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Rt R~ STATE PAPER. FP.ENCI I hl E ".101:1 AL. The incorporation of Ger:0:1 With France was,, it is well known, the necalton of the prefect important trills. This meafure has bropglit the differences which were then pending to an open rupture. Im mediately after the union of Genoa with the errpire of France, the French At.lhalliadors at the d:fferent Courts delivered the following Memorial, never be fore publifhed, in which their Government fiemed to anticipate the renewal of a Continental war, on ac count of Genoa and the other relations of Subjoined is a tranflation of the above-mentioned Memorial : "After many vain attempts of the Genoefe people to maintain the independent exiitence which Franc,. had guaranteed them, already on the brink of dc i4ruCtion, they unanimontly refolve on the only mta lure left them for their prefervation ; they decree, in tic moil folemn manner, their union with the Fictich empire, and earnefil, implore the Emperor Napoleon to receive them into the number of his faithful fub• jeCts, by a deputation, the members of which were direlted not to leave Milan till they had, at leall, ob tained a promife of his Imperial and Royal Majaly that he would comply with their detire. „ The molt urgent motives induced ail the citizensof that republic to make a propcfal which entirely changes their political fituation. Important reafons invited France not to oppofe this with. All the na val powers could not but favour an union, which, without augmenting the Continental arength of France, enables her, for the benefit of the commerce of all nations, to avenge the maritime encroachments and intuits of England. It may not be amifs to con fider in various points of view an otcurrence which will loon be placed in a falte light, by the panegyrills of that Government, by whole conduft it was render ed indirpentably neceffary. " The Senate and people of Genoa had made va rious efforts to give tl.emfeltes a conaituti.tn, but without fuccefs. France hertelf had lincerely withed tbat this State might preferve its rank among the Powers of Europe. She had defended it during the war ; the had re-conquered it from Auaria ; the had endeavoured in various negotiations to ftipnlate for its advantage ; the had increaled its territory, to af ford it new means of profperity, and had fticeeflive ly ceded to it the Imperial Fiefs in the valley of One glia, Serravalle, and other difbiCt-, inclofed by its territory, which belonged to France, prevent ed a free communication, and were injurious to its trade. It is Ilia heat in the memory of every one, that France, after the had, in the B.h year of the Republic, reconquered Genoa and her dependencies, from the Power which had taken potieffion of them, did not infia on thole rights to which the was entitled by this event. She withilood the with uttered even at that time by thole who were belt acquainted with the fituation of their country, and rejeCted the pro pedal of an union, which would indeed have contri buted more effeCtually to the tranquillity and fecuri ty of Genoa, but which would then have appeared to be merely the effeft of gratitude, and the recollec tion of the calamities the had endured. " Since that period, Genoa has been convinced that her welfare is no longer compatible with her in dependence, and that, in confequence of the change in •:te Rate of All Europe, the had become too weak to make head againft the external attacks of armies or fleets, and to fupprefs internal commotions. Af ter many years of difficulty and inquietude, the im plored his Imperial and Royal Majefly, who had, already, undertaken to prefide over the deltinies of France, likewife to dire& thole of the Ligurian Re public, and to unite all parties under a conftitution better adapted to the Rate of the country and its old inhabitants. Genoa, accordingly, received a Government, whole form and regulations were fanc tioned by ;he experience of many centuries, and whore fundamental principles were carefully examin ed and approved by the Reprefentattves of the State of Genoa, who were charged to take upon themfelves that labour. But this new attempt, made with the concurrence of all, was not attended with any better fuccefs. Genoa was incapable of having either a Government, a marine, foreign commerce, or inter nal race. She piddled not even the pima- to ex terminate a banditti, who are Rill plundering a por tion of her territories, and who even kept the inha bitants of the adjoining French departments in a con tinu :1 (We of alarm. " From all thefe fruitlefs etvrtions to improves her internal fituation, Genoa leara:d that the caufes of her imbecility, and the means of preventing her to tal annlilatinn were to be fought abroad. Genoa, which had &Wilted entirely by commerce,•has IoR it ce.ofequence of the aggrand%;ement of all the commercial powers. Numerous ports, which twenty years ago were fcarcely known, and others which boat the peculiar protalion of their relpeetive Go vernments, have vied with each other in diminifhing the profperity of the port of Genoa. " New maritime Rates were created by the laR ear. Venice, whofe trade h.td filled' to decay, is snow the