STATE PAPERS. 



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Tyrol, and the Austro-Venetian pro- 

 vinces. His majesty thus found him- 

 self under the necessity of providing, 

 without delay, for his own safety. 

 He was now convinced that his paci- 

 fic, friendly, and moderate senti- 

 ments, were not met by such senti- 

 ments on the part of his majesty the 

 emperor of the French, as to permit 

 him any longer to neglect taking 

 the necessary measures for asserting 

 his just rights, and maintaining the 

 dignify of his empire. — This is the 

 cause of his present armament. The 

 same dispositions, however, which 

 made his majesty so anxious to aroid 

 a recurrence to such measures, have 

 also determined their precise object. 

 The emperor arms not with hostile 

 views : he arms not to operate a 

 diversion against a landing in En- 

 gland. Besides, the execution of 

 this descent, after two years' me- 

 naces, does not seem to be exactly 

 calculated for the moment when 

 France provokes Austria and Rus- 

 sia, by enterprizes which have no 

 relation whatever to the quarrel 

 with Great Britain. The emperor 

 arms for the maintenance of the 

 peace existing between him and 

 France. He arms for the mainte- 

 nance of those pacific stipulations, 

 without which this peace would be- 

 come illusory, and to attain that 

 just equipoise which depends on the 

 moderation of all the powers inte- 

 rested, and which is calculated to 

 secure the balance and the perma- 

 nent tranquillity of Europe. — The 

 step by which his majesty has at the 

 same time invited all the courts in- 

 terested to renew the negotiations 

 which have been broken oli", is di- 

 rected to the same object. The 

 unexpected rejection which his in- 

 terposition has experienced on the 

 part of his majesty the emperor of 



the French, does not prevent him 

 from renewing that invitation. — He 

 has been more fortunate in his ap- 

 plication to the emperor Alexander. 

 This monarch, who fills so honour- 

 able and distinguished a place in the 

 senate of the powers of Europe, 

 whose equality and general prospe- 

 rity form the objects of his constant 

 solicitude, testifies, in the answer 

 he has transmitted, and which is 

 hereto annexed, a similar wish with 

 that of his majesty, for the conclu- 

 sion of a just and moderate arrange- 

 ment. He is also convinced of th« 

 necessity of an eventual armament; 

 and, on account of the distanc* 

 which he has to pass, in order to 

 support the cause of justice and the 

 issue of his moderation, he feels it 

 to be his duty to cause a part of his 

 troops to advance, for the purpose 

 of conferring on the said mediation 

 all the importance and all the effect 

 which are worthy of so great a 

 power. — As a demonstration of the 

 rectitude of the sentiments enter- 

 tained by the two imperial courts 

 of Austria and Russia, it is hereby 

 formally declared in the name of 

 both : " That they are ready to 

 " enter into a negotiation with 

 " France, for maintaining the peace 

 " of the continent on the most mo- 

 " derate terms which are compati- 

 " ble with the general tranquillity 

 " and security : that whatever shall 

 " be the issue of thj negotiations, 

 " and even shuuld the commence, 

 " mcnt of hostilities become nua- 

 " voidable, they, at the same time, 

 '• pledge themselves to abstain from 

 " every proceeding tending to in- 

 " terfere with the internal concerns 

 "of France; or to alter the statu 

 " of possession, and the legally ex- 

 " isting relations in the German 

 " empire: or, ia the slighcst degree, 

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