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• I rejoined nivat the subjeel by observing to the French M. nistcr, thateven withont adverting to the Serious considera tion of the King's 'dignity , and honour, the 'feelings of the people of England were to be takeninto account on the pc.. casion That he must he sensible the relative situation, hitherto,of the two Countries, especially in regard to Trade,- :inimical His Majesty's - Subjects no room - to reap those ad. vantages which were common to, and which - were' always cxpecled from a state of Peace, and that it therefore appeared to methat the First Consul would equally give a proof of his'Alisptuitiml to see .harmony and a friendly. intercourse re t Nabpsited.letWeett the two Nations, by not repeating his *nth tipoo4 , matter which wo,uld operate in the strongest nter against such 4a.A.p.pri*.rpatioks,imd reconciliatiOn of leictifittfttS7 were it MAT only to come to the knowledge of Iklis Majesty's 3ubjetts. I Ant Wppy, nay - Lord, to say, that M. Talleyrand shewed - no warmth, or any very parked eagerness, in his manner of replying to my cunt umcation ; and that our conversation on • tlushead terminated with the la4t remarks 1 made to him, when he changed it to another subjed.. 1 have Honour to be, ‘fee. (Sig4ll)• ANTHONY •MERRY. Right lion, Lord IlawkesbUry; Arc. Ste, - • (N0.,t0.) My Lord, Portinan-square, July 25, 002. I transmitted untie time ago, to Mr. Hammond, a Number of Pehien' containing the 'most gross Calumnies against the Freueli Government, and against. the whole Nation and I observed, that I should probably receive an order to demand the punishment of such In abuse of the Press, That order is .actually arrived, and 1 cannot conceal from you, my Lord, that the reiterated insnlts.of a Isirutll number of Foreigners, assembled in London to ccinspire . against the French-Govern. litent, produce the most unfavourable elkels on the good un. detstunding between the two Nations... Even though the First Article of the Treaty, of Amiens had not provided for the maintenance of that respea, which two independant Na: Cons owe each other, the general Maxims of the Law of ... Nations would formally conclenitaio revolting an abuse of the Liberty of the Press, It eannot*bc believed, that 64 Law can give more latitude to a Libellist th:in to any other indi . who, without Declaration of War, should permit himself to violate the dotias of good neighbourhood. The Altr lice in question is so :tined the' more serious, as it>i ob. jezt is evidently to disturb the harmouy which intbsists cell the two Governments'. • 1 t is not to Peltier alone, but the Edith!' of the a Courier Francois de Lawdres," to. Gobbet, and to other Writers who resemble them, that I have to direel the attention offlis,Ma_ jest':; Government. The perfidious and mal , :volent Pub licio alns of these men, are in epee contradiction to the prin. dples of Peace, and it it could ever enter into the minds o f rite F vn jj Government to vcrinit retaliatiOn, Writers Would driibr less be found In France, willing to aVenge their Country hy. tilling their pages with odidttS. Reflections on the most respedable Persons, and on the dearest Institutions o f Great lititain. The want of positive Laws against these sort of offences cannot pal hate the violation of the Law of Nations, according to r which•Peace should put a stop to all species of hostilities; and ddubtless those which wound the honour and repotation of a Government, and which tend to cause a revolt of the People, whose interests are confided to that Government, are the most apt to lesseß the advantages of Peace, and to keep up national resentments. • I have the honour to be, (Signed) OTTO. To his Excellency Lord Hawkesburv, Minister.and Secretary of State for the Foreign bepartment. • • (No. It.) Sir, llowning•street, July zB, iSo2. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Let. ter, on the subject of the last Number of Peltier. It is impos. sible that Kis Majesty's Government could petuse the Ar ticle without the greatest displeasure, anti without an anxious desire that. the person who published it should sulfa the punishment he so,justly deserves. The Calumnies, how. ever, to which His Majesty's Government, and many of his best. Subjects in-this Country, are frequently exposed in the public Prints, must necessarily convince all Foreign Govern. ments of the difficulties 'which exist in a Constitution like . that bf (.; teat Britain, in preventing the abuse which is often , ftn , voidably., attendant on , the greatest of all political Be nefits ; and though Publieations, of this •nature are, as they certainly ought co be, by the Law of England, stibjea to punishment, is often, difficult to prove the guilt of an in. di v ich l at so saiisfaCtolify as toubtAill the judgment of a Court of I the. Ka the inconvenience w hie h arises Itonn prosecti.. teat, unleis there is a reasonable prospeet of success, is -fre quently suf fi cient to deter both the t:overnment and in. uiviiluAls from undertaking it. lu the present case I have thought it my duty to refer the Article 11l question to His Majesty's Attorney General, fur -his opinion whether it isnr is not a Libel, according to the' construetion of the Law. of England, 'and whether it is such a Libel as he would, under all the ciNuinstances,. r o .,,,manct for prosecution. As soon . af it ins report, I. shall have the honour of cummu. tocating it to you. I hive the honour to be, &c. - M. Otto, (Signed) ,HAKESBURY: fNo.'ix,)--NOTE. The undersigned Miuister Plenipotentiary of the French Itepubli. , having .submitted to his Government the Letter sequeli' ".Excellency Lord Flawkesbury, Minister and principal Secretary of State of His Britannic Majesty, did Itint the homier of writing muter date of the 17th July, is dleaLd toolli.r the following observations; . t the British Government tolerates censures upon the ;Os of its AdilliliktfiltiOn, and the personal 'Abuse of the tuo.it, resp,.!etable does norsulter even the slighteir attempt a..;aitist the public tranquillity, the fundamental laws of the Empire, and the supreme authority which arises from them. Every nation is, moreover, at liberty to sacribee - any advan tage whatever, in its interior, in order to obtain another to which is attaches a higher value ; but the Government which does not repress the licentiousness of the press, when it may be injurious to the honour or the interests ot foreign Powers, would alliard an opporttmity for libellists to endanger the public tranquillity, or.at least the good understatuling that fermi the hasisrof it, and. whenever such serious injuries are continued ih a regular and systematic manner, doubts must arise asst., its own dispositions. The is:wielder Laws and Constitution of Great Britain, are subordinate to the general principles of the Law of Na. onus, which Supersedes, the laws of each individual State. It' it be a right in England to allow the moat extensive h. berty to . the Press, n'is a public right of polished Nations, and the bounden duty of •Covermnents to prevent, repress, and punish,. every attack which might by those - means be made against the rights, the interestsond -the honour of Foreign Powers - , This goneral maxim of the Law or Nations has never been mistaken without paving the way for the greatest -divisions, and has even furnished in England a plausible pretext to ritose who -have written volumes to prove the necessity of the last War iteainq France. Arc these men now desirous of presenting to the Consular Government a w e ap on w hi c h they have wielded with so much address ? And 'can they Better themselves that the authority ,which has signed the Peace has not power to maintain it ? By the first . Article of . the. Treaty of Amiens, the two Powers agree to adbrd no protectiop, either directly or hh:, to those who 'should cause prejudice to - pity of . them. But the greatest of ;All injuries doubtless hi, that which tends to debase a Enre * it Government, or to - excite wjthin its Territory civil and relHous connuotions ; and the most etc.:Mud uf all protections, is that which places under the sitegisard of the Laws, nv.:n who seek not only to disturb the political tranquillity ot Europe, but even to dissolve the tirt-builiis of Society.... !rite undersigned Minister must moreover observe, that „this, js not a question rcspeding some paragraphs, which, through the inadvertance of an Editor, might have been ac cidentally inserted in a public print ; but it is a question ota deep iind continued system of defamation ' directed not only nist the Chief of the French Republic, but against all the CollititittedAtithoritieS of the Republic, against the whole Nation, represeuted.by these libellers in the most odious and degrading terms. It has, even been remarked that many of these Prints contain an appeal to the French People, against the Movernment and fund 111elltal L:LlVti of their Country. I f these observations apply to the English Writers, who, for these three months past, have tieliiAed . the Public with the Inost perfidious anti unbecoming Publications, they are still more applicable to a class Of fOrCign calumniators, who appear to avail themselves of the asylum ()tractf them in England only for the purpose of the better gratifying their hatted against lhance, and undermining ,the foundations of It is not merely by insulting and seditious writings, evi daitly 'published with a view to circulation in France, but hv otlwr Papers distributed through the Marnithe I),:partactit., in rioter to excite the evil.disposett or wvale . liitt;thitailt4 to resist the execution of the Concordats, that tli, se implacable Enetniei of France continue to eXerci4C Hostilities, and to provoke the just Itatig . tiation of the i.renelt Government and l'eople. Not a dutch; exists or these Writings having. been composed and cifeutated by. Georges t and by the turner Bishops of France. These Nitmi can no loner blt considetud but as Itt.lvis ogliins; both political And tell ides authority ;• and after their reiterated attempts to disturb the good • undervtanding - between the tWo . I Griveroments, their residence in England militates :Openly against the spirit and letter of the Treaty of Peace. The Meetings likewise, which have taken place in the 'Livid. of jersey, arid the