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PUBLISflED wckkly) liWlLLIAM BOYLAN; AWJf . P-tunhle hJfYftrh i . r let 1- Vol, 10: RALEIGH, (iV. C.) Af6A7JUr, DECEMBER 9i 18o5: No. 504. AUSTRIAN MANIFESTO; - (The tloo fofowhtg notes lave been tranfmiiteJlo the Minijler bf foreign relations by Count Philip dt Cobenizef, on the 1 2tb September . J Ths court oFVIcnnadocs not hefirat? to comply with the demand made to it on the part of the emperor of the French, ro"efeinelfateKoricairy upon, its intentions and the motives of its arma ments. It has no other intentions but to main tain psace and its friendly intercourfes with, France as well as the general repofe of the continent ; no other defire but to fee the intentions of the emperor Napo leon corretpond with his own. ' B jt the maintenance of peace between tvv . powers does not confift merely in not attacking each other. .It confifts not lefs elTeuially in the accompli (hment bf treaties upon whi.:h peace has been el ta b ilhid. The power who tranfgrefTes them i: thefe effentjal points, and refutes tcrdo i'lftce to reprefentations, is as much rhs aggreffor as if it fhould attack the other unjuftly. The pence between Auftria. and France tefta upon the treaty of Luneville, one of whofe contlujons ftipulate: and gua rantees ths independence of the repute lies of Italyj a well as the Helvetic and Batavian repubiics,and infures them the liberty of chufing for themfelves. their own government. h.very enterprise f& on the fubjecl: of the extent ons prejudi cial to his interefts given to the execu tion of that treaty in Germany : in his j-moderationrnot lefs great at the time of Mn? filftjeWajipn.1. cf the French j-epiib- f lie from that 'treaty, 'concerning the 'ether republics. erce-of other independent flares of Italy, at the moment when the paflport de manded of the Riiffa ft o mho - I msjourney to France was forwarding to hi m t t he em perbr Alexander conceived himielf henceforth author ifed to look on h mediation as comnrnmlfpH ti th Attributing thefe xteyiaikffisiaiheiifi- -other fidef FrcitrfrarmfpgwrF t njiTy eflity of guaranteeing from ail external affemUed in Italy, notwithltanding the compelfhe.m to Wopt ajgovernment, flRf P,IC ana rue racaures or jts govern conftitAtforamaer,lwrwi relations compatible with the thrfrlfe-cKiTJce. ;iind orh'enriferhaLn in balancfe and farety of 'fyrope. And pteferVihgWeal pMitical independence, is atimfraaiogof thejeace oi Luneville, and Auftria has the right to complain & to fu 6 for redrefs,x: . . :'i 'the wifli to maintain mutual friend -(hip, to calm fufpicions,- ancreferve public repofe fromgreaterxdangers, will, in the rnidfl of critical anddejicate cir cumflances, induce the "Claiming party to adopt mild meafores, to ufe greamo derari03 !B the profecutiori of its griev ances, .and to ;po(lpQne the difcuffiori -rhcrcTrf w fuVrfc4ftftt nCacisttmf? but regards of lriendfhip can never make it a du ty in him to renounce the ftipulations of treaties ; and the power who, after frarm?rfcrt!ame i'felf, refufes to negociate, andefubfl:i tutes menace to coniiliation, wounds as much the laws ot friendlhip ts the facred yfohts of peace. ' At; to the maintenance of public re pofe, it requires that each ftate confine itfelf within its limits and refpeft the rights ot the independence of other Hates whether weak or itrong. That repofe is ' i 11 : 1 1 i 1 1 . I I . t . . 1 V tnuuroea wnen a power attnoutes to it- i tne event nas unce proveo, tnat tne em danger the developement of the plan formed for the re-eirablifiiraent of the monarchies) government in France, his majelty made no. difficulty in acknow . ledging the ftate of things eftablifhed in Italy towards the latter end of the year 1802. His confidence in -rJ r aws of .1 fit M f W . tne nrit conlui, tne engaget.'Lir t?.kert by 'the latter towards the new nJiian rc public upon the temporary duration of his' prefidency, the public and folemn afTurances which have accompanied and followed his elevation to. the imperial dignity, or his repugnance from all views of aggrandfzement and from every thing injurious to the independence ot the Ita lian (tares; and finally, the fubfifyng engagement on his part with the fove