Star.
London, England, 1805-12-04 00:00:00

STATE PAPER.

BRUHN, Nov. 13.—8 y fpecial order of his Majefly
the Emperor and King, who has for Came days ho.
homed onr town with I. pi-el-axe, the following
twice has been publifhed by the Refident of Police,
the Baron Von SUM *TRIM

PROCLAMATION.

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" His brajefty the Emperor and King had never
4 a higher with than the maintenance of Peace. This
t with lay in the principles of his Government as well
as in his heart. Without any even the mot{ ditlant
projea of enlarging his States, or of procuring an in-
denmification for the facrifiees he had made at La-
Aeville and Ratifbon to the tranquillity of Europe, he
cleared nothing but that the Emperor of France,
annated by a fimilar fpirit of enlightened and humane
policy, fhluld return within the limits prefcribed by
the Treaty of Luneville.
r " Whoever with a clear undernanding took an in-
terett in the fate of Europe; felt the jnttice and the
moderation of this defire.
0 True to his principles, his Welly, in the pro• I
grefs of the prefent war, was ready every moment to
/ hold out his hand to Peace, and amid the moll bril-
liant viaories, I,e would have thought and aged in
the fame way as under the influence of contrary oc-
currences.
" His Majefly believed that the great and happy
moment of this reconciliation, and of returning hap-
, pinefs to his people, was not far ditlant, when the
Emperor of France, on feveral occafions, publicly
manifefted correfponding difpofttions, and expreffed
himfelf with precifion in the fame fpirit to the Auflrian
_ General Officers whom the fortune of war had made
Li& prifoners.
" Full of confidence in fuch manifeaations, and
animate,'. by an tarneft with to avert the approaching
danger from the capital of Vienna, fo dear to his
, heart, and, in general, to free his good and faithful
fubjefts from the preffure of a longer war, Ms Ma.
jetty fent his Lieutenant Field Marfhal the Count de
GIULAY, to the head quarters of the French Empe-
ror, in the name of himfelf and his allies, to fetch a
confirmation of thefe pacific difpofitions, to learn the
farther overtures which the Emperor Napotson
might make on this occafion, and to treat for an
armillice as preparatory to negotiations for a general
peace.
" But the hopes of his Majefly were not fulfilled.
I As the bails of an armitlice limited to a few weeks,
the Emperor of France demanded,
" ?has the eied troop: floe& return home ; that the
Hungarian InfurrefiMn fiould be difband:d ; but that the
Loch, of Venice and the Tyrol Jhould be prev:oully evacu-
ated to the French armies.
" All Europe will feel the incontinency between
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filch demand., and the foregoing manifettations of
the Emperor.
" His Majefty the Emperor and King had, by this
• firft (Lep, fulfilled a facred duty which his heart had
di fated.
" But he Ihould have thought himfelf grievoufly
injuring himfelf, the honour of his Monarchy, the
dignity of his Houle, the reputation of the good and
great nations over which he rules, andllthe higheft
interefts of his States, in the eyes both of the prefent
1 and of future generations, if, notwithftanding the
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dUty incumbent on him to preferve all thefe entire,
lie had yielded to the fevere, but patting, preffure of
the moment, and affented to conditions which would
hare been a death-blow to his Monarchy, and a
brtach of the relations in which he flood with all
friendly States.
• 4' His Majefly wifhed for peace—He wither for it
Rill, with fincerity and earnellnefs. But he never
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could, and never will, place himfelf in a defencelefs
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4 State, where he and his people would be delivered
over to the imperious and arbitrary decifions of a
mighty foe.
4!/ !E In fuch circumftances, nothing remains to his
Majefty but to cleave to thofe great and unexhaulted
i 1 retources which he finds in the hearts, in the prof-
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pcsity, in the loyalty, in the flrength of his people;
‘ and in the as yet undiminiffied force of bis high allies
' 1 ;/. ./.1 friends, the Emperor of Rnffia and the King of
l'ili7i4, And to perish in this firm and intimate con-
amnion till the Emperor of the French, with that
aiderAtion, which is the brighten gem in the crown
of a great Monarch, contents to conditions of peace
vlett ate not purchafed by a fact glee of the national
y.olloor and indepeutleoce of a mighty State."
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