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lie merged, that the situation of Ministers was diffi cult, critical and embarrassing ) but still he felt it his duty, as a public man, and had long since learn ed to harden himself against the feelings and sug gestions of private friendships ; he therefore ~bie t tei to the words 44 uniform endeavour" in the original address. He sincerely believed the Ministers intended and wished to preserve the bless ings of peace, but he did not see that they took the best means to obtain it. Every one was now na turally the friend of peace, with the exception of some conquemrs who were the slaves of their nwn ambition, and who fortunately in these times were going fast out of repute, and attraled but little real admiration. War could only be wished for as the means of peace, like the inscription on the great 48 pounder at Dover Sic ptimus perm." The line he wished to recommend to Ministers was to accept the proffered mediation of the Emperor of Rits;ia, and be was glad that they retained the pos session of Malta, which might by him be consi dered as a compensation for his services. Were he quite sure that we had a good cause, and that war must be unavoidable, he should lament, but would not much dread the final issue of it, as the free peo ple of Great Britain, with its present population, never would and never could be conquered. Mr. ALEXANDER spoke in favour of the ad dress, and highly complimented Ministers for their attenti, - in to the dignity of the country. A desultory conversation ensued, in which Mr. Johnstone, Mr. W. Dundas, Mr. Wilberforce, and other Members took a part ; after which the ques tion of Address was put and carried ; and such Members as were of his Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, were appointed to present the same. The other Orders of the Day were then read and deferred.— Adjourned. THEATRE-Ro rAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING wilt be presented (few the Last Time this Sca•tpll the Comic Opera of THE CABINET. Orlando, Mr.Brahain; Peter, Mr. Munden; Whimsiculo, Mr Fawcett ; and Lorenzo, Mr. Intledon. Curioso, Mrs Mattocks; Cunstantia, Mrs 11 Johnston ; Leonora, Muss Howells; Crudolia, Mrs. Dibdasi Doralice, Mrs. ?we!! and lksretta, Signora Storace. To which will be added, LOVE A-LA-MODE. Tr►morron., Jo:la Bull, with gta We. of Terror; and on Monday. with rcruthe. TIIEATRE-Roniz„ HA r.i R K ET. THIS EVENING will be presented the Comedy of THE POOR GENTLEMAN. Frtdmick, Mr. Elii.-ton : Sir Robert Bramble, Mr. Blisset; d, Mr. Mattows; Curooral Fir', Mr. Hatton; Lieute nant Winthinzlon, Mr. Asher ; Stephen Minot. by, Mr. Bin ton r, Sir CharieeCcoutand, Mr Trucman. Emily Wortbing son. M. Gibbs., bfi-ir Lucretia Mac Tab, Mrs. Ward. To vshich will tstlded ROSIMA- Rerille, Mr Trueinart; Mrs. Atkins. To-morrow, he Lying Wet, and The Birth Day, with a Comte Piece, is Two Acts, (never performed; called Mrs. Wiggins. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY We yesterday gave the comniunication of the rupture of the Negotiation which was laid, by or der of the FIRST CONSUL, in the form of a note from M. TALL EYR A ND, before the Senate, 'Tribu nate, and Legislative Body. We hoped, at the time, that we should be able to give, in our paper of this day, the speeches which were made upon it in these several Assemblies.— In this hope, however, we find ourselves disap pointed by the arrival of a new set of Paris papers of the 21st, which cont.tin the Message of the FIRST CONSUL to these Assemblies upon the same subjal. We have translated the article, and the proceedings upon it, at full length. A Message from his Majesty was last night brought down to both Houses of Parliament, an nouncing his Majesty's intention to call out forth with the Supplementary Milit►a. Mr. TALBOT, Secretary to the British Embassy, left Paris on the COth.—General ASUR BOSSY arrived at Paris on Friday moping last, at half past five o'clock. The French Funds on the 20th, were 50. 10. Yesterday, a Court of Direetos was held at the East-India House, whey the following Commandere took leave, viz. Capt. Raiit of the F.arl Spencer. Gr.tbaro Taylor Gl4)r) . Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East-India House, when Jolts INGLIS, Esq. was elated a Di reaur, to serve two years, in the room of Sir JOHN SMITH MACES, Bart. deceased. Yesterday EDWARD SMITH, Esq. Citizen and Skinner, nominated by the. Lord Mayor, at a Court of Mayor and Aldermen, on Tuesday last, to serve the office of Sheriff of this city, paid a fine of 4001. : t n..l twenty marks, to be excused serving the same. An experiment was made on Friday evening last, at the upper end of New Bond-street, with twelve newly invented lamps and refleaors, substituted in place of more than double that number of common ones; and notwithstanding many unfavourable cir cumstances unavoidably attendant upon new under takings, we were agreeably surprised to find that part of the street illuminated with at least twice the usual quantity of light.