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FROM THE GERMAN PAPERe. FRFNCII MI mORIAL. The incorporation of Genoa with France, was, it is well-known, the occasion of the present import-. ant crisis. This measure has brought the differ eaces, which were then pending, to an open rupture. Immediately after the union of Genoa with the em pire of France, the French Ambassadors at thr dif ferent Courts, delivered the following Memorial. never before published, in which their Government seemed to anticipate the renewal of a Continental war, on accowit of Grnna and the other relations of Italy. SuTijained is a translation of the above mentioned Nlemorial After niaov vim elven itself the Genoese ,ieoele to main tain the independent exatieete which Fran& had guaranteed them, arcade no the brick of dietructien, they unaeimously ect dye upon the only nwesure left them for their preservation ; the: decree, in the most solemn manner, their union with the French empire, end canny implore the Emperor Napoleon to receive them int., the number of Iris 40.11101 SJIVV , t , , he a d ent nate,n, the member. of which were directed not to I aye Stolen, till they had, at test, obtained a promise of iii. les penal and Royal Majesty, that he would co.nply with their desire. " The most urgent niohyse induced all the citizens of that republic, to make a proem.' which entirely changes their ou litical situation Important remain invited France not to op. pose this wish. All the naval powers, could not but favour an union, which, without angetenting the continental strength of France, enables her, for the benefit of the commerce of all events, so avenge the maritime encroachnietite and iosults of Riteland It may not be amiss to ei.isid:r in varima points of view, art occurrence which will soon be placed in a false li-ht, by the panegyrists of that Government, by whose conduct it was rendered iodispensib y necessary. The Senate and people of Genoa had mide various efforts to gi:e themselves a constitution. Ito without nieces.. France herself had sincerely wished that this State might preserve its rank among the Powers of Eunipe. She had defended it dur. fog the war; the had le-conquered it from Austria; she had en deavoured in various negocations to sti p ulate for its advantage; she had increased its territory, to alferd it new means of privstie- Yin., and had sucomeively ceded to it the Imperial Fiefs, the valley of Oneglia, Lasso, Serravalle, and other diorites, in Wesel by its Minim!, which belonged to France, prevented a free eonsrutinication, and were iniurious to its trade. It is still (real in the ineneity of every epee, that France, after she had, in the stb year of the Republic, reconquered Genoa and her depen )ere, ies, from the Power which had taken posemeinn of then, d .1 not insist on those right. to which she was entitled by tiro (-sent. She wittin lad the wish uttered even at that time by those who were best at with tlie etuation of their country, and nee. te-I tic per,meal of an uiii...l, e hien would hided ha.e emiriouted more effirtuall: the trate quality and meurity of Genoa, but which would then have appeared to be merely the e.fert of gratitude, and the reeollec titan of the calamities site hat endured. " Since that period, Genoa has been conaineed that her welfare is no tinge. e , to ,atible with her indeiondence, and th•t, in consequence of the change in the state of all Europe, eh* had become too weak to make haul against the external attacks of armies or fleets, and to suppress internal commo thins. After many year. of difficulty and inquietude, she im plored His imperial and Royal Majesty, who had, already, un dertaken to preside over the destinies of France, likewise to Sires those of the Ligurian Repuhiic, and to unite all parties noder a cnnstitution better adapted to the state of the country and its old inhalniants. Genes, acceilingly, received a Go vernrneet whose form and regulations were sanctinned by the experience of many centuries, and whose fundamental prin ciples were carefully examined and approved by the Repre. bentatives of the. State of Genoa, who wave charged to take upon themvalmei that lahnar. Rot this new attempt, made wan the concurrence of ail, was net attended with any better Genoa was incapable of baying either a government, marine, foreign commerce, or internal police. She possessed Tot even the power to exterminate a haeditti, who ore still plundering a portion of her territories, and who even kept the inhabitants of the adjoining French depeitments in &continual mate of alarm. " Fruit, all these Imitless exerthins to improve her internal Ovation, Genes learned that the cause of her imbecility, end the meant of preyeeting her total annihilation were to be set ight abraail. Genoa, which subsisted entirely by com merce, has let it in consequence of the aggrandisement of all the commercial powers. Numerous ports, which Sweaty years ago were scarcely known, sad ethers which boast the peculiar protection of their respective governments, have vied with 'each other in diminishing the prosperity