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FRANCE. POLITICS-FROM THE NIOt.TITEUR. PARIS. Nov. 23.—The article we are about to fub mit to our has been publithed in Germany, where it has prrdsieed a very deep impreffinn. It has pat been iranflaied into French; and the tranf -I,ator has (elated it from a variety of others, which ehe fame feniimcnt has given life to; as including. in a (hotter compafv, inure fails and reafoning than the reit. He wifhes only to have it remarked with delicacy and decorum what belongs to the charafter of the nation : that he has thought it his duty to retrench, in the tranflation, the violent paffsges againft the King of England—he does not wills to become, in that refpeB, 11,e imitator of the Englifh Writers ; too accuitomed to outrage, in the molt fhameful manner, the Royal dignity. REPLY TO TNN KING OT ENGLAND'S DECLARATION, 111LATITIE TO THE EXPEDITION TO COPENHAGEN. Pafeit ventum et fequitur atßum s tots die istendseium et valti (stens multiptieat. HOSZA, esp. sii. v. s. When the right of nations paired for fomething with England—when the laws of nations view the laws of England, one might have expeCted to fee hollilities preceded by manifeaoes, and not manifettoes fol lowing the confummation of hollilities. Modern nations have conflantly followed in this refped the ufage of what the ancients bad left them the example—thofe ufages which the Romans adop ted as foon as they entered into the rank of civilifed people. From the date of thofe folemn forms, of which Livy has confecrated the recolleCtion, in the firll work of his Hifloty, down to thofe expreffiuns written upon the fword of the molt terrible of Sine reigns—Ultima ratio regain. How many movements arta to us that this lall and fatal means ought to be preceded by all thofe of a wife and moral policy; and that. before we ap peal to arms, Sovereigns ought to make known their motives for departing from peace, and the ef forts they have made to pteferve it. Bite arms, which are the kJ reafon of Kap, are the fiat reafon of Brigands : and the latter iffue no declarations, until threatened with republican yen geance ; they endeavour to parry off the blow that is brought down upon their heads by the ruin and blood of their viflims. It was only after having burnt Copenhagen and feized the Danifit fleet—it was only when they law a general indignation kindling againft them, that the Englitb Government thought of pub lifhing a declaration of their motives. Brit when a Government has brought themfelves to refolve upon fuch exceffeo, when they openly pro fefs that they difregard the molt facred rights, that they violate the moll holy laws, that they infult all Sovereigns, that they outrage every nation, bow is it that they Roop to a jollification of their condo& ? What care they for the indignation which they have excited from one extremity of Europe to the other ? Are they to be (truck by the general hatred, or bumbled by univerfal contempt ? Have they any charalter to maintain, or a remnant of honour to preferve ? Con they be fuppored acceffible to a kola. Lion Hof fhame, or to the flightell difpolltion to re pentance ? Can the epee of the ruins of Copenhagen—can the blood of fo many brave wisaims immolated with in its walls—can the lamentations of Co many unfor tunate families touch the feelings of the Englilh Government ? Or do the cries of vengeance which are railed againft them by all the nations of the Continent, make them fear that at length thefe na tions will form a vigorous confederacy againß them, to avenge all the calamities which they have heaped upon them ? No: thefe cries of vengeance are not yet fufficiently rung in the ears of the inglifh. The Government flatter themfelves they will be able to Rifle them by their declarations. They think meanly enough of the honour or the wifdom of Come Continental Powers, Rill to attempt to lay fnares for them.— After having difmayed them by new exceffes, they would feduce them by new artifices. When a na• tien has employed fatfehood and perfidy, to prepare the fuccefs of their crimes, it is by falfeho , ni and perfidy they will endeavour to excufe them : like that guilty tribe, who, according to the words of the Prophet, feeding themfelves with pride, and purfuing *Els of violence, continually multiplied their falfe hoods and their devaflations Ephraim paletorentum et fequitur cam ; tots die mendaciurn cc vaftitatern multiplicat.