they have hitherto enjoyed tranquillity and undisputed property, and shared in the universal prosperity of the whole empire. Lastly, we are confident that all the children of the land, relying on the help of God, on the valour of our troops, and on the known experience of their leader, will spare no sacrifice, no efforts, which patriotism and the safety of our country may demand.

St. Petersburgh, Nov. 28, 1806.

Proclamation of his Prussian Majesty to the Inhabitants of Silesia.

"Brave Inhabitants of Silesia. "Among the mournful events which have taken place during the course of the present war, there is nothing that has so much filled with grief the heart of his majesty, as to see a considerable part of his provinces and faithful subjects oppressed by the weight of sufferings, which must be the inevitable consequence of a war, in which the enemy, by his manner of making war, unusual in our time, entirely exhausts the country through which he passes, by forced requisitions of every kind, and by the large bodies of marauders who swarm round his disciplined armies, and who, incapable of sparing, treat the armed warrior and the unhappy peaceable inhabitant with the same cruelty, and every where leave behind them traces of the grossest barbarity, desarts, and ashes; even where, through fear of violence, the unarmed inhabitants have shewn the greatest submission in the reception of those destroying hordes.

"His majesty perceives that his faithful Silesian provinces are now

threatened with the same wretched fate.

"It sensibly grieves his majesty that he is prevented by the situation of affairs, which renders his presence necessary at other points, from hastening in person to the aid of his faithful Silesians, who have at all times, and under all circumstances, rewarded the paternal care of their monarch for the welfare and prosperity of their country, by the mostunshaken attachment to the house of Prussia.

"The enemy boasts--favoured by fortune, so liable to change, and not less favoured by the treachery of base traitors that he has already annihilated the whole force of the Prussian monarchy.

"But he knows not that his majes ty is at this moment at the head of a formidable army, which burns with eagerness to engage the oppressors of the country.

"He knows not, or appears not to wish to know, that the monarch of Prussia finds himself surrounded by a guard, which no force, no misfortunes, no talisman, can subdue-the unalterable love of his people.

"He knows not that every day thousands of volunteers offer themselves, with arms in their hands, to set bounds to his progress, and that the Silesians display no less activity and energy in defence of their king and country, than to defend their property from unexampled rapacity.

"He flatters himself with the doubts he is anxious to disseminate of the promised aid of Russia.

"But he deceives himself in his hopes; the most sacred and inviolate fulfilment of all treaties entered

into

into is one of the principal traits in the character of the noble-minded sovereign of all the Russias.

"Already two formidable Russian armies have arrived near the banks of the Vistula, while a third, much more numerous, is advancing by rapid marches.

"Already legions of patriots, voluntarily armed, and used to battle, are prepared to join the armies in the field.

"His majesty, under these circumstances, depends on the attachment of his Silesian states and subjects, who have at all times, both by word and deed, given the most manifest proofs of their unshaken fidelity; and he believes that, by the appointment, ad interim, of one of the most distinguished of them, his excellency the prince of Anhalt Pless, to be governor-general of Silesia, he gives them a proof of his confidence and good-will. Conducted by this prince, who has gloriously signalized himself in the course of the war, the states, and all classes of the inhabitants of Silesia, will certainly exert themselves to contribute all in their power, in conjunction with the forces which his majesty will send to their assistance, to defend their country, and their own province in particular. "Invested with full power by his majesty, I therefore hereby call on all and each of the inhabitants of the Silesian provinces, to bear cheerfully the sacrifices and burthens which probably may be necessary for the attainment of this great object, and the rather as they not only can bear no proportion to the enormous sacrifices to which they must be subjected should the enemy succeed in his attempt to conquer Silesia, but as in due time they will be rewarded

Proclamation of the King of Prussia.

The battle of the 14th of last month was, notwithstanding the most courageous efforts of the army, so unfortunate in its issue for the army of Prussia, that the enemy found the way quite open to the capital, and into the heart of the monarchy. The king was of course induced to propose an armistice: he thought he might promise himself a good reception in this undertaking, as during the battle he had received a letter from the emperor Napoleon, full of friendly expressions. But to this proposal, as no attention could be paid unless his majesty consented to numerous sacrifices as the fundamental basis of peace, the king, who immediately perceived the whole of the danger to which his faithful subjects would be inevitably exposed, preferred those sacrifices to the less certain and distant means of saving the country, by trusting to the fate of arms; he therefore determined upon every risk for the preservation of the independence of the monarchy, and dispatched his minister of state, the marquis Lucchesini, on the 18th of October, with full powers, to the head quarters of the emperor and king. The sacrifices to which the king had authorised his minister, the marquis Lucchesini, to accede, were the effects of the advantages which the enemy had obtained by the fortune of a single day;

and

majesty; he was compelled to refuse his ratification of the armistice concluded by marshal Duroc on the 22d of November. It only remained for his majesty to solicit the courts of St. James's and St. Peterburg to negociate with him for the bases of a general peace with the emperor Napoleon. This his majesty has done; and, under the distant hopes of a happy issue to this proceeding, his majesty has not yet recalled his plenipotentiary, the marquis Lucchesini, from the head quarters of the emperor and king.

Whilst the king has thus done every thing in his power to prevent the further effusion of blood, he has, on the other hand, been incessantly occupied in preparing the means of resistance with which Providence has supplied him. Though the fortresses of Stettin, Custrin, and Magdeburg, notwithstanding their being abundantly supplied with provisions, and furnished with sufficient garrisons, have been unjustifiably surrendered by their governors and commanders; yet the remaining fortresses of the country, and particularly those on the Vistula, have been with the utmost activity placed in the best state of defence, and confided to the care of resolute and faithful commanders. The troops remaining in the provinces on the Vistula, and the Wartha, will form a junction with the numerous and brave Russian armies; besides which, a new army will be collected, and got in readiness for service. The king, therefore, relies upon the support of the nation, which, in the seven years war, made a glorious stand against almost the whole of Europe, and which gave no signs of despair or irresolution, though then, as now, the capital, and the greater part of the kingdom,

had fallen into the power of the enemy, and chose to sustain the greatest perils and dangers, with a degree of firmness and intrepidity which rendered it the wonder of the age and that of posterity. The stake we now contend for is greater than ever. We now fight for all that is honourable to the nation and sacred among mankind. This is well known to the country and to the whole world. The king has only taken up arms to defend his independence; nor will the enemy succeed in deceiving the people with the idea of a coalition, for which there is not the least foundation. In the seven years war Prussia stood alone, or at least without any considerable assistance from any other nation, against the principal powers of Europe. In the present war she depends upon the aid of the powerful and magnanimous Alexander, who will raise his whole force in her behalf. In this great contest Prussia will have but one and the same interest with Russia. Both will stand or fail together. From this intimate connection between the two powers, and in so sacred a cause, against an enemy whose power has so rapidly risen to such a giddy height, that he no longer sets any bounds to his good fortune, a happy issue cannot be doubted. Perseverance in danger conformably to the glorious example of our ancestors, can and must infallibly lead us to victory.

[Next follows the armistice (A.) concluded at Charlottenburg, on the 16th of November, 1806.]

French Declaration. (B.)

"The undersigned, minister for foreign affairs, has been ordered by his majesty the emperor and king to

make