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STATk. PAPERS. The following ate the Nottt ...i Lad CAertroer, in anfiver to tin Note cf COW Het:owlet Life:Lod in the STAR cf the 4th instant VOTE I. ?rcfelited CC the 276. January by the th:lifh Am hiffedor at Begin, Lord Coin rsroar, to his Eliccacncy the Pruinan Sate and Cab.nct Alistiiter, Count Vox %unwire. " As the ttoderfigned Ambairador Extraordi nary and Minifter Plenipotentiary has been directed I by his Court to communicate to the Pruffian Mini !try his Majcity's Note, v. hielt, by command of ha Majelly, the King of Great Britain and Ireland, was prefented to the Miniflers of Denmark and Sweden, he cannot difeharge his Commitf.on with out likewife espreffing fincere fatisfitelion at be kig authorifed to declare how thoroughly his Ma jelly is convinced that Pruffia can never have !line- Coned the meathres which have given rife to the above recited Note. Thole nieldures openly dif cloth an intention to prefcribe Rules to the 13ritifh Empire on a fubjeCt of the greaten importance ; to force thole Rules upon Great Britain, and for that end, before any of the Powers who have concurred in it have given the fmalleft intimation to his Ma jesty, to enter into a le:lgt:.:;the objeft of which is to renew pretenfions Great Ihitain at every time has confidered bottle to he sights and in terefts, and fo declared whenever an opportunity prefented—pretenlions which the Ruffian Court Las abandoned, net only in flu% but which, by a treaty aatially in force, Rollie is bound to oppofe, and the execution of which treaty his Majesty is entitle: to ;Hilt upon. " When a Blip of war belonging to his Danifh ntielly refilled by force the execution of a right which the King of Gnat Britain and Ireland, by vittst-z of the cleareft and molt exprefs ilipulations of his treaties with thecourt of Denmark, had de manded, his Majeftf on that occafion confined himielf to the adoption of fuch meafares as the proteCtion cf the trade of his fubjefts required to be taken ageing} that meafure of hoftility which this conduCt on the part of an officer bearing his Dana Majefly's commillion feemed to thew. An amicable arrangement put an end to this difpute, and the King - flattered himfelf, not only that all milunderßanding on that fubjetft was removed, but that amity between the two Courts was anew ftrengthened and confirmed. " In this fituation of affairs his Majefty mull have learnt with no lefs aflonilhment than concern that the Court of Copenhagen was employed in negotiations to renew the hoftile confederacy againft Great Britain which took place in 1780, and that all() great preparations were going on in the ports of Denmark. Under thefe circumllances the King mull have been compelled to call for ex planations from the Coutt of Denmark. At this moment he received information that a confede racy was figned at Petertturgh, stia! the anfwer of the ausills Minifter left no doubt refpating the nature and chjea of this Convention, as he de. tiered in the molt exprefs manner " that there negotiations had in view the renewal of thofe rela tions which had been entered into between the fame powers in the years 1780 and 1781," adding " that ', his Majefty the Emperor of Rua had propofed to the Northern Powers the renewal of their connec tion in its original form." " The engagements alluded to had for their ob ilUsrinciples of maritime law which never had recognized by the tribunals of Europe, and the contraaing partiesmutually engaged to main tain them by force, and to comperby force other ; nations to adopt them. They are Rill more repot rant to the expects ilipulations of the treaties which fublift between the Courts of Stockholm and Den mark, and the Britith empire. " The Convention which thee engagements were to renew was ncgociated at a time when the Court ofPeteriburgh had adopted hoftile meafures again ft the perfons and property of his Majefty's fubjeCts, and when no•hing but the extraordinary modera tion of the tang could have anthorifed other powers not to confider him as at open war with that Court. " In fuch a Rate of things nothing certainly could be more iiiconfi tient with the idea of neutrality, and nothing more distinCtlyindicate