STATE PAPERS. 



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presented to the states general on 

 llie 25th of Junuary, l/fKJ, describe 

 in the following terms, viz. " It 

 is not quite four years since certain 

 0»screants,as?umingthename of phi- 

 losophers, have presumed to think, 

 themselves capable of establishing a 

 new systemof civil society; in order 

 ^©realize this droam, the offspring 

 of vanity, it became necessary for 

 them to overturn and destroy ^11 

 establi.hed notionsof subordination 

 of morals and of religion;" and that 

 this description was applied by the 

 said ambassador to a government 

 with whici^his ipajegty continued to 

 treatandnegotiatefrqmits institution 

 in 1/89, to its disslutionin August, 

 1792; and tha* his majesty's ambas- 

 sador was not recalled from Paris, 

 until thatgovernment wasdissolved. 



That, by the declaration made by 

 Ills majesty's npinisters, and dated 

 on ihe'iQth of October, 1793, " that 

 his majestyonly demands oif France 

 that some legitimate and stable go- 

 vernment should! be establisl»pd, 

 founded upon the acknowledged 

 principles of universal justice, and 

 capable of maintaining, with other 

 powers, the accustomed relations of 

 union and peace ; andihat his ma- 

 jesty, in treating tor the rc-establ(sh- 

 hierit ipfi^eneral tranquillity with 

 such ^goyernralent', "would propose 

 none o^her than equitable ahd mo- 

 derate conditions, apt such as the 

 cxpences,'the risks, and the sacri- 

 fices of the war might just fy ,-" 

 and that his ^ajpty ht)jied to find, 

 in the other powers engaged \viili 

 him in the for//Vno«fa//.sc, sentiments 

 and views perfectly conformable to 

 big own. 



That atthecommencement of the 

 war, the prosecution of it was con- 

 sidered by his majesty as a cause of 



general coH'crn, in which his majes- 

 ty had every reason to hope for the 

 cardial co-op ration of those powers 

 who were united to his inajesty, by 

 the ties of allianoe, and who felt an 

 interest in the same cause. 



That in the prosecution of a war 

 considered by his majesity as a cause 

 of general concern and as (z common 

 cause, his majesty has not received 

 that cordial eo-opcration, which we 

 were led to expectfrom those pow- 

 ers, and who were united with' hira 

 by the ties of alliance, andwho were 

 supposed to feel fn interest in the 

 same cause. 



That, on a review cf the con- 

 duct of the several pov/ers ot Eu- 

 rope, from whom, if the cause was 

 common, and if the concern was 

 general, such cordial co-operation, 

 might have been expected ; that 

 many of those powers have uot co- 

 operated with his majesty } that 

 the empress of Russia has not con- 

 tributed, in any shape, to the sup- 

 port of this common cause ; that 

 the crowns of Sweden and Dfnr 

 mark have united to support their, 

 neutrality, and to defend themselves 

 against any attempt to force them to 

 take part in this common cause ; 

 that foland is neither able nor in- 

 clined to take part in it, and that 

 Switzerland and Venice are neutral ; 

 that the king of Sardinia lias requi- 

 red and obtained a subsidy from 

 Great Britain to enable him to act 

 even on the defensive ; that the 

 king of the two Sicilies, professing 

 to make common cause witia hi* 

 majesty in the war against France, 

 is bouiid to it bv nothing 'nit his 

 own judgment, in the course of' event 

 i(;hicA nay occur, and that ho is at 

 liberty to abandon the common 

 cause, whenever he shall judge that 



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