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. agre etoanytleingswhichmfghtdispleaseE n g land,. really to give way to them, provided that Spain Ma the English Government, and that she ma rest of her cooduct that gaud faith which is con friendly p o wer, who observes a neutrality towarls powers. This deeLsrati .ii, which I hastened to sir court by the same messenger which your Ex- pinclied the very day iu which the first eon . held, must nee...A-aril) , hays met with the.most recruu in n • t Madrid. It will event have ohs dorMts arid fears m which Mr. Frere's note of the tuber (on the matririg of which, the Spanish Mt. tested Mr Frere to demand explanations of his Go bad given rise. Rut as, during this interval, Mr. id a secand note, in which the Spantsh Ministry et discover what might be the intention of England step which Mr. nem had taken ' they have thought t rmab l e, to orsler m: to request the English Ministry the „,„l„,,, in a hank and precise manlier as to their towards Sda.n. Now, since. it is impottant that, in 'Ochs.) deeply iit. rests both Governments, and on ,f which having always agiveal, t h ey have mu ` each other to explanation., they sSouM hasten iicate their respective swishes-4 think that a will he itageons to both Courts, that I should ennyerse with Ilency on -crate points, which may facilitate rut of these wishes. is reason, my Lord, that I take the liberty to re a eenierelice. I flatter myself, that your Excel ant it to molls soon as lone:Ade, particii'arly, as, istrueltuin winch 1 baye received from my Court, taint bat be very favoteahle. *lf with eagerness of this opportunity to, he Th . , Cher. D'ANDU AGA . , of fi o . 16.-.. Chevalier I)'Ancluaeta to Lord sbery, dated Fartland Place, 3 tat March, 1804. eilG—alt re with the greatest eagerness that I desire with lever Excellency, on the contents of the dis- Inch I hale just received from my Court by the last rived front Lisaon. They laird the fullest confirm rery thing ',bias I have had the honour to state to %Ogees' in all our conversations, and especially in he 21st and efitit of January, respectine the wenn Ico iduet of theKaag, my master, tawa . rds Ilia Mei jer!. I will not here repeat the answer which his Ex ne Chevalier de Cevallos glee hi Mr. Frere, on tits 4trtury, with regard to the cnmplaints brought for• its three Notesof the :Oland 24th of the um:: moeth. wee, a; well front its simplicity and the force of its rea hoin its conciliating spirit, avid the 13340 positive as of the King's tiprig'ttnets in all his prucee4iegs, the of eliieh is supported by well knoan facts, cannot the British Gcrerninent the leest duoht as to the eon. ;pain in the neutrality which she has arfripted with Belli:crest Powers. I seprene, my Lord, that this II have retched you, and I refer you entirely to it. I have never lost any oe portun ty of informing my A' every thing which cou ld ' contribute to accelerate a uncial - standing betwarn the two Geveritmete.s, relative , eutrality of Spain, and especially of the fears manifest- British Govereinent, Iced any thins to the piejudire suit would have bean 'stipulated in th n treaty of neu concluded with France, I hasten, my Lord, tai tom le to year Excellency what the Chevalier do Cevallm me tit this respect, on the 4th March last. "In the' Neutrality with France," says he, " we have oust ad ty particle prejerlie.al to F.egtand ; and we have re- IMO which appeared foreign to a Treaty of Subsi4y. ta fix the amount cif these, regard has been lent to the .e which the *WV/WI in kied, such as are stipulated in 'reat • y of Alliance with France, world have cost 'us. Oise e of these subsidies is retained for the Payment of the 'us by this power. We hale, without violatine our , afforded to the English all the succours of which ..hs have been in need. Out conduct tow.irds the bas skin been gov-stet by the sem, ceieripl s. Tee raneraitteal to Hr Ileitapille Majesty's MMlster, req. ; that Court, breathe noeihig but candour, X eirl faith, r desire to preserve the strichst use Shiley. The tenet roof of this is the note stash. I reanimated to bide on if. Febritary last, in answer ui several complaints which addr sett to me, and of which I send your Excel!enry ' copy, to enable you to make use of it en Lord Hawkey,- You will there•obaerve, that Mr Frere makes no vettun odour, and to our °senors; slime, at the very time is that his Government enterttins the most ardent 'seep up a good understanding with Spain, he throws am ti capable of alarming us, and of e.ogging our amerce, although we have demanded of bin clear and defi ..'e explanatmos In short, I can essore sour Excellency, thiuvwwistneiw relastve to commerce has been stipulated io *hr. "r 'say of aubsily ' Hatter mysel, my Leel, ht previously making von this •pt and friend•y ceminunicition, that your Excelleuey will sae, as wint as possible, an audience, in order that we ,for touth.l objects which are so deeply interestiog Goversurrems. I ava.l myself of this opportunity, &e. (Signed) The ClievalierD'ANDUAGA. (Ttaitelation of No 17.1 induaga to Lord fiewkesbury, dated Portland Place, Ist May, 