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STATE PAPERS.

TWO DECLARATIONS IN THE FORM OF NOTES,

DELIVERED BY M. D. TALLEYREND, MINISTER OF FO-
REIGN RELATIONS, TO COUNT PHILIP COSENTZEL,
•T PARIS.
FIRST NOTE FROM WOE TALLLYRAND,
sieraveaco ON TUE 13Th OP ANGUS!' , 180 r.
The underfigned has haaLned, on the termination
of the conference which he has had the honour of
holding with Count de COBENTXEL. to tranfmit col
Boulogne the lieclaration delivered to him by Ills',
Excellency (alluding to the known Autlrian Decla-
ration
of the ph of Augutl), and he has received
orders from the Emperor and King to return the
following anfwer
The Emperor could not fail of beingfenfibly af-
ft:fled by the fentiments of moderation Ihewn in the
aforcfaid Declaration, and by the amicable readinefs
of his Majefly the Emperor of Germany and Auaria,
to batten, by his interpofition, the termination of the
evi;s caufed by the war to the French Empire. But
the more his Majefly knows how to appreciate the
imprrtance and the value e•f the good offices of his Ma-
jefly the Emperor of Maria, the- more he is grateful
for the intention with which the offer of thole good
offices is made, and the more does he feel, that his
very fentiments of gratitude forbid him to make ufe
thereof; if, on the one hand, from the nature of
things, and, on the other, from the fituation of cir-
cumstances, it is not even pet:flitted to hope, that
they can be employed with advantage, nor confe-
quently without compromifing the dignity of the Me-
diator. This motive alone would be decilitre for his
Majelly, even if it were poffible to forget how the
Cabinets of London and St. Peterlburgh have very
lately anfwered'his moll noble and magnanimous
behaviour.
M. de NOVOSILTZOFF was coming to France,
without the Emperor knowing his intentions.—
The King of Pruffia had required pallports for
this Chamberlain of the Emperor of Kuala. The
paffporcs were immediately granted without any ex-
planation. What benefit has his Majefly derived
from this extraordinary conceffion ! An offenfive
Note, replete with falfe affertions, was the foie refult
of a miffon, which the Emperor bad neither occa-
fioned nor required.
Being thus attacked in his honour, it is no longer
poffible for him to require, or expect any thing of
Rutlia, who, inflead of being delimits of peace, finds
her own interea in war, and founds on its renovation
hopes, which the attempts in vain• to conceal. when
her behaviour unveils them even to chore eyes which
are the leafl penetrating.
For a twelvemonth pall the Emperor has received
nothing but infults from the Ruffian Cabinet. His
charaaer and his difpofitions are too well known for
it to be believed that he will expofe himfelf to freffi
injuries. It belongs to the Emperor ALEXANDER to
judge which alternative appears molt advantageous,
for him ; whether to perfitt in a fyfiem, to the adop-
tion of which he was moved by foreign influence,
or to return to more moderate, more jult, and wirer
fentiments. He has a greater interea in returning
to them, than France has to lead him back thereto.
This :Act ation mutt be the relish of his own confide-
ration, and cannot form an object of any kind of ne-
gotiation.
As to England, his Majefly made an attempt,
eight months .Igo, to incline her to peace, which at-
tempt Eutope knew how in appreciate, and which
would not have been in vain, if England had depen-
ded folely upon her own refources ; but, from the
Anfwer it:trotted by the Cabinet of St. James's, it
it was clear that it would not think of a peace, till
• it had 101 l every hope of fetting the Continent in
flames, and of coveting Italy with blood and car-
nage. With this intention, and with this intention
alone. it called upon the interpofition of Ruffla.—
The Cabinet of Vienna is too enlightened not to per-
ceive this, though the projeas and motives of Eng-
land were not known to it, from the prefling folicita-
tions, and from the offer of fubfidies, with which fhe
has conaantly befieged die Court of Vienna, to in-
duce it to take up arms.
It cannot be hoped that Inch a power will lialn to
the advice of moderation and juttice. It would even
he ufelefs to fpcak to it of its intet ell, which ought to
be deatca to it. Blind paffions induce it to miflake
chide intereas. The voice of perfualion would avail
nothing ; but that which the good offices of Aullria
cannot induce England to do, Auftria can oblige her
to do. She needs neither exertions nor menaces for
this purpofe, hut merely to obferve a very fimple pro-
cefs, which will convince England of her impotence.
nglani knows, and has more than once declared,
Ruflia alone cannot afford her any afliaance,
',at a diverflon will be of no ufe to her, fo long
iffi t and Auflria will not co-operate with her.
Ala has declared at all times, that the will in no
,ter into any hollile proje& againil France. Let
ai.peror of Auaria make the fame declaration,
ie Britifh Cabinet will immediately feel its own
•ii, as it is no longer deceived by, unfounded
inati .11,, and is informed by the opinion of the
inlightened people of that country ; it will im-
tely fee the neceffity of returning to the aipu-
, of the Treaty of Amiens, and the will find her
iefs in this neceflity. Then the Emperor of
!any will not only have a claim upon the grati.
of the Emperor of the French, but he will have
id more for his own advantage than if he had
ten battles againa France; for an immediate
pence of the peace would be the performance
obligation which his Majelly the Emperor.of
each has taken upon kimfelf, and which he re-,