—lt has been continued every evening since under more favourable circumstances, and the effesi has been proportionately increased. We see none of that disagreeable glare, produced by lamps furnished with rctrating tenses ; on the contrary, the crescent of light exhibited in each re fleaor, over the flame of the lamp, is really a novel and beautiful sight ; and we cannot but recommend to such of our readers, who may not hitherto have seen it, to avail themselves early of the opportunity, which, the few nights more, the Patentees, Messrs. SMETHURST and Pact, will contilauc the txperi =ant, May afford them. FASHION, The Countess 4 Attraim gave her first Rout this season, at her own hoise, the late resiAence of Mr. Sr. GEO tot CAL' st ELL), in St. James's-square, to near 800 fashiona'oles. Among the company were Duchess—Nortliumberland, Rutland, Bolton, Dowager Rutland, and St. Almo•i. At irchimierzrt-ntleadfurt, Hertford, Bath, Dowager Bath, and Sali,hurv. Cluritenle , —Poitarlineot, RoYeberrv, Lieleuska, Carlin lop tun, Bridg:water, Boektogha:nshire, Clare, Galloway, cumin, Cork, CarnarYon, Uxbridge., and I),irby. Vseounte•s :an rd , and Wentworth . Ladies—W.. Percy, M. Taylor, two Thynttes G Cecil, tan Doemos M. Primros•!, StiwArts, If unloke, Bouton, Calthorpe, Taner.al, Le Deipetwer, Hamby, C. Howard, J Amon, Bennett, ti trewood. F. Monk, Candor, Urd, tin.. in-vville, M. Kerr, Dowager Lilford, Ilaggeraton, Andover, Carnegie, P..7tre I larieywood, litatheote, Peile, Aughrim, Somerset, and &login. Migres4eri—Woleinan, Dupre, Grant, L. Brooke, Fitzhugh, I.eake, Methuen, Hale, Flnrnby, Lately, Maxwell, DiektnY, Whitbread, R. Wal,.ole,B,mtiock„ Hard or, Walker, Cliarn,• ncy, Denton, Fmcd.ce, M. Borgovria, Fitzpatrick, Nyleyri..l., Gascidgtic, Citheroe, Cox, Diekettion, Jennings H. Grant, Daven i ant, Sheridan, I.aw, Walpole, and Sydney. Misses—Baker, Cranford, M. Burgoyne, drimiton, Pelham, I lunloke, Fortlye,r, throe Abrams. Somerville, 11.iney wood, rthiiel, Dupre, Wilbraham, 1141.4. Whitbread, Dick Baker, A Stanlin;ie, Nlonk, Itoevioad, aad Colooele—Clithem, Wood, and Lately. Captains—Fraser and Bennett. Messrs.-141cow, R. 11 ruverie, T. Grosvenor, A. Stanhope, Dennison, Grosvenor, CholmonrHey, rwa Craut , trd., Foute, Rawley, Smith, Carver, Marritt, R Wil .raham, S Stanhope, M. Borg 'par, Th!llttuott, T. Eskine, Forrester, ad Cox. This day her M Ai Lsr v will hold a Drawing-Room at tit. James's. Yesterday Morning, between nine and ten o'clock, his MASESTY and the Duke of CUMBERLAND, at tended by General GARTH, left the Queen's-House, and took an acting on horseback over Westminster bridge, to Streatham, through the own of Croy don, and returned by Dulwich, Norwood, and Camberwell. His MAJEsT s paid particular atten tion to the buildings and alterations that have lately been made in those neighbourhoods, and returned to the Queen's-House about half-past one. His MA JEST Y is supposed to have rode near 30 miles. About half-past two his MAJ es rY went to St. James's palace, and immediately on his arrival gave an audience to Lord lionA Rl*, who was waiting the arrival of his MAJESTY. About three o'clock his MAJESTY, being seated on his Throne, received the Address of the douse of Lords, which was attended by the Prince of WALES, the Duke of YORK, the Duke of CLMIERL AND, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Archbishop of Den Lin, the Bishops of ST. ASAPH Bats- Tot, GEooctsrEit and DURHAM ; the Dukes of PORTLAND and ROXBURGH ; Marquisses of SA LIS RER V and TownsEno ; Earls SPENCER, ROSSLYN, MOIRA, ONSLOw, ROMNEY, COLRTm% Is, DARNLEY, EFFINGHAM, CHESTERFIELD, and WE;TNIORL AND ; Lords LIMERICK, Kenyon, SELsEY, BOSTON, STOEFORD, WENT wORTH,WILLOUG:IBY DE BROKE, WALsINGH AM, NEWARK, BOLTON, PEMUROKE, CATHCART, MELVILLE, HOBART, PELHAM, and several others. _ _ His Majesty then held a Privy Council, which sat a ennsiderable time ; after which his Majesty gave a private audience to Mr. ADDINGTO N for near three quarters of an hour. Lord PELHAM had like wise a private audience of his Majesty for a con siderable time. About five o'clock his Majesty returned to the Queen's-House to dinner. The Duke of CustataLatio dined with their Majesties. Yesterday morning the Scots Greys were reviewed on Itchill Common, near Croydon, before General GWV NNE. We have great pleasure in announcing the reco very of her Grace the Duchess of DEVONSHIRE from her late