181,4. LORD—Having+:raty Court a copy of the ennti• note, which I had the honour to hatistuit to your F.ll. y on the 9th March last, on the subject of the neutrality in, 1 have the fatisfaction to announce to your Excel „ that tii.! Mug, my master, has cntinly apprised of its ecosenei, and that His Majesty has found therein the faithful •%prevaiurts of his loyal intentions, and of his pacific views Eticlan.L With this I am male acquainted by the Che. le Cevallo., in his ili.pateh of the I.t \ pr.!, whuadds, in order nut to feats the Briti.lt Ministry the least room doubt on the real system of our Coun, His Nla: ,, ty had ac to the conditions which Mr Frere had demanded, as ac tor insuring the acknowledgment and observance of our hay on the part of England." The Chevalier do Ceval. the same time tritium:mod to me a copy of the answer he returned to Mr. Freres note of the Intl' February out I have the honour to send you a literal translation of !loch t our Excellency CAOSIut tail to be convincAl of the meerity of all my common:cattails, and of the constr.' , dis:ion• <of n.y court to :.trengtlitm and increase *lla relations of tip which sii!istst between the two Gore nments I avail &c. ( Sig ) The Chevalier frANDU kGA. (Ti.i.r,lation of Itichisiire, No. 17.) order to answer the note which you did rue the honour transmit to me VII the Iltli Fe iruary last, respeeiug reve -1 paints relative to the neutrality of Spain, as with regard t , : , .otland and France, in the preaent circumstaneet of r. urorye, I have taken that tined which the import owe of an affair all iten-sting to the common happiness of the subjetes of both is , vereigi.s required. . . _ . - WS above mentioned Nute, after haying piutio4:4 the or Laws oil which your Court founds the aekuoviledg. of our neutrality, and vr,sely ditemsed the advantages mscpuen:esofea.:llof tho,e points; you conclude, by totpsutg dahnitelr, Ly order of your givemnient, as the baits `e Mtd acknowledgment, the cessation of all armaments, • the • tle of pr.ats earriel into the ports of thirst king adding, that you are not authorise.) to admit any MAI- O° thl.definitive proposition. . --- A to the first Kin!, that is to tat, the cessation of'all arroin. .raments, I have nothing to add to that, which, on d•fferent ro.:e.saions, and particularly in my Note of the BM of January ‘ , .t, I have hart the honour to communic.de to you, since the dud of this Cabinet, under the present circumstances, a (*dissipate every shadow of d ruht, of any hostile oh the part of the King my Ina rtcr ; anJ, conseq.ient y, perniadA that Iles &Janine Majesty'. wishes aid d. roands are entirely sinisied on this meet. With regard to on cessation] of the sales colorizes bought into 'anti or Siam, a:thosigh that affair was iusceptiblc of grro..t iiesotoes, they ham, nevertheless, been sermon/wird by Ka ,city's l,u . rnc w0h.21 ; and you may assure sour Court, that, •or.natity to your dJ•nandr, the sale of.the prizes of either bellvrent nation., brooglit into the ports •0 there king ous, will not be permitted, loss kfatesty haying given oodeis relating thereto, winch mail ti • rizponnisly observed. Majesty napes, that as this prohobition is really imenuti• his ine•reat, arid to thole of his soihjeets, the Kong oil at &item will look oil this CO4deit'ellSl(l/1 as the must t•th 'our Putof of hos Aerate to preserve the must perfect under long with His Britannic noway, and as ionpunine On KIM , fresh obligation to have fur S t rain all the conned :rations the unriehtnerss, the good faith, the geueriwit . , sod the views ut the Kogg my master. ,m, tee ( 11 14 1 d) rEPRV cEVALLOS. Spain to a: eV wool.l be re. d tree& wit rested hi the re cant to a friend 4eratt Pow 4 to III! S•eth • s lrroate i , a nte was het the dote: h Decem ber ail requested rotten) bad r ee deliver , d alit not yet di . :he last ' that eti-,ac towa which e principle u fly invited e • coin inuilical cry advantage • ur Excelleni i nplistouent It is for th 6 mot of You a now will gran on the indf result cam I avail Luys4 ranslation flavit , rbn MY LORI cnufrr with tehes whi& ket arrive time of ever our Exedle 4 • ore of the 2 eats and co nnie Majes it e ney the 7th of Feb , and in his tl is answiir i ning, as fir mance' of tl incerity of 'are on the uct of :Steel and to the IE &hoer will But as I ourt Of el •ifect unda the neutr by the Be Engiaod atity coact unieste to oformel m irate Irf N itted any wet •1111 t n Order 111 ex pence WI our Treaty part even re sums need their 'emelt French has Notes tram dent at thi and the dui recent mato the 2 1 . 1 th Fs be had adds a there: cop bury. Yot to our nod lee prow ti desires to it , an propos commerce, ni'e expla thoswessio. Tr 'au of I Hatter prompt ars rant me, mar to truth to D'Ane MY LI sieuttal no cellenty a of Spain, lency, tha eutatentx, expreauur towards F. salter de w that in for doubt cvded to cessary fo neutrality los at the which he laid, and it, be wit sincerity vims of G , enbhii re) ell, d lu ord traoso, eel lotion E.lgland 1 bare ti 1 , 1 the punts or meta of .ltd emir prom:win: • the as and of ti drusia tri stone I As to eta merit oxioione ti t, h eihrlud nagl.t to tr ln, gm I an per rands a With *ewe, Ttla,city e.l,tor.n tlse 6. 