'newt with r.!-antre, cf feparating the Crowns -of
France and a • •

If. on the other hold. Aniiria, by indecifive mea-
Awes leave a doubtful and uncertain opinion
thereby the r.u.horizea the affertions of she linglifh
Miniary, that the belongs to a Coalition ; if the con-
tinues to keep 73,0c0 men in Italy, the Emperor will
he obliged to f)elieve that the feet, with a fecrct joy,
a war which weaken. France. and that the thinks the
moment favourable for tefuniing tiro& hollilities, of
which the prefrpt generation iputt be tired of b:ing
made the vi6ims. _

His 14i1 tje'l y, who has-only so,ooo men in Italy,
ts,ooo of whcm are at the extremity of the kingdom
of Naples, fees his moil important frontier expofed
to danger, and cannot provide it with frefh troops,
without drawing the troops from his Army of the
Ocean ; he cannot therefore confider Attalla in any
other light than that of making a diverfion in favour
of England, which is as impreffive and more trouble-
come to him than would be an open war.
His Excellency Count Commit. will have re-
marked what great and extraordinary fubjeits the
prefent c ireumttances offer. Such circumflances ren-
' der meafures neceffary anfwerahle thereto. It is a
truth, of which all cnlirtett•za men are fenfible, and
of which his Majelly is penetrated—when Fast:maw
' the Second law that a war was intended againti him,
he was beforehand with his enemies. The Houfe of
Aunria has more than once drrne the fame ; at pre-
fent the Emperor of the French fees preparations
making in Poland and in Italy. Even the places
where they are made. thew that they are the refult
of an agreement, and point out againft whom they
are intended. The Underfigned mutt afk of Count
CoasturzeL, what would the Emperor of Carnally
do. if he were in the place of the French Emperor ?
However, the Emperor will be happy to fuppofe
the beg for futurity, as it. depends on Außria to
make what is to come happy for Europe, and as he
takes the fentiments, expreffed in the note, which the
underfigned has received of CouniConsNTZat, fora
good omen. May Autilia atm the fame declara-
tion which Pruffia has made ; may ffie, by ads con-
firm that declaration, and reduce her whole force,
and the whole artillery, B:c.. of her army, to the peace
eitablithment ; may (he no longer keep Thooo men
in Italy—may the order back t their garrifons the
regiments affembled to form an army in the Tyrol,
and ceafe the ettablithing of magazines, and the for-
tified camps, which announce an approaching war,
and nothing will further difturb the peace of the
Continent ; this peace, fo clearable to all partieg,
fence France has nothing to gain by a frefh combat.
Außria will gain nothing by it, and the maritime
peace will food follow. When Anaria shall have de-
clared, that the remains neutral, and will remain neu-
tral, a peace will be the defire and hope of England;
it will be concluded, and the Treaty of Amiens will
be reaored before the month of January. The
Crowns of France and Italy will be feparared for ever:
Europe, enjoying fecuriry and tranquillity, wiil owe
them to the wifdom of Atittria, which, by an oppo-
lite behaviour, would have precipitated Europe into
a fituation, which neither the Cabinet of the Thuil-
ler ies, nor the Cabinet of Vienna, nor any other, could
calculate or forefce.

