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INT.SRCEPTED COARESPONDZhC.E. MT= PROM NAPOLEON TO THE QUEEN OF SICILY, 11/1411N THE OCCASION OF THE UNION HE HAD CON TRACTED WITH lIER MICE, THE ARCHDUCHESS MARIA LOUISA. [lt was enclosed in a letter from Madam Beuret, dated Paris, the 28th February, to her husband, the Colonel of the 17th Regi , went of light ikfantry, is the second division of the second corps of the French army in Spain, and was intertepted by the light Parties attached to the army of the left. The original is in the possession of his Excellency the Marquis of Romana, to whom it was delivered.] LETTER FROM MADAM BEURET TO' HER HUSBAND. 66 My dear and good friend—l have just received a pretty large packet, enclosing a letter for myself, one for M. Clerisif, another for the - Mayor of La Ri f , viere, and a fourth for M. De Barthiley. lam very glad that you have written to the last mentioned, as spy papa had just received a letter from him, com plaining of your silence, and expressing his fears that you would imitate your protector and forget him.— He is much -attached to you, and will write to you as soon as we have informed him of the- number of your corps and division. You say nothing concern ing your health ; but I conclude that you are com pletely recovered, from your frequenting the lodges of the freemasons. Mine is g ood, notwithstanding the cold we experience here. Papa and mamma are very well, and Eugene better than any of us. He is continually talking of you, and is the favourite of the family, and the object of our caresses. I shall give the best reception to Mrs. de Bureau, when she arrives. You need not be uneasy, for I will carefully attend to your orders. A number of new battalions are raising for the impertal guard; and all the young men prefer serving in a corps which usually remains in garrison, in Paris, to going to die in Spain. It is said, the Emperor sets off for that kingdom on the 20th inst. but there is nothing certain upon this sub ject. Gan grant that he may go ; for you might probably, in that case, be placed near his person, and obtain a handsome estate of 5000 pieces a year, with the title of Baron ! This would be tolerably well ; and I assure you that I should be not a little proud of hearing myself styled my Lady Baroness; but for the present I have renounced all hopes, and shall think myself very happy in seeing you once more.— The war with Spain is universally pronounced to be an endless contest ; for such is the ferocity of its in habitants, that they would sooner convert the whole of their country into a desert than receive the Empe ror's brother ! What barbarians those Spaniards are ! What a set of cannibals ! I hate them implacably, and particularly the friars. You are already apprised of the intended marriage of our Emperor with an Archduchess or Austria. Some think favourably of, this - inatch ; but the major part are of opinion that it will prove the ruin of /k!apoleon. It is said that Jo sephine all eady begins to Le an object of alarm to the Emperor ; and it is contidently rumoured that Russia is on the eve of breaking with us. When will our wars have an end ? Our Italian friend, who visits in the Duke of Bassano's family, has given me the en closed copy ot - a letter to be forwarded to you, which is certainly a very singular production. It is said, that the Queen of Sicily will not accept the proposals of the Emperor, and that a new and sanguinary war is about to commence. I leave you to think with what regret I hear such tidings. Adieu, my esteem ed friend. I embrace and love you with my whole beart. Your best and most faithful friend, 66 P. SECRET DE CELLERIER." 66 p. S. Mamma and papa, and the whole family, charge me with a thousand things to you. I have not yet received the letter for your pension as a.Member of the Legion of Honour." COPY OF A LETTER FROM HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OP THE FRENCH, KING OF ITALY, Ac. TO HER MA JESTY THE QUEEN OF SICILY. 