Star. — London, England, 1803-05-19 00:00:00

~i I irtntrymen by filling their pages with odious refee lions on the molt relpedable perfons, and on, the dearell intlitutions of Great Britain, " The want of pofitive laws agrainfi there forts of offences cannot palliate the violation of the law of nations, according to which peace fhould put k hop to all Ipecies of hoililitics ; and doubtlefs thole which wound the honour and reputation of a government, - and which tend to cattle a revolt of the people, whole intereits are confided to that government, are the molt apt to lelren the advantages of peace, and to keep op national refernments. V 4. I have the honor to he, Ste. (Signed) ovro. To his Excellency Lord Havekdbury, Minder and Secretory of State ior the Forugn 1.h.-partment No. It. " Downing-.'ml, July a, tgoi. " Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter on the fubjed of the tall number of Pettier. It is iinpoffible that his Islajefly's g?vern f went could pertife the article in queltion tirthout thegreatelt ditpleafure, and without an anxious deli re that the perfon who publiffied it Humid foffer the punifhment he fo jufily defcrvcs, The calumnies, I however, to which his Majeay's government, and' many of the belt fubjelts in this country, are fre- I quently expofed in the public prints, mull necefrarily . 1 ~,,' convince all foreign governments of the difficulties , which exift in a conititution like that of Great Bri- I i.. . tain, in preventing the abnfe which is often unavoi dably attendant op the greateft of all political bene fits; and though publications of this nature are, as' they eeftainly ought to be, by the law of England; fubjeCt to punil h ment, it is often difficult to prove the ilt of an individual fo fatisfadorily as to obtain the judgment of a court of juflice ; and the incon- • sentence which arifes from profeention. unlefs there is a rcaronable profped of fuccefs, is frequently fur , ficient to deter both thegovernment and individuals from undertaking it. In the prefent cafe I have thought it my duty to refer the article in queftion to his Majefty's Attorney General, for his opinion, 'whether it is or is not a libel, according to thecon arudion of the law of England, and whether it is .! fuch a libel as he would, under all the circumrtances, recommend for profecution ? As loon as I receive 1 his report, I ffiain have the tremor of communicating • it to you, I have the honor to be, as. atle..! ( ne : a gt o :l a No. 1 3... , ) " ); 11 •T A E W . [if SUR T. a M. otto, Ate." The tnder fi gned. Knitter Plenipotentiary of the French Republic having fubmitted to his Government I the letter which . his Excellency Lord Hawkelbury, Mi sifter and Prinncipal Secretary of State dr his Britannic Majefty, did him the honair of !thing under date of the 27th July, is direded to offer the following oblii. vations: ' " If the Britifh Government tolerates cenfures Vied the ads of its Atiminifhation, and the ?Mead iheliof the molt rerpettable men, it does not Alike . alto Ai flighteff lttempt egainft the public trinlity. 'the fundamental laws of the empire, slid die kreine in' thorny which arifes from them. Every nation.i&liiteni over, at liberty to flail= any advantage wisatVila IA Its interior, in bider to obtain antitheft to whictrie'ilt tidies a higher viihse t bur the Goverenseat which nigh hot reprefs the licebniournefs of the pet* *tie it met be injurious to the hennur or the iiiterlfte orreniiiit i powers, *add afford an opportunity' for Jfibellifts t tis-, danger the petite trenquillny, Or at lea* the. utr, 4 deraanding Nat forms the 6a fi s'erif; kid ' irk+ Inch ferieus injuries are continued% .'reinter e p i o d o t ionic manner, doubts 'nue arife as to its 6"' dig V • " The particular, laws and conftittaiii of cleat Diri..i laid are feberchnate to the general Owls of of nations, whiebruperfede the laws'bf dr I State: ,If it be the right of England to illtit - fye a. 1 neatenfiie fiber', t 1 the prefs, it is a putilit a l , tit ov . V:l lilted nations, and the bent:Ads day of ' ernittilift lo" pverertu• rept,* end' 'Soria, ratty intitit INK taught by ithore means be made igeinti 411 . .6110, i :the; titerelts ' and the hernourbf foreign povitfff. • - . •-. I .