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(~ '4 I A, 1, i FRANCE. TRIBUNATE, 3 PRAIRIAL, (MAY 23.) t ( Dam:, Ut the namr. of a Speciai Commiflion. made a Report on the official Papers connefted with the latr Negociation with England. ile began his fpeech by endeavouring to (hew, that fince the conclutirm of the Ti eaty of Amiens, the al. lies of France ;Ltd the bell founded reafon for com plaints. The Cape of Good Hope remained long ties orid the period (Updated in the hands of Eng land. Egypt was not given up to Turkey, and Malta s Lcognized to be independent, was not evacuated, agreeably to the terms of the treaty. Still, however, the orator contended, that it was not in France that the brit cry for war was heard. Oa the part of Eng land negotiations were required when there was no. thing to fettle. The confequence of there negotia tions was, that a rigid inquiry was neceffarily infli tuted into the caufes of mutual complaint and re crimination. He accordingly drew a (ketch of the conleft, to which, by the confpiracy formed againft the Revolution, the French people were expoled.— The French had been called on to encounter the greatell danger ; their liberty and independence had been menaced with dellt ation ; but the grand feel ings of liberty had animated and fopported their exertions. He referred to the contemptuous manner in which the fir(' overtures of Bonaparte were re jeCted, and triumphed in the dirappointment of the haughty language in which the rejeCtion was con veyed. The confequences of the refufal were not verlooked. Thcy were drawn and depiEled in the croft glowing colours. Marengo was not forgotten, and the battle of Hohenlinden attelled the circa& of the rejeetion of the proffered views of peace. From the events that preceded the Treaty of Amiens he paired to the confideraiion of thole by which it had been followed. The whole of the early eaufes of com plaint, derived from publications which had excited the indignation of the Firit Confhl, the flay of a cer tain defcription of the emigrants in this country, and the circulation of defamatory produElions in France, were particularly examined. He alluded to the com plaints made againft France for invading the indepen dence of weaker Powers. He -contrafted the ag grandizement of France in Europe, with England sn India, and contended that the balance was much in our favour. He was more pointed on this fubjeCt than any real lover of the upright and honourable cha rasher of this country could have wifhed that he was borne out by flatemeots. From this part of his pic ture it is impoflible not to turn afide volt regret, that events (hould have taken place in our Indian dorni rions, to give a pretext for accufations In readily to I be embraced. He appealed forcibly to the pride and the fpirit of the country in the profecution of the conceit in which France was involved. " French men," Paid he, You have heard what is Will to you, or rather what is required of you. Will you confent to ftibmit to a yoke fo offenfive, and fojuflify pretenfions formerly unheard of. And who is the individual fo pufillanimous—fo much the enemy of your glory, as to dare to give you this co lofty ? Far from me be fuch a thought. If you are capable of )iesuing so Nos ruggentons, your magiflrates ought to be fluent. In vain will they endeavour to per fuade you." The Orator, in the conclufion of his fpeech, re marked, that England could only inflift flight wounds, while the French could attack the heart of Great Bri tain. It is poffible, added he, that France may terminate this war in one day, and how many years will not be necefrary to force us to demand peace ? It is above all things neceffary to (hew to England that the never (hall attempt to treat France as the Princes of Afia, and to calculate the extent of her opprelEons by weaknefs and timidity." The further dircuftion was adjourned till the rub fequent day, when Boissv d'ANGLas delivered a very eloquent fpeech, of which we give a abort abridgment: He began by declaiming again(' the ambition of England, to which he imputes the renewal of hoftili ties, and by extolling the folicitude and fincerity of the French Government in its endeavours to preferve peace. He then proceeds to (hew that England can have no hopes of any continental alliances, and her condue, and the exorbitancy of her demands through out the negnciation, mull excite again(' her the in. 4ignation and the of every other Power.