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A'AUTICAL lATMLIGENCI. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind N. N. E. ARR. DUE. Ail. DM n iblin o z Hunburgh o •o Atztlord o 3 P:.NZANCE, JAN. 23.—Arrived yellerday his •Ay's brig Gemmel., Lieutenant Bess, and remains ‘‘;t:t leveret veffels in the Bay, but cannot learn their 11.1:nes in time for the poft, as it blows a (mart gale Arm EaII by South. 1 ..LMOUTM, JAN. z3.—Arrived. the Prinie of TR EtuDA, from London ; James, CAnt rant, :. cm Yonghall, for Southampton ; Venerable, En. • AIDS, from ditto, fur London ; Ceres, Arming, item Rofs, for London ; Cartumien, %terrains. f:uni Cork, for Guernfey ; John and Mary, CHRIS 1E ; Orion, EVANS ; Unius, Devis ; and thb Eliza :4th, Roster, from Cork, for London; William and Mary, Evems ; and the Eliza, HULLMAN, F.-om Waterford, for London ; Good Hannah, Cilium,' from the WeR Indies, laR from St. Ives, bound to London ; elf? a Spanifh Paid to be from the WO Indies, fent in bp the MALTA man of war, but blowing fo hard there has been no boat from her to :liable me to learn I,:rther particulars. Lett night arrived off this port. the Mary, PHILLIP, with pro vitions,for London, but during the night was driven or. the rocks at the entrance of this harbour, and is not yet got c k g ; part, of her cargo is landed ; but the wind blowing Rrong from the eatward, and the fea running fo high, it is feared 'the vigil will bie ma terially injured. DEAL, JAN. 2S.—Retrain in the Diatvns je..yihips as per laR. Wind N. E. blows hard. PolTsxouTH, JAN. 25.A.TrIVCd the MIGAIA Ere (hip, and the Atrr urea fine, of war. WinaE.N. E. YARMOUTH, JAN. 25.—During . the late gale of wind the Jervis, Po. Woosm, Muller, of this port, from Keith, hound to Lynn, with Welch coals, was b:own on fhore in the South-ham, and,carried away her main mail, and the gale continuing, the went to rieces lad night ; the cargo is entirely loft, and the LI . 13 is a completeovreck. FUNERAL OF THE ARCHBISHOP OP CANTERBURY'. . Yeflerdav morning, as early as ten o'clock, the Pe - .vs and Galleries in Lambeth Church were crowd: ed.to an overflow, fo high was the public curiofity raifetl.in expeaation of feeing this grand and Interne proceffion. The Pulpit, Clerk's Delk, Reading Dclk, Communion Table, and Railing all round, were hung with fuperfine black cloth. The Efcutcheons, Mitres, and Crefts, were done on filk. executed in an elegant manner, and placed at Inch dillances on the black as to give the whole a folemn and good effea. . The vault in which his Grace was to be interred was immediately under the Communion . Table 0. it was opened by railing fame of the pavement before the railing. which was afterwards matted over. A:hong the numerous fpeaators with which the &hurch was filled were several perfons of diflinaion, few being admitted blit tbafe of refpeltability. On the outfide of the doors there acre crowds preffing to get in. . . The Loyal Lambeth iiolunieers, under the Cons :nand of Lieutenant-Colonel SLabs, (in which . corps CF:AILIS Mooax, fon of the deceafed, is a Cap tain', were drawn up front the Palace Door. along the ground, forming an avenue fps the proceffion up to the Church door. At two o'clock the body was carried from the bed room, along the extenfive gal lery built.by Cardinal Poss. through the grand hall, and down the principt Ita;r-cafe,,' to the ground . be fore the door, where t Volunteers torined an ave nue. 'The following is the ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. Llls Grace's Porter in Livery. wearing a kart and hat-baud, carrying a pale, the top muffled with crape. Two Beadles of Lambeth, with filk hat-bands and pole. dreffed. The Churchwardens and °scrims, two and two. Two Porters, with poles dretred. • , State Lid, of black oltrich feathers, with Elk trophies. Two Porters with filk dreffes and poles. Rev. Dr. If e se, Redtor of Lambeth. The Res. Mr. 11*.r-rt.c. and Rev. Mr. SWAIM, Curates. One of his Orate'p Domenic., wearing a fdk (cart, carrying a crimfon velvet claims, trimmed with gold fringe and tattle. ; on which was placed a foperb Mitre, velvet cap edged with ermine, and • - purple blau, . _ gold fringe. Betas. THE BODY, PaU Berea Lord Hama r coverol with a black velvet M. Ent N, Efq. Sir V. tgrw PaU decorated with filk Capt. ED aN CaL Eimp Efeutchroos,Mitm,Creits, Lt. Col. Be Le Had. Col. gimp d eight gold tads. J. EDEN, Efq. Four Saga of the deceafed, as Chicf Mourners, viz. Slew. Mr. Mooae, C. Manta, Efq Rev. R. Moors, 3. Moore. Efq. with crape, farts, and