His Excellency Count Conan rz Ix will fee, that in
thofe communications, which the Underfigned has
been ordered to make to hint, it was impoffible to his
Majefly to proceed with more opennefs, dignity, and
fincerity. For the interea of Auaria herfelf, and
for the glory of her Sovereign, his Majefty wiffies
that the Emperor of Germany may avail himfelf of
the opportunity which is offered to him. The fate of
his own States, and that of Europe, is now in his
hands. In one hand he holds the diflurbances and
revolutions; in the other, the general peace. An
impartial neutrality is fufficient for him to obtain
what he defires,and to infure the peace of the world.
The moll efficacious mediation of peace which Auf-
tria can make, confias in the prefavation of the molt
perk& neutrality, in the ceifetion of armaments, in
not obliging France to make a diverfion, and in
leaving no hope for England of bringing Anaria
over to her fide.

The under figura can have no doubt, but his Excel-
lency Count COBEUTZEL will fet a due value upon the
fulljees difcuifed in the prefent note, and contribute,
'by his influence, to have them confidered in their
true paot of view.
He feizes this opportunity to renew to his Excel.
lency, Coant Coast:l-z EL, the alTurance of his highell
chem.

SECOND NOTE FROM M. DETALLEYRAND.
nrtivaitto ON Tilt: f It or AucesT, ritas.
His Matlifly the Emperor had placed the greater
reliance on the pacific and amicable affurances of
Aufiria, as he thought he had a right to depend upon
the good difpolition of that Power, confidering the
manner in which he behaved towards it after two
wars, the entire advantage of which was on the fide
of France, and in which the greaten part of the Auf-
trian poffenions had been conquered by his arms.'
Entirely occupied with the war which England has
raifed, he hoped, fence he had given Aunt is no caufe
of complaint, that Aufiria would preferve the IlriSelt
and molt impartial nem, ality ; but, the movements
cf troops, and the other h Mine difpofitions which have
taken place in the Hereditary States, and at which
Europe is either uneafy or allonifhed, compel his
Majefly the Emperor to demand not only a categori-
cal explanation, but a moll fpeedy one.
The repeated accounts. which the Emperor re-
ceives from all quarters, compel him to poll one his
projeOs againft England ; and, thus Aufiria has
done as much as if flits had commenced hollilities—
for the has made the molt powerful diverlion in fa-
vour of England.,.
Aufitia Aerates an army in the Tyrol, whilft
France has catenated all Switzerland. His Excel-
lency Count Coevarz Lt. knows very well, that An-
aria has nearly 72,000 men in. Italy, whilst France
has not 50,c00 there, ts,ooo of whom are on the
Gulpls of 'Trento ; and this is the very caufe that
has principally detcrrnined him to fufpend his pro-
jects. Austria railer camp fortifications every where
as if a war were already declared, or very near at
hand. All the Auflrian troops are in motion ; all
have quitted their gatrifons in which they were quar-
tered ; all are marching in a direelion which an-
nounces war ; and how, indeed, could his Majefly
the Emperor of Get many and Auftria, alembic fo
many regiments with a pacific int-nion, in a coon.
try fo barren and poor as the Tytol, where he can

only mentaln them to the detriment of his &wee
Wi.j fhould he etiablith magazines Why amid he
()Met the baking of bruit ? Why fbould he take up
fo many draught horfes ? It 'is a principle ht the
public law of Europe that the adembling of troops,
eflab!ifising of magazines, baking of bikuit, taking
np of draught horfes, art confidered by all powers
RS a declaration of war, efpecially if ditch prepara-
tions are made on a frontier, which is left unprovid•
ea by a power employedelfewhere. at an oppotite and
very di!lant f. o ;tier. His Majeayrdefirous of rce.mcil-
ing thole difpofitions with the pacific exprefßons of
his Majsity the Emperor of Germany, is which he
has always placed the firongeß confidence, can only
reconcile them on the fappofition that ti is Monarch
knows nothing of the wrong that has been done to
France ; and that the diverfion nccafioned by his ar-
mament is tantamount to actual hoalities. His Ma-
jeßy is Rill delirous of perfuading himfelf, that that
Monarch really knows nothing of it; but the natu-
ral confequences of a fimilar error are equally detri-
mental to France as pofitive betide intentions, and
for this very reafort his Majefty's intereit requires to
be beforehand with them.
It is no longer protefiations which can fatisfy his
Majelly. His Majeity cannot adm4 any intermedi-
ate Rate betwixt that cf war or of peace. If Au!tria
wants peace, every thing in Aufiria mutt be reilored
to the peace ellablahment. Should Aeatia.defire
war. his Malay will have nn other alternative than
to throw back upon the aggreffor all the evils which
he would bring. not only upon the prcfcnt genera-
tion, but alto (his Majaay dares to utter it with
pride) upon his own States and his own Family :
for his Malay will Ratter himfelf to obtain, in a new
war, Similar viaories as in the preceding; and to fe-
cure himfelf againft thofe diyerfions which are, as it
were, the &ft Rep of a coalition in favour of Eng-
land.

