654 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



those relations, the continuance of 

 which is only to be warranted by 

 reasons of advantage and accommo- 

 dation, and without whicli it is bet- 

 tor that they should have no con- 

 nexion. As it is the French govern- 

 ment alone which has given rise to 

 the present state of aft'airs, it will also 

 depend upon it to decide whether 

 war is to follow or not. In case it 

 shall compel Russia, either by fresh 

 injuries or by provocations aimed 

 against her, or against her allies, or 

 by still threatening more seriously 

 the security and independence of 

 Europe, his majesty will then ma- 

 nifest as much energy in employing 

 those extreme measures, which a 

 just defence requires, as he has giv- 

 en proofs of patience, in resorting 

 to the use of all the means of mo- 

 deration consistent with the main- 

 tenance of the honour and dignity 



of his crown. The undersigned 



having thusfulfdied the orders which 

 he has received from his court, re- 

 quests, in consequence, that the 



minister for 



foreign 



all'airs will be 



kind enough to send him, without 

 delay, the necessary passports, to 

 enable him to quit France ; and he 

 embraces this opportunity of giving 

 to the citizen minister for foreign 

 affairs, the assurance of his high 

 consideration. 



which has been so melancholy, has 

 occasioned the most poignant grief to 

 the emperor of all the Russias. He 

 cannot but view with the greatest 

 concern the violation which has been 

 committed on the tranquillity and 

 integrity of the German territory. 

 His imperial majesty is the more af- j 

 fetted by this event, as he never 

 could have expefted that a power 

 which had undertaken, in common 

 with himself, the office of mediator, 

 and was consequently bound to ex- 

 ert his care for the welfare and tran- 

 quillity of Germany, could have de- 

 parted in such a manner from the 

 sacred principles of the law of na- 

 tions, and the duties it had so lately 

 taken upon itself. > It would be un- 

 necessary to call the attention of 

 the diet to the serious consequences 

 to which the German empire must 

 be exposed, if a6ls of violence, of 

 which the first example has just been 

 seen, should be passed over in si- 

 lence ; it will, with its accustomed 

 foresight, easily perceive how much 

 the future tranquillity and security 

 of the whole empire, and each of its 

 members must be endangered, if 

 such violent proceedings should be 

 deemed allowable, and suffered to 

 take place without observation or 

 opposition. 



Note (Mivered hi/ the Minister Resi- 

 dent of Russia, M. Klu]}pell, to 

 Baron d'Albini, anil communicated 

 to the Diet of Ratisbon, oti the 

 6th of Maij, 1804. D(dcd at 

 Ratisbon on the 5th of Mai/y 

 and signed De KUtppell. 



The event which Tias taken place 

 in the states of his highness the clec- 

 tof oi" Baden; the eouclusion of 



Vote of his Majesty the King of Szre- 

 den, in the Deliberations of the 

 Diet of Ratisbon, relative to the 

 Imperial Russian Note of the 7th 

 of May, concerning the Seizure of 

 the Dulce d'Enghuicn. Dated Ra- 

 tisbon, July 27, 1804. 



His majesty the king of Sweden, 

 as duke of interior Pomerania, has 

 charged his envoy to insert the fol- 

 lowing vote in the protocol, on the 



subject 



