The Correspondence of Prince Talleyrand and King Louis Xviii

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: accede to the treaty of defensive alliance concluded on the 3rd of January, 1815, between Great Britain, Austria, and France. Vienna, 2nd January, 1815 (see D'Angeberg, p. 692). LETTER LVII. No. 30. Vienna, 26th February, 1815. Sire, I have the honour of sending to your Majesty a copy of Prince...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: accede to the treaty of defensive alliance concluded on the 3rd of January, 1815, between Great Britain, Austria, and France. Vienna, 2nd January, 1815 (see D'Angeberg, p. 692). LETTER LVII. No. 30. Vienna, 26th February, 1815. Sire, I have the honour of sending to your Majesty a copy of Prince Metternich's Declaration mentioned in my last despatch, with the answer I have just written to him. Your Majesty will see that this answer agrees entirely with the letter I wrote to Lord Castlereagh, in which I told him that we had no intention of passing through Italy in order to put down Murat. I could have wished Austria to declare herself more explicitly against Murat. But they feared to give him a pretext for hostilities, the Austrians not being ready in Italy. Orders have been given to send troops thither. They will have one hundred and fifty thousand men there, and another fifty thousand in reserve in Carinthia, which will be enough to keep Murat quiet or baffle his attempts. But as everything is done very slowly here, Prince Schwarzenberg asks for seven weeks to enable all his troops to reach their destination. The Note which determined their being sent still seems to me to have been a fortunate incident. I go to-morrow to Presburg to see Madame de Brionne, ) who received yesterday the last sacraments, and who has sent for me. I shall return on Monday night, and public affairs, which make no progress, will not in any way suffer from these two days' absence. It is settled that General Pozzo leaves on the 1st or 2nd of March: he will be ten days on his journey. The Emperor of Russia is very active in the affairs of the Archduchess Marie Louise; he has made a scheme for taking away almost all the Legations from the Pope. This brings him into opposit...