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IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.
BERLIN, July IS.

BERLIN, July IS.
The aegociation from which all Eu.
rope to this moment expected peace and
the restorationof tranquility has miscarri.
ed
Baron NovoziltsoT has returned the
passports which he had received from Mi.
Ian through the mediation of our court,
for his mission to France, with the follow
ing note:
NOTE
From his excelIency baron Novoziltzof,
to his, excellency baron Hardenbarg, mi
mister of state.
When his majesty the emperor OF all
the Russias in compliance with the wishes
of his Britannia majesty, had resolved to
send the undersigned to Bonaparte, TO
meet the pacific overtures which he had
made to the courto London, his Russian
majesty was guided b. two sentiments and
motives of equal force with which you are
acquainted, namely his desire, on the one
hand, to support sovereign who wasrea.
dy to make exertions and sacrifices for the,
general tranquility, and on the other hand
TO procure advantages to all the states of
Europe, from a pacific disposition, which
from the former in which it was an
nounced must be considered as very sim
cere.
The existing disagreement between
Russia and France could have placed in
surmountable obstacles in the way of ne
gociation of peace by a Russian minister !;
but his imperial, majesty of Russia did not
hesitate, for moment, TO pass over ali per-
sonal displeasure, and allusual formaitles.
His imperial majestyof Russlaavail-
ed himself of the mediation Of his Prussian
majesty, when he requested the passports
for his plenip otentiary, He declared that
he should only receive them on that parti-
cular condition, namely that his plenipoten-
tary should enter directly upon negocia-
ton with the chief OF III. French govsrn-
menf, without acknowledging the new title
viii II he had assumed; and that Bona partc
should give explicit assurances that he
was still animated by the same wish for
general peace which he had appeared to
shew in his letter 10 his Britannia majesty
6 This pr liminary assurance was the
more necessary, since Bonaparte had as
suned the title of king Of Italy immediate
ly upon receipt Of the answer given by MS
2ritannic majesty 70 lis letter,f the 5r of
January; a title which isselfput new OBJ.
stacle in the way OF the desired restoration
ofpeace.
s. Alter his Prussian majesty had trans
mitted the postive answer from the cabinet
Of the IkuilIeriea, that il perscvered in the
intention sincerely 20 lend its hand TO pa
ciic negotiation, his imperial majesty OF
Russia accepted the passports the more rea-
div, because the Frenchgovernmen, Shew.
ed so sirong an inclination, to transmit
them.
BY fresh traugressien Of the most So
lemn treaties, the union of the Llguran
republic with France has been effected..--
The event Of itself, the circumstances
who have accompanied it, the formal,tiss
which have been employed TO hasten the
execution thereof, tte n9ornent which has
beer chosen to carry the same into execu.
lion, have, alas! formed an aggregate
which must terminate the sacrifices which
his Imperial majesty of Russia would have
made at the pressing request of Great Bri-
tain, and in hope of restoring the necessa-
ry tranquility Of Europe by the means cf
negotiation.
Without doubt his imperial majesty of
Russia would not have insisted so strenu.
ously on the conditions fixed bv him, if the
French government had fulfilled the hope
thaeit would respect the first tie which holds
society together, and which npholds the
confidence of engagements between civil;z.
ed nations; but it cannot possibly be be-
lieyed, that Bouaparte, ahen he granted the
passports which were accompanied with