1806.] 



State of Public Affairs in December^ 1805. 



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not a fheet has been left behind of all the 

 documents relative to the war. 



Count Giiilay, difpatched on the yth 

 to the Emperor Napoleon, to propofe an 

 armiftice, received for anfwer, that his 

 Majefty, being at the head of two hun- 

 dred thoufand men, was not in a fituation 

 10 treat with a flying army : he, however, 

 gave Count Giulay a letter for the Em- 

 peror of Auftria. 



Returning from the head quarters, near 

 St. Hippolite, where it was expefled the 

 Auflrians would have made a ftand, 

 Count Giulay met the deputation of the 

 ftates of Auftria, going from Vienna to 

 the Emperor Napoleon, to folicit leave for 

 a capitulation. 



Prince Amfberg, commandant of the 

 guards at the palace, was appointed com- 

 mandant of the city of Vienna adiriterim; 

 and Prince John of Leichtenftcin, com- 

 mandant of the referve in Aullria and 

 Bohemia, then ftationed upon the left 

 ftiore of the Danube ; Count Corius, vice- 

 prefidcnt of (he mines and mint, was ap- 

 pointed commifTary-general, having for 

 adjutants the deputies of ftate, and the 

 aulic counfellors. Count Korinflcy and 

 Baron Killmanlegg. The Emperor au- 

 thorifed the magiltrates of Vienna to cir- 

 culate paper to the amount of a million of 

 florins, in bills of 12 and 24 francs, to 

 be called in after the war. 



When the Emperor of Auftria fet out 

 for Olmutz on the 7th, he caufed his de- 

 parture to be announced to the diplomatic 

 corps, and invited them to follow him, as 

 horfes were provided for their journey, 

 and lodgings, as commodious as pofTibJe, 

 were to be fitted for their reception at Ol- 

 mutz. 



When Count Cobentzel notified the Em- 

 peror's departure to the Minifters of Badea 

 and Wurtemberg, he informed them that 

 all official communications having ceafed, 

 tbey might receive their paliporis when- 

 ever they chofe (o demand them. 



The Miniiler of Sardinia, ini'iatient of 

 his Majefty's delay in clijanging hit refi- 

 dence, had demanded pauports lor Hun- 

 gary on the 6th j but when he received 

 the invitation of his Majefty, by a note, 

 to follow him to Olmutz, he availed hinj- 

 felf of the opportunity. 



On the 2th, the Emperor granted an 

 cxiraordinaiy vacation ol tiiree months to 

 the auiic council of the empiie; and the 

 chanctiy of llare has been transferred to 

 Olmutz. — The Artlhian council of Itate 

 is dliTilvcd, and M. de Stahl is the only 

 riieinber that has followed his Majefty. 

 li* cravellcd with th( cabinet minifter. 



After the deputation from Vienna had 

 conferred with Prince Murat, a confider- 

 able corps of French troops approached 

 Vienna, and were quartered itj places near 

 the capital, which had been previoufly 

 agreed upon ; on the i+th Prince Murat, 

 on his arrival before Vienna, lookup his 

 head quarters at the country palace ef 

 Prince Lichtenflein, while Napoleon re- 

 mained at Bukerfciorf, a pott ftationed 

 about two miles diftant from Vienna. 



The Emperor of Auftria went from 

 Vienna to Brunn, in hii roid to Olmutz. 

 At Brunn he learnt the refult of Count 

 Giulay'i mifilon, which was that the 

 French Emperor was willing to grant an 

 armiftice, on condition that the Tyrol, 

 Venice, and the ftrong pofts r.f Germany, 

 were put into his poflcflion. Upon thefe 

 terms, an armiftice was equal to a furreu- 

 der of the Auftnan ftatcs and crown at 

 difcretion ; the Emperor, therefore, drop- 

 ped his folicitation, and publiftied a ma- 

 nirefto to his people, in which he declares 

 his refolution not to make a feparate peace, 

 but, relying upon the pledged afliftance 01 

 Rudii and Piuffia, to purfue his fortune 

 to the utmoft, and not to fubmit to France 

 but in an extremity in which it fliould be 

 impoflible to refift. 



This noble declaration, which we (hall 

 infert, infufed new hopes into the confe- 

 derates, and notwithltanding Vienna was 

 gone, they Icokcd forward to Bohemia 

 and Hungary, as furniftiing inexhauilible 

 relburces of loyalty and fidelity to colleft 

 troops around their prince in the hour of 

 danger. 



Declaration of the Emperor Frar.c'm. 



Brunn, Niv. 15. — By fpecial order of 

 his Majefty the Emperor and K.ing, who 

 has for fome days honoured our towa 

 with his prefeuce, tlie foltowing notice 

 has been publiftied by the Relident of 

 Police, the Baron Von Summeiew;— « 

 Prorlamatkn. 



" His Majefty the Emperor and King had 

 never a higher wi(h tlian the maintenance of 

 peace. This wifti )iy in the principles of his 

 government, as wcU as in his heart. With- 

 out any, even the moft diftant projeft of en- 

 larging his ftates, or of procuring an indem- 

 nification for the facritices he had made ae 

 Luneville and Ratilbon to the tranquillity of 

 Europe, he dcfired nothing but that the Em- 

 peror of France, afluated by a fin-iiUr (pitjt 

 of enlightened and humane policy, (hould 

 return within the limits prelciibed by the 

 treaty of Luneville. Whoever vihh a clear 

 underftanding touk an intrrcft in the face of 

 Europe felt the juftice and the modsration of 

 this difitc. 



•' True 



