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that his plenipotentiary fhould enter direftly upon a nego¬ 
tiation with the chief of the French government, without 
acknowledging the new title which he had affumed; and 
that Bonaparte fhauld give explicit adurances that he was 
ftil^animated by the fame with fora general peace, which 
he had appeared to (liew in his letter to his Britannic ma- 
jefty. This preliminary adurance was the more necedary, 
fince Bonaparte had adorned the title of king of Italy 
immediately upon receipt of the anfwer given by his 
Britannic majefty to his letter of the firft of January ; a 
title which in iti'elf put a new obftacle in the way of the 
defined reftoration of peace. 
“ By a frefii aggrellion of the mod folemn treaties, the 
union of the Ligurian republic with France has been 
effected. This event of itlelf, the circumftances which 
have accompanied it, the formalities which have been 
employed to haften the execution thereof, the moment 
which has been chofen to carry the fame into execution, 
have, alas! formed an aggregate which mud terminate 
the facrifices which his imperial majedy of Rudia would 
have made, at the preding requed of Great Britain, and 
in the hope of redoring the necedary tranquillity to Eu¬ 
rope by the means of negociation. 
“ Without doubt his imperial majedy of Rudia would 
not have infided fo drenuoudy on the conditions fixed by 
him, if the French government had fulfilled the hope 
that it would refpett the fird tie which holds fociety to¬ 
gether, and which upholds the confidence of engagements 
between civilized nations; but it cannot poflibly be be¬ 
lieved, that Bonaparte, when he granted the padports, 
which were accompanied with the mod pacific declara¬ 
tions, ferioufly intended to fulfil them ; beeaufe, during 
the time which would necedarily elapfe between the 
granting of the padports and the arrival of the under, 
figned at Paris, he took meafures which, far from facili¬ 
tating the redoration of peace, were of fuch a nature, that 
they annihilated the very grounds of peace. 
“ The underfigned, in recalling to the recollection of 
his excellency baron Hardenberg faCts with which the ca- 
binet of his Prudian majedy is very minutely acquainted, 
mud, at the fame time, inform him, that he has jud now 
received from his Ruffian majedy an order dated the 9th 
(21 d) June, to return the annexed padports immediately, 
and to requed your excellency to tranfmit the fame to the 
French government, with this prefent declaration, fince 
no ufe whatever can be made of them in the prefent date 
of affairs. 
“ The underfigned avails himfelf of the opportunity to 
renew to his excellency the airurance of his refpedt. 
(Signed) “ N. Von Novosii.tzoff.” 
The above note was immediately tranfmitted by all the 
foreign miniders then redding at Berlin, to their refpedt- 
ive courts, by fpecial couriers. The French government 
was alfo quickly occupied in analifing its contents, and in 
framing a counter manifedo, which was publidied at Paris 
on the 13th of Angufl : 
“ The midion of the Rufitan envoy, M. Novofiltzoff, 
was announced to all Europe feveral months before it 
commenced ; and this was fufficient to render it abortive. 
Jt alfo became the fubjedt of many difcudions, calcula¬ 
tions, and intrigues. If the objedt of his midion was to 
allay the coolnefs exiding between France and Rudia, he 
would probably have fucceeded. What, indeed, have 
France and Rudia to do with each other? Independent 
of each other, they are unable to hurt, but all-powerful 
to do good, to one another. If the emperor of the French 
exerts great influence in Italy, the emperor of Rudia ex¬ 
erts a much greater influence on the Ottoman Porte and 
in Perfia. The former has a limited influence, which 
does not extend beyond the difcudions on the fubjedt of 
her boundaries, and does not much increafe her power : 
the latter, on the other hand, exerts her influence over 
two powers of the firft rank, which have long flood in 
the fame political rank with France and Rudia, and which 
rule over Arabia, the Cafpian and the Black Seas. If the 
N C E. 
