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course of <he day: prince Bagration 

 was attacked in the neighbourhood 

 of Urschutz: he niaintain«d his post. 

 He retired, however, in the ctening, 

 towards Czeitsch. 



On the 4th the allied ariny 

 crossed the river IMarch, and 

 arrived at HoUitsch. The emperor 

 j^lexander took up his quarters in 

 the castle cf Hollitsch, whilst the 

 emperor of Germany remained at 

 Czeitsch. 



Prince John of Leichtenstein had 

 been sent, on the night of the 2d of 

 December, to the French emperor, 

 to propose an armistice on the part 

 of the emperor Francis : and it was 

 agreed, that a suspension of hostili- 

 ties should take place, to commence 

 on the 4th instant, at day break. 

 The prince arrited at head quar- 

 ters the evening before, but it ap- 

 pears, that the French army was not 

 apprised of this transaction, in suf- 

 ficient time to prevent the hostile 

 movements tnadeon the 4th. 



In consequence of this agreement, 

 an interview took place between the 

 fempcrors of Germany andFi-anre, in 

 the open air, at a small distance from 

 the village of Nasedlowitz, near a 

 mill, by the road side. This con- 

 ference lasted a considerable time, 

 ■when the emperor Francis returned 

 to Czeitsch, which place he reached 

 in the evening, and immediaUly 

 dispatched an Austrian general to 

 communicate (he result to the em- 

 peror Alexander. General SaVary 

 was appointed by Bonaparte to 

 attend the Austrian general to the 

 Russian head-quarters. The em- 

 peror of Russia received them w ith 

 politeness, and, at the same time, 

 made no positive objection (o the 

 armistice, though he did not formally 

 roncur in it. 



la conformity with the terms of 



this agreement, the French army 

 was to remain in possession of its 

 conquests, namely, part of Moravia 

 and Hungary, all Upper and Lower 

 Austria, the Tyrol, the state of 

 Vienna, Caririthia, Styria, Car- 

 niola, the country of Goritz and 

 Istria ; and lastly, in Bohemia, 

 the circle of Montabar, with the 

 whole space to the eastward, from 

 Tabor to Lin(z. The French army 

 was to hold this immense tract 

 until the conclusion of a definitive 

 peace, or the rupture of the nego- 

 ciations ; in the latter of which case 

 it w-as stipulated, that hostilities 

 should not re-commence withia 

 fourteen days, and that the cessa- 

 tion of the arrnistipe should then b« 

 announced to the plenipotentiaries 

 of both powers, at the head of their 

 respective armies. It was further 

 agreed, that the Russian army 

 should evacuate the Austrian states^ 

 Moravia and Hungary, within the 

 period of fifteen days, and Gallicia 

 within a month ; the routes to be 

 prescribed to the Russian army * 

 that there should be no levy or in- 

 surrection in Hungary, nor any ex*" 

 traordinary raising of troops in 

 Bohemia, nor that any foreign army 

 should be permitted to enter the 

 territory of the house of Austria ; 

 and, finally, it was conditioned, that 

 negociators from both powers 

 should meet at Nicholsburg, foi* 

 the commencement of a treaty, in 

 order to effect, without delay, the 

 re-establishment of peace between 

 the two emperors. 



To these humiliating conditionSj 

 derogatory to the dignity of his 

 throne and the interests of his allies, 

 the emperor Alexander, with that 

 magnanimity which has distinguish- 

 ed his majesty on all occasions, re- 

 fused to become a party, and ac- 

 *' eordingly '< 



