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her army in Italy, and tlie Tyrol, 

 and reduce her military force to the 

 peace establishmentj peace with 

 England must ensue, and that the 

 crounsof Francs and Italy should 

 be separated for ever, and that 

 Europe would be indebted to the 

 wisdom of Austria for her tran. 

 quillity and securif_v, but that a con- 

 trary condudt would precipitate 

 Europe into a situation which could 

 not be foreseen or calculated. 



This was followed by another 

 note from the French minister for 

 foreign aftairs, to the Austrian am- 

 bassador at Paris, wherein the for- 

 mer topics arc repeated, and termi- 

 uating with the demand. 



That the twenty-one regiments 

 which had been sent to the German 

 and Italian Tyrol should be with- 

 drawn, and that those troops only 

 should remain in the said provinces 

 \\hich Were there six months before. 



That the camp fortifications should 

 be discontinued, i^ncluding those at 

 Venice. 



That the troops in Sti'n'a, in Ca- 

 rinthia, in Friuli, and the Venetian 

 territory, be reduced to the numbers 

 at which they stood sii month be- 

 fore. And 



That Austria declare to England 

 her unshaken determination to pre- 

 serve an exact neutrality. 



On the 31st of August, a declara- 

 tion was officially made, by the Rus- 

 sian ambassador at Vienna, the ma- 

 terial substance of which was that, 

 in compliance with the Austrian 

 court, his majesty the emperor of 

 all the Russias had resolved to ac- 

 cede to the request of renewing the 

 negociation for peace, which had 

 been broken off, by the recal of M. 

 NoYosiltzoiT, as soon as the head of 

 the French go?ernment should assent 

 thereto. 



Aod, as a measure of precaution, 



to cause two armies of 50,000 men 

 each, to march to the Danube, in 

 order to give weight to the negocia* 

 tions, solemnly declaring that it was 

 his imperial majesty's intention to 

 recal those troops as soon as the so 

 much desired security of all the states 

 of Europe should be obtained. 



To this succeeded a second note 

 from the court of Vienna to the 

 French government, which was trans- 

 mitted on the 3rd of September, de- 

 claring, that ' that power had no other 

 view than that of maintaining peace 

 and friendship with France, and of 

 securing the general tranquillity of 

 the continent ; that the maintenance 

 of peace did not consist solely in a 

 forbearance from any positive at- 

 tack ; that it required the fulfilment 

 of those treaties upon which peace 

 had been founded.' 



' The peace existing between Aus- 

 tria and France originated with the 

 treaty of Luneville ; that treaty 

 guaranteed the independence of the 

 Italian, Helvetic, and Batavian re- 

 publics ; Austria had to complaia 

 that these stipulations were violated^ 

 that the maintenance of general tran- 

 quillity required that each power 

 should confine itself within its own 

 frontiers, and respect the rights of 

 other nations, whether weak or 

 strong : in fine, when she sets her- 

 self up as an arbitress to regulate 

 the common interests of nations, and 

 to exclude every other state from 

 taking any part in the maintenance 

 of general tranquillity and the ba- 

 lance of power.* 



' The emperor had never ceased to 

 demand the execution of the before- 

 mentioned stipulations : however, 

 the emperor Napoleon, notwith- 

 standing his frequent and solemn as- 

 surances, in his character of presi- 

 deat of the Italia* ropublic^ that he 



■was 