The underfigned hits, therefore, received orderF,
on the fuppofition molt agteeable to his Majefiy,
namely, on the fuppofition that Außtia is defirous of
peace, to demand,
s. That the twenty-one regiments, which have
been ftnt to the German and Italian Tyrol, Shall be
withdrawn, and that thole troops only (hall remain
in both the laid provinces, which were there fix
months ago.
a. That the camp fortifications be difcontinued.—
The Emperor does not require, that •Auftria 11141
not ere& real fortifications. The right of crating
them belongs to all Bates, and precaution often makes
it the duty of a Prince. But as Venice is certainly
no fortrefs, the works carrying on there at prefent are
nothinf elfe than camp works.
3. That the troops in Styria, in Carinthia, in Fri-
uli, and in the Venetian let ivory, be redueed the
numbers at which they Bond fix months ago.
Lailly, That Auftria declares to England her firm
and unfhaken determination to preferve an exaCt
and fcrupulous neutrality, without taking a part in
the prefent difpute ; becaufe it is the duty of Au-
aria, if the will preferve a fyllstn of neutrality, tri do
nothing, either mediately, or immediately, in fa-
vour of England.
The Underfigned has alto received orders to de-
clare to his Excellency Count CoasaTzst., or rather,
to repeat the declaration fo often made to him., that.'
the deareft with of his Majelly the Emperofof the
French, is the continuance of the peace with the'
German Emperor that his Majeßy w.sold
unwil-
lingly•take thole Reps'which he would bc. MijeJ to'
take, by a pofilive refnfal, or even an evasive or di-
latory anfwer, to the demand.; which the Under-
figned has been diretted to make ; but that it; a situ-
ation like that of Auftria, Prince CHABLIS would
not hefitate, as that Prince is too good a foldier not
to behave in a fimilar manner; and that if his Ma-
jefty is obliged to repel force by force, he will not
commit the fault to wait until the Ruffians• have
joined the Aultrians again( him.
• His Excellency Count Coserrrzat; knows ton well,
the importance and urgeky of the prefent circum.;
fiances, for the Underfigned to think it neceffary to
invite him to flatten, as much as is-poffible and de.
pends on him, an Onfwer; which his Majefty expeCts
with an impatiefice that is juffified on fo many
grounds.
The Underfigned takes this opportunity, &c.

~....

DECLARATION.
DELIVERED AT VIENNA PT THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR,
COUNT RILSOLIMOWSKT, ON THE 31ST of AUGUST,
18°5.
lt would he fuperflitoirs to revert here to the mo.
Lives which have induced his Majetly the Emperor of
all the ltisffias, to recal the Plenipotentiary whom he
had fent, in concert with his Britannic 'Majeliy, to
riegociate with the Head of the French Government
on the fubjea of 'peace.
Theli grounds are too jug and obvious not to me-
rit the attention of all Europe. They are enntained
it the Note which was tranfmitted to the Miuiters
of his Prnffian Majefty, by M. Novosiwrzorr, on
the 38th June (July to), and the conclufion to which'
they have given rife, is a confequence of thofe very
fcntimcnts and principles which have led his Imperial
Majelly to exert himfelf with inceffant anxiety for
the refforation of the general tranquillity.
Since the rupture between England and France,
his Majedy has beheld, with aftonifhment and corn.
miferation, the greater part of the States of the Con.
tiuent compelled, in fucceffinn, to bear the burden of
a war, which in its origin is plainly of a maritime
nature, and foreign to their dire& interests. He could
not, however, cherilb the hope, that this melancholy
hate of things might be put an end to, by means of
a frank and tiiendly negotiation, when he perceived
that, without the (lighten regard to thefe folemn
seeding.; which tended to the refloration of peace,
and even at the very moment when Rullia offered to
neptiate for its attainment, the number of. States
which. loft their independence continued to increafe.
When his Imperial Majelly refolved to recall his
Plenipotentiary, he was aauated merely by the con-
lideration that this million eetild not produce any
pacific refult, and not from his having, in any refpea,
renounced his ardent defire of reftoring peace to
Europe.
. Of this difpolition the Emperor gave the most
convincing demonftration, in his acceding to the ap-
plication triode by his Imperialltoman and Apolloiic
Majeily to England, France, and Ruf6a, with the
view of renewing the negotiation which had been
broken off. His Imperial Majelly, however, cannot
at the fame time, conceal the potability that a con.

