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to the Tyrol, a part of the electoral 

 territory. The remonstrances made 

 tipon this subject, produced the 

 most satisfactory assurances from 

 the Austrian envoy at Munich, that 

 this had taken place quite contrary 

 to the will of the emperor ; and in- 

 quiry was promised to be instituted 

 into the Conduct of the ollicers who 

 had KhI the divisions, who they said 

 should be properly punished. No- 

 thing more was heard of the matter, 

 but the passages of troops without 

 permission, foilov.'cd more frequent- 

 ly and in greater numbers than be- 

 fore, bcarcely were these accounts 

 received, when the camp at Wcis 

 broke up, and the march of the 

 troops to LJraunau gave reason to 

 suppose that they meant soon to 

 cross the Inn. The elector, liow- ' 

 t'ver, hoped to be able to preserve 

 that neutrality, which his geographi- 

 cal situation, and the interests of his 

 exhausted states, seemed to pre- 

 scribe to him as the most agreeable 

 system. The elector had already 

 commissioned his minister to make 

 overtures upon the subject to the 

 court of V'icnna, when prince 

 Schwarzenbcrg suddenly appeared 

 in Munich. lie brought a letter 

 from the emperor of Russia, in 

 which his imperial majesty, in the 

 Biost decided terms, desired the im- 

 mediate union of the Bavarian with 

 the Austrian troops. 'I'his letter 

 contained threats in- case this desire 

 was not fulfilled, and an assu- 

 rance, in case of its being accom- 

 j)lished, that he would never make 

 any pretensions on the smallest 

 part of Bavaria. In this categori- 

 cal manner' an overture was made, 

 at a period when we had the less 

 reaacn to expect any pretensions to 

 be set forth by the Austrian Court, 

 that frbc electeral ministry had just 



concluded a convention with tlie im- 

 perial plenipotentiary at Munich, 

 subject to the ratification of the elec- 

 tor, by which very considerable sa- 

 crifices were made in favour of his 

 imperial majesty, and the elector of 

 Saltzburgh. The prince of Schwar- 

 zenbcrg, explained more particu- 

 larly, in an interview granted him 

 by the elector, and in another which 

 he had with the minister of foreign 

 adairs, in a commanding tone, tha 

 intentions of the emperor. He de- 

 sired the Bavarian army should be 

 forthwith delivered up to the Aus- 

 trian generals, and that in separate 

 divisions it should be incorporated 

 ^^ ith the Austrian army. The menace 

 even escaped them that the Bavarian 

 troops, if that desire was not ful- 

 filleil, should be disarmed. He re- 

 quired a complete and accurate re- 

 presentation of the state of the Ba- 

 varian arniy, and to all his other de- 

 mands he added another, that the 

 elector should give him an answer 

 on the same day. Nothing was pre- 

 pared, the elector thinking that he 

 ought to yield to his confidence iu 

 the court of Vienna, immediately 

 dispatched to his majesty the em- 

 peror, whose regard for right and 

 justice are so generally recognised, 

 his lieutenant-general the count No- 

 garolla, with a letter, written by 

 his own hand, in which, in the open- 

 est and most cordial terms, he con- 

 fidentially represented to his ma- 

 jesty the situation in which the elec- 

 tor found himself, the necessity he 

 was under of abiding by the system 

 of neutrality he had adopted. With- 

 out permitting himself to take any 

 steps which could excite suspicions 

 respecting his intentions, the elector 

 by the mission of this general, de- 

 prived himself of the commander of 

 one of the principal dirigions of his 



army. 



