STATE- PAPERS. 



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Fnglaml, France, and Russia, with 

 the view of renewing the negotiation 

 ■which had been broken off. His 

 imperial majesty, however, cannot, 

 at the same time, conceal the possi- 

 bilitv, that a conduct, on the part 

 of France, similar to that which has 

 already compelled the emperor to 

 tread back his first steps towards a 

 negotiation for peace, may likewise 

 render nugatory the negociation 

 which Austria is desirous of renewing. 

 The painful apprehension is justified 

 by experience, that new usurpations 

 might be accomplished at the mo- 

 ment when the negotiation was re- 

 commenced, or whilst it was carry- 

 ing on. The apprehension that still 

 greater dangers might arise to the 

 happiness of Europe, from a mea- 

 sure, the obvious tendency of which 

 is its entire deliverance ; the cer- 

 tainty that these dangers would be- 

 come inevitable, as soon as the just 

 demands of the continental powers 

 became totally irreconcilci^bie with 

 the pretensions which might be urged 

 by the French government, in vir- 

 tue of its successive usurpations ; 

 the obligation also which his majesty 

 feels, in the present melancholy and 

 difficult circumstances, of aiding his 

 allies, whose safety and even exis- 

 tence is so seriously threatened, and, 

 in short, of affording them, not an 

 Ulusory, but an effective, immediate, 

 and energetic assistance; all these 

 motives unite in prescribing the only 

 line of conduct which his imperial 

 majesty has to pursue. — Russia can- 

 not now re-commence the negotia- 

 tion which has been broken off, 

 under any circumstance, until she 

 has placed herself in a situation to 

 be able to assist her allies at the mo- 

 ment when they might be attacked, 

 aud to preserve Europe from total 

 Bubrersiun. Her measures must be 



so combined as to afford a well 

 grounded hope that a negotiation for 

 peace will augur happier results 

 than those which were expected from 

 all the pacific advances hitherto 

 made, and which unfortunately have 

 been distinguished only by the want 

 of respect, shown on the part of 

 France, to the remonstrances and 

 propositions of Russia and other 

 continental powers, and by a coiiti., 

 nually progressive increase of the 

 dangers of Europe. — In consequence 

 of the abore considerations, the un- 

 dersigned has it in charge to notify 

 to the ministry of his imperial, roy, 

 al, and apostolic majesty, in answer 

 to the note presented by Count Voq 

 Stadion to the cabinet of St. Peters- 

 burgh, on the 26th of July (7th 

 August), that his majesty the empe- 

 ror of all the Russias, upon the sub- 

 ject thereof, has come to the follow- 

 ing resolutions: — To accede to the 

 request of renewing the negotiation 

 for peace, which had been broken 

 off by the recal of M. Novosiltzoff, 

 and to take measures for that pur- 

 pose, as soon as the head of the 

 French government should manifest 

 a smilar disposition ; without delay 

 to march two armies of 50,000 men 

 each, through Gallicia to the Da- 

 nube, as a measure of precaution, in 

 order to confine the support of a 

 powerful army of observation, with 

 the negotiations for peace ; which 

 army would be in a situation to pre- 

 vent all farther aggressions during 

 the period of pacification, andtose- 

 cure, at its completion, Austria, and 

 all the neighbouring powers, against 

 any farther attack on the part of 

 France ; to invite his imperial and 

 apostolic majesty, and some other 

 powers, to co-operate on their part, 

 in this salutary measure, the pro. 

 prlety of which the French govern, 



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