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Or - tiff f V T'T , 7 '1P'10.9.1 Aat rirr am- seirr i a en.larti shit% Ittia.fei a 14:c.: ID CPI* intrisep 411 te curtsied um/ r ow) of ira,tioasentue said tr fdrilrirtotinn. 11.4 r ttirrete , , pat tire gni - turf..4 leg cud sodhriast loops to w/ 140 . 1 % di r.r•isie fs U. COURT 4 btu; a ad tit Free 14 4.omila/edit, wish .sera us did point a pieritet re i:sr_.dir. CO".k• 7t tarot a ups I t. 4 of its relit intrattious, itt ti .naming that t:4. so peto.nt oar it.. Seat away, Iv rue neachigAt...ast toad to sus &rent loaners the two efOolt• R nines en a;nl to ttse sums AU ge. iwhrei, hoe and: at the d ins.l try of R , . ing.rr• and of Oa honour), sot to a;lll..tr itt , entilde to stunt, -sal to Suit during Fo ur o us4 l osire; Rherh inn irritation a( alien war coil! Hot itatsfy, awl it it $O4l w. 41 with the twit Crory clitrooithae4 of the gritt.li niott itt to ref! , tr . .):t i4.40t0 intilikirrse 4 L1C44141 equally the auetuy cs rant, and tscloniti. Tor imAsigiind PAinitt tt seize; th:s oppnirtanitr to rrtent to fart .Es..rrittnimr 1.0/4 :laitkob.s!, tli 140.aaze of lair a- Seertiul COM nit rat 'WM. Loision, 17th Aug 1110?.. (Sigi UT ft). !10. XIIf. Dna ilifig-everie, Aortal' 21, Iftoc). I reird Ton the copy of a letter which 1 revire.:! sonic .tars I. from M. Otto, together with a copy of an ottxvl note ita:lioed in it. i have trforanset M. Otto. that you wined r viva lititruetsios to eider expianations with the French noverieotut on thy several points to which it S. It it Inarog4l.ll.: 'not to feel crin.id etib'e surprise atthr seretunitasteess and which, yt haa been thought proper to present stieli note, at theistic in 'which it is drown up, violet tar oo upbeats i n it, Whatever may he the general dispodtions of Vie F. eiteli Gls-ernmeat towords this on:Atty. suppoeine them to be at hostile a , thee . have b:sei at any former period, or even more so, it wield appear so contrary to their interest to. se. pikes vortical' 11. at the present moment, that I ant ie. chnrvi tlitir cunduct. in the whole of thi. business, More to temper. thin to •n:• ether motive; but whether their coedert 14 to he r. (erred to Limper or to policy, the effeets of n May still be the mine; it is therefore bolter of the utmost log1'4. 1 4 11 (1: that a frank exelaret ',meld he marl: of lit line of cond.'s- which ins hlaiedy Iran distermin.sl to adopt on r.:40.:1., of tilt. ;Wore of those to which till: note m i r e., a .,d of ti t s m otives on which it is fouuded; and *it is to be hoped that eieh an eisiloatiktliett will hose the erect of putting an end to a eourei of proee#dime 611 lead MN to pet pique. tostarn bstwe.w 411111 two 41sivernments, and which .noflet Siallattly tend tulle IMfit O.flOalt CO:wow:ores. The fuss essustileratiou CI it u r aturaily arises on this traniae von, is that of the peculor fifC , lllittaa.rfct Under whiit the note if Al. (Mtn ha, been preseithel. It ciasnot be denied that some we-y improper par •geanhs have latelt appeared Sal WNW of the fngt..h newsp.i.....r.igiind the l'•AVefollflallt of Franta.! : lt flat ht dewed Obewase, that pulnivationt oft still mire 1111.,11.- pet tali.! in L'f...l.t nutlre Inge ma..4e their aoatasat.". t • ten. country, with th;, dsini bof f•1te.c.,...1s affixed to than. tip, ler thew- estrumstai,ees the Frets Gr . :ern.neet would Vert been warranted in expecting es bye redrev that the laves of this coun try could afford them ; but as, nets. id of ie. ling it - &wry cotuae, thee have thought lit to resort to trerintioation themselves, or at Ira.. in 114110,64 v it in others, they couhl have nght W complains •f thier subs...atimit ap i ieal to his Alaieity to produce the ace. list' otherwise would have at t aided It. Whatever mar have b ...ft the nature of the prior injury, they have in fact tole-n the law into their own hands ::deed whit Is tli a recrii 1111 l atiou a'sl retort? The paragraphs in the Fiteieh ilevie,oecet, the ptialicosions to which I li.Aa above stirred, her n o t op,wared under sue autlesity of the Briti.h G..v.miurnt, stet are d summed -ripproyed of by them; but the y igrtph in th. ‘looiteur has approved in a paper a trieseW ly °Mewl, fof ss Ida the Govenimeist are therefore con sidered a. restmessiiiik, as his blaprsti'iGiovcrument is whm- Mlle fn. the ciwitemstof the laind,in Gazette. A:el this rztoft is nut erintined to the vostuth.irited En;;li-h itters:iapers, or to the other pied's:Woos of which complaint is wee itiele, but is toovertid i n to, alit made a pretence for: direct attack upon ett Goterunsein id his Ma'sedy. !fig Majesty feels it beneath has Ignite to snake any formal complaint nit this oeca.ioll ; but it has been impowitd-.: be Inc to proceed to the other parts of th • sublevel, without pointing your attention to the Cult duct of the French Government iu this tesptxt, that you may Misery, upon it in It. foamier it deserves. Toe prrierwitionit in M. (Btu's official note, art six in num ; but inair in &xi be divided under two beads : the first, 'dad