odious Plots ,which are there framed, in spite of the representatiooS; which the under signed Minister has already taltin care' to make .on this Subject, also demand immediate Measures to be taken . by a Govermnent, the Neighbour and-Friend of yrancc. ....Other Persons (stns heil,..by.yecollettions never. to be ef faced, and by regrets too long fostered, to an Order of Things which no longer exists in Frame) find themselves daily implicated by the Plots of those who pretend to 'serve them. A setise:of their - own reputation will without .doubt lead them to avoid a fireits of Insrigues, with which they ought not to .have the least connection. . Peace happily re-established,'. the mutual desire of the .two Governments to render it solid and lasting; and the general interests of Humanity, require that all these Causes of Dissatistaetion should be done away, and that His Ma jesty's Ministry should, by frank and energetic Measures, manifest their disapprobation of all the Attempts made to produce new Divisions. • , The undersigned has in consequence • received especial Orders to solicit, • Yst, That His Majesty's Government will adopt the most eactual•Measures to pnt a stop to the unbecoming and sedi. 4iouV Publications 'with which. the Newspapers and other Writings. printed in. England are tilled. • • • ad, That the Individuals mentioned in the undersigned- Minister's Letter of the is.d July lust; shall be sent out of the Island of Jersey. . , 3d, That the former Bishops of Arras and St. Pol de Leon, and•all those, who, like them, under the pretext of Religion, seek to raise Disturbances in the.interior of France, shall likewise be sent away. 4th, That Georges and his Adherents shall be transported to Canada, according to the intention which the undersigned has been direded to transmit to his Government at the re quest of Lord Hawkeshury. • • sib, That, in 'order to deprive the evil-disposed of every pretext for disturbing the good Understanding between the two Governments, it shall he recommended to the Princes of the House of Bourbon at present in Great Britain, to re pair to Warsaw, the residence of theltead-of tbeir 6th, That such of the French Emigrants as still think proper to west the •mders and decorations belonging to the ancient Government of France, shalLbe required to quit the Territory of the British Empire. These demands are founded upon the Treaty of Amiens, and upon the verbal assurances that the Undersigned Mini ster less had the satisfuelion to receive in the course of the Negotiations, with. regard toe mutual agreement for main taining tranquillity and good order in the two Countries. - If atty one in particular of these demands does not proceed so , immediately front the Treaty concluded, it would be easy to justify it by striking examples, and to prove how very atten tive the British Government has been in times of internal fermentation, to remove from the Territory of a neighbour ing Power those who might endanger the public tranquillity. Whatever, may be the protection which the English Laws aftbrd to native Writers and to other Subjecis of His Majes. tv, the French Government knows that Foreigners do not. here enjoy the same protection ; and that the Law, known by . the title of the Alien Oat, gives the Ministry. of His Britan nic Majesty an authority which it has often exercised against I•oreigners whose residence was prejudicial to the interests of Great Britain,. The first Clause of this Ad states expressly, that any Order in Council which requires a Foreigner to wilt the Kingdom shall be executed tinder pain of imprison ment .and transportation. There exists, therefore, m the Ministry a legal and sufficient power to restrain Foreigners, without having recourse to the Courts of Law, and the Freach Government, which otters on this point a poled rc. ciprocity, thinks it gives a new proof of its pacific intentions; by demanding that those Persons may be sent away, whose machinations uniformly tend to sow discord) between the two People. It owes to itself and to the Nation at large (which has made it the depository of its power and of its honour), not to appear insensible to insults and to plats during pro. found Peace, which the irritation of open •AVar could not, justify, and it is too well acquainted with the conciliatory dispositions of the British Ministry, not to rely.upori. its ef forts to disperse a Faction equally the Eneiny of f ranee and Englroul.: The Undersigned Minister seizes this opportunity to pre. sent to His Excelleney Lord Ilawesbury, the hettlage of his respegtul consideration. . • s• (Signed) 011'0. London, 17th August, 1802. • (No. 13,1 Sir, ' • • Dowiung..street, Aug. 28, 1802. !Wild you the Copy of a Letter which I received some days ago friant M. Otto, ;Nether with a Copy . of an official Note itiaietl in it. I Wye inliirrned AL Otto, that you Would receive instrudions • to enter into -explanations avith the French Government on the several points to which it refera. It is impossible not 'to feel considerable surprise at the circumstances under which it has been thought proper to Present such kNote; at the stile in which it, is drawn op, and at the