% But upon what Power, upon what Nation, upon what Individual even does England flatter heifelf the can impofe by thefe infidinus declarations ? In a bufinefs where her condor& to highly condemns hei, of what avail is her language ?—How are her dif cot:ries to palliate ber iniquities ?—Since the Eng lifh do not hefitate to furnith hiltory with this new monument of their execrable policy; fince they ven ture to prefent themfelves before the tribunal of public opinion, with this miferable apology, let us follow them before that Judge, whole competence they only offal to acknowledge, that they minted or comet him. Every fubjeft of an independent Rate has a right to examine and canvafs this declaration, which they do not flit ink from offering to indignant Europe.— This right more particularly belongs to the inhabi- tants of a country who, having never employed any offenfive means againtl England, has, however, been the moll cruelly affeBcd by her e a p e di t i ons . /hat ! does this remark alone point to my poor unhappy country ! All the States of Germany, taken toge ther, have not a angle fhip of the line, nor even a frigate. They have no weapon by which they could annoy England ; and it is Germany, neverthelefs, that the policy of England has torn, in every fenfe, by her fatal confederacies. It is Germany that the Engli(h have, for their own advantage, converted into the theatre of the moft bloody, the moll °bal. nate, the moll lamentable flruggle ;—it is Germany • The Fible is very much read In Germany, there is, therefore, ito reafon fcr furpri'e at (tieing a Germiy qucte a prophet, even in a political trad. Among the writings to which the Bring of. Co penhagen has given birth, and which I have had 0CC26011 to pe. rule, there is a fort of prophecy againtt England, compored of a number of paff.iges from the prophets, which the Author para phrafes, as be applies them to the iniquities, to the prefent Grua dm and the luture fate of England. He has more efpcsially availed I.lmfelf of Habakuk and Zacharias. This work is very curious, and is inkribesl to a Clergyman of Finniberg, in Hollteino—(Note of the {?tench Tranflator.). which the Englith have always ineigated to rife againfl their own enemies, but never afforded her any affiffance. We have only begun to breathe f r om the days when the influence of England declined on the Continent. No people has a nearer interefl than we have, in fruffrating the effort,, which the is Rill making, to deceive fame Governments; it is more peculiarly, therefore, our duty to dem& her fophifms, and expofe their impoftures. The article then proceeds to animadvert upon the Englith Declaration, taking it paragraph by para graph, and beginning by the fiat. That hacknied phrafe with which you begin your Declaration, like almoll all documents of that kind, has no weight but when coming from Governments that ad from eonfcience. The examination of your Declaration will (hew us, if you acknowledge any duties towards Europe, and if the motives you fet forth can have been your real motives. You profefs candour, and it may fometimes be proper from an ambitious Power, for ambition does not always (loop to diffimulation ; but Punic ambition bore no relent blame to Roman ambition. You deferred your Declaration, beeaufe you re tained a hope of concluding more defirable arrange. meets with Denmark. You then chef liked that hope even while you difembarked an army in Zealand— even while you were bombarding Copenhagen, and even kng after you had reduced to allies a part of that capital. What were firmerly thole more dell- Table arrangements, which you had hopes of con cluding ? You requefted that the Danifh fleet fhquld be placed at your difpofal, and you wifhed to be in debted for it to the cowardice of t h e Danes ; nowt% tionably, fuch an advantage would have been mare defirable for you, for it would have relieved you from the odium of fuch an expedition : but it would have difgraced the Dan& name ; and the difallers of Den. mark can have no longer any thing doubtful in them for that nation, when it refleBs that they have refuted it from that difgrace. By what facrifices did you intend to repay her ignominy ? You take care not to mention them ; but all the world knows that