dn&, on the part of France, Groilar to that w!:,et:
has already compelled the Emperor to tread
his firft fteps towards a ri:gotiat•ion for peace, a ay
likewife render nugatory the negotiation which Its.
this is defirous of cameo mg.
The painful apprehenfion is jullified by cape:;-
ence, that new ufirrpations might be accomplifbed at
the moment when the negotiation was recommenced,
or whilft it was carrying on. The apprehenfion that
ftill greater dangers might arife to the happinefs of
Europe, from a meafureolie obvious tendency of
which is its entire deliverance; the certainty that
thefe dangers would become inevitable, as foon ar
tit: jolt demands of the Continental Powers became
totally irreconcileable with the pretensions which
might be urged by the French Government, in rir.
sue of its fucveffive ufurpations ; the obligation alfo
which his Majelly feels, in the prefent melancholy
and difficult circumftances, of aiding his allies, whole
&fey and even esillence is kr feriougy threatened.
and, in short, of affordir them not an Mutiny, bei
an effective, immediate, and energetic affigance; al'
thefe motives unite in prefcribing the only line of con.
dug which his Imperial !virility has to purfue.
Ruffia cannot now recommence the negotiation
which hoes been broken cff, tinder any circumilance,
until the has placed beacht in a fituation to be able
to affift her allies at the moment when they might be
attacked, and to preferve Europe from total lobster-
lion. tier meafures mull be fo combined as to afford
a well:grounded hope that a negotiation for peace
will augur happier refults than tli..re which were ex-
peeled from all the pacific advanc.:s hitherto made,
and which unfortunately have been dikingaifhed
only by the want of refpea (hewn on the part of
Fiance to the rentonftrances and propotitior.: of Rd.
Pia and other Continental Powers, and by a Conti.
nually Progreflive increafe of till dangers of Europe.
In confequence of the above confider:chins, the
underfigned has it in charge to notify to the Mi-
niftry of his Imperial, Royal, and Apaftolic Ma.
jelly, in anfwer to the Note prefentcd by Count
VON STADION to the Cabinet of Sc. Peierfburgh, on
the 26th of July (7th Augult), that his Malay;
the Emperor of all. the Ruflias, upon the rabic&
thereof, bas come to the following refolutions : To
accede to the requeft of renewing the negotiation for
peace, which had been broken of by the recal of M.
Novostwrzcfr, and to take matures for that pur.
pore, as foon as the Head of the French Government
!boatel manifeft a limilar dirpnfition; witanut delay to
march two armies of so,con men each, tbro' Gallicia
to the Danube, as a measure of precaution, in order
to combine the rapport of a powerful army of ot*r.
vation, with the negociation, for peace; which army
would be in a fituation to prevent all farther aggref-
lions during the period of pacification, and to fecure
at its completion, Anttria, and all the neighbouring
powers, againft any farther attack on the part of
France—to invite kis Imperial and .4pottalic hlajef.
ty, and fome other powers, to co operate on their
parr in this falutary !mature, the propriety of which
the French Government irfell, upon an impartial con.
fideration of the cafe, could not fail to fee.

