The Sun.
London, England, 1805-10-04 00:00:00

rthinau. She' had enlarged her territory by a num-
ber of other' acquisitions, and was meditating fresh
ones, As a means ofaggrandizerrient,,she was not
afraid to. employ evident usurpations, which she
sought to conceal under legal forms.
Thus it was, that, under colour of a ,right para-
mount (a right whiCh she had renounced by a trea-
ty); and the exercise of which was ineenipatible with
trgOxecution of the recess of the Germanic Empire,
sheapprepriated to herself, some possessions which
she
,attbllied to consider in a state of disherison,
andvvithent legalpreprietors, thottght.the recess had
formally disposed of them towards the division of
the indemnities., By these means.she disappointed
many Princei of those possessions WhiCh it had been
thenght just to assign' them. Under pretence of this
same right parannitint, whieh, so far as regarded the
Swiss, she called 'the right d'heam.eratiait, she
carried -otf- considerable sums froth Switzerland. She
'seqiiestered,the Fiefs of a neighbouring Prince, in
Bohemia; under pretence of compensations due to
the Elettor of.. Saitz,burg.; of which, contrary to
every right, she 'claimed to ;be sole arbitress. She
persisted, with menaces,. to keep recruiting parties
ni the Bavarian Provinces, in rrinconia and Suahia,
and interrupted, by every Means in her power, the
censeription for the Eledoral Army there, abusing
the prerogatives formerly granted to the head of the
,German Empire for.
,the common benefit of the
States composing it, and now fallen into disuse. She
.revived them in order to interrupt. the exercise of
'their sovereignty by the neighbouring Princes, in-
those possessions' which fell to their lot in the divi-
sion, and to deprive them olthe increase of in.;
ihtence m the Diets, which ought" to result. from
these possessions.
The recess of the Paripire,' a consequence and
:0141,1inent of the "Treaty of Luneville; bad "for its
objett, exclusive of, the :division .of ,the Indemnities,
to establish, by means of this distribution itself,-
in the South of. Germany, an equilibrium, which
:might insure. its independence, and` prevent those
es ;:litual causes, of.misunderstandi and War, Which
an immediate contad between• the. Territ'ories of
France and Austria might frequently, give. rise to.-7
Such was'the vieW ef the Mediators and of the Ger-
. ,inan Empire ; such was the view of instice, of rea-
.Son,. cot ap ;lunaile, policy, and conformable to the
Artilo interests of Aaistria .herself.
,'Vhus .Austria ,reversed , What the recess had so
,wisely established, when, by her, acquisitions in Siaa-
.bia, ?•,1t43 weakened:the barrier between France and
the principal States of the South of Germany, and
when, by a combined system ofsequestraticins, pre-
tensinns, caresses, ;once menaces, she was incessan4y
aiming to secure to herself an exclusive, universal,
and arbitrary infltience over that part :of the Ger-
man:Empire. She, therefore, evidently violated the
:existing treaties, and every one of her aEts may be
oonsldered as an-infraCtion of the peace. :Since.:tlie
rupture. of the, Treaty of Amiens, Austria had; on
more than one occasion, shewn a partiality to Eng-
land. She had recognised by her ads the pretended
right of blockade which the Cabinet of St. James's
has dared to arrogate,. .and according, to which a;
simple declaration of the, ~and
Admiralty iq spin.
Cieut to pot under interdiet all the coasts of .a vast
empire; she had suffered, without remonstrance Or
complaint, the neutrality of her flag to be centite-
ally violated to the,. detriment of France, against
whom all the violentves offered to neutral ft s were
evidently directed. All these Silas were known to
the Emperor : many of them excited 'his selicitude.
Theie were r.:al grievances ; they would have been
just met:ves, for War but, for the love of Peace, the
Emperor even abstained -frern all complaint, and the
court of Vienna received from him only tieW
monies of deference. He had made a law for himself
to aVol.'l every thing that could give offence. to Austria.
"When called by the wishes of his People, of Italy,
lie repaired to Milan, troops were assembled, camps
were forme!, with the single view of Mixing Mi-
litary pomp with religious and political solemnities,
awl of pre;;enting thcfSoverign Majesty in the midst
o!' that ,e;itN4.lor that pleases the eyes of the people:
Emperor will allow that he had also some plea-
sere in seeing hiscompanions in arms re-assembled in
the places, and on the very spots which were con-
:
secrated by,theirLivietoFies but .wishing to prevent
the,uneasineha of the Conic of Vienna, if it were
passible that 'Onti rt
,ceidd feel any on.,the occasion,
. he caused that Court to be. assured of his pacific
intentions, by declaring that the camps which had
4Cell 'tie quid be raised after some days, and
this promiSe *as exatfly
Austria answered by:protestations equally friendly
and pacific, and the Emperor quitted Italy with
the pleasing hope that the peace cif, the Continent
- tvould be preserved. But how great was his asto-
pishreent„ when, scarcely arrived in France, while
At Boulogne, hastening the preparations for an Expe-
dition which he wiw at length on the, point of car-
' rying into elle& he raceiVed from all parts' the in-
telligence, that it general
,nicition pervaded all the
Foras of the Austrian:Monarchy ; that they were ad-

vancing by forced niarehess on ihe Adige, in the T
and on the banks of the Inn, that those; absentY
on furlough were recalled, that magazines were
that artnN weol manniay.;Stpeu'ritig, that levies
of hOrtcai were raising, that the
ficaiiont, us the ciAles of the lyroireLtc6bing fove.
rti"
and that 'every thing was 'actin awhichout
riounce4 and is (~41arii6tevistie of an impendingg
The Emperor could not at first believe t A"'
stria seriously. wished for War ; that she "-
commit to new hazards, and to condemn to new( ete()
latiddes her People, fatigued by so many reverses,
exhingted by- so many sacrifices. . Havingliad
it twice in his power to deprive the House of Austria
of lull' its Hereditary States, far -from diminishing
its power, he had Increased it. he cOuld not
coriiit on its gratitude, he thought be could rely on
its faith. He had given. it the highest mark of con-
fidence it was possible for him to give,- in leaving his
Continental ',metiers. ungarrisoned and disarmed.
fre believed it incapable of abusing.-thi conUenee,
betause he would have been so himself. There Ore
suspicious which cannot enter into generous-hear,s,
told 'a place. in refie6ting minds. The Lutperor
took pleasure in confirming himself' in his favourable
presnropti6tis .and he did not tear to show to what
point he desired to 'See them established, The Court
of Vienna omitml notiung. to prolong the innsion
.it multiplied pacific deelarationsm—it protested OD its
• r6tl4gious attachment :td l'reatiest aotborized its
tp ttialo 410 most assuring declarations--
it p!..AllOt, ati Weil by plausible explanations
....n;pinns its MPS..