complaints contained in it. Whatever may be the general dispositions of the French Government towardsr this Country. supposing them to be as.hostile as they have been at any, former period, or even more so,. it .would appear so contrary to their interest to provoke a War with us at the present moment, that I am inclined to ascribe their conduet, • in the whale of this busituss, inbre to temper, than 'to any other motive ; but 'whether their conduit is to be reierred to temper or to policy, the Oil:Choi it may .still bc the same ; it is therefore become of the utmost importance that a frank explanation shoitict be made of the line olcolidud which Uis Akjesty has detertuinctl to adopt on reasons of the nature of those to which this Nate refers, and of the motives on which it founded; and it is to he hoped that suclean explanation will have the abet of putting an end to a course of proceed ing which ciiit lead only to perpetual irritation between the two Governments, anti which might ultimately tend to the most serious consequences. The first consideratitin that naturally arises on this trans. altion, is that of the peculiar eircionstances under which the Note of M. Otto has been. presented. It cannot be denied • that some very improper paragraphs haze lately appeared in some of the English Newspapers against the Government of France; it cannot be denied likewise, that Publications of a still morelinpr?per and indecent nature have made their ap. pearatice in this Country, with the names of Foreigners af fixed to them. Under these circumstances the French Go venunent would have been warranted in - expeeling e very re: dress that the Laws .of this Country could afford-them ; bur . as, instead of seeking it in the ordinary crnuse, they - have thought tit to resort to recriniination theinseive, or at least to authorize it in others, they could have no right tocom:. plain - if their subsequent appeal to 1 tis Naic.stY , 41 tailed to . reduce the elfeet that otherwise would have attended it. Whatever may have been the nature of the prior injury, they have, in fait, taken the 1, tw' into their own hands ; 'And what is this reeritiiiiiatiori and retort? Thu paragraphs in the English Newspapers, the Puhlications to which - I have above reterred,--have not appeal - 6d under 'any authority of the British Government,. and are disavowed and disapa proved of-by them; but the paragraph in the Monitcur has iippored lit a Paper avowedly . .liar which the Gn. verstment ere theretore considered as responsible., as data 11a jesty's Government is responsible for the contents of the London Gazette. And this retort is not etrerfirrett: tethe un authorized English Newspapers, orto the other Publications of which ceinptaint is now made,: but is converted into, and lliak . ur.etence fur a dired attack - upon the Government , of adds gajeity. Ilia Majesty feels. it- beneath , his dignity to ntal‘e any fonual complaint on this occesion ; but it .has been impossible tbr tit. to proceed to - the other Isaias of the subjede without pointing y our attention , to the conduct • of the French Government in this reaped, .that you may observe upon it in the manner-it deservesie The Ptopteiltions. in.. Al. Otto's Official Note, are six in number; but may in . tact, bs dividedfun-der two .heads : the first, that 'winch relates to the-Libeis sit all descriptions, .which are alletiged to be published eigitinst the Frzilett Go. vermnent ; the Last ? comprehending the Live Complelnts winch relate to the hmigrants resident in this-Country.- Ott the first, 1 arts M sure you must be aware that His ajesty cainiot, and never cousequence of Any representation or ally. menace from a Foreign Power, make any concession, whiela can be in the sffiallest degreedangero - us to the Liberty ral the Press, as secured by the Censtittition of thi c e nun .. try.: This liberty is ;justly dear to every British. subject. 'Cite • Constitutien admits of no previous restraints upon Pub heailom of any • clescri whin ; • hut there exist 'Judicatures, wholly independent of CLie Executive. Government, capable of taking cognizance of such. Publications as the Law deems to be criminal. and which are botind to indict the p un i s h_ anent the Delinquents -nay. deserve; thestelieb ee m res take cognizance sot only of Libels agahist the Goversumnt anti the Magistracy of this Kingdom, hilt; as has b een re .; peatedly experienced, of Publications detain:dory of _those, ut whose hands the administration of koreign GoVeromente is placed; That our GOvernmeitt neither has nor want~ any • other protection than what the Laws of the Country attinal ; • Snit- though they arc willing and ready to give to every Fo reign government nil the 'protection against - oftilncei of this nature which the principle of their Laws anti Constitution wilt admit, they wet COrigilt to ticw•lliodvl theit Laws, Of to change their Constitution, to grAtify the wishes of: any . Foreigh Posver. If the. present French Government are els iitietied with our Laws on the riubjed qt Libels, or entertain the opinion that the administration of justice in our Courts is too tardy and lenient, they have it in their power. to