STATE PAPERS. 
Imperial Majefty ftill wifhed for 
peace, even in the moment when his 
arms were moft fignally victorious. 
His Majefty has now likewife giv- 
en in charge to the underfigned, 
the Prefident of Lower Auftria, to 
communicate to the public the moft 
pofitive affurance ‘that he is now 
employed in the moft earneft man- 
ner in haftening the conclufion of 
apeace. But though his Majefty 
will negle& nothing which may 
procure the bleffings of a fpeedy 
peace to his hereditary ftates, he 
trufts with confidence, that fhould 
the enemy, dazzled by the change- 
able fortune of war, contrary to 
what we would hope, arrogantly 
reject all reconciliation, or infift on 
extravagant conditions, and fuch as 
are difgraceful to the Auftrian na- 
tion, every faithful fubjeét, mindful 
of the duties to which he has fworn, 
will exert his utmoft efforts to ob- 
tain peace by a courageous defence 
of his country, and will contribute 
all in his power to preparations 
which the extreme emergence may 
render neceflary for the fafety of 
the capital; and that the brave in- 
habitants of Vienna will thew no 
lefs courage and loyalty than their 
glorious anceftors, who, under Fer- 
dinand and Leopold {, on the walls 
of their city, fought and conquered 
for religion, their Sovereign, their 
country, and their honour. 
Francis Count Saurav, 
Prefident of Adminiftration 
in Lower Autftria. 
Vienna, April 4th, \797. 
Declaration of the Emperor at Vienna, 
on the 15th of Afril, 1797. 
COUNT Saurau, Prefident of 
the adminiftration of Lower Auttria, 
340 
has publifhed a proclamation, by or- 
der of his Imperial Majefty, fignify- 
ing, that though his Imperial Majel- 
ty cannot, for obvious important 
reafons, undertake the defence of 
his capital in his own perfon, he 
has taken all the neceflary meafures, 
and caufed every provifion to be 
made under his own infpection, for 
its defence. His Imperial Majefty 
likewife expreffes his hope that the 
enemy will at length confent to ac- 
cept more equitable terms, and fee 
in their proper light thofe which 
his Majefty has propofed; they ‘are 
fo framed, as they only can be, with- 
out derogating from the dignity of 
his Imperial Majefty, and the ho- 
nour of the nation he has the hap- 
pinefs to govern. His Majefty, 
however, confides in the affiftance 
and fupport of all his faithful fub- 
jects; and trufts that, fhould the 
enemy proceed to extremities, they 
alone, by the Divine affiftance, will 
be the victim, 
His Majefty likewife gives notice, 
that whatever damage may be done 
to the city or fuburbs by the prepa- 
rations neceflary for defence, or 
the aflaults of the enemy, fhall be 
repaired, after the reftoration of 
peace, from his Majefty’s private 
property, 
Vienna, June 21 ff, 1797. 
ON the 21ft inftant Count 
Thurn, in Styria, publifhed a decla- 
ration relative to the entrance of 
the Auftrian troops into Venetian 
Iftria. The principal reafons af- 
figned areas follows; 2 
1ft. The revolutionary fpirit 
which has manifefted itfelfin the 
inhabitants of the Venetian terri- 
tory, threatens the neighbouring 
countries, and compels the Empe- 
Y¥3 ror 