44 qua, relatilly His % ui It Groat tl recsuux Amodio' laud • h due tot firifiC No. 19.—sEttra3 of a Dispatch Crain .J. H. Fiore, Empire, to pied Ihnroirby, dated Madrid, ratli July, 1804.-s-Received 17th Jahr, The subsidy paid by this country to France hail been rreu larly acquitted ay to the month of May, at the rata of Sen,tloo dollars per mouth A new expedient has since beim hit upon for enabling the French governnient to avail its:hot the re sources of Spain to an extent which will riot be limited by those difficulties which mutt sooner or titer have put a stop to the extra:hoe of specie A Man of iv., millions of dull its has been negotiated at earis in favour of thia I;overaitient, or, More properly sneakiiig, rat favour of that of France, as it is not to be imagined that any p art of it will ever had its way into this country, or he appli - el to any other purpose than that of the payment of the stipulated tribute. It is agreed thst the capital is to ba repaid at the end of three years ; the annual ie. *crest to be six per rent., with as anowance of three per molt. for commission upon the whole capital subseribi-d ; there is be- Aides a further advantage allowed to the coot. ,_tors, namely, a privilege of exportiii e, free of ditty, a qu into, ofd Alms, to the amount of the capital subscribed ; thPs canto; be calculated at less that six per cent., and may ha much more. These sums therefore divided amongst the three yens, make at least an additional three per cent., and give Mit- tier coin as the Incest rate of annual interest paid by this govenint mt for an exigible debt. It may, I should iinagilie, bra safaly reckoned as only a little short of ten per cent , or nearly the rate of in terest upon the vales, which bear six per cent. , and are at a discount of thirty-bix. . No. 19.—Copy of a Dispatch front Lord llarraeby to R. Frcre, Eel dated Downiiitstreet, 29th September, 1804. • SlR—she preceding dispatch is written with the view of being real in extenso to M. de Cecilia, in your conference with him; and if you should find it necessary to make any communication in writing, you will fame it iii exact captor mity to toe instructions contained in that di.patch. After th • step which has been taken by the Court of Span, it is impossible to rely implicitly upon arty aiiurances, hover positive ; anal you will tnerefore take the most speedy and fectiml means of learning, with certainty, At Ferrol, at Canna gems, and at Ca Its, whether the armaments have been coun ternmoded, ami the or lee; for that puTioe are actually in the course of c ,ecation ; aod will forward without delay the intelligence you may receive loin those anti. In every view io oio:h the t !lA.; liesn'considerist here, it has appeared so improbable, shot arty explanations can lie given by the Court of Spain, of thy ututivis of tbis armament, which can induce 11 , 4 Ntljtr•ly to acquiesce in its C011611114.1Ce, (lint I have not adverted to that : but if, contrary to ex p...-lation any explanation should he offered, which in your ju lenient!, appears sattafaaory, you are atuttoriud to suspend your depaiture from hladitid s until His Miticsty's pleasure can be taken ; but you will exii.mily declare, that you II We no au therity to suspend clur,..g mat interval the execution of ewe measures of precautiosi which His Majesty has already thought it necessary to die-1 to be taken. No. 20.—. Extract of a Dispatch from B. Ftere, F..,q to Lord liarrowhy, dated Madrid, I.ftla Octis'a-ar, 11104.-1-received 2,1 Nove.nber. The aCCUtIIItA which I have received from Mr. Duff since my last, mention that there is iio appearance whatever in the liar buur of I.Nlia of an intention to rein. (Translation rit Ne. 21.) MY LORD. ° Portland place, 22.1 Dee.mb-r„ IFO4. After the abeupt and unexpected 111.11/Inef iu w.;:ch the British Charge d'AlLitea at Madrid has broken oh all dimmest tic commuptization with the Spanish Cabinet, I rated Well disdense with re:ailing to your Excellency's aomitien the corn plat:, pacific proceedings which have constantly exited the sy Aro, followed by my Court towards Eitgand ; but desiriag, tiiiirernialile to Hi: Majesty's orders, to chew to the ',ast mo m rut that spirit Of conciliation which CUJomitutrs thy essence of my mission, and the distinguishing charac!eilVlV of my Soso' reign, I have thought it my duty en make vet one tows tending to thee iii it. true ligst the frank and friendly conduct wirier the Llag has net ceased to Mud ty siro.7e the .uptutre betw:..m aod Laiglaorl, aroida the ditricuttim of his situation withi.-gird to the two sellig,reet [enema. Fro 34 the v_ey inoincat (bat the Emit lad learned the corn me:we:tient of haailities oetween France au.l Engluml, 11, , M4, -, ty gave all attehticm to tit. manner im which lie •lium,l .duet himself •.1 order ro pr.