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formed their exercise more readily, 

 or were animated with a better spi- 

 rit. If you see this camp, after 

 that of Marengo, and knoAv tliat 

 we have, independent of these, a 

 diTisioa at Genoa, anotlier at Flo- 

 rence, and a third at Naples, you 

 Avill find that wc have at this mo- 

 ment a greater army in Italy than 

 ever, without reckoning the corps 

 of Italian troops, which is forming 

 under the eye of its master, and ap- 

 pears to be animated with a desire 

 to render itself worthy of its sove- 

 reign."] 



Tko Declarations, in the Form of 

 Notes, delivered by M. de TulL-y- 

 rand. French Minister of Foreign 

 Relations^ to Count Fhilip Co- 

 bentzel, at Paris. 



First Note from M. dc Talleyrand^ 

 delivered on the 13th of August, 

 1805. 



The undersigned has hastened, on 

 the termination of the conference 

 which he has had the honour of 

 holding with Count de Cobentzel, to 

 transmit to Boulogne the declaration 

 delivered to him by his excellency 

 (alluding to the Austrian declaration 

 of the 5th of August), and he has 

 received orders from the emperor 

 and king to return the following 

 answer: — The emperor could not 

 fail of being sensibly affected by the 

 sentiments of moderation shewn in 

 the aforesaid declaration, and by 

 the amicable readiness of his majes- 

 ty the emperor of Germany and 

 Austria, to hasten, by his interpo- 

 sition, the termination of the evils 

 caused by the war to the French 

 empire. But the more his majesty 

 knows how to appreciate the im- 



portance and the value of the good 

 offices of his majesty the emperor of 

 Austria, the more he is grateful for 

 the intention with Mhich the oHer 

 of those good otlices is made, and 

 the more docs he feel, that his very 

 sentiments of gratitude forbid hira 

 to make use thereof: if, on the 

 one hand, from the nature of things, 

 and on the other, from the situation 

 of circumstances, it is not even per- 

 mitted to hope, that they can be 

 employed with advantage, nor con- 

 sequently without comprising the 

 dignity of the mediator — this mo. 

 tire alone would be decisive for his 

 majesty, even if it were possible to 

 forget how the cabinets of London 

 and St. PetersbuVgh have very laiely 

 answered his most noble and mag- 

 nanimous behaviour. — M. de Novo- 

 siltzoflF was coming to France, with- 

 out the emperors knowing his in- 

 tentions. The king of Prussia had^ 

 required passports for this chamber- 

 lain of the emperor of Russia. The 

 passports were immediately granted 

 without any explanation. What 

 benefit has his majesty derived from 

 this extraordinary concession ? An 

 offensive note, replete with false as- 

 sertions, was the sole result from a 

 mission, which the emperor had 

 neither occasioned nor required. — 

 Being thus attacked in his honour, 

 it is no longer possible for him to 

 require or expect any thing of Rus- 

 sia, who, instead of being desirous 

 of peace, finds her own interest ia 

 w^r, and founds on its renovation 

 hopes, which she attempts in vain to 

 conceal, when her behaviour unveils 

 them even to those eyes which are 

 the least penetrating. — For a twelve- 

 month past the emperor has received 

 northing but insults from the Russian 

 cabinet. His character and his dis- 

 positiou arc too well known for it 

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