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w - wrw FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. We have reeelved Pala Journals to the rgels La the Afireiteer of the 113th, a very Angular produetlon I. felled, which we Lave laid before our Ruders. According to OW Er4oesE, Hamm it only sesspird by, but not depitiwly on. sporad to Pete& Ihe King of PROIWA has declared otberwili. WWI of the two tens the lie Frames demands of Auftria what Aaltria esonot give, peffellien of Dalaretla. In codeine-nee of the Ruffians having occupied Cott" it it caddy declared, ewe Brow, weekielk aMni ellefeeeetn• q tie AR, hr kees reveesstied sal gemyeited t .bat the Praia troy ose Iwo *nitro, is re/awe its fre d Stiers, and that the AIONSTILIAN PIMONIZO, wue Witt ON 1101111 WAT •09411 IMVII las. greens UNTIL I." Nereciesee easdeet en this ecealion reminds es of the Wolf Eli the Lanais TRENCH EXPOSE. PARIS, APRIL 28. England has declared war againft Praia. All the King's flips have received orders to attack the Praffian veils, and letters of marque have been Wised to privateers. Is this a jet proceeding on the girt of the Englifh Government ? Is it a politic one ? Theft are queftions which it is not our intention to examine. It is fufficient for us to difeover, that this meafure is advantageous to France; that one of its fief confequenete will be to Phut the North spina tbe Intik trade ; and that there is little wifdom on the part of England, in thing fn towards a confide. table Power, whom the forces into a nearer cornice • Hon -with France ; and whom Ike determines to re move from her Councils the agents and the influence of England. France and PrufGa united can, if they *are. !hut the Sound. If England bad learned how to accommodate her policy to eircurnftanees, the would have maintained her party and her creatures In credit at Berlin. She wonld have rendered the block ade of the ports of the North lets fevers. She would have, in fad, premed the advantage which Ise de rives from the Pruffian flag; for commerce has occa ion for intermediate agents between the merchant and the coalmen But, howentr, It may be, we can not confider this new political event but as tending to accelerate peace ; for, affuredly, Pruffia is neither a weak enemy for England, nor a weak ally for ftanee. We know, that there art perfons who iticuftom thern &lees with difficulty to the idea of thefe connetlions between France and iirtiffia, but they do not fee. that the hefitation which was fief( thanifefted by the latter Cabinet, depended upon temporary eireonslianees which have neither altered the principles of the Lag, nor there of his mot faithful and intelligent fervent.. if there was any thing which gave offence to France, it could only be impthed to a frantic Minitler, who was fold to England, who vfas formerly in her fer• vice, and who quitted it for reafons which the dig. sky of this Paper will not allow us to mention. It, perhaps, may be fuppofed, that England, in the new eiretwoliances in which Ate finds herftlf with regard to Proffitt, bad no medium left her, and could not avoid declaring war. But the occupation of Hanover, Ptah, was the only means of preventing the !tench from returning to that cottony; and if they had returned, the freedom of the &Ilia trade would not have been the greater. It may be Paid, that PmEa has not only - Dm the ports of the Elbe and the Wefer, as they were by the French, but that the occupation was made in the name of the King, and h; the fame form as if he bad determined to annex this fine province in his van monarchy. Mowever Awe is mg*, is fait, h paw that this was she Saimaa' tkpnirofiei and it is very poffible, that the ceffion of sAnfpach, and Nenfcbatd, may relate to tome other principles of arrangement, fines the population of all the three does not equal a fifth of the popula tion of Hanover. Some difeaffion, therefore, might have taken place between Praia and England; and the wifeft course would have been, not to have begun by declaring war. Suppofing occupation to be equal to final i nc orporation, England, inftead of avoiding that confequence, mak es it more certain—for, what ever loffes the Pruillan trade may experience during two or th re e years war, the will be indemnified by the more confiderable Infs which the trade of her enemy will fußain ; and England fubmits to there loffes for an intereft which the Englifh nation has always difowoed. It has always confidered Hanover as a foreign property, folely belonging to the Houfe of