of the port of Genoa. " New maritime states were created by the late war. Venice, whose trade had fallen to decay, is now the depot of the corn mid:ties of a great empire. The same Power has acquired a meta extent of coast, and gives animation to the ports which nature has fie richly distributed along it. The harbours in the republic of the Seven Intends will soon he of far erea.ser import. sere than they were under the government of Venice. The angl_sh, now masters of India, have made Malta a new depot due their merchaitilise. " While this competitions arose round Genoa, she beheld 1)-, remnant of her commerce exposed to the depredations of suet-A, and excited the envy of England, which nut only re told to consider Ge ina as an :nidependent state, but emnaoyee every po- , ilear measure to drive her to despair; which inces eantly insulted her; winch, tieing the late war, cut out of the haesour two French fr.gates, and leits•erehl their crews, yid treated her jolt a. she ; deemed •liirig tile blockade. " R.iiore F. .g'an I had &elate i this star against Genoa, *hen Up der Italy was yet subject to 'seem! Sovereign., the Moiritime commerce of Geolos, an.) her ceniosienoii-trade with the Cratitirynt, was capable of preserving her from ruin. The harmer is unit de.trepel„ and as England, besides throwing a thermal ense.-les in tire way of itzirotatteit. likersiars seised every opportunity of souding her commodities into her own p r iro ei contraband, Hs Imperial and Royal Majesty, *hese dominions sot rniaud Liguria, found slimed( rietemitetiel to adopt a system fu: die whole of those freitherit, which, while It pmtentftl the hitt...writers of English ennmodities loin the rleptirtlrenta in France, likewise cut °Wan eommuni cett.rao ireuermii I hge-ie sea{ the ißealiesnet e alai minsequestly I, w Imik a Mop 416 the only trade which Eagland had left' the re. public. " Alarmed at a situation which could not fail, in a short time, to involve her in utter ruin, Genoa was long convinced, that she had no other resource than to unite herself more closely with France. She daily renounced, from neces,i., a portion of her indc.osndence, and was protected only by a corp. of French troop% Fir which she had applic I. By the de preit ois of th- Birhary corsairs, that Istiverel about the Wand iA Caprea, in order the better to molest her trod she ea., at length, compelled to cede that island to France. " ( - action, unable to equip vessels fur the protectinn oilier coasts, possessing dock-yards and magazines, unserviceable in Nor exhausted state, having merchant vessels, which her ma• - rte and lier flag were incapable ..f protecting, awl which were obliged to bait under that of another power, to mcape the privateers, Gerii.a could no longer pruoure knead for her nu merous population, dependiag for sulnistence on maritime en terprise, awl the industry that prevails in her ports. " Not being in a condition to carry on, in a dire& manner, the war an which England had involved her, she could do no more roan ...end her sualuen on board the French squadrons, and tinplure the French Government to make use in France of her !steamer, fur whom she could nut find employment. In per petual apprehension of oral cominutions from the discontent of pun , s, on account of the general poverty, which was conti nually inciessing, and the imbecility of the Government, which could not firmly establish itself, she wa; plrsuadeded of the necessity of forming a corps of Gem d'Arnats, to be command ed by French Officers . 4 Thus the union of Genoa was imperceptilily eff•fted by her sitnat, This measure was d aired hy her inhabitants. Nothing m e was, there( we, tiecesvarv, than that it should be taken moo conaiderrinii hy those parts of the Government which suffered the most frum this state of uncertainty, the ex pellees and burtheris of witmli renJured the condition of Li guria still more oppressive. !lance proceeded the sudden en univiasin, the eager zeal, of the people of Genoa. to subaciibe to the wish fur an incorporation; when the Senate, after mature consideration, thought it their duty to propose it, and regard ed that as the favourable moment, in which His Imperial ntd Royal Majesty could behold, with his own eyes, the distresses of a gauntry to wroth arms had rester its independence, but which, in spite of all its efforts, could not again recover its former prosperity. " As Piedmont, Parma, and Placenta, by which Liguria is encompismid, form a part of the dominions 4 His Majesty, as the Kingdom of Italy is in his hands, and has received a Soy.