66 MADAM and COUSIN—The events of the year • 1805 interrupted our friendship and harmony. A formidable coalition against France, artfully planned n the Cabinet of Mr. Pitt, and masked in an extraor; — dinary manner, had put in motion against my legions that were posted on the coasts of the ocean, the-Rus sian, German, and Prussian armies. In that critical situation, my duty was to...deliver France from the conflict, and to disperse the dreadful storm, or at least to diminish its effects. This lat length accom plished, by bringing Prussia, Wirtemberg, and Ba ',aria, to a sense of their own interests ; and by forming a treaty with King Ferdinand, your Ma jesty's spouse, in which he engaged not tcbreceive in his kingdom either Russian or English troops. In consequence hereof, my troops evacuated his states. War was declared ; and scarcely had my eagles en tered Vienna in-triumph, when I learned that the Court of Naples had violated the sacred faith of the Treaty, and was admitting an army into its very ) 6 ' I instantly knew that the seductive gold of Eng land, z . ,; purtunely employed by her agent, ActOn,had triumphed over the debility of King Ferdinand. The battle of Austerlitz secured to me the happy result of a war unjustly proveked ; AO France and her allies l ou dly demanded the destruction of the Dynasty of Naples, which its perjury had covered with disgrace. • Placed in this critical ,situation, and being a o.austi tutional Monarch, what resource had I kit I Your Kijt.sty, who hatltexperienced the arrogance of your Subjects, knows, and I ought to know, that we So vereigns-must frequently stifle our own inclinations, from a regard to the interests, and even the preju 'dices, of the people we govern Thus was the fate of ihe Mouse of N. pies decided ; and it was doomed to lose its kin*dom, without any possibility on my part to prevent it'! What pangs did this determination cost me./ How odious in my eyes were the sceptre and crown, when I LAind .myself compelled to a pro ceeding so adverse to my own sentiments ! Neverthe less' I did not lose sight of the interest s o f a m i s l e d and disgraced Dynasty ; and when it became possible for me to re-establish it in Italy, I thought of giving it an equivalent elsewhere, The proposi twits which I made from Erfutth to King George, leave uo doubt as to this fact. To the war of Ger ' many, notwithstanding the pacific overtures by Lord Lauderdale, and the announced swage of the Rots iian messenger Novozilt;off, immediately succeeded that of rrosia, whose Sovereign would not agree to the moderate proposals Which 1 glade him, litstigaL fed lind Winded by Russia, and the insinuations and promises pf Ergland, be, in a manner, presumed to . dictate the• law se me, when his situation was such es' . ,should have Father prepared him to receive it. A few days stitcpil to sunvince him of his error; and -not- Trignn#44ing his OsfondnFt i my rnoderatiou It him r ) r i t I ■llllmmiewm. in possession of half his States. The peace of Tilsit the lonian Islands; and several of the Archipelago, once more tranquillised Europe 3 and I should have will form the patrimony of your Majesty's linseiehich put an end to the calamities of war had I not been in that case may look upon itself as the England of convinced of the bad faith of the House of Spain, the Mediterranean. Let not your Majesty persist in which, though my Ally, merely hesitated to declare_ the wish to recover the States which your family for against me, in consequence of being confounded by sierly possessed in Italy. Imperious circumstances the victory of Jena. The scandalous quarrels be- have compelled me to make so many variations, that tween the father and son, the ambition and sordid it is now impossible to alter them, and the islands conduct of the Prince of the Peace, and the wish of above enumerated are a complete equivalent. I rendering happy, and divesting of its prejudices, a have explained my ideas to your Majesty at full nation of the first rank, made me turn my views upon length, and have spoken to you with that sincerity that kingdom. The Sp a niards were dissatisfied with which becomes one who is on the eve of being your the Government of King Charles ; and Prince Ferdi- nephew. From henceforth, all feelings of rancour, nand, held out to Europe as a traitor by his father, animosity, and passion should cease. I forget the in ' could not ascend a throne, which, since the time of juries I have received ; and your Majesty ought to Louis XI V. has belonged to France. On the other regard me as your relative and your ally. My cause hand, Portugal was an English province ; and the and my interests ought to be those of your Majesty, Parliament of that nation having resolved upon the as those that belong to you shall be mine. I shall system of perpetual war, it was necessary to exclude aggrandize the dominions of the House of Austria, their squadrons from the Continent, before they could restore her to her ancient splendour, make her mis have an opportunity of re-committing such an enor- tress of the Danube, give her ports on the Black Sea, mitt' as their attack upon Copenhagen. Impelled by and, in short, a Navy which shall command the whole this combination of motives, I sent ray troops into of