ST. A‘TPE 
never sincerely answered any of the 
candid and’ reiterated demands) of 
the King. ai 
After being wearied by delays 
and vague answers, the impatience 
of the:French increasing daily by 
new provocations, those princes 
have successively avowed the coali- 
tion of the powers against France. 
They never justified themselves for 
the part they had taken in it, or for 
that they were still taking. Far 
from \shewing themselves disposed 
to dissolve’ it by their influence, 
they have sought to connect it with’ 
facts which, in the first place; were 
foreign’ to it, and upon’ which 
France has never refused doing jus- 
tice to the interested parties. And, 
as ifthe King of Hungary were de- 
sirous of consecrating the perpetu- 
ity of ‘the attack he makes on the 
sovereignty of the French empire, 
he has declared that this coalition, 
equally injurious to the King and 
to the nation, could not cease until 
France ‘should ‘remove the serious 
causés’ which’ had given rise to it; 
that'lis to say,solong as France, 
jealous of her independence, would 
not give’ up the smallest point of 
her new constitution. 
‘Such an/answer, preceded and 
supported by preparations most 
evidently hostile, and by an: ill-con- 
cealed protection of therebels, must: 
have appeared to the National As-. 
sembly, to the King, and to all 
Franee,asa manifest aggression; for 
it is commencing war to announce 
that troops are assembled and called 
in-all quarters, in order to constrain 
the inhabitants of a country to al- 
ter the form of government which 
they have freely chosen, and sworn 
to defend. 
Such is the sense and, asit were, 
the substance of all the evasive an- 
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swers of the Emperor and King of 
Hungary’s ministers to the simple 
and candid explanations which ‘the 
King required of them. 
Thus the King saw himself forc- 
ed into a’ war, which was already 
declared against him; but, religi- 
ously faithful to the principles of 
the constitdtion, whatever may fi- 
nally be the fate of arms in this 
war, France rejects all ideas of ag-: 
grandisement. She will preserve: 
her limits, herliberty, her constitu- 
tion, her “inalienable right of re- 
forming herself; whenever'she may: 
think proper she will never con- 
sent that, under any relation, fo- 
reign powers should attempt to dic- 
tate, or even dare to nourish a hope 
of dictating laws to her. But this 
very pride, so natural and'so just, is’ 
a sure pledge to all the powers from 
whom she shall have received no 
provocation, not'only of her’ con- 
stant pacific dispositions, but also of 
the respect which the French will 
know how to shew at all times for: 
the laws, the customs, and all the: 
forms of government of different 
nations. 
The King, indeed, wishes it to 
be known, that he would publicly 
and severely disavow all those of 
his agents at foreign courts in peace 
with France, who should dare to 
depart an instant from that respect, 
either by fomenting or favouring 
insurrections against the established 
order, or by interfering in any man- 
ner whatever in the interior- policy 
of such states, under pretence ofa 
proselytism, which, exercised in’ 
the dominions’ of friendly powers, 
would be‘a real violation of thelaw 
of nations. ' 
The King hopes that the British’ 
government will see in this \exposi- 
tion the incontrovertible justice, 
and 
