Star. — London, England, 1803-05-18 00:00:00

1.0'N . D014. W7MNESD tY, MAY is. —lnounce 1 yeiterday that General AtibßE , l'iS i c bad etniyarked at Dover at five . •• the morning—and such w. the fa Al, as •d iv .he Telegraph. In the evening, e I eceived th,• i“llowing curious piece .c., Ipit at fo late an hour that we ,ve it a place in a (Mall part of our im I :eons, that on laying the embargo on all the :hips and veil'els in ..ur ports, no exception was nude in favour of any individual, or of any veffel wlUtever. As great bodies move flow, the em bargo to ,, k place at Dover before General An• raEnss , Arrived there, The confequence was, that, After he was ready to depart with his whole retinue, the Officers of the Cullom Houfe, nbferv ing the aria letter , f their orders, and feeing no exception in his favour, cotild not permit his Ex e:!lend• to proceed. A French cnu ler was Immediately difpatcbed by General ANDRIOISI with a letter, to inform Lord I law x, ssu ay of this unex petted occurrence. He reached town in the afternoon, when Lord HAWICESBLIRT initantl'• rent a Treafury melTen ger with a conciliatory anfwer to his Excellency, removing the embargo, and apologifing for the unintentional miflake, which had arifen from the circumaance of the General's paports being dated come days before the order for the embargo. The Gazette of lag night contain‘ an Order of the Ktmo in Council, dated May t 6, anthnriang the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, or any *don by them appointed, to grantlettersof marque and reprifals agaiu& the !hips, sails, and goods: of the French Republic. or the fubjeas thireof. Another order of Council, prohibiting any !hip or ieeffel belonging to any of his Majesty's felbiade from clearing oat for any deb,: ports of the French and Batavia* Republics, or the ports of any coon try occupied by the armies of Prance. and order ing that it general embargo be laid on (hips bs longinßtotbe French and Batavian Republics, in all the 'poets ofOntat Britain and Ireland. Like.- wife a Proclanbseiiin to prevent his Kg s sty's tub jefts from being reduced from their allegiance to enter on board !hips aft •etlfels of war belonging to the French and Bitavian Republics, as they 11111 be Diable to the pains and penalties of High Theron. And a Prsclantatirm offeringencreafed nonce to Stamen and LandfMen. 'nit nest offieSAl document now looted / for with anr.r•• is the Cori elpondenee which palled be tween t' , is country and Fr ee during the fruitlefs at :011 Rated fable nf the points infilled by C:tiF•r t. orrsbt, and among others, one ,•r irsc. r nature. to fame of our contempora • ,‘ ha' .p;-,eitc!d incredible, namely—that he; •. in Englifh PUblications, the Parliamentary Diferrifirms reipeeing the aft . ..in of France. Arrogant, however, as loch a demand mull be confidered, it actually was made, and that oftener than once during the negotiation. 'This lea we Aran place beyond all doubt, by lay ing before the public a pot of the Corretpond ence, containing tile fubliance of a converfation between the Curer CoNstir. himfelf and Lord 'Vl:froorwoarn, in which will be found a mueberof, topech all equally curioco And intertfling. EXTRACTS FROM THE OFPICI4 CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE NEGOCIATION. " Paris, February sr, 110 j. a Mr Loaf—My laft difpatch, in which I gape year Lordfhip an account of my conference with M. de TALL tra•rn, was fcarccly gone, when I recved a Note from him, informing me that the Fast Coastit wilted to converfe with me, and defired I would come to him at the ThuiDefies at mine o'clock. He received me its his Cabinet, with tolerable cordiality, and, after talking on different !Uhler: for a few minutes, he defircd me to fit down, asahc hirnfelf did on the other fide of the table, and began..—He told me, that he felt it necefftry, after what had pallid between me and M. de TALLEYRAND, that be fhould, in the molt clear and authentic manner, make known his foul ments to me in order to their being communicated ►o his Islattsry ; and he conceited this would be Wait etTeEtually done by himfelf thou through any mediup► nkohatever. He cad, that it was a matter of infinite difappnintment to him, that the Treaty of Amiens, infte,,d of being followed by concilia• tion and friendfhip, the natural effethe of Peace, had been produttive only oi,continual and increa fing jcalo;ay and miftruft ; and cluLt this miftruft was now arowed In fuck a manna is mutt bring the point to an ;flue. of He now enumerated the feveralprovocatiness intact: he pn:tende k : to have received from Eng land. He placed in the Ertl line our not evacuat inylta hind Alciandvia, at. we were tniund to tin by tre;tly. In this he laid that no ccutfideration on emit. thould make him acquicfce ; and of the twn he had rather fee us in polliffinn of the Faux trinrg Sr. Antoine than nalte. He tlica asivcrtsa to the ahufe thrown ont againa him in the Eng li(h Public Prints ; but this. he laid, he did not In much regard .v that which appeared in the French Papers publithed in London. This he confidered as much more mifchievous, fince it was meant to excite this country againa him and his Govern tnent. He complained of the prntefihm given to Georges and others of his deft ription, who, inflead of being fent to Canada, as had been repeatedly prornifed, were permitted to remain in England, handfomely penliosed, and conaantly committing all forts of crimes on the coatis of France, as well as in the interior. In confirmation of this, be told me, that two men had within thefe few days been, apprehended in Normandy, and were now on their way to Paris, who were bited air:tains, and em ployed by the Bang. of Atlas, by the Baron de ROLLS, by Gsmacss, and by DUTHEIL, as would 14 fully proved in a Court of Juaice, and made known to the world. 