Select Despatches from the British Foreign Office Archives; Relating to the Formation of the Third Coalition Against France, 1804-1805
by John Holland Rose (9781150378508)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: Royal historical society Subjects: Europe Great Britain History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Lord 0. L. Gower to Lord Mulgrave. j? St. Petersburg: March 22,1805. The flattering attention paid to the sentiments of the Emperor No' of Russia, in the answer of the British Government to the late overture from France, and the liberal and enlightened policy which dictated that answer, have not failed to make a due impression upon the mind of his Imperial Majesty: the cabinet of St. Petersburg concur in, the opinion of his Majesty's ministers, that specifick terms of peace should be proposed to the French Government, in order that it may be made manifest to the world, that in carrying on war against France the Courts of London and Russia are influenced by no other consideration than a regard to the tranquility and security of Europe. His Imperial Majesty adopts the suggestion contained in your lordship's dispatch, of sending to Paris an accredited minister, who shall state to Bonaparte in person the grounds upon which alone any hopes of the re-establishment of peace can be entertained. Your lordship will learn with great satisfaction, that M. Novo- silzow is the person to whom this important mission is to be confided. The soundness of his principles, and the firmness of his character, banish those apprehensions which the opening of a negotiation at Paris, between Russia and France would otherwise naturally excite. I am sorry however to observe that there exists a disposition in the cabinet here, to modify the conditions which your lordship . states as indispensa...

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