The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-19

| Laaiy, the CommiHMy General of the Army
did not think fit to con6ne himirlfin giving or
ders in the country of which the AuRrians were
matters ; he addrvfed them ALTO on the 10th
and nth September, To the Pre6dent Of the Adj
| mirifration at Amberg.
Orders were given 10 fend every 8 day 20 thu
army chef, the revenues of different kinds col
Iletted in the country, without having previort-
ly paid the ~falaries. The bank notes were alto
ordered TO be received at their nominal value.
Another fevere ordinance ordered the Auhri-
an deferters to be delivered up.-The Preident
of the Administration of Amberg TENT back
thefe orders announcing that he could only obey
lthoEe of II. E. II.
The MiniRer Cravenruth, nevertheless, con-.
ceivsd it his duty to complain; in c~onfenuence
Of which he fent an officer of taft to the Impe-
rial Army.
The Archduke Ferdinand, who had in the
| mean time afume the commando, replied, that
the Comminary had gone beyond his inftrutti-
ons, and appeared even to entertain doubts
| whether the complaint was well founded ; he
referved to himfelf to give a reply in four OF five
days.
As the AuRrian Troops directed their march
to The Upper Palatinate. on the fde OF Bohe-
mia and Neuburg, the Bavarian army was un-
der the necefity of retiring into the Provinces
of Franconia. 1o
ON the esth September, the reply of the
Archduke Ferdinand was received at Bamberg (;
he contentcd himfelf with referring to the Count
Buol, the AuRrian Miniaer then at Wurtz.
burg. ~ 5.1r-
After all that had paftd, this Mipiter met
with no difficulties in repairing TO the Court at
Wurtzburg. In an audience which was grant
ed him, he prefented to- H.. f. H. letter from
H. M. by which in consequence of the hrt
proportions, the junction of his troops was In
fitted on.
The Count Buol afterwards declared that
he had full powers to conclude 4 Treaty DIAL
lance with Bavaria. He made propoals to
which it was difficult to attach any belief, Auf.
tria having conftantly fhown .herfelf adverfe to
it by a fvlem acted upon for upwards. of a CEN
fury.
Several objections were farted to him in re-
newing to him the demand of acknowledging
1.-THE neutrality of the Ele6for /; but t.e declared
in the mott poftive manner thai the Emperor
of AuRria' would never coIfent to an armed neu.
%trality. Perhaps he would agree to determin-
ing a certain extent of the territory for the
town. Of Munich, which the Auffrian troops
will not trefpafs on, if II. n. will On his 6de
difband his army.
This idea was Of a nature to revolt the Elec-
tor and his Miniftry; Till, in order to avoid e.
very reproach of having broken off a negociatior
which might in the .frcu,l, have injured the
neutrality of Bavaria, that neutrality was cold,
r iy rejected. The Count Baol added that If tht
Elecfor would difband his army, the Emperor
. would content to hi. preferving the Franconiar
troops.-The Minifter fer foreign affairs. repel
ling this p%ropofal, the Aufrian Minifter iaIt
that the Emperor would alto permit the Elec
: tor to retain the .Swabian regiments ; but tina
. on thefe conditions alone he would grant tn,
neutrality. r
RI How happens it that the Autrian Minifr"
:. etabliihes fuch a difference, more efpecially Il
ofeniive, between the Provinces of Fl. E. II.
e His Electoral Highnefs and the Bavarian natio1
, are equally convinced of the courage which a
inmates the whole army its fidelity is we
PROOF OF his feh Rti6aSff in Ills o 1ei giEa 4 lhsssat t s
j confding to the Bavarian and Swabian troop
t the defence of his cointry, and 10 the Franco
e mans the guard of his perfon and family.
: The Count Buol declared moreover, that
, Fl. Z. Fl. did not content to difarm, Fl. M
:. would not on that account treat aim as an enc
5 my, but that conceiving a jnt mitruf, h.
would be forced TO act with regard to him a
circumstances might prefcribc.
1t was obferved TO him how. very indetermi
nate were thefe fentiments, and in how man,
ways they might be Interpreted. He merel,
replied that the Mlniftry of II. II. made him n,
counter %propofal, whit he ftated himfelft TO b.
empowered to accept any, the Object of which
was the dnbandlng or the BavarIan troops. II
E.. n independence of the Sovereign could no
permit that fuch conditions hould everform tn,
BATS of any treaty.
The Count Buol may BOW with reafon OBJ
ferve that he could not make himfelf be heard
that the Bavarian MipifEy would not lifen tc
him and that he completely mifcarried in his ne.
gociatioD. On the approach of the French
troops he began to form complaints he gave
to undertand that he was no longer where be
ought to be, and that if overtures were moi
made him, he would retire to the headquarters
of the Auftrian army. Intelligence was in fae
received at Court, that on the 9th September,
at three in the afternoon, he had quilted Wurtz.
burg.
Thus were terminated negotiations which
Auftria propofed to herfeIf to fucceed in, afte,
having overrdn with her numerous armies the
provinces of a peaceable and friendly neighbour
PARIS.
Estra9 of a letter Jro,a a French Officer Aa.e0
Loay1nrg, 4b O5. 1905.
We advance by rapid ftrides into Germa.
ny /; fometimes faring well, at others, badly,
To-day, for example, we met with a .magpif.
cent reception. The Emperor, upon his arri-
val at the re6dence Of his highnefs the Eleetor
of Wlrtemburg, found the palace Illuminated
200 guards on horfrback with Hambeaux, and
the ringing of bells mixed. with the found of ar
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