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London, England, 1812-08-13 00:00:00

FRENCH P4PERS.

tFROM THE 11bNITSUR OF THS BTR INSTANT.]
ANSWER OF A GERMAN TO THE PROCLAMATION

OF GENERAL BARCLAY DE TOW.

ii• 66 If you speak to the Austrians, they will tell you,
that Austria makes war on Russia because Russia
made war on her in 1809 ; because the first political
Jo,' terestof Austria is, that Moldavia and Wallachia.
, ise'not united to Russia, and that a check be given to
tour insatiable ambition ; that Austria makes war on
II Russia, because the false measures of the Cabinet of
1 St. Petersburgh are such, that there-establishment of
Poland is rendered necessary ; and because Austria,
weakened by the-losses Russia has occasioned her in
the late preceding wars, feels it her interest not to
lose the provinces that are left her; because the
people of Austria have never found in her alliance
with Russia either the support or assistance necessary
60 protect her' from France; because the Russians,
every time they have entered the Austrian provinces,
sot having fulfilled one half of what they promised,
baying shewn no knowledge of the art of war, having
&sways been defeated, having incurred.-the animad-
version of States and Nations, by-the acts of cruelty
Lod plunder for which they are distinguished ; the
se of Austria has allied herself by a permanent
•system to France, a system which constituted her
prosperity in 1756. These are the reasons which
I have induced Austria to form an alliance offensive
1 and defensive with France.
66' If you had not matte war on Austria in 1809; if
since that time you had not, without provocation,
stripped her of her provinces ; if you had not seized
ppou Moldavia and Wallachia, which she could not
see with a tranquil eye under your dominioni if you
bad been to her a steady and effective ally, she would
pot have made war upon you.
" Must I answer as a Prussian ? I will tell you,
eve make war in Russia because we have an offensive
tind defensive alliance with France, because You dis-
gracefully betrayed us at Tilsit and Erfurt ; be-
cause, instead of demanding at Erfurt the evacuation
of the places of the Oder by the French troops, you
took care only to secure to yourselves the possession
of Moldavia and Wallachia. You had sworn to ou`r
plaster not to make peace without stipulating for the
integrity of our Monarchy, but you stipulated only i
for your own interests, and you even took parts of
temtory to incorporate them with your Empire. It
was not the battle of Jena that constituted our m. is-
fortune, but our alliance with you! It was the chi-
merical illusion of your innumerable armies, which,
since the time of Catherine, have alarmed and terri-
fied Europe, and which we have learned to estimate
. at their real value.
66 When we were your allies, you did not defend
ws; you' only came amongst us to ravage our territory.
Our Monarchy would have been lost beyond redemp-
tion, had not the wisdom and policy of our Master
made him this day contract an alliance with France.
He is beforehand with you. An alliance with you
would have been fatal r making common cause with
you, the war .must have been on our territory :
making common cause with France, the war_ is far
removed from us. The Emperor Napoleon keeps
his word with his allies, he protects them, but you
do noeprotect your's. The aUies of Emperor
Napoleon have always gained some aggrandisement
in territory and security, while your's-have beers uni-
formly ruined.
66 Shall I speak as a Bavarian ? I will tell you
that we make war ou Russia, because, for these two
centuries past, the Bavarians. have made war with
France ; because our Master is a Member of the
Confederation of the Rhine ; because your alliance
occasioned our free Provinces to be laid waste; be-
cause our alliance with France has doubled our do-
minions ; because Bavaria, iiistead of fifteen hun-
dred thousand souls, which she had, has now four
millions of inhabitants, united under the dominion
of the wisest of Princes, and under the most liberal
and mildest Government that exists. Our fathers
would have beheld our present situation with envy.
....Our territory was formerly the theatre of war,,
now it gasses before us, and our soldiers acquire
Only triumphs.
66 Shall I speak in the name of the Wirtembergers,
or of the People of Baden ? They will answer you,
that they make apart of the Confederation of the
Rhine ; that since this period, the States 'of their
Sovereigns have been always increasing ; that the
Puchy of Wirtcmberg, which contained two hun-
dred thousand inhabitants, is now a kingdom, con-
sisting of twelve hundred thousand souls ; that the
; adargravate of Baden, which contained sixty thou-
sand souls, is now erected into a Grand Duchy,
• and has a population of eight hundred thoutand ;
that the misfortune of Nations, is being divided into
small Principalities ; that the countries of Wirtem-
berg and Baden are happy under good and upright
Prances ; that these two houses have produced two
Empresses, who have done nothing for them, who
Lave forgotten their country, and abjured the reli-
gion of their fathers, and the love of their country;
that since the alliance of the two States with France,
they . enjoy the love 44 their Sovereigns;, and the
mildness of their Governments ; that, above all,
they are protected, and see the war at a distance
i from them. •
a 4, Saxony, I will tell you that the Sovereign of
Saxony makes war because she is a Member of the
Confederation ; because you wish to strip her of the
Duchy of Warsaw; because war with France had,
ruined our country, and because it is France that has
restored liberty and independence to Saxony; because
your alliance would have ruined Saxony, as it has
' ruined Hasse Cassel, the annihilation of which ytiu
were the first to acknowledge ; and that we have
' never had more glory and happiness than since our
Princes have become Members of the Confederation
• of the Rhine.
1 ” If you address yourselves to the Westphalians,'
0 they will tell you that it vies yea who first abandoned
the House of Hesse Cassel, as you were•the first to
• acknowledge du throne of Westphalia; that, allied
4 to France, it is the policy, the interest, and the iodic
nations of the We si phalian.s, to follow her destiny.
" 111, short, shall weanswer you as Germans? WW
.i will tell you, thatthe greatest mislortpne a nation can
experience, is to see Its territory the theatre of war;
that the interest of Germany was to be with you or
with France ; that we have began ten years with foul
that we have only experienced, duals 4 that.tdrie,

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