severe indisposition. Prince ESTEAHAEY a:ld his suite, in three travelling carriages, and several outriders, ar rived in town on Sunday night in Holies-street, where a house has been fur sonic time ready for his Highness. The fashionable world have to regret the depar ture of Lady HuNTIS or !LLD for Bath, by the advice of her Ladyship's physicians. Col. Beaton arrived in town last night from Ramsgate. Lord MouNvoy and his brother set off for Ire land yesterday, to join their respeaive regiments. Lord Dinatiamtvor4 gave on Monday an elegant dinner to a large party of Nobility, and in the even- • ing Lady Dust; ANPIOI4 had a Concert at their house in Berkeley-square. Lady MILL ER gave a '..rantl • ball on Monday night, to four hundred of the Nobility, at her house in - Portland place. The Earl of Deaav, Lord STANLEY, anda large party of Nobility, set off yesterday morning for Ep som races, which commence this day. The extraordinary Performance of the evolutions of the Broad-Sword exercise on horseback, with the horse in full speed, last night at the ROY AL CIitCLS, gained the Touthful Highlander the highest applans:. The Daneiag Columbine of Miss ADAMS, is the must sprightly we have seen for years. The Rival Statue: will be all laid aside on Saturday next, to make room for novelty. . further In addizion to the Entertainments announced for representation at DitURY-LANL to-morrow evening, a National Address, applicable to the present mo mentous events, written by an eminent Literary Per sonage, will be spoken, and a copy of them (of which we are already favoured) shall appear in our ensuing day's Paper. ,Monday morning the battalion of Foot Guards, doing ditty at Windsor, had a grand field day in the Little Park. Monday the 13th regiment of Light Dragoons stopped at Hounslow, Staines, and Egham, on their way to Windsor, to relizvo the 11th, doing duty there. Those at I lounslow were drawn up on this side of the town, as her Majesty and the Prin cesses passed on their way to London, and saluted the Royal Party as they passed, the band playing God save the King. On• Monday, a trotting match took place on Finsbury Common, between a horse and a mare. belonging to two gentlemen in the City, for a wager of one hundred guineas / for the distance of three miles in the shortest time. rhe horse performed the dis tance in nine minutes, and the mare was close after him. The mare and the horse are both celebrated trotters; and when they ran sometime since against each other, the mare beat the horse. Great num bers attended from London and other parts, and betting was very high on both sides. • .FOREIGN IhrtELLIO.IINO, . : • FROM TUE Fill!Netl PAPERS. Last Friday, at three o'clock, the following Mes• sage was delivered by several of the Orators of go vernment to the Senate, the Legislative Body, and the Tribunate MtSSAGE. St. Cloud, May 20. The Ambassador of Eng!aisd has been re-called ; comiielled by this circumstance, the Ambassador of the Republic has quitted a country where he could no longer hear the lam gull.: of peace.. At this decisive moment the Government :ut;onits to jour view, and it will submit to the view of France and of Europe, its first relations with the Britannic Ministry, the negotiations which were terluinated by the Treaty of Aroiew, and the new discussions which seem to finish by an absolute rupturei 'fhe present age and posterity will there s:•e all that it has done to put an end to thu calasnitiet of war, and with what mo deration and what patience it has laboured to prevent their re- turn. Nothing has been able to interrupt the course of the projects formed to rekindle 41'.secitil between the torn nations. The Treaty of Amiens had Leen negotiated amidst the clamours of a party hostile to peace. Scarcely was it concluded, wheat it was the object of bitter censure. It was represented as fatal to England, because it was not disgraceful to France. Soon after , alarms w^re d4s-minated ; flingers were pretended, on which was established the nece,sity of a state of peace, such as to be a permanent signal of new hostilities. There were kept in re serve, and hired, those vile miscreants, who had torn the bo som of their country, and who were. intended to tear it anew. Vain calculations of hatred ! We are no longer that France which was divided by factions, and buffeted by storms; but France restored to internal tranquillity, regenerated in her ad minkratiuto and her laws, and ready to fall, with her whole weight, upon whatever foreign State may dare to attack her, and to unite with the banditti whifm an atrocious policy would once more cast upon her shores to organize pillage and 2[4,4441116011e_ At length an unexpeled Message, all at once, terrifies England with