a hotlile ("inanition, than that thole engagements were not postponed till it was afcertained whether Ruffia was not to be confidered as a Belligerent Power. Such for bearance was the more to he espeCted, and parti cularly from the Court of Copenhagen, as by an exprefs article of the league of 1780, the Danith ports and havens in Norway were placed at the dif pofid of Ruffia, for the purpofe of facilitating the profecution of hoftilities out of the " When therefore the King was informed by one of the contraFting parties that the object of the negociations which had been begun at Pact "burgh, .without giving the !call intimation, and which at left, according to the information received by the King, had terminated in the conclistion of a Con vention, was no other than to renew the former confederacy to prefs ur.on his Welty a new code of law to which he hal already rettifed his affent ; and when moreover he had t h e moil certain int,:l ligenee, and could no longer doubt dust the powers of the Baltic, engaged in this tranfitciion, were purfuing warlike preparations with the titmoll affivity ; when one of thole powers had placed it fell in a Rare of actual hoiiilaie> with his Majeily, iris other alternative remained but either to iiitsmo, ' or to adopt meal - um whieii v etc CAL: Ui..ted to put an effeeital flop to the iodide operation of league which. by the declaration of the Danith Coos t it fi u, wa • openly &relied againft hisMajelly. " Mem while his Majeity has not omitted on this occiflon to difplay his wonted juftice and F or t'-niil.—Aithough he felt it necesfary, for the maint-nance of his rights, to fecure "bate pledge arind the hit file attacks which were meditated again ft his yet he has taken the utmolt care to a='. , ;;t 10f and injury to individuals. F; rr .: ; ( ..t l yinc.: I that his condsiet towards N. tiorol Stat. s 11.11 beets conformable to the recog. p!;nc;; L., of 14W5, whore balls and fintSion u to be toned not in railing interefts and znomcn tar, Convenience, !At ir?the general principle of of laws which have been received and oh ferved by the Admiralty Courts of all the mari time powers of Europe ; his Majelly does not yet forego the hope that the Coons of Stock::4m and Copenhagen will not take upon them the-refpon fibility that will fall upon the autho:s of the war; that particularly they svi!l not expote thernielves to that refpontibilits for thz intre."Junion of inno vations, the notorious injuaiee of n hich has in duced shore powers by which they were MI broached, to oppote them, when they found them felves at war; innovatinns betides, which are ex prefsly repugnant to thofe Treaties which they have concluded kith his Ma l efiy. 44 The Rep on which his Majefly has refolved mutt have long been forefeen. The Britilh Go vernment has never concealed that it confidered the league of 178 a as 'lona:, and had never ceafed that attention with which it watches over the rights of the nation. It immediately refilled the attempt to renew the principles which at the above-men tioned period had been agitated, and the Under figned declared to Count Hanowirz, at the fief conference he had with him on his arrival at Ber lin, "that his Majelty would never fubmit to pre tenfions which were irreconcileable to the true principles of public law, and which ftrike at the 'foundations of the greatnefs and Maritinie power of his kingdoms. 44 Still later, in the beginning of November, the ITliderligned had the honour to reprefent to his Excellency, as the Minillcr of a Power conneded with his Majelly by the molt ineintate friendflaip, What difagrceable confequeuccs mull follow from the attempt of the Northern Powers to prefs for ward thole pretenfions. He has never ceafed to renew this declaration when, by the command of his hlajefty, be has been die interprea:r of that fa tisfadion given to the King by the repeated affur ances of the fr;melthip of his Welly the King of Prtiffia, and of thole connant fentiments of perk& juftice of which his Malay has never for a mo ment entertained a doubt. His Excellency Count HAUGWITZ will liknoirc eafily recoiled the time when the Underfigned, intimately convinced of the friendly intentions of the Pruflian Government, communicated