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State of Public Affairs in Dscemher, 1805. [Jan. 1, 



♦' True to his principles, his Majefty, in 

 the progrefs of the prefent war, was ready 

 every moment to hold out his hand to peace, 

 and amid the moft brilliant viftories, he would 

 have thought and afted in the fame way as 

 under the influence of contrary occurrences. 



" His Majefty beliii'ed that the great and 

 happy moment of this reconciliation, and of 

 returning happinefs to his people, was not 

 far diftant, when the Emperor of France, on 

 feveral occofions, publicly manifefted corref- 

 ponHing difpolitlons, and exprefl'ed himfelf 

 with precifion in the fame fpirit to Auftnan 

 ifeneral officers, whom the fortune of war 

 bail made his prifoners, 



" Full of confidence In fuch mantfefta- 

 tlons, and animated by an earneft wifK to 

 avert the approachingdanger from the capital 

 of Vienna, fo dear to his heart, and, in ge- 

 neral, to free his good and faithful fubjefls 

 from the prelfure of a longer war, his Ma- 

 jefty fent his Lieutenant Field Marlhal, the 

 Count de Guilay, to the head-quarters of 

 the Fiench Emperor, in the name of himfelf 

 and his allies, to obtain a confirmation of 

 thefe pacific difj)ofitions, to learn the further 

 overtures which the Emperor Napoleon might 

 make on this occafion, and to treat for an 

 armiftice as preparatory to negociations for a 

 general peace. 



♦' But the hopes of his Majefty were not 

 fulfilled. As the bafis of an armiftice, li- 

 mited to a few weeks, the Emperor of France 

 demanded— That the allied troops /hould 

 return home ; that the Hungarian levies 

 ihould be dilbanded ; and that the duchy of 

 Venice and the Tyrol /hould be previoudy 

 evacuated to the French armies. 



" All Europe will feel the inconfiftency 

 between fuch demands, and the foregoing 

 manifeftations of the Emperor. His Majefty 

 the Emperor and King had, by this firft 

 ftep, fulfilled a facrcd duty which his heart 

 had diftated. 



'• But he fhould have thought himfelf 

 grievoufly injuring himfelf, the honour of 

 his monarch, the dignity of his houfe, the 

 reputation of the good and great nation over 

 which he rults, and the higheft inttrefts of 

 the ftates, in the eyes both of the prefeijt 

 and future generations, if, notwithftanding 

 the duty incumbent on him to preferve all 

 thefe entire, he had yielded .:o the ftvere, 

 but palling, prefl'ure of the moment, and 

 aliented to conditions which would have been 

 a ucath-blow to his monarchy, and a breach 

 of the relations in which he flood with all 

 friendly ftates. 



" His Majefty wifhed for peace— he v.-i(hes 

 for it ftiU, with fincerity and earneftnefs. 

 Fut he never could, and never will, place 

 h'rmlelf in a defencelefs ftate. where Jie and 

 his people would be delivered over to the 

 imperious and arbitrary dcci&ucs of a miguty 

 foe. 



" In fuch circuroftances, nothing remains 

 te his Majefty^ but to cleave to thefe grea^ 



and unexhaufted resources which he finds iii 

 the hearts, in the profperity, in the loyalty, 

 in the ftrength of his ptopU ; and in the as 

 yet undiminilhed force cf his hig^ allies and 

 friends, the Empe-or of '< uHia . snJ the 

 King of Prullis, and to perfifft \i th s firm 

 and intimate conhcftioi: till tile Emperor of 

 the French, with tha: moderstion which is 

 the brighteft gem in the crown ol a great 

 monarch, confent; to conditions of peace 

 which are not purchafed by a facrifici. of the 

 national honour and independence ot a mighty 

 Hate." 



On the lith theFr, nch entered Vienna, 

 with 10,000 men in the fnhiiibi, and 

 about 5000 in th» city. Conlideiable 

 requifitions were of tourle demanded , 

 and the Hungarian r-.ngnats who refided 

 at Vienna, hut who had left the place, 

 were ordered to repair thither immediately, 

 on pain of having their property confii- 

 cated. 



The Emperor Francis on the 1 6th left 

 Brunn for Olmutz. 



The French under Prince Murat en- 

 tered Brunn on the i8th of November: 

 here they found fixty pieces of cannon, 

 immenfe quantities of ammunition, and 

 whatever elfe was necefliry for recruiting 

 the army. From this time to the zd in- 

 ftant, we have accounts of various partial 

 fkirmifties j and on that day was fought a 

 grand battle in the plains of Moravia, 

 between Brunn and Olmutz : for the re- 

 fult of this engagement, and of fome 

 others on the 3d, 4th, and 5th, we have 

 waited till this day (z6th), but nothing 

 certain being yet known to the public, 

 we are under the necelTity of referving the 

 details for our next number. 



As the following treaty may in the 

 Courfe of the war be produflive rf fome 

 important conlequences, we give it a 

 place here as a ftate paper to be referred 

 to. 



Treaty bet'Zi'seii France and Naples, 



" His Majefty the King of the Two Si- 

 cilies and his Majefty the Emperor of the 

 French and King of Italy, wilhing to pre- 

 vent, by the relations of amity which unite 

 them, their ftates from being compromifed 

 by the events of a war, whofe evils it is 

 their wiftrto diminifli, by reftrifting, as much 

 as is in them, tlie theatre of prefent hofti- 

 lities, have n,imed for their plenipotentiaries 

 —his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies, 

 his Excellency the Marquis de Gallo, his 

 ambailador at Paris, both to the Emperor of 

 the French and the King of Italy ; and his 

 Majefty the Emperor his Excellency C. M. 

 Talleyrand, minifter for foreign ailairs, who, 

 after having exchanged their full powers, 

 kave confented fub j'pn ofi to what follows : 



«< An. I. His Msjefly the King of the 



" Twa 