imaginary armaments in France and Batavia, and suppose, the existence of important discussions, which di. vitl'ad the two Governments, while no such discussion was known to the French Government. lininediat2ly formidable armaments took place on the coysts, and in the ports of Great Britain; the sea is covered with twr stii;is of war ; and it is in the midst of these preparations that the Cabinet of London demands of France th? abrogation of a fuadainental article of the Treaty of Amiens. They wanted, they said, hew guarantees ; and they despised the sanctity ofTruatios, the execution of which is the first of guarantees which nations can give to each other. In vain did France invoke that faith which has been sworn; in ain did she appeal to the forms received among nations : iu van did she consent to hut her eyes to the actual non-execution of the article of the Treaty of Amiens, from which England pretended to release herself: in vain was she willing to delay taking a definitive resolution until Spain and Batavia, both of them contracting parties, could have manifested tfieir disposi tion in vain, in short, did she propose to request the media tion of the Powers who had been invited to guarantee, and who, in effect, did guarantee the stipulation required to be abrogated. Every proposition was rejected, and the demands of England became more imperious and more absolute. It was not in time ptinciples of the Government to yield to meaace ; it was not in their power to bend the majesty of the French People to laws prescribed to them with forms so haughty and so new. Had they done so, they would have consecrated in favour of England the right of annulling, at her sole plea sure, all the stipulations which bind her towards France. It would have authorized her to demand from France new gua rantees, on the slightest alarm which she might have thought proper tc pretend; and hence two new principles would have been placed in the public code of Great Britain, by the side of that by which she has disinherited the ether nations of the coininun sovereignty of the seas, and submitted t her laws and to her regulatiuns the independence of their flag. The Gavernmeut stopped at the limit traced out by its prin ciples and its duties: The negotiation is interrupted, and we arc ready to fight, if weave attacked. We shali at least fight for maintaining the faith of treaties, and for the honour of the French name. Hai we iehled t) a vain terror, we should soon have had to fight to repel new pretensions; but we should have fought dis honoured by a previous weakness, fallen in OUT own eyes, and degradc:l in the eyes of an enemy, which should have once made us bend to her un;ust pretensions. The nation will repose itself in the consciousness of its strength, whatever injuries the enemy do to us in places where we shall not have been able to prevent them or to reach them. Tile result of this contest will be such as we have a right to expect Atm the justice of our cause and the courage of our warreqrs. The First Consul, (Signed) BONAPARTE. By the First Coned, The Seereury of State, (Signed) MARI.T. LEGISLATIVE BODY. PRESIDENCY OF LE ORONO. The Members of the Legislative Body met at two o'clock. After the proces verbal of the last sitting was read, the Counsellors of State, Lacuee, Sally, and liourcroy, were introduced. Lacuee read the above message from Govern meat. " The President—Citizens Counsellors of State, the Legislative Body participates in the anxiety common to all the French, respeeting the Negoti ations opened for the continuation of the Peace with England. They learn with a sentiment suited to their dignity, with a sentiment no less grand than ju st, of an entice confidence in the force and wis dom of Government, which the state of these Ne gotiations leads to fear an approaching rupture. " Hitherto their vows have been for peace, because it appeared to be the first want of the people ; but now a mere imperious want is presented, that of preserving the honour of the French people, which Great Britain has dared to despise. And ounong the French hOnottr is the Supreme fat*. Ciiigens e Counsellors of State, the Legislative Body, anxious to perform its duties Under all cirturnftatices, parti cularly in those points which the ambition and ill faith of the British Government has given rise to, will be firm, immoveable, Unmoved by passoils, and will have no other passions, and will have no other sentiments than those of the closest union with the Government, no other intention than that of assi , st , ing its efforts, no other desire than that of its pros perity.