depot of the commodities . :of great em pire. The fame power has acquired a !peat taunt of coati, and gives animation to the ports which na vete has fo richly ditiributed along it. The harbours in .he Republic of the Seveli Brands foon be of far greater importance than they woe under the Go vernment of Venice. The Engli(h, now mailers of India, have made Malta a new depot for their mer chandise. ‘• While this competition arofe round Genoa, Ilse beheld the remnant of her commerce expofed to the depred aims of pirates, and excited the envy of Eng land, which not only retufed to confider Genoa as an independent Rate, but employed every pomble meafure to drive her to defpair ; which inc:tfantly in fultcd her ; which during the late war cut out of the harbour two French higates, and mairacred their crews, and treated her jut} as (he pleafed during the blockade. " Before England had declared this war againfl hen Upper Italy was yet fut)jea to feveral 'he maritime commerce of Genoa, and ►n trade with the Continent, was caps- ling her from ruin. The forme, i, nuw Ind as England, betides throwing a acles in the way of exportation, like every opportunity of fending her cum her u...► ports as contraband, his Im- Royal Majelly, whole dominions fur . • round Liglst% fonytcl reeelEttted to adtipt a fyflem for the tubule of thofe frontiers, which, while it prevented the importation of Englifh commodities into the departments of France, likewife cut' off all communication between Liguria and the Continent, and coL:;:qu,ntly-pdt a flop to the only trade which England had left the Republic. Alarmed at a fitnation which could not fail in a fhort time to involve her in utter ruin, Genoa was long convinced, that fhe had no other refource than to unite herfeif more clofely with France. She daily renounced, from neccflity, a portion of her indepen dence, and was prorefted only by a corps of French troops, f , r which the had applied. By the depreda tions of the Barbary corfairs, that hovered about the illand Af Caprea, in order the better to molea her trade, (he was at length compelled to cede that ifland to France. " Genc,a, unable to equip veffels for the proteaion of her coatis, poffelling dock yards and magazines, tinfer viceable in her exhauticd (late, having merchant veffels, which her marine and her flag were incapable of proteling, and which were obliged to fail under that of another power, to efeape the privateers, Ge noa could no longer procure bread for her numerous population, depending for fubfifience on maritime enterprife, and the incluary that prevails in her ports. " Not being in a condition to carry on, in a direa manner, the war is which England had involved her, the could do no more than fend her feamen on board the French fquadrons, and implore the French govern ment to make rife in France of herlabourer.for whom (he could not find employment. In perpetual appre henfion of civil commotions from the dilcontent of parties, on account of the general poverty, which was cotttinually increafing, and the imbecility of the go- vernment, which could not fit mly eßahlifh itfelf, the was petfuaded of the neccffity of forming a corps of gens d'armes, to be commanded by French officers. " Thus the union of Genoa was imperceptibly ef fetted by her fituation. This meaffire was detired by her inhabitants. Nothing more was, therefore, ne ceffitry, than that it fitould be taken into confidera. tion by thole parts of the Government which fuffered the molt from this Rate of uncertainty, the expences and burthens of which rendered the condition cf Li. guria Ilia more opprelive. Hence proceeded the fudden enthufiafm, the eager zeal, of the people of Genoa, to fubfcribe to the with for an incorporation; when the Senate, atter mature confideration, thought it their duty to propofe it, and regarded that as the favourable moment, in which his Imperial and Royal Majefty could behold, with his own eyes, the diftref fes.of a country to which arms had reftored its inde pendence, but which, in fpite of all its efforts, could not again recover its former profperity. 44 As Piedmont, Parma, and Piacenza, by which Liguria is encompaffed, form a part of the dominions of his Majefty, as the Kingdom of Italy is in his hands, and has received a Sovereign from him, as the Republic of Genoa, which was forgotten by Eng land in the Treaty of Amiens, perceives that both the fea and the land are Phut againtt her, the could not have formed a refolution better adapted to her intereft and her dignity, than to incorporate herfelf with a great nation, and that with an impetuotity fo enthuliaffic, as perfeitly anfwered for the fuccefs of the meafure. " His Imperial and Royal Majefty, *fretted by the motives which induced Genoa to adopt this re folution, was obliged proviforily to comply with a with, that was the refult of long experience and the moll mature deliberation. The annihilation of the hopes of a people who were determined no longer to be denied, might have been produlive of the moll ferious confequences. " The Continental Power of France has not, in fait, been augmented by this union. A narrow track, fo cooped up by the fea and by mountains, as to leave a free communication only