which relates to the libels of all descriptions, which are aledged to be published action the Vo t icht;overnment ; the tut. comprehending the live complaints which relate tii the emigrants reside-it in this country 1111 the first, I ant arc ,von met be aware that hir. Majesty Cannot, 11111 lieter v ill, in consequence of any reprisentation or any illeltaee from a foreign power, Maki: ant COISLIOII. which can be ;is th e dettiee dangerous th the liberty of the prey., bi the constitution of this country. this lihi.rts is j.eXy (1.. W t everY British sobject. The eimatitutem atlioas of no pre ius restrsints,upon piohlifatiulli of any rlescri,!"tini; but there •-• rt orticatutes, wholly *codependent of the Executive Go: vernment, caitahle of taking cogisiaince of such publications Its tie- law ateeins to he eriatistal, and winch are bound to in flict the punishment the 41.4iitatients may deserve; thew judi catures may take cogi;isinee not only of libels against the ilisverument and the ltlio;iviracy of this kinydum, hut, as has `-ern repeatedly experienced, of publkations defamatory of sieve in whirsse hand-. the artininistoninit of ForeignGevertinten tit js piartyl. That our Government neither has nor voids ant ether protection thou what the taws of the country afford; and though they are willing and trolly tu give to every Foreign Government all the protection against offences of thus nature, which the principle of their laws and constittition will admit, they never can conseisleto new-inside' their laws, or tO change their eiseaitution, to gratify the wishes of any foreign Power. II the pre.eilt Vteacts Goremroelit are dissatisfied with our laws oil the stilsic.l of Gbea, or entertain the opinion that the a.l . ..nation of itistice in our courts is too tinily and lenient, they have it in their power to rs-t, eel theinselies, by punishing the Tinders and distributors of bitch publications within their own Lento:his, in any manner that titer may think proper. and titer 'by preventing the circulation of them. if tlwy think their present laws are not suißeient for this purpose, they may e new ears; to, if they tl.iuk it iie,pedient, they may exercise the fright is inch they have of prohibiting the import.s ti of any Itire'icti news,eliets, ur leirintheal publieatiuus, intu the ter ttorirs the ' , Smith Republic. ills Maierty will not of voila a iiii:a.ects, Z it is not his intuition to inter l; re m the Mailllet iu which the people sir teirituries of France should he *overdo:a ; bet he expetts, on the other hand, that t i e , p re ach Government will net interfere its the rummer in *hob the Governatint of in. duininiens is comforted, or call ter a citougc iii shire: laws wino w :yeti his people aro perfoctly ...t..fteil. With respect to the di•tinetion which appear.: to b e drawn in At Otto', note, bieween the publications of Bri s sit sietyeete and these of foreigners, and tier power which his \loftily is itippiwed to taw to cotree t ilente pf the Alien Act, ef l'or.rnem out of his rioniptions, it important to observe that the Insertions of that art wet.. made for the pim p...sit ;i•everstruie the residence of foreigner., who se nit ni le-et and prit.er v lys hail a swollen* to disturb tht. bitemal ;water of his own dominions, met whom the sa f e te of those dominion! in rot require in owl iuttancei in be removed, even if their roil itinitiet had hot exposed them to puitistommt by law.— lt eot follow that it would he a watrantailde application of such a Law to exert its powers i.s the cayesof individuals each wi :hose ot whim& complaint 1. how male. turd poitiettlartv as they set liable to be prower-itati ouder the law of the Lad. Ia Cis m timer as others ha, , town in similar caws, at the in rip sr, and mine the curaplaint of rureigii Girrematents. Toe second general heart, which includes the five tad mei p;,,ipta. relates to the removal of some of the Vietieh ruo, re sident iu this country. 116 Majesty enteitained hopes tat the exvlssistion on this brut In Inv ai4 1 9.4101, Nlll. 14. would have proved salierattory, and would hive pre .he iwevspity al any Ca. thee iliocimion on this i t ai r et, 'Fite FrettchC:inentment have upon savers' occlusions reswt. d this p art of the stibeeet to precedent, and have particularly r•-4d on the demand lento rly made by this crummy, that the resew Owns riedrd the Pretend 'r, should be sent fossil the }'ranch. dominions. It is int:sertant th it the stilferesi es be tween they , : two roses should stated. Whets James the . Socuod soda-stud the throne, arid lett tins couutry, he retired with h's a dhcieets to France: end though in the war which iutraorliotely ►su cceeded that event, the French Goverumein wielded his cause At Mrs ',VIII. no nipnlation was wade at th e . T r e.,sti Rib-wick, that he should be 4eUt fr•Illn that country, n.sr 4.