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Po r 4frs Wlrr ' r -- -~ - • • • • suil N th%Pasiviari Ittpub!le,teetrecti: plttell tb t'oe Wet Treaty, in ureter sktumffite-i: 00eittelai; and hz"ides,a• thf sttpol-ttiests relative tei)lalra Lie bzen guarani "•d by the it Alin-sties the Einp•reer of 0-suit•nr, the Kniperor of It untia, n't the King of Pruett& the worsts ting patties to the Tres'', of Amiens, before they arse to any change in the A rude of Mal ts, arc booed tie euetcert with the ::intt ereteeing powers. The Fast Cann! wall oat .cfum• this cone, rt, but it belongs not to him to p•e,rose it, mace it is nut he %thee urgeti any thente in the tormartteed stipulations With gored to the evacuation eel Holland 'Se; the French tr • -Ps, Inc Elm CAll4l.lli has nu defficulty in dire-nn;; the Un dersegrwd to tre:o..ii that the Insticia troop she I infazet etc Hol land at the notieet that tan stipulations of the Treaty of %In •ei ;• 414 a b 4: ev. ey twitter nt toe efohc• Utietctsigneel avails hilv.s.lf nr Co. etpvr •nenity to fen •wr to he, Excellency the English Atithe.s.rirlor, the assurnice ut his high comedy/at:on. Se:oe 1) Varies May 2, Ibo.l. • Nn. (-XX. I%a letter from LAM Whetwarth, rated title Mar, in which i• dates let' conduct of the FIN ads Miaker pivot t:a.,:, and Nat he la! se. boomed the t aloe iag ,erviet rucurr. The Trench Government .h.:11 cogar• to make no tiler*. sit ale tee cr. ei is n: the island of Latimed tat to it.• Ntaje.'y b; the King elf the fon Stan,. In cornelitenre of the present %tate of the iss.utel of Lint his 141..1.i5y shall remain ill petsterweiens of the Wand .14' :4 refit sueh a-rangeemasets shall be nude by him as may ~lame his Ma;s-„ey to 'wimpy Lampetins.t as a ova! statieni4t atter whieh peerint the ranch of Malta shot be givers up ti the jolt-411410U, aced aeknusedecg%d as an ine.l%•pered2eitse.ivi. 111. The ter atetiey of the IS ',avian Hepatic shoji he ere coated by the Trench force% ithin our month after the e0n ....1/01.141 of a convention touthled on the principles of this prujet. IV. 'Ilk: Kist, of Etruria, and tilt ha!Lin and .Ligurian polities, shall in eekesowledged by his Odsheav, V. Switserlas d shall b s evareneted by hie Freese% forces. A soluble territorial provision shall be assigned to the King of-Sardinia in It, ;y. SECRET ARTICLE. Nee 'Majesty shall nit lee 'riveted by the E•etteh Govern :tee:est to evacuate the Wand of Malta, until altertlie. espira lion of ten yew:. Articles IV. V. and Vl. may be entirely omitted, or must all be inserted. The tame day, LordWhitivorth, having received no answer to his projet, rcquereed lot passe.yeet Here the 'eorronnerietter end:. The .kpre-ndix contain% t o matter ben sett% as is 'limey hehirc the public, except the ingtuft eans to ettiva Morro, time Commebeiel Agent at Dub ?eu; of wheel, Alone a...feel:owing are intermit:lg : I Yenat • required tu runtish a plan of the ports of your distrefle 4 with a iplir ification of the soundings for mooring vessels. 12. If no plan of the ports can ix- procured, ynu ire tee F omt tut w to whit wind v%•••els Can come in a•al ee am, :toil what is the raatest draught of water with which vorels can enter lUerrit. tieetely C NI. TALLEYRAND. DECLARATION. ina're3ty'3 comer endearnorr for the presctration of rtsoe Amin; failed of sue-iv., he entertains the fullest eoufidertee that It shall reedy, the same support from his l'arliarnent, and that the same zeal and spirit will be manifested by his people, which he his experienctd on evert Occlsion e hut the honour of his Crown los been atu;k..ti. or the essential interests of his dominions have bscn indarthereel. [boring the %thole course of the negotiations which led to tlw Preliminary and flettitii i.e. Treaties of Peace b. teen his Nlajestv and oboe ]rench. Iteptililie, it tv,i; his Molests.% sincere desire, not only to put an 'end to the hosttlities which subsisted between the two countries, to adopt such measures. and to concur in < , ucli pro p-460,m, a s nsic.h t most effectually contribute W to co.iso att the general tranquillity of Lorene. The wive :mo tives tnr wjaich his Ntsrsty was actuated doting the ne poi diens for peace. lutes since int ariabh. got.