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64 .Dresden, Map la. 1812.
" I have the honour, Count, to send-you emg&es'
of two notes from Prince Kurakin, dated the 30t1
of April and 17th of May ; of a note which I ad.
dressed to dem Ambassador en the ()that the same
month, and of the answer which he returned to me
on the same dsy ; and lastly, of a note of the 12th'
of May, Which reached me yesterday, and by which
Prince Kerakin renews, In the most pressing man-
nes, his demand of his passports.
" His Majesty, Count, could never have believed
that his Ambassador would have taken so much upon
himself : be thinks it fit that you should, by a note,
addressed to the Count de Soltikoff, demand pass.
ports for yourself, in order to proceed to the Count
de Romanzoff to Wilms, or to any other place of
pmeeting that shall be appointed. Yon will announce
to Count Soltikod, that the ,communications with
which you are charged, and which you cannot make
but to the Chancellor or to the Emperor himself, are
as important as they are urgent.
" You will show Count Roman:off all the docu-
ments which I transmit to you. You will express
the astonishment which his Majesty must have &lt
when I gave bins an account of proceedings so
unexpected, and so contrary to the dispositions
which the Emperor Alexander manifested to your-
self; when be perceived, that in the notes of the
Russian Ambassador, the evacuation of Prussia
was put forward as a condition upon which France
was not even to deliberate—a condition such as his
Majesty had never proposed after the greatest vic-
tories ; when, in fine, by the• demand of the inde-
pendence of Paula, his independence was violated,
inasmuch as the destruction has been insisted on
of those political engagements which he has con-
tracted in the exercise of the right which belongs
to all Sovereigns. You.will, Count, make it by felt
sensibly, hew much the notes of Prince Kurekin
are, in their form, and by their contents, opposed
to those pacific dispositions of which that Ambassa-
dor had given the assurance; by what spirit of con-
ciliation his Majesty is induced to suppose, that in
presenting their notes and combining to them the de-
mand of his passports, he has transgressed the bounds
prescribed to him, and with what regret, if they Were
really the expression of the intentions, and the re-
sult of the orders of the Court of Petersbnigh, his
Majesty would see every hope vanish% of succeeding,
by a negotiation, which he has been constantly pen-
ciling for nearly two years,. in the adjustment at last
of the differences that divide the two countries.—You
will insist, Count, on obtaining explanations, which
may still leave the way open for an accommodation.
"I have the honour to be, ikc. &c."

