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NOTE IV.

COPT OP THE NOTE OF THE CHARGE D'APPAIRIS Or
11111$1A, TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN ILLATIONS,
DATED PARIS, AUGUST 28, 1804.
66 The undeiligned Charge d'Affaires of his Ma-
ltby the Enviers of all the RolLas, in anfwer to the
note which the Lifter I f Foreihn Relations trard-
=Wed to him, thinks it his duty to mare himfelf
to a recapitulation of the conduit which his augua
mailer has eonflantly obferved towards the French
Government fimple expofure of which will be
ittificient to Rove sebetreeiprccity he has experienced.
64 The Envoys", on his asceifson to the Throne,
ttonk the colic* opportunity of employing all his
4:are towards the re-041)14mm of the good harmo-
oy between 11.1ffia and France. His rroperial Ma-
jetty in mewing explanations, which were to bring
about a foild accommodation between the two coun-
tries, and 'o render it durable, Battered himfelf with
she convien.o, that by this mode of ailing he !horrid
cnn~libute, in an efreElnal manner, to the general,
psicification of Europe the tranquillity of which had

been too long interrupted t c the events that occaGon-
ed the war, terminated by the Treaty of Lnneville.
The readinefs which his Majefty (hewed for conclud-
ing a peace with the French Government, while it
was ttill engaged in war with other powers;the renewal
of the ancient treaty of commerce which is entirely
to the ad val.. Ige of France—the good offices of Raf-
fia to bring a-bout a reconciliation between the Re-
public and the Ottoman Porte, are fo many convin-
cing tellimonies of the fentiments of his Majefty, and
of his defire to negleft nothing on his part that might
tend to conlolidate thole bonds which he wilhed never
to fee broken. Since that time, when, in confequence
of the misfortunes which Germany experienced during
the war, neceffity impofed facrifices on feveral mem-
bers of the Germanic Affociation, and the queltion
was to determine them, by affigning compenfations
for their lots, the Emperor confented to become a
co-mediator with the French Government, in the
fond hope that the aft of mediation would feal the
tranquillity of Europe. The completion of this falu-
tary work permits his Imperial Majelly to call to
mind the engagements, which France impofed on
itfelf at the time of the conclufion of its Treaty of
Peace with Rana. His Majefty having fcrupuloufly
fulfilled thole which he contraCted in regard toFrance,
had a right to expeEt that the French Government,
in its turn, would thew itfelf anxious to make a pro-
per return t -) this exaftnefs, and take the earlieft op-
portunity of executing its obligations. However just
may have been this ex peflation, it has never been rea-
lifed ; and the French Government, intlead of (hewing
itfelf difpofed to jail ify it, makes a point, as one may
fay, to remove to a diftance the accompli(hment of it.
" The King of Sardinia totally ftripped of his poll
feffions in Italy, by the union of Piedmont to France,
(till waits for the indemnification which the Cabinet
of the Thiiilleries had formally promifed to Ruffs
for him, and which the latter has never ceafed to
demand.

The King of Naples, delivered for a moment
from the pretence of the French troops in his king-
dom, fees them again occupy his provinces under a
pretence abfolittely foreign to his Sicilian Majelly ;
and confequently finds himfeif placed without the line
of independent powers. The urgent demands of
Ruffia, founded on the formal engagement entered
into by France to confider the kingdom of Naples as
a neutral Rate, and to Puffer it to enjoy the benefits of
neut; ality, have hitherto been frnitlefs in its favour.

The face of all Italy has been changed by the
innovations to which the government of the republic
has fubjeeted it, fence the conclufion of the peace be-
tween Ruffla and France, without any previous con-
cert with his Imperial Majefty, though it had been
agreed, between the two powers at that epoch, that
they should come to an underftanding in regard
to the political arrangements to be made in that
country. _ _

44 War being again kindled up between France
and England, the integrity of the territory of the
German Empire was violated, notwithftanding that
France had recently engaged to protea it in common
with his Majefty the Emperor. The Cabinet of St.
Cloud waked not to underhand that the dignity of
King of England and that of Elettor of pronfwick-
Lunebourg, though united in the lime perfon, are,
neverthelefs, perfectly diftind ; and that they had
not been confounded during the laft years of the war
now pall ; that it was therefore contrary to every
idea of right and juttice, to extend boftilities to a
country which by its pofition, by the conftitution
of the German Empire, of which it forms a part, and
by the public tranfaCtions which guaranteed it, ought
to have been entirely exempted from them.
44 The occupation of Cuxhaven, though its could
not be juttitied even by the pretence of intercepting
Englifb property, was neverthelefs effeeted by French
troops, and the Hanfeatic Towns faw themfelves con-
(trained to give forced loans, in order to avoid a ficni-
lar fate.