your policy is as avaricious as it is cruel, and betides, how do you come to call facrifices, what you might have offered Denmark in exchange for her fleet and her honour ? Having failed in bringing the Danes to that ad of ccovardice, you confole yourfelf for it by the eonvic• tion of having done every thing to decide them to it. By one and the fame blow you were &Brous to def. poil and to difhonour them ; but infamy has fallen upon yourfclves, and you endeavour to confole your felves for having only executed one half your defign —more diftreffed at not having fucceeded in rendering them both miferable and infamous, than at having made yourfelves infamous, by having overwhelmed them with calamities. You attempt the plea of a cruel osecOt , ; you even pretend to deplore it. You with that aidis eyes of Europe ] and the world, 'wows:Add may le jiiliOed, by the imperious and incafpmfable duty of providing for the fafety of your Nation. You are fenfible, therefore, that your con dud (lands in need of jollification, that .Earope and the World mull have blamed it ; and you taped to be misled in their eyes by the plea of a trial iteiffiy, jut( as a wretch might plead before his judges, that hunger intligated him to lay a knife at the throat of a de(erving man—you plunged the dagger and you imagine that there is a juftification, an excufe you' may fet up. (*) Let us examine into this crud ne tety, this indilpenfails duty of providing for year ; the tenor of your Declaration will futficiently ex plain it. You endeavour to etlablifh three fads, all of which would indeed be neceffary to your jultificaiion. You would fain perfuade Europe, i 11, That you had au thentic information refpeding the projeds of the Emperor Napoleon : idly, That theta proses threat ened your fafety; adly, That you had no other, means of providing for your fafety, than by treating the Danes as you have done. You acknowledge the neceffity you are under of making good thefe three, fads. You are fenfible that if one of them proves unfounded, your conduit towards Denmark will re main without an excufe, and mull ever be confidered as the height of injutlice. Well, then I There three falls are all falfe, and it is eafy to prove it. And in the fill place, how can you have been pofitively informed of thefe refolutions, of tbefe projects which you impute to the Emperor of the French ? Who difclofed them to you ? What proof, or even what appearance of proof can you adduce of Inch infer mation ? If there had been a tingle fad that could have been (fated as a begigning of the execution of thefe projects, how would you not have availed your(elves of it ? innead of falls, you hold out nothing to our belief but the mon vague allegations. You would have Europe look upon your information as certain, pofitive, and you do not leave room even to guets at thofe anshentic Jewess from which you pre tend to have derived it. All Europe knows well that you have on the Con. tinent an army of (pies, whofe bufinefs it is to mike attacks on the Oddity of every man who approaches Sovereigns or Minifters. All Europe knows alfo, that loch foldiers fend you without ceafing certain frafitivr and authentic iffortnation, but all Europe knows Bill better that there are countries, and one partl. cularly, where the charaaer and genius of the &me reign, and the devotion of his Minifters, render every attack of this nature equally ridienlons and ufelcfs. if there is any thing pofitin and authentic in Europe, it is the impenetrable fecrecy which veils the defigns of the Emperor Napoleon ; it is elle that prodigious rapidity of aaion which is peculiar to him, and which fuffers nothing to be known of the greater part of his projeas till they are executed. Thus you may confers your means of information. They 'are pointed out. Let it be °braved, that it has been demooftrated by fails, that the projeas which you were pleated to place to the Emperor Napoleon bad no exiftence.