_ his dearest interests. 
SRAGDE PAD ERS. 
of the other, that the king flatters 
himself that his majesty the emperor 
will applaud his frankness. His 
Prussian majesty has expressed, in 
the letter mentioned above, his en. 
fire thoughts, and the whole view of 
the subject of the complaint, which, 
from a faithful and honest ally, have 
made him become a neighbour, 
alarmed for his existence, and neces- 
sarily aroused for the defence of 
The perusal of 
it will recal to his majesty the em- 
peror and king, what Prussia was 
for a long time to France. Will 
not the remembrance of the past be 
for her the pledge of the future? 
And what judge would be blind 
enough to believe that the king 
could have been for nine years to. 
wards France so consistent, and 
_ perhaps so partial, in order to place 
himself voluntarily with her in a dif- 
ferent relation—he who more than 
once might, perhaps, have ruined 
her, and Who knows now only too 
well the progress of her power. 
But if France has in her recollec. 
tions, and in the nature of things, 
the pledge of the sentiments of 
Prussia, it is not so with this last 
Her recollections are made 
power. 
to alarm her: she has been careless, 
neutral, friendly, and even in al 
liance. The destruction that sur- 
rounds her, the gigantic increase of 
a power essenfially military and 
conquering, which has injured her 
successively in her greatest in- 
terests, and menaces her in them 
all, leaves her now without a gua. — 
ranty.—This state of things cannot 
last. The king sees almost nothing 
around him but French troops, or 
a. of France, ready to march 
er. AW the declarations of 
‘his imperial majesty announce, that 
this attitude will not change. Far 
Vor. XLVIN. 
jesty, 
817 
from that, new traops issue from’ 
the interior of France.—Already 
the journals of his capital indulge 
themselves in a language against 
Prussia, of which a sovereigny such 
as the king, can despise the infamy, 
but which does not expose, the in- 
tentions and the error of the go- 
vernment that suffers it. The dans 
ger grows every day. It is necese 
sary to be heard at once, or be 
heard no more, 
Two powers who esteem each 
other, and who fear each other no 
more than they are able, without 
ceasing to esteem themselves, have 
no need to go about to explain 
themselves. France will not be less 
strong for being just, and Prussia 
has no other ambition than her inde-~ 
pendence and the security of her 
allies. In the actual position of af. 
fairs, both oueand the other would 
risk every thing in protracting this 
uncertainty. The undersigned has 
received orders, in consequence, to 
declare that the king expects 
with justice from his imperial ma. 
‘i That the whole of the Frenclt 
troops, which are called by no fair 
pretence into Germany, should im. 
mediately repass the Rhine without 
exception, beginning their march on 
the very day that the king expects 
the auswer of the emperor, and con. 
tinue it without halting; for this 
immediate and complete retreat is 
the only pledge of security that the 
king can receive at the point to 
which affairs have been brought. 
2. That no obstacle shall be 
raised on the part of France to the 
formation of the league of the 
north, which shall include, without 
any exception, all the -states not 
named in the fundamental act of the © 
confederation of the Rhine. 
3G 3. That 
