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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



His Britannic majesty engaged to 

 contribute to the common efforts, 

 by emjiloying his forces, both by 

 sea and land, as well as vessels for 

 transporting troops in the general 

 plan of operations, and to assist the 

 different powers by subsidies, %vhich 

 should correspond with the amount 

 of their respective forces so em[)loy. 

 ed. 



It wasmutualiy agro. d that, in the 

 event of this kMguc being formed, 

 they would not make peace with 

 France, but with the common con- 

 sent of all the powers, w ho should 

 become parties to it, 



Sweden and Austria had already 

 entered into these views ; however, 

 no intention was manifested on the 

 part of these powers to proceed to 

 hostilities, until an attempt to attain, 

 by negociation, the objcfts of the 

 concerted alliance had proved abor- 

 tive ; on the contrary, a Russian en- 

 voy (Daron Novosiltzofi") was nomi- 

 nated to negociatc with France, and 

 had actually proceeded to LJcrlin, 

 on his way to Paris, when the intelli- 

 gence arrived of the annexation of 

 Genoa to the French empire. 



Under this change of circum- 

 stances, he applied to his court for 

 fresh instructions: the result was his 

 immediate recal. But, before his 

 departure, he addressed a note, dated 

 the lOfh of July, to Baron Harden- 

 herg, the Prussian minister, which 

 was communicated by him to M. 

 la Foret, the French resident at Ber. 

 lin, explaining the cause of the in- 

 terruption of his mission. 



This was a signal to Austria for- 

 mally to become a member of the 

 laague, and accordingly a treaty to 

 that eflecl was signed on the Qth of 

 August, by her plenipotentiary at 

 St. Petcrsburgh. 



About the same period, a note 



was addressed, by the Austrian am- 

 bassador at Paris, to the French 

 minister for foreign affairs, expressive 

 of the anxious desire of his court 

 to concur with the courts of Lon- 

 don and St. Petcrsburgh, in their 

 endeavours to promote a general 

 pacification, whin the overtures to 

 bo made to tlie French government, 

 by M. Novosiltzoff, were suddenly 

 broken off, by the ciianges recently 

 made in the condition of the repub- 

 lics of Genoa .ind Lucca. Tliat 

 these events still further urged the 

 court of Vienna to recommend the 

 renewal of measures of concilia- 

 tion, in which she was willing to 

 lend her most earnest assistance. 



In reply to this note, it was ob- 

 served, by M. Talleyrand, that, from 

 the conduct of England and llussia,- 

 little hopes could be entertained of 

 the sincerity of their pacific inten- 

 tions ; that Austria had it in her 

 power to compel them to have re- 

 course to what they professed ; for 

 neither of those powers could act 

 with effot^ against France, without 

 the co-operations of Austria or 

 Prussia, and that the latter was the 

 steady ally of France. And it is 

 asked, what reliance can be placed 

 in these professions of Austria, 

 when she continues to maintain an 

 army of 72,000 men in Italy, whilst 

 France has only 50,000 in that 

 country, 15,000 of whom are 

 .stationed at the extremity of the 

 kingdom of Naples ? He then ad- 

 verts to the military preparations on 

 foot in Poland, and in Italy, the 

 evident result of combined opera- 

 tions. In this state of things, what 

 other course had the emperor of 

 the French to adopt, than to antici- 

 pate his enemies ? But if Austria 

 would issue a declaration similar to 

 that made by Prussia, and reduce 



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