umememememen-
sear. I suet Net canoed free your Excellency, gaged for the purpose, and with respect to whom,
that as this is the point of view la which I must con- not being able.to send them away at the appointed
eider any sew delays which may prevent my reeeiv. 1 time, I have suffered a less of the price agreed on
W a categorical answer to the communications which i with them for the carriage tram here to Prody.
I hare made, pursuant to the orders of the Emperor, 1 " Your-Excellency has not thought proper to ace:
my master; I must, therefore, assure you, my Lord ewer the three communications I made to-you on the
"Duke, that if, in the course of the interview whiclt3Oth April anskthe 6th and 7th May, with respect .to
yen have fixed for to-morrow, I should be still as I the more important ohdects of our iaterrourse, not-
unfortunate as to find you unprovided with Inatrac. !withstanding the eetabliebed- custom tif answering
floss from the Emperor to give me an answer to my ; every official communication made by an Ambassador,
propositioas, and that an answer assuring me that la a manner so autiontiO, and under such pressing
they are accepted without any modification what- I circumstances. N'elther here you written to me, ac-
soarer (for your Excellency is fully aware that : corsibig to promise, to acquaint me with the mo-
lt am not Authorised -to admit of any), I shall Zia tires which induce you to consider an arrangement
apt case Ind arrelf, in consequence of the do. ' between the two Powers as yet possible and whim
*assure of his adidesty, the Emperor and Riog, ! you think shook) determine me to prolong my stay
which is announced for to-morrow, and which at Paris, and not to press for my passports.—
will pretlude all hope of the expected an.' This anew., on your part, places me exactly la
ewer, placed under the necessity of canaidering I the same situationts when I first required them. i
the withholding of such -answer as an Indication of 1 cc Not having been able to obtain from you to:,
an election being made of war, and my farther stay official and writtes explanation which I required, dr,
at Paris as altogether superfluous • and deeply re- I the reasons which shonid induce me to poS mi
pone
gretting that I have not been able to contribute to the departure—au esplaisatioto which I reckoned op
preservation et that peat* mid alliance, in the esta- 1 being able to submit to the notice of my appal ,
bbillneat of which it has boa the greatest happiness Master, in order the more fully to acquaint him.tli
aay life to have potted for the last Ave years, ! the hope which you entertained of the still existing'
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_ilea be obliged rodiademand passports from your ! possibility-0f an accommodation—l find myself cow.
Ihmelloarays to usable me to quit France, and I ' paled to renew my most pressing solicitations for
labmeally request that Is sack-case you will obtain passports, grounded upon the unhappily too great cer-
wafts from his Imperial sod Royal Msjosty to grant tainty that my presence here can no longer be of use.
Ilona without delay. Receive, my Lord Dokel as- I beg your Excellency may have the goodness to make
elleamees of my high coasideraffoo. his Royal end Imperial Majesty acquainted with die
Mend) • "Prince Ktlat11111." formal requisition on my part, the first time tile,
you may have any .communication with him. I is,
MST OF A SOTS mots TIM mrsussaa rotroairtan dulge a hope, that his Majesty is too well aware e 4
RIULATIONS TO mums EUSAILIN, seta RUSSIAN and will too readily call to mind, the personal
at.
AMBASSADOS. tachment which has caused me so zealously to fulfil
" Paris, 9th May.lBlt. my duty, in endeavouring to preserve peace and coo:
Sta,—l have received the notes which you did me cord between the two Empires, to admit of his sup.
the honour to address to me on the 10th of April sod posing, that the requisition I make for permission' to
the 7th of May. Before I can possibly answer them,
whether quit my post is grounded upon any thing but the
I mast enquire of your Escellencey, complete and painful certeiuty I feel, that every
have full powers vested in you to form, conclud you
e, and hope of being able, in _ the character of a Nege.
sip au agreement of the differences which have arisen cil?r, to bring about a reconciliation is cut off.
between the two Powers ; and in case. you have re- Although I have to acknowledge many personal
leaved such powers, I must beg, that, in conformity
obligations to your Excellency, I shall consider it al
he the custom of all Cabinets, you will make a pre.
a greater proof of friendship than you have yet as
liednary communication to hat effect. I have the
soured me with, if you will exert yourself to enable
honour of offering to your Excellency fresh assurances
of my high consideration. me to quit a place which you must be aware it cannot
(Slimed) "Tae Duke of BASSANO... be otherwise than extremely painful to me to'continue
in, since the departure of his Royal and Imperial
Majesty, and that of your Excellency, deprive me
of the satisfaction of thinking that I am capable of
effecting any thing useful. -
( " I am about to quit Paris-, never to return
thither. I shall remain at my country-house at 1
Sevres, till your Excellency shall have sent me my'
passports. I shall there anxiously expect your Ex-
cellency's answer to enable me to set off, having al.
ready made every necessary arrangement for the pur-
pose, and sent away suchlaart of my household as I
could dispense with,. only retaining the few servants
who are to accompany me op my journey.—l renew,
my Lord Duke, the assurances of my high consi-
deration. -
(Signed) " Prince ALEX. KURAKIN."

an answer, and ♦►hich, from their nature, even (I,
not afford any means of correction hi sufficient time
to avoid the lamentable consequences, all the error'
all the misunderstandings, which may be commit.
•Oed on either side, and which are even nearly iueii.
.talde ?

64 The principal object, the maintenance of peace,
would never be attained. It is because the Emperor,
any mister, was thoroughly sensible hew Tojurious
delays are on occasions so critical, that he command-
! ed me to proceed to the Emperor Alexander, an
your Excellency, in order to clear up all the donbts,
and to remove all the difficulties upon importal,t
points, with respect to which explanations are I.r,
practicable, except in this way, if the hope be to b.
cherished of an arrangement which has been inn.
viably the object of his wishes. 'ln the uew
atiou in which your Excellency's letter places me, it
remains only for me to take the orders of my Cut it
as to my ulterior conduct. I dispatch a Courier 14
solicit instructions.
6' As to myself in particular, Count, I cannot
conceal from your Excellency, that I am deeply at.
!feted at, a refusal, which I cannot but consider as
personal to myself, inasmuch as any person than to,.
self directly sent by my' Master, whether a Genera!
or an Aid-de-Carep, would, without doubt, have
obtained a favour which has been refused to me.—
Not having any intelligence direct on the subject of
the communications, which your Exoellency assures
me are suspended between Russia and foreign couu.
tries, I cannot repiv t* that paragraph of your Jotter.
66 Ihave the honour, liter,
(Sired) " Count de LAURISTON."

COPY OP A LE2TOR PROM THE MINISTER ERR 104

REIGN RILATION9 TO COUNT LAURIsTos.

