Thefe are the meafures which the underfigned has been ordered to propofe to his Excellency the minifter of the cabinet Count Colloredo, by the prefent note; and he has the honour herewith to affure him of the most diftinguithed refpect.

Vienna, Oct. 29, 1800.

Count Colloredo's Anfwer.

KELLER.

THE underfigned has the honour to inform the ambassador extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary of his Pruffian Majefty, of the receipt of his note of the 29th October, according to which a detachment of the corps of Loewenstein Werthheim is faid to have occupied a place belonging to the territory of the Duke of Saxe Hildburghaufen, and fituated in the line of demarcation of northern Germany.

To the underligned this occurrence has hitherto remained utterly unknown. But the neceffary inquiries fhall be made without delay on this fubject, and the meafures proper to give fatisfaction to his Pruffian Majefty thall be taken accordingly. In other refpeas, he has the honour to affure his Excellency, that that encroachment, if it have really been made, has certainly been undertaken without the knowledge of the Emperor, his Majefty being very far from defiring to difturb the principles of neutrality adopted by the Pruffian court for northern Germany, and will rather eagerly feize every opportunity to convince the King's Majefty of his friendly fentiments.

The underfigned entreats the ambaffador extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary of the King of Pruffia to accept the af furances of his fpecial refpect.

Vienna, Oct. 30.

COLLOREDO.

Proclamation of the Commander in Chief of the Army of the Rhine. Head-quarters at Munich, Nov. 27. SOLDIERS, the French people were far from thinking that

you would be forced to refume your arms in the moft rigorous feafon, in order to procure them peace, which they fincerely defire, and which the enemy endeavour to prevent by diplomatic artifices, which are but too frequently employed. In fact, it was impoffible to fuppofe that a negotiator fhould be fent without powers to negotiate. The French government, which is as frank as a free ftate ought to be, was anxious to make the most advantageous propofals to the Auftrian ambaffador, and it had no doubt of being able to put an end to your labours, and to give repofe and happiness to the republic.

Count

Count Cobentzel declared, that he could only negotiate for peace in the prefence of the English plenipotentiaries. It was in vain that we obferved, that a people who had almost all Europe in pay, and who wanted to arm thein against us, would not confent to put an end to a war which its government finds advantageous, and which it feeks to prolong, even by odious means.

Reason is filent before imperative power; and we must rely upon new fucceffes to change their hoftile difpofitions. It is by fuch miferable chicanery that our enemies thought to gain a feafon which it was hoped would not permit you to follow up the fucceffes of this campaign. They ought to know you better, and to believe that French foldiers would now be as little fenfible of the rigours of the feafon, as they were in conquering Holland and in defending the fort of Kehl, and that they would be able again to furmount the fame obftacles in order to reftore a peace to their country, which would complete its glory and its profperity.

The general in chief orders that this proclamation thall be inferted in the orders of the army, and fhall be rinted in the French and German languages.

(Signed)

MOREAU.

IT

Proclamation of General Brune.

Head-quarters at Milan, Nov. 17.

was in vain that the French thowed themfelves generous after victory. There are men who poffefs influence in the court of Vienna who ftill wifh for war. The ceffion of fortreffes and diplomatic compliances were merely evafive, and the only object was to gain time. We must then again have recourfe to arms, and put an end to this long conteft which has defolated the conGovernment has given the fignal-foldiers of liberty and of glory, a fcene of grand actions is open to you.

tinent.

Never did a campaign commence under more happy aufpices. Your fituation with refpect to your current pay, and that which was in arrears, is ameliorated, and the number of fick have diminifhed. But why do I enter into thefe details? It is of glory that one ought to speak to Frenchmen on the eve of a battle. The enemy's troops only ferve for intereft; it is the fate of a flavish people; but we are all the children of our country, and glory belongs to us.

Vive la République.

(Signed)

BRUNE.

Subftance

Subflance of the Declaration of the Emperor of Ruffia relative to an a med Neutrality by Sea.

THAT on mounting his throne he found his flates involved in

a war, provoked by a great nation, which had fallen into diffolution; that conceiving the coalition a mere measure of prefervation, this motive induced him to join it; that he did not at that time think it neceffary to adopt the fyftem of an armed neutrality on fea for the protection of commerce, not doubting but that the fincerity of his allies, and their reciprocal interefts, would be fufficient to fecure the flag of the northern powers from infult. But that being difappointed in his expectation by the perfidious enterprifes of a great power, which had fought to enchain the liberty of the feas by capturing Danith coavoys, the independence of the maritime powers of the North appeared to him to be openly menaced. He confequently confiders it a meafure of neceffity to have recourse to an armed neutrality, the fuccefs of which was acknowledged in the time of the American war.

Extra from the Peterburgh Court Gazette of the 7th of Nov. 1800. WHI HEREAS we have learned that the ifland of Malta, lately in the poficion of the French, has been furrendered to the English troops; but as it is yet uncertain whether the agreement entered into on the 30th of December 1798, will be fulfilled, according to which this ifland, after capture, is to be restored to the order of St. John of Jerufalem, of which his Majefly the Emperor of all the Ruffias is grand mafter, his Imperial Majefty being determined to defend his rights, has been pleafed to command that an embargo fhall be laid on all English fhips in the ports of his empire till the above-mentioned convention fhall be fulfilled.

