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4 .. . .. , i , 1.. ‘ e 1" 711 il ..1.:.._,........, ...4.11,......,A t ", Y.' W'f ": • • a t P` ' etk r :4W ' • • . _ _ t NumllEit 3325. 7IIURSD4Y; MAY 19, 1803. fiiidi 6iiiiiifi: DECLARATION. Hts Majesty's earnest endeavours for the preservation of Pew hiving tailed of success, he entertains the fullest confi dence that he shall receive the same support from his Parlia . Shen. t, and that th e same ;ee l an d sp i r i t w ill be man if este d b y Ilk People, which he has eeperienced on every occasion when in, Honour of his Crown has been attacked, or the essential kterects of his Dominions have been endangered. vaDuring the whole course of the Negotiations which led to the Preliminary , and Detinitive.Treatics of Peace between His slajestyand the French Republic, it was His Majesty arsins Z c ete desire not only to put an end to the Hostilities which tibeisted between the two Couut ries, but to adopt such mea sures, and to concur in such propositions, as truAlir must ef. feCtually contrib ute to consolidate the general train j uillity of lur °Pe• The Inane motives by which - His M ajesty was attuated during th e Neeutiatiens tor Peace, have s ince invari ably governed his conduct. As soon as the Treaty of Andrus 'vsas aoncluded, His Majesty's Courts were open to the people of France Ids every purpose of leealeedress •, all S. Suestratione were taken oil, their Property ; all Prohibitions on their Trade which had been imposed duriny e the War were removed, anti they were.placed, in every respett, on the sante foot* wit Itregard to Cotmesrce and Intercourse, es the in habitants of any other Stets in amity with His Majesty, with which there existed no Treaty of Conunerce. T 0 4 sYstent of conduct thus open, liberal, aod.frieddlY, the proce e di ngs of the Twitch Government ;lard the most contrast. The Prohibitions whien had . tseeti. placed on the Cemineree of Ills Majestv'e Subjects during the War, have been enforced tviili increased strictness atttf Severity ; violence has beer otieriat in several instances te their vessels 4ed their property ; and, i n no case , Ins uetiee been allied. ed to thos e who may have b e en ag grieve d in consequence of • seta ads, nor has any satisfattory answer, heeit given to tile tepeated repre sentat i ons made by His Majesty's Ministers or 4 r bt 4s ssador at Pails. Und e r such eirctimstances,evhen His ",, o.iesty's Subjeas were not suMreel to enjoy the Commen stivantsget of Peace within t 1 tin rituries of the French Re public:, and the Countries dependent tipult it, the French Government had recourse in the extritordinaiy measure of sending over to this Country a number ot persons ftl the professed purpose cif residing the most consuletable e 37 l'Ott 'fu to ns of Great Britain atel Irelaitd, in the chafacter of Commercial Agents or Consuls. These persons could fume no pretensions tO be acknowledged M that character, as ,the right of Nine acknewleelged, as well all the. Privi ieses attached to sticlr a situation, eould only be derived front Commercial Treaty; and es no Treaty of-that description s ys i s in existence between Ills Majesty and the trench Re- There was consequently too much reason to suppose, that lice reel objett of their mission was by no meats of a Cum inert:till Nature, and this staspition was ‘contirmed, not only tthe circumstance that some ot them were Military Men, Ot be the actual discovery; that severe( of theirs were fur.. tl e tshad with instructions to 'obtain the Sounclitigsot the liar its am! to procure Mairaty surveys ot the i'lsees where it was intended they sitould resiiit. His Majesty rift, it to be his duty to proem their departure to their respective pla ces of destination, and represented to the Vrenett Govern- Meet the necessity of withdraw , iog them ; and. it cataiut be denied, that tlw utnstances under which they were sent, and t-e instrections winch were given to throe ought tribe tatneirietea as decisive indications ut the dispositions and in tentions of the Government by whom they were eniplbyed. • The conduct of the French Government. with respect :to the commercial Intercourse between the two Countries; must the:rehire be considered as ill suited to u stare of Peace, and