* any sabveltrot it•utaiiil ever ma d e to the Fry rich Gn. verniers st this e eel; but he was seffered to felaain at Saint Gerniem, in the i nagtshotirhood of Paris, siirromided by his initialised_ friends, till Lie time of his death. It is:l,mA till after his •ns.se. whim Lew XIV. in direct violation of the Treaty of gyerriek, hail acicnowledged lus sun as King o f Caren 8 .raiu, 'Jun a different course of proceedillft was adopt ci by the British tikivemne•iit ; and lit the Treaty of l'eaza: signed at Utr e cht, w•iizil put an end to the war which had been car nal ou r u i a atoning ei the Siaanisit succ‘xsioa, au article was r~ irrooted to "teem tier Pretender fru 41 fraitrllle in nay poet s( the Fovea. illroateioos. The thrutool lrbiri teas su SeeTrently nude tor the faecal of The 1'; trod,/ from a town !Thiel ti as citristiel in the centre of theiic dontiniems, wA • folliartt nn CIF , Ortadia . af Iles wreak was in fact one tof the eurodatort .if tle po i, o; 1,-.t 4 „ih rhos ,ito•!e tit the treaty and the &- nasal w.le coiioned to th • fret .arterr sonny, ;toil were out ext ,„ l ,4 nil an, Of Iwv toady, or to itliV of hi. nibs After tos arositirat, mans of hi. adherents eiroitinued Cu ie; de to France; many pro sets ersilleut 114 saris. onsitry, alto wool attached to th • (-Moe the Poootdet, and had vomited the reh.litou its his faroor, and trim were consolnaato all hilted Ayr high rerun, soteoit refitee iii Era ice, an.l ware poritintral to remain thute tilt their Ae.eth, vir mono Any aoll'o aims ever havinie w: en made Se the British tieverniseut idler I,o'lf re ui.)- • it. The It•fice of •rwick, the noterel sou of J4111.!i 11 who f rom f ps i ropi t ,l a nd talents Will the iron 1111g`IT/04 men to the intermits of !los ruinitrt• and the e.oLestifit o jeroo %Om, coatinia tit he a G meral ill the French at mice, thouoii rolot from the King, an Englishman and an rmi gram, it was out requited that be should be scut' not of France. lo the present ca..; there is uo article in the Tr utv of polio., be which his Oloietay is !mead to send from this costutry ally Freniihnian whatever, except on account of Use rolinto, speriied ia tine twentieth article of the Defiiitive Treaty, and in erineeqitelice of the preols therein require.' having been adduced I.a the 'neaten eaSe, it catuaut be pretended twat his Otaiesty has ever given the dieters' counkoanee to the mese of tae Reveller: in France agamet the pri'wnt ilitoreririoo. ' , since the period when lie lekrirorio Icel that Goy erutitent ; total if there wore not thou important thtferences in the two cases they wookl he tot illy d 1 Lir in the mile rem iii i$ .g pitiut ; for in the of the ti nor- of Mato, as tea+ beet. :Orionis stated, mow thstiniting the vielesace of the times, and the :Jeerer to which the Protestaist site:Melon was realty exposed, Chit strong act of authority was, ctuifined to the person of the Pr tenter ; the iodiviillial whit intot tae teeoglisiot In that character by the Froich Government, and who.. core c in alone bearany similarity to the fuoner evert to Una respaxit, is nor, and never has hoer, within his Ntojeaty's d nuimons : /titer igeOP dent. mielit be adduced mn tho seine it ; but u is not noceoary to state thorn, as the toregoiiie are stoticient With reelect to tie- eamplorets he dotail tinier the second head.—U, an the first; you lila, hiforat tile Fiericii Govern. noon, that the i clog:otos is Jersey, neuty t.f %Agin liad re mealiest th solely on ate-tout of the elempii est of subsisteeco had actuoky moneyed, or were telllnVllla !brew:out to the repre sentation creteeniiiiithein in Mr. Otto's note, aiot titan before your explaation meth Mr. Tallevrand eau take place, there will prohaliy not be ot emigrant the island. To tiw locoed COelliiiaint, which relates to the bishnoe of Arno and Sr_ Pot. d, 1.0„,,, snit 0thc..,,, his Maieoy ran mitt. reolyi that if the forte alledge.l loonst ttseln Can lie ; i f it tin be pr rvel toot !nor have distributed peps-mon the coast o France, with avi w uf.i'sturl. u re the (44ivernnicot, and of M. during tne people to resist the new clitirelt e.tabli.shineet, jiffs hlaiesty justihed in tokiog all ineestots wohni his :41Virf rnr obeging them tit te:ye the couafty ; but sumo proof mast be adaucel of those leas; mid such proof must Out be dint of their having In a single instance, viz. in reply to the Pope's mandate, published a vintliention of their awn cbialiset, in refusing to conform to the new estoblieltinent, a proceeding in which thsv would be itistiFahie on every prin ciple of toli•eition and justice; hot it should thew that they have siece needed ihemolves of their sitnetion in thi country to crests the nroph• of France a 4 pti.ist the authority of that Government, %kindlier civil Or eeciestastical, On the third einuplalitt, which rem wets the removal of Georges, and (hot persons supposed to he iteserihed as his ad. liercitts, Mr. Otto must have mistaken me its what lie supposes me to have said on that subject. If is Majesty is however vi ry doireus to obviate any eisitse of complaint or uneasMeris wtth reapect to these persons and nicasuees arc in contemplation, stud will he taken, fel the purpose of renottilig them taut of hie Mejerth O European dominions. Chi