-emit all room (or die...intent ou the part of these two S'ates, and to the systems-which he world have te i, iuw in such a contunause, hit rimier to cnncthate his engagements as the Ally of France with his duties of friend ship towards England. Although His Majesty k sew very well, C.,at his a mushily of atiailiaryeo the firs!. of these ifowers was in n•ierise ins•olipstild t with that of friend to the second, be was, from the ours fist, perfectly sansiuie , a..d his (minion% ha. been since c.: firmed by accuunti frmii his Miniater at I.ogiaisio, that the Veit • b Givernru o,t would, with didiculty, consent to his itirnestiog to Francs , succours, such as are sto unlisted by the Treaty of 17Vti. In tow persuastoti, end, on ostler to temn.e eyey motile appearance in ins comieriions with the latter Poem-. he resolved ti propose to his Ally tine cenchuien of a new Treaty, by wtech pecuniary succours ilinuid be substituted for lie succours in trkfeirl and shins, which he had eillititiek.l to runtish to F' AOC.: by the 'f reAty of Alliance. After lung anal difficult nogotiations the Ling congratulated himself eit hae leg at last °hunted the object of his Amicable views, by the con clusion of a treaty of subsidy. Conachng in the uprightness of bis intentions, and in the pacific sentuneuts which had ptumpted ohm to take this step, His Majesty was fully persoad.el that the British fioverument would not fail to appreciate this very uncluirocdrnark of friend. ship. The complaints brought lomat! 10011 afterwards by Mr Frere, against the above-mcistiunctl Convention—complaints which he has at iliffexcnt times renewed, though always to err vague lento, and without ever mange an essential and decisive gins of them—were tharefore a real subject of surprise to , is Catholic Majesty. •Nevertheless, answers full of moderation and candour were by his order made to them, in which answers ' were wet fonts the assume which had fed him to make • treaty, of which the Liigl.sn (luverninent had the les coo-u for complaint, as it was solely out oh regard to them that 1-lis Majesty hail determined to conaluel.:. it. At !wally the same (nue, Ills Britatelic Majesty's %truster having addressed to soy Court representations on the armaments which lie pretended wee cartvimt on iu our ports, and wheel he supaosed to be dirorted against England,' his Majesty ordered alliMerli to be in like *amnia mad.; to lien,"'flat the cows of the Spaiiisli Goverioneet wen-• very far from any ,motive e t hostility ; Mar lie Entsimic Majesty could not mistake pacific intentions ef toe ling of !Nish., who had given him so nem, incotitesuble proof. of fnendship ; and that these prenfs were masifestol as well in the sacrifices mad: by the Kind to secure peace, as in the steady exercised, even betore it was delimit& ed, towar Is those of his suifieas who had aled centre/ to the ditties of neutrality. 1 , , fine, that, ac.or.hog to these .hats, there did not Caillt the halt taus, for appnsh,nsding t h ,t Spain would engage iii further armaments, foe that would be acting aganist her pacific systein " At the sane tune, ae the Court of Madrid was hot euablerl to totrn an exact awl f.xed spidgment of the protein's , and the colidout which the Britten Government priiimed to follow, on account of the e.tuivtical language in which Mr. Fret. always enveloped h.. representation., it invited him to express himself in a clam mid I.oj.Cite Mantle, as t r the intentions and the views of his Li iverti limn with r.g art to S..ain. It won of this rrali'.; mid friendly ion ration, that Hu Britanni- Ittaleny's Mititdor em Lit pmticularised to my Coun, in a Note which he traostistued to it on the 18th February last, the conditions on which his Government would be dispmed to tecogitise the ututraltty of Spain. Ttiens conditions vrer., the suspension of all ultcrmr armament, and the prohibition Olio tile of prises in lime Muesty's dominions Not having exacter, other,„ it petfcctly c:ear, that the British Ministry engatteil noir thereby to reyeet the neutrality, a; soon as the Ring, my N taster, should acquiesce in these c.indittons. wl.o had resolved to make every %urine( com patible with the "filter, of his pope, ill nrd - r to .ecor to - them the benefit, of a eihil peace, deterrent...l to forbid the title of prism. in ht. kingdoms i which prohibMin took place on the "31 Marcit last:—.% lad, with recurt to the armaments, tenevoil the ionormices, watch the Bitted, Government had already rcir-iVel toll this head assurances, the stncerity of which was wed guaranteed by the lively int.lest whim His Nfaiesty has con,tantty attached to the trianitenanec of peace, since the rupture between FrAnce and England. TIM e.tirtrness of the King to fulfil all the wishes of the British cabinet, and the inktbitil sacrifice which flit Vlaiesty had just media theadeautagex Which the sale of orilz.l in the Ports of Spain held out to SAtitsh commerce, need to have corn• plaid the coohtlence of England, and t, have er..olicate•l from the ow iion i , f its G.)vertillielit every at on of doted en the pa • entimei t: of my Cowl: aeconlingly, the keglah mint• ewe seeteeol to hate felt ell she rahns of s.i b recritices, puce he brought forward no more dissidents, an.l that the mostperfect harmony seemed every this to unite mote and diore thd two' Governments. Such were the relations subsisting between the two nations when, in the month of September last, soma diecootent having broken oat in Roc sy, Hs Majesty ordcwil ties einbarkat ttttt of a part of the troops winch were in garriion its Ferro . , jib order to t weir Wing trall4pol tea without delay to the place where ti.