-toed his conduct. As soon at the Treaty of „Ilai,•10. Con e's:4lrd, his Mneny's coons were open to the iessplc of }'race fox every purpose of legal redrew; all se s v i e ste,- trans ion, Ultra off t!usr property ; all prohibitions on ; their trade winch bad been tuiposeil riming the war were rensiwv:, sod titer w e re placed, La ?Wry Wirett, on th e came loath); vents regard to commerce and intercourse. . as the i habitants of an t r en o t th , r state in amity with his M k testy, with ninth existed no tivaly of cont tn Ta a %mime of conduct thus open, liberal, and friend ly, the ploccediugt. of the French Cfn c t O ole t il afford th e sow striking comsat. The prolnbstions which had been placed ors the erimmerre of bus Nlajesty's subjects dunn7 s:re war have been enforced Nllll4 nicniased s.netriess arid weer ity ; vinienee has been offered in several instant; to flirt: yowls and slwirpropenc ; and, in no true, bah jos ' fe:e been afforest! to these who may have heen a•4 l .triceil conuquettee of such arts, no: has any satilacto3 an swer been Kteu to the repeated representations male lie 114tjesty s .Miu'aiters or Ambassador at Paris: Unsic . r such circumstances, when his Majesty% soliects were not soffertai to enjoy tkw to 1111 l ton adtantaaes of pew :thin the tenttortrs of the Er.-tich Republic, and the c-saatrisostiepentlain upon it, the french Government had re-an se to the extrisnedinary measure of '&11,1 . 11,1.; over to cluntry a number of persons for the proftssed pur pose of rl 'Siding in Ow most eon.e rahlc stalx.rt towns of (heat Britain and Ireland, in the clsaraeui of eninnier es do:Asti or month. Thee itersons could hate no pre fensicns to be acknotwiili;:cti in that chancer. as di e of Dein:, so aelinowleri7ed. as well as all the prisi klw, _ due t te d to sorb a batiati.,:i could only ht. derived float a commercial trm:y ; and '25 no treaty of that de syrision was iu existeata: lx..ween his Majesty and the }'tench rwpublic. 'preen: was consequentiy ton notch reason to suppose, tli it the owl objeet of their mission was by no weans of b einninercial nature, and thi. )1.144100 was confirmed, roil spoly by the tirciiinstature that some of thew were mititar, awn, but the actual discovery dun several of them were fortashed with iastructitots to obtain the souritlirets of the h arbours, and to procure Military syr.. " V. V% of the _plays whew it was intended they should re side. 31,ajesty hit it to be his linty to -prevent their &porton. to their respective places of destination, and re pt. st 'soil to the &knelt Goverrimrot tae necessity of sr,.tiviro l in t them; grid it cannot or uenied that ths.: cir t•nutrarrces .unter whiehthec were sent, awl rite iostrut.- 1.0:1.4 %LAI .3 dre piveults tient. ought to i.e considered decistre intheattom of the disposivions and intentions of the Governreent-by whom they.were employed. The ciroduct of the likeneh Ciivenunent, with respect to the commercial inteleonrse between the twucountrici, must therefore be eousitit red as ill suited to a state of peace, hod their proceeding? hi their uu.re general poli tical: rebates, as well as in those which itnniodiatelv concern his Nlajc..y's dontinions, appear t o h a ve b e en alr together ir,consisowt whit every principle of iciest faith, modension. anti justice. /its Majestyliad enurtained . hares. in corusegnenee of the n4.taterl uratices and pro fessinns of the French Goverriment, that they might hive bees 'tutored to adopt a s...stetn of poliev which, if it had not inspired other poster, with confidence, might at least hare Ala.-eel their jealousios. If the French Go vernment bad really appearcsl,to he actors:et, bs.a doe at tention to such a systeut i if their dispositions'had pureed to he essentially p.u.itic, %Allowances would have been made - for the situation in .wittch a new poveninicnt ghost be placed save 'so dreadful and esters re a eons la moo as tiro which hal been protium , by tiff:tench Re- IJlAtion. Bat his llaittott has unfortorundy had too comb ream, to observe aria to lament thaktlse swells of violence, aptreardsts; and idtoontliscinent which charac- Writes, the procealints of the diet-tent Governments of France duting tit war, lia%•been continued with as little ,r,,pase qincetti • ion. They:leave continued to kern a IlieWl. easy. Olanil against the will, and in e ft i masb efon e dsgoofflappery of tilt Hatavia:t Go vern- Leto. and in repugnance to the letter of three solemn Ovaries. 