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r . * which wag bOrwoarol to the Asiriamatelsaramlor ; and M. eta Talent. who held thet post, having hypo pwillesl IT the Etoneror ray as ,,,,t er , i n • an evin lila hWog isimeowie.l hv the Prittre ile'Konrekin, I :nu happy to tins" myself a lit won I n rot' ', s poi ail I ir , vetly wiet yin F.scelleucT. 1 have the h oit oor to be, with remiaients of high coo..tlei-' a tm, .te. • istienert) La Coirrr. Nit-31.41 DE Rumxszort. T. hie Exoflicary Mt. Cassino, &z. Cc. &r. Nt , Opoot de l'him t rlgny. to Ur. earretary Clitotwee gated Paris. soil Oeo.ewr, tour. Itecoosa No. towbar 4. (lAA NII•11110)1.) , M•ljesty, the E ii i wror, my Vaster, h o:mc left 'no not *Wise; to wait his 04 1 0 4 to t koooledge the reyetpt .or the letter %lot+ your Excellency &I me the honour to write to me Oil iLe •IStli of d 0 ... ur.Ntd4 aii.l which I re veivell this ottornitig, ae allo f the o,aciut Note hielt was annexed to it. I shall lose no time io there tosinu.s to Ilia Imperial 111aiesty ; as soon RS his imeotioas shall I. made knawis .n., I shall liestea to seal another Courier to 1 7 v. elleocy. I eon, with the hi'he.t consi.l..r.iCon, &c. (Signed) Cuatle• ( eNie. :'. a EN:: Woes. Metioni•.tg, tee. ".".r N.ti. Letter i.ttan Cues N:eutas de Rootaaevff, to Mr. Si-claws casecle, d.,1t.1 Pares, November Iti ,ra), 1005. Isscsis.:4l Dm:ember S. (72ae.tirtos. Sta—l traiisart to your Excellency my an swer to the Note of the -28th October. which you were piensell to ioldrewi to Coma ale 'bikini ; and I hastea to sing:: this fresh opportunity of renewing to lour Excellency the assurances of the high con shi.ration 'Sitio which I have the honour to be. &c. 1 •tg:ortii Lt..: OW rE NICOLAS Ott RUMANZOni. MO kacelintey Mr Csnotoc,&c. Nu Vii,-;Dt A VSLATIOII.) NOTE. The Unchr,igned, Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Itussias, has the honour to reitly to the Note of dm `lBtH October, signed hr Mr. Conning, Secretary of Stale fur Foxign Atfai-s to His Majesty_ the King of Great Britain, and addressed by his Eseellcuey to the Russian Aisithassarlor, et Pans : That the ailosiesion of the Sovereigns in alliance trial England, to a Congress, cannot he a point of nay difficulty, and that Russia awl France consent to it. Bait this principle lay no means extends to the Ivo:esti y of admitting the Ptenipoteistiaries of the Spanish Insurgents; the Emperor of Bassi. cannot admit their. His Empire, in similar CirCUM etanceir—ltild England can recollect one particular tastatiec—has always been true to the same prin ciple. Moreover. he has already acknowledged the King Joseph Napoleon. Ile lias announced to H's Britannic Nlajeaty, that he was united with the Emperor of the French for peace as well as for war; and His Imperial Majesty here relents that ill etaration. He is revoked not to separate his in terest:from those of that Monarch ; hut they are both reedy to coin-lade a Pearl.. provided that it be just, honourable, and equal for all parties. The Cutlers:pied sees with pleasure, that, in this differetice of opi ll i ( nt respecting the Spaniards. notliiii-- presents itself which cast either prevent or delay the opening. of 31 CAllgresll., He derives his persuasion he this respect, from that which His Bri tannic Majesty has Ininself confided to the two Etuperrirs, that he is bound lay no positive engage ment with those who have taken asp antis in Spain. After llfteen years of war, Europe has a right to creiii;ml Peace. • The interest of all the Powers, utcluditig that of England, is to reader it general: II ri inanity etitottionds it ; and midi a desire, surely, cannot be foreign to the feelings of His Britanuie Majesty. flow I'3ll it be, that he alone can with draw himself fmn: such rn ohject, and refuse to ternthiate the miseries of suffering humanity ? The Undersigned consequently renews, iti the Ipme of the Emperor Isis august Master, the pro- Oral already made, to scud Plenipoteutiaries to any city on the Cootimit, which His Britannic Mijesty may pielsoe to point nut ; to admit to this Congress the Plenipotentiaries of the Sovereigns In alliance with Great Britain ; to trent upon the !iatis of the all pussidetis, and upon that of the respective power of the Belligerent Parties : In tine. to ace‘.4 any basis which may hove for its oh- Jeet the emieluvion of a peace, in which all parties shall find No , justice. and equality. The Undersigned has the honour to renew to his Excellencs, Mr. Caaaiug. the ILINIUMIWASI of his high consid.tration. .... (Sign dl Comet Niceit.AS DE ROMADZOIR. To his I:xerlieuel M . &t. No. ItIV.