• di.order bad occur...id Then it was, that the enemies of Slain, sowiding tbe alarm, under the pretest that cots‘irllrable. Arma ments were carrying on . t her ports. sought to communicate their (envied une.i.inein to the Erniala GJverraitiPnt, by placing b..ifore them, in the 161. J“ 110i1j18 CCMOILVS, a Mew. est a fore'to to the interests of England, es it was iadispelisaide to thastifling in their birth movements, which had niauifeete.l thenischie a province of Spain. Then it was, that the Witisli Charge d'Afiiires hurried on by redorts malevi.lence had exag g.irated, and without examining ether the nature, the extent, the well known oblect of Oleic pretended Armaments, made complaints of 'liens ni Notii, datcil the 27th S , .ipt. lea, in witch he represented there as an aggrt scion against his Giver:insert% and as a defiance given to England; and exprziaall himself in other terms uot lees injurious to the reputation of the Knot, than contrary to the relations which subsisted be tween the two c•untries. _ Although such reproaches, in relive fur the proofs which the King had :titters given of hi. eagerness to eireogthen the bowl. of friendship which mined him to the British fioverniiiimit, were of a nature to excite in him the greatest surprise, His Majesty, neverthelem, directed atemers to the intern;wrate re presentatiorn of Mr. Frere, to be made with that moderation which is the most striking point in the history of hit political conduct; a niederation the-mere sigall from this city asstence, that the aboeeentritioned armament, which excited so much sensation, was confined orbit the limits prescribed by an agreement, which WS, conylvid.4 on the '.9th October Plne, hetweea the two Governments, slime it was restrieted to the same 'mintier of sew. ha which were alrew:a armed beam this epoch ; and, what proses still store cleas''y the ',wine views of the King, is that the armament in queoint had been suss pealed by tits M desty's orders some days before the Britian Ch lige d'Affaires had brought forwaia his campleint tot the subj • Notwithstanding 014 notwithstanding the amurances of fsiend.hip and good Ruth ee t eessza hi the answer of my Court, notwithstaudirig the absolute et:adage of then pretended ar t/lenient+, on which the enemies of peace bed founded their c:intinal Mess (a cessation of which the British Charge d'Affaires could nut be ignorant), instead of softening the me nacing tone which he, had at first adoeted, instead of retaining that friendly language which the perfect jostiieitien of my Court required of kin, he did . hut accumulat, fresh re pro.iclies the harshness and iejnttice pi which hog in to r,vrel the hostile sy tam whi:.h he has not since diseuntiiimd. The Bril is% Government on their side, forgetting , s 1 a 5 . 1.1 . den the p wih c relatieu; which they had maintain-il during several months with my Sovereign, cod without Waiting for more matt mad tem suspicious information on our pi eparatirma at Ferrol, (rem whence it tia.l rezeiv•ed none but extenuated accounts, larolight by the .salad, soil, which is silt, more asto nishing, without paying attentive. t t the informativa which I transmitted to it through the channel of yont Exectency, opt the innneem. , arid the time object of these pretend A eruct in.mt,, did not hesitate to give that extraordinary girder, which, as well from its nature, a. from its disastrous conseepienetv, most have Wrote with heeler every Cabinet in Europe. In stead of beginning by deemoilisig explasoations front my Court on the steijeet of thass. alarms, nbreakt off the good esanding which subsisted betwere the two nations, by am art of Inman.; of which the roast rancerous wars searcely afford an eaa link; and, as if it feared that the explanations of the Snanib Minister, and ulterier ;tccemits from S;raiii, would Cor s e it to res ; iect a neotrality, to whirl it seem rd ab determined to put en end, it hastened to make war against her without any previous Deeeiretien, ai.d even its the midst of Safe most profutind peace. The Ail of ~ t uber was tins .a f.. the sneadeig of the innocent hl 54 of several women dud c!,i Mein, who pert:lied victims of in nehesel of viuleiice! and Oa: 10 , 54 was shed by the heed. of a ta r ts, elime Gover.ourint iheiasolves &edam aperwar-;s that they net at was with Spain! •••' Before tile ;wits of this dreadful event came to the knew /edit 04 He King,' the Igritsh Chary i t tames seems to have maths it pie business to tzuperete llis Maimity by all ima ginable e s esu e. Net being able to conceal from hinsse: the frimdity of his accusations relative to me preparations at Ferfol, since their ex istente had ceased a long time before, he was tediged to cad to hi+ aid tone new grievaeces, as slighti, founded a. they are destitute of geed tattle He dA ma fail to matte new demands, Anne of