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sal to compel her to adhere to it ? 

 If the court of Vienna has not put 

 these questions to itself, and if it re- 

 quires time to answer them, this 

 alone should make it sensible, that 

 it has acted with a precipitancy, 

 contrary not only to all the assu- 

 rances it had given, but also to the 

 end it declares to have in view ; and 

 it may further be attempted to ob- 

 serve, contrary to what the en- 

 lightened policy of the house of 

 Austria would advise it to adopt. 

 Be it as it may, approaching cir- 

 cumstances will decide, whether it 

 has been guided by a just conviction 

 of its own interests, or led astray by 

 blind prejudices. The remonstrances 

 and assurances to which the court 

 of Vienna here alludes, are mere il- 

 lusions. She made no observation ; 

 she preferred no complaint; no, not 

 more than the court of France has 

 made respecting the incorporation 

 of Lindau, and all the other annex- 

 ations that have been made by Austria 

 inSuabia. Thethreats of armaments, 

 and the pretended determination to 

 uphold by force, what the court of 

 Vienna styles innovations, have a 

 still less real existence. The free 

 and salutary organization of a coun- 

 try previously governed by law, 

 arising out of accidental clrcum- 

 stances, most assuredly doeshot re- 

 quire to be supported by threats, or 

 guaranteed by hostile armaments. 

 And how can it be said, with any 

 shadow of probability, that the em- 

 peror of the French was threatening 

 Austria, at the very moment of the 

 greatest activity of his preparations 

 against England ? 



Hi<^(orical ReprenenUUion of the 

 Events ichich have directed the 

 Conduct of his Elcctond Highness 



the Elector Palatine of Bavaria. 

 Dated (Vurtzburgh, Sept. 29, 1 805. 



Bowed down by the consequences 

 of an unfortunate and exhaustingwar, 

 Bavaria reposed in the slumber oftha 

 most profound peace. Without 

 care it saw the different camps in 

 the adjoining Austrian states, form- 

 ed one after another. The want of 

 peace appeared to be general, and 

 it never suspected that it could be 

 the intention of the powers to inter- 

 rupt the public tranquillity. Though 

 a dryness between France and Rus- 

 sia threatened a storm from afar, 

 yet it was believed that the distance 

 between these two powers might af- 

 ford a well-grounded hope, that the 

 misunderstanding would not come 

 to a final rupture; or, at least, that 

 Germany would not be involved ia 

 it. Besides, the object of their dis- 

 pute Mas so foreign to the interests 

 of the Bavarian states, that the idea 

 could scarcely be admitted, that 

 it could be involved in the contest 

 against France. Bavaria had no 

 complaint against the emperor Na- 

 poleon. By his vigorous co-opera- 

 tion, it had received indemnification 

 for the losses it had sustained in the 

 last war ; and the courts of Vienna 

 and Petersburgh cannot deny the 

 interest which the emperor of the 

 French took on that occasion, in 

 the elector of Bavaria. In these 

 circumstances accounts were receiv- 

 ed in Munich, that the negotiations 

 which had scarcely commenced be- 

 tween France and Russia were 

 broken off, and at the same time 

 that a numerous army of Austrian 

 troops were assembling at Wels, 

 while considerable reinforcements 

 were marching to the Tyrol. Seve- 

 ral divisions of troops passed with- 

 out previous notice, on their march 

 Yy4 to 



