The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-21

Also Wlsneu 10 AUNT the proprletorS OF the
soil and the privileged classes of the nation,
To exercise that respectable. duty; and we
have established in the German provinces
a sort OF stationary national guard. The
constitution of Hungary called, at all times,
all classes of society to the defence of the
country.
% This is what has been done, and the or.
dinances published in the months of May
and June will explain the whole object of
my court. No new corps have been raised
no extraordinary asseniblage of troops has
taken place, except on the frontiers of Tur
key, where the war between two neighbor-
ing powers calls for it as a measure of secu-
rity. There is not one in the Austrian mo-
narchy who mistakes either the spirit which
actuates the government in taking those
measures, or their object. They have the
public appreciation, because the whole nation
regards them as necessary to insure to the
country respectable means of defence: and
they would accuse the court of an unpar-
donable neglect, if, in the steps it had taken,
It had remained behind those neigbbors, who,
though to-day in a state of peace, might the
next day become its enemies. Ii some a
mongst them have been disposed to see, in
the reform of ancient institutions, and in
measures purely organic, offensive indica-
tions, they may be tranquil, for i'm those
measures themselves they will find the GER
permanent institution can be considered to
possess an offensive character: that state
must, from its very nature, be confined to
temporary efforts 1t has no existence what
ever with u.s.. The formation of reserve
TO replace soldiers quitting the army, cannot
be considered an offensive measure by you,
any more than the introduction of a military
CONSUMPTION into the duchy of Warsaw, into
Bavaria, and the Confederation Of the Rhine,
no co lol h,r, g.. l.:
and interest, which attach Austria to France,
the imperious necessity we have for peace,
and the known character of our emperor
Insure its duration.
"Your excellency has spoken of reports of
war, originating in Vienna, and giving unea
siness to part of Germany. You relieve
me from heavy burden that my mode of
thinking (Which only attends to reports of
this kind. when am positively compelled to
st,) enabled me to sustain for a long Tine
No, they do not originate in Vienna, but re-
ports OF war have arrived at that place.
which agitate as well the public. as the court,
which, until now, attached but little credit
TO them.
These are the French CORDS who begin
to re-assembie in Prussia, and who, in part
have re-assembled in Silesia, where all the
generals, officers, and soldiers. without ex-
ception, announce an intended entry into
saw, who speak of, what they wish to be
believed. their anticipated entry into CALI
cia the German newspapers, under the con-
trout OF the confederate states, who do not
cease to mention cessions which we are said
to demand from France, and of negotiations
equally destitute of any foundation or truth
All the reports which his imperial majesty
might receive from Paris, would inform him
that an early attack upon Austria was spo-
RI of
OF tor so long time, aud SO directly inter
ruptins the pacific relations between the
Two courts, that they could not have escaped
the vigilance of the government; they would
also prove to him my constant anxiety to
contradict those false reports might fur
nish proofs of the first of those assertions
from the reports of our military commanders
IN Bohemia, from those of our civil agents EN-
ploycd on all points of our frontiers, and by
letters which received or which have seen.
from all parts of Germany, all of which have
the appearance OF correctness respecting the
reports circulated by the French and con fe
derate military. The public newspapers a
aforementioned and our own, are in the hand
Of every body.
SIT is several months since / contradicted
those rumors, since pledged myself directly
TO my court for their falsty, and for the pa
chic views of the emperor Napoleon, an AS
incredulity. ia different Interpretation had
been given to those reports. the measures
which we took would have been those of re-
sistance; but they have been confined to an
instruction not to be disturbed by the decla
rations coming from the French army. and
10 the preservation OF the most perfect tran
guilty in the interior of the monarchy.
1T was at the period when those alarms.
tho first authors OF which were entirely I'M
known to me, became generally prevalent.
that, deprived Of all confidential communi-
cation with the court, by which was accrc-
dited, expressed to the minister of general
police my expectation that some encouraging
articles relative to the relations between
France and Austria, W ould arrive to strength
en- the arguments OF my court and my own !
a step, which, to the great satisfaction of
the former, had all the success which had
a right to expect from French minister.
notice this fact. because it brings to recol-
lection circumstance, the object of which
was to trahquilize the Austrian people, res
pectlDg the alarms excited from abroad
Your excellency does justice to nv court
IN mentioning its efforts TO persuade the whole
OF Europe, that it is in state of profound
peace, ana in perfect harmony with its neigh
bors; that France in particular demands
nothing from 1t, nor pTetendS TO any thing be-
longing oft, and that it has no view, present
or remote, that should give it the least inqui-
etude. Such is really our state Of security Il.
such is the conviction that has so long nduc-
ed us to disregard, what stock -jobblng fur
nishes to the injury Of the state, the rumors
generally circulated in places occupied by
French troops, and in the states of the con-
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