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ME RC P: PTED LETIE R.

The following letter was intercepted last winter on
the Ft ench conrier who was bearing it to Madrid, by
a Spanish peaSltt, from whom it passed into the
hands of the British Minister :

INTERCEPTED LETTER FROM M. CHAMPAGNY, MINISTER

OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO 110NAPARfE.

" December 11, 1808.
" Sire—The cot-respondence of this day does not furnish me
with any letter to lay before your Majesty.
" M. de P omanzoft has conversed with me upon the dispatches
he received irons St. Petersburg!' yesterday. The Emperor, his
Muster, had the goodness to write. to him, upon the affairs of his
department, s letter of tour panes, which places him altogether
au courant. fittore he received it, he rcarceiy conceived himself
to be Minister for Foreign Aff.sirs : for he was no longer informed
of any thing. He had the kindness to give me an analysis of it
is as folhws:

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" The Erni. eror of Russia speaks of the success he has just
obtained in Finland; yet he is but half satisfied with- General
lluxhowden, and he means. to remove him. The reply of the
Enelish Government deprives him of almost all hope of a speedy
peace; yet he thinks. it is of
,iruportance always to keep a door
open for negociat ion, and afterwards, whatever be flit success of
it, to go forward. He had given an example of this in his reply to
Prince Knurakin, who had given him an account ,etf. the little
success he tad had in' demanding of the Court -of. Vienna the
acknowiedgment of Joseph the First. M. de R:oniar:zoff read me
this letter of the Emperor to Prince Kourakin ; I think your
Maje,ty will he satisfied with it. The Emperor of Russia is
as•ort:shed at the refusal of Austria, under the pretext on which
it is founded. Austria wishes first to know the result of the con-
ferences at Erfurth. Is it by disobliging, (says the Emperor)
• that she pretends to merit complaisance ? Why is she uneasy
' at what has been signed at Erfurth ? Far from having wished
4 to injure the interests of Austria; there was stipulated them
• the integrity of that Monarchy; (this assertion is evidently a
miktake of the Emperor's, who had not the Treaty before him, an
error occasioned probably Isy the recollection of some conversa-
tions with your Majesty). ' Thus, while lam occupied with her
• interests, (continues the Emperor) she replies by a refusal to
• accede to the deMand I had made of her; and in seeming to
4 seek my frit ndship, she evinces to me her distrust of my con-
' duct at Erfurth.'

" The Emperor accuses Austria •of contradictions in all her
conduct, and in the language of M. de Metternich, M. de Sta-
dion, and M. Vincent ; he says, that the acknowledgment de-
manded of her was hut the effect of the manetie;re..d which it was
wished to show Ite.r, in thus dispensing with the demand of a ca-
tegorical declaration upon the rrodigious increase of her military
force. He does not see what is the object which she is pursuing;
ai:d after l.avirg observed, that when King Joseph shall he at
Aladrid, the refusal of Austria to acknowledge him will only be
an act of ridicule, he declares, that if she has formed the sense-
less project of framing a new Coalition, by leaguing herself with
England, Turkey, at.d the Spanish Insurgents, he is in a condition
to oppose it; and that, witted with the Emperor Napoleon, he
could easily break that new league, which would be to Austria
the cause of disasters, if not of total ruin.
" Such is the reply of the Emperor Ale gander to Prince Kou-
rakin ; it was ti be sent to the Russian Chargé d'Affaires at Vi-
enna, who had orders to communicate it to M. de Stadion. The
Chat ge d'Affaires has lately written to M. Kourakin. It appears
that this dispatch of the Emperor's had not reached him, though
it is dated the Bth November.

" I could have wished that M. de Rornaraoff would have left
me a copy, hut I soon perceived that he was desirous of present-
ing it himself to your Majesty, and that he was in hopes of your
speedy return. 'J hat hope was too sweet to every Frenchman,
as well a, to M. de Romanzoff (who respects and admires your
Majesty almost as much as a Frenchman), for me to weaken the
hope I am fond 4:t skaring with him. But if it cannot be soon
rea:ized, I shall mtew to your Majesty the demand of repairing
to you, if, after the reply from England, my remaining here
should anear useless.

" I had :lie sa,ist, ctinn to announce to M. de Romanzoff the
arrival of your Majesty at St. Martin, near Madrid, referring
him fur the detail; to the Bulletin, which will appear to-morrow,
of the conteMs of which I am not yet ;stormed.
" I am, with resp Let, Sire, your Majesty's most faithful and
devoted servant and st.P.ject, (Signed) " cif AM rAGNY."

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