6 , He acknowledged that the irritation he felt againft England increafed daily, becaufe every wind (1 make ufe as much as I can of his own ideas and expreftion s ) which blew from England brought nothing but enmity and hatred againft him. ie He now went back to Egypt, and told me, that if he had felt the fmalleft inclination to take poffeffion of it by force, he might have done it a month ago, by tending twenty-five thoufand men to Aboukir, who would have polkaed themfelves of the whole country in defiance of the four thou land Bikini in Alexandria. That inflead of that garrifon being a means of proteeling Egypt, it was only fitrnifhing him with a pretence for invading it. 7 his hefhould not do, whatever might be his defire to hove it eie a Celony, beraiefe he rid not think it worth the rill ofa war, in which he might, perhaps, be confider ' ea'ar the aggreyfar, and by which hefhoode kJ; more than he could:aim, fence fooner or dater Egypt would belong to France, either by the falling to pierce of the Turigi Em pire, or by forte arrangement with the Porte, s' As a proof of his defire to maintain peace, he wifhed to know what he had to gain by going to war with England ? A detcent was the only means of offence he had. and that he was determined to attempt, by putting nimfelf at the head of the ex pedition. But bow could it be fuppofed, that after having gained the height on which he flood, he would rills his life and reputation in fuch a hazar dous attempt, unlefs forced to it by neceffity, when the chances were that he and the greateft part of the expedition would go to the bottom of the lea. He talked much on this fuhjeft, but never affected to diminith the danger. He acknowledged that there were one hundred chances to one againft him ; but Rill he was determined to attempt it, if war fhould be the coolequence of the prefent cuQiun; and that fuch was the dilpofition of the troops, that army after army would be found for the enterprise. " He then expatiated much on the natural force of the two countries. France, with an army of four hundred and eighty thoufand men, for to this amount, it is, he laid, to be immediately compleated, all ready for the molt delperate enterprises; and England with a fleet that made her iniftrefs of the fees, and which he did not think he fkould be able to equal in lefs than ten years. Two fuch coun tries by a proper underßanding might govern the world, but by their flrifes might overturn He laid, that if he had not felt the enmity of the Britifh Government on every occafion fince the Treaty of Amiens, there would have been nothing that he would not have done to prove his deftre to conciliate; participation in indemnities as well as in influence op the Continent ; treaties of comr coerce, in lbort, any thing that could have given fatisfatioo, and have teflified his friendllsip. No -1 thing, however. bad been able to conquer the hatted of the Britifh Government, and, therefore, is was now come to the point, whether we gtould have peace or wart To prelim pease. the Treaty of Amiens moll be fulfilled ; the abufe in the public Prints, if not totally fuppreted, at lull kept ',titbit; bounds, and confined to the PAO& Papers ; and the protation fo openly give* to'bis bins:well enemies (alluding to Georges and pertains of that defeription) mull be withdrawn. If war, it was neceifory only to fay fo, sad to refuftt to fulfil the Treaty. He now made the tow of Europe to prove to me, that io its pre fent Rate, there was no power with which we could coalefce for the purpofe of making war spina France; confeemently it was our interefl to gain I time, and if we had any point to gain, vetiew \ the war when circumtlances were more favourable. He Paid, it was not doing him juflice to fuppofe, that he conceived Mint - elf above the opinion of his country or of Europe. He would not rifle uniting Enropeagainft him by any violent at of aggreZcm ; neither was he fo powerful in France as to perfuade the nation to go to war unlefs on good grounds. He Paid, that he had not chailifed the Algerines, from his uowillinguefs to excite the jealoury of other powers, but lie hoped that England, Ruffs,' and France would one day feel that it was their interelt to defiroy fuch a ilea of tineves, and force Them a() live rather by cultivating their land than by plunder. In the little 14:4 to him, for he ptve me :9 the coin fe of two hours