• " Thisspornal niarlinof the law creations bee Ce lts beef wdMhtlarithout paving the way for the vend( itlftifiotis, and sal atm' furnifhed in England a platifible ;pretext to tholithi beet *writtbn returnee to"Pretie the %Walt, of tlieinitt ter,egainft Prenie. Are there limb ltow defirotis eifrfinting to the f portlier Government • Weapon Whitt- they Rave wiellid with fo much ad• • *Os f and 661114 levet theinfelia that the autho- Vity which bee Gilled the peace bet obt power to main %W it 1 . 1 . • I 1.• 66 'By the Sdi Atticlr of live Tiesty of Amiens. the two. ;mums agree to afford no prim/lion, either diceltly. -fir Indio ally, t 6 there Who thoilhi 'Mule prejudice covey -Of thefts. *" Sit the greeteff of all injutitirdonbtlers is, that -which teods to debars a Fointe tdiedsment, or to Victitt 'titbits its territory civil and religious commti-- Moos ; sod the moll decider:l'o-211 proteltions, is eke which paces under the Infiguatil of the laws, men Wide reek not only to difiurb the politial tranquility O'ER.' rope, but even to diffolve the Taft hoods of fociety.' The saderligned Mielfter Mell'rnoredin °biers.; that this is not a queltion fel - pitting (aim panwaphs,; which, through the leaden-tenet of au Vito, might have been accidental!, ieferted in a public print; but it is+quellion of adeep and continued fyltem of defamation. (heeded sot only spina the. Chief of the French Re public. but againft all the minilittited authorities of the Republic, agrinft the whole nation, reprefented by there libellers in Vie molt odious and degrading terms. Ii has eves ban remarked that malty of there prints con tain an appeal to the French People, again!! the Go vernment and fundamental Laws of their country. " If there obraeations apply t o t he E og bo t %T h ee% who, rut there three months pall, have ei•luged the public with the moll peifidious and unbecoming publicia ions, they ate n. 3 more applicable to a clefs of foreign calumniators, who apFear to avail themfelves of the afylum offered them in England only for the purport of the better gratifying their batted ,gainft Fiance, and underminieg the Mesdames of peace. • " It is not merely by isfelting and reditious writings, evidently publiased with a view to circulation in France, -but by other incendiary papers &Rotuma through the maritime departments, in /oder to excite the evil difpored lea weak inhabitants to feria the execution of the concur 'her, that there implacable enemies of Pearce continue 'et) exercire hotlilinn, and to provoke,tbe juff indignatios *of the French Government a nd people. alas a doubt rexills of tlwie wittier having been CoMpored and cir culared by Georges, Mid by the Jointer billt,•4, of ranee. Trick men can no longer he emliiered but as . rebels aglina both'Political and religious authority ; a nt alter • tint scitotated attempts to daturb - thegriod enderfliod.. ing beftteth thofwio GOternmests, their refidelfet , il England militos *illy twain the (pink and letter* the trey* of• men." - • • " The lieetistri tikeivile which have taken Aide 40 the Mind bf jerky, and the odious plots w hi m there imfpito•of the rep:afentations which the underfigned &hinder has akeady taken care to make Ott this fubjed, alfo demand immedistritirsfurrs to be • , a ken by a Government, the oe:ghboas and fritottsnl . France. " Other perfons (attacked, by recolleftions - hewer to be effaced; and by regrets too Jong faltered. to hit order of thinge:which no. logger molts in France) find them.