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STATE PAPER.

[FROM THE GERMAN]

Note of Mr. Canning, English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Prince Starhemberg, the Austrian ambassador at London.

"LONDON, APRIL 25, 1807.

"The undersigned, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, has laid before the King the note delivered to him by prince Starhemberg, ambassador extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, in which his Imperial Majesty offers himself as a mediator for a general peace.

"The undersigned has received it in command from the king his sovereign, to communicate to prince Starhemberg the enclosed official answer to the note of his Imperial Majesty. The King does complete justice to the motives that have induced his Imperial Majesty to propose a mode of negociation which, by embracing the interests of all parties, can alone lead to the restoration of a lasting peace, and the permanent tranquility of Europe; and his Majesty, therefore, accepts the offer of his Imperial Majesty's mediation, so far as he is concerned: but with this provision, that it shall also be accepted by all the other powers involved in the present war.

NOTE.

"His majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has received with due regard the communication of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and also justly appreciates the motives which have upon this occasion, determined his majesty to become the mediator of a general peace.

"The King, who has never ceased to look to a secure and lasting peace as the only object of the war in which he is engaged, and who has never refused to listen to any proposal which offered the least probability of attaining his proposed object, cannot, for a moment, hesitate to give his full assent to the declared opinion of his majesty the Emperor and King, and that such a peace is only to be obtained by a general negociation on the part of all the powers engaged in the present war.

"The King will have no difficulty in entering upon such a negociation, as soon as the consent of the other powers interested therein shall have been received. His majesty will, without delay, make the necessary communications in this respect to those powers with which he is more especially united by the ties of friendship and confidence, in order to ascertain their views, and in the event of their being favorable to the proposition of his Imperial Majesty, to consult with them as to the mode in which the negociation shall commence, and, agreeably to his Imperial Majesty's proposition, to come to an understanding as to the principles which should equally form the ground and basis of discussion and of a general arrangement.

As to what concerns the choice of a place to become the seat of negociation, any place will be equally acceptable to his majesty, provided (exclusive of the indispensable condition which is also expressed in the note of his Imperial Majesty,) that it shall be free from all immediate influence of the events of the war) that it affords to his Britannic Majesty, in the same degree as to the other powers, the means of a speedy and uninterrupted communication with the plenipotentiaries whom his Majesty should send to this Congress.