hat-bands. Lord AucittAND, andß. Efq. His Grace's Executors,. Rev. Mf.BARION and Rev. Mt. SANDIPORD, His o;ace's Chaplains. Dr. VAvonsu and Mr. YOUNG, rhTfNiall and Apothecary. Churchwardens and Ovedsen, two and two, viz. Rev. Mr. Tow, Mcifts. LANIIILT, YOUNG. lonic, FiNN, VALLIANT, RIAD. CURTAIN and (Oaf MICTS. wearing Clk (ca rts. Thirty Men Servants, two and two, all in mourning, with crape Sixteen Female Servants, two and two, all in deep mourning. As the ProceMon paged along the avenue formed by the military ; the Mak played the Dead March in Sid. The effea was truly folemn. When the l'rnceffion entered the Church, it went all round ; cite coffin was then placed on trefTels before the &fie, on which was placed the State Lid of Feathers. The Funeral Service was performed by the Rev. Df. Vyss, Reaor of the Farah, and .Chaplain to the Llmbeth Volunteers—after which His Grace's Re r..atns were &poked in the vault under the Com :nu-6ln Table, over which was placed the Mitre. The Coffin was covered with black Genoa velvet, friperbly mounted, having two rows of nails, eight large handles, with mitres over them ; on the lid large plate, on which was the following in. fc• Lion JOHN MOORE, &mummer O CANTIRIMIT, Died ilitil Janu, dos, 4010 741rWs. WAR WITH SPAIN. PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE DISCUSSION WITH SPAIN IN 1803 ♦ND 1804. • CONCLUDED FROM THE STAR OE YESTERDAY. No. zB.—tlifiatch from B. Frets, Erg. to Lord Harrowby, datcd Etruria, syth Oa.ber,lBo4. _ _ - - MI Loan-+Your Lordfhip's difpatebes No. t end 1, were de livered to me by the Mefeenger Smith, on the night of the illth,in eonfcquence of which Hoft no time in coming down to the Efeu rial, where the Courture refident at pedant, and having demand ed an audience of M. Omani, which be gave me on the sift, I told him that I believed he vrould.lind by his letters from England. that the fenktion which the kite knexpeeted armament at Ferrol had cuffed there, had bean by no means over-rated in the note which I bad addrtfkd to bim upon the fubjed tome weeks. ago 'that I was now charged to declare to him formally his Majefty's lurprise iod concern at fuck a ntedure having been adopted, with out any previous communication to bins, and unaccompanied by any etpinsations of its object • and to require the immediate re call of all orders which might . have been given at Ferrol or ells where, for inereafing the naval force, or for altering Its politico • and that it Ittould be reduced to the !tate in which it was at the beginning of the war. M Cevallos laid, that be found that there bad been a great deal of mifreprefentation and exaggeration upon the Gabled of this armament, which he deeded to treat Very lightly.; be (aid, that the expedition confifted of a few Mips, which were already armed at the time, whole deftination I muft be well acquainted with : that the pined was now given up, and he wifh ed to infer, that there was therefore no ground of complaint for what bad pared. I replied that I knew no snore of the defla tion of this expedition,than what I had learnt from publk report, which Was, that it eras meant to convey troops to quell an infur redisp in ilikay ; but that it had appeared to me' fu incredible that air of war &odd be armed to carry forces to a province, which had no ports to receive them, which was already in the pot (demo of their troop, and which was fo Matta, that the march by land might be paibimed in a much theater time than was de eeffary fur preparing for and making the voyage ; that I had not ventured to +rite this report home to myGovernment. M. Ce• ratios however affured me that this was the deign, and extrava gant as it in., the march by Lind Into Bikay of the troops before defined for the embarkation feems to confirm his affurance. I °b raved that whatever infest have been the object of this arma ment, it was Opal!, a breach of the convention which Spain had entered into with England • and as M. Cevallos maintained that the engagement bad been s caly emended for not arming against Great Britain, I :dared hint to my brother's note of the *Bth February, in which the eeffation of all armaments is demanded in the elearelt terms. I told bins, at the fame time. that if be was now inclined to difpute this point, I mull revert to the inibrue eons upon which the demand was framed, and which were to the full as poStive as thole which I had now received. He protclted againfl the extravagance of fuch a pretenfion, which he raid would reduce them to the Sowell Rate of humiliation, if Spain could not