Bruniwick. How happens it, that it has fo fud denly changed its principles in this rept& ? " It appears, that M. Schimmelpenninck, the Grand Peatonary of Holland, has entirely loft his light. Who is to be his luceetTor What as& will be produced by this change in the Magiitracy? There queftions excite the ..:tention and anxiety of all the Dutch, who are fincerely attached to the country. his well known, that rite Emperor never gave any pofitive fanaion to the late changes in the Conftitu tion of that country ; and that he Paid, on that occa. fion, that the profpuity and liberty of nations could only be allured by two modes of Government ; either a tempered and contlitutional Monarchy ; or a Re public, ermaieuted according to the theory of liberty, and which &mid be the true organ of the public will. AU nations cannot, with fafety, leave to the people the choice of their Reprefentatives ; and when a na tion has t. apprehend tltc effects of afßmbling the people ; when the advantages which it expells are , lefs than the inconveniencies which it forefees ; firth a nation, which cannot find proteCtion under a repnbli• can form of Government, has recoutfe to the prin ciples of a good and prudent Monarch. Under the prefent Conftitution of Holland, the Grand Pen ttonary has mire power than the King has in Eng -1 : he has even more than the Emperor has m France ; or than any Sovereign has in any c-untry : ~nd, what is without example in a Republic, their Mi g ini tt eir c e, ..r the Reprefentatives and Le paative Bodies, bar.: been nominated by the Great Penftunary. The t:efeft of this Contlitution cannot efeape the obfervat:ons of the fagacious. ghat can not be called a Rf; iIbEC, where the Reprefentative and Legiflative 11.:eltes are not nominated by the Electors : and if iltete be any fear of the Ele&ors, it will be bell to tenonnce at once the Republican form of Government. A Goys, anent, which, neither hav ing the advantages of a Republic, nor of a Monarchy, combines all the ineonteniences of Loth, th.,,,t e ; he abfointely yrofctibed. Such being the lunation of Holland, the mutt be a gainer by any changes that She mug make in her Conttitution. If the landhold ers, the merchant., due enlighsaled men, are of opi - • nion that they can have a repsefentatiun made by I the choice of the !sulk without diffinaion of challis . as religion, They win creates fyllem moth More pro.' per than the prefent one. If that be not their opi-, nion, and that they think it neeeffary to have recourfe to a Confiitutional Monarchy, they will do that which will be more advantageous to their ceontry than the prefervation of their trilling Conttitution can be. 4 . Bavaria has taken poffeffion of the Margraviate of Anfpach, and has ceded to France the Duchy of Berg, which, united whh that of Cleves, is fettled upon Prince Joachim, the Grand Admiral of the Em pire. Weld is a ftrong fortrefs on our frontiers.... The Duchy of Cleves, gives us an advantageous point of contain with Holland; and Prance, fee the future, will only find on the right bank of the Rhine Princes who are allied Joy blood to the Imperial Family. " General Oudinot has taken poffeffion of the counties of Neufchatel and Valengin. He found thole countries loaded with En lift naerchandize, heapedthere by the merchants of — Switzerland, and principally by thofe of Belle. Of theft the French army has taken to the amount of meny millions : all the banks of the Lake of Neufchatel were covered with Englifh manufa&ures. This circumliance jufli. fies all the prohibitory meafures which may be taken with regard to Switzerland. That country is little more, at this moment, than a warehoufe for Englilh goods. When it than be cleared of there manufac tures, we fhall perhaps have the means of giving a pew check to our enemy. Is it pollible that the I.an. damman was not firuck with the danger to which he tooled the country ? Who will protein Salle from a - ilk from the French army ? Does this Magifirate, who fees fmuggling carried on by wholefale under his eyes, rapport that he is not refponfible ? If the French confider there depots of prohibited goods In publicly made, and to filch great extent, a real all of hollility—if the French Government multiplies pro ' bibitory 'alms between Switzerland, France and Italy, will not the Landamman be the caufe of it ? and still not all the complaints that the Swifs may make be uninft and ill-founded. Dalmatia is occupied.by the French army. I. is repireted from the mouth of the Came by the Re public of