the fourth eoinplaini respecting the Prinee; of the House of Bourbou, I eau only refer you Cu, my tOrnser answer His Meieety has no desire that they should continue to reaide in this ..esintry, if they i-e doprool, or can ire induced to quit it ; but he feels it to be Inconsist nit with his honour and his sense of J ustice to withdraw (rem them the rights of hospitality, as long as they conduct thettoelvea peaceably and quiiely ; and unless toner charge can be substwittiated of their attempting to disturb the pee which sidoisto hearted the two Government+. With respect to the frith complaint, which relates to the French emigrants weariug in this country the orders of their :Lucien' Government ; thoe are few if any persons of that de sc. lotion in this country who wear such orders. It might be o.ore proper if they all abstained from it; but the French Go vernment rout , ' not persist in enpatting, that iroin if it wire eimostent with law, his Majesty could he hid:iced to commit so her-h an ail of authority as to send them out of the country on such an account. I have thus stated to you his M sentiment- on the several points contained in Mr Ottn'S n.uc. YOU, will take an early oppurtuntty of communication titer.* %eighth:tits to the French Government, and of accompanying them with the ar guments and explaaatiusis above stated. And if it thould be eestrol, anti you should he of opinion, that it was likely to pro duce any good efierft, there is no obieftion to your putting the subinance of what you shall hove %toted in writing, and of de liventig it to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as a memoriaa duns of your coot/creation. Upon the general tone and style of Mr. Otto's attic, it is im portant to observe, that it I. tio from canciliet ; and that the practice - •( presenting notes of this doeript;on, rat any motive Of suggestion of persoriol irritation, cannot fail to have the et. feet of indisposing the twoGoverioneets towards each other, in steed of consolidatitie and strengthening the peace winch hap pily soloists between ttiem. Th..t after a war, in whirr the plosions of men have been rimmed beyond former exemoles, it is statism! to suppose that the distrust, jealousy, and weer hostile feelings. of individuals should aim immediately subsic:e, and under these circumstances it aopears to he both the iiiterest and the dusty of the two l;oternments, Ly a iiiihiand temperate Conduct, graiiitaliv to allay these feelings, acrd nut on the con trary to provoke and segment them by untimely irritation on their pan, cud by acribitig proceedings infernos:* abuse noticed to causes to winch. they have no reference. His arfaiteny has thus fully awl frankly explained his sentiments, and the ground of his ciinaltictO He is sinzereli rh;posial to adopt every mea sure fur the preservation of mom, which is emisistent with the honour and ohlepreodenee of his couiitry, ant with the security of its laws andconoitution. But the Finch Gevernotent ientit hare honied a most toninatius ju Iginent of the disposition of the Eritith maho u t, and of the char.'s-ter of its Government, if they have been taught to expect that any reoreseutation of fierigo power will ever in item them to eutuicist to a violation of. throe rights on which th; HS oties of the 'woole of this titulary art founded. I love the honour ilO be., ilOc. (Sig led) IIAWKISBURY. A Merry, Ext. &c. No. VV. TR ANSI-ATIION—NOTF. General Vial, Minister Plempoteittiory of the Repuhlic et Malta, having set out fur his skein:at:on about the 'Zuni of Ju ly, it is tope prioutited, that he will sou* b•• Ist al condition to eater halo a conceit with his Britannie Mairroir's Minister Ple nipotentiary ou theta:notation of Malta and Of its dem:nave cies The three months in which this evarvation ehosill have taken place, Sr.- expirol ; and it boa, the intention of the two t;oiwelitient4 Coat the execution of the Treaty of Amiens should experience the hrao possible delay, the riot Consul would have loom desirous that the two thustioad Sea*, °titans who are realty to at :Bart, etiold have been trabsported at an early period tootle Island of Malta, to be in ecidieco when ever the evactiatiots shall lie on the point of beteg cifirtert. It appeals, nevi. itholois, that Mr. 1)111411)one, VW Forliali Minister at Naples, 11.15 nut been authorized by hit Govern. melt to fieilitite this tram:part ; and that tlt t suotiee ellestOot by that Minister WAS, that the stiptilatiops which ought to pre cote the eviieuateitt nut h:iug fulfdied, that evemotiou could not net take piece. In eummunieating the ollove details to his Focellency food llawloolnify, Brit-tunic :Majesty's Potreitiol Secreltry of State fur thlt Foreigu Department, the undersigned is direfled tnnhierve, that the seudieg the two tletusaiel Neapoli tans to the Wand of Malta rauui4 but be considered as a pre limitary step, in order to Accelerate the evacoofsmo as soon as the ueresstry Mrtasuresaltall hose been taken by the relic:live Pleidpotentiaries ; and that it does not in sap manner