reign of Ruflh, namely upon the indem nification of the kins of Sardinia, and upon a common arrangement of tne af fairs of Italy. All thefe motives have concurred to give birth and to nourifh in the heart of his m ijefly the hope that the confolidation of the new empire of I the French would in a fhort time bring tunes which it does not depend onhimV fpareo humanity. ' . nl Annexed to the foregoing, and ttanf- iniuea at tile Ume time.' when,fonie time afterwards, tbe fir.3; re ports of the new alterations in the (fates of Lombardy induced the ambafiador of the court of Vienna in Paris, to recuire explanations on that point, his m?iefty was full coiuirmed m his hopes, by the ofhcial afiurance given in the name oi the emperor Napoleon that the republics of Italy would net be united to France, and that no innovation would be made contrary to their political independence. Europe will judge whether tncfoaiTur- tances have beeii fulfilled. r 7 The emperor h'as net'eeafed to claim them as the corref pondence it has'deca-. fibned bct-weenthe-two lovereignt :vill . prove, asTWelT as.the official and oftenfi ble reprefentaiions which atnbaffador, Count Phillip GeCob.entel, was charg ed to make ; aheknotwith (landing ilte letters by which the enYperor Napoleon participated with his majefly fome dif pofitions for the eflablifhment of a king dom of Italy, were accompanied with menaces and armaments, notwithftand- ing that every thing revealed then what felf richts of occupation, protection or influence that are avowed neither b the law.; of nations nor treaties ; when it fpeaks of letights 'of viftory after the peace -that has extingui fhed ir ; when it employs force and fear to dilate laws to its neighbours, to oblige them to affimi late thtr conftiturions to its- own, or to force out" from them alliances, concefli ons, .atls ot fubmifuon and of incorpo ration j when it pretends that its dignity offended by juit reprefentations, whillt its own journals attack lucceffively all monarch? : when, in (hort, it erects it felt f?!e arbiter of the fate and common interefb of nations, and that it will debar other powers from all participatipnm the maintenance of the tranquility and gene tal equiiibtium fome becaufe they. are too far on, others becaufe an arm of the lea feparates them; from the. coninenrr opppfing to the claims of the powers the neareft to , the danger. ' -vague anfwers, lending troops on their frontier, : and menaces of rupture if they put themfelves, Hiatew defence? It is that power,, therefore, who pro vokes' the other powers to ,arm them vrfelves to fuecour ekh other, in fine, to umre. if neceif uy, " for. the mainte nance of the public fafety and of their, It is thus that the; armaments of the, " eourf of Vienna have 'bien provoked gradually as much by the armaments of France as by the infiifficieficy of the con ciliatory means to infurcthejuainfenance 'ofa tTUe peace and future tranquility. ... All Europe5 h.is acknowledged the fin cerity of the pacific ' di fpo.fit:ons of his tnaiefty the emperor, in his e:xaitude to fulfil the conditions of the treaty of "-Luneville; in his great opndefccnhoa uc.ro r of the French was netrmfned to iupport thefe innovations by force. His. majefty has, .nevertbelefs, never ac-knowledged-difpofitions- that were an nounced to him as merely provifory ar rangements. He contented himfelfwith repulfing the inculpations which fefved as a pretext to the menaces,- and to ma pifeft the hope diat the principle offe paration and of independence confecrat ed by the treaty would be maintained by the definitive arrangements, which the emperor Napoleon made to depend upon ulterioT negotiations with the courts of Peterfburgh and London, at the period of the re-eftablifhment of peace. I hele.negociations were in effecl: the onlyjhope : remaining Jtq his maefty, to fucceed by the means of conciliation jn confoHdatinc- peace, and ref foring tran quility to affrighted Europe from North toSouth, by enter prizes whole number and extent are every m.ementencreafing. His. majelty the emperor of the French has madca firft pacific ftep towards the -kii.