at a few points, which does not produce corn fufficient to fupport its soo,ooo inhabitants, which is expofed to the havoc of annual innndations in its mofl fertile difirias, and oppreffed by the burden of a prodigious debt, with out any probability of its •ever being paid off—the incorporation with his Imperial and Royal Majeßy's State, of filch a country, which has but little com munication with the Continent, and is incapable of relioring its naval power, on account cf the alteration which has taken place in the fituation of all other States, cannot afford any pretext for Continental dircullions, and its union with France cannot pall ' bly produce any remonftranceq by which peace is likely to be endangered. Should England fucceed in creating difiord on thi, fubjea, no alternative will be left his Imperial and Royal Majefty, but to prole. cute with vigour the unjull war that will be declared against him. " Enjoying the foi.ttaion of having termed a (late which threw itfelf into his arms, he will have in his favour the goodnefs of his caufc, the public opinion, and all the motives of dignity, neighbour hood, and benevolence, which have hitherto induced him to protea Genoa. " Far more important confiderations, of great in terest to all Europe, excepting England, co-operated on this occafion in the resolves of his Majefty. France, which, by her political and geographical flotation on the Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas, is &flitted to check the ufurpation of the ocean, and to vindicate the rights and independi nce of the Maritime Powers, has not coatis fo extentivi as England. Without en larging her Continenta: pAretlions, the will obtain by the union of Gen 'a (,lc o feamen to fupply the place of thole whom the Lott tturiig the late war, and will thus be enabled the better' to cope with a Rate, the Pole diet of whole effores is to ufurp the &minion of the leas, which exercifes an univerfal monopoly, which (irises to make, with every nation, commercial treaties in her own way r which is extending her power in India, only with view to employ it againft Europe ; which violates al: the tights of neutrals, and which will not condo& het elf with more moderation towards them, till France grail have acquired a more formidible navy. " Were the Engin to reftore Goa to the Porto gnefe, Ceylon to the °.inte:h, the vat poffeffions of Tippoo Saib to his heirs, nd the empire of the Mah rattas to its inciepertderce, it would better become them, than to temonlo ate againft the union of a narrow track of coast, which is already furrotinded by the French territory. But there exaggerating alarmifts, who will infallibly raife a prodigious out cry againft a meaftwe which they have them:elves rendered neceffary for Genoa, for France, and for the fecurity of Europe, will, it is to be hoped, not I Make any imprellion on the wirer Cabinets of th Continent. To all the States of Europe the fituation of Liguria mul be a matter of inckfirence. They have long feen that this country is leparared from their territories by the dominions of his Imperial and ;Royal Majefty, and, from its pofition, can have no enmmnnication with them. but by fea. They are already accuaorned to the intimate relations fubfilt jug between the Genoefe and France, to the mutual interefts and mutual operations which have rendered the two nations brafroifibk. Their union mull appear to all Europe the inevitable refult of their pofition. It cannot excite any mittrull in the Continental Powers, as it will not acrd a tingle battalion to the French army ; as the &Tana' decay of Liguria for bids the annexation of its territory to be afcribed to wilhes of ambition, fo there is not a court, that ought to entertain any alarm concerning the intentions of his Majetly, after the principles of moderation which he has manifelled, in accepting the crown of Italy only till loch time as the tranquillity of South of Europe (hall be reflored. " England imagined, that while Abe was conquer. ing India, and plundering the Sovereigns of eaten five and opulent kingdoms, the diftance of thefe un exampled uforpations would efcape the attention of Europe. To France alone, defined by nature to preferve the rights of Neutral States—to France, who has always exerted all her power, and placed all her glory in proteaing them.—to her alone, it belongs, I to reftore the balance of the fear. A few thalami more feamen will be fufficient for the equipment of ten (hips which France is building in the midft of war, and they will be the bell guarantee for the preferva tion of any future Treaty between her and England. It is beyond a doubt, that if, at the moment ofpeace France (hall have fucceeded in placing her mar ine on a refpthable footing, there will be no danger of the renewal of there capricious hankies, which England thought proper to commence again(; France in May 1803, and of which the expedition again!" Denmark, and the capture of the Spanith frigates, lunar a far ther demonftration. " Europe will not then any longer be perpetually 1 diflurbed by the efforts of a government, which is inceffantly endeavouring to arm the Continent in fa vour of its deigns upon the feas, and which has in vain granted five millions Reding to procureaflitlance. " The meafure of the Genoefe cannot therefore in any point of view oppofe the froalleß obßacle to the negociations with wbich M. de Novosri,TZOFF is charged. " All the effentials of an equal, fecure, and ho nourable peace, Rill fubfift ; and .f it were allowed to compare trifles with objeas of importance, it might be raid, that England has no right to complain of the with for a union between Liguria and France, ac Ftance has made no complaint concerning the recent dettrudion of the Mahratta Empire." Gen , a, when S.,bzeigns, th Ter comma.' • W. I prefeivi denvived, an< thnufand •bit:, wife reized ev tnoJities intu I petial and GERMANr. " HAMEUROH, OCTOIFR 4.