— .Againft her pretentious to Malta he inveighs with the bitterea acrimony, and Ass, .1 is it to be experned that the Grand Scignior can tamely fubmit to an nfurpation equally oppofite to his intereft and to his fecurity ? Is it to he expelled that the Emperor of Germany, who, by the pofreilion of 'crielle and of the city of Venice, that Venice, In long the only commercial city of the world, is enabled alfo loon to become a maritime power, can be fo blind to his in terefts as to content to an order of things which, by (butting him up for ever within his territorial parti tions and his ports, would forego the advarrage which one day he may promife himfelf of partaking with us in the commerce of the Mediterranean t Is it to be ex peEted that the King of Naples will volurrat ily content to that ufurpatinn of the Englifh, and that he Ihould become the vaffal of an illand of which he In lately held the Sovereignty ? As to Praia and Span, they are tpo much our friends, they are ton teligietis obf et . vers of treaties not to behold with indignation that vio lation of the law of nations. I fay nothing of the Nor- thern Powers. It is not among them that England is likely to meet with allies. Ruffia will never forget that not very long fence the beheld before Crontladt the infulting fleets of England, and the allies of Co penbagen are (till obferved to fmoke As vainly has the hoped to re-kindle among(' us the rage of parties and of anarchy, to excite new divi firms, to foment frelb detturbances, to prepare new crimes. In theft attempts (h (hall not itic..eed ; non will the interior of the Republic be mole attentive to her call than the external p•iwers. The only (hit WC that henceforth than exitt among Frenchmen se. ill be a rivalry in alacrity and in courage. Frenchmen will all of them take up arms ; for England is the enemy of them all. Es en thr.fe whole the has for lime years fucceeded in flattering by her prornilit will not hefisate to rejed throe promifes, now that a more hu mane Government has battened to Itrctch out its arms to them. They will khow that England is %shell the process than when fhe more dangerous lights; they will r.ot Ir.f . t the recolleftion of that la Vender, where French bio4.d flowed In lbockingly and fo km& from wcur.ds indidied by t'se hands of Frenchmen; of that la Vendee, excited by the Cabi. net of London, favoured as long as it was weak, de ferted as loon as it became wrong, and Always kept up to that point where it was thought neceffary it fhould remain, in order to balance the Republican forces, without either being able to conquer them, or to be conquered by them ; of that la Vendee, in fhort, where every thing was calculated, directed, commanded, and paid by England, even to tie di. vilion of the leaders among the rebels, and the bar barous meafures by which the two parties rendered themfelves but too culpable . . . They will not lofe the recolleetion of Qttiberon, where the Englifb indemnified themfelves with fo much cruelty and perfidy, for the defeat of thole of whom they had armed the hands, by hindering them from efcaping from their conquerors, and by driving them away with cannon thot from the very veffols from which they were difembarked. All of us, notwithflanding the difference of opinion that may have to long di vided us, cannot help recollecting Toulon, which the EnglA disc not occupy, in order to fuccour the op preffed, as they pretended, but folely to burn our magazines, to take or to burn our chips, and which they haftened to evacuate as loon as they had ac complifhed thefe fhameful objects. We cannot but remember Lyons, that capital of French indultry, the liege of which, and the events which provoked it ; the defence, the attack, the furrender, the demoli• tions, the buntings, the horrible maffacres of which were decided on in the Cabinet of St. James's, and directed by its llipencliaiies; and we (hall find in thefe lecolleetions and f i many others of a fimilar nature, which it would be too long and too painful to revive, motives without number for repelling with new and redoubled energy the attacks of fo cruel an enemy.