redress theMselvts by punishing the venders and distributors of such Publieations - _within their own Territories, in ,any manner that they may think proper, and thereby' preventing - the cir euletion of them. • If they think their present lows are not sitilicient for flits purpose they may mad new ones; or, if they think it _expedient, .they may' exercise ,the . right .which they have of prohibiting the importation of any Foreign 'Newspapers, oe perindieal Publications, into the Territories of the I. rench Republic. His Majesty will . not complain • Of such it measure, as it is not His intention to interfere-in the manner. in which the People . or Territories of- France should be governed; but he expects, on the other hand, that the French Government will not interfere in the manner in which the GovernMent of His Dominions is concluded, or call for a change in those Laws with . which . His People are perfectly _eiatisfied.• With respect to the distinction - which appears to be drawn in M. Otto's Note, between the Publi cations of British Subjeds and those of •Foreigners, and the power which . His Majesty is' suppoSed to have in conse quence at the Alien. Ad, of sending .Foreigners out of His Dominions, it is important to Observe, that the Provisions of that Ad were made for the purpose of preventing the resi --deuce of foreigners, whose numbers and .principles had a tendency to disturb the , internal peace of His own Dominions, and whom the safety.ofthosc Dominions might require in many instances to be removed,.even if their actual condird had not exposed them. to punishment by law., It does not tollow that it would be a warrantable application of such a law to exert its powers in the cases of individuals such as those of whonrcomplaint ,is now made, and paiticuiarly as thee: are liable to be prosecuted under the Law of the Land, in like manner as others have. been in • similar cases, at the instance, and-upon the Complaint of Foreign Governments. The second general head, which includes the five last Complaints, relates to 'the remove! of some of the French Emigrants resident in this Country. His Majesty enter tained hopes that the explanation furnished on this he:id in my Dispatch, No. Le, would have proved satislattory, and would have precluded the necessity of any farther discussion on this subject. "l'he French Government have upon several oe..asions resorted on this part or the subject to pre cedent, and have particularly rested on the demand formerly Made by this country, „that the 'person then called the Pre. tender, should he sent from the French 'Dominion:. It is important that the difli:reeces between these two cases should be stated. When urines 11. abdicated the' throne. and left this Country, he retired with his adherents to France ; and though in the war which immediately succeeded that event, the French Government adopted his cause as their own, no stipulation was made at the Treaty al" Ryswick, that he should he sent from ;hat Country - , nor was' any sub sequent demand ever mad 6 to' the French' Government to this effect ; but he was suffered to remain at . St. Germain, in the neighbourhood of Parie, surroundedbylhis famiiy and friends, till the time of his death; It was nut till after his demise, when Louie X 1 V . iii dire& violation Of the Treaty of Ries. wick, had. acknowledged' hie Son as Kiinee.. Of Great Itri. fain, that a different course . of prOceeding was whined. by the British Government ; and in the Treaty of- Peace signed at Utrecht, which put an 'end to the War which had Keen carried in, on account of the. Spanish Succession, an 'Article was inserted to prevent the PretentWr from residing in atiy part of the French 'Deininione. The demand which was subsequently mole tir the retnoVal of the Pretender from a town which was situated ut the centre of these dominions,' was - founded on this; Article of the Treaty, which wee in fact one of the conditions at the Peace but bothehe Article in the Treaty and the eleinand were confined to the Pretender personally, And were not extracted to any of his family, or to any of his adlierente. After his reinoval, many (Allis adherents continueertO reside in France ; many persons resident in thii - Conntry,Who Were attached to the cause ache` Pretender, and teal vomited the Rebellion in his favour. and who were cesesequentlY,attainted for High Treason e' ;ou g ht reftige in France, :unit w were permitted le re, tei,i e thine tilt tfi iik r.lieeth„ In• ;:. leThitcle'oy co iiiiiiiih Ceeernment . tor. their removal. • ti,l7ltilee:O. fkielt, the natioel Sea of fames 11. who fri d int'his:ep . 