ves the spirit of this measure is, 
that his majesty has concerted it 
With no person whatsoever, and that 
the intelligence respecting it arrived 
sooner at Paris than at Vienna, St. 
Petersburgh, and London. But the 
king, my master, has ordered to be 
made to the envoy of his majesty 
the emperor of the French and king 
of Italy, an amicable communica- 
tion on the subject of these mea- 
sures. That minister had not yet 
‘returned an answer upon this com- 
‘munication. The relation of the 
interesting conversations that his im- 
perial majesty has deigned to en- 
tertain with the undersigned, and 
the marquis de Lucchesini, could 
not yet have arrived at Berlin. After 
this explanation, the undersigned 
can only testify to his excellency, 
his most ardent wish, that public 
_actsmay yet rest suspended, till the 
return of the courier dispatched to 
Berlin. 
_ The undersigned begs his excel- 
_ Tency, &c. 
| (Signed) 
General Knobelsdorff. 
_ Copy of the second Note to M. de 
Knobeisdort, dated Sept. 13th. 
1806. 
_ The undersigned has laid before 
_ his majesty, the emperor and king, 
: 
the note that his excellency M. de. 
_ Knobelsdorff yesterday did him the 
_ honour to address to him. 
His majesty has found therein, 
with pleasure, the assurance that 
Prussia had not entered into any 
concert hostile to France; that the 
armament she has made, had no 
other cause than a misunderstand. 
ing; that the departure of the-gar- 
vison of Berlin, though it happened 
sinee the letter written by bis ma- 
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jesty the king of Prussia, ought only 
to be censidered as the execution of 
an anterior order; and that the 
movements marked out for the Prus- 
sian troops would cease as soon ag 
it was known at Berlin, what his 
majesty the emperor and king was 
pleased to say to M. M. Knobels- 
dorff and Lucchesini, in the pri- 
vate audiences which he granted 
them. 
His majesty has ordered, in 
consequence, that the communica. 
tions which were to have been made 
to the senate on Monday next, shall 
be deferred; and that no troops, 
beside those which are actually on 
their march towards the Rhine, 
shall be put in motion, until his ma- 
jesty learns the determinations and 
the measures that the court of Berlin 
shall have taken, after the report 
that M. M. de Knobelsdorff and 
Lucchesini have made ; and if these 
determinations are such that the 
French army in Germany shall be 
no longer menaced, and that alf 
things shall be replaced between 
France and Prussia on the same 
footing as they were a month agoy 
his majesty will immediately order 
the retrograde march of the troops 
who were actually advancing to the 
Rhine. 
His majesty expects that this 
singular misunderstanding will be 
cleared up. He expects to be ene 
abled, without any mixture of un- 
certainty or doubt, to restore him 
self to those sentiments of which he 
has given so many prools to the 
court of Berlin, and which have al- 
ways been those of a faithfulally. 
The undersigned prays M. de 
Knobelsdorff to receive the assur- 
ances of his high consideration. 
(Signed) C.M. Talleyrand, 
Prince of Benevento. 
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