A Complete and Impartial History of the Rise, Progress, & Termination of the Late War, Which Commenced in the Year 1791 (Volume 2); To Which Is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the French Revolution - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802. Excerpt: ... Tn a note remitted to the Imperial miaifter, on the ift of January. ijg, the French plenipotentiaries made a formal declaration, that if the diet of Ratiibou confented to the tntiance of the Rufliah troops on the territory of the empire, ot did not, by every means in their power, give it their llrcnwms opposition, that fuch entrunce would be ooniidsred by France as a violation of the neutrality on the part of the empire; that the ncftocintions which were then carrying on at Radltadt Ihoiild be broken off; and that the republic and the empire iliuuld be placed on the fame footing as they were previous to the iignature of the preliminaries at Leoben, and the conchmon of ihe armillice. They further remarked, that the preparations and march of the Ruflians which liad been little foreleen, vere confidered by them as dangerous to the domeiiic tranquillity of Germany, and eventually tleftroy the folid hopes vhich had been formed of a perfect reconciliation and a general peace between the two nations.---Every one mult fee cle;irly that Rufiia, after having encouraged the war during lix years, without taking any adbve part, had thus openly entered the fisld againft France, with no other intention than that of preventing a continental peace from taking place; and with defins no lefs evident, of facilitating the plan ot' general ufurpation, vhi»;h that cabinet had lo long meditated. To thole members of the cnngrefs who were really difpofed for peace, this declaration of the French miniIters gave much perplexity and concern. But thole who had lolt every thing, and who could only be benefited by the chances of war, did not diffcmble their fatisfaction at the profpect of the re-commence.ient of holtihties. The deputation, without debating the principle, voted that...
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