prevent the sittiseii dent cumarrt . on the details of the east:motion, con formably to thee! inset of the Treaty of Amiens. The undersietted is moreover directed to reition the British Ministry to give general itistructoes to his 14 liooty's Plenipo tentiaries at Nettles, and at M .Ito, that the evacuation, *Aid the other conditions of the kith sortie, may be exeettted without obstacle, and without those Plenipotentiaoct conceit ing obliged to refer to their (loyeroviroit on lath of 142 truce,:serre operatious which should Like once. -7 ~- I • . The Inaletiratfolernblettort oltportlittitr yret?nt to ilia Exeettud7 1.4.19 lliwkottut:r, Ike hero. k r,e a b.. rospectfut tftiviier Atto.n. loorol. tervott (S ()CO of 316Excalottcy Lori 11AI6Ice.aurr, [sc. 3_4. • No. X V --!tip/ IF. The U LKI.T3i4CRUd ha.% tbt4 ileittatlT to aCkflOtale 1r the receiil of Mt. Otoci4 itoge of the t!tit invtant. When the Neapolitan t;oventnieat woriAed to Mr. Drum mond, Itliaister at ltiaplea, that the YOun wear 'thick his Sicilian Majesty had selected 00 serve in Malia„ wee ,. ready to ;inmost to their destination, that (;_tutlcitiati dezlitted taking a.,y step to fai:ilitate their enibarllat:on, till he aliould receive isitAlifellee of the arrival of Sir Alexatider Sall in that isiand, and till he should he informed that the COnernalider in chief of the Wraith Rows had MIA!. suit ehle prepirations for their arc Amon. By the 1 24 adv err from Malta it appear., that Sir _Vex:indef . B di had arrive 4 there 4WI tnr tenth of fist month and titit, alter having conferred with Getweil Fix upon the sittijiNl, be had to Mr. Ihtmlottood, that there was in. impediment vi hat-% ef to the immediate ree • i )tiow of the Neitolitan trioups, and that their quarters Ismail 112 pre peed accotditselir; the mirk:signed has the honor to statetbis to Nl.Ottu as the must satinlietory answer which he can give to his close. h ie proisaide, therefore, that the troo;o of his cilian Mileate se, Ahead!: embarked and uu th ; but to vritveat the pootbility of any littnecessary (1..1ay or miscon ception, the moot ex ',licit incontolions will be immediately for • w j i s l,4l vs Mr. I.lrunintionl on this ruble: t. With *fume to the other points in NT (hto's note, the sindertigned can only repeat what he has before stated to him, that 1* ‘ll;esty Is nowt sincertly dutirous to sze all the stipu lati r'ia the t.sistli article of the I)ctiretiva Tr!arY carried into eUct with the utmost punctuality, and with the teat posil.bh• dal iv. \V.th this view he talci.-4 this opportunity of oleiervine to M. Otto, tha' by the vet! last diapittches front !he Engl .Imbassaiho ..t St. Petersiturgh, the French Mimi:ter at that cola had nut even then teceiseil any itiatriutions from his Govitni!nent relative to the steps to be taken in concert with Lott St. !laden's, fur invitinir the Emperor to become a via ranter of the provisions and stipulation.: of the article in rows tem. The French Micisti:r wit; in thu same cement. Tile unlersigned, therefore, requests that M. Otto world have the goodness to reoreson the circumstances to his Goverionent, and to urge then, if they hare out already done n, to traasinit without delay to their Ministers at those courts, the necessary instructions for bringing this part of the bodiless to 4 conclusion. Tliellllll:•rsigned requests M. Otto to accept the 'insurances of his high esetsideratitos (Signed) HAWKESBU RI% Downiugstreet, August 23, ISOQ. No. XVI.--Extract of a Dualateis from Mr. Merry to Lord I layskesiturs, dated PAris, October 3, 11 1 102. Assault ea the Helvetic Government had retired from Berne to Lao: a suei, the partizans of the antient federative system of the Swiss Cantons, yi hu established immediately in the former city a provisional Goviousnent, deputed a confidential to Paris, for the purpose of counteracting the measures of M. Stmifer, and of engaging the First Con , ill to suffer the inhabit:tits of Switzerland to settle their alf..irs ainiessto themselves. Ile was instructed in any einergeacy to address iiiniself to the Miuisteis bore of the principal powers of Europe, and to solicit their in terfereis .e and assistance in th objects of his mission. He reaele-d Paris thur days ago, awl had mason to flatter himsol; from thereo n !, 14 art inters iew which he bud immediately M. Talleyrand, nut the Furst Consul would put 110 oleo:He in the way of aue ierasigem ott which the Swiss might agree upon a mo tt g th e mselves fin tile final settlement sit their Governinesit he 11014 therefore touch surprised to loam soon afterwards, that a crange had taken place-in tbe Fist Consul's sentiments, and ► big astonishmont was compleated when he fitund that the latter hail taken sit decided ands* unfavourable a part in the business, as that which is announced by a resolution published in yester day's Muniteur, (which I have the honor to transmit inclosed in the firm of an address to the inhabitants of Switzerland. -.