— Ah—l fwearby our own glory,by the intereft which each of us feels, by the happinels which we enjoy, by all the ties that bind us equally to a country which we hold it fo honourable and fo dear to love, the Englilh (hall find none but enemies amongft us. They thall not introduce amongit us the horrible Icourge of a civil war, and although they fhould once more caw upon our coatis all the brigands to whom they now conk& that they afford an afylum, they fhould not have the little, but horrible advantage of organizing upon our public ways robbery and 21E41E nation. In vain do they ezpelt that, in order to re pulfe their attacks, we (hall be compelled to retort to revolutionary means: no, they are millaken. Thefe times are no more. The revolution is finilbed, nor can the war renew it. The revolution is at an end; our flrength, our fecurity, the hopes of our happi• nets and of our (need's, the pledge of the peace of the Continent, the expellation of a general peace, are now contained in dick words--The Revolution is fini(hed . '0 But they fay, to intimidate us, " that among them the war is popular :"—Popular! Where can it be fo ? Is it in Ireland? Are not tile Irifh tired of the yoke that oppreffes them ? Do they not loudly call for the deliverer, who is to reflore them to their ancient rights? Is it at London ? But does not Lon don behold with concern, and even with difcontents a war, the poffible refult of which may be, the bank ruptcy of its Government, the ruin of its Bank, and conlequently the abfolute ruin of the majority of its inhabitants ? Can it be imagined that, in that eaten - luting city, it has not already been felt, that, if war fhould be declared, almoft all the ports of the Con tinent will be fhut againft Englith commerce ; and in the country Rill more than in the towns, the miferies of war will be feverely felt. In the country mull be railed that numerous militia, whom the fear of an invafion, and the uncertainty of where it will be at tempted, will call to every point of the coaft, and thus tear them away from all the purfuita of agri culture ? How then Call the war be popular in the country? Indeed all parties look upon it with dread. The friends of liberty, as neceffarily flrengthening the defpotifm of Minifters, as rendering the power of the King abfolute, as fufpending and loon annihilat ing the privileges of the people ; nor do the friends of Government dread it Ids; for they dare not anti. cipate how far, with the refponfibility which Govern. ment is contradling, it will be able to refill our Cue eds, or to brave their own reveries. But in France. if not in England, the war is fuse to be popular. The Government will be feconded bribe general affent, and by the aid of each indivi dual. The glory, the intereft, and Lapliners of every Frenchman are involved in its fuccefs. For it is evi dent that the war will not only be direeted againft the nation in general, and the Government, but againit each individual. Is it not our agriculture which the enemy would deltroy ? Is it not our com merce they would cripple ; is it not our towns they would demolifh, and the country they would impo. verifh ? Do they not hope to increafe our taxes with our expences, and thus dry up the fourees of our profpei ity? But I again repeat it—thefe odious hopes (hall be all fruftrated." He then concluded with conjuring his countrymen to be unanimous; afruring them that unanimity would infallibly procure them fuccefs—that the war mutt be (hort, and that vittory would arm them with the falutary power of con demning thole to enjoy the (sweets of peace, who had fo imprudently broken it. LEGISLATIVE. BODY, MAY 23. The Counfel:or of State Elutes- addrefred the Le ,,,-,illative Body, as follows :—The proceedings of the negotiation already laid before you, have enabled you to appreciate the fincerity of thole views which the Government has nut ceafed to erprefs for the maintenance of peace. The Fiat Conful has made every factitice which did not appear to him to be contrary to the Maiefly of the great people, of whom he is the Chief. Lord Whitworth brought with him the hopes of an accommodation; but the paffions which agitate the MOIL Cabinet have difpelled the L:l ray of hope ; that Cabinet has fhewn stfelf infers. Mile to tile voice of reafon, and deaf to the cry of hu. manit y. France will not provoke the war, but will meet it, and fupport it with all the energy her means will enable her. The Englifh Miniltry have ordered that French vefrel.lliall be feized, and all on board made rrifuncri, without a previous declaration of war. This aa of perfidy, unknown in the annals of civilised nation., has been czercifed before even