Rasura the country is motintainaus, and the roads are bad. The French troops had arrived at Raga; when the fort of Caftel Nuovo was de livered to 300 Ruffians by General Brady, who com• Mended 2000 Atifirians. This General, whore an cefiors were Englifh, has been wanting in raped to France, and has betrayed his Mafter. Upon receiving this information, Martha' Berthier . gave orders that Brannau, which defends the frontier of the Inn, and which was to have been given up on the IR of April, (bould not be reamed, and that it Woad be again garrifoaed. The diviflon of the Grand Army, which was on its way to France, has halted. The prifbners of war, that were to have been fent back to Ger many, have been detained, until farther orders, in the places at which they were.' The illufion, with refpea to the Ruffian armies, is no more. The French army which, in two months, diffipared the third coalition, was then only on the peace ettablifhnient—at the end of the three months, which have fence elapfed. it finis itfelf on the war eflablifhment. It has nothing tr. fear from all the force of Europe; but no perfon will be able to form a fourth coalition. England knows fullwell, that it would be money thrown away. I She rotes with terror, that the firft coalition, which I lifted five years, made France minrefs of Holland, Belginm, the Rhine, and all the Cifalpine Country; that the fecond coalition, which only lofted two years, gave to France Piedmont and Switzerland; that the third, which only Idled three months, gave her Ve nice, Naples, and Genoa; that the lean the could expel from a fourth coalition, would be Triefte nod Fiume, and the eternal ezclufion of the Englilh lkom all the ports of Europe. Raffia, recovered from the vain illufion by which flue was deceived, *ell knows whit thirty millions of people, (tattered over an immenfe territory, and under the neceffity of oppofing the Perfians, Turks, and Tatters, can 1 I do againft forty millions of Frenchmen, united on I Ike fame platform, brave, active, and intelligent. and more capable of conquering Ruffin, than the Ruffians are of conquering France. Englifh, Ruffian, and Sardinian Envoys, and a hoot of malcontents from all the countries in the world, had fixed on Rome as the centre of their ma chinations. The Emperor required, that they thould imdriven from thence ; and that a Sovereign, placed in his Empire, &mild do nothing contrary to the fafety of the armies of Naples and Italy. The &It care of an army (hould always be, not to allow itfelf to be forrounded, eii her by fpies or chafe who encourage defection. This demand gave rife to many Confilto ries, when the perfuns who were the objelt of it did Wire to themfelves, and all evacuated Rome. • .4 The kingdom of Naples is entirely conquered. The French troops are at Reggio, at Otranto, and at Taranto. Only a !mall body of the Neapolitan troops could embat k and reach Sicily. That Wand Is defended by 4yoo Englilh. The pretence of fuch enemies is an additional inducement for the French to go there. Gaeta, an in, aificauf forrrefs, with a garrifon of i boo men, is betieged. The victory at Auflerlitzhas produced as much &oration at Connantinople as at Paris. The exulta tion there was fincere and univerfal. The govern. ment of the Porte is neither ignorant nor fold.— There may, at Conflantinople, be Tome traitors, hot they are not numerous; wharf, on the contrary, the muhiplied meafures of Raffia for rapping the roan. I dations of this vain empire, have not efcaped the no- • tice of the real Ottomans. They are not ignorant that the proteltion of France can alone be fufficient for the Porte; and that France is the only power into relied in protaling her. The vicinity of the French. in Dalmatia, has ittfpired them with the livelielt joy. I The Emperor Napoleon has been acknowledged Empet or. The Porte knows, very well, that its treaty with Rata was extorted ; and that it is rather a treaty between a derpotic Prince and his vaffal, than between Sovereign and Sovereign ; that it is not the French who have excited the Greeks and Serviaas to infueretnion ; whole (hips of war are anchored helve ' Conthotinople ; and who are continually creating commotion, in the More.. This new Attitude of the Pot to has produced much unea liners at St. Petertb•tr glt; and if the Porte (hall he rustled to aEls of energy spina Raffia, there will not be found, between thole taro powers,thegreat difference that may be itippofe.l. The bilifulman is brave ; and %rue lie but dilated and /Ailed, he would