- This permit having, besicli this public declaration, acquir ed some private information of its being the First Con sul's iutention to give the most immediate and vigorous effort to it, lost rw time in addressing a letter to the latter, in which he took the liberty of stating that he must have been deceived by false representations, that his interference in the affairs of Switzerland, was, as he was au thori.tect to say, entirely unsolicited by the majority, and the best thinking part of the inhabitants; and that he had, there for!, to entreat of him, in the must earnst planner, to suspend the execution of his resolution until those explanations could take place, which he trusted nefaht be the metes of preventing the immeose effusion of blood which would otherwise inevi- ; tably ensue. Ile at the same time addressed himself in the course of -jests-Hay to sue, as well as to the Austrian and Spanish Ambassadors, and to the Russian and Prussian Ministers, (not having g tined admittance to Mons. de eilbl:ll7.Pi, nor to M. de Markoff or Leer-twain'; he afterward; wrote to them), solicit ing, in the strougest terms, an interference (jointly, if possible,, on their part, with the French Government, to endeavour to avert the impending evil I naturally observed to him in an swer, that the present state of political relations between the great powers of Europe afforded no prospeft of his obtaining of their Ministers at Paris, to adopt a concerted measure in favour of the °Neel which he hail so ouch at heart, and that of course I could not take it iselividtedly opus Wyse f„ without any ex press he-troilism from my Gos.traintent. 11. rcturitatt to me to day, to acquaint sue that he was 1101 wily ies yut %Yid t a reply, from any quarter, but had reason to f that his provers would not he listeatsi to b. the Autortso„ R itsr t an , an d Prus sian Ministers ; he thers - tore conjures to, to truorott (Arm to bra Mujetty's (:orcrartent, jimo arkons ono', his <ountiy , rett could beer twee of sit riving any as.irtuttre in tile sepr;hte roe ice whi.44 he korrr th.y were dttrnniued to Whirl, nod which wool,' poly re-on , toe rrternaioation of ferry 114/0/eOJs and loon omit in the could ry. lie then pot Wm my hand a Ni,te which he bud drawn nn in a burry, and of Olileh I inclose a copy. Whilst, my Lord, it, was out or Inv newer to give hire any encouragement to expect front hi: Maiesty's Governmesst the assiett'tce which his petition expresses, I have thought it my ditty to leer no time in making you oequailited with a stn. , of things which may shortly be at tended with very important coneripieuees. (Istelossire referral to iu No, XVI.) Tic ANSLA.TION.—NCYFE. So long as Sw stenhind was ovetitteit by the French armies, the wishes of the people could never he freely manifested. The petty re y o . o ti.,ns w hich took place in the tloventinent new the lucre tricks of certain factions, 12 which the nation at large took hut • v.-ry triflitig itemest. Scarcely did So b.svr. land thiuk herself indepentta,it, when she was desirous of re turn.ng to her ancient institutions, rendered •till dearer (Si her lv b •r late misf trtunes, and the arbitrary acts of the Geier:t int-in furnished her with the mean; of doing so. Almost the ttolo of Swiss:Wand, with tinesampled unanimity and modo r•tion, sttnitk off the yoke. The cantons f orme d thrrnselvet into conernitent b dies; and twelve of to thirteen C:tntinet Swisserland s.eit their representatives to the Diet of Schwitz, in order these to org mire. a central power which might be Ac- Cep*.tbie to the neighbouring powers. The acistsx-r..t;•-tl Canons rettuulieed their exclusive rights; - the Pays de Vaial eras left at liistrty to form its own eens -n.. lotion, as w.ll as This-eoeia and the other now Canton.. The Government having taker refuge at Laitssniir, sets by no means smut: there, no...with:tending its yetrol3.- troops patiaps even at the present moment it no lotteer is! c. %Vim would nut have thought that actottlitig to the stipu lation of thr treaty of Lunevil'ie, which giants independence to Switzerland, and the right of chousieg its own govenunent, every thing was settled, and that this nation ruiglit see its former hopeniess and tranquillity revise' Who could have thought 'Vat the First Consul would have iSsued sitch a do nr.: as that of the eih Venden t hre Is an int!enendant nation to be thus treated ? Should Bon a parto !won't in his detertninatit n, and the ether powers should net intsiTt+se. iti nor favour, it only remains for tic either tie burs , ourselve; in the ruins of nut houses, although without -hope of resistatten, exhausted a> we ire by the Colossus who is abut-A to overwhelta us, or to debase uurselves in the eyes of the whole Uttiorers- ! Will the Coverument of this genemint . nation, which has at all times anniest to many ;Hoofs of the interest it takes in the welfare of the Solos, do nothing for us under circumstances. wit cli arc to dead., w liethet we are atilt to be ranked among j free oeu.de ? We hay • only men left us: The revolution, and spolia- Lions without enJ, hate eithistStera our means :AVe are without anus, witiotie eittistonitioo, without stores, and without mbisey to parches:: thesu. N o , XVII.