STATE PAPERS. 
of what shall remain to the 
King. 
“Tt is to such sacrifices that 
‘the King has been invited to give 
his assent, while it is added, that 
no negociation will be entered 
into as to accessary points, until 
his Majesty shall have categori- 
cally declared himself on the ter- 
ritorial cession. 
«His Majesty can by no means 
acknowledge the validity of these 
arrangements, made without the 
presence and assent of his Ple- 
nipotentiary. The King having 
recovered his liberty, there is no 
longer any obstacle to treating 
with him; his rights cannot be 
pronounced upon without his con- 
sent, and he cannot admit that his 
states should be considered and 
retained as conquered countries. 
Drawn on by the force of circum- 
stances, and by the obligations 
which he was under the necessity 
of contracting in a war which he 
had neither provoked nor declared, 
the King took no part in it but as 
an auxiliary ; it did notdepend on 
his Majesty, either at the com- 
mencement, or during the pro- 
gress of the grand contest, to join 
the cause of the Allies, however 
sincere his wish to that effect, ma- 
nifested in an unequivocal manner, 
and latterly, by a formal applica- 
tion addressed to the Allied So- 
vereigns. The Saxon nation, full 
of confidence in the coalesced 
Powers, has made every effort, 
and endured with resignation all 
the sacrifices which have been ex- 
acted of it. The right of con- 
quest would not, therefore, apply 
either against the King or his 
people, eventhough the Allies had 
not proclaimed, as they have done, 
that their efforts were exclusively 
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directed against usurpation, and 
that they were far removed from 
every idea of conquest, 
“His Majesty having only in 
view the good of his people, and 
sincerely desirous of seeing his 
old relations of peace and good 
understanding re-established with 
all the courts of Europe, flatters 
himself that the five Powers will 
be pleased to pay regard to his 
representations, and that they 
will lay to heart his interest and 
those of his states. He again 
claims the admission of his Ple- 
nipotentiary to the Congress, in 
order to treat with the Ministers 
of the Allied Powers. 
“His Majesty likewise requests, 
that the Provisional Government 
of Saxony may be enjoined to sus- 
pend all measures which bear re- 
lation to the projected partition. 
“The King, in fine, accepts, 
with profound sensibility, the of- 
fer of the mediation of the august 
Sovereigns who have hitherto in- 
terested themselves in his favour; 
and the conviction which his Ma- 
jesty feels of his rights, and of 
the equity of his claims, convinces 
him that these monarchs will in 
future grant him without restric- 
tion their powerful support. 
“The undersigned Cabinet 
Minister and Secretary of State, 
fulfils the pleasure of the King in 
transmitting to their Excellencies 
this note, begging that they will 
be pleased to submit it to their 
august Sovereigns, as well as to 
the Committee, and to accompany 
it with their good offices. 
_ © Presburgh, 
March 11, 1815.” 
Soros 
