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uneasiness and alarm of Europe. 

 To this good office, the enijiirc re- 

 ceived an answer which ielt it no 

 hopes that the just expeftation of 

 his majesty would be fullilled ; which 

 ffave a wrong interpretation to that 

 frank, loyal, and di'^interestcd con- 

 duct,' which his majesty constantly 

 held respectins; theaiiairs of Europe, 

 and particularly with regard to 

 France : and which made it but too 

 clear, that there was a determined 

 design to thwart and irritate further 

 the court of Russia. !?o little at- 

 tention and condescension on the 

 part of the French government, to 

 the just claims of his majesty, and 

 a conduct so decidedly opposed to 

 any desire of preserving a good un- 

 derstanding between tlie two states, 

 sufficiently demonstrated to Russia, 

 that if, on the one hand, the French 

 government attached apparently but 

 little value to its relations with her, 

 and consequently furnished her with 

 a positiTC reason for no longer con- 

 tinning them ; on the other, she 

 had taken an invariable resolution 

 to adopt for her condu6t, a line ab- 

 solutely contrary to the principles 

 of justice and the laws of nations, 

 and which, consequent!}', could not 

 harmonize with the sentiments and 

 principles professed by his majesty. 

 — The em])eror, nevertheless, was 

 willing to make a final effort with 

 the French government, and alter 

 ho many reasons for dissatisfaction 

 he was disposed to forget tliem, 

 whenever the above-mentioned en. 

 gagemcnts (which Mere also detailed 

 in the note of the 21st of August) 

 should be fullilled ; which had been 

 Jiolemidy entered into by the two 

 governments, and should have long 

 .since been executed. 'I'his last ef- 

 fort having been followed by an 

 evaxivB and unsqfisl'attory answer. 



full of fallacious imputations, alid 

 which is only remartable for the 

 strange and unexpected ass;.'rfion,- 

 ' That the Rnssian troops had taken' 

 possession of the republic of the 

 seven islands M'ithout the concur- 

 rence of France ;' while it is noto- 

 rious, and (he minister for foreign 

 affairs must hare it in view, that 

 this country, which had been first 

 evacuated by the Russian troops, 

 was occupied by those diawn froni 

 the state of Naples, with the con- 

 sent of the Porte, by the request of 

 the inhabitants, and in consequence 

 of a previous arrangement with 

 France ; nothing furtht-r remains 

 for the undersigned than to declare, 

 that all correspondence betweenRus- 

 sia and France, becoming by these 

 means perfectly useless, must now 

 cease ; and that his majesty the em- 

 peror only waits for intelligence of 

 the departure of his charge d'aftaires 

 from Paris, to signify to the French 

 mission, that it should quit his capi- 

 tal. His majesty the emperor hav- 

 ing nothing to reproach himself with 

 on this' head (for if it had depended 

 on him, the ties between the two 

 naJions, far fi o:n being dissolved, 

 would be drawn closer), sees him- 

 self Avith regret compelled to sus- 

 })end all relation with a government 

 which refuses to fulfd its engage- 

 ments, which will not conform to 

 the reciprocal respect nations owe 

 to each other, and in regard to 

 which his majesty, since the renewal 

 of the connexion bt'tAveen the two 

 countries, has experienced inrcreas- 

 ing mortification. Still faithful to 

 his principles, and anxious to avoid 

 the shedding of human blood, the 

 emperor will confine iiimself to that 

 res?>lu1ion niiich the respective po- 

 sitions of the two conrftrics admits. 

 Russia and France can do without 



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