ill: French Ambafrador quitted the foil of England. The Proclamation of the King of England has caufed allonithment and flopor among his own (oblate, and excited the indignation and fury ,3f the French peo plc. It is true, then, that Eng Lend will make war upon us Its this new crifis the flovt•rnment will not be wanting towards the nation, nor the nation to wards the Government. England has become the aggrefror ; reprifals thould immediately follow." The Pretident replied—" Citizens, Counfellors of State! the French people are too great, and too con fident in their own Rrength ; in the energy and wit . - dom of the Government—in the genius of the Chief of the Republic, for the war into which we are pro. voiced to infpire the kelt dread. France will follow it up with all the vigour of a warlike nation ; the Legiflative Body will always give an example of that firmnefs which the dignity and juftice of the caufe thould infpire. Citizens, Counfellors of State ! let us be always near to fupport the Government, and thus anticipate the day when the Legiflative Body !hall return the Government its folemn thanks for its wifdom and firmnefs ; fay to it, we Mall be always ready to fecond every =entre in which we (hall be called to concur." The Legiflator Dzsrmiss fpoke after the Prefi• dent, as follows :—" Frenchmen will echo the cry of indignation and vengeance, which the condud of an ambitious and perjured Government provokes. They will be feconded by the Powers of the Continent, in that generous tranfport which mull be excited againft a perfidy which forms fo ttriking a contrail to our relighous execution of engagements. That infraftion of a Treaty no fooner made than broken will not go unpunilhed ; a Treaty in which the political into-efts of two rival States were wifely balanced, and in which humanity confoled herftlf in the folemn and ftrid guarantee of the peace of the World. I have heard fay, that Rome and Carthage went a fecond time to dec de, by the lot of arms, the deßiny of the human race, Rome only fought for herfelf; and it is the curie of all the people that you are going to defend. Every pretence for war was feited with avidity by the Roman Senate, to whom all equilibrium was in fupportable, and your Government, animated by moderation, has exerted every nerve for the maintai nance of peace, confillent with the national dignity.— Rome in the end dearoyed her rival, becaufe (he withed every one to obey her : you, on the contrary, have a nobler objet in view : you only defire to put a flop to a culpable ambition, that difregards the moil leered ties ; and faithful to the principles of a wife and generous policy, you will always with for a coun tterpoife to your power, and objets of emulation to Rimulate your virtue." PARIS, 4 PRAIRIAI.,MAY 14. The declaration of the King of England has jun appeared. It is accompanied with a volume of pa- pers of 145 folio pages. This volume contains 72 articles, among which ten only are official, and even of thefe many are infignificant. Sixty-two are tx• triads of letters fiom the Minifiers to their agent•, and from Englifh agents to their Cabinet, levers which have doubtlefs been fabricated by office (Chm tellerir), agreeably to the will of Minifters. Thole notes which are the molt important, and the moll proper for (hewing w the Englifh people the proceed. ing of the French Government, and the true fpirit of the negotiation, have been carefully fuppreffed, and what appears the laft degree of fisameleffnefs, and even cf folly is, that in the :.cue of Lord W tturwoare, dated the loth of May, and given in page s 11 of the Onici.ll Papers of London, the molt effential paffage is omitted, with an infidelity which could not efcape cenfure. The Monfrerr then proceeds to give, in a double column, copies of the note, in its original Rate, and as it has been printed by Minifiers. The difference between them confifis in the following expreffions, which arc applied to the propofttion made by Tat.