Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-11-30

an expedition which he was onthe eve oil
1eHectiag, he received from all parts The
news thatthe Austriaaarmy was ID motloa
and proceeding with forced marches along
the Adige in the Iyrolese, aed upon the
bank of the Inn that they were collecting
magazines. fabricating arms, levylog hors-
es, terrifying the passages of the iyrolese,
and Venice, and hat in short they were
making preparations which announced
war.
The emperor could not.at first believe
that Austria seriously wished for war that
she would encounter new hazards, or con
denim to new caamitles ration, harassed
by so many defeats and exhausted by so
many sacrifices. Twice having the power
to detach from the house of Austria the
half of IT'S hereditary estates, far from d.
mnishing, he had Increased her power. -
If he did net count upon her gratitude, he
had a, least depended upon her loyalty
He had given Her the highest mark of con
.fidence which he could bes,ow, BY leaving
his continental frontiers unarmsd. He Be-
lieved her incapable of abusing this conf
acnce, because in like circumstances he felt
that he himself would have been so---Sus-
plcien cannot enter into generous hearts,
nor find place in rejecting minds.
The emperor, relying upon these favora.
be psesumplons,- openly manifested how
much he wished them realized. The court
Of Vienna neglected. nothingt to ptolong the
illusion: She multiplied her pacific decla-
ralions; She authorised her ambassador 10
make the most positive assurances she
sought in fine, either by plausible eSplana.
tions or formal denials, TO dissipate the sus
picion to which her measures might give
rise. Hostile preparations, however. eve
ry day increasing in activity and extent, 1t
became more dlticultto justify them. The
emperor ordered that count Philip dc Co.
bentzel, ambassador from Vienna, should
be invited 10 new conferences; ana that The
correspondence of the dIplom,,.:c and com.
merciaI agents OF his majest, 81 I'D be
communicated 10 him. Fou. tcsg ,sive
DAYS count de Cobentzel waited O.. nj.
mister Of exterior relations, and showed
him dispatches previously received and
! those which successfully arrived from all
paris of Germany and Italy. The cabinets
of Europe can show few examples IN their
archives of such communications, made
under circumstances of so suspicious ma.
ture. The emperor could not give a more
convincing proof of his good faith; he
could not carry further his loyalty and de-
hcacv. The ambassador from Vienna re
ceived the most positive and lncontestible
information from ali quarters Of the ap-
preaching rupture, preparations TOR which
were carefully concealed.
How could he explain this? For till this
momen, pacific intentions had been proiss-
sed BY hrs court both at Paris and Vienna I;
though upon his frontiers warlike measures
mad been openly organized. The emperor
however, sill retained hopes Of reconciIia-
ton He persuaded himself that Austria
might be under foreign lnduence-he re-
solved 10 make every effort IN his power TO
convince her of her true interests: he re-
presented to her that if she wished not for
war, all her preparations were without an
object, since ali her neighbors were atpeace;
and that she would be uHlnientonaiIy serv-
ing the English party, by making diver
sion in It's favor not l4ss powerful and raoSe
iniuriousto France than an ayowed war #
she wished for war, he would lay before her
lis. probable effects. Superior Iothsse con-
siIerations by which weak minds are iaRu-
eoced, he did not conceal that he depTe.
Gated war. Afer SO many bottEes fought
in the three quarters Of the old word, he
could not feas danger, 50 often braVe3 and
50 often sarpounged boz lis feared war
on account OF The biood il wouId cause 20 be
she'd; on account of the numerors victims
i, would cost Europe, and from, perhaps,
an excessive love OF peace. F5e conjured
Austria Ia discontinue those preparations,
which, in the presensstate OF Europe, and