that sea, and whose flag will be respected in the those kingdoms, and all the projected changes would I Archipelago. have been effected without the least disturbance, had " I will assist her in her quarrels with Russia ; and not the Spaniards been led astray by English mono- the Princes, the brothers of the Emperor Francis, poly, and the fanaticism of the monks. The confi- shallreignover countries which that Pcnverhas usurped dence and security which I entertained upon this sub- ever since the time of Peter the Great. In recom ject, and the ignorance of some of my Generals, oc- pence for all this, I require only the friendship, the casioned the petty losses I have suffered in that guar- good-will of your Majesty. Upon this depends the ter, and which the enemies of order have celebrated happiness of more than an hundred millions of souls ; in an extraordinary manner. But Europe soon saw ; and 1, who am interested in the welfare of so many what was to have been expected of the Spaniards, ; nations, pray and supplicate your Majesty to second and the Junta of Seville, wl!ose measures were totally ;my intentions. Let not prejudices, erroneous views subverted in the first instance by the battles of Tudela of interest, and above all, the seductive artifices of the and subsequently by that of Ocana. English, cause your Majesty to lose so favourable a - 6, The Crown of Arragon, which retained some at- conjuncture. tachment to the House of Austria, is the only one " Let your Majesty, availing yourself of your na that has opposed angular resistance ; and amidst; tural talent and perspicacity, avoid being surprised by the events that during the last two years have oc- ; those who hover about your spouse. May Europe not curred in Spain, those alone which merit any atten- see herself frustrated of this basis of felicity; in coi tion are the defences of Saragossa and Gerona, which sequence of which, the interests of all the Dynasties were owing more to the obstinacy and fanaticism of ; being conciliated, they may fall with their whole the monks, than to the valour and discipline of their weight upon the pirates. May the present generation, garrisons. In short, Spain is conquered, and the in front of whom PROVIDENCE has placed us, witness English have no longer any point of support in it the sacrifice which Monarchs shall be disposed to except Cadiz, and a handful of insurgents, headed make of their passions. This I expect of your Ma by the traitor Romana. The forces they have in jesty, and so 1 entreat that he may take you into his Portugal merely wait until my troops are in motion, holy and worthy keeping, &c. when they will immediately embark ; and lam con- COPY OF AN INTERCEPTED LETTER, ADDRESSED TO vinced that the Portuguese army will experience a MONSIEUR CARRE, MAYOR OF FAUQUEROLLES AT disastrous fate. How characteristic is it of commer- i TONNEINS, DEPARTMENT OF THE UPPER GARONNE. cial nations to sacrifice their allies I The hearts of , " Seville. April 8, Ism. the English Are metallified, and they act only from I ce I was extremely uneasy, my dear father, at hay. the impulse of gain. With them there is neither ho. ing received no news from you. I Mew not to wli it nour nor faith, nor do they hold any obligation sa- ; I should attribute your long silence. Notwithstand ascrecl. They have sacrificed your Majesty's house,' ing the many letters I wrote t.) you. I received no Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Austria, Prussia, and answer, though I continually expected one. Since I latterly Portugal and Spain. But, at this moment, t left Damiel, I wrote you three lette rs ; two from Se. they have no friends on the Continent ; they have lost ville, and one from Head-quarters at Los Santos. all their relations with it. I make this represents- This will be the fourth. tion to your Majesty to impress you with the truth "It is not surprising that ye.ii should not have re of my expressions, and the absolute necessity under , ceived my letters, or I yours tOr between the Ist of which I find myself of sacrificing some Dynasties.