Political and Military Memoirs of Europe; From the Renewal of War on the Continent in 1798, to the Peace of Amiens in 1802 with an Introductory View of the Treaty of Camp-Formio, and Proceedngs of the Congress at Rastadt (Paperback)

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: ...the information his Britannic Majesty had received, that Denmark was carrying on with activity, negociations hostile to the interests of the British empire, and tending to oppose by force the exercise of those principles, on which its naval power chiefly rested, and which had been hitherto followed bv all the maritime states, and acknowledged by their tribunals. Relying I%qo. on the faith of recent engagements, his Majesty had forborne to require any eclaircissment, in the hope that the court of Denmark would think it a duty to, contradict reports so incompatible with the good understanding, which had been re-established between the two countries. But the conduct and public declaration of one of the powers, who was said to be a party in this confederacy, no longer permitted him to preserve silence towards the rest. Mr. Drummond, therefore, concluded with repeating his demand of a plain, open, and satisfactory answer, on the nature, object, and extent of the obligations which the Danisli government might have contracted, or the negociation carrying on with respect to a matter which so nearly concerned the dignity of his Britannic Majesty, and the welfare of his people. In answer to this requisition, the Count inform-Aniw of ed him, that the negociation at St. Petersburgh h0eveoa_nisl between Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark, meDthad no other object than the renewal of the engagements, which, in the years 1780 and 1781, were contracted by the fame powers for the protection of their commerce. His Imperial Russian Majesty having proposed to the powers of the north the renewal of these in their original form, Denmark had the less hesitated to consent to this step, as, far from having ever abandoned the principles professed in 1780, she had deemed it her-duty...