--lamer from at: an Cilimpegny to Mr. Nerretery Calming, 'Voted Paris, *Mb November, toes. Received December te. I.IIIT ION.) have the It 1111 l )ur to transmit to your Ex celleuey the auswer sloth 1 have been couimuniled to snake to the Note which accompaiiied your let. ter of the citith of October last. have the hounir to Iw, with the liigheist roe sifler4ti 1111 l &e. (Sigurd) Cn i filtrAtitelfe To his Ex.-allege" Mr. Corning, at. llotiodma. ll tea.) NOTE. The Undersigned bus laid before the Emperor his Master, the Note of his Excellency Mr. Can ning. If it were true that the evils of war were Mt only ou the Continent, certainly there would be litre bole of attaining peace. The two Emperors had flattered themselves that the object of their erasure would not huve been inisinterpreted in London. Could the English Mi ni , try have ascrioed it to weakness or to necessitv, whets every impartial Statesman most rerOpiAr, iu the spirit of peace end moderation by which it is dictated, the characteristics of power ai.d trite greatness France and 'twists. can carry nit the star so long as the Court of London skull not remir to just nod equitable dispositions ; and they are re- solved to do at,, How is it poisilile for the French Government to eatertaiti the proposal which hrs heel. made to it, of admitting to the uegocistion the Spanish hour gents ? %Vilna would the English Gin eminent Entee *did. had it Ivrea proposed to them to admit die Catholic Insurgents of Ireland ' France, without having any . (motion with them, has been in commit. ?iestion w ith there, hese merle them rromiArs, awl 1:4/s {Twelfth seed theta stieenors. Could 'mil Proposal have fogad place in a mite, the object of "gh 01101161 0 here beets Net to irritate. bet to ea- demur to egret a avotnal,enstiliatiso' ts 4 l l gee& undervaluation England will find herself ender a strange inia take, if. coutrary to the experience of the past. the -int emeritus.. the ilea of impending seciessfully upon the Coutiuent, osmium the armlet; of Fraeiee IA hat hope can she now have, especially as France is irrtiocadily muted aith Russia? The Umier.tigneal is commanded to repeat the Propos:II. to admit to tlw Helve-lotion all the allies of the King of England; whether it be the King who reign..lu the Brazils; whether it be the Kit.g who i r e g i r ; in Sweden; or whether it be the King oho reigns. in ; and to take for the basis of the negociation the ati ipasitteis. lie is commended to express the hope that. but losing 6131 t of the ielevitable results of the Dime of states, it aO:1 kw remembered, that between great powers there is no *whit peace hot that which e* at the saute tune equal and iseenourelele fur *Hinnies, The Undersigned requests his Excellency Mr. Causing to accept the ILSIMMUCe6 of his highest emeeiderotion. (lirieed) CHA SIPAG aY. No. XVI —Letter from Mr. aermtary Caitutog to Cunnt teutas tie Rwasasuff, amyl Foreign 11 r, jib Derma feces. erne est.sems shall lose nn rune illlli-Aillting to your Excellency, by an Eieglis!4 Courier, the ailswer wideii the Klieg my ast.ister shall command me to return to the official note, seinexeil to the letter of yoiir Excellency, dated the inin (.2ittle) of List mouth, of which I have the honour to mckelowltdge the reveipt. I seize with avidity this opportunity of renewing to your Excellency the assurances of the high con sideration with winch l have the /memoir to he, Sze. (Sigurd) GiciaGa (TANNING. His Exectleney Costa Iliteotao de RunansuS. No. NNW —Official Note, elated Foreign Oct,ffi ,9th De cember, Pow. The Undersigned, His Majesty's Principal Sr erttery of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid berme the King his master the note tr ai im i nted to him by His Excellency the Count Needs:, de Houtelize.d, .Minister for Foreign A Weirs of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Hussies, dated on the 16th (ieth) of November. The. King learns with astonishreent and revet the expeceeton which appears to have been enter tained that His Majesty should comet. , .to com mence a negocietion for general pear , . 