-g of England, but continuing ftliTto hold out his defign of excluding him from the fights of participating in .the grand concerns of Europe. The reHnc tion togetherwith the reLtfcns exiiffing between him and the court of Peterf burghl; induced his Britannic .Majeff y to have recourfe to the mediation of his majefly the emperor 'Ruffia; who, notwithftanding the interruption of offi cial intercdurf; with rjrance, did not he fitate to interpofe his good offices, to fend to that effeft, a negociator,and to folicit his ad million to the lovereign of France., j' . ; : ' But thejiope grounded upon all their pacific proceeding foori vanifhsd. ' New blows were aimed "at the 'political exifl. . ' to yivuu ic given vnoc to arm A camp of thirty thoufattd men affehi bied m the plains of .Marengo was fol lowed by another carrip of forty thou fand men, in theffontiers of the Tyrol and the Venetian provinces of Aultria. H-IKf. was thus conllrained to provide in atf efficacious manner for his own feriirity. He then acquired the con viction tlutt the pacific friendly and moderate principles, lie profefled, met with no fuch fentiments in return from H.nRt. the emperor of the , French, as could authorise him any' longer to neg lect preparing, neceffary meafufes for th e defence and mainterianteof theia . iiiiy or nis empire. Such,fs ibf ca,ufe of his prefent armR rnentsrxBut the fame fehtihiehts which havs fo- induced H. M. to wifli to avoid paving recourfe' to fuch meafures,have a.fo .determined th?r end. The e'mpe.J r arms, not witk hoilile view-j not to makta diveifion to the decent on 'Eh-' gland, the execution of which after tvo years threats, fiiould not appear ifervtd for; the moment, when France has prir yoled both Auftiria anci Ruflia; He: arms for the prefehation of the peace whfcb-fubfiiU between him and Fi ance ;' from the maintenance of the conditions of peace, without which this peace would be merely an illufion,in order to fucceed in an equitable accomodation, founded on -the moderation of nlf thein tereited powers, arid calculated to infure the equilibrium and permanent tranqui lity of Europe. "The ftep by which H. M. invited at the fame time the Drincioa! courtiiiiterefted to renew the interrupted Copy of tlx Declaration tranfmitted by CovM ' di Jiofoumovjly, AmbrJfjdor oAkJmjlSthLJIs iz4t.T-zr-tr-nn m " I It Would be fuDerfluri'iM tn rirniif the modves jwhich induced his majefty the Emperor ot all the Ruffiaa to recal the plenipotentiary whom he had fenr, in concert with hl Britanic Majefty, to treaLfQrpeace-with the chief of the rrencn government. , ? Thefe moti ves are too jutl and toocvi dent'not to be appreciated byall Europe 1 hey have been expreffed in the note tranfmitted to the miniftryof his PrufJian Majelty by Mde Novo?iltoff, he8rh f une ( 10th July) and the refoiutlonthey had provoked is but a confequence of the fame fentiments and principles which haveconftantly induced his ImhprJal mi- jeffy to employ his affidiaoiis care for the le-eitaomnment ot renerartrariduiHt' oince the rupture between France and England,' "his majefty has feen with fur-1 prize and forrow.the greater part of (hp ' ftates of the continent mcceffively.com-!. pelled to bear the weicht of a wai ntir- ly marujmemTts principles, and fbreigr. to their immediate interefts, but hecnuld not perfevere in the hope that the means oi a frank .and friendfv" nei?ociariftn vnud be fufficient to put an end to that liiictive ftare of things,- when he was appriled fhaf, without any regard forthg ickmn lteps tending to eltablifh peace,--and at the very moment when Ruffia olferedto ti est, for irs conclufion, new dates wet llilf Ip-fing their independ ence. , 1 -; If, .rherefore,-- his imperial majefty has; taken ihe.rdoiution of recalling his pie-- fmpotennary, it is only becaufe he had acquired the complete certainty that that million would not have a fatisfactory if. J .... . .1 t- ' i . . CL. - ..rt.. "I juc, 1101 uiai rus aroeni w lines nn icuur ing peace to Europe were.in the leaftdC miniOied. r S- 1 he moil irgnal proof which jhe Em-' peror can give of it, Ls to adhere at the He has beenjuorejhee neoaatiolisjjyhich his interpofjtion has iutiZaitciiM. the fcraue ror of the French, does not make nim a- verle to renewing it. emperor Alexander. This mona4' who fills