them cunt try to wrest Itad been agrcol upon between the two Guieniments, the °theta entirely inadmissible front their injureimi teiettucy The. it i. that he exacted froie inv Court the etigataatent, `. that mu arina mein whatever should he Carrie I on" in the po.ts rit Spain, whilst hit Guyeroment aiel :itinself had cuiistrited that the naval farces of Spain shriohl be It..pt u t t um tile sane boit:nr as they were at the time in the above mentioned agreement. Thus it is, that he pretended that Ills Majesty had always refused to give .a distinct explanation with regard to his en gagements with France; that, without this previees tonne ii CAIK)11, the British Ouveritnient had never been writing hi con sent to the neutrality of Spain; iii short, thus it is, that he ended, by iiniWriously demanding this irommunicetilm, al though vithout declaring what would he the ulterior induct of hi. Court, in case tits Niajiety should acoeiesce in this de• mend. Tha Zing, my Master, might have refined an answer to this extraiihlivary summons. The inaccuracy of the supww tions on which it isfounded, and the previous steps of the British Ministry, who, amingst the conditions Steil by 'Eng land for the acknowledgment of the neutrality, had not coin. prised the necessity of a similar communication, sufficiently authorised His Majesty not to attend to a demand of this nature. Your Excelleiscy knows that, immediately after the conclusion of •he treaty of subsidy, the Smith Government addressed to my Court re,tesentatioos, the object of whielt was by no means to demand a distiia explanation with red lid to the e,gagernerats which that , realy contained, but positival.. ..teerclarathat the furnishing the pectin ary advances, asstipu• lilted in the Convention concluded with France, could not he lir ilc-rt upon °chervil-a than At a war 5iib..4.., W." These ex pressions, the very sung as used by tit.. Emig,' Xiinintait in the note which he delivered to thi. foto t nit the di of Ih.....enstitr list, do not aditi4 the doubt that his Government errs' not et that time thin-nighty acquainted with the commits or the above mentioned Convention Had it been cutlery, tc, ....old Mr. Fiere have held this languag • without known% the extent of our subsidies, rspeci illy Arizr having deearisd in the saint note, " That his Government was di=p sad to of !!look such peessia;ary sacrifices u should inn be of serricient magni tude to force attentrou on account of their political cried,? It, therefore, they were then acquainted with the . aniowit of the turns which His M Misty had to pay to Irrancr, how cou.d they now he icnntant of it ? And, not being Ignora.it of it, what.eitat ilo they at write it propane to thsinwlves in :town,. ing the disclosure of a wrist which could SWIM, hate bilk gee to them Stipp/nine even that hi. hiejefly'estueri!ernents witb France. with respezt to the rut:indica, thoolia dill rain in a milers , to the hi ti 1, Government, it . -mkt not b: tetra true, that th r ; haven i(elef toe tight to demand a dininet explana. lion on this fulaseCt, at Iced, ass cuingition ell,ntial to the nuintenance o. peace. It the Ittitith Government attached to much importance to this communication, that they thought it right to make it a condition, without which they would not engage to rect the neutrality of Spain, they ought to have et;orefsly glared fo at the eprch, when, yielding to the folmitations of my Magee, they tixest the balls of a per manent and tolid neutrality. Not hiving then acted in this manner, they hid no longer a right to do so ; for *the wise, that act, whereby the conditions essenual to neutrality were settled, and the obiect of winch was evidently to remove the iiiieertaialy of those relations ullich subeitttil between the two Coons, would he entirely i lusory, sine • it would still leave to Englund a facility of waittionallv artili-.; fresh con ditions to thioc already agreed cm. I 1.-ice it fllows, that the !knish Government could no longer eir-i-t a distinct ctplaini . . .. . • 'anion are but el equivalent for the Itaccours in tronpsord • Chips which he was ohlated by Om ticaP/ pf .794 to t violet. to teepee, Oen, in th..t Conventiest, there i. nu article pee. judicial to lat,-,lentl, or contrary to the laws of nett tralifY• Thi. : t eeter:nu, frank, and fitistactdry asswerr sit or, Coe rt reeved hut to io luce Iteth complaints on the put of the Britt di Charge .1".4 flaire., who did slot became at the lame time to demand ea purports, flit Majelts, conitaotly taithtiii ti his p.in.ctplcs of moderation, endeavoured to prevent, by tom v weans compatible with his dignity, the coefe4lleucc• "i‘ iii traordinery a demonl, ant did not rake arty thlti,:eltv it rOtereimg to him eking the molt atin_able anAl molt traok aTherem e, as well on the fublitlies, as on tire armaments ; but all his efforts hive been utelefs. At length, perseiwne that he we...:Abate in wilLing to leave fileind, More in the (pace of fevers days lie had tour time, demanded his pafyaorr.. and that, at the hilt lolie.tetion, he had even threaten...A to remain there as a titivate individual. or elfe to depart