434. 
and, lafily, the burthenfome conditions un- 
der which it endeavoured to caufe it to be 
evacuated, tu fubfitute her own troops, in- | 
fread of thofe of France, had given too many 
roofs to the government of Hanover, not to 
oblige it to endeavour to avoid all fort of in- 
tervention on the part of this Power, even 
at the moment that it was on the point of en- 
gaging in a difpute with France. The events 
which retarded the 
Britain, Ruilia, and Sweden, gave the Prut- 
fan troops an opportunity of anticipating 
them, after the French army had been oblig- 
ed to evacuate the Electorate. ( 
This ftep was accompanied by the moft 
friendly protefcations on the part of Praia. 
She invited the Hanoverian Government to 
refume its fanctions in my name) aid to col- 
Jeét' the wreck of the army. © 
The country, already fo unfortunate, 
doubly felt the weight of the nuMmerogs re- 
quifitions extorted by the Prufiian corps, 
without the leaft regard to the fituation in 
which the French left it. 
Alter the unfortunate refult of the cam- 
paign of the allies in the fouth of the empire 
ap attack in the north was to be expected. 
His imperial Majefy of Ruflia, to obviate 
the dangers to which Pruflia might be ex- 
pofed, placed, in confequence of the conven- 
tion of Potzdam, his troops under Count de 
Tolfoy; and the corps of General Benuing- 
fen under the orders of his Prufian Majefty, 
and promifed him moreover all the afliftance 
for which he might have occafion. It was 
fcarcely to be expected that Pruflia would 
avail herfelf of this advantage, and of that 
which the promife of the fubfiidy the had 
afked of Great Britain gave her, to obtain 
from France terms contrary to the interefts 
which thefe refources were intended to pro- 
tect. This, notwithftanding, has actually 
happened. The Secret Treaty, the efiects 
of which are beginning to appear, was figned 
by Count Haugwitz and the French General 
Duroe the 15th of December 1805, the pe- 
iod fixed as the term when Pruffia was to 
declare againft France, in cafe that power 
fhould have rejected the propofitions which 
Count Haugwitz was to make to her, im con- 
fequence of the Convention of Petzdam. 
~ Seven days after, December 22, the Ca- 
pinet of Berlin propofed to the Britifh Am- 
baffador the arrangements to be taken in 
common with the Pruffian generals, for the 
pofitions of the allied armies in Lower 
Saxony; and difpatched, in confequence, 
Lieutenant Colonel Baron de Krutemark, 
with aletter to the Hanoverian Government, 
to induce it to furnifh provifiens tor the 
French garrifon at Hameln. 
{t was neceflary to concur in this arrange- 
ment (which was only provifionally termu- 
pated the 4th of January) becaufe it was to 
prevent the French troops from undertaking 
State of Public Affairs in May, 1806. 
arrival in Hanover of 
the expedition, concerted between Great” 
[June J, 
any thing againft Hanover during the nego- 
ciation. __ 
Was the Court of Berlin then ignorant in 
what manner Count Haugwitz had concluded 
this negociation? Did it not know, before 
the fignature of the treaty, what would be 
the end ciit? Or, didsthat minifer difpofe, 
as he pleafed, of the s¢ed faith of his maiter? 
Tt was on the 27th of January, that the 
Cabinet cf Berlin announced to the Hanove- 
Tian government—“ that im confequence of a 
treaty figned and ratified by the two parties, 
my German poflefions would no longer be 
occupied by the French troops; that the 
would be entirely evacuated by thofe whe 
were {till there, and delivered up, unti a | 
future peace between England and France 
fhould have decided their condition, to the 
protection of the troops of his Pruflian ma- 
jefty, and to his exciufive adminiftration.” 
The Hanoverian’ government was required, 
but to no purpofe, to intimate te all the pub- 
lic officers, that they were, for the future, to 
,confider themfeives as finally refponfible to 
the Prufian commifion- of adminiftration, 
xcluding all foreign reference. 
The difpatch addrefed the 25th ef Januar 
to the Praffian minifter, and intended to 
juftify this proceedimg, was ligned with the 
King of Pruflia’s own hand. It ended with 
thefe words, ‘1 think it unnecedlary to ob- 
ferve how much the territories in queftion 
ought to be fatisfied, with this change of 
fcene; and my wifhes would be fulfilled, if, 
in confequence of the difinterefted views by 
which | am impelled, the adminiftration [ 
have taken upon me fhould turn out to the 
happinels of the country and its inhabitants, 
and by that means fatisfattory to his Brie 
tannic majefty, to whom I defire nothing 
more than to give, inthis inftance, as in all 
others, all the proofs of confideration, of 
deference, and of friendfhip, which crcum- 
ftances may put in my power.’ 
‘fhe experience of the paf, and a well 
founded apprehenfion of the future, did not 
allow me to hefitate about the part neceflary 
to be taken; and my electoral government 
was inftructed not to enter into any negocia~ 
_ tion, the object of which might have been to 
avoid:a new French invafion, by allowing 
the Pruffians to occupy Hanover. - 
The proteft made upon this oecafion by my 
electoral iminilter of ftate was ineffectual. 
The King of Pruffia caufed the greateft part 
of the country to be occupied at the moment 
that my troops re-embarked; and his mea- 
fures were executed without the leaft regard. 
It was too ealy to forefee that Count 
Haugwitz would find means at Paris to bring 
back the arrangement between Profia and 
France, announced here as ratified by the- 
contracting parties, to its original intention. 
‘This was what took place; and the French 
troops took poffeflion of Anfpach, one of the 
objects of compenfation, according to the 
i treaty , 