9 • a 6e . and talent's Was the most dangerous ' troth; to' jive! ,rt4 . l,:' this Goiatry, and the 'Protestant it 4, .... . ted to' be ;1 Geneial in the French Armies, nod etioUgri -- e centred 'Pont the )(intl. an Englishman, and an Emierant, it 'Was not reqinred that he should be sent out of France. In the preset case, there is no Article in the Treaty of Peace, by which His Majesty is bound to send trinwthis Country any Frenchman whatever, except on ac- Count of the crimee epecitied in the Twentieth Article of the Definitive Treaty, and in consequence a:the proofs therein required having been etalueed. In the present case, it cannot be pretended that His Majesty has ever given the slightest countenance to the cause of the Re Yalists in France. against the present Govenunent sine the period when he acknowledged that Government ; and it there were not these important differences in the two eases, they . would be totally dissimilar in the only remaining point; for in the case of the House of Stuart, as has been already .srated, •notwithstanding the violence of the times, and the danger to Which the PM teshint Succession was really exposed, this strong act of au thority way confined to the person of the Pretender ; and the individual who must'be recognized in that character by 'the French Government, and whose case can alone bear tiny si, in ilarity to the former even in this respect, is'not, and never hay been within His Majesty's Dominions : Other precedents' • might be adduced on this subject ; but it is .not necessary-to . state them, as the foregeing are sufficient, ' - With resped to the Complaints in detail under the 'second , head.,---Upon the first, you may enform the French Govern ment, that the Emigrant's in jersey many of whom had re mained there solely on account of die cheapness of subsist. eke, had adually removed, or Were removing previous to the representation concerning thent in M. Otto's Note, and that befote your explanation with M. Talleerand can take piece, there will inobebl) not he an Emigrant in the !shunt. TO the Second Complamt, Which relates to the Bishops of Arras and Saint Paul ite Leon, and others, ilis Majesty cad only reply, that it' the fads alleilged against tile:11 cats be anbstantiated ; it it can be eroVed that they have distributed Papers on the ('mist of Frame:, with a vieiV oldieturbing the Government, at or iietneing the Peuple. to resist the new Church EstabliJoiein, Ills Majesty._ would think himself justified in taking all measures within his lower fur obliging therint6 heave the Critintry; bet emne prOolemet be adduce 4 or those taus; and:etch proof must not be that of their hay ing in a single iestenr e, vie. in reply to the Pipe's mandate, published a ViertiLeticu or their own CCldnet, in refusing to conform to the New Establishment, a proceedingin which they would be justifiable on every principle oh' toleration and • justice s ' but it should slew, that they Katie since availial themselves or their situation in this Country:lo excite the People of hence against the authority of that Government, whether civil in ceclesiastical, - ,. .. On the Thira complaint, which respeeti• the removal of qcurges, aild those persons supposed to IN: described as his adherents, M. Otto must have mistaken me in What he step. Vises Me to. have ciid on that subject. His Majesty is how., ever very desirous to obviate any Cause of; complaint or un. easiness with respect to these persons; and measures are in contemplation mid wil I, be taken, for the purpose of remoy. ing thrift out.o'flt is Majesty's European Darmnions. on tkie Fourth Complaint, respecting the Princes of the House of lionrh,n, I can only ruler you to my fOrmet An s~ctr. His Majesty has no desire that they should continue in this Country, it they are disposed, or can be induced to quit it but lie teels it to be inconsistent with his honour and his sense of jttstiee, to withdraw front .them the 'rights of I lospitali ty, as lung as they ctinthitt themselves peaceably and quietly and 010 S some charge can he substantiated of. their' attempting tridlitiirb the Peace which subiists bet Ween the wo Goveritmepa:,' 7 With respect to 'the' Fifth Complaint, which relatei to the French Einigrants ‘vearing in this Country the Orders of their ancient Government.; there are letv it anY persons of that d.!s,:rilirion in this Country Who wear such Orders. It be itiore,propdr, if they all abstained.fronVit ; but the French Coverunient could nut .persist expeelitg, that, i vin If Ir were , :onk`tstent «itli Law, His Majesty could be: induced to commit 'so, harsh an at of authority as to send tlieth - out atilt; Country On such an account. . . I have thus stated to you Ili* Majesty's Sentiments on the several points contained in M. Otto's Note. You will takean early OpOftitlii ty ofeommanicating these Sentiments to the French Ciovernment, and of accompanying them with the 'Arguments and,, Explanations iiWve stated. Anti if it should be desirixl, and you should be of opinion that it was likely to produce any; good elfect, there is no ohjediort to yourpuittng the •SUbir:4llCe of what 4ott shall have said in writing, and delivering it to the Mintstet. tip' Foreign 3.4irs, as a memorandum of your Coniersation: . Upon the general tone and style of ~M. Otto's Note,. it is important to observe, that it is far from conciliating ; and that the tit-A.o4x .of presenting Notes of this desCription, on any 1111.41Y0 at suggestion of itersonal irritation, cannot tail to have- the elect of indisposing the two Governments towards each.other, instead of consolidating itrul . 