STATE PAPERS. 



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years of a reign, accompanied with 

 the most extraordinary events, so 

 many deep proofs of unshaken at- 

 tachment, will support u3 with all 

 their might in this undertaking, 

 formed with a view to their real 

 good, and will hasten, in conse- 

 quence, to aid us in restoring that 

 happy state of things which Mas al- 

 ways our first object, and the wish 

 nearest to our heart. We expect 

 then, of our faithful slates and sub- 

 jects, that they will not only conti- 

 nue to pay regularly the tax called 

 the classes, which has been levied in 

 1805, and which lias been prolonged 

 iu 1806, by a particular patent, 

 dated this day, but that they will 

 also furnish, with no less good Avill 

 to maintain our armies more easily, 

 contributions in kind, consisting of 

 corn and oats. (The proclamation 

 then fixes the number of bushels for 

 each province.) However willingly 

 wc should grant to our faithful states 

 and subjects the usual indemnity for 

 these supplies, we cannot this time 

 satisfy this desire, because our fi- 

 nances, obliged to make head against 

 so many other extraordinary ex- 

 penccs, are not in a condition also 

 to supply the indemnity, and that 

 there would thus remain to pay it 

 no other resource, than to raise the 

 necessary sums by nuans of another 

 contribution in money. 



Letter from M. Talleyrand to Count 

 Cobenhcl, on his sending him a 

 Memorial, in Ansuaer to his Note 

 of Sept. 3. 



The undersigned ha» the honour 

 to transmit to his excellency count 

 (Jobentzel, the annexed memorial, 

 drawn up in consequence of the 

 note of the cabinet of Vienna, 



which count Cobentzel addressed to 

 the undersigned on the 3d of Sep- 

 tember. ^ Since that memorial re- 

 ceived the approbation of his majes- 

 ty the emperor of the French, the 

 Austrian army has passed the Inn 

 and invaded Bavaria. If the pacific 

 sentiments with which his majesty 

 the emperor of Germany and of 

 Austria says he is animated, be real, 

 he must be aware that no negotia- 

 tion can be entered upon ; that no 

 proposition can be listened to, un- 

 less the Austrian troops recross the 

 Inn, aud return to their due limits. 

 If the court of Vienna refuses to 

 withdraw them, it is the intention 

 of his majesty to compel him to it 

 by force of arms. The calamities 

 which must be the inevitable conse- 

 quence of such a war, will wholly 

 redound upon the house of Austria, 

 and victory will declare against the 

 oppressor, in favour of the weaker 

 oppressed. The undersigned has 

 received from his majesty the empe- 

 ror and king, express orders to de- 

 clare, that in no case his majesty 

 will sufi'cr Austria to aggrandize her- 

 self in Germany, or to make acqui- 

 sitions in Bavaria, and accomplisi* 

 the project she has often betrayed, 

 to extend her frontiers to the Lech, 

 and to drive the elector of Bavaria to 

 the left bank of the Danube. Such 

 a project is too decidedly hostile to 

 the interest of the Germanic Body, 

 to those of France, to the promises 

 in which his majesty the emperor 

 and king has bound himself, to the 

 engagements into which he has en- 

 tered to maintain the integrity of 

 Bavaria. After tJiis positive decla- 

 ration of a resolution which, in 

 every circumstance which may arise, 

 Avill be an invariable rule of conduct 

 for France, it will be for the house 

 of Austria to consider, whether it be 

 Y y 3 her 



