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princes, to the perfect knowledge of 

 all Germany ; lie has not complain- 

 ed of the debt of Venice not having 

 been discharged, contrary tothespi 

 rit and the letter of the treaties of 

 Canipo Fo.mio and of Liincy:lle; 

 he has not complained of the denial 

 of justice experienced at Vienna by 

 his subjects of Milan and Mantua, 

 none of whom, notwithstanding the 

 formal stipulations, have been paid 

 their demands ; neither has he com- 

 plained of the partiality with which 

 Austria has recognised the right of 

 blockade, which England so mon- 

 strously arrogates to herself; and 

 when the neutrality of fhe Austrian 

 flag was so often violated to the in 

 jury of France, he was not pro- 

 voked by this conduct of the court 

 of Vienna to make any complaint ; 

 thus making a sacrifice to his love 

 of pcact , in preserving silence upon 

 the subjrct. The emperor has eva- 

 cuated Switzerland, rendered tran- 

 quil and happy by his act of media- 

 tion ; he has not kept in Italy 

 a greater number of troops than is 

 indispensibly necessary to maintain 

 the positions which they occupy to 

 the extremity of the peninsula, in 

 order to protect the commerce of 

 the Levant ; and to insure himself 

 an objtct of compensation which 

 may determine England to evacuate 

 Malta, and Russia to evacuate Cor- 

 fu ; he has not upon the Rhine, and 

 interior of his emj.ire, any more 

 troops than are indispensibly neces- 

 sary to garrison the different places. 

 Kngagcd entirely in the operations 

 of a war which he has not provoked, 

 which .liK sustains as much for the 

 interests of Europe as for his own, 

 and in which his principal end is the 

 rc-establishinent of the equilibrium 

 of commerce, ami the equal right of 

 all Hags upon the sea, he has united 

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all his forces in the camps upon the 

 borders of the ocean, far distant 

 from the Austrian frontiers ; he has 

 employed all the resources of his 

 empire to construct fleets, to form 

 his marine, to improve his ports ; 

 and it is at the same moment when 

 he reposes with entire confidence 

 upon the execution of treaties which 

 have re-established the peace of the 

 continent, that Austria rises from 

 her state of repose, organises hec 

 forces upon the war establishment, 

 sends an army into the states of 

 Italy, establishes another equally 

 considerable in the Tyrol ; it is at 

 this moment that she makes new le- 

 vies of cavalry, that she forms ma- 

 gazines, that she strengthens her for- 

 tifications, that she terrifies by her 

 preparations the people of Bavaria, 

 of Suabia, and of Switzerland, and 

 discovers an evident intention of 

 making a diversion so obviously fa- 

 vourable to England, and more in- 

 juriously hostile towards France, 

 than would be a direct campaign, 

 and an open declaration of war. In 

 thtse grave circumstances the empe- 

 ror of the French has deemed it his 

 duty to invite the court of Vienna 

 to return to a proper sense of its 

 true interests. All the expedients 

 which an ardent love of peace could 

 suggest have been resorted to with 

 avidity, and several times renewed. 

 The court of Vienna has made high 

 professions of its respect for the 

 treaties which exist between it and 

 France ; but its military prepara- 

 tions have developed her intentions, 

 at the same time that her decla- 

 rations have become more and 

 more paicific. Austria has de- 

 clared that she has no hostile inten- 

 tion against the states of his majesty 

 the emperor of the French. Against 

 whom, then, are her preparations 

 X t/ directed i 



