STATE PAPERS. 
mingled the words of peace and of 
war, and which are accompanied 
with'every kind of provocation. 
The justice of the motives, and 
the truth of the assertions on which 
rest the explanations already given 
by order of the late Emperor, are 
incontrovertible; and the chancel- 
lor of the courtand state, the Prince 
de Kaunitz, is therefore the less 
bound to addto them at present 
any new arguments. The King 
of Hungary and Bohemia fully 
adopts on this subject the senti- 
ments of his father; and the new 
demands which the French am- 
bassador has since been charged to 
make here, revert to those which 
have already been completely an- 
swered. 
The King knows not of any ar- 
mament, or any measures in the 
Austrian states, which can be de- 
nominated preparations for war. 
The defensive measures ordered by 
his late Imperial Majesty are not 
to be compared with the hostile 
measures of France; and as'to those 
which his Apostolic Majesty shall 
judge necessary for the security and 
tranquillity of his own territories, 
and above all for stifling the trou- 
bles which the examples of France 
and the criminal proceedings of the 
Jacobin party foment in the Belgic 
provinces, he neither can nor ever 
will consent previously to tie up his 
hands with any ore whomsoever; 
nor has any one a right to prescribe 
limitstohis conduct. With respect 
to the concert in which his late 
Imperial Majesty engaged with the 
most respectable powers of Europe, 
the King of Hungary and Bohemia 
cannot anticipate their common 
Opinions and determinations ; but 
he does not believe that they will 
judge it expedient to dissolve the 
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concert until France shall have re- 
moved the causes. which provoked 
or necessiated the opening of it. 
His Majesty, on his part, expects 
this the more, as he presumes'too 
much on the justice and reason of 
a nation distinguished by its mild+ 
ness and wisdom,. to abandon the 
hope thatit will not be slow to with- 
draw its dignity, independence, and 
repose, from the attempts of a san- 
guinary and furious faction, which 
promotes anarchy, in order to, de- 
stroy, by insurrection and popular 
violence, the exercise of all sorts of 
authority, Jaws, and principles; and, 
by an illusive mockery: of words; 
is attempting to rob the Most Chris- 
tian King of his liberty, to destroy, 
every constitution and all regular 
government, and to violate the 
faith of the most solemn treatias, 
aud the duties of the most sacred 
public right. 
But should their designs and their 
artifices prevail, his Majesty flatters 
himself that at least the sound and 
principal part of the nation will 
then behold, as a prospect of conso- 
lation and support, the existence of 
a concert whose intentions are wor- 
thy of their confidence in the most 
important. crisis which has ever af- 
fected-the common interests of Eu- 
rope. 
This is what the chancellor of the 
court and: state is' charged to. reply 
to the answer which the French 
-ambassador had been ordered to 
make to his late Imperial Majesty ; 
and in requiring him to transmit it 
to his court, he has the honour to 
repeat his assurances of the greatest 
esteenty 
(Signed) 
‘Kaunirz Rerrsencn. 
Vienna, 18th March,,1792. 
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