triumph over the Molcovite Militia. It is not probable that the Porte will %%Rhin go to wart bat Use has a right to preferve her Ode pendence, and to will (01 pent ( al n n AgAnft the in• bolts of M. Italinficy, every proceeding of whom, when he communicates with the Divan, is only cal culated to excite hatred an I indignation. " tend to tolled, to this way. every month, Infer/nation of what is palling; and, to threw fame light into the labyrinth of hire reports, by width the lawful fpeeulations of fair and honed merchants may be Injured." LEGISLATIVE Bony, APRIL ,6. reasuproicr or M. FouTANIS. COSITINGIATION OT TIM SIT riac or TUE WIC M. CS IT sr, Conniellor of State, in prefenting the prnJet' of fioances, has explained the motive of them with mach perfpicuiry. The Orator's refleßions upon each part of this immenfe work have been heard with the livelieft interell. Our limits will not permit us to give them literally, bit vre (hall offer that part to our readers, which has the moll Intimate connec tion with the political fituarion'of Europe, and par ticularly that of France and England. " A trifling incteafe of the public debt, balanced by * redemption calcined or prepared ; refources de rived frrim the remains of the national domains ; fo reign fuccours, the fruits of vilory :old a wife policy; tkefe, added to the ordinary public contributions, M. Cretet nbferved, might perpetrate to the late( term of glory, a vat empire, but lately almoll over , whelmed under the wreck of a terrible revolution. a What has been raifed by genius, power, and for tune, is to be preferved by prudence. Prudence calls upon us to fix our attention upon the (late of the em pire, es it relates to the defigns, the force, and the po litics of the nations that furround it. " It has been Paid, and unhappily it is but ton true, that Europe firm al if file cork/ no toxier redo,, upon the bent*: of poser, whi , ll have been promifed her by un• faithful treaties ; tie does not even enjoy the benefit of a truce, which is a n*effary interval previous to the recommencement of hailities. If we examine how it is that, in the midft of civilization, the people Rill feel all the aids of Isarbarifm, we mull be con vinced that fonts extraordinary caufe murk have con curred, to throw Europe into a Late the moll oppo. lie to the repofe and the intereft of the furronnding nations. " This caufe has evidently arifen from the recent rupture of the only chain that has reflrained go vernments within the circle of moderate meafures.— / (peak now of the law of nations: itfrxias no longer; land with it the faith of the majority of Sovereigns, with refpef to their promifes, has vanifhed ; ■nd the obfervance of deference and good will during peace; moderation in time of war ; independence of neutral nations, and refpeEt for their property and their ter ritory, are no mere. " The abrogation of the right of nations was pre pared, at the commencement of the lift age, by the contempt of an ambitious nation, which was difpo. fing itfelf for the attainment of univerfil dominion; ar.d it was crufhed beyond remedy, when one of the Minifiers of this nation, lifting up the voice of audit city, dared to proclaim, that a Engle eannon•lhot (hould not be fired in Europe, without the permilEon of his Government. " Europe remained mute, and indifferent td this infulting declaration. She teemed as if the wifhed to conceal the fait, that this fignal of dominion was the lots of her independence ; and that, as this na tion had affunted the command, obedience was abfo lutely neceffary.—lmprudent flumbcr, which has. fine produced inch melancholy confequences l " The affertion made by the Minifter Chatham flattered the pride and ambition of his nation. " It indicated to the nation an objea towards which it has fince never ceafed to advance with fury and perfeve►ance. England, thus thrown into a fyf tern of univerfal defpntifm, has never been able to firpport it, but through violence and injuflice. Ob. ftacles have only inflamed her lull of power; they have deftroyed twenty nations in Alla ; they have car. ried fire and decallation into the ancient cradle of the family of men ; they have attacked nations in the midit of the molt profound peace ; invaded their pro perty ; forced them into their own ranks; corrupted and (educed Governments, and involved them in fatal wars; all thefe exceffes are the calamitous effects of its fyllem of ufurpation. And how could the feeble net, woven by fimple reafon, refill thefe ravage inns. lons of the