- reign front him, &stile Republic unilenoa, which was forgotten by England in the Treaty of Amiens, perceives that both the sea and the laud are shut against her, she could not have form ed a resolute., better adapted to her interest and her dignity, than to incorporate herself with a great nation, and that with an impetuosity so enthusiast;.:, as perfectly answered for the sticce<s of the measure. His and '.tnyal 'Majesty, *Welted by the motives which induced Gziiiia to adept this resolution, was obliged proviwrily to comply with a wish, that was th" result of lung experience and the ain't mature deliberation. The annihila unit of the hopes of a people who were determined ne longer to be denied, might have been productive rut the mot serious " The Continental Power of France has not, in fact, been augmented by this union. A narrow tract, so cooped up by the sea and by mountains, as to leave a free communication only at a few points, which dues not produce core sufficient to support its 500,000 inhabitants, which is exposed to the havoc of annual inundations in its must fertile districts, and oppressed by the burden of a prodigious debt, without any prnbability of its ever being paid off; the incorporation with His Imperial and Royal Majesty's State, of such a country, which has but little communication with the Continent, and is incapable of r estoring its naval power, on account of the alteration which has taken place in the situation of all other States, cannot af ford any pretext for Continental discussions, and its union with France cannot possibly produce any remonstrances by whicb peace is likely to be endangered. Should England succeed in creating discord on this subject, no alternative will be left His Imperial and Royal Majesty, but to prosecute with vigour the unjust war that will be declared against him. " Enjoying the satisfaction of having rescues a State which threw itself into his arms, he will have in his favour the good ness of his cause, the public opinion, and all the motives of dignity, neighbourhood, and benevolence, which have hitherto induced him to protect Genoa. " Far more important consideration•, of great interest to all Europe, excepting Entland, co-operated on this occasion in the resolves of His Majesty. France, which, by her political and geographical situation on the Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas, is destined to check the usurpstiva of the ocean, and to vindicate the rights and independence of the Maritime Powers, has not Coasts so extensive as England. Without enlarging her Continental poeseuions, she will obtain by the union of Genoa, 6,000 seamen to supply the place of those whom she lost during the Lite war, and will thus be enabled the better to cope with a state, the sole object of whose efforts is to usurp the dominion of the inn, which exercises an universal moos,- poly, which strives to make with every nation, commercial treaties in her own way; which is extending her power in India, only with a view to employ it against Europe; which violates all the rights of neutron, and whirls will not viaduct herself with more moderation weenie them, till France shall have acquired a more formidable navy. " Were the English to resto•e Goa to the Portuguese, Cey lon to the l)utch, the vast puees. - -ists of TippooSaib to ois heir., and the empire of the Mahrattas to it, irvieliendeac.:, it would better beietne them, than to reintmostrate against the union of a na•row tract of cw.y which is already surrounded by the French territory. But :Lem exaggemtiug alarutists, who will infallibly raise a prodigious outcry against a measure which they have them.elves rendered necessary (or Genoa, for France, and few tin security of Europe, will, it is to be hood, not make any trapresiennpn the wiser Cabinets of the Coate omit. To all the States of E.rope the situation of Liguria must be • matter el endrifertnes. They have lung seen that this counts, ie separated from their territories by the dom.. nMrei of His Imperial and Riiyal Majesty, and, from it. position, cast have uo communication with theta, but by sea. They as already actiist.nleci to the intimate re lations subsisting between the tleimese and Fiance, to the mutual interest, and intatuel operation, which have rendered rho two nobvna amlieniale. Tledr meson must appear to all p x r!rops tie inevitable result of position. It canrot ex. cite any mistrust in the Continental Poweis, as it will not add a single battalion to the French army u the gradual de cay of Liguria forbids the annexation of its territory to be cribed to wishes of unlotion, so there is not a court, that ought to entertain any alarm concerning the intentions of lin Majesty, after the pi iisciples of moderation which he has manifested, in accepting the crown of Italy only such time is the tranquillity of die South of Europe shall be restored "England imagined, that while she was conquering India, and plundering the Sovereigns of extensive and opulent kingdoms, the distance of these umegampled usurpation 4, would eccafe the attention of Europe. To France alone, destined by na• titre to preserve the rights of Neutral States—to France, who has alwirs exerted all her !silver, and placed all her glory iii protecting them-.4n her, alone, it belongs, to restore the halance of the seas. A few thousand more warren will be sufficient for the equipment of ten situps which France is building in the midi , of war, and they will be the best guarantee for the preier vati)lllnf any future Treaty between her and Eileen& It is beyond. d.rubt,that if,at the moment of peace