but very few opportunities of ftyinga word, I confined myfelf thkrly to tli tenor of your Lordlhip's inartglions. I urged them in the fame manner as I had done to M. us TaL• LETRAhP, and dwelt as Ilrongly as I could on the fenfation which the publication of SEBA%TIANI'S report had created in England, where the view. of France towards Egypt mull alway; command the utmoft vigilance ancdjealoufy. He maintained that what ought to convince us of his &lire of Peace, was on the one hand the little he had to gain by renewing the war, and on the other the facility with which he might have taken poffetlion of Egypt with the very (hips and troops which were now going from the Mediterranean to St. Domingo, and that with the approbation of all Europe, and more particularly of the Turks, who had repeatedly invited him to joili with them for the purpofe of forcing us to evacuate thvir terri tory. 4. I do not pretend to follow the arguments of the noisy Cowsut. in detail; this would be impof fible, from the vaR variety of matter, which he took occafion to introduce. His purpofe was evidently to convince me that on Malta met depend peace or war, and at the fame time to imprefs upon my mind a bong idea of the means he poffeffed of annoying us at home and abroad. " With regard to the miftruft and jealouly which he Paid conftantly prevailed fince the con demn of the Treaty of Amiens, I obferved that after a war of filch long duration, fo full of ran cour, and carried on in a manner of which hif tory has no example, it was but natural that a confiderable degree of agitation lhould prevail ; but this, like the fwell after a form, would gradu ally fubfide, if not kept up by the policy of either party; that I would not pretend to pro. nounce which had been the aggreffor in the paper 1 war of which he complained, and which was Rill kept up, though with this difference, that in England it was independent of Covet nment, and in France its very at and deed. To this I added, that it mull be admitted that we had ft,ch motives of mittruft againfl France as could not be alledged agairdi us, and I was piing to ;eland; the acceffion of territory and influence gained by France Dace the treaty, when he interrupted me by laying, I hip pole you mean Piedmont and Switzerland; " ce font des bagatelles :" and it mull have been fore leen whilf the negotiation was pending; ' , your n'a vet pas le droit d'en parler a cette heure." I then alledged as a caufe cf miltruft and ofjealoufy, the impollibility of obtaining junice or any kind of re drefs for any °lbis Majelly's fubjets. Hq eked me in what refpee : and I told him that fince the figning of the Treaty, not one Britifh Claimant had been fatisfied, although every Frenchman of that defeription had been fo within One Month after test period ;—and that fince I had been here, and I could fay as much of my prede• celfors, not one fatisfthory anfwer had been obtained to the innumerable reprefentations which we had been under the neceflity' of making, in , favour of Britith SubjeCts and property detained in the fever-el ports of Fiance and eltewhere, with out even a flaidow of jullice :—Ruch an order of things, I laid, was nut made to infpire cone dence ; but, on the contrary, mutt create mitkruft. This, he laid, mutt be attributed to the natural ditieulties attending fuch fuits, when both parties thought thernCelves right ; hut he denied that loch delays could proceed from any difinclination to do what was jolt and right. With regard to the pen• lions which were granted to French or Swift indi viduals, I obferred that they were given as a re ward for paft Cervices during the war, and moll certainly not for prefent ones, and fill left for fuch as bad been inenuated, of a nature repugnant t o the feelings of every individual in England, and to khe univerfally acknowledged loyalty and ho nour of the Britith Government, That as for ahy participation of indemnities, or other acceflions which His Majarrr might have obtained, I could take upon myfelf to aline bin) that His May Lars , ' s ambition led him rather to preferve than to ac. quire. And that with regard to the molt propiti ous moment for renewing hollilities, Ills Ma- Jerry, whole ()were &Gm it was to continue the Bleffings of Peace to his fuhje&s, would always confider fuch a meafure as the greatea calamity; but that if Has Maissir was fo defirous of Pwe, it met not be imputed to the difficulty of obtaining Allies; and the leis fo, ;. thole means which it might be neceffary to afford fuch Allies, for perhaps inadequate fervices, would all be concentrated in Eogland, and gire a pro portionate increafe of energy to ottr own exertions. " At this part of the converfation he role from his chair, and told me that he flioild give orders to General Atinalossi to enter on the di:cid:Goa of this buGnefs with your Liarellkip 4 but he wiCred that j (hould at the fame time be made acquainted with his motives, and convinced of his fineerity rather from hinsfelf than from his Minifers.