— His power is fuch that we may defy you to anfwer the following argument :—He has not invaded the Dani(h territories, therefore he had no &fire e• do it. Every one knows that for more than fix mendis there was in Mecklenburg and the other Arun Lower Saxony, bordering upon Haight, a greater number of French troops than was massy to °C. copy the whole of that province and Slefwiek. ' ' is true indeed, Denmark took care to guard thefe continental provinces ; and, thanks to your fatal infinuations—thanks to the cruel forefight of your (,) Queen Matilda, fo famed for her midwinter, the toefort of Chrifilan VII. and mother of the Prince Royal, 11 if the Mu of the f reran Wog of England. malevolent policy, it left unproteAed the 'nand: of which you were projeeing the attack, in order to carry its forces into the provinces in the neighbour hood of the war which you had kindled. The great misfortune of the Danes has been not to have fuls• ciently diftruned your policy, and to have been too little acquainted with that of the Emperor - Napoleon. They have only taken precautions againa a Sove reign from whom they had nothing to fear. ;emus, you fay. would have engaged Decmarl to flu: the Sound agalig you, and might have employed the Dantjh fleet to load troops on your coal!. I admit for a moment the reality of your chimerical alarms. I allow the French to pats, without a navy, over the two canals that feparate Zealand from the Continent. I Ihall I fuppofe them mailers of that ;Eland and of Copenha• gen. But was it in their power to thnt the Sound againft you without the concurrence of Sweden How can it be imagined that England, fofficiently powerful to extend its defpotifm over every tea, had no other means of providing for its fecurity againft the Data* fleet, than to furprife Denmark, without defence, in order to plunder it of all its (hips and all its maritime Itrength ? The Engliffs, fu ciently powerful to tyrannife over the van countries of India —to maintain their dominion in the Antilles—to IslockAde th•-porti cif Europe—to impofe upon Ame rica the harden laws—to defray the commerce of all nations. The Englifh, with a firperabundance of means that enables them to menace Connantinople, to occupy the Tagus, to attack Egypt, to fend an army to Buenos Ayres—thr Englifh, who difplay their force with filch a monrous prodigality, and lava it away in (Welds expeditions—will they peifuade Europe, that in order to provide for their fecurity againg the Dania' fleet, they were com• pelled to have recourfe to a difhonourable expedition ? You boat} as much of extreme long Aping, as a ge nerous power could have dune who had, for a long time, (offered attacks and outrages, (corning to avenge itfelf of them. You complain of a violence for ever affire, as if you had been oppreffed and crufhed by it,. Let us fubnitute fads for words. What power is it which forming ani keeping up four focceffive coalitions, has during fifteen years fpread over the Continent all the fcourges of war ? What power is it who was the lad to make peace, the fird to violate it. conditions, and who firft broke it, by whom the treaty of Amiens was annihilatedal mod as loon as it was concluded ? What power is that, who by hoftility and rapine committed in profound peace, forced Spain into a war ? What power is it which has enriched itfelf with the fpoils of Spain andof Holland, and which, is India, has nfurped the throne of Tippon Saib ? What power is that which his uncealingly varied and multiplied its vexations with refpeet to neutrals, which has tyrannifed over all commercial and navi• gating nations,and which (till pretends to fusjed the Americans to the moil humiliating law ? What power is that which has conftantly trodden under foot the law of nations, in machinating among its enemies confpiracies, afis(Onations, and profcrip dans ? What power is it whom Europe has =tried of the horrible executions at Naples, the an:ruination of Paul I. and the attempts againa the life of Napoleon?, What power is it whom the whole world &scorn of protaliog the butchers of St. Domingo ? To all there queftions there is but one anfwer. It is England. — lt is you, however, who now 13(30 of long Coffering. After fo many and fuch terrible aas of violence, what right, have you to complain of the avowed projea of coalefcing againa you all the States of Europe ? Doubtlifs, in contemplating the epoch when you cnalefced all there States againft France, and looking at y,our prelim fituation, you may be a little alto nifhed at the contra* of theft two fitaations. Your declarations could face no impure but to irritate the cruel wounds which you have infliEted upon the Dana nation, and to difgull more and more the nations of the Continent. You