Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-07-14
Late Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, MAY 8.
Eatyact from the Register ofMe Gonserpa.
the Senate. of Drills, 1909.

The conservative senate, being duly or
ganized, and taking into consideration the
communications that were made to them at
the sitting on the 14th of this month, by the
minister for foreign affairs, according TO the
orders of his majesty the emperor and
king.
Afterhaying heard the report Of special
committee app ointed at that sitting.
Decree, that an address shall be present.
ed to bis majesty, in answer to the said
communications, to the following effect:
SIRE,
" THE senate is eager to offer to
your imperial AMI royal majesty, the tribute
of its respectful thanks, tor the important
communications which you have had the
goodness to make TO them.
" Austria, sire, marched its army into the
territory OF one OF your allies. During the
deierium in which it was enwrapped, 1t
commenced the war which it had scarcely
dared 10 declare.
eTo preparation, SO long conducted in
mystery and in darkness, suspended by tear,
or dsavowed from perhdy, nave succeeded
that factious Jury, those lumultuous aglta-
tons, those vioent convulsons, which are
the precursors OF the fall OF thrones.
Perhdy, blindness, feebleness, error and
presumption, silenced the voice OF wisdom,
and gave On the banks OF the Inn, the sig nal
for battle.
6 Can they then, sire, have forgotten how
often the fate of Austria was in your victo
rious hands
master of Vienna and of the great part
of the Austrian domlnions you had no
idea of retaining the conquest; your mag
nanimity placed the crown on the head OF
Francis.
He very soon forgot the lessons Of ex-
perience the victory of Jena Disconnected
the projects of his perhdlous counsellors,
and the peace CT Tilsit restored to their
country 100000 Frenchmen, who by a SIM
gle word from you might have been united
| in the heart of his states.
"Whcn your majesty Quilted the walls OF
Erfurth tor the banks OF the Tagus, your de-
livering eagles, and invlncible legions yet
surrounded the Austrian frontiers. The
generosity of your majesty did not allow
YOU for rnon,enr doubt the sincerity OF
the protes,ations made by the cabinet OF Vi
/ emma.
And yet sire, Austria, fastening to vi
olate the promise she had made at E.rfurth,
! raised the cry of war, and armed against her
| benefactor, and dragged from their peace
ful firesides all classes Of her subjects, the
| unhappy victims OF foreign and corruptlng
gold. She allied hers elf to the enemy OF the
continent, and received him in the part
which she possessed and did not blush TO
entice and encourage the rebels Of Spain,
whom fanaticism had hewildered, and TO a.
buse the juntas by the most iallacious pro-
mises---inaaming the minds Of the ignorant
and credulous multitude by relat ons the
most ridiculous, and libels the most absurd:
she refuses the mediation of the great and
powerful ally ofy your maj sly rejected the
double guarantee for the Integrity of her
territory, offered by France and Russia
declined to punish the insult offered to one
of your consuls, the seizure Of some of your
allan subjects; the assassination of two of
your maiesty's couriers, and the violation OF
their dispatches j: she negotiated and ratified
strict alliance with Turkey and England
and compelled you to suspend your dreard-
ed design against the enemy of all the mis-
fortunes of Europe.
"And with what astonishment must pos
terity learn, that, whilst Austria was thus
! pursuing conduct SO perfdlous, your ma-
iesty in your relations with her, had made
no demand, raised no pretension, had heard
no complaint; but that, in proof of SEM
timent, so worthy admiration, of DISPOSE
tons SO pacific, and views SO magnanimous,
you proposed to break up the camps in ST.
lesa, to disarm all the pisces in that pro-
vince, and ogrant all those other safeguards