—hiOTE VERBAI.F. Lordliawkesbury has r-coerced his Metjesty's commands to continueirate, through Mr. 1 / I 'w, to the French Govern ment, the sentimeeet of sleep repel which Late been excited in his Majesty's 'Hied by the addr7:ssof the heir t Consul to the H Ivetie people, which was pu .I'•>h .1 by rite its the Mo ( autsur of use let ttuteut,. 4i.d .'zeri....ratiatiatia 'Lich . , `U w e been newt e to lies Mile* ow thiesuli j eet, on.ifelretied the lotion whose itatere-14 ate so herriv4iat.ly.articted by it. w•4l sime-rely laments the ramseul ions to whic:t theSwik; Cl:dont hare f e *mote time IL" been but he ca, k consid.r their Ltetrterr.orts in tat othettizht than as rho /awful efforts of a brays anti gc.i.trittu 111 tit r revoyrurat e aotteitt hots anti gos !tow AU, cod petecirre th» ve-esrablrsir stout oi a treeiti wnich •fx , xtritio e hat ileoninwrated, ne t only to be totoctoda'a: to the notitirenanee of their ilienextie hapiristeot, hot yr be pettedly ciotaitawitit wit:. the tiatixihillity aii4 sacurity tat other powery TneCtitoms of Swits.2ll a 1 tiagaestionahly presets, eta the SAW. ei itrue os every other in le,vendemit .tote, the Tighe wive. galaftwe their itMfl ithereal c ate •nts; this rt;lti has mor, over, iu the pvespot itedanice, tirrimttly aid ex;dieitty giaranteed to the Swiss nation by the Freurh Gottreinent, t.te treaty of Loweville, conjointly with thrivitlor poweis who were 'outfit 1.0 that ellpgsagleilt. Maielity lets nn desire Vitus that the i teople of flaitraolautt, tslia now appeal` to be. t. g 'nest extol. hi!. left at liberty to title theient7l hatem.d Government without the itneriNgit*On Of aay Foreign !twee v ; au4 with whatever re;tet h vlajesty may have pers , ed the late poiclantaterit (tribes Freoch GoverninEt4 ne is yet onctiNtog to believe that they will foriff:r aitempi eh emit tool that itokitetedeitt nation in the exeriisr of th-nr un iloul,teil rights. Ilia Majesty think+ himself cailed elite) be his regarl for the gaiter* , interesU of Europe, and by hi% prctrliiir i4,lteitude for the happings lad welftre of the swim wati.:l, exer..sa thele his sxutitnetits with a f-siikness and sincerity which he feels to tri , due ot his charatter, and to the good miller stand, Lig which he 14 desirous of pre.servier, with the Government of France. _ _ . lA~wniri '4 S~rrct 9 Oduber 10, 1802. M. Lttu, Arc. No. XVIII. Sir, Downing-street, O. 10,113°2. Ills Nfajeety haeine d.femed it eicpedient, that a runfiden tial person ihntild be sant at the present moment to Swit ect laid, in couseqeenee of the commueication which he has re ceived Fenn the Swiss confederacy, titroligh their tenements rive at Paris, I am commanded to inform you that he has made choice of you err that purpose, it is of the utmost co n sequence, considering the visitor's cjf thehiteinees with which you are entrusted, that you should hoe uu tiose in t•iking your dupai tare from hence, and that % ( ; 4 1 should make every prafticable exertion to arrive oss the fuer' tiers of Switzerland with as little delay as pessible. You will inform yourself there what is the actual residence of the Go ofernment of the Swiss confederation, to winch you will imme diately repair. Daring taken the proper means to &hum a confidential interview with the ps-resus who may be entrusted with the princinal direCtion of affairs, you wliconoutairiute to them a copy of the note verbale whirls I dehverrl to M. Otto, and which is herew.th inclosed : and you will take ev..•ey .ip portranity of impressing upon their minds the de.•p iiiter • t. which his Majesty takes iii the stict.ess of their exertions. You will state to them, that his Majesty entertains hopes, that his tepreseetation to tit • French Government may have the effect of inilitchig the First Consul to abandon his inteii tion of compelling the Swiss nation he force to renounce that system of ginfeolineut ta..der which they hail so long prosy red, and to which they appear to he almost unanimously anistuis to return In this event his Ma i eety will feel liteistif boiled to abstain fmuu all iiiterference ini his part ; it being his ear.: st florirc that the Swiss nation shroud ba left at titierty to reg. late their owu internal concerns, without the interposition of any Fo'eign Power. If, however, contrary to his M..iesty's ca or:ctatbrna, the Frealch Government sliould persist in the cys ton of coercion aarEtuisced in the P.oci.kho.tion of the First Consul, inserted in the Monitzur of the lit not est ) you oil, t in that ease, inform yours •If, Ly every meaty; in our power, of the disposition of the rev* at larg- of the l'aviss Confede racy, and pa.t.cularly of those who have the direction of their I affairs, and of those who possess the yreutest , Lace of influence amongst them, to persevere its the defence of their rights, and in the inaireeietnee of the sateen they have adopted You will likewise inquire into the moans or deferee of which they may be