have in formed Europa that your, jollification reit: upon the pretext of your fecurity. A pretext which Eu-ope knows to be the more ridiculous, in as much as at the Very moment that you attacked Denmark, you would not Igen to offers of moderation' on the part of Rulfia, the objc6 of which was the conclufion of a peacewhich would have removed from you every danger. Europe knows from th; language which you have yourfelves held, that, you had no cask of complaint again!' the Danes ; that they had done you no injury, and that all you had to find fault with was, the exillence of their fleet and their [mac verance in neutrality. What a leffon to all the nations I am very well aware that you will care but little for my anfwer to your, apology, and my expofure of your •impolture. In beholding your fpoils, you will laugh at the principles which I have oppefed to your as of rapine. •Reafon alone will, be found to be a very ineffectual refiraint upon your condos% ; but it is futhcient to confound you before the tribunal of Ptitlic opinion, it is fufficient to denionfirate your guilt in the face of Europe. in expeetation that En rope will inflia'the punament which your crimes deferve, and certainly that expedition upon which , you are now, perhaps, congratulating yourfelves, and of which you • are enjoying the fruits, will acce• lerate the day of vengeance. You are difappointed of the re(ults which you expelled from it. Infttad of terror and difinay you have infpired only horror and indignation ; you have, it is true, got a few more !hips than you had before ; but you have taut againft yourfelves all the remaining ports which were open is you upon the Continent. You have rallied road Napoleon all tife States which were aril reflgued to yourlyranny • whore in)uties he is new preparing to avenge, and whore rights he is about to dirt. Yon have compleated our union, which his policy would festively have been able to , *flea, sad the time is net diftant when his genius will teach you how vain were the hopes which you found. ed upon your expedition. You will then find that your mummer of prefervation were rneafures of rnin, and yein *ill recognize the truth that even in politics utility can Dever be combined with infamy: In redeem re, unhurt turpitude men e&pneelt'. Hiftory abounds with faits infiltrative of this great troth, but you have either forgot or mifiakeo it.— Yon have &ewn at what a diltance in morality you are from the Atimniaas, who. when deliberating • Cl.. \M.. lib. 3. ' • upon a meafure propored by Themißocks, and cu e . fidered as extremely tifeful by Ariitides, rejelted it without inquiring into the details of it, becaufe th e fame Aristides pronounced it unjuft. It was qu e r . Lion, however, of providing for thelicurity nians, by dellroying the enemy's fleet, and Anßidet was of opinion that the meafure was of ie b faiig e cacy. Dot in that Rate, diftraded with faition,s the multitude (hewed more juilice and wildcats than thole men who are with you, who from being called to the Council of the Prince, tiny be reckoned the moll Wee of the nation. Yon have, in regard to Denmark, violated the inna facred laws ; but that we may hope to find this impious as of treachery bringing its own veugeance along with it, like that Spartan Gunton, who expetted his viliory from the perjury by which his enemies had offended men and irritated the Gods. in CO re (=fetal dieebet (Aselbueltniebe. nes perjurto leo, et houlices ct Den inter Ceases. Want. PARIB, NOVEMBER. His Majelly fet out at four o'clock yenerday morn, ing, to pafs Tome days at Milan and Venice. He will retuta early in December. During his Majefty's Wince, his Serene Highnefs the Arch Treafurer of the Empire will prefide in the Council of biinifters and the Council of State. The Emperor's equipage confifls only of two car riages. It is Paid his Malay will be accompani e d only by the Grand Duke of Berg and the Prince of Neufchatel. It is, however, reported, thatSthe Italian Minitlers reliding at our Court will ;mate. diately follow the Emperor. M. de C.hasnpagny, Mini{ler for Foreign Affairs, will alto take his depar• cure for Italy in a few days. Novarassa 2t.