While the Underfigned acquits himfelf of this duty
towards the Atiftrian Cabinet, he mull likewif-, hi
compliance with the aria injunctions of the Empe-
ror his Mailer, add, that nothing but the finer, with
of tailoring peace to Europe, atluates Ills con4atft
upon this occafion ; that RuMa will manifett the molt
conciliatory difpoOtion in any negotiation for peace.)
and ackipt every tituafure that may promote its happy
completion ; and i:; Imperial Majelly folemoli de-
clares, that he is ready to recall his troops, as loon as
the much dcfired fecurity of all the states ofEurve
than be obtained.
His Imperial Malay formally invites his Impetial,
Royal, and Apoilolic Maiefly.to join in the nieafpres
which he has adopted; and the Undettigned is folly
a ilium i zed to concert with the Autlrian Cabinet every
thing conneded with the prelim important date of
affairs.,

SECOND DECLARATION OF THR COURT OP VIENNA
• TO THE FRENCH COURT;
TRANSMITTED FROM VIENNA TO PARIS, ON THR 3001

. • -
SEPTEMSE4, 1805. •
The Court of Vienna yields, ,s iihout delay, to the
requefk which the Emperor of ranee has Made of a
Categorical explanation relpeding the motive of its
preparations.—The Court of Vienna has no other
motive than that of maintaining peace and friendflup
with France, and fecuring the general tranquillity of
the Continent. It has no other with than that tf.F
Emperor of the French may entertain cnrrefponding
fen timent s.
The maintenance of Peace, however, between two
States; does not merely conlid in their not attacking
each other. It depends not lefs in reality, on the
fulfilment of thole treaties en which peace is founded.
Tbat Power which tianigrefies in lo tffential a point,
and refutes to attend the reclamations to which filth
a conduft gives rife, is as much the aggreffor as if it
openly and unittaly attacked the ether party.
The peace between Autiria and France was foun-
ded upon the Treaty of Luneville. One of the Ar-
ticles of that treaty stipulated and guaranteed the in-
dependence of the Italian, Helvetic, and Batavian
Republics, and left them at libel; y to chufe their own
Governments. Any meafures, therefore, which tend
to compel thefe (Wes to chufe a Government, Con-
Ilitution, or Sovereign, otherwife than according to
their free will, or otherwife than i confaent with the
maintenance of a real political independence, is a
breach of the Peace of Luneville, and it is the duty of
Aultrta to complain of fuch a violation.
A with to maintain reciprocal friendfhip, to acquire
confidence, to fecure the public tranquillity front
great dangers, may, under critical and delicate ell--
cumitances, induce the reclaiming party to adopt
precautions, to thew great moderation in complaint',
and to dtfer the difeuflion of them to future trgo-
ciations. This conduit does not imply any contra-
didion of the flipulations of the treaty ; but that
power which goes farther, which retufes all explana-
tion, which avoids all mediation, and employs me-
naces instead of the means of reconciliation, forgets
as much the laws of friendfhip as the facred rights
of peace.
The .maintenance of general tranquillity requires
that each Power lhould confine itfelf within its own
frontiers, and rcfped the rights and independence of
other States. whether ttrong or weak. That craw
quillity is troubled, when any Power appropriates to
herfelf a right of occupation, protedion, or influence,
when that right is neither founded on the laws of Da-

