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NICII TO COUNT DE RAKISONNE.

Vicious April 26, 1813.
The undersigned, 'Minister of State for Fottign Malts. has
submitted to the Emperor the Note which the French Anahassa-
dtd bins the honour to address to him on the 2lst.inst. He has
received orders to give lss Excellency the folinwing reply :
'1 he Emperor has no.Jing more at Lean than the pres,rvation
of the reiationsof ftendship and Emil underwataliiig of his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French. Hi. Imperial Majesty has given,
in moments of the most grit ic.ll invent-Lance, too nutil proofs of
his sri.timent, not to depend simply upon faels.
. At the same time that Austria made formal overtures of peace
to several Courts, distantly separa ed from each mho', that she
would enter into conferences upon subjects perhaps thy most
complicated that ever prei•trited themselves in policy ; the events
of war, and military preparations did not on that accuuut daily
receive its development. Immense armies were found in pre-
sencc of each other. The wi-hrs of Austria in favour of peace,
fax Crom weakening the api.roach of a great and new crisis,
only hove confirmed it in a tnnre decided Had :he
Emperor only bait desired this peace, ti:e necessity of which
is so universally felt, he would not have acted as lie h: s done.
It is therefore with great satisfaction that h s Imperial Majesty
is convinced, not only by the communication which his Excel-
leticy the Ambassador from hence has made, from the con-
tc:lts of the Duke of Eassano's dispa ches, but also by Prince
6,:hvvaitzeilhyrg's report, that by the developeinent of new
tw.:ans, he has met the wishes of his 11,1ajesty the Emperor of the
French. •

The communication made by Count de Narbonne, in form t f
a vernal note, of the 7/1 April, contaius what follows. After
haviug placed in opposition with the pacific intentions of France,
the appearance of sentiments very different ou the part of Russia,
his Excellency the Ambassador says :
" In this conjuncture Austria, who stands so prominently for-
ward for peace, and who so anxiously desires it, must take, to
obtain this end, a determined char s, insist upon the imme-
diate opening of a negocia7ion, anerehter into the contest as a
principal party. In the beginning of May, when the Emperor
of the French shall be In person upon the right bank of the Elbe
with 300,000 men, Austria should reinforce the army of Cracow,
and carry it, wi:h Prince Pon!atowsky, to more than 150,000
men. 'those movements having place in April, the army con-
centrating itself should place itself in a defensive position, but in
tead:ness to resume the offensive. A corps of 30 or 40,000
should be assembled in Bohemia, and on the day of the Emperor's
arrival at the head of the army of the Mein upon the Elbe, the
Austrian Minister should make his declaration to the Emperor
Alexander; eke army of Cracow should denounce the Amis.
tio,, and the troops from Bohemia march Irmo their entrench.
ments, &c. '1 be military means of Austria should be raised to
1(0,000 men, for the army of Silesia, from 30 to 50,000 men,
for that of Cracow, the remainder remain at the disposition of
France, in the Bukowine and Gaiacia."
In reply to the overtures offered in this communication, his
Imperial Majesty directed his Ambassador at the Imperial Court
of France to be furnished with orders, dated the 14th Apnl,
which the undersigned has bad the honour of communicating to
his Excellency the Arnbasuulor.
This reply from his Majesty, in substance, stated, that his
Imperial Majesty and Apostolic King had decidedl upon taking
the attitude of swarmed mediation, as the only one that the two
Imperial Courts found to be consistent with the actual position
'or things : that nevertheless his Imperial Majes:y would declare
at the same time, that if, contrary to his, dearest wishes, the
return of peace should not crown his wishes, Austria, In conse-
quence of her attitude as a mediating power, and of the geogra
phial situation of her Empire, could not henceforth take part In
the war in the qualify of a power simply auxiliary ; and that,
wwwiqaently, the stipulations of the succours limited by the
alliance of :he 14th March, 1812, would cease being aprolitable
to the present conjuncture.
Although the Emperor was far from believing that this deter-
*nation, brought about as muds by the twee of circupistnices
'as the views and wMies of his Mhjesty the Emperor Napoleon,
.could be censWertd as an abandonment of the anis*, orthe
two Imperial Come, his Loper:al Majesty has, tsrirerthelies,

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&Med his Ambassador to add to that Declaration, that that
step would in nothing prejudge the basis of our 41:lance with
Prnce.
'ihe simple recital.of those transactions would be sufficient to
completely reply to the Note of the French Ambassader, if the
Emperor did not believe it proper to point out that this Note
was addressed to the undersigned after the denuaciatlon of the
Armistice by the Ru.sians had completely changed the order of
things. presumed by his Majesty the Emperor of the French to
still exist in the Duchy of Warsaw.
The Emperor Frineis, before having reason fur believing,
from the movements of the Russian corps, that their intention
was to dislodge the Austrian corps from the circle it occupied in
the Duchy of Warsaw, had,ll an ordei, with which the Court
of France was acquainted, prohibited Llentenatit-General De
Frimont from engaging in 'fairs that might compreinise his
corps d'artnelr. The motive for his determination were amply
detailed in the dispatch to the Prince Schwartsenberg, dated the
14th March. The undersigned tan only refer, elk this head, to
its contents.

If, however, the Armistice had not been denounced on the
part of the Russian General, the Emperor would nor, on his
part, have hesitated to make representations'agalnst a denuncia•
don on his side. Tbat measure, in fine; could only be regarded
under two points of view—as the means of wa► or negotiation.
'The Emperor is convinced, that it does not belong to the media-
ting Power to be the first in opening the campaign ; as a means
of peace, the Emperor is not less convinced that it is not with
10,000 men he can support his mediation, and that the most
efficacious means of negotiation are found, of which his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French has expressed a persuasion, in
the developement of more imposing forces, all directed to one
only and singe end—Peace; in a developement which should
leave no doubt that the mediating Power would be ready, in
the even; of not succeeding, to appear upon the scene as a prin-
cipal party, and to give to her pacific interference the necessary
support.
'lle undersigned, in transmitting to Count de Narbonne the
present reply, Is expressly charged to reiterate to bis Excell.fncy
the assurances which he verbally received in the last audience
from the Emperor, of the unchangeableness of the sentiment.
which his Imperial Majesty bears to his August Muter.
The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs has the honour to
present to the Ambassador the assurance of his high considera-
tion. (Signed) MITTLINICU.