Thorn, Jane 12, 1814.
" You have seen, Conn't, by the letter which I
bad the honour to write to you on the 20th of last
month, that the declaration made by Prince Kurakin,
on the 31. th of April, and the repeated demand of bis
passports, had appeared to his Majesty such proceed.
ings, so strong, so decisive in the existing circum.
stances, so contrary to the language which this Am.
bassador had held till then, that his Majesty found
it difficult to believe that he had not takeu too much
upon him. We have since learned, that the Russian
Government had communicated to different Govern-
ments, the condition insisted upon from his Majesty,
of the evacuation of the Prussian territory as a pre-
cedent stipulation, indispensable to any negociatinn.
" The letter which you have done me the honour
to write to me, of the 22d of May, informs me, that
this declaration is known at St. Petersburgh, and I
find it mentioned at the same time in the English
Papers, as you can perceive by reading the accom.
panying sheet.
" No doubt, then, can be an, briger entcrtiined,
' Count, but that Prince Kurakia has fully compre-
hended his instructions, and conformed to them is
his declaration of the 30th of 'April, and when he
made and renewed the demand of his passports.
The conduct of Prince Kurakin had determined
his Majesty to set out from Paris ; the publicity
which has been .giien these transactions, has made
him sensible of the necessity of quitting Dresden,
sad of drawing nearer to his army.
" He had hoped, until the last moment, that con.
femme, might still take place; bat this hope va.
nished when he sew that the propositions which
were really to be submitted to him, were incompa-
tible with his honour. •At Austerlitz when the
Russiaa army was destroyed; when the Emperor
Alexander saw even the safety of his own person en-
dangered; at Tilsit, when there no longer remained
to him any means by which to support that struggle
in which all the forces of his Empire had fallen,
his Majesty did not propose to him any condition
which would offend his honour.