'I Iwyliave,.in a period of peace, invaded t h e tatiStory, acid violated the indepcndzact of the Swiss tta- ~'_'." ~ '~ f T 11111) teen. en 6 Aefiative tit fix laity of tot.e.ate. w • L i stipulated th; itrieestecletire of their territone a n d l'ici‘ right of the ieltahitaats to ehu es their on Kum of Gtr . versunent. Thee hare une.eeed to the dominions on !railer, Pieeltner'et, Perm:, aed Placentia, and the isletW„ of Elba, wi:liout alletteig err ;envision to the Ki ng 4 .F . Ai n i a. „;into t i n y have dt spoiled of the most vain a:sle part of his hesitate-. though they were bound by a solemn eneagement to the Emperor of Ressie, to attow4 to his interion, end in provide for his eseitslishment. It near, indeed, with trudt be asserted, that the period whirls has seared since the corwiusion of the IXestinive Treetv, lese been marked with one auditiod s-ries of as si ese s, i n n, vi i ecuses, and insult uo the part of die Fivnisit Cover:anent. In the month of Osenher last, his Nleeesty was imbues& ill consequence of the earnest velienatinn of the Swiss tiatioo. to make an effort, ht a represeatatiea in the •French Government, to avert the eyes which were thin impending lOW' that coition-. Tine representation was couched in the most temperate tenni, ; and measures were calico by his Dlajesty for entertaining. ender the circumstances which then existed, the re 4 situation and wishes of the Swiss Cantons, as well as the sentiments of the other Cabinets of Europe. His Majesty learned, however, with the utmost regret, that noeliipoeition to counteract these repeated infractions of treaties ;mil acts of y iolenee• was sianifested by any of the powers moist i tttt noliatele interested in preventing them ; and 4 4 Ma jetite- thereffire felt, that. with respect to these [Alio'''. his single etfurte conlil tint be repecteil to produce any con sislemble advantege to those in whose favour they might he exerted. It was about this time that the French Government floc distinctly ash aneed the Principle. that his a!ejesty hal po right to complain of the conduct, or to toter fere si ith the proreedinee of France. on any point which did not form a part of the stipulations otthe Treaty of Amiens. 11,at treaty wa.c tuipwstionabir Amman! upon the same principle as even other aniciedem treaty or convention, on the assumption of the state of poises shin and of enepeements subsisting at' the time of its conclusion ; and if that state of poesession and of en gagements is materially affected by the yolumarv . act of any of the parties, so as to prejudice the condi tion on which the other party has entered into the contract, the change, so made, new be considered as operating virtu ally as a breach of the treaty itself, and as giving the party megrim ed u right to demand satisfaction or compeo sation fer any substantial difference which such acts may have effected in their relative situations; but whatever may be the principle on which the treaty is to he consi dered as founded, there is indisputably a 7ene , al law of nations, which, thongh liable •to be limited, explained, or notreiped by- conventional Lew, is antecedent to it, and is that law or rule of conduct whieh all sovereigns and states have been accustomed to appeal, where con ventional law is admitted to have been silent. The Treaty of Amiens, and mere other treaty. in providing for the objects to which it is particulaire directed, does not therefore assume or imply an indiffereswe to all other objects which are not specified in its stipulations, much less does it adjudge them to be of a nature to be left to the ss ill and caprice of the violent and :he powerful. The justice of the cause is alone a sufficient mound to warrant the interposition of any of the porsers of Eu rope in the deference. which may arise between other strs-s, and the application anit extent of that jest inters , position is to he determined belch- by coasiderations of prudence. These principles ran 'admit of no dispute; but if the sere and extraordinary pretension ,irly - aneed by 1114 French