without nail. ports, the Kim; found hi-Melt under the necellity of . aranthilt them to ham, h 'Never unpleafing for His Mejefty might to the conteq4ence which would aril: train fo prec.pitat: Rep. At the lame time that this once peHed firore deprive! Ills Majettyofnearlyallthe hopes he had tilt the.. entertained, his heart was penetrated with the deepen a:II:aloe on learn, ing the dreadful event of the eth of Oetaber, aid dire(, • trouscircumatainees by which it had been accompanied. - Al. though the details, which he received from all tiLlarterii, and the titaiforouty of all the accounts, gave to this midi igecto all the force of an indubitable fizt, Hi. hlajetty) tinder the influence of the invariable ie.:touts of his fentiments, and ,! not having ar yet received official intormition oft this lie .4. ea Mattered Wm: tell by calling question the reality of a.tirr'- ler mare:, : at lean, he could nor le:trestle hamlet,' that it hail been cowed Ii f 011. oder illited its' the Blind, Guyer e..iirt I. Hi. Ntsjelly iia,confequently ordercil me to demand ol *pa . categorical explanations on the detention of his tr:gates e son• the .intratlioie, which nay have lai.*cn fent toehe commends, and ern the motives which may have inelaccd the Itritith Cliare,c .:'•kft:iires to break °Wall .oiniutaincatioo with the ieettith Illiniltry. Notwithtlen•ling the coincideoce of fuch alarminwintellid genie. with the irregular conduct ot Mr. Frere,the Kipg could not refolve to tate any nicafUre which had the lead appeatinCe of handily. So much had Ma at heart the comutessew Of peace! It was nut till after having learnt, in an'auttio.fm„. manner, the set of violence eiercifed oat the above-mentioned lug-item, by virtue of an exprels order of the Illitilh Covent.' ni ea. that his Majesty found komfelf under the trceeffity, in' order to coot tilt the meta of his ocuple, to. , rder an coiOargo to be laid, ho way of reprifele, on all inverts , • throughout hi, dominions. In this flue of •thinee,if the King can tio"longer &ger 0., binned - widi the hope of an aieuist nddicino, if't fytl irk mamfefted for faire time ;.alt by kiteland (emits to rawted inevitable a rupture between two na:toes, rat wlti:At the mei, pr0...al *utterer oaelit to lead Mein to live alway. in goed'lmi derlandine Chit each other, his Malety hes not at lea s .t u aha th ne e dotted tile dease to liiien to pacific overtures, and is Sill dill'puled, puled, to avail himfe:t of all tOe rimers of cencihariost which • may be compatMle with the dignity of his crowe, d fatety of hi , k:nedi,wis• Sot if, nowithttanding this conciliatory and pacific decla n ration, w hi c h 1 w ive th e hits nor, conformalsh to the vrithel - of the King, my Matter, to ma eke to your Excellence, the Sea Gotri6trient thin6l.l decade .71 taking the refaiution to declare open war against I ld. Ma's ly, in that cafe, con.. &hog in the fidelity of has fuhjeri.. aid in this purity or his c.n.fcience. will .have recarfe to thole forces which lhovi dance he. cottoned to him fur the defen:c of his eenole. and will distrait to the ((attune of war the iclult uf a conflict which he has in no de l uge provoi.e.l, anti with the cotTetpten_es of wilt h IA will accosdmely not have t r reproach hitittclf. I avail myfelt of tilt, oppeitunity, Sc . (Signed) lhe Claw. D'A'NDUAGA. To 10. Exeelleior Lord Harrosebvs Prine•pal het:veiny of orate err toicien Atftirs. No, 91 —Co y of e Letter Gun ,Goorge liamma.d, Esq. to J H. Fri6r6", kaq data.' tatavioinge•treet, 24th Ilse loship. 15114, SIR—I het...with Inclose to sou the eotract of aHu e. (eagle the Chevalier il'Andoaga„ dated tho 21..1 of this inonth,•in which, you ...II observe an assertion of hat Mi-,:aer, that She medial armanse.it carried on in tire ports e.O Sliaiii• Ma; coafined 14 ilia Lions prawribed he Aol agreement co cud st 041 1111 19th of October iintween Britidi awl Spoor+ G••eers • merits. No traces ni soy such agreement having been found • in the torresponclettear of this office, I am directed to regimes that yeti win sate to me, br the informattott of His ltdeiony't Gavernmeto, witether you ever entered iutirsany agreentes.r,•ex- • praised oe iml,lied, with the'Spani.h Ministers which can in any 'degree warrant th^ tsseitiota of the Chevalier afAieduaga, to which I have adverted' I ant, &c. GFO• HAMMOND. • litelonire rewired to iris.. 22 ,—Although melt re. pinae'.es, in tenon for the proofs tiretzn the King had alwiys gren of hit eigerne.seto stomethen tine bead. tnertddep Which unreal in to the tletah Government, were ..f a memoir esche i i hen the greatest surprise t Ha Marmot, nor:tithe lett, directed answers ti the int • o -.rate reprenaltatints. of Mr. Fier-, to be made with that nitsloratirat *Weil C the n net striking point in the }throw of hot ;Mins:el conduct; a is i ta i .-iiso lion the inure:4gal Irvin thane eireninstanc that the above. inetaioned 34.11.1111C1/4, w hich fainted so much %emelt., ~ was confitted wnliin the limes preserib.Q. by an aereement, which was concluded on the 19th O.:timer Iflo3, ' between the ova Gov..rorn.intr, since it was restricted to the sane number of vessels which were already armed bef:re this epoch ; %Oat peeves stilt more clearly the pacific views oh the King, 1., :hat the armament in question had been vias'pentledisy IS s ai oestYS urderr some dove before the Staudt Charge d'Adatais hid brought forward his complaint on the subject. 