STATE PAPERS. 



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and in my love, my gratitude, and 

 their own prosperity, my faithful 

 subjects will lind a full compensation 

 for every sacrifice which 1 am ob- 

 liged to require for their own pre- 

 servation. In the name, and at 



the express command of the emperor 

 and king, 



Francis Count Saurau. 



you have received ; come to the 

 camp, in order to conquer peace for 

 your country. The great emperor 

 of the French has joined us with all 

 his forces. Full of confidence in 

 Providence, and in the justice of our 

 cause, do not allow your country to 

 be oppressed. Soldiers, lot us pos- 

 sess your courage and confidence, 

 and we shall be victorious. 



Proclamation of Lieutenant - Ge- 

 neral Deroi/^ to the Bavarian 



Soldiers, — Your country has call- 

 ed you to its defence. In the midst 

 of peace our elector has been at- 

 tacked by Austria : Bavaria has 

 been overrun by her troops. Your 

 prince wished to remain neutral ; 

 and you have seen yourselves forced 

 to avoid the Austrian armies in order 

 to prevent an engagement. But 

 Austria requires your being incor- 

 porated with her array : she wishes 

 you to bf disarmed. \'ou know the 

 manner in which you were treated 

 in former campaigns. Then you 

 fought for that power : you marched 

 together, and you submitted to ex- 

 cessive, fatigues. What would have 

 been your fate, if, when dispersed 

 in that army, you had not dared to 

 call yourselves Bavarians, the faith- 

 ful subjects of Maximilian Joseph ? 

 — You, Bavarians, would not allow 

 yourselves to be disarmed, you, who 

 at the moment of tlie enemy's inva- 

 .vion. have traversed through his co- 

 lumns for the purpose of rejoining 

 your colours. — Vou, Suabians and 

 Franconiaus, w ho, at the first signal, 

 came to unite yourselves with your 

 bretlucMi in arms ; you will not suf- 

 fer yourselves to be distionoured. 

 Avenge the prince whom you lovu ; 

 avenge the unprovukediujuricswbich 



Proclamation of Prince Eugene^ 

 Viceroy of Italy, Arch-Chancdlor 

 of the French Empire, to all the 

 People of the Kingdom of Italy, 

 Given at Milan, October 1st, 

 1804. 



People of the kingdom of Italy, 

 the cabinet of Vienna has deter- 

 mined upon war, both against you 

 and the French people. That cabi- 

 net has dared to say, that the war 

 has been provoked by France and 

 Italy. Undoubtedly it will not be 

 easy for it to make you credit this 

 strange calumny. People of Italy, 

 you know whether, during the last 

 five months, Austria has for a mo- 

 ment ceased to collect forces under 

 your eyes, to victual her fortresses, 

 and to menace your frontiers. You 

 are able to judge whether the empe- 

 ror of the French and king of Italy, 

 though informed of all these hostile 

 preparations, whereat you were just- 

 ly alarmed, has not been in a man- 

 ner deaf to the statements of the in- 

 justice and faithlessness of the cabi- 

 net of Vienna. You know whether^ 

 at the moment when you were daily 

 threatened with seeing your territo- 

 ry invaded, NapoUon did not re- 

 fuse to hearken to your alarms, and 

 to order suitable military dispositions 

 to dissipate them, in a word, you 

 know how often you have been sur- 

 prised, 