Goeernment, to ex-clear hi* Nlajesty from any right to intrr.ere with respect to the eon' enis of other powers. unless they made a specific part of the stipulation-, of the Treety of Amiens, was that which it vele poesible to maintain, those power; would e per a eight. at least, to claim the benefit of this erinciple, its every ease of difference bcnreen the two countries. The nulittaation of all Europe must surely then be excited be the declarations of the French Governmer t, that, in tfie event of hostilities, there eery powers who were no parties to the Treaty of Amiens, and mho were sielie lowed to derive any ;rive:stage from the rernowerimad of his Majesty in their tiefillf, are nevertheless to be man the Beams of a war which is alleged to arise out of the same treaty, and are tmbe sacrificed in a contest which they not only have slat occesion, but which they have half no moans whatever of preventing.. His Majesty judges! it most expedient, under the cir cumstanees Which then effected Europe, to abstain from a recurrenre to hostilities on account of the. views of ant- . Isition and acts of aggression manifested 1w sFranee on the comics:eat ; yet en experience of the cher-as:ter and dispositioso of the Trench Cori ram ent could net fal to impress his Majesty with a sense of the neceesity.of in creased vigilance to guarding the tights and dignity of his crown. and in protecting ute iteertos of his people. Whilst his Miskety was actuated 1w these sentiments, he was called npon by the French GOvernment lo evacuate the Island of Malta. his Majesty had macifested. from the moment of the signature of the Definitive Treaty, an anxious dispositiou to care) into full effect the stipu lations of the Treaty of AIIIWIIS relative to that island. As soon as he was informed that an election of a Grand Master had taken place, under the auspices of the Em peror of Russia, and that it lead been agreed by the dif ferent • Flours esecinbled at St. Petersburgh ti acknow leilat the !Arson whom the Court of Rome should select opt of those who had been named by them to he Grand Master of the Order of St. John, bit M ajesty • proposed trethe French Goverment, for he pct ense of Breeding env diflicoities which might arise en the execution of the arningennint, to acknowledge that election to be valid : and when in the 'mouth of August, the French Got ernme et applied to his Majesty to permit the Neap°. titan troops to be sent to the Island of Malta, as a preli zninary measure for preventing any uenectentry delay. his Nr e j e sty consented without hesitation to ttuapropo oal, and gave dies (oleos for the admission of the Neapo litan troops into the island. his Majesty bed thus shcwn bestei siato o nn not o n ly to throw nu obstacle in the way of the execution of the treaty, hut, on the cooteary, to facilitate the execution cif It by every inmates in his power. His Majesty cannot, finites-tr. actor,. that at any period since the oriodusion of the l'reetesor Amie.ne the• Fnizsch Government have had a right is call upon him, its conformity to 'the stipnlation% of that treaty, to withdraw his forces from the Island of Matta.— , At the time when this demand %yes made by the French (;overnutent, several of the most important stipulations a the aeyanseerocat respecting Malta reinaincal uncsecut eil: the election tele (;rated Master had not been carried into effect. The tenth article had stipulated that the indepesidenee of the island should be placed under the t itarantee and protection of Great Briteitt, France, A 'o leo, ltiosia, Spain, and Prussia. Ibe Freperoteof Ger many had acceded to the gnarautee, hut only on comfi t-mu ma. 5 like actession on the pert of the Other powers speritiO in the article. The Emperor of Russia had re feiesl his accession, except on the comlition that the. Maltese 'emote should be abroseited ; and the King of Prussie koi gsseu no answer whatever to the application which had been made to hint w accede to the errepsr - none Hut the fundamental principle upon the exist ence of which depended the execution of the other parts of the article. had been defeated by the changes which had taken place in the constitution of thejerier rimer the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace. It Wits to the Order of St. Joists of Jerusalem that his Majesty was, by the first stipulation of the tenth article; bound to restote the island of Malta. 