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liveliestsensibility on account ofthe 
very polite mannerinwhich you. ex- 
ecuted the orders of his Majesty. 
I will not detain you with detailing 
the impression I have felt from the 
offer you have made to me, in terms 
proper to determine my sentiments. 
The imagination is flattered by re- 
presenting the situation of a mili- 
tary officer, employed in the army 
of a nation to which no kind of 
glory. is a stranger, and which, in 
that career, hasproducedmen whom 
it is easier to admire than to imitate. 
But notwithstanding all the splen- 
dor of the sphere to which you in 
vite me, I think myself obliged to 
request, that you will immediately 
communicate to his Majesty the 
motives that compel me to deprive 
myself of the advantages of asitua- 
tion which would enable me to ex- 
ecute the orders of a great and just 
monarch, who attaches his felicity 
to that of the nation. 
My relations, as members of the 
Germanic body, are not unknown 
to the King; those which attach 
me to the King of Prussia-and his 
august family, to his monarchy and 
army, are known also to you, Sir. 
Permit me to add an acknowledge- 
ment. of my incapacity to filla place 
which requires talents that Iam far 
from having a right, to suppose I 
possess,though! am fully convinced, 
that a minister so enlightened as 
you, Sir, is oneof the most capable, 
by the aid of your talents, to dissi- 
pate those fears which a well- 
grounded mistrust might excite in 
my mind. I must not neglect also 
to direct your attention to a secon- 
dary circumstance :—I allude to my 
health, which has experienced avio- 
lent shock by an obstinate malady, 
the effects of which are not entirely 
dispelled. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
Be, Sir, the interpreter of my — 
most respectful sentiments to the 
King, of whose kindnessI am high- 
ly sensible, and present to hin the 
ardent vows which I incessantly: — 
form for they glory and pola Soe ; 
of that august monarch. 
It has given me great pleasure 
to receive M. de Custine; his tas 
lents and prudence announce him 
to be aman who does honour to his 
nation, and who is highiy worthy 
of belonging to it. 
(Signed) C. U. F. Dake of . 
Brunswick LUNENBURG. — 
Letter from Ms Dumouriez, Mini- 
ster for Foreign Affairs in France; 
to M. Noailles, French Ambassa- 
dor at the Court of Vienna. 
Sir, Paris, March 19, 1792. 
'HAVE laid before the King 
your dispatches of the 29th of — 
January, and the Ist and 3rd of 
March. 
As theaffairs of Austria may take 
a new direction, in consequence of — 
the Death of Leopold, the King does 
not expect an immediate answer to 
the dispatches transmitted vou by 
M.Delessart. The disgrace of that 
minister has been occasioned ina 
great measure by: the feebleness 
with which he conducted his nego- — 
tiations. } 
It is unpleasant that you should 
have communicated to M. de Kauwe _ 
nitz the confidentialletter, of which 
an extract, properly made, would 
not have furnished that minister 
with the means of a violent decla- — 
mation, which could not be injuri- 
ous to the pacific negotiatians; e 
which might have been perceived — 
inthe dispatches of M. de Kaunitz 
to have formed a principle of be, 
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