—lt is reportia here, that the French Ambaffador at Vienna has recpu 7 t.(i his paffports, and that the Pruffian' Ambaffador, Count KILLER, had departed from Vienna to Thur, ingen, which occalioned it to be fuppofed, that the bell underßanding did not exift between thole per fonages. " It is underßood that 2000 men were Rill at Hameln, and that they were part of the troops det tined to fupport the Hanoverian territory, that tome fkirmilhes between the French and Auftrians had taken place in Italy, and that PruMa looking on war as inevitable, had declared it her determination to remain neutral. " The Duke of Brunfwick has left his capital to repair to Koningfherg, to meet the King of Itruftia, Emperor of Raffia, and the other great perfonalres. 4 ' The Ruffian fleet (fays the fame account) does not leave the Baltic till Denmark (ball have declared herfelf in a manner fatisfnetory to the Allies." In addition to the above, we learn by the lan ar rivals, that the Treaty between the Elettor of Bava ria and France, had for its fundamental Ripulation in favour of the Eleaor, as engagement to enlarge his dominions, by extenfive additions out of the he reditary polTefflons of Außria. Bon•PARTI engaged to fend a French force to join the Bavarian troops at Wrirtzburg, in time to R revent the Auftrians even from croffing the Inn. 'I he Elsaor has been already cruelly and fatally deceived by his Ally. ' FROM THE MAINE, SETT. 24. —The Ruffian army under General KUTUSQW will advance to the Up per Palatinate, through the environs of Ratifbon. Fame THE Tram., Sam 23.—A1l the plies in the mountains leading from Suabia and Bavaria into the Tyrol, are fortified in great haße with new in trenchments and redoubts. Independently of the tour regiments of Tyrolefe militia, which form a well organized corps cf somoo men, all the men in this province capable of bearing arms, have received orders to provide them felves with arms, that they may be ready at the full call to advance to the frontier, agreeably to our Pro vincial Contlitution. lirsoeu, Sarr. z 3 French General Bat- TRAND is with the corps of Bavarian troops afrembled at Amberg, from which it is concluded that tilde troops will form a juneinn with the French army. The molt recent accounts from Suabia left the ad vanced polls of the Aulirians at Pforzheim, and the French about half a league difiant. At Frankfort, the French officers of the armies of BARNADOTTA and MARNIONT are buying up all the maps of Franconia, Bohemia, &c. MINNINGIIII, SEPT. 24.—1 t has been determined, that the fortifications round this city (hall be repair ed and firengthened. The Imperial Colonel of En gineers, VON Danowicu, who, during the laft war, made Ulm a confiderable fortrefs in the fpace of eight months, will dire& thisenterprize ; 4000 peafants in this neighbourhood have been put in requifition for that purpofe, and two regiments of infantry, to be quartered in the city and its environs, will aflilt in crating the worki. The citizens have already re ceived orders to evacuate immediately their gardens of hops and vegetables round the city. The Eattern bank of the lllcr, from Kempten to Ulm, where that river hills into the Danube, will alfo be guarded by a chain of redoubts in a line. Baron MACK has made this plan. It is not yet afcertained whether the imperial army will take a military pofition be hind the Bier, or whether it will advance to the weft ern parts of Swabia. RUSSIA: RtaX, Si rustira 21.—Our arrionntinft t• 300,000 men, have marched to the frontiers of Au:- trim. Ninety steels, of 2-)O tons each, have been chartered here at zo rix-Jelars per latt, monthly, to convey troops, hones, ammunition, &c. to the North Sea; as alfis ioo veffels at St. Peterfburgh and Revel. and nearly ryo at different ports in Denm.ark and Sweden. .Every thing has a warlike appearance.