France shall have succeeded in placing her marine on a regrettable footing, there will be no danger of the renewal of these capricioui ho tilities, which England thought ptoper to commence aping Franca in May 1110.), and of which the expedition against Denmark, and the capture of the Spanish frigates, furnish a farther demonstra tion. " Europe will not then any longer be perpetually disturbed by the etrartsof a government, which is inceamantly endeavour ing to arm the Continent in favour of its designs opine the seas, and which has in vain granted five millions ►terling to procure assistance. " The measure of the Genoese cannot therefore in any point of •iew, oppose the smallest obstacle to the neguciatious with which M. de Novosiltaiiff is charged. " All the esaeutials of art equal, secure, and honourable peace,still subsist; and if it were allowed to compare trifles with objects of importance, it might be said, that England has no right to complain of the wish tns a union bztween Liguria and France, as France has nude no complaint concerning the re cent destruction of the Mahratta Empire." THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, OcTomas 15, The following Official Communications were yesterday transmitted to LLOYD'S Coffee-house. and potted there tantivalty-Otßce, October le. Quarter-pot Teo &Clock. " Majesty's ship Vanguard is salami up to Spithead, and a Convoy, supposed from Jamaica, Vas passed the Lie of Wight." " Admiralty-Office, Fie•Miautes past Pour. His Majesty's ship Vanguard ; haying slrrung a leak, left her Colllfol order pr 00 1 ,51011 of the IllUd , lollS (fretio the Lee ward Islands); and the united Convoys joined A/lairs' Corn wallis en the 11th inst." The above articles of intelligence, being decisive of the safe arrival of the Jamaica and Leeward Island Fleets, are of great importance. Seventy four days had elapsed since the Leewarl Island Fleet sailed. Oily a few stragglers had arrived, and considerable apprehensions were entertained, that the Rochfort squadron had fallen in with the main-body of it. We have received several sets of Foreign Papers, but none of a more recent date than those, the con tents of which we gave yesterday. We have ex traded from one of them. a State Paper, of much importance. It is a Memorial presented on the part of France to the several Continental Powers, immediately after the incorporation of Genoa with the French Empire. It states. that the situa tion of Genoa, already united, as it were, to France, must be a matter of indifference to the other States of Europe, and would not augment the Continental strength of France ; that its actual incorporation was desirable in a maritime point of view, as. by extending the coast of France, and giving 6,000 seamen to her fleet, it would aid her efforts to de stroy the naval superiority of England ; that Ge noa was too weak to stand alone, and that she had no chance of recovering her ancient splendour, in consequence of the ereaion of new mat itime states, and the aggrandizement of other commercial powers i■ her vicinity. These arguments, which are amply detailed in this Memori.il, have been since briefly repeated in official documents. alteady before the public. But the most interesting feature of the article. and that which gives it a peculiar cha raaer, is its anticipating of the present crisis of the Cootiaent. It avows; confident persuasion, that the o incorporation of Genoa will be soon placed in a false light by the pauegyt ists of the English Govern ment;" and it adds, " Should England succeed in creating discord upon this subject. no alternative will be left His lld P eel A Majnrr, but to prose cute with vigour the unjust war that will be de clared against him " We know from the diplo matic Papers already published, that every previous aggression and encroachment of DON • A lIT IC, have been the subject of remonstrance on the part of Austria and Russia, and this Memorial furnishes the most irrefragable evidence. that, by the in corporation of Genoa, he knew he should ex haiht the patience of these two posers, and force thion to extremities. He is, therefore, guilty of a palpable falsehood, when he asserts, that*, Pre sent war fame upon him unexpeaedly, at the very • • . nidneent when he was going to carry into effect his threat of the invasion of England. Neither Russia nor Austria arrested his arm, nnr diverted the blow. The Continental War is entirely of his own seeking ; either in direct prosecution of his original projtet universal domieion, or to cover the disgrace of his baffled enterprise against England. A few days before the present rupture up an the Continent, we stated our suspicions, that the invasi on o f England was only a stalking-horse, from behind which, &rear..net aimed at the desouttion of all that remained of independence in Europe. Th e French Memorial confirms our suspicions, and we do maintain, that, after the world has seen the Bou logne camp, a two-edged Sword, to be used 3g...ic.t. England or the Continent, as occasion may offer, Austria and Russia must, in future, consider