The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-13 00:00:00

STATE PAP R.

[FROM THE GERMAN.]

NOTE OF MR. CANNING, ENGLISH SECRETARY OP
STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO THE PRINCE
STAHREMBEEG, VIE AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR AT
LONDON.

" London, 25th dpril, 1807.

- " The:Undersigned, his Majesty's Principal Se.
cretary.of:State-for,Foreign, Affairs, has laid before
the King Note. delivered to hint by'.Prince
STAHREMB'ERG, Ambassador Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor Of
AUSTRIA, King of HUNGARY and &TEMA, ILL
which hisimperial Majesty offers himself as the
Mediator of a General. Peace.

."
The Undersigned,,has received it in command
:faint the King his Sovereign, to communicate to
Prince STAHREMBERG the inclosed official answer
to the-Note of his Imperial Majesty. The King
does complete. justice to the motives that have in.,
diced his Imperial, Majesty to propose a mode of
Negociatiou which, by embracin the interest of all
parties, can alone lead to the restoration of a lasting'
Peace, and the .permanent tranquillity of Europe;
and his Majesty therefore accepts the offer of his,
Imperial Majesty's mediation, .so far as be is con-
cerned-; but with this pioviso, that it shall .also be
accepted by all the other. Powers involved in the
present War.

NOTE.
" His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom.:
of_Great Britain and Ireland .has received with due
regard the communication •of his Majesty the
Emperor of Austria, King 'Hungary and Bohemia,
:and also justly appreciates tire motives which have
upon this occasion • determined his Majesty to be-
coMe the Mediator of a General Peace. • •
"-The King., .who has never
,ceased to look to a
secure and lasting PeaCe as the only objed of the
War in-which he is engaged, and who has neverre-
fused to 'listen to any proposal which offered the
least probability of attaining his proposed objet a,
'catiturt, for a moment, hesitate to give his full assent
fti the declared opinion of his Majesty the Emperor
'and king; that such a Peace is only to be obtained
by 'a general' Negoennion- on. the pftrt- of -all'the
powers eng:'ige:d ui tne present War.
". the King have no difficulty in entering
Upon. such a negoeiition, as soon as the consent of
the,other Powers interested therein shall have been re-
,Ceived, Alajesty will, without delay, wake the
„necessary conimunications in this. resped to those'
,Powers yvith which he is more especially united by
•the ties of friendship. and continency, in order to as-
certain their views, and in the event- of their being
favourable to;the, proposition of his Imperial Ma-
jesty,
,to consult. with them as to the fuode ha which.
the negocWions shailcommence, and, agreeably to
his Majesty's proposition, to come to an on.
derstanding as to the,priticiptes winch shodid equally
„form the ground and basis of discussion and of a ge-
. neral arrangement.
• "As to -what concerns the choice of a pil-ce to
become tha seal' of negociatiou, any place will be
equally acceptable to his Majesty, provided (e2LO"7
sive of the indispensable condition which 14also
pressed in .the Note of his Imperial Majesty, that
shalt be free from all immediate' influence of the
events of the war) that it atfor.ds to his Britannic
Majesty, in the same degree as to. the other Powers,.
the mearmof a speedy. 'and.uninterrnpied communi-
cation with the Plenipotentiaries whom his Majesty
should send to this Congress." •