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powers announcing their common 
intention, and the objects of which 
they demand the redress; and if 
then it be necessary to establish a 
formal armed congress, it follows, 
that this congress cannot be held at 
Vienna, at too great a distance from 
France, but in some other place that 
tthe united powers shall judge most 
convenient. Their Apostolic and 
Prussian Majesties are ready on their 
part to concur in this manner with 
all the promptitude and energy pos- 
sible, in support of the common in- 
terests of all sovereigns and govern- 
ments. 
The measures that the two courts 
have taken till now being purely 
defensive, the active. measures that 
they shall further pursue will de- 
pend upon the fulfilment of the pro- 
posed concert, and consequently the 
effective co-operations of the other 
courts. 
It is in virtue of the precise or- 
ders, and in the name of their re- 
spective courts, that the undersigned 
have the honour of inviting the court 
of Denmark to this concert, and the 
engagement of furnishing its minis- 
ter at Vienna with instructions, and 
with full powers necessary for that 
purpose, demanding the eventual in- 
formation of the means that it should 
contribute to the common end, and 
the limited time in which it may be 
able to furnish them. 
As the present notorious extre- 
mity of the affairs of France, and, 
above all, the hostile invasion of the 
territory of Germany, and of the 
circle of Burgundy, which it is about 
to renew, renders urgent the ne- 
cessity of accelerating, as much as 
possible, the execution of the com- 
bined measures, the undersigned 
flatter themselves, that his Excel- 
lency M. le Comte de Bernstorff, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
will not delay to inform them of 
the intentions of his court relative- 
ly to its accession to the proposed 
concert. 
(Signed) Weevetin. 
BREUNNER. 
The Answer of his Evcellency the 
Count de Bernstorf’. 
T is with all the sentiments wor- 
thy of the confidence of the so- 
vereigns, his friends and allies, and 
with an equal return of confidence, - 
that his Danish Majesty has received 
and weighed the overtures of their 
Apostolic and Prussian Majesties. 
He has there perceived the most 
just principles, and the most re- 
spectable solicitude for the happi- 
ness and tranquillity of all Europe, 
evidently threatened by the French 
anarchy, and also by the imposing 
appearance of these deceitful but 
seducing forms. The proposal of a 
perfect concert, to secure the ge- 
neral basis of social order, to set 
bounds to the attempts of those who 
despise it, and to restore the French 
again to that prosperity which they 
once enjoyed, but which has been 
annihilated, cannot but flatter the 
King my master. If he cannot 
concur in it, it does not proceed 
from. a difference of opinion: or 
views; it is from reasons founded 
on a different position, upon greater 
interests, upon duties which ought 
to form his law and his guide, and 
which do not permit him to listen 
to his inclinations, or consult his 
regrets. His Majesty will explain 
himself upon this head with trath, 
frankness, and the utmost cordiality. 
He knows that it is only thus that 
he can prove his esteem and friend- 
ship to the sovereigns to whom he 
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