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drawn into secret engagements with 

 France, which proved on every oc- 

 casion, to tend systematically to 

 counteract Austria. — As his ambi- 

 tious hopes rested principally upon 

 the prospects of a fresh attaclc with 

 which the court of V^ienna was me- 

 naced by France on every occasion, 

 those gradual armaments which his 

 majesty was compelled to make 

 from the preparations made by the 

 emperor Napoleon, became an ob- 

 ject of the serene clector's-attention. 

 His first design was to raise a nu- 

 merous army in Bavaria, and to hold 

 it in readiness fur the French em- 

 peror. The quickness of the Aus- 

 trian armament prevented the exe- 

 cution of that intention, and the 

 elector chose rather to hasten to go 

 and join the French with all his 

 troops, leaving his Bavarian and 

 Suabian estates to their own fate, 

 than to disappoint the expectation 

 of the enemy of public trantjuillity ; 

 consequently the whole of the Ba- 

 varian artillery was sent to Wurtz- 

 burgh, the Bavarian and Suabian 

 troops were assembled, and a French 

 general was present, to prepare 

 every thing agreeably to the desire 

 of the emperor Napoleon. His 

 serene highness the elector had also 

 prepared for his departure, when 

 princcSchwarzenberg arrived at Mu- 

 nich, on the 6th September. — The 

 danger that the elector palatine 

 would join the French was indubi- 

 table; consequeiitly a serious de- 

 mand for the cession of troops became 

 a just measure of self-defence. — The 

 elector agreed to the demand ver- 

 bally, and in writing. lie wrote 

 to the prince, on the 7th of Septem- 

 ber, with his own hand ; " I am 

 " resolved ; confer with the minister 

 " Montgolas, on the conditions." 

 The minister ronlirnn-d his sove- 



reign's resolution, and proposed the 

 conditions ;. that the elector's own 

 regiment, and that of the electoral 

 prince, should remain at the dispo- 

 sal of his serene highness ; and that 

 Munich and Nymphen burgh should 

 be exempted from the passage of 

 Austrian troops. The agreement 

 was to be concluded at Haag, on 

 the following day. — On the Sth of 

 September, count Nogarolla was 

 sent off to the emperor, with a let- 

 ter from the elector, beginning in 

 the following words : — " I have 

 " this morning ordtred my minister 

 " to conclude an agreement with 

 " prince Schwarzenberg. in pursu- 

 " ance of which I shall unite my 

 " forces to those of )our imperial 

 " and royal majesty, to give you a 

 " proof of my inviolable devotion." 

 No sooner had count No2;aroila set 

 off with this letter, and even before 

 prince Schwarzenberg could go from 

 Munich to Haag, than the serene 

 elector left Bavaria in the night of 

 the Sth, and withdrew all his troops 

 by forced marches, having emptied 

 all the public chests, and taken with 

 him even the depo-ited bonds, and 

 widows' and orphans' estates ; 

 whence it became necessary to put 

 a stop to the further drawing of 

 annuities &c. to prevent a total 

 stagnation of the whoh; administra- 

 tion of the country. — When j)rince 

 Schwarzenberg and general iMack' 

 arrived at Haag, the elector's in- 

 tention of flying from his engage- 

 ment was no longer secret. After 

 they had waited a long while, tlierc 

 appeared a palatine lieutenant-colo- 

 nel, shewing, by his tone and pro- 

 posals, quite different from those of 

 Munich, that a pretence was sought 

 for breaking off a nugatory negotia- 

 tion. It was refused to leave the 

 electoral troops in Bavaria: their 

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