'strengthening the Peace which happily subsists between them. That after a War, in which the passPms - ormen have been' roused beyond all former examples, it is. natural to suppose that. the dis. trust,. jealousy, and.other hostile t.elings of 'individuals should' trlt itulltvliatc!y subside, and under these ei.edm. {~:: • stances it apltears .o be bath # the intero , t ,*nd of ra + two vernments, by a talk! and tenipzrateLondtrzt, g Gcr .dually to allay these feelings, and not, on the contrary, provoke and allr,lTlCilt theta h i ' untimely . irritaflOo cul their part, and by ascribing proceedingS like those ahoven,tiad, to causes to which they have no left mice. . tlt , Ni,,j:;Ty has dins fully and trAnkly explained his Sellthiltia:,,* and the ground of his Conduct... • He is sincerefv dispo,co to adept every measure tOr the preservation of fleace -Which is on . sistent with the honour and independence Of the Countrli and. with the security or its Laws and Constitution. hut the Ft-cinch Government must have thriiied a moit errouPU* judgment of the disposition of the British NatiOn,' and of the chancier of its Government, if the.. hive been taught tr, expect that any Representation of a foreign Power wilt dyer induce them to consent to a violation of those on . which the Liberties - of 'the' Pei:l)(e of .this: Cottntry 'arc founded. •. I have the honour to be, dec. (Sigttcd)- -HAWKESEIRV, Anthony Merry, &c. (No. Lt.) NOTE. General Vial, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic at 'Malta, having set out for his Destination about 4 1:,..11 si July, it is to be presumed, that he will soon be in a LUnd. tion to enter into a Concert with his Britannic Majesty,. Minister Plenipotentiary on the Evacuation of Nlalta, aril of its Dependencies. The three Months, in which this Evacuation should have taken place, are expired ; arid it being the intentio n ot the two Governments that the Execution of the 'freaty of Amiens should experience the least possible delay, the firf, Consul would have been desirous that the t w o thousand Neapolitans who are_rearly to depart, could have been trans ported- at an early peeing to the island of Malta, to llc in„ readiness whenever the EVacuation be on the - point 91 being etlitted. It appears, nevertheless, that Mr. Drummond, thc, Ent' fish Minister at Naples, has not been authorized by 16•G`)* vern t mento facilitate his Transport ; and that the Ivo ito alledgeol by that Ttlinister was; that the Stipulations which ought to precede the Evacuazion - wit being fulfilled, 1163 Evacuation could not yet take place: *in contmunicating the above Details to' his Excellency Lord 1-lawkesbury, Hi; Britannic Majesty's Principal S • toil tary of State tin- the oNign Department, theh te is directed to observe, that the sending two thetio " i ., heapolitaris,to the lila:l46f Malta, cannot but be coniitlacu as a preliminary step, in order to accelerate the Evaci", soonas as the necessary measures shall have lien tali en tio the respedive Plenipotentiaries ; and thud it does not in 30 Y 17 manner prevent the subsequent' concert on the Details o• the Evacuation, conformably to the Clauses of the of Amiens. • • The Undersigned is moreover ilireaerl to ictren the 13 1 i* fish Ministry to give general 'lnstructions :o Mljcsty's Plenipotentiaries at Naples, and at Malta, that the (;vacuaetixoejnutaed w ndt i h n e w o u t t h o er b t. , .;o n ad l i e t:io a n n s ti o ‘ f ri t t l h ie ous i : ll i i it A ,se rtil . ;le , tiariei conceiving thintiselves oblige& to refer to their vemment en each ofth:: snceessive Operations which sh r l,!• take place. • • Under The nderirned embraces this opportimity to present to his 'ExCellency Lord Hawkesbnry, - the Homage or bii rt . speetful'Consuteratinh. London, Aug. • • • • (Slgll6d) arTo• Itis Excellency Lord I-lawkesbury, • ego. ri(; (No. rs.)---NOTE. , . The Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the re . ceipt of M. Otio's Note of the 2/$t irßtalit. .... When the Neapolitan ,Govemnient notified tcrslr. Doan). Mond, the King's Minister at. Naples, that I lie;aooia. TWO which His Sicilian Majesty b ad seleettal to servein SIAlt h were ready to proceed to their destination, that G en t iCIII 4I ,declined taking any step to facilitate their embarkation, till iip,ihou lit rec eive intelligence of the arrival o f Sir AlexalutOr boll in that laland, and fill he should be informed that the Commander in Chief of the British Forces had made Vit. able preparations for their reception. By the last ailvias. from Malta it appears,• that Sir Alexander Ball hail arriv ll there on the lath of last month, .and that alter liaviag ferred with General Fox u the subje ct, he had wriri c i t :: Mr. Drumond, that there was no impediment whatever t their quarters would he prepared aecoriliiir f the immediate reception of the Neapolitan Trooir , 41,(1 ilia signed has the honour to state this to M. ( tto s$ the n t iol satisfatiory answer which he Cill give to his NoreL, Li l y probable, therefore, that t h e T wo . t• ni k Sii:jha" ' l4 c ps o go p e r vro are alretu% embarked aid on t hob passile i risco — Pli s .l Inc - . •f• !Rub , .fty .01 any unnecessary {Way. 0r,„. --- 1 . i n ‘ 4 , l .iiircwis• t t o he tnost-exolleit..baltsuel loot wiil"l'ic 110,0°"'"."' my. Drummond on this sub cat. Note , the With reaped to the other points. in M., Otto's iiotei . to undersignemi, can only repeat what he has before suittic. him, that is Majesty is most sincerely desirous to ;CC t , _ 1 ! the Stipulations. of the Tenth Article of the I)cfint rag anti. 