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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805 



her interest to incur all the hazards 

 of war, merely because she wishes, 

 but without any well-grounded hope 

 of bcingable to accomplish her wish, 

 to obtain a part of Bavaria ? for, 

 fruitless would be her eftbrts to con- 

 ceal what is now notorious to all 

 Europe, that such in reality is her 

 only object. The undersigned re- 

 quests the assurances of his high 

 consideration, &cc. 



(Signed) Talleyrand Perigord. 



Memorial referred to in the pre- 

 ceding Note ; fjeing the French 

 Answer to the Second Dccluratiufi 

 of the Court of Vienna to the 

 French Court. 



Without dwelling upon the alle- 

 viations which pervade the note of 

 the court of V icnna, (of the 3d of 

 September) attention wiil only be 

 paid to the notions of peace which 

 that note holds forth. The court 

 of .Vienna has made lesies of men, 

 and preparations of all sorts : she 

 now allows a foreign arm)' to enter 

 her territory. Her only object, to 

 listen to her assurances, is to oblige 

 France and England to make peace ; 

 tut, if such be the object of the 

 court of Vienna, how has it hap- 

 pened that she forgets to make 

 known the basis upon which that 

 peace ought to be concluded ? Is 

 the basis to be the treaties of Lune- 

 Tille or Amiens, or the status prw- 

 sens of the two nations, as seemed 

 to be the wish of Austria, when the 

 first overtures were made for the 

 last peace ? Or, after all preten- 

 sions, drawn from the same source 

 as the allegations now directed 

 against France ; from an atteuti?e 

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perusal of the note of the court of 

 Vienna, it would appear that Austria 

 would assume for the basis of future 

 negotiations, the treaties of Lune- 

 ville and of Amiens ; but will Eng- 

 land, who not long since refused to 

 re-establish peace upon these prin- 

 ciples, accede to them at present ? 

 The cabinet of Vienna has said no- 

 thing upon the subject, and should 

 it happen that England would not 

 adopt them, his majesty the empe- 

 ror of Germany, who would not as- 

 sume the character of mediator, un. 

 less he were really invested with it j 

 a character which essentially con- 

 sists in an impassable justice ; a 

 perfect impartiality, has no doubt, 

 in concert with other powers, 

 adopted measures for obliging Eng- 

 land to acknowledge his principle of 

 mediation, as ho has taken to the 

 same eft'ect to compel France : 

 doubtless he has fleets ready equip- 

 ped, cruizes set on foot ; in fine, all 

 possible means put in force, which 

 are indispensibly necessary to the 

 attainment of his object. The note 

 of the cabinet of Vienna aflords no 

 light upon any of these points. It 

 is essential, however, to know, — 

 1st, Whether the court of Vienna 

 is aware whether the treaties of 

 Luneville and of Amiens are to be 

 taken as the basis of the new nego- 

 tiations, or whether those treaties 

 are to be abolished ? 2dly, In the 

 latter supposition, upon what basis 

 docs the court of Vienna understand 

 that the nesotiations are to be set 

 on f«ot ? 3dly, Whether England 

 has declared her readiness to adhere 

 to the principles of his mediation ? 

 4thly, In case of refusal on the 

 part of England, what measures 

 have been taken by the mediator, 

 and wbat means has he at his dispo- 

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