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mine, in order to avoid any possible 

 complaint of their being more ex- 

 iposed than mine to the enemy, or 

 of their being treated worse^ with 

 respect to their supplies of provi- 

 sions : it would rest nevertheless 

 with your serene electoral highness 

 to let them serve in a body, provid- 

 ed they should be under the com- 

 mand of the general of the army ; 

 but to suspend their march, when 

 the French have already announced 

 their approaching irruption into 

 Germany, and are assembling on 

 ;*he Rhine, would be too prejudi- 

 cial to the common cause for me 

 to lend a hand to it, at the same 

 time that the recent conduct of 

 Napoleon towards the courts of 

 Carlsruhe, Cassel, and Stufgard, will 

 enable your serene highness to judge 

 whether the neutrality of Bavaria 

 Le possible, and whether you would 

 yourself, sir, my brother and cousin, 

 have it in your power to fulfd your 

 promise not to employ your troops 

 against me.^ — I would have been 

 deeply afilicted to endanger the 

 electoral prince, to whom I feci a 

 personal attachment ; but a courier, 

 if one had been disj)atched to him 

 directly, even at the time when the 

 prince of Schwarfzcnbcrg receiv- 

 ed the assurances from your serene 

 electoral highncss,would have placed 

 him in a condition to effect his de- 

 parture from F'rance before any fa- 

 tal measure could have been taken 

 with respect to him. — Faithful to 

 ihe fulfilment of what I have once 

 promised, I am anthoiised to insist 

 on the same fidelity being observed 

 towards me. I claim then, formal, 

 ly, from your serene electoral high- 

 ness, the promise you gave me to 

 ■unite your troops with mine, at the 

 same time that I declare to you, that 

 J am ready to consent to the condi- 



tions above stated. I have directed 

 the count Buol to wait on your 

 highness, and to deliver you this 

 letter, and have given him authority 

 to accede to such arrangements as 

 maybe called for on this head; it 

 would be painful to myself, and to 

 my close and intimate ally, the em- 

 peror of Russia, to experience on 

 your part, sir, my brother and cou- 

 sin, any disposition which might 

 prevent us from retaining those sen- 

 timents of which we have it greatly 

 at heart to give you efi"ectual proofs. 

 Accept the assurances of my perfect 

 esteem, &c. &c. 



No. V. — -Letter from his Serene 

 Highness the Elector Palatine to hh 

 Mojesfij theEmperor of the Romans 

 and of Austria. Dated WurtZ' 

 burgh, Sept. ^Ut, 1805. 



The count of Buol Schannstein 

 has acquitted himself of the commis- 

 sion with which your imperial ma- 

 jesty has deigned to honour him on 

 his mission to me. I have experi- 

 enced, on this occasion, a very 

 lively sense of consolation from the 

 assurances, in every instance so 

 highly to be priced, of your imperial 

 and royal majesty's friendship, which 

 he has repeated to me in express 

 terms. It is to this sentiment, sire, 

 and to that of your magnanimity, 

 that I can appeal with full confidence. 

 I retain the hope that your imperial 

 and royal majesty will spare unfor- 

 tunate provinces the horrors of a 

 ^var, from which they have already 

 too severely suffered, at a moment 

 when the wounds of former hostili- 

 ties are still bleeding. I owe it to 

 my unfortunate subjects, I owe it to 

 myself, not to lavish their blood for 

 discussions that are foreign to them, 

 and against a government that has 



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