STATE PAPERS. 
wish in general to meet a more 
agreeable occasion of repeating to | 
theambassador of France assurances 
of the most distinguished respect. 
? (Signed) Kaunirz. 
Letter from the Count de Goltz, Envoy 
Extraordinary of the King of 
Prussia in France, addressed to 
M. Delessart. 
ft ode undersigned envoy extra- 
ordinary and minister plenipo- 
tentiary of the King of Prussia at the 
courtof his Most Christian Majesty, 
has the honour to remind his Excel- 
lency M. Delessart, that he has re- 
peatedly informed him that an inva- 
sion of the territory of the empire 
by the French troops cannot but be 
regarded as a declaration of war 
against the Germanic body; and 
that, in consequence, his Prussian 
Majesty could not avoid opposing it 
in conjunction with his Imperial 
Majesty, with all his forces. He 
has more particularly given this in- 
formation to the ministry of France, 
on occasion of the official note 
which the Imperial court sent to 
the ambassador of France under date 
of the 5th of January last. He now 
repeats it in consequence of a dis- 
patch dated the 17th of this month, 
from the chancellor of state and of 
the court, Prince de Kaunitz, to 
M. de Blumendorff, chargé des af- 
Jaires of his Majesty the Emperor, 
and transmitted by the latter to the 
ministry of his Most Christian Ma- 
jesty: which dispatch contains the 
principles on which the courts of 
is and Vienna are perfectly in 
concert. 
The Count de Go.rz, 
Paris, 28th February, 1792. 
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Note of the French Ambassador at 
the Court of Vienna, to the Impe- 
vial Minister, March 11th, 1792. 
tan ambassador from France to 
his late Imperial Majesty has 
received instructions relative to the 
official note which the chancellor 
Prince de Kaunitz honoured him 
with on the 19th of February, and 
also to the other pieces that were 
joined to that note. 
The King had caused these in- 
structions to be sent to him on the 
very day the Emperor, to whom he 
had the honour of being accredited, 
died. The importance of the com- 
munications he is ordered, to make 
do not give him time to wait for 
new credentials; he would reproach 
himself were he to delay the mea- 
sures prescribed to him, which have 
for their object the preservation of 
a good understanding, and general 
tranquillity. After all the circum- 
stances which have given mutual 
uneasiness, he is happy to have it in 
his power to propose means for 
their termination. 
The King thinks that it neither be- 
comes the dignity nor the indeperd- 
enceof the nation to discuss objects 
which, he is of opinion, relate to the 
internal concerns of the kingdom : 
but his Majesty observes with plea- 
sure the assurances given inthename 
of the Emperor, ‘‘ that far from sup- 
porting the projects and preten- 
sions of the emigrants, he was de- 
sirous to cunvince the French na- 
tion of the falschood of those re- 
ports which have been propagated 
against his Imperial Majesty, and 
which impute to him designs against 
the safety and independence of 
France, by plans and alliances tend- 
ing to interfere in the government 
and overturn the constitution.” 
His 
