1806.] 



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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN NOVEMBER. 



Containing official Papers and Authentic Documents. 



GERMANY. 

 Fffi B:dktm of the Grand Army.* 



'« Bamberg, OB. 8. 

 «« The injurious condufl of Prullia lu.vards 

 France commenced ut a very diftant period. 

 Firft, fte took up arms wich a view ot pro- 

 fiting by the internul diforders of France. She 

 was feen ready to come forward at the mo- 

 ment of the invafion of Holland by thcDuke 



" The Emperor was then convinced, that 

 circumftar.ces would oblige him to take up 

 arms againft an Ally. He therefore ordered 

 preparations. 



" Troops marched with the ereateft rapidi- 

 ty from Berlin. The PrulTian army entered 

 Saxony. They advanced to the frontier.'! of 

 the Confederation, and infulted their out- 

 pofts. 



On the 24th of September, the Impa« 



of York ; and, notwithftandiug the events of rial Guard quitted Paris for Bamberg, whure 



the latt war, although Ihe had no caufe of it arrived on the 6th of October. Orders were 



complaint againft France, lire took up arms i(Tued for the army to march, and it immedi- 



•gain, and ligned, the 111 of October, 180.5, ately begnn to advance. 



the famous treaty of Potfdam, which was', in <' The Emperor fet out from Paris the 2.5th 



lefs than a m^n-h, fuperfeded by the Treaty of September ; the 28th he arrived at Mentz ; 



of Vienna the Vd of OiSober at Wurzburgh; and the 



«' Towards Ruflia flie atled injurioufly. 6th at Bamberg. 



Who can forget the non-execution of the " The fame day two fhots wer^ fired by the 



Treatv of Polldam, or the fubfequent conclu- Prulfian huffars at a French Field-Officer, ia 



fioii of that of Vienna .? view of the armies. 



"Her injuiious con !u6t towards the Em- "On the 7th, his Majefty the Emperor 



peror of Germany and the whole Germanic received a Courier from Mentz, fent by the 



Body, is more aggravated, and of longer date, Prince of Benevento (Talleyrand), with two 



as is gen rally known. She always aiSed in important difpatches. One was a letter from 



cppofition to the Diet. When the Kmpire the King of Prullia, containing twenty pages, 



■was at war, Jhe took care to be at peace with which, in fact, was nothing but a paltry 



its enemies. Her treaties with Auftria were pamphlet againft France, fucli as thole pro- 



never faithfully executed j ihe uniformly ftu- duced by the writers of the Engliili Cabinet 



died to embroil other poweis, in the view of at five hundred pounds per annum ! The Em- 



gainjng fome advantage, at tine expence of peror, before he finiihed the reading, turned 



•ither or both of the contending parties. to thofe about him, and faid, 'I piiy my 



" Thofe who fupp. fe that fuch an intereft- Brother the King of Prulh.i ! — he und "ftands 



ed verfatility of conduft was folely to be at- not French. — Surely, he cannot have read thii 



tributed to the reigning Sovereign, are greatly rhapfody ?' This Letter was accompanied by 



miftaken. During an interval of fifteen years, the celebrated Note of M. de KnobelldorfK— i 



» Marfhal !' faid the Emperor to Berthier, 

 ♦ they give us a rendezvous of honour for the 

 8th. — They fay a handfome jjueeu is tnere, 

 who defires to fee battles, let us be polite, 

 and march without delay for Saxony V The 

 Emperor was correctly informed: for the 



the Court of Berlin has been a kind of ftage, 

 upon which different parties tried their 

 ftrength, and in their turns obtained the af- 

 cendancy. On one day the decifion was tor 

 War: on another for Peace. The leaft im- 

 portant political circumftance — tne llighteft 



incident — often gave the advantage to one of Queen of Pruffia is with the .irmy equipped 

 the parties; anJ the King, in trre midft of like an Amazon, wearing the uniform of her 

 thele oppofmg Councils, in a very labyrinth regiment oi dragoons, and writing twenty let- 

 of intrigue, was fi.kle and undecided, with ters a day to all jiarts of t!.e kingdo n, to 

 the greateft intentional reftitude. excite the inhaoitants againft the French. It 



*' It was known at Paris, that the advo- appears like the conduft o.' the frenzied Ar- 

 cates for peace in Prullia had really been niida, fetting fire to her own palace. Next 

 alarmed in confcquence of the moft audaciou.s to her Majefty, Prince Louis of Fruliia, a 

 filfehoods and deceitful appear.mces, and that brave young man, in -ited bv the W.ir Fac- 



they had totally loft their influence; while 

 the War Fadtion, taking advantage of their 

 errors and delpjiidency, redoubled tlieir exer- 

 tions, alleged provocation on provocation, 



tion, vainly hopes to gain honour .ind renown 

 in the viciiiitudes o, w.ir. Following tiie cx- 

 am|)k- Oj- thole two great perlonages, all ihc 

 adherents ot the court fiem eager for War. 



and accumulated infults ; fo tflat things were But when War fhall pr»!ent itlelf in all its 



brought to fuch a point, that war became in- honors, the feelings a, id Ihe language of all 



evitaole. thefe will be uid-ly diifcrent; they will each 



— then be defirous of vimlic'i'uig the nfelves .iom 



• To illuftrate the operations of fe French the charge ot I'.avinj dra\n down the tliun- 



Armies, we have introduced a Curred Mag of dcrs of v.'ar upon the peaceable provinces of 



the Seat of War. the North ; then, by a natural conlequcnce, 



3 Ji a will 