law of nations ? France, called upon by its rank, its power, and its dearelt interells, has checked the (course that threatened Europe ; but confining itfelf to inefficient obilacles, the Govr•n• ment imprudently fuffered the nation to be humbled, I in placing it in a pofition which injured its noble dif pofitinn ; and thus it fed and animated the fpirit of difccontent, the murmurs and agitation, which led to the revolution, and the fall of the monarchy. " England, favoured by unheard-of events, pur -1 toed its defigns with rapidity. London at this day would probably have been the metropolis of the uni verfe, if heaven had not given birth to an extraordi• nary man ; if heaven had not charged him with the re-ellablithment of the law of nations, in endowing him with prudence, and every neceffary means for accomplilbing his deltiny with fuccefs. " His genius has laid thole forms, inceffantly ex cited by our implacable enemy ; his powerful hand has paralyzed its efforts ; but at the fame t.me he conftrnfted a vett fyltem, the only one which could remedy the evils of Europe. " The flruggle which fuhfifted between France and England appeared at firft as though it could not be terminated but by reafiin or by force. The t feel. of reafon will always vanith in proportion at our ene mies pretend to the dominion of the univerle through that of the fees ; and as long as its councils iefound with thole ravage cries for a war of extermination, the means of force mull be prepared againft this nation : hut nature oppafes obilacle* to the execution, the duration of which we are unable to afcertain. " New combinations are upon the point of firing the fiature,and confolidatingour Impe.,fuoner or later, for the return of a hafting peace. He has formed a power in the center of Europe (anciently at n-g to break the force of every attack it has received, a• well as thole that may yet b.. ptepared agaimi it. " England, ablating its fituatit,n and its emmenle maritime forces, has isfelf indicated the points from whence The may he refilled with fiec:fs. To the ef forts that the makes by fea. it may be neceirery en oppnfe greater eff tits Upon land ; aoJ rifles the pre tend. to &Lite and cat off ...her nations, by laying the ocean under an interJia, jolt re i iii(als call upon us to &date her, and to &or her out of ;he greatalt tent of the Continent that may be poffble. ed To Loch a mists of opptedion it wal be ofeefary ' to oppofe fuck a confederacy as egg defend the laser ties of Fut( pe without absenting them. This Chan be not in execution. France fees allies rallying round her, who v ill invariably attach thensfelves to her po. fides, by tbeir common ;omen, by their neighbour bond, and the ties of bl-vhl. Thus the French empire will be conflituted, contyrfed of its natural territory, and of thole countries which will hereafter be at tached to its fortune. We know it ; this pious league, formed with the legitUn ste defign of defence, will be calumniated ; our enemies will tax the precautions they have modeled necefray with ambition ;—but Europe IA i:1 not long be abieed e Eat ope wilt be con. vinced, that for its own fafety it was nec:ffary that insethingfbould take place in the room of that vain •nd impotent fyilem of equilibtiosn to which all its politics had beer c refined before, and which, in lieu of tranquillity, produced nothing but equipoife ; that is to fay, agitations and wars incelfantly renewed; ibis fyllcm will at length be replaced by the Pimple law of gravity, and the eflablifhment of an immoveable centre, in connedion with the forces that furround it. " It was time to etlablith means in the center of Eu rope. fur repreffing the enterprises of the Englifb, and certain of its allies that it had endeavoured to feducc by offering them the oitifion of the world. It is ne ceffary that thefe efforts Mould tweak themfelvea to Pieces againfi the power of the French empire. " Tittle are no groundlels alarms—the danger will tail! in proportion as nu-ideation and jultice are be nifhed from the Cabinets of Piinces, and at long as new defigns of invafion and the dedrudion of the in. dependence of Nations Gall difquiet the world. Om this poilibly be doubted if we but recoiled, that only a few months hate elapfed, when • powerful Monarch pe•fuaded himfelf, upon the eve of a battle, before (intone bad declared herfelf, that he might afpire to the fruits of a vidory, and inf . & upoo the annihilation of that France, the parts of which bad been confulidated at the expence of fo much