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honour to address to your majesty. 
Of the three demands which that 
note contains, the first and the third 
are only made to disguise, if it be 
possible, that no real importance 
may be attached to the second. 
Prussia, after having seen with a 
tranquil eye the French armies in 
Germany during a year, could not 
be alarmed at their presence whea 
their numbers were diminished— 
when they were dispersed in small 
bodies in distant cantoaments— 
when, above all, your majesty had 
solemnlyannounced, that they should 
return to France, as soon as the af- 
fair of Cattaro, the cause of the pro- 
longation of their stay in Germany, 
should be settled by an agreement 
with Austria, and that already the 
order for their return was given. 
Prussia, who speaks of a nego- 
tiation to fix all the interests in ques- 
tion, knows well that there is no 
pointof interest whatever, in question 
between the twostates; theamicable 
discussion Which should definitively 
fix the fate of the Abbies of Essen 
and Werden, has not been deferred 
by any delay of the French cabinet. 
The French troops have evacuated 
those territories which the grand 
duke of Berg had caused to be oc- 
cupied, in the perfect persuasion 
that numerous documents had given 
him, that they made part of the du- 
ehy of Cleves, and that they were 
comprehended in the cession of that 
duchy. ; 
Thus the demands of Prussia, 
on these different points, and others 
of the same nature, and the pre- 
tended grievances which she seems 
to indicate, do not offer the real 
mind of the cabinet of Berlin. It 
does not reveal it. It lets its secret 
escape only, when it demands that 
no farther obstacle whatever shal} 
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ANNUAL REG IS TER, 
1806. 
be made, on the part of France, to — 
the formation of the northern © 
league, which shall embrace, with. © 
out any exception, all the states not 
named in the fundamental act of the 
confederation of the Rhine. 
Thus, to satisfy the most unjust — 
ambition, Prussia consents to break ~ 
the bonds that united her to 
France, to call down new ealamities 
upou the continent, of which your 
majesty would wish to cicatrice the 
wounds, and to assure the tranquil- 
lity, to provoke a faithful ally, to 
put him under the cruel necessity of 
repelling force by force, and once 
more to snatch his-army from the 
repose which he aspires to make it 
enjoy, after so many fatigues and 
triumphs, 
I say it with grief, I lose the hope 
of the ability to preserve peace, 
from the moment it is made to de- 
pend upon conditions that equity 
and honour equally oppose—pro- 
posed, as they are, in a tone, and 
in forms, that the French people 
endured in no time, and from no 
power, and which it can less than 
ever endure under your majesty’s 
reign. 
(Signed) C.M. Tatlepranasy &e, 
Mayence, Oct. 6, 1806. 
Note. 
The undersigned minister of his 
Prussian majesty, ty the same cou- 
rier who brought the letter to his 
imperial majesty, which he has had 
the honour to transmit to-day te 
his excellency the prince of Bene- 
vento, has received orders to make 
the following communications.— 
Their object is to have the relations 
of the two courts no longer in Sus- 
pense. Each of them is so immi- 
nently interested in remaining no 
longer in doubt upon the sentiments 
; of 