arm to repel the Weeks of a foreign enemy, or to quell her own re bellious (objects. I repeated the affurances of his Majefty's difpo- Mimi to make every potable conceMon in favour of Spain ; but thet this was an engagement, which the fecurity of his kingdom ' called for, and that Spain might rely upon Its being punted no fur -1 tber than that object required. Finding that it was needlds to at tempt drawing any fatialadtory affurance from M. Cevallos in con wreath)°, I told him that my inftrudlous related likewife to tome other,important points; that if he ',leafed I would read them over to him, after which if he thought it neeeffery, I would deliver to him in welting a luminary of their contents. In treating of the fubjat of the money furhilited to France, bt drafted much (write at its being confidered merely as a tempo rary meafate, and aka from whence my Court could have got that idea; of which he bitnfelf difelainsed any there. I told him that I knew my brother had repeatedly received limiter Efforances at the very time when the treaty-was negotiating from a perfon high in authority, whole affurances were them eihserned authentic, and that as fuch he bad trachnitted them to his Government.— 111. Ceyalics repeated that they had no loch vkwa; that the treaty was concluded for the whole of the prefent war; that it contained no ankle whatever Wilk in Great Britain ; and u to the amount of the fubfidies, be could only repeat what he had already laid. and what M. Anduaga bad Rated to your Lordlitip, that they are calculated with a reference to the upon* .1 farniibing the fac tours Ripelated by treaty. This atomics be Paid be trotted I Ewald think ferfickat, and that England would Co far do lattice to the good fakir of the Spann! Cabinet as to pronounce kafelf ratisfsed with luta a dtclaratlon. I obferva to him that my Government was already in potleftion of thusptich information upon the fulled, when my relent in ftruetions were forwarded to me, and therdore that 1 ntuft elped a more explicit lawn.. or comply with the °Men to demand my marine ; that in the terms in which he fisted k, the amount of the It:cease Itipulated was without any limit, duce the treaty pro vides that, its cafe pf ncerffity the auxiliary power is liable to be called upon to aZft her ally with all her Forces • in which Mita don there would be no bounds to the fume whic h Spain might fur. that to the enemy under the denomination of en equivalent for theft Ficcoun. I did pot however Exceed in obtaining any further explanation upon the fubjed ; and there was in M. C.evallos' manner, a more decided determination not to give way upon this point, and more difpolltioa to ill humour at being prefect upon it, than upon that of the total nitration of all armaments hrtimports. He took no other notice of the orders given to Admiral Cochranee to Ihut the Pak of Ferrol to their (hips of War, than by *thing me to reed that paragraph a fecond time; and when I bad !lodised tbc difpateh he laid that Spain would continue to adt with the fame good faith which the bad always hitherto dote; that England ought to be perfolly at cafe upon the fubjett of the armament, which had never been of any eonkquenee, and was now laid afide ; that npon the queftion of the fubUk4, the had all the fatisfadtion that the could reafonably require, and that it was time that the beefed amid give fume affurance of her own difpations, without which a neutrality, reftlds and difturbed as that which Spain now pof t Idles would proves. prejudicial to the country as War itfelL I anfwered, that the difpofnions of my Government towards Spain were not lets friendly than they had always been, and that it was to the condo ft of Spain it erred that he mutt attribute the unfettled ftate of the connedtlea between the twoeottntriet—nor could it be otherwite, as long as the maintained this referee upon a point which affetts fo effentially the interefts of Great Britain as that of her pecuniary engagements with France—and I left him by laying that I hoped , that upon confitkration he would fec it in, the fame light, and that I moats receive a inure fatisfadory =firer to die Note which I thould tranfinft to him, thin I had been able to ob tain from the conference. Your Lordihip will obferve an interval of Come days between this conference and the date of my Note, during which I have been confined by a return of indifpolitlon which &fabled me from writ. ing ; having however Dated fo fully before hand the nature of my inarudtions to M. Caitlin', I am in hopes that no time will