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LETTER FROM PRINCE OF ECKMUHL TO LORD
WELLINGTON, JUNE 30, 1815
FRENCH PAPERS
Letter from His Excellency The Minister at
War to Lord Wellington
Head-quarters at La Villette, June 30, 1815.
My Lord -- Your hostile movements continue
although, according to their declarations, the motives of the war
which the allied Sovereigns make upon us no longer exist, since
the Emperor Napoleon had abdicated.
At the moment when blood is again on the point of flowing, I
receive from Marshal the Duke of Albufera a telegraphic dispatch,
of which I transmit you a copy. My Lord, I guarantee this
armistice on my honour. All the reasons you might have had to
continue hostilities are destroyed, because you can have no other
instruction from your Government than that which the Austrian
Generals had from theirs.
I make the formal demand to your Excellency of ceasing all
hostilities, and that we proceed to form an armistice, awaiting
the decision of Congress. I cannot believe, my Lord, that my
request will remain ineffectual; you will take upon yourself a
great responsibility in the eyes of your noble fellow countrymen.
No other motive but that of putting an end to the idea of your
talents, I shall carry thither the conviction of there combating
for the most sacred of causes, that of the defence and
independence of my country; and whatever may be the result, I
shall merit your esteem.
Accept, I beg you, my Lord, the assurance of my highest
consideration.
The Marshal Prince of Eckmuhl,
Minister at War.
(The same letter was written by his Excellency to Marshal Blucher.)
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