Notwithstanding the Internuncio's disavowal of the Emperor's knowledge of this attempt, accounts were soon received, that Generals Mitrowski and De Gomingen were ordered to Vienna, to answer for their failure; and, on the 8th of February, Baron De Herbert delivered a formal declaration of war.
After the journey to Cherson, the unremitting armaments which immediately followed, and, to crown the whole, the treacherous attempt upon Belgrade, the Imperial Manifesto, to the surprise of every body, begins in the following manner.--
"All Europe have been witness
to the good faith with which the
Court of his Imperial Majesty has,
for many years, cultivated peace with
the Ottoman Empire; the sincere dispositions
it has manifested, on every
occasion, to preserve their good neighbourhood;
its disinterested and indefatigable