COPY 01 ?NZ ANSWER OF PRINCE It:MARIN TO Tilt
ANOFE NOTE.
" Paris, April 47 (May 9), 1814.
" MT Loan fluax,—l have just received a letter
from your Excellency, dated this day ; and you will
permit me to evince my cleat surprise at the ques-
tion it contains, and which I imagined I had com-
pletely obviated by the frankness with which I had
communicated, without any reserve whatever, the
• final. instructions which I received from his Imperial COPT Or A LETTER PROM COUNT aonartzorr to
Majesty, my august master. Your Excellency is COUNT LAUAISTON.
aware of the conciliatory propositions which form " Wilna.97tb May, (sth June), Evening. 1812:
the object of them, and which clearly -and decisively "lilt. AMEAssADOR,—His Imperial Majesty has
prove the anxious wish of my august master, to pre- just been informed by Count Soltikoff, that your
serve peace and his alliance with his Majesty-the' Excellency bad demanded passports, for the pur-
Emperor Napoleon. I am always ready to arrange I pose of attending his Majesty, with a view to ere-
with you es to the most proper form to give them, COPY or THE ANSWER OF COUNT aosuozore To cute in person the orders which you had received from
by a Convention which I will sign with you, nib spe Tlx sore or Toe MINI ITEM volt roause 2111. the Emperor, your Master. Though, in the asidat oil
rmi, although unprovided with particular and special Limon or THE 25V" APRIL. his troops, his Majesty veld 'have. Mt pleasure in
powers for the purpose ; and I can safely loner ..Wilna, May 7 09)0.812. I withdrawing himself for a short time from his pre-
your Excellency, in conseqbence of the perfect gg MY Loan DUKE,—The Count de Narbonne i sent occupations, in order to receive near his. person I
!knowledge I have of the intentions, of the tea. has given me the dispatch which your Excellency the Ambassador of a Sovereign, his Ally ; but a cir- '1
peror, my master, and of the intelligence L have confided to him, I have not delayed a moment to: cumetance, totally forei,gn to all his Majesty's
received of his design to transmit to me full place it before the Emperor. His Majesty, always : thoughts, prevent him. He has just learned that the
and special powers, that in the event of the basis faithful to the line of conduct which he originally ! course of the post, by letters between his Empire
C:Llby me being agreed to by his Majesty the marked for himself, always persevering in a mere i and foreign nations, has been suspended at Memel,
and King, the arrangement which I shall system of defence, in short, always more moderate , and, according to every appearance, all communi-
uign, will be ratified by his Imperial Majesty. I in proportion as the development of his power en- i cation with his Empire prohibited. He has since
must observe to your Excellency, that even if I were ; ables him to repulse with grater rigour such attempts , been informed, that: one .of his Couriers, returning
In possession of, at this time, full special power! as might be made against the interests of his Empire, from one of his missions to his Majesty, has been
for the purpose, according to established custom, I and the dignity of his Crown, is satisfied to adhere to , unable to obtain permission to pass the frontier into
Still the ratification of the two Sovereigns would be 1 the wish with which yolf, my Lord Duke, conclude his States, and tlyit it has been necessary for him to
necessary, before the act could receive full and 1 the interesting communication of your Court. Con- turn back. Acts so extraordinary require to be
complete validity. I have to express my deep re- ! stantly seeking to prove how much he has It at heart . cleared up. His Majesty not being previously sp-
gret, that, in the midst of such urgent circumstances, 1 to avoid every thing which might infuse into his con- r prised of the nature of the communications with
when every instant may produce the commencement 1 nection with France a spirit of animosity.and seer- 1 which your Excellency is charged, faithful to his own
of hostilities, the silence which has been observed 1 bity, such as would endanger its continuance, he has ; system, which is to follow the ordinary course of
by the Minister of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, ! directed me not to enter into any refutation of al- 1 things in the relations of the two Cabinets, invites
during the long period of fifteen days, with respect to I leged grievances, coI to appose assertions which, for f you, Mr. Ambassador, to choose rather not to quit Corr or a front or court. LAURISTON TO ColislX
the manner in which his Majesty has viewed the basis the most part, are grounded upon imputed facts, quite I St. Peterthurgh, and o have the goodness to do me I
sourieorr.
of arrangements which I have been ordered to pre. destitute of probability, and upon hypotheses alto- ! the honour to address to me, in writing, the coma- 6' Prince Kurakin, after having made the comma-
Nat to him, should have so considered the possibility nether gratuitous. The dispatches addressed to manic:lolone which you have to mate, or else to con- aications which had been brought to him by the Mt
of concluding them. Prince Karakin, by the Baron de Serdobin, have : vey them, in writing, directly to his Imperial Ma- courier, which he received from Russia, having de-
" I must express to your Excellency my asto.. partly anticipated the answer to all the accusations jesty, at your own option.; and in order to afford mended his passports, and three times repeated that
mishment at your thinking the explanation into which I which have been made. I you the means of so doing, hie. Majesty has cons- I demand, his Majesty directed that they should be
I have entered, or rather repeated,. necessary (as I' Is They have represented, in its true light, the intended me to place, for this purpose, at your dia., given to him. lie commands me to demand mine,
have bad already the honour of very explicitly de-1 loyal conduct which the Emperor has observed in all . powd, the Sleur Baereus, an Officer in the corps of 'my mission being finished, since the demand which
tailing in our former interviews every thing thatj his relations with France. They have given, with I Field, who will have the honour to deliver to you Prince Kurakin made ot his passports decided the
constitutes the present question), before you could ' respect to our armaments, explanations, confirmed , this Letter.—l entreat your Fateliency, &c. rupture, and since his Majesty, the Emperor and
answer my motes of the 30th of April and the 7th in such a degree, as appear to have even outstripped I