'Me order is defined to censist of these lingoes which were in existence at the tiros; tit the cos elusion of the treaty : the three French a eLoSeoara having been aeolisherl, and a Melte lauguageosided to die ogi slitistion. The ostler consisted, therefoos, at that Li e.• of theasliowing langste*, NIL. the lafigues of An . Castile, Germany. Reverie, and Russia. Since the con clusion of the Definitive Treaty, die la:Agues of Allegan ;. • ' •••*7 anA Caulle have been ()nletlif S t ain, a ptlrt of the Italian,langue has Leen In the amncatioti of 'Aixlmoni ;old Parma to FnuICC. striate triegoi to belief': the, it hits s been in conteiaplatiiin to Ite.ple+irate the property of the Ravat:lut langue, and flee Mtentinti ha= hem I avowed of keeping the ILnasien lanzties Ivrthiti the dominions of the litstueror. ruder these eirefim-winces the Order of St. John .ean hot he cnusidered as that body tb w lhich, according to the etiptilations of the treaty, the island Was to be restored siusi the (ands indispensably nares.;:tre for is sopport, and for tic' maintenance of the independence of the island, hare bectulearly, if not wholly, seque.aeratl. Even if this had ar15411 from Cir:lllllstaiiCes AvliWil it WM not in the power /Wane of the contracting parties to tb: treaty to con tront, his Nfajestx woild nevertheless hate hail ti ri,tit to defer the efticnation Or the island by his forces, until such time as an eqiiivalent arrangement veal been conclitiled for the preservation of the independence of the Order and 4b( the ;stand. ]hut if th.L-se changes have ta'aen place ill con segues:cc or any acts of the other parties to the r T a re , a c y ; if the French Crovernment shall appixo to have p ed upon a %%stem of rendering the Order, whose inde pendence ill& bail stipulated, int.:lli:dile of maintaining that Independence, his Majesty's right to continue in the oremeuion of the island, under such eirciunstanecs, will hardly be contested. It is inclisputahl:: that t h e revenues of the two Spanish langfies have been withilravvn front the Order by his Catholic Majesty ; a part of the Italian langite has in fact been abolishvxf be France, through the unjust annexation of l'ictlinunt unit Parma. and Placen tia, to the French territory. 'rite Elector of Llavaria has been insti;tated by the French Government to sequestrate the property of the Order within his territories ; anti it is &main that they bare not nob: sanctionedinit encouraged the idea of the propriety of separating the Russian tan -mes from the remainder of the Order. "' `4 . Kt s the conduct of the Governments of France and Spate love, therefore, in some instances directly, atid in others indirectly, contributed to the changes which have taken place in the Order, and thus destroyed its means of supporting its independence, it is to those Governments, and not to his Majesty, that the min-eacrution of the tenth article of the Treaw of Amiens must be ascribed. Such would be the just conclusion if the tenth article of that treaty were considered as an arrangement by itself. It must be observed, however, that this article (onus a part only of a Treaty of Peace, the whole•,of which is con nected together, and the simulations of which must, upon a principle common to all treaties, be construed as having a reference to each other. His Majesty was induced by the Treaty of Peace to consent to abandon and to restore to the" Order of St. John the island of Malta, on condition uf'its indepen dence and neutrality. Bor. a further condition which must necessarily be supposed to hatehadconaiderable in fluence with his Majesty in inducnig him tia make so nn- . portant a concession, was the acquiescence/A.6e French Government in an arrangement fur the security of the le vant, by the eighth and ninth articles in the Treaty stipu lating the in•eerite of the Turkish empire, and the We prudence of the lonian islands. His Majesty has, how ever, since kerne theft the French Government have ere tertained views hostile to both theeteolsjects ; eons! • 'that they have even suggested the idea of a -partition - Of the Turkish empire. These views must now be nianicest to all the world, from the official publication of . the report of Colonel Sehastiani ; front the conduct of that officer / and of the other French agents in Egypt, Syria, and the.. lonian islands, and feint the distinct admission of . she.