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conquefl; when the employs force and menaces)
so !weft:Titre laws to her neighlsnuts, and compels'
them to fign treaties of alliance, conoeffion, fitbjuga-
tints, or incorporation. at her will ; when The, above
al:, in her own
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ore after another, with language offenfive to their
dignity ; when, finally, The lets herfelf up as an ar-
bitrefs, to regulate the common intetells of nations,
and wifhes to exclude every other State from taking
any part in the maintenance of tranquillity and the
balance of power. One the would exclude, becaufe
it is ton diftant ; another, hecanfe it is feparated be
an arm of the fea from the Continent ; and evading
an anfwer to the remonfirances of the Powers nearest
the danger, offerable, troops on their frontiers, and
it,catens them with a rupture if they place them-
in a flee of defence.
Under inch cireumflances, it becomes neceffary
Ca other Powers to arm, to fupport each other, and
to *loin in maintaining their own, and the general fe-
i:y. Thus the military preparations of the Court
(t. Vienna are provoked by the preparations of France,
as well as by her negleft of all means of fecuring and
maintaining a true peace, and future tranquillity.
All Europe knows the fit!cerity of the with for
peace which his Imperial Majefty has difplayed,
and the pananality wherewith he has fulfilled the
obligations of the Treaty of Loneville ; that fince-
sity cannot fail to be recognized in the great con-
eeffions made in confequence of the injurious et-
tenfion given to that Treaty in Germany, and in
the not lets great moderation with which his Im-
perial Majefly has condueled himfelf on the firll
depastnre of the French republic from that treaty,
in refpea to the concerns of the other Republics.—
While thefe changes were afcribed to the neceffity of
(miring from all danger the difclofere of the plans
for the refloration of Monarchical Government in
France, his Majefly made net difficulty to recognize
the Rate of things which towards the end of the year
ski, was eflabliffied in Italy. His Majelly's confi-
dence in the views of the Fird Conful was confirm
ed by she obligations which the latter owed to the
Italian Republic in his chandler of Prefident, by his
frequent and folemn afl'uranees, before and after his
elevation to the Imperial dignity, that he was fat
from entertaining any plans of farther aggrandife-
oleo! or of encroachment on the independence of the
Italian State,. In fine, by the pledges which be had
given to the Emperor f ruflia, particularly with te-
IpeEl to the indemnification of the King of Sardinia,
and the a. ncral arrangement of the affairs of Italy.
All t'iere confederations concurred in exciting and
el.erifhing in his Majefly's bofom the hope that the
confolidation of the new Empire of the French would
fpeedily bring back the policy and proceedings of
its Government to a fyflem of deportment compati-
ble with the balance of power and the fafety of Eu-
rope ; and fcme time after, when the &It reports of
new-meditated changes in the States of Lombardy,
induced the Ambaffador from the Court of Vienna,
at Paris. to demand explanations upon this ruble& ;
his Majefly, by the official affurance communicated
in the name of the Emperor NAPOLEON, was con-
firmed in his hopes-that the Italian Republic would
not he united with France, and that no, innovation
fhould take place which might prove injurious to its
political independence.
Europe will decide whether thefe promifes have
been fulfilled. The Emperor has not ceafed to de-
mand their execution, as the correfpondence evinces,
which took place between the two Governments, and
alfo the official and oftenfible propofitions which were
transmitted to the Amhafrador, Count Pateir Co•
stwrzr : and though the Notes in which the Em-
peror Naronson communicated his intentions as to
the eßablifliment of a kingdom of Italy, were ac-
companied with threats and military preparations;
though every thing, atthe very time, indicated what
events have fince confirmed, that the Emperor of the
French was refitived to accomplifh thefe innovations
by force, his Majelly, neverthelefs, did not remon-
&ate againtt difpothione, which were announced to
him as nothing more than a provifional arrangement.
He retied fatisfied with refuting the charges which
furnifbed a pretext for thole menaces, and with ex-
preffing his hope, that the principle of feparation
and independence, which had been cnnfecrated by
the treaty, fhould be carried into complete execution
by the definitive arrangements, which the Emperor
NAPOLEON left to depend upon ulterior negociations,
with the Courts of St. Peterlburgh and London, at
the period of the re-eflabliffiment of peace.
There nerciations were, in fad, the only hope
which remained ro his Majefly of fucceeding, by con-
ciliatory means, in maintaining peace, and ultimately
ro tame repot to Europe, which, from its northern
to its R.uthesn extremity, laboured under alarms ex-
cited by entetprizes, which momentarily increafed,
both in number and magnitude.
His Majelly the Emperor of the French had made
a pacific overture to the King of England, in terms
which pretended to preclude the latter from the right
of taking any concern in the important interells of