, .((Rigged) '• Coot de iiOMANZOVV."
of May. the hopes of the Emperor Napoleon. fiance, not- 1 King, considers himself froth this moment in a stata
*sr w ssia.
ifit* Ru" a
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" Yell, Excellency does not mention dud a 0., Withstanding the veirniernttimvernents of Ms armies: eat: or A =mat rum dorms nu' tat:morrow ftll .• . clt • •-•---
Oth of Ma j•., to which I have an equal right to re- ; beyond a line, whefo„fge -the security of one Iron- . i COUNT IfOWANEOFri.
001114/F 'A Linn room THE MINISTER FOR FO•
quire, and doequally require an answer. I earnest-' tiers, they ought to ,bpee stopped, affairs condos. " st. Pelenberitis. 31.1 may (12th Jane). 1914. imam RELATIONS TO PRINCE KURARIN.
ly entree: that you will let me have the three answers ; here in the same state-es at.tbe time of the departir I " Safi!! CdOwc,—The 'goodness which I have ex- " norm, June 12, 1812.
as soon as possible. They must contain explanations' of the last courier. Indeed, not a single man Mani- perien on the part of his Majesty the Emperor 4' Mit. Asseassaeoe,—By your note of the 30tb
which are indispensably necessary to enable me .to i tared the territory of Prussia, or thattof the Decay : Aleiander, the marks .f confidence with which be , of April, you have declared that an arrangement be-
fulfil the very positive duties imposed upon me by of Warsaw, and no new obstacle has tend .d on our , had condescended to honour tare, prevented me from ' tweet) our two Courts was impossible, unless his Ma.
the situation in which lam placed.—lteceive, my Lord ' part to prevent the continuance of peace. On the ;foreseeing any obstacle to the journey which I pro.' jesty the Emperor and King should preliminarily ac-
Duke, fresh assurances of my high' consideration. contrary, the last instructions which Prince Kumla" posed to stake to Wilna. I had, therefore,' made cede to the peremptory demand of the entire evacua'
(sped) 4 Prime ALEXANDER XDRAKIN." I has received, furnish: hititiith ample means of termi. ; arrangements for my journey, notwithstanding the tion of the Prussian States. 1 •
i :patine all differences, and of opening the negotiation : very violent rheumatic pains which I have suffered 1 " When your Excelleucy first made known to me
• Tomatoes of the 6th at May relates to a private business, , .
foreign to ohs al ,mustuos existing haw', u the two calories. which your Court desires. . I for many days, sensible of all the importance of the verbally this proceeding, I did not disguise from
I " We have learned with satisfaction, the reception ; commenicatiens which I wits charged to make to his ' you all the consequences of it. After the battle of
COPE OF A LETTER FROM Patrice stuaaato To The which our propositions have met with on the part of; Majesty, or to your Excellency, under circumstances Austerlitz, when the Russian army was set ounded;
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS. i the Emperor Napoleon, The official answer which ! when thnsmillest delay might be injurious. ; after the battle of Friedland, in which It had been de-
. a, Paris, 29 April (11 May), 1812. . your Excellency shall give to them, and which we I • " What, then, was my astonishment on receiving feated, his Majesty showed.his esteem for" the valour
"ME Loan Doaar—l Intended going this morn- are desirOd by Prince Kurakin to expect, will defini- your Excellency's letter.! I saw all my hopes va- of this army, for the greatness of the Russian Do-
ing to your Excellency's, for the purpose of remind-' tively settle the important question of peace or war. I nish ; „row that I had deceived myself in the idea g tion, and for the character of the Emperor Ale'
lug you that I had not received an answer to my let- 'Die moderation which marks that I have now the + had of the confidence which I supposed his Majesty ander; in not requiring any thing from him contr: ,
ter of yesterday, when I received that which you honour of toldrowitoli to you, nfers you, my Lord would be *abed to foaee on me, inasmuch as he to honour. It was not impossible to suppose that ii
did me the honour to write me last night, some hours Duke, ample security that any overture theft may be refuses
,me any direct commenicatien . either with him- the existing 'circii en of Europe, your Sore-
previous to your departure, which, from what yon made of a pacific natOrev will be anxiously neepted. I self or with your. Excellency, at a usemat whew reign,
,without don ntemned neither the dm-
bad the goodness to state to me, I did not suppose " II:s Majesty is much pleased with the step which j Shia cessidetice, which I believed I had merited by . racier of the Emperor, .nor that of the French ea-
would have takee place for two or three days longer. has-been taken wlek,relpie to the British .Gerera..l my eondoct, by my iniariable end for the sada.' lion, so faithful to honour, would have been. dig..
Although you are so hied as to say I shall have the meat. lie is retsina fork ilth attendee of the Ea. linens of the alliance, might 'be, ai Ilan: no hesi-A, posed to dishonour France. His Majesty, the Em-
passports which I required, I have received only peror Napoleon lo foroeshig him thereof. •He wig' Wiest to my It would have been, of the greatest It. pens: and King, weld mot_ contemplate sii the con-
that for the Gentleman of the Chamber, Kologrkoff, always duly ' • widgefilpat So. er 014 ' twillitee, The • ' &Hon , of Prussia, as preliminary
on which even it is not noted that it is fora c
•Arier Ter& halt so,„ , go I tbeMißcleo \ positive refusal
going to PMershosgh. • •• mon of a gegen' -
" I beg your klice4, to send use *the three great and aye:
others which you promismA me for the persons at- opinion, 1,-
tacked to my chapel and heamehold, stud who aft Ur ellit iO
lit a with elwrior drivosi'll( YilitlOPs*ad, 6°'

46 It is now too certain,' Count, that the Govern-
ment is resolved on war, for which reason it might
be convenient that you should remain still longer at
St. Petenbargh. His Majesty enjoins you to de-
mand your passports, and to repass the frontier.—
You will make this demand by addressing a note, a
minute of which is subjoined, to Count Soltikoff.
. 66 I have the honour, &c. &c.
(Sigued) " TM Duke of BASSANO."

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a peseta! passel for the atlaiola•444olkielki would, on the eentrerg, 'es &Wafer Manist°'
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yogi *osilssisi; slbra Sem c 7 • ;0, : I.°mg** beta *Maw cammenleatioas viral orts Oh the Tth of May,
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