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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



" to injure the rights or interests' 

 " of the Ottoman Porte, the inte- 

 *' S'"'*^y °^ whose dominions they 

 *' arc, on the contrary, prepared 

 *' to defend to the utmost of their 

 *' power : Finally, that the senti- 

 *' ments of Great Britain are con- 

 *' formablcwith those herein exprcs- 

 <' sed, and that she has displayed the 

 " same moderate disposition for the 

 *' restoration of peace between iicr 

 *' and France.'' Ills majesty hopes 

 that this sincere and frank declara- 

 tion will serve to remove any doubts 

 which his majesty the emperor Na- 

 poleon may entertain rcspcctii;g his 

 views and motives. His majesty 

 will be happy, and his hichcst wish 

 •will be gratified, if this declaration 

 tend to prevent tiiose misfortunes 

 which it is not in his power alone to 

 avert f^oni mankind. 



Proclamation issued hij the Emperor 

 of Austria to his Hercditarj States. 

 Dated Sept. 1805. 



We, Francis the second, emperor 

 elect of the Romans, hereditary em- 

 peror of Austria. &cc. — Facts kuo^v n 

 to all the world prove, that since 

 the conclusion of the treaty of Lunc- 

 ville, we have had nothing so much 

 at heart, as the maintenance of the 

 peace m hich we had procured for 

 our faithful people by the said treaty. 

 The scrupulous accomplishment of 

 all the obligations which that treaty 

 imposed upon us ; the observance of 

 a perfect neutrality in the naval 

 war, and the most friendly modera- 

 tion, when the emperor of the 

 French violated several of the prin- 

 cipal stipulations of the peace, and 

 endangered, by numerous abuses, 

 the repose and equilibrium of Eu- 

 TopCj gave us every right to hope 



with confidence, that our warm and 

 sincere desire for peace would be 

 fulfilled. Yet, the armaments or- 

 dered by the emperor of the French 

 close to the frontiers of the Tyrol, 

 and the duchy of Venice, joined to 

 direct menaces, required of our pa- 

 rental solicitude for our heredi- 

 tary states, counter armaments, 

 which, however, though desti- 

 ned to do away our fears for the 

 safety of our states, could not be to 

 France a subject of mistrust or of 

 open complaint. At the same time 

 that we took these measures of pre- 

 caution, to which we saw ourselves 

 forced, we took with the conrts of 

 Petersburgh and Paris, when nego- 

 tiations to be opened between those 

 two courts had been frustrated, the 

 proper measures, nevertheless, to 

 attain the salutary object, and to 

 produce the resumption of the ne- 

 gotiations for peace interrupted. 

 '1 he court of France did not ac- 

 knowledge our intentions on this 

 Jiead, and refused our mediation. 

 The court of Russia, on the con- 

 trary, declared itself ready to open, 

 in concert with us, and with equal 

 moderation, pacific negotiations, 

 and to employ an armed mediation 

 for the re-establishment of the re- 

 pose, security, and political balancj 

 of agitated Europe. We, far rc- 

 nioved from the desire ^ seeing a 

 new war break out, but convinced 

 of the imperious necessity of those 

 energetic measures, which can alone 

 insure real and lasting peace, par- 

 take perfectly the determination of 

 the emperor of all the Russias on 

 this subject, and hope from its good 

 execution, with well-founded confi- 

 dence, the desired elfect. But also 

 wc expect, with no less confidence, 

 that our dear and faithful subjects 

 who have afforded ns, for thirteen 



year^ 



