STATE PAPERS. 



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highness the duke of Enghuien, at 

 Ettenheim, in the territory of the 

 elector of Baden, but with this dii'- 

 ference, that the second seizure will 

 not be eflfeftedby a body of troojjs, 

 but by men secretly sent to Munich, 

 dnd its neighbourhood, by different 

 roads. With respect to the moment 

 and particulars of the execution, I 

 have no detailed accounts ; and I 

 own to your excellency, that the 

 difficulties of the enterprise appear- 

 ed to me from the first too great, 

 the project itself too extravagant, 

 and at the same time too dreadful, 

 to be fully convinced of its exist- 

 ence : on the other hand, it cannot 

 be concealed, that the example of 

 events which have very recently oc- 

 curred, as it were, under our eyes, 

 are little calculated to inspire confi- 

 dence. However this may be, and 

 little as this notice has affected me 

 personally, yet it appears to me, 

 that I should be transgressing the 

 duties which ray post, as a public 

 minister, requires, if I neglected in- 

 forming your excellency thereof 

 forthwith, that you may be enabled 

 to take in time such measures as the 

 case may require, and to avert, by 

 proper adts of precaution, the un- 

 pleasant result which might arise, 

 even from the attempt to execute a 

 design of this nature. I beg your 

 excellency to accept the assurance, 

 kc. 



Note from the Baron de ]\Io7ifgelas, 

 Minister of the Elector of Jia- 

 variuj to Mr. Drakcy the English 

 Minister to Bavaria. Dated Mu- 

 nich, March 31, 1804. 



the annexed printed papers, and to 

 state to him that the originals, in Mr. 

 Drake's own hand-writing, are now 

 before him ! Ilis electoral highness, 

 penetrated with grief at the disco- 

 very that his capital has been the 

 central point of a correspondence, 

 v/hich is so inconsistent with the 

 mission which his excellency Mr. 

 Drake was invested at this court ; 

 and he owes it to his dignity and to 

 the welfare of his subjects, to de- 

 clare, that from this moment it is 

 impossible for him to have any com- 

 munication with Mr. Drake, or to re- 

 ceive him at his court. Already two 

 of his electoral highness's subjects, 

 who are compromised in Mr. 

 Drake's correspondence, are arrest- 

 ed at Munich, because they have 

 acted in a manner inconsistent with 

 the law of nations. The undersign- 

 ed is likewise charged to declare, 

 that his electoral highness knows 

 too well the noble and magnanimous 

 sentiments of his Britannic majesty 

 and the English nation, to suppose 

 that their coiftluct on this occasion 

 can be liable to the smallest reproach. 

 They will hasten to declare them- 

 selves directly to his raajesiy, and to 

 deposit in his bosom the profound 

 grief they feel, while they withdraAV 

 their confidence from the minister, 

 who was appointed to represent his 

 majesty at this court. The eleotor 

 is perfectly convinced that his Bri- 

 tannic nsajesty will, on this occa- 

 sion, necessarily so painful to him, 

 see a new proof of the high esteem 

 he entertains for his majesty, and of 

 that good will of which he has givea 

 so many proofs to the electoral 

 house. 



The undersigned, &c. has the ex- 

 press command of his electoral high- Note presented to the Vrendi Mima- 

 •ess, to communicate to .Mr. Drake ter of Foreign JffuirSj by the 



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