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State of Public Affair i in OSlober, 1805. 



[Nov. 1, 



will then be the defire and hope of Eng- 

 land, and the treaty of Amiens will be 

 rtftored be'ore the month of J.^nuary. 

 'The croixins of France and Italy nviU then 

 be feparated for ever,"" 



The decliiaiion of the T3th of Augiift 

 i<! followtd by another of Ti'llcyranii's of 

 the i6th, tlir; liibrlance of which is lo de- 

 mard thai the Aulriian army iti tlie Ty- 

 rol Ihall be reduced to the peace eftablifh- 

 ment. 



Thefe declarations were delivered n the 

 Aulhian minifttr; bm before any anfwer 

 was returned from the Court of Vienna, 

 the RiifTian minifter, on the 31ft of Au- 

 guft, delivered the declaration of his fo- 

 vereign to the Fri;nch minifter at Vitnna. 

 This exhibits the fixed and inflexible relo- 

 lutii'H of RiifTia to enforce her claim by 

 war, or, ii fubmitling to a negotiation, to 

 ma'ntain a Ihte of armed truce while the 

 articles aie pending. Frrm this able and 

 manly document it appears that the Em- 

 peror cor.fideis himfelf as under the ib- 

 Icmn o!>ligatio'i of re(<;uint! the ftates of 

 Euiope fiom French predominance, and 

 of afford DJ iheiTi an immediate and effec- 

 tual rcfiftance. He will not recommence 

 the negociation, under any circumftance, 

 until he has placed himfelf in a fituation 

 to be enabled to affift h's allies at the mo- 

 ment when they may be attacked. For 

 this purpofe he has caufed two armies, of 

 50,000 men cnch, to march through Gal- 

 licia to tiie Danube, as a meafure of pre- 

 caution, in order to continue the fujiport 

 of a powerful army of obltrvation, wiih 

 the negociations for peace; which army 

 will he in a fituation to prevent all farther 

 aggreliions dur.ng the period of pacifica- 

 tion. 



We now come to the declaration of the 

 Court of Vitnna, in «hich the objefl of 

 the war isdifliiiiHly ftated. 



Declaration of the Court of Vienna to the French 



Corirt ; tranfmitltd on (be 31/ of Seplem- 



ier, 1805 



" The Court of Vienna yields, without 

 <1elay, to the requell which the Emperor of 

 France has made of a categorical explanation 

 reCpeftUig the motive of its preparations. — 

 The Court of Vienna has no other motive 

 than that of maintaining peace and fnend- 

 fliip with France, and Icfuvinj the general 

 tranquillity of the Continent. It tias no 

 other wiih than that the Emperor of the 

 French mjy entertain correfponding fenti- 

 mcnts. 



" The maintenance of peace, however, 

 between the two States docs not merely con- 

 fift in their not attacking each other. Ic de- 

 pends not lefs, in reality, on the fulfilment 

 s>t thofe trtaties on which peace is Juunded. 



That power which tranfgrenes in fo efTential 

 a point, and refufes to attend to the reclama- 

 tions to which fuch a conduft givrs rile. Is 

 as much the aggicflor as if it op*nly and un- 

 juftly attacked the other parly. 



" The peace between Aultriaand France 

 was founded upon Che Treaty of Lunrville. 

 One of the articles of thut treaty (lipulated 

 and guaranteed the independence of the Ita- 

 lian, Helvetic, and Baii<vian Rcpubhcs, and 

 left them at liberty to chufc their Ovvn go- 

 vernments. Any meafures, therefore, which 

 tend to compel thele ftates to chufe a govern- 

 ment, conltitution, or fovereign, otherwife 

 than according ti their freewill, or other- 

 wife than is conlifjcnt with the maintenance 

 of a real political independence, is a breach 

 of the peace ot L'jnevilie, and it is the duty 

 of Auftria to comulain of fuch a violation. 



*' The maintenance of general tranquil- 

 lity requires that each power iliould confine 

 itielf v^ithin its own frontiers, and rrlpcit 

 the riglits and independence of oth;r ft.iies, 

 whether ftrong or weak. That tranquillity 

 is troubled, when any power appropiiates to 

 hcrfelf a right of occupation, protection, or 

 influence, when that right is neither founded 

 on the laws of nations or on treaties; when 

 flie fpcaks after peace of the right of con- 

 quell ; when ihe employs foice and menaces 

 to prelcribe laws to her neighbours, anU com- 

 pels them to fign treaties of alliance, concef- 

 fion, fubjugation, or incorporation, at her 

 will; when (be, above ail, in hen own 

 journals, attacks every fovereign, one after 

 another, with language ofl'enlive to their 

 dignity; when, finally, fhe fets lierfelf up 

 as an arbitrels to regulate the common inte- 

 refts of nations, ana wiihes to exclude every 

 o;her ftate frum taking any pan in the main- 

 tenance of tranquillity and the balance of 

 power. One {he would exclude, becaufe it 

 is too diftant ; another, becaufe it is Iv-paiat- 

 ed.by an arm of the fea from the continent ; 

 and evading an anfwcr to the remonftrances 

 of the powers nearclf the danger, afl'embles 

 troops on their fiontieis, and threatens them 

 with a rupture if they place themfelvcs in a 

 tlate of d' fence. 



♦' Under fuch circumftances, it becomes 

 necefl'ary for other powers to arm, tolupporC 

 each other, and to join in maintaining 

 tlieir own, and the general fecurity, 1 hus 

 the military preparations of the Court of Vi- 

 enna are provoked by the preparatioi s of 

 France, as well as by her negleift of all 

 means of f?cuting and maintaining a true 

 peace, and future tranquillity. 



" All Europe knows the lincerity of the 

 wi(h for peace which his Imperial Majelty 

 has difplayed, and the punctuality where» 

 with he has fulfilled the obligations of the 

 Treaty of Luneville; that lincerity cannot 

 fail to be recognized in the great concelfions 

 made in confcquence of the injurious' cxten- 

 hon given to that treaty in Germany, and in 

 the not Icfs great moderation with which his 

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