- First Consul himself', in his communication with Lord Whitworth. His ,Majesty was, therefore, warranted in considering it to be the determination of the French Go vernment to violate those articles of the Treaty of Peace, which stipulated for the integrity and independence of the Turkish empire, and of the lonian islands, and conse rptently he would not have been ,justified in evacuating the island of Malta; without receiving some other seen ritvewhich might equally provide for these important ob jects. His lal•oeste accordingly feels that he has an in contestable claim, in consequence of the conduct of France since the Treaty of Peace, and with retie-elle* to die objects which made part of the stipulations of that treaty,ato refuse, under the present circumstances, to relinquish the possession of the island of Malta. Yet notwithstanding this right so clear and so unques tionable, the alternative presented by the Frenili Go vernment to his Majesty, in language the moat peremp tory and menacing, was " The evacuation of Malta, or the renewal of the war." If the views of ambition and aggrandizement, which have thus been manifested by the French Government since the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace, havc.in an very partienler a manner attracted the attention of his: Majesty, it has been equally impossible for him not. tar feel, and not to notice, the repeated indignities which • have been offered by that Government to his crown and to his people. The report of Colonel Sebastian' contains the most unwarrantable insinuations and, charges againSt his Mal jetty's Gevernntent , against the o ffi cer who commanded his forces in Egypt, and against the British army in. that quarter. The paper cannot Ix; considered as the publication of a private individual; it has been avowed, and Weed bears evidence upon the flee of it. that 'it is the official report of an acceedited agent, published by the authority of a Government to which it was addressed, who thereby have given it their express sanction. This reprirt had been published a very short time, when another indignity was offered to this country in the com munication of the First Consul Of France to the legisla tive body. In this communic a tion he presumes to a ffirm, in the character of Chief Magistrate of that country, " That Great Britain cannot /single contend against the power of France r an assertion as unfounded as it is hi decent, disproved by the events of mane wars, and by none more than by those of the war which has been ere ccatly concluded. Such an amertione advanced• in the most solemn official act of a Government, and thereby meant to he avowed to all the Powers of Europe, can be,. considered in no other light than as a defiance pnblicly offered to his Majesty, and to a brave and nowerful peo ple, who are limb willing and able to defend his just rights, and those of their country, apinst every insuk and ageneAinn. The conduct of the First Consul to his Majtis . ty's !maps- • sador, at his audience, in presenceof the Ministers of most of ti,c Sovereigns and States of Eurupe, furnishes another. ineance of provocation on the part of the French Go , vernment which it would be impropernot to notice on the present occasion, and the subsequent explanation of tins transaction may be considered as having the effect of aggravating instead of palliating the affront. At the very time when his Majesty was demanding sa tisfaction end explanation on some of the points above mentioned. the French Minister at Hamburgh cndea- ' voered to obtain the insertion in a Ilatnburgh Paper of a most gross and opprobrious Bled against his Majesty, and when difficulties were made respecting the insertion of it, he availed himself of his official character of Minis ter of the French Republic to require the publication of it by order of his Government in the Gazette or the Senate of that town. With this requisition so made, the Senate of Hamburgh