2..1-oLetter from J. 11. Frere, Esq. to G mrge Hammond, dated London, 24th Dec 1804. SIR—I have just received your letter. Tae expression ht the Chevalier D'Airtuagifil note it quite unintelligible to me. It appears to sown the'extstenceof something of the nature of a w ane') treaty, .pan the subject of the Seanieh ar-na- TCIII4, and it assigns the 19th of October, 1813, a. the data of this stip:word agreement it is certain, neyealideso i th...t no conyeetion err evertor:tit, either written or verbal, ever laeleal between Mr. Ceerallee and me, either thou or at any other tint:. A declaration, indent, was made is. the ed dies:eel to .ifr. Cattalos, on the 24th of Janina y; and the 13th of Feleruaiy, oatiug, that Ha Majesty's (,overnimott wa• dis po,ed, in hope. of better nines, exercise, fir the ferment, a .6arcti.l.4l forbearance; yet, this this foibeatance wo:111 c •ase the moment that Spain departed iron tier cuts+ .p.v with reeeect to as mainCiits. Sle*Cevailto, 111 his answer, has described this declaration as We bets is a neutrality Itindiog upon Great Swain. A iSor dank, in km cion- - einience with my brother, whose Bret uh j-oet wee to bring wee the Spaiiish armaments to the state in , which they had lase:, left in cemsequence of Milo doclerat. •, Mr. Gewalt,* eoes a ael, further, and calls it a 'Contention of neut a. y proposed ay I:re.d Britain a this is in his note of the 29th oft)..t. Indy, whivit coed have lie attest ssss but to the decd tration of the . tile,, of Januar. , and the 111th of l'eltruary. Again, in his num et the ja u: November, ha refers to a convention or treats of neutrality of the 19th of October, 1803; attuning, I sup i ,i664, the Treaty of S testily with France, the stieulations of which, though they have utter heel' cotton unteati•d , he re lea in at kivinu; and in a mantle Inaplying• that they were mutually bindiug Great Illetahi hod Stain. I cant' t tot inlay or that Mr. 1) .. eluage 11695 t have beeu misled by ss 1,50 c rcermeancto, a -1 that, seeing ,t asserted in )fr. Celt-hos' Nate ow the 29th MO:lobar, that there existed a T.e ay of Neutrality, ett.i.h hail been proposed by Gee t Renato • and agatio, Witte Note to toe DJ of Ni.vemb o, that tem state of Ilte ounansents was e.b...ragelated by a coavention tit the 19th rat 11.2ober ; he may hove coricaded that they were on. aid the same, and consequently may have Afar! to Os. tustein...ry treaty the date of the one • concluded with F our'. M cod • jedure may le: wail, but Mr. D'Auduaga's essereon aopears to Inc inexplicable tit any other way I ant„ & (Signed) J. H. FR.F.RE• No. 24.-I.l%tract of a Letter from Lieutenant General Nugent, to the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, dated Jamaica, 14th Jao. ISO*. I have jos' received the enclosed :street of a letter hem St. JAgn de Cuba of the Bth inst. and as the intelligence is fe ty credited by the Gent finnan who forwatded it to me, .1 have ad vised the Admiral of it, content... The French troop. alluded - • - General Intent 044 Orlo,lll.3.otOrilment (tam 00 004 yr CA - 1, a 000ncg emna,z- viaelf the Arlollfal Of 111 conteni:. 511 V (1.n.0 .....s, • ............ lof 'Shish tiun on the subject of the subsith. ~ as the price of their re - to are parts of tho if -rrisous of Port au Prince, node? Genera.' is Ntaietlty +vett fo. the neutrality ..f Spain, su 101 l as the two conslitens Li Pouts: ; Cape Nicola Mali, uml•rGeneral N ce.lles ; and , since the r..larivo to C.e unarm:nit, acid t, the sale of forties', should be j,,e,roe ; which i reaped front our cruisers; together with 0 . I strictly fttlftiled. • cooselereb , i umber of sick and cocsalesee ,, t . , whom it was his of the Notwithoianding all thefe motives, according I. **eh the COili.dered .141111.0 e to brine away, or to retain in Jamaica. I 'aie.ty had Kind might h •ve ‘iitpenfel with anf.euting alma) ) i.. ihis toil Norry that nic roducric nin our 001 - aters hate will out per- . i the Port. demand, his Majrity, prating himfell above all thole con" wit met.. reiniorce rtattaienco; bin I aro confident in the have curn• fiderations naturally sashed ray the uresular comtuel of Mr. ' ' l''' "' * • e • a ..u, ciaira.l Mice tor the you :coon or that Island and Free., has even comiefccaitert to make an citplectt and tatistas- e [nom a tory antwei, is renewing to ih.ii • tpnilar ulurance t.O that it , ti , l 4.l.4e.c ' e '• • . i en the pa We shall look with • very *af oot e y e towart4 Cuba, in wsich [ had already given by his unt:r N the liratifil fit.- ghsh mom veruaneot ; mutely, that the ltlbuntc• itipulatial by the Cum- whleb iel.i a l the French moats hale ueent oa t ars t / to the Pie' 1, sitico he I 4 • . . , „ . .. . , ~ - . ti• i ' x - ) . . 0-. ' • ..• , I ..";---40... - . . aaa l - NP. ----- IWerdimmi..- ' ._ . 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