— He then, afters converstion of two hours, during the greateß part of which he talked hied:randy, marrerfed for a few moments an indifferent fub ' jets, in apparcg snoci bumour, and TO: od, " Such was ready, as i can recollea, purport of this conference. " It mull howcvei be olferved that he .1:,1 not, is M. TALLEyRAND had done, all . , a to aoribute enklld SEHASTIANI's niifron to commer44,;.l f n7t.. urt Only, but as one rendered I , :ceffary in a mill , .try pnint of victs., by the infranion by us of he lre .lly of Amiens. I have the honour to he, bc.:. " We4IrrA'CIP.TH." TRAN , ;LATION OF AM EXTRACT reom A 7 . \Si FF STO Li LIVERED TO L.KI3 f:FsERAL, AtIbitLOSSI, DATI.II 291 H OF O.AEICH : " The Citibi &w it= r. ha% 111 , 1 caufe to be ecT.- vinecd that all has repreler.t&or, net ;tit tin fe. points were nickc,. and :hat hi; P..itannie M4jLily, iegardiefs of the n....igl.boutiag wa, re falved to .uthorife every thing ss nun Lis don:. ni=ne ; but he did not on th.it ac4ount ent..stain doubt of the coatinuance of peace, nor al.itni Europe with the notification Gf war. He coarine3 liirnfe:f to this pr inciple of eonduet, to pe7rnit or prevent in France with refpeEl to England v hat ever thould be permitted or prevented in itglaii‘i with regard to France. " He has, however, expreffcd, and again ex ; preffes his with, that means fhoulci he adopted to prevent in future any mention being made a what is pang in France, either in the official difcuf lions, or in the polemical writings in England, as in like manner in the French official difeuffions and polemical writings no mention whatever fi;o:;ld made of what is palling in England. f' Lord Hay/Kamer mentions an article in 4 newfpaper, containing a report of a French Colo. nel. In fetious diccuffions an anfwer on this point might be dilpenfed with i but 4 is neither a long nor difficult matter. 1 , A Colonel in the Englifts army has publifled a work in England, filled wi,h the molt atrocious and difgutling calumnies agAinft the Ft cnch army and its General. The Liss it contains hare beta contradifted by the reception which Colonel SE BASTIAN' experienced. The publicity of his report was at once a refutation and a reparation which the French army had a right to exp.:Zt. On hie arrival in Egypt, this officer, to his great Aonifb merit, found the Englifh army there, al:hough they fhould have evacuated it, and the Turks prodigi. oully alarmed at the •. - ontinuance of the Englith army, and at its relations with the native, in rebel lion and open revolt againtl the Sublime Porte. " He mutt have conceived that the treatieswinch conned us with the Porte, and by which we have guaranteed to it the integrity of its poffe Mons. cum pelleti us to unite ourtelves tsith that power. It was natural to think that England meant to de clare war from the inflant the refuted to esecute the articles of the treaty. For after all, France is not reduced to fuch a flare of debatement as to Pilfer treaties made with her to be executed or not At plesfure. u Hence the refearches made by this Officer, as to the forces which were in Egypt, and as to the pofition occupied by the Englifh Army.-- 7 -But F,gypt has finest been reftored to the dominion of its lawful . ,Sovereign, and the idea pf a rupture be ; tween the two natidns, pn account of the engage meat contracted with the forth no longer eaills,l jt was in confeguence of the OW t that the ex. portation of Saltpetre and other warlike Bores was prohibited by our Government on the rII of April ? And inereafed etertions ordered to be made in all iur arfenals. Did the upfiart imagine he was to iliac his mandates to the Goverernee,t of a free people,as he did to the Direihria/ 9ruerwinent, which preceded his own in France? Would he new model ours as he did theirs, and fuppre4, at be has done in FralVe, all freedom of difcurton, 44 4 the liberty of the prefk.--the palladium of our privileges l-. We hope the day will never errive, in whi h this crummy (ball be turfed with rulers who (hall be lieve that they dare even to Mien for a moment to loch propefals, or fo loft t. a fettle of its owg rights, as that it would fufer rpen to lire who could prove fuch traitors. We have received Paris journals to the r The Monism., !illicit, contrary to its ofnal prac tice, has maintained thence as obakrste:y as the London Gazette, has at lel preluded a fcw tires refpefling the fit uatinn of affair,: between the :v:o countries. The Wowing is the p. 114 7 . 1 01 The EcglilL Arnbafado: quitted Paris in th: night intween Tburfday and Friday. A Special Communicztion will he made Coil day trurday 1 to:he Senate, the Legillative Body, and the Tti. bunate. Tlu. communication will b: m tde in a Secret Committee, the Government not wilflitig to pubilira °l:pi int any thing before tLey formed of the arrival of the Am*l4(i - ador Of the Republic at Calais, or of the part which the firkin . ; Minittry Meg'. to tek-." From this it Appears ) that lye (hall not receive any French 14.1211140 100 fops days to come. LIR night their May rivers anti tie Pit ittcz4s tip honoured Coi.a:•ta's theatre with a viLt. where •hcir reception was fuch as mutt have b een ver y gratifying to their lechns(.—The litrgc was y - c osomonlv