- Idea daily implicated by the plots of thole who pretend to leave them. A. fettle of their own reputation will without doubt lead them to avoid a focus of intrigues, with which . they Ought sot to have the lead conoeftton. " Peace" happily teeltablilhed, the mutual defire of the two Governments to render it folid and lofting, and the general interefls of humanity, require that all thefe caefes of chfratistaftion Ihould be done away, 2nd that His Majetty's Miniltry Ihould, by frank and energetic meafines, mantled their difapprobation of all the attempts made to produce new divilions. " The underfigned hat in confequence• received efpeeial orders to fohcit t That His Mijelly's Government will adopt the mod effeBual meafures to put a flop•to the unbecoming and feditious publications with which the newfpapers and ether writings printed in England arc filled. ad. That the individuals mentioned in the underfigned Minder's letter of the 23d July fail, (hall be fent out of the Handel Jerky. 3d. That the former Billops of Arras and St. Pol de Leon, sad all thole, who like them, under the pre text of religioo,' leek in toile dit!urbances in the loterior of France, Ihali likewife be fent away. 4th. That Ge&r.cy. and his adherents (hall be tranf potted fo Canada, accordirg to the intention which the underfigned has been direited to tranfinit to his Govern ment at the requelt of Lord Hatorkefbuty. sth. That; in order to ckprtve the evil•difpofed of every pretext for diflurbog the good underlianditig between the two Governments, it shall be recommended to the Pi laces of the Houle of Bourbon at prefent m 1 'Teat Britain, to repair to Wallow, the re6dence of the head of their Fami.y. 6th. That loch of the French Emigrants as (11:1 think proper to wear the orders and decorations belonging to the ancient Government of France, dull be required to rink the territory of the Britilh Empire. " Thefe demasde are founded upon the Treaty of Amiens, and upon the verbal affurances that the under. figoed fdieifier-has had the fatisfaaion to receive in the couch' of the segociatioos, With regard to a mutual agree meat for maintarnang tismeillity and good order in the two COunfeies. If say one an particular of their demands does not proceed foinottediately from the treaty cone/tid ed, it would be la* to jullify it by (trails% examples, and t 6 preltre heiresty must've the Britifh Government has bees id didit of Wield feamentation. AO- repave from die iftwitay of sWeighlrigniirg Omni .thofe. who might eadhottersiteribfitizanqsaity, : . • . . rr Whaterermlay bombe pieteation which the Englids Immoffeed so entire writers Indio other fidijelis of his Majefly,altecFrenciGoretenneht knows that foreigners s section enjoy the fame proteitidn s end that the law *lntormi by elite 'lnky/ the 45en AR, gives the Mioittry Majody.aototatherity. Whichtithila often iimereffed figded. Enrolment Whofi thfidoece•wes _pre* tfiaiel tio tbiliataili of Great Britain.. The firth slat& of thin aspeeidip that soy radix in cesdl %thigh netpliresitdonlimeeto quit the kiagdom (hall • he exceetid soder peion'ilfitopuifonment and tranfportatiorr liters eitilisitherefelmtinthe Waffle" a.legaland eteatpowelfsrulha'intbreignira,with*ut baring wigwag to:therreparef WV.haiwi end the aFrenelt Gorermitosit ertich•offeastOnhicpswit a perfeaseciptelcity, thinks it 40 Fin.' sew Orodf of its pacific idtestioss, by demanding ehet.thefe pudic* may .be fent limy. whore machismo. Omit uniformly tend tolow difcord betwourthe trio peo a . tde.• • k owes toaifelf And *he. iissitin'in large, (which ltfamadeittitsdepelitoly of its power aod.fit,beneusr) doette 4*watt' iefenfible to intuits and le Itiots tiering yinfaand Filmy which the irritating *Copes wag could ' notiaftifp, mid .it is too seed acquaihted with the awn. eilistory difmrfitions of the Belida Mosidry, sot sorely sport its efforts to difperfe a faitioo .equally, the enemy Of Fratice and England. " The undefined Milliner Gems thif .oppottunity m prefent to his Excellency Lord i-laokeibiny, the tormage tif his terpeatnlaostfideratioi. (Sigeed) orro.. imades, ;tat Await dos. • 1",.!.. 