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~~ impression against the intervention of his Imperial Majesty ; that however, notwithstanding His Majesty had just reason to be of fended with the terms of the !Atli article, such was his desire to Ombtatee any opening which afforded the prospect of the conclu sion of an honourable peace, that he would mg retract the condi tional q,corptance of the. mediation, which had already been con sitved to the Russian Govenunent, in the note addressed by vou to M. AlopPw ; that His Majesty , at he shoe time, looked for stone mark of the good-it ill of the Emperor of lio,sia towards Great Britain ; that N. Alopcus had before the late un fortunate events of Friedland and Tilsn, requested of you a projet of a new treaty of commerce, and had given the as surance• of the disposition of hi Court to proereci to the de finite conclusion of a commercial arrangement ho:ween two Countries I that a projet had in eonqiliance with his wish been Communicated and transmitted to tit. Petersburg:, ; and that if tio good-vs ill n! his Imperial Majesty tona.rds Englaml coati- ptled unaltered, I trusted no delny wrm'd ta:te place in proceed ing Its Negociation of chi. Tr:nits. ; that the existence of any s:ipul:tnion in WI • Pinjet, which Wa , not approved of by this Go vornmaitt, was pc; ob,tacee to our entering join nngociation upon it, beennse 1 shouol take opatt my self to azree to any modifica tions n - hicli did not appear to change the basis and principles coon n Melt it had beets framed ; that a. France had by the 2.7 th article of tho Tilsit Treaty secured the re-establiAnnent of her raer commercial relations with !tn.:-it:, a natural and obvious soede if ;.roving iha impartiality of the. Looperor would be the ceacwnl • l' the commercikl treaty with fireat Britain. t:coeral ionlber; hewn his entity let acknowledging the ex of secret artiele , beloaning to the Tcraty of Tilsit. There %ter , he 'aid, xt hirh itt Ito way coneereed the interests of ; that he could assure me, and a- an holiest wan he would o were not troth, there esiSted nn secret article w hat ov r, whir!' mina, tt, e l the shutting the Russian ports against the Briti : ni commerce; that wi:h respect to the projet of the treaty of c ointnerce, he teal to confess, that, front the press of other toisii,s,. and she bad gate of his health, he had not had time to fail it befare Cite Emperor; that it must necessarily be consider cd by tin- 1114.1:ter of Commerce, before he could confer with in upoa it ; and that a, to the 21th article of the Tilsit Treat', it only placed the commercial relations of the two count, i. upon the same fuming that they hail bee*Aiefore the commence pt of hostilities ; t r hat the commercial treaty with France was n. t roaewed. and would expire in tw eai ; ard that it by no Inca a‘ followed heentve Bonaparte had communicated to the tallow of R :1.-sin, the basis upon which he was ready to con clinic peace with England, that his Imperial Majesty had made an v communications at Tilsit of the future views and system of the Court of Petersburg. ThenellP:nlappoarell to wi sh that T shoeld consider this answer tic sufficiently sati,factory to authorize roe to accept the mediation of his Court, I observed in reply, that it,wa . ..dithcolt to conceive any articles of a peace between Russia and France whirl, did pot durst try or 'lndirectly ciairern Great Britain ; but that I asked the communication of the s,-cret arth les, not nob y as an object which might allioa the hecrests of Englainl, bat as a mark of the emitintiancr of that friendship and confidence nu the part of this Court. which could alone all'ord atty lirovect of gond, from the acreptance of the mediation Of 11:i. Emperor of I( us:in ; that with the same view, I had proposed crotitming the negeciations begun by M. A lopcw, and that his Ex relleney had no ant hn rity at present to say :lay thing more satisfactory than What I had AS yet heard from hint, I most request hint to ask the permission of tlt• Emperor to communicate to me withoot ITSCI'VC the secret articles of the Treaty between Russia and rrance, and to em power him to continue the vegociai ions, and conclude a treaty of commerce with Groat I . :Otani. Genersie iludberg promised me, that he would lose no time in brining these two requests under the consideration of his Impe rial llalesty.-- I ha , . e the hooour to he with the greatest respect, Sir, Your most obedient linnible servant, (ill AN VILLE I.LVESON GOWER. No. IL—fla p /It/ref:l of a nixpettM frnm tlif; .Cl77flr to the snow. In which Lor:1 Gower states that General l'Alberg hard r.eeived hint la a f.tr more waerct awl eon;iliating manner titan irmerlv, and scented anxiott4 to remove every digienlty in the way of a good untler,tatiding between the two cour.; ries. Nn. I I .—./n Estrart of Divprach from the Same to the Same. Stating his Lortlship . 