were induced to comply; and thus has the independence of that town been violated, and a free State made the instrument, by the menace of the French Go- • vernmeot, of propapting throughout Europe, upon their authority, the most offensive and unfounded calumnies against his Majesty and his Government. His Majesty might add to this list of iudignities, the requisition Which the FrencheCruvernment have repeatedly) mired, that the laws and constitution of his • country shou d be clanged /dative to the liberty or the press Ills Majesty osigh• likewise add the calls which the French Govern .atient have, on several occasions, made upon him, to va,:efe the' lases of hospitality with respect to persons Who had found an asylum within his dominions, and *ODA whose conduct no charge whatever has at any , ,A,- • - . • - ~- -~ • tint I..4a'.4oliotatitiated. tt is impossilsle to reqeet oft these d;ffereat proceedino„ and tlta course which the French Gosentment lose thought p ro po s to adopt spuctiug them, without the thornily confielon, that they are not the effect of accident ; but that tlicy rorrt part ohs system which has been adopted fur dr.: purpose of degra dnag,. vilifying, and insulting his Majesty and his Government. Under all dick insults awl provocations, his Majesty. not without a due sense of his dignite, his pl - cre , -1.:I with every (fence of temper awl mit:ter:Aim to obtain sa tisfaction aoiredress, while he ha, neglecied nn means consistent with his bann e r and the same.; of his domi nions. to induce the Government of France to entice:lei to iuiai. what is, in his judement, absolutely met:moil fur the future tranquiliit% of Europe. His eflorts in 11114 respect base prove abortive, and he has therefore judge 4.- it tr;cessary to order his unibassadcr to leave Pans. In having foclitiriZ. to this proceeding, it has been his M,- jestv's object in put an end to the fruitless disrussiom which has-c too loo; subsisted between the two Govern ments, and to close a period of suspense peculiarly inju rious to the subjects his Majesty. • But though the provocations which his M: - .ii!ur has re-; ceived might entitle him to larger claims than those whit.% he has advanced, vet anxious to prevent cal:ni t:es which might thus he extended to every . part of Eu rope, he is still willing, as far as is consistent with bia own honour, :owl the interests of his people, to afford ever y facility to any just and honourable arrangement; by which such evils may be averted. Ile has, therefore, no difficulty in declaring to 41 Europe, that notwith standing all the changes which have taken place since the Treaty of Peace, notwithstanding the extension of the power of France, in repugnance to that treau.-, and to the spirit of peace itseh, liis Majesty- will not avail himself of these circumstances, to demand in comliensa tion all that he is entitled to require, but will be ready to concur, even • now, in an arrangement by which sati. faction shall be given to hint, for the indignities which have 'been offered to his crosmand to his people, aid substantial security afliwiled against further encroacls - wenn on the part of France. His Majesty has thus distinctly and unreservedly stated the misons'of those pi*.ceedings to which he ha't found himself compelled to resort. - He is actuated toy • no disposition to interfere in the internal coucerns of any other state by no projects of conquest and aggrandizo mcnt ; but solely by a sense of what is due to the honour of his Crown, and the interests of his people, and by an anxious d: sire to obstruct tbe further progress of a•sy ; stein, which, if not resisted, may prove fatal to evert part of the civilized world. HOUSE OF LtrRDS. WEDNESDAY, MAT IS. The papers relative to the Negociation with France were laii upou the•tihle. , The Meccas Workhouse Bill was reported from the Com. notice above stairs. Adjourned to Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. wruwasnaT, MAY 18. Mr. T. H. BROWNE boa, ght up the Bill for regulating the passage of persons emigrating• from Scotland. and Ireland to fu re.gti platitattnis, It was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. John Simpson, Mayor of Great Grimsby, was brought to the bar, and having received a