Declarat on flued by the Pruffian Commandant on his entering

Ritzebuttel.

BY the exprefs fupreme command of his Majefty the King of Pruffia, Frederic William III. my moft gracious tnafter, it is herewith made known, that the march of the troops intrufted to my command, forming a part of the combined army of obfervation, employed in the protection of the neutrality of the north of Germany, and the temporary occt pation of the bailiwic of Ritzebuttel, and the village of Cuxhaven, by thefe troops, has been caufed by a mifunderstanding which had happened with refpect to a Pruffian fhip. Though after feveral fruitless requefts and amicable attempts had been made, this mifunderftanding is now happily done away, je: as the marching of troops, rendered ne

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Tary by the inefficacy of these requests and amicable attempts in he beginning, had once been ordered, and already commenced, is Majesty must have deemed it the more expedient to let it be ontinued, for the purpofe of occupying the bailiwic of Ritzeuttel, to prevent fimilar events, and henceforth to watch himself over the maintenance of the neutrality, and over the fecurity agreeably to the principles of neutrality) of this place fo important or all ftates fituated within the line of demarcation. This is the ole object of the arrival of the troops intrufled to my command. As their commanding officer, I fhall therefore be particularly foicitous in maintaining public tranquillity and fecurity, especially with refpect to relations of neutrality; and in vigorously protecting the civil branches of the Hamburgh government of this place, as well as all other inhabitants and strangers arriving here, with all their rights, legal relations, affairs, bufinefs, and property, wherever it may be requifite; but principally commerce and navigation, which fhall not in the least be injured or reftrained, but, on the contrary, better fecured and preferved in their tranquil and undisturbed courfe, without, however, making the leaft alteration in the conftitution and public measures of the place; on the other hand, every perfon must behave in a peaceable, quiet, and proper manner to the King's troops under my command; otherwife he will have to afcribe to himfelf the difagreeable confequences which will inevitably arife from a contrary behaviour.

(Signed)

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V. WEDELL,

Colonel and Commander of the Royal Pruffian
Regiment of Infantry, von Schladen.

Bailiwic of Ritzebuttel, Nov. 24, 1800.

Paris, 16th Frimaire, Dec. 5.
Emigrants.

The Minister of the general Police of the Republic to the Prefects of the Departments.

I

AM informed, Citizen Prefect, that fome emigrants, miftaking the regulations of the decree of the 28th Vendemiaire (Sept. 20), prefent themselves at the frontiers of the republic, and that many of them enter, from their not experiencing. that refiftance which the local authorities ought to oppofe to them. I am ftill farther led to believe that in fome departments the prefects themselves, giving a falfe interpretation to a clause in the fame decree, relative to the promises to be made by individuals actually erafed, have opened the regifters where those accused of emigration, thofe placed under the infpection of the police, even emigrants fecretly returning into the bofom of the republic, have been made to infcribe their promife of fidelity to the conftitution.

This proceeding is exprefsly contrary to the intentions of the government. All the individuals infcribed on the lifts of emigrants ought to wait without the limits of the republic; the judgment will then be formed on their claims for readmiffion, if the refolutions I have formed regarding them have not determined me provifionally to admit them under the infpection of their com

mune.

No one accufed of emigration, whether I have admitted him under this infpection, or whether he is not in this fituation, fhall regifter his promife of fidelity to the conftitution; and this promife fhall not give him any pledge of fecurity, if his refidence is not befides juftified.

You will give to thefe regulations, Citizen Prefect, the neceffary publicity, and take care that they are ftrictly executed.

(Signed)

FOUCHE.

Diplomatic Correfpondence relative to the Pruffian Prize carried into Cuxhaven, and the Poffeffion of that Place by the King of Prussia. THE firft note was dated the 16th of November: in it Lord

Carysfort obferves, that this fhip (the Triton), belonging to Embden, was laden with contraband, and was bound to an enemy's port (the Texel). She was therefore a lawful prize. His Excellency remonftrated in very ftrong terms against the march of the Pruffian troops towards Cuxhaven, which order he defired fhould be fufpended until advices fhould be received from England. The occupation of this port would moreover give occafion to the enemies of Pruffia to affign to his Majesty views of aggrandizement, which could not fail to excite much alarm.

In a fecond note, dated the 18th of November, Lord Caryffort obferves-that having learnt that the Pruffian fhip had been purchased by the city of Hamburgh, and restored to its original owners, the caufe of the march of the Pruffians againft Cuxhaven no longer exifted, and ought to be countermanded.

Count Haugwitz, in reply, declared to our minifter, that his Pruffian Majefty, as the chief for preferving the line of demarcation, had found it neceffary to occupy the port of Cuxhaven, in order to watch over the interefts and fecurity of thofe countries within its boundaries; that, for the reft, this occupation would not disturb the good harmony that fubfifted between the courts of Berlin and London, and that neither commerce nor a free communication would be interrupted by it.

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