The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-21
EUROPE.
CONTINUATION
or Extracts from French Pahers, received
6y tie Fair american.


CONTINUATION
or Extracts from French Pahers, receit,ea
by the Fair american.
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=. OFFICIAL PAPERS.
Iccom fanying the refiort ofIM. Chamhagny
Secretary Of State, TO The Emferor Ma
hoieon.
No. 1.-Leffcr from me count Chcmhagny,
10 count de Nietternich, Austrian ydin6as
sudor at Paris.
"BAYoNNE. July 10. 1908.
!" Mn: AMBASSADOR.
A Polish officer, NJ Young, lieu
tenant of the Cd regiment of Polish Infantry,
proceeding to Gallicia on family affairs, has
been arrested, although he was furnished
with passport in every respect regular
Marshall Davoust has three times applied
for his release, to count de Neipperg. colonel
commandant of the Austrian frontier i'm Gal
licia, reminding him that the passport, de-
llvered to MIR. Young, was such as count
Neipperg had desired for any OF the military
entering Gallicia a compliance which indu-
ed the hope that all who should have such
passports should be free from interruption or
vexation.. Those complaints. however, have
been inefficacious, and Mr. Young, whose pa
Pers have been seized, is still under arrest.
am ordered to require of you, sir, his re-
lease.
ut is difficult to make this requisition,
without expressing, at the same time, if not
complaints, at least regret, at the conduct of
the agents of the Austrian government i'm
Sallicia, with respect to the tlutchy of War
saw. The communications become every
day more and more difficult; heretofore the
subject has been, with great difficulty, over.
looked. The supplies destined for the grand
dutchy have been interrupted an excessive
rigor has been exercised towards all French
men and the lands they occupy-.a rieor such
as no other strangers experience and at a
time too. when France has adopted every
measure calculated to promote not only the
external safety, but the internal tranquility
OF the Austrian provinces. The Austrian
government has not experienced the least
inqu'etude respecting the one or the other
Can we but be astouished at these new
dispositions, & the admission into Trieste of
three American vessels, which are so well
known to be laden with British merchandise
from Malta and England, that no one in that
city entertains doubt on the subject? What
are we to think of the noise of war, which
originates in Vienna and resounds through
out Germany; of those preparations, which
are announced in ali the newspapers of the
movements OF the troops in Gallicia, who are
concentrated into corps d'armee of SINH
lar movements that are announced i'm Bohe-
mia in short, what are we cor.Glude from
the levy of a national guard, ard at the back
OF that, the organization of a militia, AS if the
Austrian monarchy was draining all her re-
sources to strike great blow, or to secure
herself from a great danger> And all this,
sir, whilst you know, and your government
! ~, Clui,, hoe. - -, 4
peace that it is in the most perfect harmony
with all its neighbors that France, in parti-
cular, asks nothing. claims nothing belonging
TO Austria, nor has any present or distant
view calculated to excite the least inquietude.
Our surprise is such, that it was impossible
for me not to express it, although otherwise
1t would not have been the subject ct the pre-
sent note, which was intended merely to state
particular fact. Can all this, and we are
not willing to believe that it does, originate in
a spirit of malevoIence! But however, we
may doubt, it is difficult not to believe that
such spirit governs the conduct of some
agents ofy our government, who suppose they
serveor CRAFTY it, by representing its inten-
tons in different light from that in which
we wish to view them.
offer to your excellency, the assurances"
&c.
No. ESPECIAL ieher from tie count de
Chamhagny, TO his e.rceHency count de
MetterHich.
"BAYoNNF, July 16, 1908.
SIR COUNT,
And !, also: wish to converse
with you in confidential manner, rs am
flattered by the overures which you have
made for that purpose. The subjoined nore,
relative to particular fact, which l am
charged TO mention to you, affords me an OPP
portunity to express myself relative to the
warlike preparations in the Austrian domi-
MONS, which are not only announced in all
the newspapers, but in the correspondence
from all the courts of Germany. Several of
those measures are avowed by your govern
meht. They are strongly contrasted with
the profound state of peace. as well as the
intimate union that exists between all the
powers Of the continent. 1have already said
something on the subject, without making it
the subject of a special note.
What do you propose by thus disturb
ing great part of Germany IL you desire
to maintain peace, and we admit no doubt
on that point, why those hostile appearance
es! One of the blessings of peace is the Sc
curity it confers and many of the unhappy
wars, that have taken place, originated in
the preparations made, often without any
intention of commencing war, but which e.:
cited apprehension5. offer sir, these retlcc
ons to your good disposition, to the upright
ness of your views; they originate in the
lively desire with which we arc both ANNA.
ted, to maintain a perfect harmony betweea
our governments such result flowing from