their proceedings in their more general politieul relations, as w e ll as in those which immediately concern His Majesty's. Dominions, appear to have beenlllroget her inconsistent with every principle en good faith, modaratiou, and justice. His Majesty had entertained hopes, pu coilequehee of the repeat eel asstuatices and professions of the I loch Government, that tiny 'night have been induced to adopt a sytent of policy, Which,, if it fund nut inspired other Powers with conftelenac, etnight at least have. allayrd_their jealousies. if the French Government had really appeared to be actuated by a doe at . stention to such a sys ern ; it their dispositions had proved to be essentially pacific., allowances would have been made . for • the situation in which a new Governmei.t must be placed atter so dreadful and exteneiveatonytilsion as that which hat been produced by the French Revolution. But His Majesty has unfortunately had too much reason to observe and to !e -inem, that the system of violence, aggression, and aggratidiz& turn", which characterized the 'proceedin gs al' the difk. Tent Governments of France during the War, has- been continued with as little disguise since its termination. They have continued to keep a French Army ia Holland against -the will, and in defiance of the remonstrances oft he Batavian Government, and in repuguanee to the Letter of Three So lemn Treaties. They have, in a period of Peace, invaded the Terntbry, and violated the ln&pendence of the Swiss Nation, in de fiance of the -Treaty of Luneville, which had stipulated the Independence of their Territory, anti the right of the inhabitants to chuse their own Form of Government. They have annexed to the Dominions of France, Piedmont, Parma,and Placentia, and the Island of E lba,wit bout allotting any provision tea the King of Sardiniswhom they havedespoil cd of the most valuable part orbit Territory, though they were bound, by a solemn engagement- to the Emperor, of Russia, to attend to his interests and to provide for his Establishment. It may, indeed, With truth be asserted, that the period which hat etamied since the conclusion of the Definitive Treaty, has heat to with one continued series of Aggression, via 4tict, find Insult on the part of the French Government. sit tha Month of o,:lober last, His Majesty wa s i n d uce d, ' lii consequence of the earnest solicitakion of the Swiss Nation, to Make tineftbrt,_by a RePrestriatation to the French G o v e rn. -anent, to' avert the WU* which wcro then tementling over, that: Country. This Repraseatation wan couched in the most :temperate terms; and measures were taken by His Majesty • for ascertaining, under the circumstances which then existed,. the real situation andwishes of the Swiss Cantons, as . well as the sentiments of the other Cabinets of Europe. His Ma iesty Warned - , however, with the utmost regret, ,that no - clise • Position to countered} these repeated lafrattionsof Treaties end A its Of Violence was manifested by any of the Powers Most immediately interested in preventing eheni; acid Ilis Majesty therefore felt that, with mite& te these objects, his single Ohne could not be expeeted:to produce any co:linter able advantage to those in whose favour they might be exerted. It was about this time that the French GovernMeni'fiist distindly , advanced the principle, that His Mejesty . had no right to complain of the condUCt, or to interfere with the - proceedings. of France, on any point winch did riot form a part of the Stipulations at the Treaty of Amiens. That treaty was unquestionably fouudcd upon the same principle a ' every other antecedent Treaty or Convention, on the as '"hPtitto of the state of possession and of engageraznts subsist '"it at the time of its conclusion; and if that state of possession -*l e nd of engagements is materially affeded hy the voluntary i ll °fatly t Pa: ties, ,SO as to - prejudice the condition on 'bleb the other Party. hss entered into the Contrael, the ch ange made, may be considered as operating virtually as breach of the Treaty itself ! and as giving the Party ag. Xtieved a right to demand satisfaetion or compensation for ' 1) ) 1 substantial gliftrence which such flat may have eff Lett in their relative sit u ati oii i • 'bin whatever may k the prin etple on which the Tre aty is to be considered as founded, tit"' is iodhP4tably a General Law of Nations, which, though liable to be limited, • explained, or restreined by Conventional Law, 'is antecedent to it, and is that law or rule of c on d u a to Which all Sovereigns and States have been accustomed to appeal, ''here Conventional Law is' adnlitteti bave.been silent. 