The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-14

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FROM THE REGISTER OF THE toNsERvA-
TIVE SENATE, OF APRIL 10, 1909.
The Conservative Senate being duly orga
nized, and taking into consideration the
communications, that were made to them at
the sitting on the 18th of this month by the
minister Tor foreign affairs, according to the
orders OF has majesty the emperor and king.
Alter having heard the report of a special
committee appointed at that sitting:
Decree, that an address shall be present
ell to his majesty, in answer to the said com
munlcatlons to the following effect.
"SIRs,
The senate is eager to offer to your
imperial and royal Majesty, the tribute of
its respectful thanks, for the important COM
munications. which you have had the good
ness to make to them.
Austria, sire, marched its army into the
territory of one of your allies. During the
delirium in which it was enwrapped, it COM
menced the war which it had scarcely dared
to declare
"To preparations, SO long conducted in
mystery and in darkness, suspended by fear
or di:avowed from perfidy, have succeeded
that tactious fury, those tumultuous agitati-
ons, those violent commissions, which are the
precursors of the fall of thrones.
"Perhdy, blindness, feebleness, error and
presumption, sienced the voice of wisdom.
and gave on the banks of the Inn the signal
for battle.
"Can they then, sire. have forgotten how
often the fate of Austria was in your victori-
Gus hands?
master of Vienna and of the greater part
OF the Austrian dominions, you had no idea
nj inipo fhac
replaced the crown on the head of the EN- :
peror Francis.
He very soon forgot the lessons of expe-
riencc; the victory of Jena disconnected the
projects of his perfidous counsellors, and the
peace OF lilsit restored to their country four
hundred thousand Frenchmen, who by a
single word from you might have been unit
ed in the heart of his states.
when your majesty quilted the walls of
Erfurth for the banks of the Tagus, your de-
ilverlng eagles and invincible Iegions vet sur
rounded the Austrian frontiers. The gene
rosity OF your majesty did not allow you for
a moment to doubt the sincerity of the pro-
testations made by the cabinet of Vienna
"And yet, sire, Austria, Fastening to vio-
late the promise she had given at Erfurth.
raised the cry of war, armed against her be-
nefactor, and dragged from their peaceful
hre-sldes all classes of her subjects, the I'M
happy victims of foreign and corruptine gold.
She allied herself to the enemy of the con-
tinent and received him in the part which
she possessed; and did not blush to entice
and encourage the rebels of Spain, whom ia.
haticism had bewildered, and to abuse the
Juntos by the most fallacious promises-infla.
ming the minds of the ignorant and credu
lous multitude, by relations the most ridicu-
lous, and libels the most absurd she refused
the mediation fthe great and powerful ally
OF your majesty rejected the double guaran-
~, Tor the integrity of her territory, offered
by france and by Russia declined to punish
the insult offered to one Of your consuls. the
seizure OF some of your Italian subjects, the
asSasslnation OF two Of your majesty's couri-
ers, and the violation of their dispatches; she
negotiated and ratified a strict alliance with
urkey and England; and compelled you to
suspend your dreaded designs against me
author of' all tie mi&fortuncs of Eurohe.
And,s with what astonishment must pos
terity learn, that whilst Austria was TINS pnr.
suing conduct so perhdious, your majesty
IN your relations with her, had made no de-
inand, raised no pretension, had heard no
complaint, but that, in proof Of sentiment.
SO worthy admiration. of dispositions SO pa.
chic, and views so magnanimous, YOU pro
posed to break up the camps in Silesia, to dis
arm all the places in that province, and To
grant all those other safeguards which the
most jealous anticipations could claim, that
you have never ceased to exhibit a modera
tion and patience which could in no othe,