—His MajTfly the Emperor is es• pelted to arrive at Milan this day. His Serene Highnefs the Arch Chancellor of the Empire arrived at Sourdeaux on the z Sth inflant. It is mentioned in two of the Journals, that the Prince of Attunes has been liberated. Of this there can be no doubt, as it is mend riled in the• laft Madrid Papers ; but the fame Journals ailert, that he was afterwards appointed Commander in Chief of the army which is advancing againft Portugal, and that he has received the Grand Order of the Legion of Honour. The firfi part of this intelligence requires confirmation. The fecund is evidently falfe, as it is two years fiuce the Prince of Alturias received that honour. Nov. 23.—The Dij , n paper announces, that au the 16th, at five o'clock in the evening, two coaehea and fix paired through that city, but that the ills& trious travellers prefeived the flritle(l incognito. We are ignorant who tbele illuatious uavellers are, but we can take upon to po4!iveli to ofiert that hia Maiedy did not take that road: 24.—A. letter hom Le!pack, of the syth of N. vember, Rates, that there were almoll no Englift merchandise at the tat Le' lick fair, and that the German merchants had fold a great quantify of cottons, muffins. and cambrics, of their dun nialai failure ; the texture of which was Hide in,ferior to the Englilb. a digging be batten of the canal de PQnreq, s vale Ifni - been dlicoirered containing asoo medals of bronze in perfect prefervation, and belonging to eight German Emperors; ;lamely, Diaelefiv, Maximilian Hereutes, Coattantlas Q lows, Fib rins Mallinialf liputior, MOWS, Maxesatlia. aml Canitantiae the Great. The mon luck* was truck the fira year of the, reign of Diocletatt, in theyeir a& of the Chrißiso era; the mot recent, the fourth year of the reign of C.onflutint, in the year 309 of the Chriltian era which 'embraces a period of 26 years. • The demelitions ne4tary to open a dire& comma. !ligation between the Louvre and the Caroufel, are carrying Ott with the apanot The execution of the new works, which tend to the embellithment of Paris, - does not fo far occuPi the adminiAration which fuperintends them as to make it ueglea the works which are necelTary for the public fafety. With this objea in view, the' barraCks which obilruaed the defccnt to the Pont an Change, at the foot of the tower Called de I'Horloge du Pa lais, have be* throwing down, fo that this walk w4L be completely laid open. NAP 1.3 91 NOVEMBERJ. Letters of a late date, which have been received, from Sicily, mention that force Ruffian (hips of war had appeared in the waters of Agofta. A &isms having approached 'the land, in order to take in water, permiffion was refuted it. A (hip of the Hoe and a bigate have likewife entered the port of Mei* fins in quell of provilions, but the Englifh Com. mandant abfolutely refaced them every kind of fup ply, and obliged them to fheer a without delay. It appears that Sicily is by no means in a tranquil Rate. There have been fevers' informations in the' (mall towns, and when the Courier let off, the Eng. Sib General was difpatching troops to quell an jailor rellion of the Nobles and people of Trafany. MILAN, NOVEMBER 9. Letters from Trielle announce, that the wreck of the Englab army in Egypt has arrived at Malta. Tbey alfo Rate, that, in confecknence of the difquie tude given to the Englifh Admiral Collingwood, by the movements of the Ruffian fleet under Admiral Siniavin, he was induced to quit his fiction off the Dardanelles. The fquadron left on that Ration is fo weak, that it will be obliged to retire as Coon as the Turkifh fleet shall come out of the Strait. MUNICH, NOVRMINIR Is. As loon as the intelligence (hall be received of the arrival of the Emperor of the French at Milan o hit Majegy will let out for Italy. FRANKFORT, NOVEMBER so. Their Makities the King and Queen of Saxony let out on the _t tth inft. horn Drcfden for Wart w. Letters from Italy mention, that there has been as infurre6ion aglinfi the Engline at Malta. FROM TIM HAMBUROH CORRESPONDENT. COPIIIINAOIII, Nov. 3.—Among other LIM prifoners of war Who have arrived at Viborg, are a Colonel, )baron Cochorn, Major Frank ; Lientenaats Ralph, Scott, Brigham, Seitz ; Captains Charles Dobfon, Lambier, and Sir Thomas Dobfon. Forty nine Englinemeo, from the fbips that have been taken and carried into Mom, were brought hither yeller day. The Captains lodge with the Traiteur Morse but are ender a guard. A line of telegraphs is now eaablithed beta.. ea this c iy and Rlfineur.