-- I January and this Clay, we h the had five colirers mur- But a new order of things is about to succeed, ,and dared. It is only within these seven or eight days that every thins will be remedied. France, though iwe have received any news from France ; and hetore friendly to innovation, entertains, nevertheless, great ! we could hear nothing. Spain is a country of bzaditti, attachment and deference for established usages and on account of its mountains. This race always exists, customs. . whether in peace or war, and never will be extirpated. " The same people who destroyed the throne did A Lieutenant-Cdonel of the Imperial Guard, who not cease until they re-established it with greater was lately coming from France, and who- was ap pomp and splendour than it had before ; and I have pointed Colonel of the 22d Regiment of Dragoons, found myself under the necessity of creating a Nobi. was lately murdered, with a detachment, consisting of lity, to which, however, I have given a more conve- an officer and 60 men of the regiment, within six nient form than that of the ancient order. In like leagues of Seville. This Colonel did not long enjoy manner, Monarchical France claims and insists upon his new rank ; he neither s.e.v nor reached his rev , her rights to those Crowns which she formerly pos- ment, having been cut off iiith 7 n two leagues of a sessed, and your Majesty will instantly perceive that village, in which a squade net it vieis posted. Such events may occasion a change of dynasty in France, are the rewards one obtain.: in Spain. After much but not any variation or alteration in her rights or suffering and fatigue, life is dissolved by tortures the relations. From this motive, I have resolved to place most cruel. They, that is the armed pe ietiery, have the Crowns of Spain and Italy on the heads of bro. committed the most harbatou. horrors ; they cut off ; thers and relations, who, besides being Princes of his ears, his genitals, ant placed them in his mouth. my house, conceive that they have contributed to my' All the men were treated with equal brutality. The eletation to the Throne. Your Majesty, who are only persons who escaped were the berjeant ..ad the aware that every thing is linked together by immu- Corporal. This L:oionel had in his possession, accor table laws, will perceive the necessity that has coin. ding to the repot tof one of his servants, who escaped pelled me to adopt this rule, on his master's horse, 1000 Louis d'or, besides two " As to what concerns the • alterations in the watchei. North, I assure your Majesty that I have no particu- " Although I ant but young, Ido not expect to see ilar interest in them. I have merely permitted them peace es - 61:shed in Spain. The country will never 1 with the view of diminishing the power and influence be tranq dl ; there will always be hordes of banditti. of Russia, which, regarding the other States of Eu.l They destroy its by little and little. Every day we rope as continually divided, and always having dif.! lose men in or other places, either by mug ; ferent interests, like the republics of Greece in ancient ketry, or the daggers of the peasantry. In Seville a ' times, may one day become what Macedonia was in . peasant will scarcely hesitate to, kill in open day a I respect to them ; and the present Alexander, perhaps soldier whom lie meets alone in the street. They subjugate more nations than he who penetrated as I carry their cruelties to excess ; I have proofs of ft.— i far as India. The prejudices of the House of Aus. , Were it not for a patrole, which was passing through tria, which has impolitically exerted itself to sustain I a street, where I was attacked by two peasants, I the rights of that of Bourhdn, have hitherto made i should have been murdered. We are in garrison at me act in opposition to my intentions ;so that I have Seville, and have our quarters in the convents. After been obliged to temporize with the Czar of the Rus- t six o'clock in the evening we never stir out, because sians, whose interests are different from mine, a n d j if the soldiers had their liberty at night they would whose inclinations follow the impulse given them by !be all cut off. If the peasantry are daring enough to she intrigues and parties in his Court. The late war I kill in open day, they would have stronger motiv es with Austria has enlightened the Emperor Francis for murdering at night. The day before yesterday a with regard to his interests ; and I, who am atiached curate was shot who bribed some French soldiers, and to the old system of France, have proposed and ob- even officers, to serve under Marquis de la Romana. tained an alliance with one of his daughters. It is The clergy, it is said, are the chief sources of all this with the highest satisfaction that I announce to your mischief. We gall all merit our passports to Heaven Majesty this stroke of my policy, which, at the same tin this country. There are many who have already time that it will confer happiness on the greater part deserved them, if suffering hives any claim to them. of Europe, will open a way for me to obtain the re. All the soldiers must go thither straight, for they gard and