3lsc ty Downlardrett,Angoltsll.. stos. • .f! Sir—.l fedi .10u the copy of .a letter which I received fame days age from M.. Otto, 'together with st copy of . sunalficial bete iselofed lmsfo in formed M. Otto, that you would receive infb uthons to'enter iota explanations with the French Govern ment on the feveral points t which it refers. It is impollible not to feel conftdersble furprixe m the cireumlianees under which it has been thought pro. per to preftewilech a note; at the Rile in which it is dt%wn up, and at th`e. complaints contained in it.— Whatever t lay be the general difpofitions of the ofrench Government tower* this country, fuppofing t h e m to.be as hoftile as they have been at any fon fliteriteriod, or even me/rafts, it *odd appear fo ton l'erary to their intereft to provoke n war with as sit the prefent moment, that I•am inclined to aferibe ;their conduit, in the whole df this bufnefs, more to remitter, than to any other motive ;--bnt whether l i their co ndo& is to lie refareff toteMper Or to policy, the effeas of it may RiR be the font it it therefore ' become 'Of the unroll importance 'that it frank ex planation Mould be made of the lit* of -condult which Ms Tilajeft7 his determined to adopt an 'ren t • - ftmx ojilte nadire. of thole to which this note refers, lira! of the anstiiei on-Which it is founded ; littd•it tole hoped tit . ftlEfi dtt explanatian'srftlltatre the ! effelt ct ptittinig an end to a courfe of 'proceeding which can lead Melt 46 a perpetual ireitatiod be tween the two Geliterternents, and which inightiti. timately tend to the Eno& ferions contiquences. e• The firß confederation that naturally arifes on this trartfaltion, Is that ofthepeenliarcirtninflatices !under which thenine of M. Otto has been rifest. ' ed. It cannot be denied that Come very improper parwaphs have lately appeared in Come of the • Eiglftb nevtfpitiets spinet the Government of fiatsee ;it canna - be &tied liltewire, that publica ttions oft •ftill'lttott•lntremPer and indecent nature bate made their appearance in this country. with the names of forergners piffled to them. Under Vick circualttnees `the "Fresicia Govcruscat would lure bee* warranted in expetting - evett roieff that, ;the lairs of this country could afford them;—but asi indead of feeking it in AV wiliivitycdtlife, they have ,ibnught fit to refort to wenimitintiOo thetufelvell, or 'oelealtiko authorize it in riher; they , could have no tightio complain if thel'ilitbfltetutne'appodoto I Majt s ny had failed to produce the circa that ether ▪ wife-wonld have attended-it • vs - Whotevev may have been the nature of the l'pri6r injury, they have in fa& taken the law intatlizir own hands : And what is this recrimination and re tort ? The paagraphs..iia. the Eitgligneratfeepers;• the publications to which . I have abuiae• referred, have not appearechinder any authority of the Bri tifh Government, and are difavowed and dilapprov ed of by them ; but the paragraph in the Moniteur has appeared in a paper avowedly official, for which the Government are therefore confidered as refponfi ble, as his Majefty's Government is refponfible for the contents of the London 'Gazette. And this re• tort is not confined to the unauthorized Englifb newlpapers, or to the other publications of which complaint is now made, 'but is converted into, and made a pretence for a dire& attack upon the Govern nientof his Majefty. His Majefly feels it beneath his dignity to make any formal complaint on this occafion ; but it has been imptiffible for me to pro ceed to the other parts of the fubjeZt, without point ing your attention to the conduit of the French Go vernment in this refpeel, that you may obferve upon it in the manner it defervcs. ____. ____ N The propofiticnes ut M. Otto's offieisd Note, m fix in number ; but may in fa& be divided under two heads : the Firft, that which relates to the libels of all defcriptions, which are &fledged to be publifhed againft the French government: the laft,eomprehend ing the-five complaints which relate to the emigrants refident in this country. On the firft, I am Cure you mull