its ancient prosperity, and %vitt'
it, that mid independence, for which a good ;titular and militaiy
administration lays the foundation. Ilia the partisans for the wrir
replied, that they reasoned as it France was the satue, whilst her
fortune had changed ; as if she had att»icg, when tf,r elite of her
aoldiers had been destroyed by the severity or wint‘a-. said,
that if Austria had cuts. recruits, it would be aarainst tecruits she
fought, and that It was beyond the power of any Coarnment to

'!! foitnne had changed ; as it-
she Han m artcg, ire tine HI HIT
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twAttiers had been destroyed by the severity or wiot‘A.. They said,
that if Austria had euly rt emits, it would he airainq lecenits she
fought, and that it WB9 beyond the power of any Covcroment to