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FOREIGN NEfVS.
Received at Savannah by the ship
Go.- den Rule, Capt. Boyd,
in 39 daysfrom Liverpool,
LONDON, September 28.
Second Declaration of the Court of
Vienna to the French Court—
tranfmit tedfrom Vienna to Pa
rii, on the jd of September ,
- 1805.
THE Court ofVienna yields,
without delay, to the request
which the emperor of France
has made of a categorical expla
nation reipedling the motive of
its preparations. The court of
Vienna has no other motive
than that of maintaining peace
and friendfhip with France, and
fecuri’ng the general tranquility
of the continent. It has no
other wish than that the empe
ror of the FYench may entertain
corresponding sentiments.
The maintenance of Peace,
however, between two States,
does not merely consist in their
not attacking each ocher, It
depends not less, in reality, on
the fulfillment of those treaties
on which peace is founded.—
That power which tranfgrefles
in so efiential a point, and refu
fes to attend the reclamations to
which iuch a conduit gives life,
is as much the aggreifor as if it
openly and unjustly attacked the
other party.
The peace between Austria
aid France was founded upon
the Treaty of Lunevdle. One
of the articles of that Treaty
stipulated and guaranteed the
independence ofthe Italian, Hel
vetic, and Ba.avian republics,
an** left them at liberty to choose
their own governments. Any
ineafures, therefore, which tenc.
to compel these States to chule a
government, Constitution or so-
Vereign othto wife than according
their to free will, or ctherwiir
than is confidant with the main
tenance of a real political inde
pendence, is a breach of the
Peace of Luneville, and it is the
duty of Audi*!a to complain cl
Uith o violation.. ’
PETERSBURG:— (Georgia)— -Printed by BURKE & M'DONNELL.
A wish to maintain reciprocal
friendfhip, to acquire confidence
to lecure the public tranquility
from great dangers, may, under
critical and delicate circumstan
ces, induce the reclaiming party
to adopt precautions, to shew
great moderation in complaints,
and to defer the di’fcuftion of
them to future negotiations.—
This conduft does imply any
contradi&ion of the stipulations
of the treaty ; but that power
which goes farther, which refu
fes all explanation, w'hich avoids
all mediation and employs me
nances instead of the means of
reconciliation, forgets as much
the laws of fneirtlihip as the sa
cred rights of peace.
The maintenance of general
tranquility requires that each
Power should confine itfelf wiih
in its own frontiers, and refpeft
the rights and independence of
other Hates, whether flrong or
or weak. That tranquility is
troubled, when any Power ap
propriates ro herfeif a right of
occupation, protection, or in
fluence, when that right is nei
ther founded on the laws of nati
ons nor on treaties—when fire
(peaks after peace of the right
ofconqucftj when fhc employs
force and me nances to prelcn be
laws to her neighbors, and com
pels them to frgn treaties of al
liance, conceflior;, fubjugationy
or incorporation, at her will i—
when (lie, above all, in her own
Journals, attacks every Sove
reign, one after another, with
la; guage oftenfrve to their dig
nity ■, when, finally, (lie sets her
fclf up as an arbitrefs to regulate
the common inrerefls of nations,
and wishes to exclude every
other State from taking any
part in the maintenance of tran
quility and the balance of pow
er. One she would exclude
because it is too distant j ano
ther because it is separated by
an arm of the sea from the Con
tinent i and evading an Infwer
to the remonftranccs of the Pow
er nearefl the danger, aflembies
troops on their frontiers, and
threatens them with a rupture
if they place thcmfdves in a
Hate ofdefence.
Under the circumftanccs, it
becomes neceflary for other
Powers to arm, to support each
other, and to join in maintaining
their own, and the general secu
rity. Thus the military prepa
rations of the Court ofVienna
are provoked by the preparati
ons of France, as well as by her
negleifi of all means of securing
and maintaining a true peace,
and future tranquility.
All Europe knows the fince
tity of the wish for peace which
his Imperial Majesty has delay
ed, and the punctuality where
with he has fulfilled the obfiga
ilons of the Tr eaty of Lunev ft ft;
that sincerity cannot fail to bt
recc-gniled in the great conces
sions made in confequericp of
of the injurious extenlion given
f? that Treaty in Germany and*
SATURDAY, December 7, 1805.
