STATE PAPERS. 
pear,:and nothing will remain. but 
to adjust in an amicable manner the 
claims of the princes. This cannot 
be done amidst the din and bustle 
of armies. As to the concert of 
powers, as it has only one object, 
which ought not to exist ; as it isa 
political monster, it will destroy it- 
self, and there will remain only the 
means of better securing the peace 
of Europe. 
Such, Sir, is the basis on which 
the King orders you to treat with 
the court of Vienna, (hat you may 
obtain an open and decisive answer. 
I will lay before bis Majesty the 
account of the success of your ne- 
gotiation; and I am persuaded that, 
by holding out, with all the energy 
of truth, these powerful interests to 
the court of Vienna, you will soon 
be able to determine the issue of 
this political crisis, which cannot be 
of a long duration. 
(Signed) DumouriEz. 
Letter from M. Noaiiles, the French 
Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, 
to M. Dumouriex, French Minis- 
ter for Foreign Affairs. 
Sir, April 2d, 1792. 
'I YESTERDAY received by the 
courier Duclos, the letter which 
you did me the honour to write me 
on the 19th of March. It was on 
the same day that the answer went 
off to the last note, which I had 
been charged to transmit to the mi- 
nistry. I conformed entirely to 
the communication made on the 
ist of March to the National As- 
sembly. You will have seen, Sir, 
what has been the result. There 
is no doubt that affairs in reality 
have not assumed a new appearance 
since the death of the Emperor Le- 
opold, nor has any change taken 
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place which ought to strengthen 
the hopes of those who entertain 
sincere wishes for the general tran- 
quillity. The young King, as I 
have formerly imformed you, will 
necessarily allow himself to be guid- 
ed in the commencement of his 
reign; andif notin his own cha- 
racter, will at least, in the conduct 
of lis ministry, display great inflex- 
ibility of principle. 
I have, Sir, availed myself of the 
letter of M. Delessart, under the 
title of an * Extract, communicat- 
ed confidentially.”” [did not com- 
municate the whole letter. I pre- 
served, however, a great part of it, 
because the expressions were so mo- 
derate as to give me reason to hope 
for the greatest success. The ex- 
perience which I had from a resi- 
dence of nine years, induced me to 
adopt this step. The Austrian mi- 
nister all at once made a declaration 
of sentiments which before he had 
dissembled—the letter of M. Deles- 
sart was taken in pieces, and de- 
tached passages were perverted to a 
construction foreign to their real 
meaning. } 
These reflections are not intend- 
ed to justify myself, bat to prevent 
a statement of the real dispositions 
of the court of Vienna. Can my 
last note have given ground for 
those violent declamations, which 
are to be found in the Austrian an- 
swer, and which brings us back to 
the very point fron: which we set out 
last July ? It is not necessary for me 
now to dissemble those efforts which 
I have made to pesuade the minis- 
try here, that if they were desirous 
to secure their own repose and pro- 
mote ours, they ought to avoid all 
censure of our internal administra- 
tion. Ihave incessantly repeated, 
that censure, only allowable in pri- 
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