- aaaaa D, on the 4th of May— , this propofition hay ing been judged impraCticable, from the refufal of his Majefty the Emperor of Ruffia to accede to it, and, at the fame time, below the jult pretentious of his Majefiy.' " This infidelity (continues the Mositesir) commit. ted for the purpofe of concealing a falfe allegation which can no longer be Whined, required the com million of another. The Englifh Minißers have, confequently, fuppreffed the note tranfmitted in an fwer on the t sth of May, which note was of the fol lowing tenor : PARIS, MAT IL " The underligned has it in charge to acquaint his Excellency Lord Whitworth, Amharrador frota his Britannic Majefty, that the Firit Capful having propcied, in his Note of the 14th of this month, that the 104nd of Malta thooM be placed in the hands of one of the three guaranteeing Powers, IllosSa, Auftria. or Pruffm, it would not he fullicien , to fet that propolition :fide, to argue on the refers! which Lit Majefty the .mperar of Rune might make, of receiving this true, Once the intentions of their Majeftles the Emperor of Germany and the King of PrnNa world remain to be known. _ _ " That betides the affection contained in his Excellency's Note, dated ;nth of this munch, and which is expreffed in thefe ta7llF. from the rcfufal of his Majefty the Emperor of Rues to accede to it, is entirely contrary to the guarantee which hi. imperial Majefty formally offered, with the flight alterations which the Firft Coati( made nu difficulty of adopting, and which be knows that the Eng. Idb Miniftry refitted, meditating, beyond doubt, even then, the ftringr pretenfion of retaining Malta. * Thait, fa/thee, this affertion is alto in ahfolote oppofitien to the afferances which the heft Conful has received from Peterfburgh, fence the Meffsge of his Majefty has been known there, and which have juft been renewed to him by an authentic communication, which Count de Ma rcoff yefterday gave of the intent I ons ofhisCourt. " It hence refults, that it is impoffible to reconcile the laft con • munkation made by his Excellency Lord Whitworth, with the feeds confirmation, which bat Jett been received, of the difpofi tions of his Mikity the Emperor of RulDs, and that it cannot but be Inppofed, that his Britannic Majefty, when better informed, will, of himfelf, hole no time in caufing to be given to his Excellency, In ftrunions different from thole It:Web he has communicated, In the 14.1111 C of his Government. (Signed) c r. Yet the Englifh nation calls itfelf free, and the Parliament reprclents the nation. The whole of this prodtraion is under tranflation, and it (hall be Mim ed in this Journal, for nothing might to be concealed from the French people. If they have had the im pudence to fupprefs the molt important notes, and to mutilate thole of which the original it in the hands of our Government, what reliance can be placed on details of convercation related by Englifh agents, and altered by the Englifh Miniltry to fait their own interells f It would be difficult to conceive the fpirit ' of madnefs which has for feveral months situated the Cabinet of London. It, no doubt, believes tha' we have neither ink nor arms. put what does the Cabinet of London care for the opinion of Europe and that of poßerity? The Parliament will have agreed to its Addrefs; many of the Members will have been animated by lying reports. This is all that ' the Englifh Minifters delire." I„„ ride obfervations are followed by a communica tion to the great conflituted authorities of the differ. ent proclamations dined by his Majetty wiib refpea to the renewal of hoililitiet. 5 PRAMUAL, NAY 25; The Englilh who remain at Paris have receive or. den to prefent themfelves, within twenty four !lo urs before the Commandant Of the town. Fontainblea n is the place where it is determined they !hall remain as holiages.—Journal dii DIU:. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Betsz,MAT ts.—General Licoultllt arrived here to-day. The regiment of Chaff - curs in garrifon at this place are to be new clothed. As preparations for the better accommodation of the French troops continue, it is not eepated that they will fpeedily leave the country. It is even Paid that their number will be conftderably increafed, and that a military !Chou' will be eftablifhed. Bow as or THI MAYNE,MAY (9.