have been loft by this eircumitance and that I ( hall receive his anfwer as boon as if my Note bad been prdented immediately after our conference. (Signed)* I. /Rill. (Trandation of factOfun referred to in Nall.) a,i, Efeorial, Odtober s 6, Ole. in eonfequence of the deli= your Excellency has expected to me, I have the honour to tranfrnit to you in writing the faltanee of the reprefeatations which I have been &rafted by my Govern ment to make to you. It is with equal (cuprite and concern that his Britannic Majefty received the account of the Naval preparations which have been carrying on in the ports of Spain, having an his pan omitted no thing, from the very commencement of boltilities with France, which could contribute to remove from Spain thofc calamities of a War, In whiCh, owing to her twain ' the was in fad placed in the number of his enemies. Nothing, i ndeed, could have induced his Majefty to perfevere in this (Atm of moderation, except the fame benevolent motive ' fupported by a difpo fi tion to give credit to the a ff urances of the Spanish Government, that the turns for alba to France were only paid under the idea of gaining time, until circumftances would enable her to follow a fiftem More cuss = genial to her Willies and inierefts. His Mainly has repeatedly requefted a communication of the engagements concluded with France; but the only Wirer has uni formly been a vague autumn, that. whatever might be the amount of the fume to be Mid by Spain, they were calculated ac cording to the eftitnate of what the honours, naval and military, illpulated by treaty, would amount to. But his Majefty has never been finnl n! with any means of judging, whether theft payments arc In fiat only a fair equivalent for thole favours, or whether they fo far exceed it, as to render it neeeffary to confider Spain a principal in the War. In this fine of uncertainty, his Makfty has been compelled ex pitfall to referee to hitnklf the full right to regulate big conduet towards Spain nwordh3g to the appearance of eiresmikances at the mouwai. as is has ever tictiaed, itacquiviicallya that tlw dif- etletinorace Oran naval preparadnne on the part of that power was lan indifpunfible condition of the continuance of hit inonere inn.-- Sock &declaration having been made, it would be difficult to AC. count for a nmlartriansent on the part of Spain,in JI a 111:1411:r as to recoadle it with Bier pretended fyftem of neutrality ; and it betromminspolfilde to cohfider the prefent armament, wu eh was unaccompanied by any explanation, in any other light than as a meafure decidedly holtile, and which calls upon his Majzity to take, without delay, evzry Itep which' prudence may d h and more efpecially to give orders to his .Wmiral off Fertul, to pre vent any Spaniel 'hip of war from entering or leaving that port. His Majeity's uniform conduit towards Spain has abundantly proved his ardent defire to carry his moderation to the utmoft ex tent, which a due regard for the intereits and fecurity of his peo plewill permit. But his MaJeity cannot depart from the declara tions which he has made, nor permit that Spain iha;l enjoy all the advantages of neutrality, MOIR (he wages a twofold War againft him, firß, by furnithing to his enemies unlimited pecuniary rue tours ; and, fecondly, by compelling him to divert a part of his naval force from a.Ung agalnft the enemy, its order to watch the armaments which are preparing in ports pretending to be neutral. i have hi ennfequence received orders from his Majelty, to re quire of the Span& Government thejmmediate recall of all the nr dem which have been given at Ferrol at Cidlz, orat Car Itagenmas well for the equipment of (hips, as for fending reinforcement frdm onctothe other of thole ports,and nct only that fuel preparations he ftopped,but that the naval armaments in all the ports of Spain (hall be put precifely on the fame footing as before the commencement of - hoffilities between England and France. I flatter mytelf, that I than not be under the neceffity of announ cing to your Excellency, more formally than I have hithertodone, w! .at mutt be the inevitable confequences of a refufal of this de mand. If it is tally complied with, I can anfvrer for the intentions of his Majelty to rand to Madrid a Minitter authorifed to difcufs, ht an amicable manner, every other fulled of dicpute; but ttid this difeuMon cannot take plate *milers Spain be prepared to give a diolinEt explanation of her engagements with France, and of the fyltem which the pmpotes to adopt, according to which