be aware thathis Majeft y cannot, and never will, in confequence of any reprefentation or any menace 1 from a foreign Power, make any conceifion, which can be in the fmallcft degree dangerous to the li betty of the prefs, as fecured by the Conftitution of this country. This liberty is , justly dear to every Britifh Subjelt. The Conflitution admits of no pre vious reftraints upon publications of any defcription; bat there exift judicatures wholly independent of the ,Executive Government,capableof taking cognizance of fuch publications as the law deems to be criminal, and which are bound to infli4t thepunifliment the de. hutment* may deferve ; theft Judicatures May take cognizance not only of libels againft the Government and the Magiftracy of this kingdom, bet, as has been repeatedly experienced, of publications defa matory of thole in Whole hands the adtniniftratibn of foreign governments is placed. That our go• verament neither has nor.wants any other proteetion than what the laws of the country afford ; and tho' they are willing and ready to give to every foreign government all the.pro!zaion againft offences of this nature which the principle of.their Latin 'ma Con ftitution will admit, they never can cortfent to sew-, Model . their Livia- or to change their C.Unftitntlon, to gratify the willies tinny foreigt Power.' If the mefent French Government are atithedwith our laws on the febjea of libels, or entertain the opinion that the adasiniftration of juftice in mit Count is sow tardy and lenient, they have it in their power to retired. thensfel yes by ponithing the venders and dif. tributors of filch publications witbhs *armee tee. ritories, in * manner that they may think-prettier, and thereby preventing the cireuhttion of the& If they think their preterit' laws are not :fitSciertt lbt this purpofe they mat mad newltnis ; or, if they think it expedient, they may exert% the right whit+ they have of prohibiting the impismatioa of ands' reign. vietafpapett, et • periodical publications, /into the,tehiterieaof the French Republic. Nis Maje*y will not complain offirchn ululate, as it is not his intention to interfem he the- manner in which the people or terriukCesiefusitbaien.fliould be governed v but he expeas on the other hand v dtatilis french Government Will neeiriterfire in. the manner in , 44i I *.tht geteentatr of h . ii dornitaimietondtilled, I or tall for a •tkallic•to - t/iofh lavis With*Akhiqti' yieOple- are perfialy 4itts 'reels • -, ° With relpett - :48: e i s .diffatifien whieh.appewre•to he •dririen in M.' Ot Note; beivrecklbeimblicatinprof Britifhtnbje_lo Intl' thole of foreigners, attd4hepower which hisMajelly is fuppofed inhume in ;cottfbantrievof the. Arreh At% of fending kintigtitei ottt4of his dominiont.. it It' important fo obferve that the pro/Arms di liteitAti •were made for the purpok of preventing the red dence of Foreigners, ethtifk numbers and - principles had "a tendency to*Afturb the internal peaccorhis own domininees ttaft3W whom the fafety of: thole dominions Might RlVliei in plant inftancas to be removed. even if their faiial condigl had not ex pofed them to punifhtbent by law. ' It does not Rd.', low that it waft be a warrantable • application of ' loch a levelle r ? its powers'in the eaft of iadivi• duals fuels as pf whotki hint la r et : ci r: ured ade. and ? particular", ter'}! letfet U 4 able ander the law Otte letid.'in like Marinkt. as others. ha* been in limiter cafes, at the inftance, and otpit the Complaint of &reign Governments. • .. ' 4 , The fecond general bead, which includes the Ste heft complaints, rdsiee to to removal of foinal of the.Frencb Emigrants refident in this country.