" The repeated and urgent meafures which the
Emperor purfued with the French Government, in
order to induce it to fulfil its engagements towards
Ruffin, and to free from every participation in the
prefent war fuch f the neutral powers as wifhed to
remain at peace, have been ft uitlefs.
" To fo many motives of diffatisfaaion, which were
conneeted with the molt important interells of Eu.
rope, the French Government made a point of adding
all thofe which it could give in a dirett manner to the
Court of Ruflla by offenfive alrertions, which it ad-
vanced and caufed to be circulated againft the Mini-
tiers honoured with the confidence of hisMajefty ; by
the fcenes which the Envoy of Ruflia was forced to
fubmit to at the Thuilleries ; by the mifplaced deter-
mination which the Cabinet of St. Cloud employed
in the inveterate perfecution of perfons employed by
Rut:6a in foreign countries ; and, in the laft place, by
the unheard of procedure which it permitted itfelf to
adopt in canting an individual, naturalifed in Ruflla,
to be delivered up by the Pope, without regard to the
remonftrances and demands of his Majefty on that
head. _ _ _

The !aft ail of violence committed by the French
troops in the teri itory of the Elcitor of Baden. hav-
ing alarmed the folicitude of the Emperor for the
fafety and independence of European States, which
are within the reach of France. his Majefty explain-
ed to it, his ideas in regard to the necelfity there would
be of infpiring them with confidence, by taking the ear-
lied opportunity of making that reparation to the em-
pire which was due to it, and by lidening to all thofe
*matures which might calm the uneafuteirs of Europe,
thus thrown into a date of coniternation ; but the
Emperor to his note on this fubjeit rec eived an anfwer,
which left him no hope that the juft expeitation of
his Majefly would tie fulfilled; which tended to give
a MIX colour to the frank, loyal, and difinterefted
conduit, which his Majeay has conftantly obferved
in regard to the affairs of Europe, and particularly
towards France ; and which difplayed a manifeft in-
tention of offending and irritating more and more
the Court of Ruffin.

a If little refpeel and condefcenlion on the part of
the French government to the well-founded demands
of his Majetiy ; a manner of Co decidedly op-
polite to the defire of preferring the good under kand
ing between the two nate:, already proved fefficiently
toltuffia, that if the French Government, on the one
hand, attached apparently very little value to its re-
lations with it, and confequently gave it a peremp-
tory motive for not continuing them. it had, on the
other. formed an invariable determination to adopt
for its condo° a procedure altogether contrary to
the obligations inspofed on it by juttice and by the

rights of nations; and after this who is there
cannot nnite in the fentiments and principles profeffed
by his Majefty ? The Emperor, however, was ilia
defirous to make a effort with the French Go-
vernment, even after fo many caufes of diffatisfac.
lion : to forget them, he demanded only the execu-
tion of the before mentioned engagements entered
into by the two Elates, and which ought long ago to
have been fulfilled; this laft effort having Rill been
followed by an evifive and nugatory anfwer, full of
fuppofed imputations, and diftinguifised only by
the affertion, as Rrange as unexpated, that the
Ruffian troops have not reed to occupy the Republic
of the Seven Ifloach, without any concert with France,
while it is certain that the Citizen Minifter of
Foreign Relations cannot have forgetten that this
country, which was at firß evacuated by the Ruffian
troops, was not occupied by thole brought from Na.
pies but with the confent of the Porte, on a requeß
made by the inhabitants, and in confequence cc a
previous concert with France. Nothing more remains
to the underfigned, but to declare that all farther '
correfpondence between Raffia and France, becom-
ing in this manner perfealy ufelefs, it cannot longer
continue—and that his Majefty the Emperor waits
only for the account of the departure of his Charge
d'Affaires from Paris, to caufe it to be intimated to
the French miffion to quit his capital.
4, His Imperial Majefty, void of reproach on his
head—for had it depended only on him, the bonds
of the two nations, in ftead of ceafing, would have been
drawn Rill elder, finds himfelf with regret obliged
to furpend his relations with a Government which re-
fufes to fulfill its engagements and will not conform
to that mutual refpea which States owe to each
other ; and on the part of which, fince the relations
between the two countries were renewed, his Ma-
jelly has experienced nothing but vexatious difap-
pointment—Always faithful, however, to his princi-
ples and averfe to the effufion of human blood, the
Emperor will adhere to that meafure to which the
refpettive &natio* of Ruffia and France allows him
to confine himfelf.

Thefe two powers may difpenfe with having any
relations with each other ; and to continue them, rea-
lms of reciprocal utility and fatisfaaion will be ne•
nefary : without thefe it is better that they Ihould
enter into no treaty. As it is the French Govern-
ment alone which has brought on this Rate of things,
it is it alone which has to determine whether or not
war mall follow. In cafe it should force RufGa to
open boftilities by new aggrefflons ; by provocations,
direaed againft it or againft its allies, or by threaten
ing Rill more imminently the independence of Eu-
rope, his Majefty will then put the more energy in the
employment of the ultimate means, which a jail de-
fence renders neceffary, as he has•thewn greater pa-
tience ist exhaufting thofe which moderation com-
manded, without wounding the honour and dignity
of his Crown.

04 The underfigned having thus fulfilled the orders
which he received from his Court, confcquently begs
the Citizen Miniller of foreign relations, to be pleafed
to tranfmit to him, without delay, the pafsports ne-
ceffary for quitting France; and embraces this op-
portunity of offering to the Citizen Miniller of foreign
affairs, the affurance of his high confideration. •