'Cteaty carried into Oka with the utmost PuitcluahlYttakei veldt the least possible delay. With this vie w Iv r this opportunity of observing iki the nder. 0 that . be the Ye y last Dispatches front the English itinbasttsisi'alor aS t; Vetc. ts "._ viting the Emperor to become a bar4h, the French Minister at that Court had not even ttr .. received any instructions from his Government retative.to .o.: steps, to be taken in concert with Lord St. Helens, to i r.!_ and Stipulations of the • Article in quest(on. ~,,1101,1‘a, Minister at Merlin, was in- the sante predicament. . ii- -.... dersigned, thcretbre, requests that M. Orto would Itayc,,z, goodness to represent these- eircumstailces to his 60 0 .'1 anent, and to, urge them, if they have not already dove nt to transmit without delay t heir fif lets at those COO' . to MIN bus . the necessary instrudions for bringing this part of the • ness to a conclusion. . The Undersigned . Asia* guarantyof the riteov ion.y.o, requests M. , Otto to accept the . (Signed) Down'n ~ i g-street, August 23, L:O2. HAWK ESBURY. 1.13 14 : ke5 16 b li tt : ' r an . Extraa t ' ) of a Dist s iatchl . rogt Mr. , Merry , t t° 0 1 1 '.„. 4 4 y•, dated t , 3, ' i oa, giving an a‘koil i interview which he had hail with' 4 COlititienTl3lperiCal tier f " S7 hY long the Swiss Cantons, intreating the. iiiterterenc" the fliiii.di t;uvernment and ineliiiing• the thilowittg i ! f li i .L ... v. p il t i l v a tt s o S e f v v ift i t i t ..:l:: ) e l i ci: l o' ti l v e l ' . : ll4 C: i as o c t i:t i c ltl:L:i k e i t . freelY man' ftlt f t t were the mere tricks ()Fermin Faaions, in which the NAP. ) : at large took but a very trifling interest. Scarcely did 51 „ .. 1 zerland think herself independent when 'she was desirou s „ o I re nG t l e o t o r u vs ' t r e b n rt y n i t n lne g h le, e v t i rc tlo l t i a ul l c t e r e;' si a t t s i sl t i ctl s i v e f t n ; ti t r lz t e n i ; li r ti l :Eti a : zi i i i t ai u : a t i i i ° (l l 1 s t'h the Canrabeirtts; ialcit(sleao74;ll.4. and moderation, shook oil' the , ) ‘t o vb k iet e hPrn . dleblillic3 f cntiii e s °lfell C :Fit i )l i fl i c'e l lG i l'ill o c: l ti l il s sniA4. l oi s ll).lo r, l7t . 'l l .: themselves into Constituent Bodies;' and Twelve unto ..,, Thirteen Cantons of Switzerland sent Weir R..prcsvidativci to the Diet of Seliwitz, in order there to cr, , ,inize a t;n r3 l Power which might be • acceptable to .the neighbottrinD Powers. ,to The Aristocratical Cantons - renounced' their ,V:ellls, rl rights ; the Pays,de Valid 'was. left at liberty to tbrui its (,) . Constitution, as well as Thurgovis and the other iiebv (-J ll tons. • i fir - The Government having taken - rnfuge . at Lausanne, wra ii no means secure there, notwithstanding its regular Tioi ) perhaps even at the present mernelit lt no longer exists. , t ,„ Who would not have thought , that according to the sttl".,„ lation of the Switzerland,TreatY of Loney' le, w hi c h grants 1 ridepenat" rn •to and the right of choosing its osvn Gove mm .., e, every,„ thing was sclll,A, :iild th.lt th is NAtluii 1110 it 't it* former happiness and traininillity revi‘`e ? . l ici Who conh 'have thonght, that the Fi rs t Consiii , s' o `. er have issued such a I)eeree 0. that 'of t he Bth Vertilettto o ') ? . . p o Wt. . .1s an'independant Nation to` he'thus. treated ? Should 1 , c o • naparte persist in his deterMii)lltiOli, ana the & Aher n __ ..,,, should noliaterpose in our ta‘onr;it Only reinai o_lllh ,either to bury ourselves in it t e. riiiii•i of our houses, ait . 'n: b a , without hope of resistance, 'exhausted i....$ NV . e ;ice by tilo..i.n_ei ;lossus' who,is about to overt helm us, or to dchase in rs Iv iti the eyes o'f the'whole universe ! at all t ifilifi attimterl *I.) Maly; prot)l4, of flie.ll.lteiV:it li, ::,_ Irt. . Will the Government .:f this generous Nation, oill ic k 4 ,,,! l ii l's t. the welfare.of the Si.viss, do i••?thini, for iis nottc.r ci h rc u r n i,4 'ces which ate t', dechic, v. het her tad" SR Still ta L ' e ' . • tl 1 , I aillOilk;st tree.' copi . the., i , Aiwtvii, ‘L oi e* 4 l . 7 . :..,, , : i e .ti r it1.'!.ti:1rt411,:‘,4.,1;:i11i1,5f.e1ftitt.4,.,..144.,:. _ ~::.)txutC.krielii:;io,,e,.i.lit;:lo:ol3l,;,l?:2t..l:.,,ii-il'il),l.,iiiiiiititer:,lf,:i, iel*iF. . 4,A,: ,. . r '''''":o t ' ' r "' *".-Y''''"r!"-41/' , iti ~. ~•') ' '''' tOtet.l-00)31_,.., l'..p,it•Tonds to LetitOtArkotnilot two -1 -Wreirtsl"ol4#l4s.l,l7 i4u.yengie 141 0111104114*f** !'. ' , 'At'Otto) -to Lbo, iit i o r 4 ~,i,i i ot in 1 1 ,!$. the sentuncap :‘, :. , • • • ,.. 2 egrit W. 40. 11 ter, .„,„:,,,ei;,„ 11 ,0 tg rix• Majesty's' minjt,'Vy i 7 , - - blreffer4 4lle'k trUi. gioi Authority in the. I lelyetie People, whii: i was published by ... ___esentotiotis, 1 Moniteur of the tst instant, and by the _P.,4l.','`subjeti, no I which hey: been troJe 20 WS hfajcsTy ui Inn r