to him, by the command of hs Britannic Moja y, the King's refolution to allow of no'meafures which had for their object to intro duce innovations in the maritime law now in force, hut on the contrary, to defend that fyftem in every event, and to maintain its entire execution as it had lublifted in all the Courts of Europe prior to the year 1780. • " If the Court of Denmark had announced in the molt unequivocal manner the real objets and contents of the engagements into which it had en tered, the declaration tf that Court. that Prullia was one of the powers concerned in the negocia tion, would have been fufficient to fatisty the Kiug, and to prove to him that it could have no !sonde views ag-ainft his Government; and even fill his Majefty is convinced that he may implicit ly rely on the friendfhip . of his Priiffian Majelly. It is true that, in relation to Great Britain and Ireland, there can be no fimilarity between the Northern Powers and Pruffia. Thole powers arc connected with his Majelly by the flipulations of mutual treaties, which are leis favourable to their interefts, and which more or lets modify and foften the rigour of the general law; whereas between his Majelty the King of Great Britain and Prunia no treaty of commerce tains, and all intercourfe between diem is regulated by the general princi ples of the Law of Nations, and eftabliffied Wages. If, however, his Majelly were to confider, his own fentirnents,and the inceflant with be has fhewn ' to preferve the friendfhip of a Monarch with whom he is conneded by fo many ties, he could not at all anticipate the poffibility of a difference which might not eafily fpeedily be terminated by an amicable difcuthion The repeated alfurances of fuch fentiments on the part of his Pruflian Malay, which the Underfigned has been empowered to tranfmit to his Court, confirms this agreeable an ticipation, and the known principles which have confantly direded his Majefty the King of Pruf fia, do not tend to countenance the fuppofition that the latter has entered into the Confederacy, or can enter into the Confederacy, toTupport by force principles in common with other Powers, whole hullile views againft his Britannic !stolen) , have been openly proved. The King at the lonic time, while be has given it in charge to the Un derligned to make thee explanations, could have no nther object than to give his Pruflian Majelly new proof of his confidence and particular relped, and he is firmly convinced that his Majedy the King of Pi udia will approve of his Ready refolu-' Lion to d: tend the ri his and inters:as of his crown. Neverthelefs, whatever fentirnents the Pruflian Government may entertain in regard to thenew principles tlismfelves, yet it is too jut, and knows too well what Soya eigns owe to their People, and to one another, to favour fir a moment the de fign to employ force in order to induce his Bri tannic Majelly to acknowledge a code which the latter deems inconfident with the honour and fe curity of his Ciown. ( Signed) 64 CARTSFORT." Lrlin, jam. 27, dog. NOTE 11. rkk.SFVTLD 05 THE IRT OF FEBRUARY TO H:1 RXEFLLEKCY THE STATF AND CABINET MI NISTER, COUNT HAUGWITZ. " The itaderligned Ambairador Extraordinary and hfriitter Plenipotentiary of his Bi itannic Ma ;ear, has the honour to addrefs himfclf to Count lies cwirz, l'y command of his Court, in order to comnitinic.o 4: to bun the following particulars fpirit •.' patience and of moderation which 79 - vv;,ils ia the Note of Lord GR iNVILLR to Count hoer it* r /Vs, will not efeape the notice of his Ex cellency. A folemn treaty between the two powers had given the refpe,Ftive fubjeas of each a complete fecur.zy for the prolecution of their trade, and viol hi cafe of a rupture it had been agreed that not o n ly no embargo Should be laid, but that the fubjefts on both fides, Should have a wtole year to carry away their caeas, and to arrange their mfairs in the country. Notwithlianding there fia cred flipolations, the Ships of British fillip:Rs in the Itutlian ports are detained, and their property, in an extraordinary manner, upon various pretexts ; fcque!tratcd qr fold. Their ptrfons arc liken ife put under midi, anta number of Britifh failors have been forcibly