Riidian cabinet thinks it has a right to fix the juft boun¬ 
daries by which France is to be limited on all fides, then 
thatcabinet will undoubtedly allow the emperor of the 
French to fix the boundary by which it is to be limited in 
its turn. When it views with Herfchel’s telefcope from 
the terrace of the palace of the Tauride, what happens 
between the emperor of the French and fome tribes in the 
Apennines, it ought not to demand that the emperor of 
the French ftiould not fee what becomes of the ancient and 
illuftrious empire of Solyman and of Perfia; that he fhould 
not fee that for ten years pad the whole Caucafus had been 
united with Rudia; that Wallachia and Moldavia are en¬ 
tirely dependent on Rudia; that fhe has fubjedted to her- 
felf the mouths of the Phafis, and conftructed forts there ; 
that thereby obliging the Porte to fuffer her conquefts, 
die has procured great-aadvantages to herfelf for purfuing 
her conquefts into the heart of Perfia. 
“ Is, then, the emperor of the French lowered to that 
degree of weaknefs,-that he nnift coolly liften to a Ruffian 
commidary, calling him to an account for what he does in 
countries unknown to Ruflia, and with which fhe has no 
relation ? that he muft clofe his eyes from feeing, and re- 
ftrain from anfwering, when fullan Selim has lefs to fay in 
Conftantinople than a fimple envoy from St. Peterfburg; 
when the Bofphorus is violated, and the confequences of 
the occupation of the Crimea, and of the mouths of the 
Phafis, are felt in full force ? But if a Ruffian commidary, 
coming to Paris to fay, that a diminution of influence in 
Italy was demanded, fliould fay, at the fame time, that 
a guarantee (hall be given for Perfia and the Porte ; the 
Caucafus redored to the fhah of Perfia, and tranquillity 
be given to that vaft empire, after fo many years of inter¬ 
nal wars and calamities; then it would be eafy to con¬ 
ceive what would be the effedt of fuch language : the 
emperor of the French would be ready to meet fo noble 
an agreement ; he would liften, not to menaces, but to a 
defire to confolidate the independence of nations and the 
happinefs of mankind. Whatever facrifices he ftiould 
make for the independence of the Porte and of Perfia, he 
would ftill be a gainer; pofterity, for which he labours, 
would acknowledge him its deliverer, and admire the 
acutenefs of that reafon, which made him difcover be¬ 
forehand that the Ruffians would be the oppredbrs of the 
whole world, even as they now opprefs the North, and 
the eftabliffiment of that univerfal monarchy with which 
Europe has been fo much frightened, and which has been 
fo long held up to its view as the aim of the French na¬ 
tion, which comprifes every tiling in itfelf, and can never 
be dangerous to the independence of other countries. 
“ If the Ruffian plenipotentiary came with a mefFage 
from England, who is there but fees the difficulties, the 
unavoidable trouble, which new inftructions, new preten- 
fions of Ruflia, would introduce ? If the Englifh govern¬ 
ment is defirous of peace, it will recoiled!, that it can only 
reply to a French note by an Englifh note. Thefe two 
languages are eafily tranflated, and the intervention of 
another would only render the negociation more intricate. 
Could M. Novofiltzoff be acquainted, that at the time 
of the treaty of Amiens, the empire of Myfore was not 
wholly united to the Englifh pod’eflions ? that the empire 
of the Mahrattas was annihilated ? that England has dou¬ 
bled her power in India, and that no European fhip can 
navigate thofe feas ? Did he think that France would give 
up her commerce with India for ever ? Or did that pleni¬ 
potentiary come to fay, that Ruflia had procured the li¬ 
berty of the Indies, and of the European commerce in In. 
dia ; the recognition of the univerfal fovereignty of the 
feas; the renunciation of all the interpretations concern¬ 
ing the right of blockade ? Did he at the fame time come 
to demand, that the crown of Italy ftiould be placed on 
another head, and to require the furrender of fome parts 
of the territory on the other fide of the Alps? If this was 
the cafe, he fhould have been welcome ; he would have 
met with no obftacles, and his undertakings would have 
been crowned with fuccels. 
“ But 
