STATE PAPERS. 
Memorial transmitted to his Excel- 
lency, the Count de Bernstorff, Mi- 
nister of State and of Conference 
to his Danish Majesty, by the Mi- 
nisters of Austria and Prussia, in 
June, 1792. 
A aire undersigned envoy extra- 
ordinary of his Hungarian 
Majesty, and the chargé des affair €s 
of his Prussian Majesty, have the 
honour of communicating tothe mi- 
nister of his Danish Majesty the 
subsequent memorial, relative to the. 
affairs of France, and to accompany 
it with some observations and re- 
quisitions of their courts on that 
subject. There are at present at 
stake the common cause of all so- 
vereigns, and the common interests 
of all governments. Hence arises 
the necessity of obligation for them 
all to interfere efficaciously, by the 
union of their means and forces ; 
and their community of efforts re- 
quiting necessarily a previous con- 
cert, for the purpose of settling with 
those courts the end of the concert, 
and the means of effecting it. 
The end unites two different ob- 
jects; the one embraces the injured 
rights of the Princes of the empire, 
as well as those of the holy see, and 
the dangers with which the propa- 
gation of French principles threatens, 
more or less, sooner or later, the 
other states, if they de not proceed 
in preventing it. The other relates 
to the maintenance of the essential 
foundations of monarchical govern- 
ment in France. The first of these 
, two objects is determined in every 
_ point by their declaration itself ; the 
- second, on the contrary, does not 
prints of a positive determina- 
tion. 
_ All the other powers have by no 
means a right to require of a great 
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and free power, such as France, that 
every thing should be entirely re- 
established in its former state, and 
that it should, without alteration, 
adopt its former mode of govern- 
ment. It follows, that they should 
and ought to acknowledge, as legal 
and constitutional, such a modifica- 
tion in its ancient government, and 
its internal administration, as the 
King, enjoying full liberty, shall ac- 
cept, in conjunction with the legi- 
timate representatives of the nation. 
Besides these, several important con- 
siderations seem to prescribe to the 
wisdom and foresight of these unit- 
ed courts, to display and maintain 
invariably the greatest moderation 
in that respect. 
As to the means to be employed, 
they ought to be sufficient, in order 
to render the success infallible, pro- 
portioned to the respective forces of 
the united powers, and regulated up= 
on one general plan of operations. 
This concurrence of efforts may 
be effectuated either by troops, or by 
subsidies of money, proportioned im 
favour of the powers who shall un- 
dertake to furnish a greater number 
of troops than the amount of their 
contingent. In both cases it will be 
necessary to specify the nature and 
quantum of these means which they 
shall engage to furnish, as well as 
the term at which these engage- 
ments shall be fulfilled. In order to 
proceed to the arrangement of these 
points, bis Apostolic Majesty aud 
his Prussian Majesty propose the 
city of Vienna as the centre of the 
distances, with a view to accelerate 
and abridge the “labour as. much as 
possible. 
But when, in consequence of the 
concert, the assembling of the armies 
shall be effected from all quarters, 
and followed by a declaration of the 
powers 
