STATE PAPERS. 
wishes. to have recourse, to baffle 
the artifices of a. cabal, which, esta- 
blishing a state within a state, and 
founding its ascendant, forbidden 
by the law, on troubles and confu- 
sion, has no other means of sup- 
porting itself in the inextricable 
embarrassments which it has pre- 
pared for the nation, than to pre- 
cipitate it into still greater embar- 
rassments and calamities, under 
favour of which it may accomplish 
its plan of overthrowing the mo- 
narchical government, confirmed 
by the constitution. 
It is with this amicable and sa- 
lutary intention that the Emperor, 
at the same time that he sought, 
not only in words but by actions, 
to dissipate the uneasiness caused in 
France by the emigrants, thought 
it his duty to remind her of the 
existence of the concert of powers, 
and declare to her his resolution of 
assisting the states of the empire, in 
case of attack, for the purpose of 
making those who should provoke 
hostilities responsible to the King 
and the nation; and doubtless the 
French minister would not suffer 
them to remain ignorant of a de- 
elaration, word for word similar, 
which was officially made by the 
envoy of his Prussian Majesty, 
with the like intention. 
‘Finally, it is with the same view 
‘that the Emperor opposes truth to 
malevolence, being persuaded that 
his Most Christian Majesty and the 
sound and major part of the nation, 
will plainly see the professions and 
actions of a sincere friendship, and 
be much obliged to him for dissi- 
pating freely, and without manage- 
ment, the illusions to which it is 
intended they should fall victims. 
You will remit for this purpose a 
‘copy of this dispatch to the minis- 
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ter for foreign affairs, requesting 
him to lay it before the King, and 
to procure for it the most exact and 
extensive publicity. 
Note addressed to the French Am- 
bassador.at Vienna, by the Prince 
de Kaunitz, on the 19th of Fe- 
bruary, 792, accompanying a 
Copy of the Dispatch of the Prince 
to M. de Blumendorff. 
rq HE chancellor of the court and 
the state, Prince de Kaunitz 
Reitberg, cannot dissemble with the 
ambassador of France that the Em- 
peror has been extremely surprized 
at the demands of explanationscon- 
tained in the dispatch of M. De- 
lessart, of the 21st January,,as well 
as at the reproaches andthe insinua- 
tions respecting consequences with 
which they are accompanied. On 
reflecting that never was an impar- 
tial and pacific intention moreclear- 
ly announced and proved than that 
of his Imperial Majesty in the affair 
of the assemblings in the country of 
Treves ; that the nature and the le- 
gitimate end of the proposals of 
concert made by the Emperor.in the 
month of July, 1791, aswell as the 
moderation and amicable intention 
of that which he made in the month 
of November following, could not 
escapethe cognizance of the French 
government, after the one and the 
other had so long transpired, and 
‘even the publicnewspapers had re- 
ported the substance and the essen- 
tial passages—his Majesty has asked 
himself, what is the aim of those 
who demand explanations on mat- 
ters so well known to them ?—Two 
facts, which contradict all their facts 
and.all their arguments. 
But his Majesty will easily findthe 
solution 