taken out rof their (hips, and been fent under guard and in the midfl of winter into the interior of the country. In confequence of %bele new ads of. violence, Lord GRENVILLF, Secretary of State for Foreign affairs, received his Majefty's order to addras a fecond Note to Count KOSTOPT%ISIN, in which his Majefty Rated Isis hav ing appointed a Comniiffary to fuperintend the fa:ety and the wants of his unfortunate (objets, a circumftance which is ulual even among the powers that are aflually at war. Lord GRENVILLE in that piper likewifc formally intiflcd on the execu tion of the treaty of 5793. But, though he made the Ilrong and jolt remonitrances which fuch cir cumftances demanded, yet his Majefty's conliant difpofition again to reftore the former connexion and good underftanding between the two Crowns has been in vain. His BritannielMajefty anticipates the fentiments which the King of Pruflia will en tertain when he is informed of the unheard-of and iinjuflifiable manner in which his Britannic Ma remonftrances were heard by the Court of St. Pcterfburgh. The Note of Count Kosrorr. SHIN to Lord Gatsvittr, of the aoth of Decem ber, a S. a copy of which the underfig,ned is or dered to communicate to Count HAUCWITZ, will enable his Pruflian Majefty to judge whether the underfigned is called upon to make any obferra tions upon it. The underfigned has received or den to make known to the Court of Berlin that this conduit, on the part of the. Emperor of Ruffia, has put an end to all connedion and correfpondence between the Courts of London and St. Peterguirgh, and the extraordinary vii knee committed upon the perfon and property of his Majefly's (objets, and the conclufion of a hoftik confederacy, which the Emperor of Ituffia has formed, for the exprels and avowed purpofe of introducing thofe innovations into the maritime code which his Britannic Majefty has ever oppof ed, have at length produced a Rate of open war be tween Great Britain and Ireland and Ruflia. It will not be ufelefs to remark that the Emperor of !tufa, at the prefent crifis, cannot be confider ed as a neutral power, hecaufe he was at war with Great Britain before he himfelf was at peace with France. The underfigned lhall have done )ttitice to the charge with which he is entrufied, when be declares in the name of the King, His mailer, that his Majefty, on weighing the prefent cirenmflances of Europe, is willing to forbear demanding from the Court of Pruffia that fuccoar which was Ili pillared by treaty, though he confiders the cafes sideris as completely coming within thofe circum jllanecs in which they Rand ; and that his Britan nic Majetly cannot doubt that he will receive from his Ally all the proofs of friendfltip which the events of this new war would have required. The undcrlignesl has the honour to be, &e. &Ain, Feb. T, 180.1. (Signed) cART roar." IMPERIAL VECIZI TO THE GENERAL DIET Of TNII EMPIRE. The Plenipotentiary of the French Government fpecially referring to the precedent of the Nego ciation at Raftadt and tbofe at I:Wen in the year 1714, has propofed, in the moil pofitive manner, to the Plenipotentiary fent by his Imperial Ma lay to Luneville, to ncgociate a Peace, *lt his Imperial Majeßy honk!, at the fame time, flipu. late, on the part of the Empire, and fign the Treaty in his capacity of the Supreme Head. The importance of this propofition, and the different considerations which it involved, demanded on the part of the Head of the Empire, the moil ma ture examination; and his Majefty could not he (hate to communicate immediately by a writing under his owe hand, the fituation of affairs, and his 'own refolution, to all the Elators, both in their quality of EleCtors and Princes, and to the princi pal Princes of the Empire. This writing contains the expreffion of the feiriments and principles of his Majeay ; and he tranfmits a Copy ofit to the Ge neral Diet of the Empire, in the firm confidence that every appearance of unconititutional views will be r emoved by a juft and mature examination of the contents of that letter. In conformity to the precedents of the Ncgociations at Raftadt and Baden, refit red to by the French Plenipotentiary, the Treaty, of which a copy is fubjoined. has been