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BETWEEN RUSSIA AND FRANCE.

NOTE T.

COPY OF Tric. KITE VT THE MINISTER OE FOREIGN
A F LATH, s r4+E CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OF RUSSIA,

DATED PARIS, TI.OREAL 26, AN. XII (MAY 16,1804).

" I Fefore the Fitt"! Conful the Note, dat-
ed Irioreal (:‘!.iv 12), which you did me the to-
none to ndJ:els to :nt%

',The Firtl Corfai fcs with regretthat the ir.flJence
of the enemies of Franc has prevailed in the Cabi-
net of St. Pete, (burgh, and that it at prefent tends
to interrupt that good underllanding eltabliffied be.
tween the two dales with fo much difficulty, and
which onglit, it wo.ild appear, to have been confoli-
dated by the happy ;t produced.

" His Majeff y the Emperor of Germany, and his
Majefly the King of Pruflia, who are, no doubt, the
two powers molt immediately interdict" in the fate of
the German Empire,have under food that the urgency
and prelfure of circuit). (lances had fufficiently authoriz
ed the French Government to carafe to be art died at
the dinanee of two leagues from their frontiers re-
bellious Frenchmen who were confpiring againfi their
country, and who, by the nature of their plots, as
well as the horrid publicity which they gave to them,
had placed themfelves beyond the proteftion of the
rights of nations. The German Princes then having
been fatisfied, the Firff Conful can have nothing to
fay to his I‘,l4jelly the Emperor of Ruffia in regard
to a point which does not at all affeft his interelis ;
but he will always make it a pleafure to (peak to his
Majelly the Emperor of Ruffia with that franknefs
which all Europe acknowledges in him, and which
alone is fitting to Ittr-qct and powerful Oates.
" If the prefent oirjzei of his Maiefty could be the
formation of a no.v coalition, and to recommence
the war, why employ vain pretences ? And why not
aft in a more open manner ! However profound
might be the grief which the Firft Conful would ex-
perience from the renewal of hollikties, he knows no
perfon on earth that can intimidate France ; no per-
fon whom he will (offer to interfere in the internal
affairs of the country ; and as he does not interfere
in the parties or opinions by which Rullia may be
divided, his Majelly the Emperor has no right to in-
terfere in the parties or opinions which may divide
France.

4, In the Note, Sir, which you have tranfmitted to
me, you demand' that France will employ the molt
effedual means to tramptillife the Governments of
Europe, and that the will put an end to an order of
things, too alarming for their fecurity and indepen-
dence.' But is not this independence of the Elates of
Europe attacked, when it fees Ruflia fupporting, at
Drefiien and Rome, the hatchets of plots, who endea-
vour to abufe the privilege of their refidence, to agi-
tate the neighbouring countries ; and when the Ruf-
f►an Minifters, at moat of the Courts of Europe, pre-
tend to place tit:,:cr the pr, tedion of the rights ofna-
tions. individuals, natives of the countries where its
Minifters reticle, as M. Meacort• :and to do at Pa-
ris, in regard to a Genevefe ? There are real attacks
againti the ftates of Europe : it is thefe which ought
to excite the meft fpirited remonffrances ; and the
fad of which Raffia fo much complains is of a very
different nature.

8, By the treaty of Luaeville, Germany and France
entered into an engagement to give no afylum on
either fide to men who might difturb their reciprocal
tranquillity. The emigrants who were at Baden,
Fribourg, and Dreldcn, ought therefore not to have
been tolerated in the German empire, and this cir-
cumflance Rill thews how really inconfiftent is the
condud of RA-fa. France requires of it, that the
emigrants who were employed by it at the time when
the war esißed between the two States, tbould be tent
nut of the countries where they are known, only by
intrigues againfi France, and where Ruffia per-
fats in maintaining theme
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leThe Fir II Conful hopes, that his Majelly the Em-
peror, whore excellent difpofition and noble charac-
ter are fo wcll known, will coon or late be fenfible
that there are men who employ every means to irri-
tate France, and who in this manner Endeavour to
make a diverfion, and to kindle up a war favourable
only to England. This war will never take .plice with
the will of the French Cord-14 : but whoever may de-
clare it agrinft him, he will prefer it to any flare
of things that might tend to wound, to the detriment

• Sonic fentmees are hue omitted in the originals in our pof-
-I:ffion. They alluded to the death of the late Emperor of Ruffian
end were of fo indecent a nature igainft cite precut Eaarrar, that
at scts titottglat viva to unfit t!taila„

of France, the equality of the Great Powers; and as
he does not arrogate to himfelf any firpremacy ; as he
does not interfere in any of the operations of the Ruf-
fian Cabinet, he claims in that rcfped pet fed reci-
procity.

" I entertain, Sir, a firm hope, that explanations
fo frank will be fully appreciated by your Court, and
that the effea of them will be to diffipate thole clouds
diffufed with melancholy fuccefs between the two
countries. Accept, Sir, the affurance of nay perfea
confederation, 4c.