his Majef ty may be enabled to judge of the nature of the relations which thould fubilft between him and his Catholic Majelty. Your Excellency may conceive the impatience with which I Stall expea your antwtr ; and tome days having already elapfed Once I had the honour to cassette with you on the foiled of this Note, I hope that your decifion has been already taken, and that I may flatter mytelf in fame degree to have contributed towards the ex tinetion of the daily alarms which trouble the good undcritanding between the two countries, and which arc the nett Dry confequence of the obftinacy of Spain in refuting to give that fatisiadtun to jug,. ly due to the conduit of his Britansic Majelty. (Signed) a. rates. No. sp.—Difpatch from B. Frere, Efq. to Lord Harrawby, dated - Madrid, Bth November, 1804. My Lord—l have the honour to inclofe a copy and tranilation of Mr. Ccralla anfwer to my Note of the zfith, which was deliver ed to me on the morning of the 3oth. Your Lordfhip will find, that neither this Note, nor the paper which it Mauled, and which is a copy of Mr. Cevallos' hotructions to Mr. Anduaga, contain any fatisfattion whatever upon the two principal points, viz. a iti pulation to Attain from all naval preparation ; and a lifpofition to enter upon (Owe fuller explanation of their pecuniary engage ments with France.. On the contrary, Mr. Cevallos otiferves to Mr. Anduaga, that the explanations which have been given upon the latter point are fufficient, if the complaints of England are made with good faith; and throughout both papers there is a tone of irritation, which thews a dilpufition far from concihatory. Under theft. circumffances I have thought that my inftsweloos left me no choice, but to repeat diftindly my former propofals, and at the fame time to demand my paffports, it they were not acceded to. This I accordingly did, without the halt delay in the Note, of which the Melded is a copy; and having ob. (erred that Mr. Cevallos affeeted to attach the highelt importance to a Bight and, I am reloaded, accidental variation between the conditions which I was initruaed to demand, and the Convention before agreed to, I cruet that I &al/ not be thought to have taken too much upon myfelf in venturing to make the alteration needle:7' for reconciling them. Having delivered this Note, I returned to Madrid to Miffs my preparations for difpatching the Meffenger, and expecting in the interval to receive Mr. Cevallue reply. Alter having waited in vain till the zd, 1 determined to write again to him, to peers him for an aufwer, and accordingly fent the Note, No. 3, by courier, who returned the next day, (the 3d), bringing me Mr. Cevallos' Note, of which I inclofe a copy and trinflation, and in whieh,after a very formal introdualon.and much parade of 'weal= in the terths of his anfwer, he leaves the two principal quaillons madly in the fame Rate as before. I, therefore, on the time day returned a morn Note, repeating my demand for pa ports, of which no notice having been taken, on the evening of the sth, I determined once more to fend the hleffetiger down to the litcurial with a Rill more prelfing renewal of my application, and after having been delayed upwards of two days, he remitted this morning, bringing me my palipoets, which were accompanied by the intluted Note (No. so.) In contequenee of this, I propofe to leave Madrid on the day after so morrow, and r. Hunter will follow me as boo as he conveniently east. lam unwilling to del y the Meffenger a moment longer than is peccary for making your Lordibip acquainted with the and determination of the Spa niUt ;but I cannot help ezprelfutgany confidence, that his Majelly's Government will not fee, in the murk of this nego tiation, any foundation for the charge of precipitation, which is brought againit me by Mr. 4:evalles. If I have any apprehenfion. It is left my hopes that a moot. deliberat; relledhin upon the fatal coatequesices dal a rupture, and a due kale of the moderation of the propotals made by his Maker with a view of avoiding fuch an extremity, would induce this Government to admit my demands, {Mold have led me to be leis decided than the urgent terms of my inittudtions will &Jetty jollity. have the honour to be, Scc. &c. (.S.igned) a. . The Right Hon. Lord Hart owby, &c. &e. &e. (Hie factotum referred to in No. 29.) Trantiation of a Note front Don Pedro Ccv silos to B. Prete, Efq. dated San Lorenzo, 29th Clabber, Str-.