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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



high personal regard, has induced 

 me to transmit, without dday, these 

 presents to my minister of state, the 

 marquis de Lucchesini, to accredit 

 him to your person in the quality of 

 my ambassador extraordinary and 

 minister plenipotentiary. I accord- 

 ingly request you to believe what- 

 ever he may have the honour to say 

 or to propose to you on my part. 

 He will, in particular, fulfil my in. 

 tontions by giving your imperial ma- 

 jcsty to understand the sentiments 

 which I have ever cherished to- 

 wards you; the sincere interest which 

 I have never ceased to take in all 

 that is calculated to increase and 

 strengthen the prosperity and the 

 welfare of the nation over which 

 you rule; and my ardent wishes 

 that this prosperity may be still far- 

 ther augmented by the happy resto- 

 ration of peace and tranquillity in 

 Europe. You will invariably tind, 

 in my mode of thinking and acting, 

 the same candour and the same con- 

 fidence in you, which I have hither- 

 to been so anxious to shew you. 

 While I give you this assurance, I 

 likewise renew, with pleasure, that 

 of titc sentiments of friendship, and 

 the highest consideration with which 

 I am, your imperial majesty's good 

 brother and friend, 



Frederick VViHiam. 



Veduration delivered at Vienna^ by 

 the Kusnian jlmbassudor, Count 

 Ra.ioiiioicxkjjy vn the Slut of Alt' 

 gunt^ 1805. 



It would b* superfluous to revert 

 ?iere to the inotives which have in- 

 tliicfd ills majesty the emperor of all 

 Jhe Russias, to recal the plenipoten- 

 tiary whom he had sent, in concert 

 with his Britannic majesty, to nego- 



tiate with the head of the French 

 government, on the subject of peace, 



These grounds are too just and 



obvioHS not to merit the attention of 

 all Europe. They are contained in 

 the note which was transmitted to 

 the ministers of his Prussian niajes, 

 ty, by M. Novosiltzoff, on the 28th 

 June (July 10), and the conclusion 

 to which they have given rise, is a 

 consequence of those very senti- 

 ments and principles which have led 

 ^is imperial nwjesty to exert himself 

 with incessant anxiety for the resto, 

 ration of the general tranquillity. — 

 Since the rupture between England 

 and P'lance, his, majesty has beheld, 

 with astonishment and commisera- 

 tion, the greater part of the states 

 of the continent compelled, in sucr 

 cession, to bear the burden of a war, 

 which, in its origin, is plainly of q, 

 maritime nature, and foreign to their 

 direct interests. Me could not, how- 

 ever, cherish the hope, that this me- 

 lancholy state of things miaht be put 

 an end to, by means of a frank and 

 friendlj' negotiation, when he per- 

 ceived that, without the slightest 

 regard to these solemn prQceedings, 

 which tended to the restoration of 

 peace, and even at the very moment 

 when Russia offered to negotiate for 

 its attainment, the number of states 

 which lost their independence, con- 

 tinued to increase. — W hen his inir 

 perial majesty resolved to recal his 

 plenipotentiary, he was actuated 

 merely by the consideration that 

 this mission could not produce any 

 pacific result, and not from his hav- 

 ing, ip any respect, renounced his 

 ardent desire of restoring peace to 

 Europe. — Of this disposition, the 

 emperor gave the most convincing 

 demonstration, in his acceding to the 

 application made by his imperial 

 Roman and apostolic nxajcsty, to 



England, 



