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dora, dining the preseut and any 

 future war. 2. That, in confor- 

 mity to the second article of tlie said 

 convention, the French government 

 shall promise to establish imme- 

 diately some principle oi' concert 

 ■flith , his imperial majesty, for re- 

 gulating the basis upon Avhich the 

 affairs of Italy shall be finally ad- 

 justed.— ^ — 3. That it shall engage, 

 in conformity to the 6th article of 

 the convention aforesaid, and the 

 promises so repeatedly given to 

 Russia, to indemnify, witiiout de- 

 lay, the king of Sardinia for the 

 losses he has sustained. Lastly. — 

 4. That, in virtue of the obligation 

 of a mutual guarantee and media- 

 tion, the French government shall 

 promise immediately to evacuate and 

 withdraw its troops from the north 

 of Germany ; and enter into an en- 

 gagement to respect, in the strictest 

 manner, the neutrality of the Ger- 

 manic body. The undersigned 



has to add, that he has received or- 

 ders from his government to demand 

 a categorical answer to these four 

 points, and avails himself of this op- 

 portunity, (kc. 



Note from M. Talleyrand, French 

 Minister for Foreign .{if air a, de- 

 livered to M. D'Oiibrll, liuftsian 

 Char!j;c d' AfJ'alrn at Paris. Dated 

 29^/iJ«/j/, 1804. 



The undersigned minister for fo- 

 reign affairs has submitted to his ma- 

 jesty the emperor, the note of M. 

 D'Oubril, charge d'affaires from 

 Russia, (of the 21st July, ISOl.) 

 The undersigned has received orders 

 to declare, that whenever the court 

 of Russia shall fiillil the articles of 

 its frcaty with France, the latter 

 will be ready to execute them with 



the same fidelity : as Russia must 

 naturally tbink that the treaty is 

 equally binding upon the two con- 

 tracting powers. If the cabinet of 

 St. Petersburgh is of opinion, that it 

 has some demands to make in con- 

 sequence of the ai tides IV. V. and 

 VI. of the secret convention of the 

 18th Vendemiaire, year 10, France 

 aUo claims the execuiion oi the 3d 

 article of that treaty, which is ex- 

 pressed in the following terms: — 

 " The two contracting parties, de- 

 sirous to the utmost of their power 

 to contribute to the tranquillity of 

 the'two respective governments, en- 

 gage not to suffer their respective 

 subjects to maintain any correspon- 

 dence, direct or indirect, with the 

 enemies of the two states, or to. 

 propagate principles contrary to 

 their respective constitutions, by 

 fomenting any disturbance whatso- 

 ever : and that in consequence of 

 this agreement, every subject of one 

 of tiiose powers inhabiting the states 

 of the other, who shall do any thing 

 contrary ^o its safety, shall be re- 

 moved from the said country, and 

 transpor ed beyond its frontiers, 

 without having any claim to the 

 protection of his own government." 

 This article, framed with as much 

 precision as wisdom, declares the very 

 friendly dispositions which bound 

 ihe two powers at the time of form- 

 ing this treaty. France, therefore, 

 did not expect that Russia would 

 grant its protection to French emi- 

 grants, by accrediting theni to the 

 neighbouring powers of France, 

 where itiey might indulge their hos- 

 tile dispositions agaiiLst their coun- 

 try : nor did she expect such a con- 

 duct from M. Marcod", the minister 

 of llussia, who was the real cause 

 of the disunion and coolness existing 

 between the two powers. During 



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