concluded. The fame precedent propofed as a rule of proceeding would fufficiently guarantee the right of co-operation on the part of the States of the Empire in every thing relative to Peace, though in the Treaty now febmittcd to the Diet, there may not have been inferted, as there formal ly was iii that of Raitadt, any claufe confirming tilde legitimate rights. The motives which have induced his Imperial Majcßy to conclude this Peace, will, from their urgency, determine the Eleetors, Princes, and States, to expedite, as much as poffible, the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace now fubmitted to them; more particu larly, as the French Government has made the (peedy approbation of the Empire the condition of the enjoyment of the firs advantages of Peace, an exemption from all War Contributions, and the cl-parture of the Armies now on the Territory of the Empire. His Imperial Majelly expc.ts, with the utmoß impatience, the Conclufinn which &all be adopted to that die& Radtke. Feb. as. LETTER OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY TO THE ELEC TORS. mac's, AND STATES OF THE EMPIRE. The Plenipotentiary of the French Govern ment has made to the Minifter Plenipotentiary, whom I have fent to Luneville to nei,Potiate a peace with the French Republic, the poiitive propobtion, that in the treaty to be concluded, I &a!1 likewife ilipulate for the peace of the Empire, in my qua lity of its Supreme Head. .4 , The Imperial and Royal Plenipotentiary knew that the right of co-operation on the part of the Elc&urs, Princes, and States of the Empire, in iritters relative to peace, was fixed in a precife m.inner by the fund:merit:ll laws of.the German Empire ; and thus that my Imperial authority was limited upon this point by the rights of the Ger manic Conaitution, unlefs I had previonfly receiv e., fill powers from each partkular State of the Empire to treat in its name. confideration, and fame othcrs entirely contrary to t:s: above pro. potifion, raC not treated in the =Amur my Pk nipotentlnry had a right to ettp:sl from their weight and conllitutional evidence. On the trary, the propofition was infifted on, by a fpec:.,l reference to the precedent of the negotiation s at Raftadt and Baden in the year 1714, and its ad. million was demanded in a manner fo urgent at.-. 1 politive, that the negotiation mull have been en tirely broken off, had not my Plenipotentiary, af ter trying without fuccefs the means of reprzf en t a . tion, at length given his ;Went, referring, hake manner to the negotiations at Railadt and Bader, " In my quality of Supreme Fiend of the Ent pire, I felt very confideralac cuthatrairraent, cn being informed by my Plenipotentiat y .if this of things ; and I regarded it as an dhligation the higheft importance, to take it into the n,,,,t mature confidcration. The fuggeilion ef:pprov: the proceeding of my Plenipotentiary, and, in c,,.,- fequence of fuch approval, to enter npin a ire ;j for the peace of the Empire, though I fho u l.d i.# no means have it in view not to fubmit tre a ty to the examination and ratification of t:,e I iict, yet at variance with the due refpc6l v. Lich i rain for the rii;lits and privileges of the Sl:o. t , ;.! the Empire. But, on the other hand, the e,,-• dcration of the melancholy Hate of a ce• - •:*-d., • past of Germany at this moment ; that e: 1 1 more unfortunate fate with which of the French threatens the Empire, Ile•aY. pLet • be Pill farther deferred ; irY fhnrt, th it of the ;.-...- ncral with and nniverfal defire c f Ipeedri enoy:l4 ; the benefits of peace ; all theft: motiv , ... in conp,ne don powerfnlly oppolcd my &rapines . ing given by try Plenipotentiary to the deniaad of the French Plenipotentiary. I therefore ref, lvet!, in confequenee of the, declaration made by m: Piera potentiary, and approved by me, in thus slate ot" things, to agree alto to the articles ef the peace of the Empire. -Your tried wifdom and inforint;ion induced me to think that, in all probability, in eircumftances of fu painful a nature, you wculd have come to a fimilar decifton. _ If I feel fome confolation in informing you by this letter, of the real !late of things, and the re folution which I have taken, /, at the fame