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Note presented by Count de Kellar, 
the Prussian Minister, to their 
High Mightinesses the States-Ge- 
neral. 
HE ties of confidence and friend- 
ship, projected for some years, 
as well at Berlin as Vienna, have, 
been formally cemented by a defen- 
sive treaty of alliance, signed at Ber- 
lia, on the 7th of February, and ra- 
tified a short time before the de- 
cease of the Emperor. / 
The King of Prussia, desirous not 
to retard the communication of this 
treaty to your High Mightinesses, 
has authorised the undersigned, his 
envoy extraordinary and minister 
plenipotentiary, to deliver to you a 
copy of the said treaty, which he has 
this day the honour to present to you. 
The stipulations i it contains having 
for their aim the general tranquillity 
of Europe, as well as the repose and 
happiness of individuals, his Majesty 
believes them to be perfectly appli- 
cable, without the smallest incon- 
venience, to the position and interests 
of the United Provinces. 
The King of Hungary and Bohe- 
mia, on his part, disposing himself, 
High and Mighty Lords, to invite 
you to concur in this alliance, and 
\o propose to your defensive engage- 
meats, similar to those of the afore- 
named treaty, the friendship and in- 
timate relations which already unite 
the court of Prussia with the repub- 
jic, engage his Prussian Majesty to 
advise your High Mightinesses of 
the overtures his Apostolic Majesty 
is about to make to you. The King 
cannot, at the same time, forbear 
the testimony of the satisfaction he 
feels, on observing the republic adopt 
the same principles which have de- 
termined his Majesty’s alliance with 
thehouse of Austria. —W ishing that 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
your High Mightinesses may see, in 
the same point of view, the utility 
and advantages which will result 
- from these alliances, the King will 
felicitate himself on the power of 
contributing, as far as may depend 
on his Majesty, to the success of the 
negotiation, which cannot fail to con- 
duce to the republic, and the satis- 
faction of all the powers interested. 
Ly Comte pe KELLar. 
Hague, April 27, 1792. 
On the 23d of August 1792, the Mi- 
nister at War read in the National 
Assembly the following Note of the 
Court of Petersburg, ordering away 
the French Minister , M. Genet. 
Uh a disorder and anarchy which 
have for some time prevailed in 
France, to the prejudice of that au- 
thority which foreign powers were 
accustomed to acknowledge, and 
which are manifested every day more 
and more by new excesses, have at 
length determined the imperial court 
of Russia to suspend the intercourse 
and correspondence which it form- 
erly kept up with that kingdom, un- 
til his Most Christian Majesty shall 
be re-established in all those rights 
and prerogatives assigned to him by 
human and divine Jaws. On these 
considerations, after having recalled 
from Paris her minister plenipoten- 
tiary, and her chargé des affaires, who 
remained there some time, her Ma- 
jesty thinks that the presence of the 
Sieur Genet, established under the 
latter title in her capital, is become 
not only superfluous, but even into- 
lerable. He is therefore informed, 
that he must quit her capital in eight 
days, and the states of Russia as soon 
after as possible, 
Laer 