blood, and In many facrifiees. " Thus till England (hall confrile the weeping eon merce of Natlons, and renseheing an uniyerfal mo-. nopoly, \ eflo : e to them their natural rights, and no longer pretend to difpute with them, eseept iri refpea of the advantages of its foil, and the perfee. tion of its arts; her velfels loaded with unproductive riches (hall (hew themfelves in vain upon thnfe eaten- five coatis which (hall repulfe them. England will at lei be tired of this rigorous divores ; it (hall es. (lore to Europe the empire of reafon, and with it • permanent peace. u Such are the nbflacles that oppofi a pesos fit deferable we ought to render ourfelves worthy of it, by putting onrfelves in a Situation to obtain it by conquell. " France, notwithflanding its fyllem of alliance, ought not to reckon upon its mars, nor its burin& force, nor the 'Volute bounds fixed by nature to its territory, the moderation of its government, nor its love of power. It will always be expofed to the • fibility cf being troubled by vain pretexts, efpecially while a nation, its inveterate enemy, will drain every nerve to confirm the defpotifm it exercifes over the world ; and as long as this fame nation Shall have fo much intereft and to many means of difturbing its tranquillity, and of drawing the continental nations into a war. " This Rate of things points out to France what ought to be done to procure peace, and the neceflity of preparing for war. It indicates the nenelEty of nccupjing itfelf continually with its army and its marine. It demands fuch mesterei, which, without alarming its neighbours, mould banilh every cattle of tear ; and as all means of force and refinance are dependent upon the public finances, the nation tbould be conflantly provided with fuch a fyftem, and fa or ganized, that it might reckon upon the moft com plete fecority. " It would be imprudent to unit to the refonrce of loam; at prefent they teem as if they were prohibited to the nations of Europe. Oflt nation only continues to tile and abufe them ; but we know this this kind of power is with them verging towards its reify. and that one infiant would be Tuficient to difpel the illu• lion which preferves its credit. Thus, in confidering loans as means extremely limited and uncertain, they never can form any part in the French fyftem of finance. " But if, without relying upon the fuecefs of loans, the French nation would give itfelf up to a dangerous want of forefight, and if it Ikould imprudently aban don itfelf to the chanced of events and the hazards of fortune, it would evidently be in want of all refources in emits of neceffity, excepting in new contributions, or in laying on additions to thofe before impofed. " But it is beyond a doubt, that if the mains of ufing that refouree was not organifed beforehand, it would fall to nothing in our hands, without producing the effects one had a right to expect. "'Then neceility no longer pernutting the choice of means, we Ibould witnefs the renewal of that difaf roue n:eafure, of an application to capitals; requifr (ions in kind, arbitrary contributions, &c. The ca lamitous conferences of a want of ft> refight, would neatly bring the nation to ruin. by confiraining its Government to carry on an inteffine war, for the purl). fe of enabling it to fupport a war abroad. " From this expolition, we necaitily conclude, that the finances of the Republic fbruld be conftitut ed, before hand, in fuch a manner as to be equal to a dale rf war or peace. For peace, every thing is ellablithed already : our Situation during ,the year to, and part of the year enfuing, has fufficiently proved, that ordinary and moderate contributions will preferve the equilibrium between the income and the expenditure. " Refpteling ihe prefent war, the duration of which is uncertain. it will be neceffary to inliitute a general fy Item, en.ordinate with the various contributions which form the immoveable character of the refources of the State. We than be perferved ..ereafter from the ellablifhing of new one.. This is • character which we WI unchangeable, becaufe it will be pro. per to admit of the diminution. which wal be claimed by the hate of peace. and the augmentations which l e of ,r. y bed , e a manded by the imperious oecedities of a a Siren, Gentlemen, is. in effect, the tytiss of e here ntr a i e b v ntin t : d contained ib s . icrate.n in the law epo• which you will I An American (big is Aid to bays brought an ste• ccciont of Sir J. 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