1.. the pre grimes Abandonnieut cif the cause of the Spanish Ha tion, and of the legitimate Nlemire by-of Sp a iii„ in deference to an nampatine which has no parallel iii the history of the *arid. His Majesty had kneed that the participaf of the Emperor of Russia it. the overtures made to His :Majesty would have afforded a security to His Majesty against the proposal of a condition, so un just it. its effect, and so fatal in its example. Nor can Hie Majesty conceive be what obliga tion of duty or of interest, or by whet principle of Russian policy, His Imperial Majesty can have found himeelf compelled to acknowledge the right, 'esteemed by France, to depose and i:npreson friendly Sovereigns, aid forcibly to transfer to her self the allegiance of loyal and independent tea- lions. If these he indeed the principles to which the Einpsror of Russia has inviolably attached himself ; to which His Imperial Majesty has pledged the character and resources of his empire ; which he has united himself with France to establish by war, and to rusiutain in peace, deeply dors His Majesty. lenient a determination by which the sufferings el Europe most be iiggravated and prolonged : but not to 1-lis Majesty is to be attr •ipteil the continu ale* of the calamities of war, by the disappoint ment of all hope of such I/ peace as would be com patible with justice watt with honour. The Undersileneii, &c. (Signed) Gigolos CANNING. No. XVlll.—.Latorr frees Mr. rioreasary Consing to 31. de Champa t nev, dared Farago 0116er, 7th December, tsars. St hare the honour to acknowledge. the receipt of your Excellency's later of the 49th of lust mouth, and of the official note therein inclosed. As soon as I shall have received the King's com mands upon the subject of that note, I shell not fail to trimennit to your Excellency, be an English Messenger, the answer which His Majesty may command me to return to it. have the honour C 6 he, With the highest consideration, &c. (Signed) Gcoanx C•NNING. No. XlS.—Official Note, dated Foreign Office, 9th Dv. umber, 1505. The Undersigned, His Majesty's Principal Se eretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid before the King his muter the note transmitted to him be his Excellency M. de Cliampagity, dated the igth November. lie is especially command...l by His Majesty to abstain from noticing ally of those topics and ex pressions insulting to His ~ %lajesty, to h e , ; ah e m, an d to the Spanish elution. with *lnch the official note transmitted by M. de Champagur abounds His Majesty was desirous to have treated for a prase which might haves arranged the respective interests of all time powers engaged in the war, on . principles of equal justice : and His Majesty sin cerely regrets that this desire of his Majesty is elni appnlnted. But His Majesty is determined not to Omission the cause of the Spanish nation, and of the legiti mate monarchy of Spain : and the pretension of France to exclude from the negociation the Cen tral t o il Stipreme Government, meting in the name of His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, is one, which llis !Majesty could not admit, without ier.pliescing in an usurpation, which has no parallel in the history of the world. The Undersigned, be. (Signed) Grolier% CAVIIVG. No. XX..7-Letter from Count Nicolas its Romans ff, to Mr. Sirrrrary Csassusg, doted Paris, 1.5 03819 I) tuber, leui.—Beceiverl December Mb. (TIIIANPLATIOV.) Sta—The Messenger whom I hail eli•patelted to your Excellency is returned to this place, an d has brought me the letter which you dal me the honour to write to sue on the 7th of December, Simms !mars afterwards, the Messenger whom emir Ewellency has reset to Paris, delivered to He from sour Exet•llency, n letter without date, which oas accompanied by a L ote, slated the ;nth of De moldier. I shall transmit tke whole for the infor ioatioli of the Emperor my master. I avail myself of this opportunity te renew t o 1 yotietneelliser the itestantee !hi ' 411ratna 'Pith which I beentire liedionr to he, Count Me,. eiItoMANZOII, II Mr. Casein& he. Ste. Loisdee. • tier from MDe Clinerieny, ?tlt-trealikk 4 _ ' late Paris, t.tth Doorsisbw, t i nts.--askiews • m u,.l;. 5$ (TR•NISLATIONt• Ste—l hove the holionr to itilneorlerige the re ceipt of your Exerthiney'l letter of the 9th 'Mk% together with the offieisi note which necuiti:uthiSll' it. 1 shset lode no titer in laying this note nefore tlw Emperor my master. I own' teysell uf this opportunity to renew to your Exeellelies the assursiive of the high r04111i..0 ilrottinis with which, I have tile honour to i.e. Stin (Silnerl) Citner.turiT. His Excellency Mr. Canning, Ste. ke. CONVENTION OF CINTR.4. COPT OF MI OFFICIAL CONSIIINICATIO/1 RiCILMTLY DUOS TO SIR W!W AAAAA 111FLP. "The King has taken into his eonaideretion the Report of the Board of Inquiry, together aid' the document' and opi pion* therrneto monened. White His Majesty adopts the Unanim owe °pinto?. of the tleit nu farther military proceeding is itectaciry to be had upun the transactions refereed to their investigation, His Meicsty due nut intend theseby to enurey any er.pre , - *ion of His Mnesty's sat isferthni at %hokum' 4 . 