6P8 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



troops had orders to fire on what- 

 ever troops should attempt to disarm 

 them. The prince of Schwarzen- 

 b'Tg proposed to stop the march of 

 th 'roops, till a courier was dis- 

 patched to Vienna to fetch new 

 instructions. Colontl Ribaupierre 

 was disposed to accede to this pro- 

 posal, but field-marshal JNJack in- 

 sisted on the Bavarian troops re- 

 ma:ning where thty Mere, while the 

 A'istrians should b- permitted to 

 advance. The Bavarian officer 

 could not assent to such conditions, 

 and here the negotiations were 

 broken off. As the Austrian army 

 ■was now advancing towards the 

 Inn, the Bavarian trOoj)s, which 

 were scattered up and down in iso- 

 latcd garrisons, made their retreat 

 on all quarters, in order not to 

 come in contact with the armj that 

 ■was passing. They crossed the 

 Danube, and went into cantonments 

 in the LIpper Palatinate, in order 

 that the communications with the 

 comrnander of tlie Austrian army 

 might not be embarrassed or re- 

 tarded, by the court having chang- 

 ed its place of re-idence, the elector 

 •a})pointcd, for the purpose of enter- 

 taining those relations, his niiiiistcr 

 at the courts of Vienna and Sals- 

 burgh, baron Graveurcuth, who 

 happened then to be at Munich, 

 thereby thinking to give a new 

 proof of his earnest wish to preserve 

 a friendly and good understanding, 

 This minister, on the 1 3th, sent his 

 brother, a captain of the electoral 

 staft", and formerly attached to the 

 mission at Vienna, to ficld-marshal 

 Mack, to Munich, wiih a letter, in 

 which, appealing to ^the system of 

 neutrality tjial had been adopted, lie 

 begged to be informi.d of the parti- 

 cular tract of country through 



which the imperial troops were t» 

 pass, and what positions the electo- 

 ral troops might take, in order that 

 the imperial army might meet with 

 no impediment on its inarch, and all 

 occasions for collision be avoided. 

 Field-marshal Mack in his answer, 

 contented himself with leferring io 

 what lie had expressed in words to 

 capt. Gravenrcuth, namely, " That 

 " the emperor would never consent 

 " to Bavaria remaining neutral, or 

 " to the Bavarian troops acting as 

 " allies in a distinct corps." The 

 field marshal, in his conversation, 

 entered into a long detail, commenc- 

 ing with the mission of M. Novo- 

 siltzoff, and terminating with the 

 transfer of the Austrian hcad-quar. 

 ters to Munich, and explained the 

 necessity of the rapid progress made 

 into Bavaria, by the necessity of 

 keeping near it the preparation for 

 an attack on Fiance. He rejected 

 every proposition for a line of de- 

 markation, which he said would not 

 be observed by the Russian army, 

 which was already drawing near; 

 declared that the Bavarian troops, 

 if they were not incorporated with 

 the Austrians, would be no-wherc 

 secure, not even in the Franconian 

 provinces, and that he would fol- 

 low them wherever they went,, al- 

 lowing no consideration to stop him. 

 The general signified thathe was em- 

 powered to treat Bavaria in a hostile 

 manner, but that he still entertained 

 hopes of matters being settled with 

 friendship and cordiality. While 

 the minister Gravenrcuth gave inti- 

 mation of these declarations to his 

 electoral highness, and. asked for 

 further orders, one account fol- 

 lowed another, from the officers em, 

 ployed in the civil administration of 

 the couHtry, of the conduct of the 



Austria* 