poseisseri, and of the proballity of :heir-heing exerted with success. You will on no acenunt ei.courage them to ~ers evere iii active measures of resistance which they are. sot themselves desirous to adopt, or whid. they may believe are unlikely to be ultimately. effectual. lf, however, you should find that the people of the Swiss Confederacy are gencrak de termined to persevere in the maintenaece of their indepen dence, and of their right te return to their ancient syst.int of governinent ; and if you should be of opinion, that/min the union that Yussists amongst the people, and from their zeal and enthusiasm in the cause i r which they Are engaged, they are finally resolved at all hazard% to resist the threatened at tempt of the French Government to interpose by tome of arms, in the s•etlement of their internal concerns; you will then immediately communicate, iu confidence, to the Swiss Government, that either lam the event of a French army having entered the country, or iu the eveie of your having reawin to be convinced that a French army is actually advancing for that purpose, his Majesty has authorised you to accede to their ape licarion dot pecuniary SUCCOUTS. I have furnished yon with a cypher and cicyplwr that you 'may have it in your power to obi-resit/3nd with his' Majesty's Ministers at Vien ea and Munich, if you should think it aii viseable; awl as it is pro'iahle that the armies of this Swiss r iey may he in...lequately sup,died with arms, int natutitiou, or prov.sions, aial may be desirous of •.rocuring sup.. pica thereof front the neighbouring countries, you will use your utmost endeavour, to gyro them every facility for this pur pose. You will be very particular in informing rue of the RUM - hers and situation of ailyAuetraii corps in the neighbourhood of Switzerland, and of.the probability of their advancing in any event into the Sw 1614 territory. As it is of great importenee that his Majesty's Government sheuld be regularly inforined of the event; widell may be pass ing in Switzerl inch, and of liw disiessitions that may prevail there, you will endeavour to ascertain the most safe and expe ditious mode of conveyiug vour letters, which will avoid their poositte through any part of thu French Republic.. A s it is possible that previous to your arrival . in Switzerland the present state of affairs may have undeirme a dee,iderl alte ration, either in consequence of thp submissiou of the Swiss Cantons, or of any romprondee having taken place as to their i n t er n a l ciincerns, it w ill be proper that, in that rase, you should take up your rt.sriazisec in sual a situation as you Mae think twist convenient in the neighbourhood of Switzerland, of which you will give me the earliest intelligence, and there wait for his Majosty's further orders. 1 am, lec. (Signed) lIAWKESBITRY. Francis Moore, Esq. No NIX. lay I.nrd, Cnestanoe ' October SI, 1802. I have the honour to inform your Lordship that I arrived here no the 27th instant, amid that, having re.ceived this even ing atitlientic inforinttion of ttie submission of the Diet of 'Switzerland, assembled at Schwitz, to the French Arms, 1 Erne no time in dispat:hine The messenger Shaw, with this inn sellieenee; frnmiwhi. h Your Lordship will perceive that it only terwi iii a for me to 4.bry that part of my instructions by which ern direeterl, under such circumstances, to take up my; resi lit•lte. in the neieltivourhood of Switzerland, arid there to await . his Slajesty's farther orders. I have the honour to be, dre (Stetted) FRA. 11100Rlf. The Right lion. Lord Illawkesbury, &c. &c. Nn. XX. Sir, Downing-street, Nov. 25, 1802. 1 have duly receiviod your several letters by the Alessinekv Shaw. As from the present state of Svritserland your continuance its the viliitity of that country appears to be no longer necessary, eon are at liherty to return to England as soon as it may suit your convenience. I am, der. Francis Moore, Esq. (Signed) lIAWKESBITRY, No. XXl.—Extract of a Dispatch from Mr. Liston to Luid Ilawkeibory, dated llague, 13th October, 1802. A f.ns , boon after I had sent oli my last dispatch to your Lordship (on Saturday the 9th of this month), the French Ambassador, M. de Seoionk ills, waited upon the President of the Government of State, and informed him that he had just received, by a Courier from Paris, orders to irdorm the Go vernment of this country, " Que le Premier Consul avoit appris, avec antant de sur prise que d'indignation, qiiedes nersonnes avides de revolutions vouloient de nouveau trouble, Ic Repos dans la Ratavie, en atm. sant mime pour cet effit d• noms respectab'es ; et que le Pre mier Consul, commis allie de la Republique, ink itoit le Gou vernernent A prendre touter la misures neeessairos pour main tenir l'oldre des chases itabli par la Constitution." These were nearly the words read to me by the Secretary of State, from a note in his own hand-writine, dictated to him by M. di S ,monvilte, with a view to its nublicarion, (and a trans lation was Accordingly ievertk.d in the Dutch oficiAl paper aft