APT great accumulation of force in that quarter, in a very different light from that in which they have hitherto regarded it. Those armies which they conceives had no objeft in view, but the invasion of England, they now find, were able to cross the Rhine before the Austrians, with all the advantage of choosing their own time, were able to assemble in sufficient strength, upon its banks, to dispute their passage. And here, again, we have furtl►er evidence to shell, that the invasion of England was only a pretence to cover the views of BOMA! A•TE against the Con tinent. The French Papers, instructed to carry on the farce, pathetically lament the surprise and pointment of their master, in being thus unespeCtedly called upon to turn those arms against the Continent, which were intended to storm the Tower of Lou don. It appears, however, from the advanced state of his army, beyond the Rhine, that he was much better prepared to do that wl:ich he dis avowed, than to execute that which he threatened. We have received New York Papers to the _‘!std of August, from which we have made some es. tracts.—An article, dated Bahimor•, contait s a Munciaums account of a fleet of 10;1 sail, mese,' s of the lose and . frtgates, stated to have been seen cts the 7th of August, in Lst. 23. long. 64. :steering south, A Council was held on the Stii instant at Dublin Castle, when the Right Hon. Cu kit LE; I.oNa souk the oaths and his seat. The Emperor of Gen A N v's sudden return from the army to Vienna, is said to have been for the pur pose of proceeding to \Vilna, to have an inter view there with the Emperor of RUSSIA and the King of PRUSSIA. The Nile lugger, of Iti guns, Lieut. C. S r &lONS, arrived at Plymoarh on Saturday, from t!te Fleet, which she left all well on the 10th instant, off Ushant. When she left Admiral Cut NW AI. /. is, no thing had been heard of Sir RICH ARD ST IACHAII, nor of the Hochfort Squadron. The Scorpion, DAG°, from the South Seas, arrived in Yarmouth Roads on the I Ith instant ; she left tee Ham" Ca/ r v, of London, at Port Jackson, on the 2►ith of Apt it last,—all well. The Brathert, BA RNA RD t from Liverpool, for Tonningen, is lost in the Orkneys. The Haddock, Fowtta, from Petersburgh, for London, is on shore on Gothland, and lull of water. The Abry, PHILLIPS, from Lmdon, for Ton ningen. was lost On the Ist instant off Newwark. Cruisers are to be stationed on the Yorkshire coast, to protea those ships that may, by accident, be parted from their convoy. Alexander, Witt.t.s, from Jamaica, is arrived at Liverpool; she sailed from Negril on the 30:h July. with the fleet under convoy of the Vanguard man of war. and the Pepe/ion brig of war ; the latter vessel lost her niaM-mast and fore-top mast on the 14th of September. A brig. :opposed to belong to Whitehaven, got on shore near Cape Antonia. A large ship, belong ng to London, hav ing sprung a leak. was horned in the Golph ; and the Thower, Guineaman (supposed to be the Th , ,no,:s. Patucc, of Liverpool), was burned to tbe South ward of Bermuda, being leaky. The Aftrander parted from the fleet on the I Fth ult. in lat. 38. long. 631. in thick blowing weather. and the wind in general, since her parting, has been S.E. and S.S.E.; the Beet, in gmeral, sailed very dull. The North Yolk Militia, c..mmanded by Lord DCIIDAS, have marched into Gosport, from Wey mouth Camp. In consequence of an application from the MAYOR of SALISBURY to the Secasr•av at WA., his Worship on Friday received a lettet from the War-Office. informing him, that the route of a regiment of infantry, tinder orders to march into quatters there. should be altered, and that no troops should be quartered in that city, till after the Fair, on the ‘2`..'l inst. The first division of the Third East York Regi. meat of Militia, halted LA night at Highgate, and the adiiining villages, on their route icons Ash ford bArra, to Hull. On St;aday sennight, his Grace the Lord Arch bishop of Yoilli ordained twelve priests and eight deacons. in his chapel at Bishopthorpe. At a Common I fall, held on Thursday, Mr. Al. derman Eta.* was chosen May of Stamford, on which occasion he gave an elegant entertainment At the Town Hall. . The York Herald. of Saturday, states, that there is an alarming report of a contagious disease amo : ig the milit.try quartered in the barracks, in the vicinity of that city. NAVAL A !POI% rett.--Captain Fayerman. to the formidable ; Capt. Gifford, to the Af‘filla Capt. (;. Nlonre•, to the FULA a new 74; Caps• Rodd, to the litderatigable; Capt. Stiles, to the Adamant ; Capt. J. • Brisbane, to the aflemotoit ; Capt. Palmer, Cu the Wises.l • Capt. Simpson. of the freq., to the &'r; Capt. J.unes, to the Li►e; Capt• Collins, to the AL-f..er ; Capt. Slade, to the Dank!" If Bedford; Ckpt.'l'. ;town ; to the Ram ; Lira. Leach, to the Crocker. NM The Ntom fie 21 s cenes the bre stm , n4 ]x .1 wi the ger the he;, W.l • ( 11 /9 upon b t Y 1 3 iiSt CV, and DEII arsJ Cast Frc N. gPP , Ado Fa? foyn Th, "VI mac pan al t own Lin the sun 12m yQ whi fift) Stu As Tell bre c 7' .. H me in il % ; it ti en: T. hII