The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-18
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! -, "SeS"s'o" W TIC preparations OF austria.
hose Preparations put an end to the mea-
sures adopted by the two .emperors for OBJ
tanning maritime peace. Your majesty no
| longer doubted but that you were threatened
win another war. The agreement of Erfurth
was violated; Austria armed against her be-
nefactor! Your majesty was Obliged, tore
member what you owed to your people and
your aiiies; and to renouncei with. regret,
your pursuit of the English. fit may be
permitted to minister of your majesty, to
interpret the public opinion, that, opinion
Which is founded upon fifteen years of VIC
tories, of which there have been no. equals,
either in the talents of your lieutehsnts or the
success which attended them no one enter
eains a doubt, but that, il your majesty had
continued with your army, not an English.
man Could have returned to England. But
your majesty made that sacrifice for the
SAFETY OF these states you returned from
railsdoiid to give the last orders relative to
the state OF Spanish Affairs, to write to the
princes 9th confederation of the Rhine to
prepare their contingents, ameasure,of pre-
caution which the earlier approximations of
your majesty had before rendered necessary !:
and Your majesty arrived in Paris.
four majesty was anxious to make an
other and new effort to avoid this war.
which you had not provoked !; and you en-
pioyed the intervention ofthe Russian Secre-
tary ofState for foreign affairs. who was then
at Paris. After hearing the overtures of your
majesty, that minister. W aited upon the Aus
trian ambassador, and proposed an arrange.
ment which should unite the three empires
oy the ties of a triple guarantee; which
should give Austria, for the safety and inte-
gritty OF her territory, the guarantee of Rus
sia against any enterprises of France, and
mat or france against any enterprises of
Russia the guarantee of Austria, was like
wise to be accepted by those two powers.
it is painful to add. those propositions of the
minister, M. de Romanzof. had no effect.
In the meanwhile, hoping that some success
might yet attend those overtures, and unwiI-
ling to believe that the delirium, which had
6een excited in Austria by faction sold to
England, would entirely silence the voice of
wise men, true friends to their country,
your majesty made no movements. either a.
mons the troops of the Rhenish Confedera-
ton. or your own. divisions stationed in the
interior and intended for maritime expedite
ons or for the succour Of the colonies
+" Austria, however, very soon threw off
the mask. Eight months incessaut prepa-
ration had given her a new army, in the mi
lltia she had organized. In the middle of
February. orders were given to put the whole.
III motion and to march them for the from
tiers. The monarchy was completely uu-
der arms,
For a long time Austria had heen acting
hostilely to France, at Constantinople she
promoted the formation Of a treaty between
turkey and England, and proceeded at
length to declare herself openly.
In the mean time. the cabinet of Wien
ma yet observed the most profound silence:
From the time the treaty of Fontainbleau
was signed, Austria had made no COM
plant or demand-but your majesty had to
complain of the assassination of your couri-
ers In Croatia, of the insults offered to
French officers at Trieste, of the violence
employed against some of your Italian sub.
Jects; you were patiently awaiting redress
ior these wrongs, when, on the I'd of March.
the Austrian ambassador announced that
his master had given orders to place his,
troops upon the war establishment He gave,
as the excuse for that measure, the letter of
advice which your majesty addressed from
Valiadoiid, to the Princes of the Rhenish
Confederation, some news paper paragraphs
and finally your majesty's return to Paris.
You: majesty instructed me to reply by a
note, In which, declaring there existed no
subject tor discussion between the two courts.
asked what Austria intended and what she
wished for; repeating again the desire of
your majesty--that the people of Europe
should enjoy all the blessings Of peace. M.
de Metternich endeavored, in his answer of
TIC A%tu, 10 prove tnat IL was your matcsty'S
ornaments that had induced Austria to arm
when it is well known that you evacuated
Silesia and the Grand Quietly of Warsaw.
and transported 100000 of your troops frem
Germany to Spain.
cit was not until then, that your majesty
renounced your projects against the English,
the expedition against Sicily, which had been
prepared by the King of Naples, and the
embarkatious that had taken place at Brest.
Boulogne, Flushing and L oulon. Every thing
was countermanded, and the troops of YOUR
majesty directed towards Germany those
of the Confederation Of the Rhine were then
also put in motion.
"No-it was not because France armed,
that Austria had taken up arms il was, or,
the contrary, because she expected to End
France disabled by another war, and thor
the moment favorable for establishing he.
ancient influence. and for which end she
had made such vast efforts She mad. WA,
because she expected success she t,egan II
without any cause OF complaint, without ha-
wing asked any thing, without :. single pro.
position, without leaving a.ry thing to the
cItoce of the other party; she made war
when your majesty, fer from wishing to ask
any thing from her, had manifested no other
views, than those fin the general tranoHilitT
and prosperity; chen you had offered her a
guarantee tor the integrity of her territory
when the Emperor Alexander himself. in
expressing to the Austrian minister AZ his
court, his Interpretation of the conduct Of
the Austrian government, again renewed