esteem of your Majesty. I am anxious that I have suffered dreadfully in Spain, whether hem fa ebis marriage should be represented by your Majesty t tigue or abstinence. They perform penitence some to Europe to be what it truly is, just, equal, and pro- i s times, but it is by compulsion. They have been Often pa. I, who am faithful to my promises and power-1 three days without bread, which in all cons c ien c e is ul to accomplish them, will gratefully repay yo ur I fasting enough. All that I wish for is to die in the Majesty for the interest which you will thus take in field of battle, and instantly, rather than fall into the the tranquillity of so many nations. The dynasties hands of these murderers, who prick us with their of Bourbon will all of them he indemnified for their ! knives, and, before they kill us, subject us to the most losses. The Princes of the House of Spain will re. , cruel tortures. This I can speak from ocular demon ceive their indemnification in countries which have stration. They murdered a soldier of the 88th regi no contact with France, and where their - relations ment at Seville; he had more than thirty knife wounds cannot be adverse to my dynasty. A.a to your Ma. from the head to the belly. The soldier being over ' jesty's house, L will make every possible exertion in taken in liquor, they all tell o n hi m i n o pen day, and its favour, Master of Spain and Patugai, it will stabbed him with their large knives in the manner I not be difficult for me to take Gibraltar, and I shall have described. then exclude the English from the Mediterranean. I " Seville is a large city ; its environs are very plea- They will lose Malta ; and in the coasts or Africa • sant. Fountains, walks, DM g ni4cent gardens, orange:, , and Egypt I shall find colonies superior to those I trees, loaded witlrfruit, every thing weirs a smiling i have lest, •. France, from its situation, need s po i s l an d s , as p ect t h ere h ut t h e inhabitants. • These are cringine a , apd.if your Majesty considers it topographi ca lly,. you hypocritical, viewing us as k an ce w ith one e y e , an d will ghaerve that in reality none belong to tier. •In threatening us with the other. There is no winter this point of view, Sicily ; s4rtlinia. CorOce i befe r bbt a perpetual wring. 4Y as warn hcrc the month of January as it is in Nance in of June.. Swallows are common in February is very deal; three pounds for seven-pence t , A bottle of wine costs tea-pence; other • a proportionate price. At this moment the troops are bad receive nothing from France, no clothin7, no shirts. The soldier is obliged to clothe sist himself. Since I have been at Seville! out two pair of shoes. But if shoes were tributed I should not be obliged to purch When I have no money, I am obliged to wash linen ; you may judge from this how well If one is net careful to change his linen k eaten up by vermin. Many of the soldiers of this malady. Many die of grief at their condition. Money does a great deal here. officers. When the Colonel of a regiment 'commissioned officer more cleanly in his than the rest, he becomes attentive to him, ions thus with himself : g Here is a seijeant 'leant -major who is well-clothed, of a handsome , and whose friends are apparently in easy circum ces.' Such a man is sure of being appointed an officer, and five or silt of my comrades have obtained coal, miadons in this way not long since. I have succeeded one of them as serjeant-major, which I have nowt eett 'two months. I conclude with embracing you and all the family, and am, for ever. " Your faithful and devoted Son, le Cam." The following is ray address : Carre, Serjeant. Major of the Ist company of the 3d battalion of th e 80th regiment of the line, at Seville ; s t h corps, Ist division. P. S. Wks Ant Ire attend Seville there were SOO pieces of canons on des walk end it oostalne setae s totiodery as an be moo. Mosey, toe width odiSowastsislots are given, is very siovi in oossiog. Three seosato trogoesdy 'lapse bet.revn the receipt at the acknowledge...et sod the receipt of the stoney. (A tree copy.) C6IIIIIIM. PIRLIAMEN7WR I" PROCEEDINGS, HOUU OF LORDS, JUNE It The order fnr * Committal of Pi lidera oa the Berlin** Peerage was discharged, on the motif a A the Loao COUNCIL. Loa who said he would mention the subject tomorrow. itte Registrar of the Admitaky Regulation Bill passed thrci, a Committee and was reported. _ The Surcharges Bill, the Irish Arms Bill, and the Vote of Cre. dit Bill were read a third time and posed. On she third reading of the Appropriation Bill, the Earl al I.AUDLA DAME and Lord HOLLAND moved amendments, the fur• mer with reference to the Caledonian Canal, and 'be latter es, sprain* the sum voted for the Chirgy,which were negatives-41,mA the Bill passed. On the motion of the Earl of LAUDZIMA LI an order warned. directing the fulfilment of the former order for copies of the Act, of Sedernat, of the Court of Session in Scoi land. FLACKS OF WORSHIP. Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH observed upon the great and increasing evil which arose from the want of a sufficient number of Places of Worship of the Established Church, and the want of means of ac commodation for communicants of that Church in p pulous parishes, in consequence of which many persons of the establishment were induced to attend D.ssenting Meeting Houses, rather than not attend any place of worship. The increase of Meeting Hon e; beyond that of places of worship of the Established Church, might be attributed to several causes. The former were erected for a less sum, and in addition, difficulties frequently occurred respecting the latter, relative to the r;zl. of presentation. A facility also Arose in the form r case, from the Dissenting Mini, sters having other occupations, and therefore being satisfied with less for their services at the Meeting Houses than could support a Clergyman of the Es tablished Church. It was therefore a subject descry ing of serious consideration, and in order that the House might have information before them relative to it in the next session, his Lordship moved an Ad dress to his Majesty, praying, that the Archbishops And Bishops might be directed to prepare ;n their re, cpective dioceses, to be laid before the House, a state ment of the number of places of worship of the Estab lished Church in parishes having a population of one thousand and (inwards, with the number of persons such places of orship are capable tit' containing; and also the number of Dissenting Meeting-houses in such parishes. Lord HOLLAND had no objection to the motion. but remarked upon the statement of his Ni,ale Friend relative to the superior cheapness of Dissenting Mi nisters, observing that the luxury of the Established Church had been found too dear for the inhabitants of Jamaica, who would not pay the amour considered necessary for its support in that island, with the view of giving religious instruction to the negroes. Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH observed, that there could not be considered any great luxury in the Esta blished Church, when it appeared that out of 10,000 livings upwards of 4000 were under £1.50 per annum. The motion was agreed to. APPICALS. The LORD CHANCELLOR, with the view tbit the subject should 1 e • t4kzn into consid-ration in the next Session, moved that the House cio in the nett Session take into comsidtration the state of the Ap peals and Writi of Erior before the House, and the best means to be adop.cd to put them in a more el• fectual course of decision, which, after a few words from the Earl of Laud.rd de, was agreed to. LAST INDIA COMPANY. The Earl of LIVER POOL moved the third read• ing of the East India Company's Loan Bill, observing that the special gro tnds on which this application ma now made to Parliament, were, that • a considerable debt had been incurred in consequerc! of the wars 12 India, in which this country was materially interested, and in consequence of the creditors having an option of drawing Bills on the Company i of up n Englan, &lb had been drawn to the amount and of 84,000,000; and in addition to this, the loss sustained by the Company from the late calamities which had happened to their shipping, amounted to nearly a million. The Earl of LAUDERDALE entered into a de. tailed statement, for the purpose of :hewing the =- prosperous state of the affairs of the C.ompanY, the little prospect there was of this money being ie. paid. The Act of 1793 reiuired, t the debt of the Company in India should be reduced to 4,000,0 00 ; the Bond debt in England to 15u0,000; that 5'500,0 00 per annum should be paid to the public; and that a SUM should accumulate to malts up the *wont of 419,000,000 as a security for the holders of the Ca• Pita/ Stock. Instead %)f this, the debt in India 11,1 accumulateo to ie32,000,000 4 the Boud debt in land to 0 ; 000 8 000 4 the £5OO B OOO u n paid to cl.e pub. in the mon:h 'nary. Brea) cc halfpenor. articles I, tie I city off; r e 1 no s h neat the and sub. e I have wor e ere to b e 4. urchase a nt , wash my owo ell off we are. !rt often, he it iers have ( L ed ' heir wretche u , 1 ere. It create s nu sees a non. its appearanc e him, and rea. jeant, o r a ca . 1 adsome figur e , iy circumstari.