—Every thinglias fuddenly aroma a warlike afpeft on the Lower Rhine, Report (peaks of a conf►derable corps which is to be affembled, and kept in readinefs to crofs the Rhine on the firft notice, in order to (hut the mouths of the Elbe and the Wefer agaiell the Englifh, to take polTeffion of the Eleflorate of Hanover, and hold it in Afros till peace. This corps, which will be affembled in the department of the Roer, estending its right beyond Bonn towards Coblenta, will form the right wing of an army, which, front the North Sea, will reach to that point. It will be corn. mended by General MOATIIIR. The left wing will affemble in the part of the Batavian Republic, which formerly computed the province of Welt Frieze. land, Groningen, and Overyffel. The centre will be In the environs of Arnheim and Nimegtien, and the latter place will be the head quarters of the Ge. neral in Chief, while the commanders of the right and left wings will be at Cologne and Groningen..., Several corps are alreadyin motion to form this army, the left wing of which will occupy the Duchies of Bremen, Verden, and Lunenburgh, as well as the mouths of the Vs'efer and Elbe t the centre the Ha noverian pogeftions in Weftphalia, and the right wing Hanover proper. It is Paid that all thefe occupations will take place with the coofcut of fermi Courts of the firti rank. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. PRICE OF STOCKS YIDS DAY AT ONE OTI.ODIC I Coldols for July oyes*, yr—adduced 57/. Lon; Ana. ty 3-16 346 rla s pa L. , 4311. 411 g. Some have fuppofed from the words of the Decree ordering the arrell of the Englilb, of which we yef. terday laid a copy before our Readers, now in France , that none are meant to be comprehended in It but fuch as ferve in the Militia or hold Military Corn• millions. This, however, is a miaalte, H all who are enrolled," that is, all thrift whole names are taken down as liable to be drawn—in other words, to ufs the language of the Decree itfelf, every perfon " be• tween the age of eighteen and fisty" is included. In the preceding columns we have given fome in tcrefting •strads from the French Journals which. rea:hed us yefterday, but at Co late an hour that we could then do little more than notice the Decree above alluded to. This morning we received Come Paris Journals of the 27th ultimo, which have brought Tome important details. By them we learn that the Decree in regard to the Engbar who have remained is France, was carried into execution at Rouen, on the spl Whist. I Several were placed under the vigilance of the Com; mandant of the place, and confined within the wins. Five per Cents for Germinal, 47 fr. 35 C. For tfk.Vendetniaire, year la, 44 fr, so. Letters from Italy announce 16 That the Franco. Italian army, which is afembled on the frontiers of the Rates of the Church, and the banks of the Ru. bicon, will march immediately to the kingdom of Naples. It is commanded by General of Divifion Vanilla, who is fubordinate to General Moaar. -. The fame letters Rate, that in cafe of a rupture be. tween France and England, the French will occupy the ports end territories of Naples, and will be an thorifed to place gamfons in them. A part of there troops will then be embarked for Meifina and occupy i the coals of Sicily. A French column will proceed to the kingdom of Etruria to reinforce the garrifon of Leghorn, to Ration themfelves on the whole coatis of the Mediterranean, and to defend it from jnva- Gon. Similar movements and demonfirations are taking place in the Ligurian Republic. A reinforce ment of twenty or thirty thoufand French is eareed in Italy." Can it be true that the virtues, and projeirsoi•es Cs.., Count'. can degrade hirnfelf fo far as to pro ceed to occupy, as fet forth in the above letters, ter ritories which arc not his own, and that viand apt. vies: decleratics If wa.l If any one could credit the unmeaning declamations of Boxavawre against this. country, they would not believe that he could be guilty of this al? of per animism hi the awash e civilised sacks,. But where than we find the declara tion of war iffued by France againil the Porte before Box APART& invaded that country, putting thoufands of the Turks to the (word at Alexandria and other places t Where the declaration ri war iffued againft the Knights of St. John of Jerufalem before France Role the Waod of Malta t Where the declaration of war which preceded the feizure of the Grand Duke of Tufcany's dominions, after France had pledged herfelf to refpeft the Powers that preferred neutra lity t.—Where---but it would be endlefs to enumerate the inflames in which France was guilty of '4 aels of perfidy unknown in the annals of civilized na tions."—We (hall not dwell on this, but pro ceed to lay before our Readers the adulatory Ad- Idreffes of the Senate and Tribunate to the CHIEF Comsur., on the 26th of May. One of them gives Mtn the high title, after which he bas long panted ! (fi n p~ i.~ ' .4