-As loon us you knew that preparations were making at Ferrol fur the transport of Troops, ignorant, without doubt, of their delination, you fent a Note to me, ezprelling the apprehen hone which this occurrence infpired, and demendlug from me an ezplanation of the intentions of Spain. I gave you Inch as the circumftances permitted, and fully (effi cient to tranquillize gout apprehenfions, alluring you that hie Ma jelty had no ideas that could offend the harmony and coal/ant friendfhip offered to his !Mimetic Majetty. Nothing Was more uattfral than that the Bikini Cabinet Mould have waited the relish of the reprefentatitins made by its Minilter to the King my Matter, difregarding in the mean time all ad view Which were not authentic, and paying this deference to the tried good faith of the Spanifh Cabinet. Unhappily it has not been lb; for, without other than mercantile 'deices, which are gene rally fabricated through interelt, the Fright's Gavernment has formed its complaints, laying down, as certain, the fadt of an ar matwrit. and Ryling it holtila, whereas its ()Ned was nu in, nei ther, as it was, did it take sired. _ • Notwithitanffing that I had tranquilized the opprehenfions which you (hewed that this armament ceded in you, his Majclty having learnt from the conference which 1 bad with you, that the Court of London being ill-informed, rated complaints which arc as 111-founded as they ate nnconformablc to the true deigns of Spen, by his Royal Order I have fent to Don Jukple D'Anduaga, his Milliliter at that Court, the proper fnitruclions ' with a view to diffipate the apprchenions of Great Britain. and declaring the true limits of the engagements of Spain in lavour of France, and likewite in favour of holland, as you will fee by the copy which hive the honour to facto& By Rs contents you will be =deceived in finding that Spain has not given the rubfidies to France with a view to gain time, and of waking for an opportunity of displaying a (yam more analagous to her wifhes, as you have perinatal yourfdf to affert ; it being difikult to conceive bow. you can Officiate the idea of momentary fubfidies and futh as are funiiihed purely in expeCtstion, with the knowledge and atria...ince of there having been concluded a Treaty of fubfidies between Spain and France equivalent to the naval and military furenute determined by the alliance Oche two nations, for the cafe of the prefent War. England agreed to the neutrality of Splits, upon condition that Rae &Add ecafe her armaments, which Ihould remain in the Rate in which they were at the time of the convention ; and nutwith- Rending its fpecified terms and religious obrervance of it by the Scant& Government, you claim that the armaments rhombi be re duced in the ports of this khogdein to the Rate in which they were before thebeginning of retaliates between Logiand and France.— The King cannot but fee in this demand a notorious infradtion of the Convention of Neutrality proctored by Lngiand herfclf, and in this view he orders me to diredt his !dinkier In London to pro ; telt againit a pretenhins, which Is the MOM unfiainnable,inafinueb as the epprebenfioin arc greater of a dellte on the part of England to alter the Rib:Sated relations between herfeif and Spain. ' It is a nteafuk ca. le& intruder, whkli lit tall me your 06. tsTatoittt bate *kali Id (Mat that the Centataadst of the he before Ferrol &add prevent the failing of the Spaniel (hips of war which are in that port, an.i tht rot ranee of others of the i fcription. This ineafure, Wats* bi.iog nugatory (fuppai'to the g oil faith of Spain), i. ":11:nlise to her honour a!4l dignity. and truly hostile. In whieit view, I communicate to the King's Alta wage an order to protslt agaidtt it, and to exadt from the Mb Caliper clear and prcsife sxplanations eoncemink her ide.is with regard to Spain, whore n utrality is alif‘httely ulpr Use, if the is to continue iu the uncertain, agitated, and equivocal Rate in which Ow has hitherto been. (Signed) PEDRO CLYALLOI. The Charge d'Affaires of his Britannic Majefty. (Second Incloftire referred bin No. i 9.) Trannation of a Note from Don Pedro Ccvallos to Don joreph de Anduaga, dated San Lorenzo, 26th Odober dos. Sir—The affurances which England has received from Spain upon her ezadnefs in fulfilling the stipulated neutrality, and the good . faith which is as it were obaraderillic of the Spaniffs Cabi net, ought to have inipir,d the Britt& Cabinet with more circutn. fpedion, fo as not to give credit to unauthentic news of arma ments in Cadiz and Ferrol. Spain obliged herfelf to ceafe her arming, and Ste bas fulfilled it,fince the two or three veffels which the thought to dcitine to the omit of ilifeay were armed before the epoch of the agreed cell:aim of armaments. :~ —.