English Translation

- 51 - In addition, however, England wants Russian troops for its war against France. In his monarchical consciousness, Emperor Paul is skillfully sought. The overthrow of all thrones is inevitable, the English king thinks to the Russian envoy Count Vorontsov, and one will succeed after the other The joint pressure of the London and Vienna courts succeeds under the sent exploitation of hostile actions of the French, which capture the Russian consul Saburinsky and favor the Polish refugees, from which Polish legions are formed in the Association of Republican Armec, Paul I. At the end of July in 798 he granted the Austrians an aid corps of 20 O00 men. It is said that the enormous armaments of the French at sea were not only directed against England, but threatened the Russian possessions on the Black Sea. The French seemed to be planning to restore Poland, Na-poleon's Egyptian company, which forced Turkey to turn to its old enemy, the Russians, seeking help, could also become faltering to the Russian concerns in the front Orient.2d On December 29, 1798, the alliance between Russia and Prince Condé with its body of 7 O00 emigrants was granted to the Thrönarwärter Lüdwig XVIII. Refuge in the castle of Mitau and a pension of 200 O00 rubles annually. Paul I now takes over the leadership of the second coalition and wants to wage war with all his might against republican France. In the spring of 1899 he sent troops to northern Italy, to which he even gave the famous Suvorov as commander, despite his personal aversion at the request of the Viennese court, and sent two squadrons to the English coast for the 1) report of Vorontsov from 3.4.1798 at Aleksandrenko 1, p.75. 2) P.Rüter: Turkey, England and the Russian-French alliance 1807-1812, Emsdetten 1935, p.3. 3) N.K.Ši1'der: Imperator Pavel Pervyj, Sanktpeterburg 190l, p.406.