in the not less great moderation,
with which his imperial Maje;-
! ty has conduced hims If on the
! hrft departure of the Trench Re
public from that treaty, in ref
pe6t to the concerns of the other
Republics. While thele chan
ges were aferibed to the necessity
of securing from all danger the
difclolure of the plans for the
reftoraiion of Monarchical Gov
ernment in France, hus Majsfty
made fio difficulty to recognize
the Hate of things which, to
wards the end of the year 1802,
was established in Italy. His
Majesty’s confidence in the
views of the firft Consul was
confirmed by the obligations
which the latter owed to the
Italian Republic in his chara&er
of Prefldent, by his frequent
and solemn aflurances, before
and after his elevation to the
imperial dignity, that he was far
from entertaining any plans of
farther aggrandisement or of en
croachment on the indepen
dence of the Italian States. In
fine, by the pledges which he
had given to the Emperor of
Russia, particularly with refpedt
to the indemnification of the
King of Sardinia, and the gene-”
ral arrangement of the affairs of
1 Italy.
All their cenfiderations con
curred in exciting and cherifli
i ing in his Majcfty J s bosom the
hope that the consolidation of
the new Empire of the French
would speedily bring back the
poficy and proceedings of its
government to a system bf de
portment compatible witii che
balance of power and the fafety
of Europe, and sometime after,
when the firfl: reports of new
meditated changes in the States
of Lombardy, induced the Am
bassador from the Court cf Vi
enna, at Paris, to demand expla
nations upon this fubjedl; his
Majesty, by the officialafiurance
communicated in the name of
the Emperor Napoleon, was
confirmed 111 hi* hopes that the
Italian Republic would not be
united with France, and that no
inovation should take place which
might p ovc injurious to its po
litical independence.
Europe will decide whether
thele promises have been fulfill
ed. The Emperor has not cea
sed to demand their execution
as the correfpcndence evinces,
which took place between the
two governments, and also the
official and ostensible propofi
t.ons which were tranfmititd’ to
the Atnballador, Count Philip
Cobentzel j and though the
, notes in which the Emperor
Napoleon communicated his in
tentions as to die Vftabiiihment
of a kingdom of Italy, were ac
companied with threats and mi
litary preparations • though eve
ry thing, at the very time, indi
cated what events have lince
confirmed, that die Emperor of
the French was refolded to ac
, cotnolifl; these innovations by
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did not remonstrate again ft dis
pofiti'ons, which were announced
to him a nothing more than a
proviflonal arrangement. He
rested latisfied with refuting the:
charges which furnifhed a pre
text for thole menaces, and
with exprefiing Us hope, that
the principles of reparation and
independence, which had been
confcc.rar.vd by the treaty, ihouM
be carried into complete execu
tion by the definitive a:rar-:>:-
merits, which the Emperor Na
poleon left to depend upon ulu
rior negotiation with the Conns
of Sr. Peterlburg and : .m-aon,
at die period ofthe re-cllabli.fh
ment of Peace.
These negociadons were in
ladt, the only hope which re
mained to his Majesty of fo
ctcdlng, by conciliatory means,
in maintaining peace, and ulri
mately to restore repose to Eu
rope, which from its northern
to its southern extremity, labor
ed under alarms excited by en
cerpiizes, which momentarily
in created, both in number and
magnitude.
His Mijefty the Emperor cf
the French had made a pacific
overture to the King of Eng
land, in terms which pretended
to preclude the latter from the
right of taking any concern in
the important inteiefts of the
Continent. This riftridtiori,
combined with the relations ex
isting between the King of Eng
land and the Court of St. Pe
tersburg, induced his Britannic
Majesty to have recourse to the
mediation of his Majesty the
Emperor cf Russia. Notwith-
Handing the suspension of all
official relations wuth France,
his Majesty did r.oc helilate to
employ his mediation, to efif
patch an Ambaflador for tha--
purpose, and to make applicati
on to the sovereign of France ro
furnifh him with paflports.
The hopes, however, to which
these pacific steps gave birth
speedily vanished. At the ve .
ry moment when the requjfix
paflports were tranfrfiitted to the
Ruffian Negociator, to enable
him to proceed on his journey
to France, frdh attacks were
made on the political existence
of other independent States in
Italy. From that instant the
Emperor Alexander conceived
that his character must have been
com pro mi fed as a mediator.—.
On the other hand, French ar
mies were rapidly assembled in
Italy, without any regard to the
promises given that no military
preparations should take place
in that country. An encamp
ment oi thirty thouland men ii
tiie plain of marengo, was spee
dily followed by another en*
camnmcnt of forty thoufancl
men on the frontiers cf the Ty
rol and the pro
vinces. Ih; Majesty thus found
himfeif tinder the necefifty of
providing without delay, for h\&
own fafetv. He v/as rnw con
vinced that Vs t a rife, T.ei..cl;y,
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