- The idea of this agreement was to affure Great Britain, that Spain, under the colour of neutrality, •anld not arm her fhlps to unite them to rhofe of France whoa it might fuit that power. To with by this sgr..ernent that Spain thould not arm even when the fees herfeli offended by any power, or when the tranquillity of t►e Rate requires it, is to !train the letter and fpirit of the Treaty, and to difrgard the invariable principles which declare and explain Treaties between Sovereigns. In Inch a cafe the lot of a neutral power, confidered until now as the molt advantageous, would be the molt fatal. Hcr enemies might commit hottllities againft her with impunity ; her fub;cdt might refute fidelity to the Sovereign, sabred that f Tee could not redo c them to their duty. Under theft principles, and granting for a moment the reality of the fup. pored new armaments, it would have been becoming that the Ear l& Cabinet, lefs apt to give credit to news ( which is eerily fahli cited by there who are difeontented with the peace, or thole who make it contribute tonaercantileprofit) Biondi have alked of Spain what were her defigns, before the made public dentonitrations of fulpicion and diftruft, always Injurious to the mutual commeree of the two nations. On the other band, the ought to believe that her Mater would elk, as in effed he did akin proper time, ex planationsof this much talked of (decantadoj armaments, which were given conformably to what I have Paid ; and by thee the Englifh Govertuatent will have confirmed itfelf in the confidence which it owes to the piomife of his Majelty. In tins conception I replied to the Engin Chair d'Affaires, who read to me the dlf. patch of his Government. He renews the folicitation that I &could declare to him the rum which, under the title of fulafidlea, is eon. tributed to France, ai an equivalent for the fuccobrs ftipulated by the Treaty of Alliances and I have repeated to him what on this point I have "aid to your Excellency, and it i, what is futficient if the complaints are made in good faith,utd if it is wilbed to do jet. tics to that which i. as it were the charatteriltic of the Spruill Government. That Government has oleo raid a doubt, whether our fubfidy, in favour of France is indefinite or limited to the time of the pea lent war ; and I have anewercd , that it does not extend to other wars than the prefent. In fine, I told him that England might fO. ly on the morality and good faith of Spain in th e f u lfilling of her obligztions, but without giving to them an extenfion that bumf. bates and degrades her from the rank that belongs to her; that Great Britain was the molt interefted In not altering the ftate of neutrality with this kingdom, from which by commerce the draws immenee fume, with which the maintains her fleets ; that the pm. indices are inc alculable which the brings upon our commerce, by her exaggerated complaints and unfounded fufpiclon s of t h e idm-h and views attributed to the Spanith Government, fine; being known and publithed by thole who delve benefit from them, they prevent the merchant from giving to his negociations all the sal. vity of which they are fueceptible ; that Spain having complied with the two conditions, namely, ceffation of armaments, and pro. hibition of the tale of prizes in her ports, under which Great Bri tain promifed to refl....di the neutrality, it becomes abfolutely ne cetfary that this power fhould adopt towards Spain a ftyle aT greater franknefs ; and that, in like manner, as we have protefted that we will maintain our pacific relations with England, fo 'Mae mould confirm to us clearly and definitively that her views are equally pacific, and the more fo, when the has feen that we have not Infringed any of the conditions ache neutrality agreed on. All which, by royal order, I transfer to the notice of your Ex. teleney fit your information, and the eorrefpondent nee in your conferences and con "creations with that Mibiltry. (Signed) DOD PLDIO CV/ALUM Don Jofeph D'Anduags, &c. &e. &c. (Tranfiation of No. 3, referred to in No. 19.) Sill, Efeotial , 3oth Odtober tfirad. I have had the honour of receiving your Excellency's note of yefterday's dine, inclofing copy of a letter to M. d'Anduaga, is which I fee no hope which can juftity the prolongation of my ref fidence here ; and I (held in confcquence confine myfelf to follow the orders of my Court, by :velocities toy paffiorts, if I did Dot think