— flis Majefty ditertained.hopcs that the explanation furniftterf on this head in my Difpatch No. t{, would I have proved fatisfaelory, and would have precluded 'tlie neceffity of any farther:. dlrcutlion on this fub -1 jea. The French Government have. upon (rectal L ocutions, reforted on this part of the kW's" to 1 Lprecedent; and have particularly relied on the de- 1 Parotid formerly made by this country, that the per 'forithen. culled the Pretender, ()would be fent from the French dominions. Ti is important, that the differences between thefts two cafes amid be (laced. When James the Second abdicated the throne, and left this country, The retired with his adher e nts to France i and though in the war which I immediately fucceeded that event. the French Go. vernment adopted his canfe as their own no nipu. Latium was made at the Treaty of Ryfwicle that he 'Mould be fent front the country, nor was any fobfe .quent demand ever made to the French .Go4ern- Meat to this drat ; but he Was (offered to remain -at St - Germain, in the neighbourhood of Paris, for rounded by his familyand friends, till the time of his death.- It was not till after his demife. when I.ouis the . Fourteenth, in dire& violation of -the Treaty of Ryfwick. had acknowledged his fed as Ling of Oreat Britain, that a different courfc of proceeci;ftg was adopted by ti* nritith Government; -and in the Treaty of Peace tigned at Utrecht, which .put an end to the war which had been carried nn, on account of the Spanifft fncceffion, an article was intent,' to prevent the Pretender from refiding arty part of the Preach &Minions. The demand which was fubfequently made for the removal of the Pretender from a . - werertrlttch tau Mated" in tiic centre of thefe dominion:, w.ts feltntied on this or . tick of the Treaty, which was in I.ta one of. thz conditions of the Peace ; but both the article it; the 'Treaty and the dernentivere confined to the Pre tender perfonally, and were rine ektemied tit ai. y his family, or to any of his adherents. After hit r moral, many of hie adherents contioded to refide io France; many perfons refedent in this country, trim were attached to the caufref-the Pretender, and had promoted the rebellion in hie favour, and who were confequently =tainted for High Tre-afon, refuge in France, and were permitted to remaitiiherC till their death, without any application ever having been made by'the Bririth Government for their r:. moval. The Puke of Perwick, the natural lion of fames the Second, who from his principle and talents . . was the moft dangerous mart to the intercth of Country and the Protellant fuccefflon, continued to be a General 'ht the French Armies, and thougb ehfceaded from the King , an Engliftman and an 'Emigrant, it was not required that he &odd be fent out of France. In the prefent cafe there is tin ar tick in the treaty of Peace, by whi ch his Majefty bound to fend from this Country any Frenchman wliatevtr, except on account of the crimes fpecified in the edth article of thi Definitive Treaty, and in Zonfequence 'of 'the proofs 4herein teasired having been addttcea. in the *fent cafe, itTatinot be pre- I tendett that hle Majelty ever given the flighted ecnnitteninoe to the ca; fsi of the Royalifts in France !agaihd the preterit Government, fince the period • when he acknowledged that Government; and if there 'were not thefe important differences in the two .cafes, they would be totally di flimilar in the only .remaining point ; for in the cafe of the Houk of Stuart, as has been already Rated, notwithllanding ithe . iolesste 'of the times, and the danger to which the Proteitant (Deccan; was really expored, this firong alit of authority wit confined to' the pertbn of the Pretender s and the individual who mutt ho recognized in that &antler by fheTrench Govern ment, and whore-cafe can alone bear any fimilarity to the former even in this refpeft, is not, and never has been within his Majetty's dominions. Other pre. cedtnts might be adduced on this fobjeft ; but it it not neceffary to date them, as the foregoing are fief. Ocient. • 4 , With refpea to the complaints in detail under the fecond head.