41 COU1111:4.10i of the Armistice and Convention. " henthuse iiim,resesats wereetwt kid before Its Vl - the Kist reserving fur investigation dose parts of the . . . . . Convention in which His Meelety's immedtate interests were canned it to be signiaeil to Sir Hew Dalrymple, by His Majesty's Secretary of State, that His blajesty, llC ecrtheten, felt himself compelled at once to express his dis approliati.ei of those articles, in which atipalations were made, directly affecting the interests or feelings of the. Span ish and Portuguese iistiose. " At the close of the Inquiry, the King, abstaining tom anyailwervatioti upon other parts of the Convention, repeated his erossi . ..irobstion of those articles ; His Majesty dceta•ng it necessary that his sentiments shutild be clearly understood, as to the impropriety and danger of the authorised adraissinu, into ;lilitary Cunt etifonis, of attn. les of such s description, which, especially when incautiously frr.n:d, tiny lead to the most If1)0Ti01111 consequences. " His Majesty caultoi forbear farther to observe, that Lieuteuant-General Sir New Dale' milk's delaying to trans mit rot 11:i int:it-motion the Armistice concluded on the 27d of August, until the atli of September, Len ►e, ei the same time, transmitted the ratified Convention, wee eskiimied to praduce great public inconvenience. and diet rule Isciate nie at. e did in feet resell therverom." ..• Far Law latent:race, ke. it Not THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. The Correspondence between the Doitish. Rus sian, and French Ministers, in consequence of the proposition from Erfurth, was laid yesterday upon the table of the House of Commons, preparatory to the discussion of the subject on Thursday next. A copy of it is given in our preceding columns; but, from the lateness of the hour at which it was received, we have not time for many observations. A proposition from Admiral SAT:MARE?, in the Baltic, respecting, we believe, the Russian fleet, appears to have been seized by the Emperors Na routoe and ALLAANDES. at Erfurth, as the ground for making the Overture, in which they set out with declaring, that " the union of the two Empires is beyond the reach of all change, and that the two Emperors have forined it for peace as well as for war." This Overture concludes with proposing for a basis " the seri Fussidetis, or any other founded upon the reciprocity and equality that ought to prevail lwtiveeto all great nations," and to this proposition Mr. CANNING replies, by re fusing to eater into any negocietion to which Spain is not a party.—Fer be it from us to say, that we ought to abandon Spain; but on reading these Papers, we cannot commend the precipitate man ner in which Spain is brought forward by Mr. CA N.. !CING. One might suppose, from Lord Gnex vit.t.e's speech in the House of Lords, on Thurs day night, that he had read these Papers. His Lordship observed, thut at the time the Imperial overture was made to treat on the nil possidetis, England woe hi possession of Portugal, end Franc only of a corner of Spain, between Vittoria and the Pyrenees. lied the English Minister then ac cepted the offer, Fmnre must be embarrassed, for it was not to be supposed, that, meditating the subjugation of Spain, she would have been ratio tied with a little corner of that country, leaving England in possession of all Portugal. To have suggested then to France that her Overture was delusive, and could not lead to peace in the preselit state of utitiettainty, his Lordship sing would h a re disarmed all aegry feeling, and snelo au an swer must leivc recommended us lamer to the other nations of Europe. Hie MAJINTIr• Mini-ter, we regret to foul, thought differently, and the De claration of the 15th December, breaking off the Negoci:ition, winch is already Wore the public, was the result. - Mr. Poi:raiser's speech in the Hawke of Com mons, on •liiirstlay, was that of • Slowworm. sand displayed all the ability which the Public had u rizht to expert in the sneeessor of Mr. Fox soil GREY, to the head of a. party, the innet power fal ever knows) in t h is s•orinky iss respect of rank. pmperty, and tlosts. It was correct without being minter. A Incid order prevailed through. out, free from all et et hodivail stiffireqs ; and it was co.uirefiehisive without being driLer:tre. It tray a ..0. - fied, I tiasisiftwai` gird fortenihnowelisin inflicte kion upon 01. Ow great points that agitate Europe, and itlEriA t he public mind ou hods sides of the At tile! expedition against Denmark to 4. f ffiA • • I • ; Appg) It . t most s y ea.sowd the 'igmy views sad mistaken conceptions aims. luik.metertained of Spain, and of the • its defence should have beets Du- The impolicy of 4 CR4C ”frinn a desultory warfare, • which ltcd proved successful. to a regular cus•upaigu, which bad bora untried,- so strongly nrged by Mr: Poe.