—,-Legislators, you have heard it ! The Bri tish Cabinet spurns the Treaty of Amiens, and pre pares to sustain its pretensions by " In vain the French Government has demon strated in the negotiations ; it has opened for the maintenance of peace, both that moderation which is the diameter of true grandeur, and that desire of saving humanity from the evils inseparable from war, a desire which is the first foundation of the right of the Sovereign, to the lore and obedience of the people, as that firmness, which derives birth from consciousness of its force, as of the justice 'of the cause which it defends. " England insensible to these just cousidera, tions, blinded by its own peculiar interests, wishes to renew those scenes of horror and destruction which has desolated the world. I have said that she is blinded by her interests : In effcst, supposing it true that fortune would balance for a short time between thirty millions of inhabitants, and one that can scarcely number ten millions. Could England hold out the result of the struggle, hand to hand, with France ? Again, to which nation does war, undertaken fur any causes but that of legitimate de fence, present any advantages ? When, in the midst of the most brilliant triumphs, in the middle of the field of victory, the conqueror has always to ere& tombs near his trophies, and to plant cypress near the laurels gained by his vielory. " But do ntt let us seek, in the warlike spirit of rngland, for motives of its menacing position, nor the pretexts of its proud pretensions ; they are to be found in its ambition and in its jealousy. " She sees - the French Republic advancing to , wards the summit of prosperity and grandeur with majestic dignity; she sees out commerce, our arts, our industry, uphold themselves in a manner which presages that we shall soon outstrip all our rivals. " She sees in short that our government and laws profoundly considered, and adapted to our manners, by an administration, attentive, just, severe and eco nomical, conciliates the respect of the People it go verns, and thus founds their happiness on immove able bases. " This is what England cannot endure. This is the cause of the war which she prepares, and which induces her to hazard her faith, her repose, her po litical existence, rather than suffer us to enjoy the blessings of a long peace. " What is this nation, that exhibit* such a cha ra6ter ?—I stop myself.—Perhaps if I followed the impulses of my heart and the dictates of the feelings which I see depicted in the eyes of all about me, I should go out of the bounds of circumspection, which the dignity of the functions of the office with which you have honoured me, demands that I should not exceed. In difficult and delicate cone junctures the high authorities of the Republic ought only to evince sentiments of stria union with tho Government, and of harmony with its august Chief, who will stand equally strong and able, will direa the destinies of the empire, and will insure it, by new triumphs, a peace as glorious as it will be .durable." Vaublanc.—" In the midst of so many subjeas of public and private hope which surround us, when every thing advances rapidly to the national pros perity, why should a peace so recently sworn be. violated, be broken by a nation which so lately re ceived it with so many acclamations of joy. Dur ing the long and sanguinary quarrel which seemed to be brought to a contlusion, the English Mini sters have constantly repeated that they only made war to repel those dangerous opinions, which, from the bosom of France, as if it were from a raging volcano, spread themselves all over Europe, and menaced laws, religion and governments. A man arose to whom is confided the destinies of France. Every thing c!,anges in an instant. The old and sacred basis of the law of nations are respeaed ; religion is re-established. In a moment, against the author of so many blessings, every reproach is di reaed ; and, without being restrained by such a strange contradiction, they accuse the very man, who, in saving France, saved all Europe from that general conflagration which they sought to extins guish by force of arms. Instantly an extraordinary agitation broke out in the British Ministry; demand! succeed injurious to France and its independence. The English Ministers dared to attempt to place the first Magistrateof the Republic, between disgrace and wars He who has so frequently displayed ell the grandeur of a magnanimous soul, has answered as the aation self would have done. Undoubtedly, after having surmounted so many obstacles, he would have known bow to confirm, if it had been pratlicable, that uak a which should have subsisted between two great na. dons, to whom the noble ant vast field of seats more worthy rivalry than the sanguinary Inky of arms. What bead of a nation ever shgvied 7:FI ill IN 1 LI