suitable admonition from the Speaker, was discharged on paying his fees. Mr SHERIDAN gave notice, that Ite should to-morrow move for the House to come to a decision on the !Middlesex eluctiou. • The SECRETARY at WAR, in pursuance of his notice of yesterday, ruse to move for leave to bring in a .Bill for the bet ter enabling his Majesty to provide fur the safety of the United • Kingdom. He stated, that it was precisely similar to the mea sure adopted in the year 17913, with this only exception, that it was intend dto extend its provisions to Ireland. He presume - id it was not necesetry to enter into a detail of the measure, the general•object of it was similar to the Bill which during last war made part of a system that had bees found necessary and efficacious for the purpose of jeovidisg for the security of his Majesty's kingdoms in time of great danger, as well as for the pu.pnse of enabling his Majesty to take such msasorse as were necessary for ascertaining the strength and resources of meta distri. t, and to acquire possession at a short notice o. such local puinta as were necessary for the &Ilene •of the country. The further object of the Bill was to privide a summary mode of carniicirsating such of his Majesty'y subjects as might suffer in their property ins consequence of the, pre para Wry measures of defence adopted in pursuance of the Bill. Hissing further en larged no the propriety of reviving the plan of internal drfenfe providixl by the Bill of 1795, he concluded by moving fur leave • . . to bring in a Bill accordingly.—Lca‘e given. The SECRETARY at %VAR. moved the further. •consider ation of the Report on the Soldier's Relief Brll.- A stem crin yersation took place on the subject, after which, at the snips • of Mr. Shaw Lvfevre, the Bill was recommit:4 fireita. Morrow. Toe Older of the Day being reed for taking info consider ation the Report of flit: Committed on the itchaster.Eloctesn y Mr. ROSF..rnoved, that tie House agree its trtoseCond Reso lution, Thiit Jame; Dbvison, of St James's square, was Cntla ill a corrupt conspiracy in the said election. • . The Motion was supported by Lord Acchiblld Mr. Smith, Nlr Lee, Mr Itragge, end others; and opp,•ed by • Mr. Wallace, who ow:4 the previous question, as also byltte Mauer of ths - Rolls, Mr. Sheridan, &c. Aftet wbick' *ha . li.,use divided on the previous question, Against it 36 • ' Fuf . it 48 IVlaiority 8 • The original Motion. Was of- course armed_ The qu•-stioo was then put on the next Re.ohttien, That 'the • Attorney General be direr-cal to proses:ate Mr. Davis.irt. •‘N f.. a division, the numbers were Ayes 31 . 6O • • NOes... s -.... 29 • ,'.•• Majority' • 01 teport the Clergy Regidenee Bill was agreed to, EAI the Bill orttexd to'be.iyad a qinjtirne to-iitorrow. Ailiotirnid at nalf past twirl ve.o'Cloc k. • • TIER BRITISH PRESS. LONDON,. : • :rftURSDAY, MAX 19., Lord Wurrwoave and suite arrived last .night at White hall, at eleven tit:look, in two coaches and four, and ta• ebaises and pair, witif four outriders. General Anneetisst lett Dover at seven morning. Theiracaney for Lord of the Bed Chamber, it is said, will I.e filled by the Nlirquis of Twos:imp, or the Earl of LIMERICE. The important Papers ielative td the Negotiation with Fiance were last night laid belo;e Parliament. They occupy 145 folio pa z it's, exclusive oldie . Declaration of our Government..' Malta was the great subject of dispute, and of aurae, in aiwotractiq discussion Upon a.single point, a reeurrenete of the same argo . „ meet is unavoidabli. We now insect them at full leie,4ll in whatever parts they 'are necessary to inform the judgment, air to gratiry, curiosity, and have abridged only in such parts, which, if inserted at length, would be surpliisage or repetition. Our . account, therefore, will be found complete for the purpose ci •' every reader. The Spanish and Dutch AMbassadom were at the King's Le .. vee yesterday, at which there was a very full attendance. e • London; Prin'led A 3. CI i.f.a , No. 18, Crown -emir', Flee street ; and puldiabed WEST, of Water-Aroet, Maack friars, at the ()kee l. , No. 19 , Salisbury- square ; when. Advertisentints are received, and all Comniiinications to the Editor Inual be aidressed. o'clock yesterday I