• 4140 a prominent feature is the admirable speech of Lord Gilt'. 4411.1. E, in the House of Lords. on the sense nigh.--. The force, strength. uud truth of . the argil mesas urged tliese two able ststesmen, were strongly mistrusted be the speeches of Minister*. We insert, this day, a Copy of a cOmmosnication Made by Ministers to Sir HEw 1)t Lams:PLS. dis approving of those articles in the Convecting" 4 Cintra " in which stipulations were made. directly tefecting the interests or Letings of the Spankih anal Portuguese nations ;" cud farther statist, tbut tbs• delay in tnossmitting tile Armistice communication, we do not expect to see Sir ts... DA LRY ' , Le employed in any important place of trisst or confidence; awl vet the Board of Inquire, in theirsentence, allowed Sir flew DA LRY MP LE 11/4 merit of 44 unquestionable zeal and firmness;' and HIS MAJESTY, adopting 44 the unanimous opinion of the Board," says, " that no further military proceeding is necessary to be had upon the pro reeding% submitted to their investigation." My Lord H AWE RY (wow Earl of LIVERPOOL) has dwelt much in his language to the city of Loudon upon 44 Britisit justice' and punishment before t.iiil; but Sir 11rtia Damormpee's case affords a new illustration of 44 British justice," in punish . siieist after acquittal. Among 44 the stipulations affecting the feelings and interests of die Portu guese," is, no doubt, the recognition of the ti- to of " Duc IYAsartsrres" assumed by Gen. J c 7`. :/ t ; but it must be remembered that Sir ARTIM a %Vas - LESLEY recognised this title in the armistice; and that Lord CASTLEREAGH, ill his private lam:ruc tions, desires Sir Hew - to take the advice and coin • Mon of Sir ARTHUR. dlliuisters, we find, prwowe to vote the Thanks of Parham:lit Ix, Sir Atli-FICK 'Wuttstev for his conduct iu the battle of Vi- • meira. Why do not Ministers extend the Thanks to the part which he acted in the Armistice and Convention of Cisitra ? Why wit thank him for carryiustlniir ariny to Porte**. and not to Spain, its he and Ministers originally intended ? These points will, no doill,t, be duly considered before the Thanks of Parliament are voted fur the achieve ment of a victory, in which we did not take one general officer of the enemy, and the loss of the victor was nearly equal to that of the vanquished. From nine o'clock to eleven, on Thursday mere. ing, a heavy Brio; was heard at Dover, in the di rection of the Fi mach coast. The atmosphere was so hazy the cause couiJ nut be ascertained. Ca lids and Boulogne are nests for privateers, and an action limy have taken place with some of our cruisers on that station. The French, however, are in the habit of announcing their victories to gn g land by the firing of cannon on the opposite • coast, and as, at the date of the last dispatches from Spain, BONAPARTE MRS pressing close upon right wing of Sir JOHN 31oonv's army, and is reason to presume that a battle ham taken place; the firing, on Thursday, on the French meet. ha excited very serious apprehemicum. • BRITISH PRESS-OFFICE. lIVE. O'CLOCK. ST. JAMES'S PALACE ON FIRE ! Aliout a quarter past two o'ckck, this meruirfi. the Centinels gave the alums that St. James's rt. lace Was on tire. The drums immediately beat the alarm, and engines began to be in motion. The fire appears to have broken out between the at. moury and hits Majesty's private entrance in ?•;t. James's l'arl. on the south eastern side of the Palace. It has now a most alarming appointee , • The Duke of Cambridge's apartments are in it blase. There is no water, and no hope of stepping the progress of the flames. Six o' Clock. The fire continues in an alarming progress. Its appearance is most awful. A person ~arrived frets Staines, says, at three o'clock it was visible there, and he fancied all London was on fire. The Cu rate continue to arrive, and the people are crowd ing to the spot, but no water is yet mitered. 'Ms whole Palace is in imminent da * it is surpacted was not accidents'. ---•- - - ' On Thursday the Royal. Dyes, visited rink lIFIAJ NAT'L& Yesterday morning. about ten o'clock, the Clismasasaitsi waited upon His Itlasesev die Address of the House or Lords. In a shed tune after his Matartary set off for Windom...-. About twelve o'clock Iler MAJESTIP and the Pa "*. costars followed His MA/FITT. The BPEAILER will entertain the principal hers of Adestuist ration in the Commons, ea friends, to dinner. this dee. To-morrow fie „ vatartaiss these of the lite , will mafioso to giro during the Sessiosm , _ I