—Upon the &HI, you may inform the French Government, that the Emigrants in jen fey,•inany of whom had remained there folely on account ofthe cheapnefs of fabfidence, had aaualbr removed, or were removing previous to the !Tore (emotion concerning them in Mr. Otto's Note, and faun before yOth , **planation vrith M. Talleyrandtaii take place, thiee will probably not be an 'Emigrant iti the Mande 7- ;;To t6iecond complaint which relates tb the N. fWO'of Arras and ilainePaul de Leon, and other% hishfejefty can only reply; that if Ihr fads alledged iikaitil them Can't* flibilantiated ; if it can be pored that they have difldbuted papers on the root of 1 France, '*ith uriew of dillurbing the Gorernasem. Ind of iodating the people to refill-the neW Muth Eltablithinent,his Maleßy Wertile tfiint litrriftlf jug.: fied in taking all tneakteswithin his power for tibl . gin t hem to leave the Country i but tome proof mu be/ adduced of thrift cabs 1,, aid Bach proufullth nbr ' Aet of their Ilavitiflti . sille Indent, , vie. in tepl t coat liope b t bi-titi " lilt OWN lilted *- tion Of their.. own ttplindton't flitg to etinfinin the new ettabWMAt, 1 pi'leteclltbi . lit whiCh di nt • retied be jultifinefe on every pAnciFte of tolitatitio and juilice; loft it Mudd th ew that dui' hive rpm; availed then Ives of; their. fitnitirkit in' Ail' co * to excite tbc.peopte of Freoce agaiiiik the Authotit deli in • t h at eoverst, wheditielsa of B.c " ' 144 . oifthelliird cohipisint;.Which refisias the ii. mind of Cow "' god thew pettohe Aippolid to s he defcribed as his *aerosta t Mr. Otto mud have Mt tikbtilie 1W *bate Ibppofermc to have fald on this ' fobjea. Hi fastjelty is however very dcfirous to abeidte - int tenth of complatot or nnea'Gaefs with re- Xd to ante perfons $ and meafures are in contem. t that AluP WWI be taken, fOr the purpofe or tabor ing theta oat of his Majelles European dominions. On &ritual% complaint refpeaing the Princqs of Vitraotsfe•of Bourbon, I can only reter you to my fertmer anfiver. .1-lis•Majelty'fias no defire that they 1 1 the:old Untinoe to teat in this country, if they are difpofef, or can be induced to quit it; but he feels lit to be inconfillent with his honour and` his fenfe of lattice to withdraw from them the rights of hofttita ky, as long as they conduct themfefres peaceably and quietly ; and nokfs fame chatge can be Albite.- tiated of.their attempting tadißbitiate peace which fabfifs between the two Goveritheta4. • • Witlixerped to thefifth costiplattit. which relicin. to the French elaigrates Ir*riAn th i sk 3 : tr i t r orders of 'their ancient Got: t ttbeti L ..if , R any perform of that dekriptionM this country who wear fads orders. h iedgbilit irtil-t eel 1 all W hine& from it ; but the }latch G overn 4 could not perfift in expelling,' that even if it wain confitient with law, Ms trajety could be induced i to commit fo barns an ad of authority as to fed them out of the country on facfran account. • I have thus fated to you his Majetty's fentirnente on the (even& point! awaited in Mr. tltta's Note. Yon will take an witty opportunity Of eatoosunicatis theth fentiments to the French 'Government, and accompanying them with the aiguments and eti nations above Rated. And if it should be aefittd, and you tbould be of opinion, that it was likely' to produce any good died, there is nu filiation to yaw putting the fuliftance of what you fball have Rated in writing, and of delivering it to the Mintier for Fo reign Atairsoua memorandum of your converfatiod. es Upon the general tone and ityle of Mr. Oates Note, it is important to obferve, that it is far front conciliating; and that the pradife of prefenting notes of this defaireon, on any 'noun or fograion of p:rfonal irritation, cannot fail tp have the died of indiipoting the two Governments towards each other , inftead d`confolidating and Rrengthenin A the peace 'ditch happily fabflas between them. That alter a I war, in trhkt the patens of mco have`been roofed I at 1 20t in hay tie' tea dda the cou illii tioa Boy his snot vu lac fu Pio aide Prey coif Brit Nrij that attic shell refs vatic I. feat I Siul so nift nedi k 4. 4 _ I star ICO. I