STATE PAPERS. 
the due sense which the King enter- 
tains of the friendly dispositions, 
and of the sentiments of humanity, 
of justice, and of peace, which are 
so clearly manifested in that answer. 
' The King of the French observ- 
ed with care all its expressions, and 
is happy in consequence to renew 
to the King of Great Britain the 
formal assurance that every thing 
which can interest the rights of his 
Britannic Majesty will continue to 
be the object of his most particular 
and most scrupulous attention. 
He hastens, at the same time, to 
declare to him, conformably to the 
desire expressed in that answer, that 
the rights of all the allies of Great 
Britain who shall not have provok- 
ed France by hostile measures, shall 
by him be no less religiously re- 
spected. 
In making, or rather renewing 
this declaration, the King of the 
French enjoys the double satisfac- 
tion of expressing the wish of a 
people in whose eyes every war 
which is not rendered necessary by 
a due attention to its defence, is 
essentially unjust, and joining par-— 
ticularly in the wishes of his Britan- 
nic Majesty for the tranquillity of 
Europe, which would never be dis- 
turbed if France and England would 
unite in order to preserve it. 
But this declaration of the King’s, 
and the dispositions of his Britan- 
nic Majesty, authorize him to hope 
that he will be induced eagerly to 
employ his good offices with those 
allies, to dissuade them from grant- 
ing, directly or indirectly, any as- 
sistance to the enemies of France, 
and to inspire them with a regard to 
its rights; that is to say, its indepen- 
dence, witli those attentions which 
France is ready to manifest on eve- 
ry occasion for the rights of all pow- 
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ers who shall observe towards her 
the terms of a strict neutrality. 
The steps taken by the cabinet 
of Vienna amongst the different 
powers, and principally amongst the 
allies of his Britannic Majesty, in 
order to engage them in a quarrel 
which is foreign to them, are known 
to all Europe. If public report 
even were to be credited, its suc- 
cesses at the court of Berlin prepare 
the way for others in the United 
Provinces. The threats held out 
to the different members of the 
Germanic body to make them de- 
viate from that wise neutrality 
which their political situation, and 
their dearest interests, prescribe to 
them; the arrangements taken with 
different sovereigns of Italy to de- 
termine them toact hostilely against 
France ; and lastly, the intrigues by 
which Russia has just been induced 
to arm against the constitution of 
Poland; every thing points out 
fresh marks of a vast conspiracy 
against a free state, which seems to 
threaten to precipitate Europe in 
universal war. 
The consequences of such a con- 
spiracy, formed by the concurrence 
of powers who have been so long ri- 
vals, will be easily felt by his Britan- 
nic Majesty: the balance of Europe, 
the independence of the different 
powers, the general peace, every 
consideration which at all times has 
fixed the attention of the English 
government, Is at once exposed and 
threatened. 
The King of the French presents 
these serious andimportant conside- 
rations to the solicitude and to the 
friendship of his Britannic Majesty. 
Strongly penetrated with the marks 
of interest and of affection which he 
has received from him, he invites 
him to seek, in his wisdom, in his si- 
M 3 tuation, 
