9, 1792.

"The emperor has promised aid to the elector, under the express stipulation that he should begin by yielding to the demands of the French, as otherwise no assistance would be given to him in case of attack."] [Footnote 2342: Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," I.254 (February, 1792).--" Correspondance de Mirabeau et du M.de la Marck," III.

232 (note of M.
de Bacourt).

On the very day and at the moment of signing the treaty at Pilnitz, at eleven o'clock in the evening, the Emperor Leopold wrote to his prime minister, M.de Kaunitz, "that the convention which he had just signed does not really bind him to anything; that it only contains insignificant declarations, extorted by the Count d'Artois." He ends by assuring him that "neither himself nor his government is in any way bound by this instrument."] [Footnote 2343: Words of M.de Kaunitz, Sept.

4, 1791 ("Recueil," by Vivenot, I.242).] [Footnote 2344: Moniteur, XI.