it my duty previoufiy to notice tome Wee conceptions which your Excellency ha. formed as to the relations which fubfift be twee England and Spain, according to which, it would not be difficult for me to rrpd the charge of precipitation, which your Excellency has call un the recent condndt of my Government. Your Excellency (peaks of the neutrality of Spain, and argues thereupon, as if ft were a circumftance agreed upon between the tau powers ; whereas no mention whatever has been made of it, either in the propofitions contained in his Britannic Majetty's Note of ate t lath of February, nor in any other part of his ear repondence. His Britannic Majefty has In fadt announced to the Spanith Government the conditions without which it would be abfolutely implable for him any longer to purfue that fyiteen of forbearance which he has hitherto followed; but he has never of fered to Spain the hope of a neutrality, which treaties, even with his enemies, rendered her incapable of enjoying. Spain has been placed on her proper footing, that is to fay, on that of a power with whom there was a lulpenfion of hottilkies; and the agree ment made under this idea bad for its objedt not only, as your Excellency lays, to prevent the equipment of her @tips of war, and their jundions with the French forces, but alto to place herfelf ha a better pofttioo both offenfive and defenfive with refipeet aZoe land; than that in which fhe found herfelf bt the Commeocement of Hottilitles ; and how could the expect to fee herfelf more chile. I T conne cted with England, vrhilit her engagements with is taw stiles and the funs with which the furnithed them, remained a keret to England. True it is. that his Britannic Majefty has re ceived vague affurances as to the amount of there fume; but there &Gram* are infutfielent to enable him to decide upon the nature of the permanent relations which mould fubfift balms him au* his Catholic • Majefty, efpecialty as, mould there affurances be exact, no reafon remains to refufe the communication of the treaty, lime your Excellency has allured me, that it does not contain any Itipuistion h o ftil e to Great Britain. _ _ I have had the honour to inform your Excellency, that nothing could have engaged his Majefty to perfevere in Lis fyftem of mo deration, but his well•known benevolence, fupported by a difpo fition to give credit to the affurances of the Spanith Government, that the payments furnifh.d to France were only made is th e intention of ofgaining time, and,till circumftanccs would enable her to follow a ,fy Item more congenial' to her intcrefts and her wifkei. Your Excellency does • not appear to comprehend, whence I have derived this affection; and although I should have fiippofed, that t had already pointed out its fource, fo clearly as to exculpate myfeif from the imptrtation of having fabricated it my felf, I ntult inform you, that ht Excellency the Prime of Peace gave fimilar affurances to the Minifter of his Britannic Majefty, whenever mention was made of the payment of the futtedies to . France. It appears to be fince a certaiocd, that the auras= of his Excellency were not thole of his Government, by which there fore it cannot be ealkd upon to abide : But this explanation will diaubtlefs make an efictitial al eration in the Ideas of my Govern ment refpedting the future project, of gpain which mutt hence. forward be confider-ell as irrevocabty cosine:Al with France, dur ing the whole war by a treaty at fubudy, the ftipulaiions of which the will not avow. In this hate of inquietude, *hitt+ is the natural confequence of the Glence °biased by Spain as to its engagements with the enemy, his St itannic Majelly, having received froth his Admiral off Ferrol authentic accountant an armament Stung out m that port, was in no wife called upon to a sit for the exp,mations that Spain might offer thereon, and which have nee r been offered; It is fullicient, in order to jollity the mealures which he has taken. nay (till wort deciftve ones, to know that an armament was Sttioly out, and that the engag,:m ntv w. re vinteted. I have thus endeavoured to give an egad idea of the nature of the relatloni tkhich have (unfitted between the two co,urv.rias from the commencement of isoltilitles with France, Lnce it 1 , , f rom t hi s conideration alone, that a jutt opinion can be to: , , e d o f t h e pre . fent conduct of the two Governments ; and if ' our Excellency Is not prepared to give me an affurarrec, that flu ~,rmemeet whatever lie eaftied 4ta ah sicpururat Sp&S ; Qe .stia 044 vf war eta