a diftinguifhed place in the caMnets of the European powers, Whose equilibrium and gercral welfare, are the objects of his conftant carts, difplays in the annexedrepiy which he hasjult caufedtobe delivered toH. M. an equal defire for the conclufion of t an equitable and moderate arrangement. He h equally convinced of the ngceflity of an eventual armament and believes Jiirnfelf obliged in conlequence of the ehcroachments already Ipoken of, in or der Okconteft the right and confequence of his interventioh, to fend forward a part of his trpops, in order to fecure to this intervention all the weight and efficaciouh:el$ of fogreat a power.." In order completely ro prove the redi tude of the intentions of the. two impe rial courts - of Auitria and Ruffia, it is here folemnly. declared in the naine; of both : that they are ready to negociate with the court of France for the main tenance of the continental peace, on the mofi moderate terms compatible with their general i cpofe and fecurity. That, whatever be the i flue of the ne gotiation, and mould war inevitably break but they mutually engage to ab ftain from all enterprife. which mi -ht tend to interfere in- the ' internal -affairs ot France. To alter the ftate of pofleflions and the relations now leually" eftablilhed in the Germanic empireipr theJeafttoniute4pperta Trie rights andlnterefts of the Ottoman Porte, whofe. poffeffions and integrity therare oh the contrary ready tp Qeiend as far as it depends on them. Finally,. that Great Britain has caufed then to be informed thatJhei' fentiments are perfectly analogous ; to theirs, and difpofitions equally moderate for the re-eftablifhmentof peace with France. '- His majefty ' hopes that the frank and fincere exnlanations. into which he has juft entered, ; wube found calculated to remove tpe douots wnicn may exiii theinind of H. M. the emperor Napole on concerning the intentions and mo tives which animate him Hind all, his wiffies will be fulfilled, if ihele explana tions can contribure to prevent misfor- 11 11 1 " v n y it Deep maaeoy niSoAuitrian imperial Majefty and King, finrultaneouily to En gland, France, Pruffia and Ruflia, for the purpofe of having the interrupted ne gociations relumed. ; . His Imperial Majefty, however, can-' not in the mean time, diffemble the pro bability that a condiift on the part of the French government fimilar to that vhich' has already compelled the emperor to retracl hit fir(t fteps towards a negocia tion for peace," will render ineffectual that which Auftria propoles to renew.- - r The. painful apprehenfion but which r ' : . ST". K - 1 " expenenc jui t; nes, or leeingnewen croachmerits - take place at the moment the negociatioii w;il have been accepted or during its courfe that greater dan gers will arife fr Europe from a ftep that ha? no other aim but toteyeit; that they will he unavoidable as loon as the. juft demands of the continental power, as well as thole which the French gotrn nenr wi 1 1 fct forward 1 n fu ppdrf -of its" fucceflive encroachments, lhalllnPthaie been fatisfied on eiiher point fthe obli gaijion elpedialjy, in which the Emperor finds hi mielf in tuch calamities and diffi. ; cult c i rcu hi ft an ces, to come to he af. fiftance of his allies, whole fecuriry and ; even exigence is cminohtly menaced, and to offer them, in fhon, notilliK fory aliiltiace, but real, immediate, anoT efficacious; all thefe confiderations uni. ted, point nr. t the only conducf which it low. Ruma cannot at prc.ent refume the thread f interrupted negociations, but by putt ing herfelLirui-fitu ation id fuccour her aliies "at the very ''moment they fhould be attacked, and td preferve. jEurppe from anulterioL'6verthrdw. bhe mult combine, her meafures m fuch a manner as to procure herfelf a welL grounded hope that the negociation for peace will promife happier refults than thofe obtained from ail the pacific fteps made until now, and which have been marked only by the want of regard which; the French government has mown for the inftances and reprefentations of RujP fia and other continental power?, and by mrfpn e. corfinyallv reneated ottne djngtT.of Europe. ..i'.f -iL:.. ' " -
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