the Ccutinent. This reftriftion, combined with the
relations existing between the King of England and
rhe Court of St. Peterfburgh, induced his Britannic
Majeßy to have recourfe to the mediation of his Ma-
Jeßy the Emperor of Raffia. Notwithliandins the
tufpenfion of all official relations with France, his Ma-
ietty did not hefitate to employ his mediation, to.dif-
patch an Ambarador for that purpofe, and to make
application to the Sovereign of Frar.ce to furniih him
(e;:h parports.
The hopes, however, to which there pacific Reps
gave birth, fpeedily vanilhed. At the very moment
-Then the requifne patfports were tranfmitted to the
R 'Zan Negotiator, to enable him to proceed on his
journey to France, Er& attacks were made on the
political exiltence of other independent (bites in Ita-
ly. From that Whitt the Emperor Alexander con-
ceived that his charafler mull have been compro.
mired as a mediator. On the other hand, French
armies were rapidly affembled in Italy, without any
regard to the promifes given that no military prepa-
fhould take place in that country. An en-
campment of thirty thoufand men in the plain of Ma-
, :ago was fpeedily followed by another encampment
of lorry thoufand on the frontiers of the Tyrol and
t!.e Auftro-Venetian provinces. His Majefly thus
sound himfelf under the neceffity of providing, with-
( ut delay, for his own fafety. He was now convinced
111.,t his pacific, friendly, and moderate fentiments,
r ere not met by fuch fentiments on the part of his
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117 m any lotger to negleSt taking the ttezfrary rn'sa-
fures for *getting his jail rights, and Maintaining the
dignity of his Empire •
This is the cattle of his prefent armament. The
fame ditpofitions, however, which made his Majelly
fo anxious to avoid a recurrence to filch meafures,
have alfo determined their precife object. The Em-
peror arms not with hotlile views; he arms not to
operate a diverfum againti a landing in England.—
Betides. the execution of this defcent, after two years
menaces, dnes not teem to be exactly calculated for
the moment when France provokes Aullria and Rot-
(is, by enterprizes which have no relation whatever
to the quarrel whh Great Britain. The Emperor
arms for the maintenance of the peace trifling be-
tween him and France. He arms for the mainte-
nance of thofe.pacific ftimdations, without which this
peace roold become illufory, and to attain the
jntl eqmpoife which depends on the moderation of
all the Powers interelled, and which is calculated to
fecore die balance and the permanent tranquillity of
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The Rep by which his Majefly has at the fame
time invited all the. Courts interelled to renew the
negotiations which have been broken off, is direeted
to the fame (Ned. The unexpeded releeinn which
his interpolition has experienced on the part of his
Majefly the Emeetor of the French, does not prevent
him from renewing that invitation.
. He has been more fortunate in his application
to, the Emperor Atxsaisa. This Monarch, who
fills t
fo lionourabk and diflinguilhed a place in the
gen. ate of the Powers of Europe? whole equality and
general profperity form the objeas of his contlant
folicitude, teßifies, in the anfwer which. he has tracf
mined, and which is hereto annexed (vide fuppr) a
fimillir with with that of his Majelly; for the; conch,.
Pion of a jull and moderate arrangement. He is alio
convinced of the neceffity of an eventual armament ;
and, on account of the dillance which he has to Oafs,
in order to fop Port the caufe of juflice and the iffile
of his moderation, he feels it to be his duty to caufe
a part of his troops to 4dvance, for the purpofe of
' conferring on the Paid mediation all the importance
and all tbe effe/t which are worthy offo great a Power.
As a demotillration of the reaitude of the fend-
ments entertained by the two Imperial Courts cf
Autlria and Raffia, it is hereby formally declared in
the name of both :

That they are read] to enter into a Negotiation
with France, for maintaining the Peace of the Con.
tinent on the molt moderate terms which are compa-
tible with the general tranquillity iswcl fecurity :
That whatever (ball be the Me of the Negocia-
tions, and even Ihould thd commencement of Willi-

ties become unavoidsble, they, at the fame time,
pledge tbemfelves to abilain from every proceeding
tending to interfere with the internal concerns of
France; or/to alter the Rate of poffeffion, and the
legallye:ifting relations in the German Empire or•,
in the flighteft degree, to injure the rights or interefts
of the Ottoman Porte, the integrity of whore Domi-
nions they are, on the contrary, prepared to defend
to the utmoft of their power:
Finally, that the fentitnents of Great Britain are
conformable with thole herein expreffed, and that the
has difplayed the fame moderate difpofition for the
reftoration of Peace between her and France.
His Majelly hopes that this fincere and frank de-
claration will ferve to remove any doubts which his
Majeßy the Emperor NAPOLEON may entertain re-
(peeing his views and motives. His Majefly will he
happy, and his higheft with will be gratified, if this
Declaration tend to prevent thole misfortunes which
it is not his power alone to avert from mankind.

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