— Our trade is very brifk, 1870 Chips have already cleared out, and our exportation of grAin is very great. Our harvell is this year more abundant than. stac the laft. Our beloved Monarch intends to visit lour frontiers in a Ilion time ; his bodes, &c. paired This day through our city. SPA/ I'. MADRID, AUGUST 30. —Spain, defolated bnt a (host time ago, by the moil dreadful difeafe, and fine fuffering from the calamities of war, is now reduced to fuch a lime, that to increafe the evil, a number of its moll affluent inhabitants are gone to refide it foreign countries. The emigration of families and perfons of this clafs, removing to eaablifh themfelves out of the kingdom for an indeterminate time, has multiplied to fuch a degree. that the King, unwilling to permit this ddertion of the country, in thefe cala. mirons times, finds himfelf obliged to oppofe it by the moil efficacious me ins. His Majetty, for this purprife, adopts a meafure, extraordinary and deci. live, which not only tends to prevent in future thefe emigration-, but alto compels the return to the king dom of thole individuals who have already abfented themielves from it. The meafure adopted confifis int the refolutions contained in a Royal Proclamation, &animated on the 25th irritant, to the full Secretary of State, Dow PEDRO CEVALLOS, and publifhed the Journal yeflerday—it runs as follows : CHARLES Iv. KING OF SPAIN, &c • Confidering the Wires experienced by the State, in the volun tary emigration .•f a great number of individuals, who, betides expending in foreign countries, the entire, or the greater part of the rev. noes, provifious or penfions which they enjoy, alfo feet, to withdraw diengelves, to the injury of the Crown which they ought to fupport, in concert with my other faithful (objects, and thereby refuting t a advance the public profpe•ity by their tortune,, talents, and induftry ; I have judged proper to decree : That all there, my fubjeas, who are ablaut from my kingdom, without a public appointment or million, confided to theist by me, ate to return to it, and repair to the places of their refpeetive a'.' des, in the (pace of four months, if they are in France, in Italy, or in Portugal; and in the (pace of fix months, if they are in any other country; and that if they de not fulfil my intention, I declare them, from the prcfent moment, de?rived of all the provilions or penlions which they enjoy ; andeven the Commanders of the four military orders, or of the order of St. John, which have been grunted to them, as alfo the demands which they may have on the revenues of the State,including the tents of Eceleftaftical Mf will is, that the other lodiiiduals. whti live 64.:1y on LIP* foram% and are comprised in the preftnt t:ceree, Otall lure the half of their aunaal rents, in cafe they do not return to their ret. fpedttve refideuces within the period above-mentiotx..l.—'taring . learned my will, you are, to mike it known to all ih.tP who may be interdted in it, that they may conform to it emaly. " Given at the Palace of St. Ildepbonfo, the Asth of An• gull, 7805." LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER as. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON;: O'CLOCK Confois, for money, 581 f—for Nov. sO. Omointn, =lacy, 41—Parsein, 4. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 Per C. Red- An l lll 58 571 1 1 44 8141111 18 31 3 per Cent . Con[, 58 A India Bonds, is. par 4 Per n 7411 Each. Bills, is. as. pram 5 Cent jay At/ Lottery Tickets sot. £5l. Long Ann. sist stqa Cour. for acc 5940 001•111 , We have the pleafare to announce the face arrival of the homeward-bound Leeward Ifland and Jamaica fleets in the Channel. The VANGUARD man of war is arrived at Spithead, in a leaky Rate, having left the Jamaica [hips under charge of the ILLuvrtious man of war. Part of this fleet we arc happy to all, paired Portfmouth yeacrday on their way to the River. Government, we underftand, have received intelli gence through the Channel Fleet, of Lord NIMSOII having arrived off Cadiz on the zgth of September, at which time the combined fquadrous had made no attempt to put to fea, nor is it believed that the Spaniards will again fail. Letters from Berlin, brought by thy laft mail, af. fore us, that the Neutral Sydem adopted by the King of Pausing is to be recognized by the three Emperors. That neutrality will be of courfe con. fined to his own territories. He is to enter into no league nor guarantee of neutrality wiih others—and it is imagined that the objet of his interview with the. Emperors ALE:stints and FRANCIS, is to make a J propofition as a Mediator for a General Congrefs. Itis thought that a blow will not be (truck till after this conference of the Sovereigns. In the preceding columns we have given a tranfla tion of a Memorial prefenteil on the part of France to the feveral Continental Powers, immediately after the incorporation of Genoa with the French Empire. The molt interetting feature of the article, and that' which gives it a peculiar charafter, is its anticipation of the prefent crifis of the Continent. It avows a confident perfuafion, that the " incorporation of Ge noa will be foon placed in a falfe light by the pane grills of the Englifh Government ;" and it adds, " Should England fucceed in creating difcord upon this fubjed, no alternative will be left for his Imperial Majefty, but to profecute with vigour the unjull war that will be declared againft him." We know from the diplomatic Papers already publifbed, that eve'y previous aggreffion and encroachment of Bose pa It TS have been the fubjeet of remonstrance on the part of Auftria and Ruffia, and this Memorial furnilhes :lie moft irrefragable evidcnce, that, by the incorporation of Genoa, he knew he should exhaull the patience Of thefe two Powers, and force them to extremities. He is, therefore, guilty of a palpable falkhood, who -