6 ctirpr6e on receiving Vie nekt morning., this friGll;:iy Ccuverlitiou, the; following Nu,(C frato Clinir.r4l ildberg ; THeNATIONAT, REGISTER. J • . _:i:.. NOTE. His Majesty the Emperor has just learned, with the utmost surprise, by accounts from his Minister at Copenhagen, as well ai by a dispatch from his Danish Majesty's Minister at this (ourt, that Mr..lackson, his Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, has ade propositions as derogatory to, as incompatible with, the d gnity of ever) independent Power, and that, upon the refusal of the Priace Royal of Denmark to accede to a ptetemzion so extraordinary, the Fir.lish fleet has taken a posicion, 'which evidently announces intentions hostile towards Denmark. Tho ties of consanguinity and friendship s hick unite his Imperial Majesty with tile King of Denmark, not suffering him to view v iia indillerence any duager which might menace the dominions or tho indepen,lence of that Sovereign, the Undersigned has received committals to invite his Exeelleoy Lord Granville Levenn Gower, to acquaint with the Motives which base induced fie Cabinet of St. James's to adopt procrediags so extranrdi i nary against Denmark. The undersigned, A. 1)I BUDBER(i. • St. Prtersburgh,2olh:big.—lst Sept. 1801. AN SW Ell% Si'. Petershurgh, Aug. '2l—Sep. '2,1807. Agreeakly to the desire of his Excellency General Budherg, the Undersigned, .Initinssador of his Britatmic Majest y, tows no t time in communicating to the Russian Government the motiVe3 which led to the st;:ps taken hy the King's Minister at the Court of Denmark, and to the sithsequent operationr of the British forms against the island of Zealand. The ltritish Ministry had been a long time in possession of positise dots, which left no floaht as to the intentions of the French Government respecting the maritime means II( Denmark ; and the. projects against Lug, land from that gloat-ter, which were matured by the continental peace, certainly cannot have escapod the penetration of his )1:1, jesty the Emperor of Russia. The Dani:di fleet, destined to cover a descent on the British coasts, being therefore an object essential for the accomplishment of the views of Frame, the King found himself under the necessity ot'secaring himself front ) imminent a danger. by those precautions which were adopted with regret, however indispensalole for the security of his Em pire. The ties of relationship which unite the two Courts of London and or Copenhagen, would have inspired tho King with c he desire of avoiding such a painful extremity, and of respect , ing, as far as depended upon himself, the interest: of Denmark but his duty called equally for measures adopted to ward off a danger vrhich threatened nut only the %lelfars; of his people, but the existence of his Crown. The Undersigned, having thus frankly replied to Genera.] Bud berg's Note, ss ill w ith pleasure furaish a more detailed serbal explanation, should his Lxcelleney desire it ; and he avails himself of the. opportunity to repeat the assurances of his high consideration, (Signed) L, GOWER. His Excellency General de Andberg, $j r, 8;e, VV.— rifritet 0 . 1 . Div front irr. Secretary C ANN TN G to the Right Finn. Lard Go w n dated Sept. 27th, 1H1", Mr. Canning expresses his satisfaction at the new amiralde appearances of the Russian Councils, and commtnends the mode ration of Lord G. I. Gower's language. lle then proceeds to give the follow ing directions for his future coudOct : Your Excelleacy did perfectly right in declining to corsidi . r the communication of General Bud'berg as sufficiently satmsrac , tory to authorize your acceptance, on the part of his Majesty, of the mediatimm of the Emperor itt;Russia. '1 he points upon st !licit the (Notions of this acceptance turns, are--Ipt, The frank contmanication of the Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit, secret as well as avow ed,—;!dly, A distinct explanation of the bask upon w hich Franco proposes to treat, and 'which appear ed to his Imperial Majesty at Tilsit so ,just and honourable. These are the conditions directly stipulated in my Note to M. Morns, and without which an acceptance of any mediation by hi.: :Majesty could In' nothing else titan a complete surrender of his honour and his interest into the hands of time mediator, if net of the enemy. Hut to those are reasonably to be added, it' not as conditions It ithont which it would be imposbible to conseut to treat under the amtspice.• of Russia, at least as thus` which his Majesty has a right to require from a friendly Power, ho fore he commits himself to its goidance in a question atfecting the immediate safety and the future welfare of his dominions; —lst. A disclosure of the general views of the policy of the Emperor of Russia 1 and of any engagements into which he, may have entered with respect tolhe different Powers in w;lnst fortunes It‘s Majm•sty takes an iutercst ;—and ledly. Some plait ... NI. • I'Ell.l.