time, feel a very high degree of fatisfa.Rion in the con fcioufnefs of the purity of the views by which I am aftatcd; which are already goaranteed in the molt folemn manner by feveral declarations made to the Diet, and particularly by the Imperial Decree of the ; %h of May, 1795 ; and in continence with which it cannot be my intention to trench in any refpeet upon the Fights of the Empire, relative to the queftion of peace • and when the treaty of peace (hall have beeutranfin;itted to the Eleaors, I'rinccs, and States, at the General Diet, you will receive the complete and confolatory convieiion, that irk the prefent negotiation for peace, I have, before, hand, taken every mecfure.and precaution, in con formic) , to the above-cited precedent of the negm tiations at Ranadt and Baden, in 1714., to lima the rights a the States of the Empire. “ Vienna, February as MOLT Or THI CONVIIIIICL WILD AT 11171110 N. TIE HALL Or THI cou.gct or PRINCIS, 911CTATIO IY rMlit D1A1970117 97 MERTZ, TH4 asvi ssaatmar. It has been determined, in the name of the anon Colleges— ztt. That the Protocol Stall be opened to tea days. *at h to fay, co the 7th of March, to Adak:ate au the Redheads% the Treaty of LuneyjUc. ail. That the DireCtory of Mentz Nil be =gutted to corn. municate this refolution, by a Courier, to the lopetial the at Vitoria. —.- 34: That following the maniple of the traafintllal of Rill powers. given the 24th December. typy r to the Deputation at Rafted:, it lull be ptopofcd to the Imperial Minifter at .o. authorize the Principal Commilfnmers Oche rusi perm at Raiff:4o, to ratify not only i the name of the Eat. pin the Treaty of Peace, but alto to expedite diredly to Count Ceara Till, at Li:Devine, the Ratification, (or. in other words, to fandion the conchtfoin by which the Diet will ratify the Treaty Of Luno 4th. That the llireaory of Menu thill communicate, fit the ttfital manner, to the. Principal Commiffiouer, the mink of the prefer; conference, end requeft him to procure from bie rial Majefty the neeelfary powers for cirrybig it into ere& sib. To make the Direaors of the Poft refponfthic cur any delays that the Couriers to be difpatched this day to the Lfith Contrading Partiesto communicate theft Refefutions to them e may experience. RaWbou, Feb. 26. Ms„ GERMAN r. HAMELTROH, MARCH 3. Since the arrival' of the tall Englint mad, by which we leatnt that the anfwe'r of the Britith Government to the laft Note from the Pruffian Minitier is not of a nature which will tend to an amicable fettlement of the ditierettees with Den mark and Sweden, our alarm has confiderably en. created. It had Been rumoured for fame time pall, that Prodia intended to thut the Elbe againft the Englith, and contiderable odds are now tottered, that this meafure will now !hardy be put into exc.. cation. The Taft letters from Berlin Rate, that feveral regiments of Pruffian troops have already orders to pre are for marching, in cafe the an fwer of the Bran Cabinet to the note of the i auk ult. &mkt not be fatisfaflory. MARCH 6.—Letters from Bremen (tate, th at on the *aoth inf . a caution had been a ffi xed on the Exchange at Embden, for the prefent not to fend any goods to England, or for Englifh account, under the Pruflian flag.--The Senator GROKING lhas been fent to Paris, by the city of Bremen, as deputy.—Five Danith gun-boats, of five guns, and too men each, had been Rationed near Altona,' for fome days pall, and three other armed veffela arrived there yefterday, from Gluckliadt.—Some regiments of cavalry are alto arrived in the vicinity orAltona, and batteries are to be crated on the banks of the Elbe, in the difirias bektnging to Denmark. _ _ Letters from Copenhagen, of the :4th ult. Rate, that an Englifls ftigate fiad been forced into Go thcnburgh in Sweden. and that another frigate had been taken by Come fiat-bottomed •elfels. The Iris Darilh frigate was on the eve of her de parture (Or Xnrway. On the sath laflant the fira divifion of the &t -hen/tired ictieli was to fail from Copenhagen to the Sound, under the command of Admiral Ro. SISTFIR. _ _ - Letters from Stockholm, of the soth ult. sate. ILA die li•ao bad appointed i provifory govern. ,•nc V. ic. Aki sT CI Cl With ti on f t vo expc