'The Treaty of Amiens, and every other r ealY, in providing for the objets to which it is perti '4lll4 directed does not therefore - assume or imply an • ilnini*rence to all other &heels which, are not speci fied in its Stipulations, touch less - dries it adjeidge them t b be of a nature to bt tett to the will and caprice of the vit dent and the pnwerful. The justice of the tense is alone , a sufficient grcnind to warrant the interposition of any of the P rnvere Eltrinte in the dlfrerences which niay arise be *men other '4.144 and the application and eats* of that ihrt interposition is to be deter*V4ll44olely by considerations ,st . P. 11 101'4*( 1 . These principles esti admit of no dispute ; but it the new and extraonlinitiet pretemion advanced by . the french Goveistment, to WIWI; Hie Majesty horn right °late rfore with ellapen its ehe cavern , ofrpth,2t Powers, tin. less they made a specific part of the teisatetlensoftheTrestY fit Amjetts, was rtA4 *Web it was to maintain, those rowers *red ?marled', at hint, to claim the bole. fit of this principle, in every case of difference between the two • Countries. • The, indignation •of all Europe•- mutt surely then be excited by . the declarations of the French Government, that, • in "the - event' . of Hostilities, these very Powers who were •tita Parties to. the Treaty of Amiens, and who were not allowed tt; derive any advantage from the Remonstrances of His Majesty in their behalf, • are ' nevertheless to be made - the Xielims of a War which is al le eed to arise out of the same Treaty, and are to be sacrificed in a Contest which. they not only. have.not occasioned, but which they have had no means whatever of preventing. Majesty judged it most expedient, under the circum- - stances which then atfetled Europe to abstain from" a *use rence to Hostilities on account tit the views at Ambition and _Ads of Aggression manifested by France on - thc- Continent ; yet an experience of the 'eharaCter and dispositions of the French Government , could not -fail to impress His Majesty with a sense of the necessity of increased vigilante in guard ing the Rights and Oloity of His Crown, an d in proteaing the intertsts of His People. , • . • . • Whilst His Majestywas aCtitated by these sentiments; He was called upon by the French Government to evacuate. the island of Malta.: His Majesty had manifested, from the moment of the Signature of the Definitive Treaty, an anxious disposition to carry - into full effoEt the stipulatione of the Treaty of Amiens relative 'to that bland. As soon as he was informed that an Eleaiim of a Grand Master hid taken place, under the auspices of the Emperor of that it had been weed by the different Priories areeenbled at St. Peterehureii to acknowledge the person wheal the Court of Rome ehould seket out of those who had been named by them - to be Grand Mastereof the: Order. of St. John, His Majesty, proposed to the French GoVerninenti thre the • - purpose of avoiding any, difficulties which ought arise in the .execution of the arrangement, to acknowledge that Election to be valid: and when, in the month of Auguste The French Government applied to ;His Majesty to permit the Neapolitan Troops to be sent to the Island of Malta, as a prelimmety measure forpreventine any unnecessary His Majesty consented without hesitation to this propose!, and gave direet loos for the admissi , oft he Neapolitan Tfoops into the Island. His Majesty had thus ehewn his disposition net only to throw no obstacle in. the way of the execution of the Treaty,' but, un the contrary, to facilitate the execution of, it by e v er/ means in his power. His Majesty .cannot, however, admit, that at any period since the conclusion of the Treaty Amiees, the French Government have had a right to call upon !inn, in conformity to the stipulations of that Treaty, to withdraw his Forcers from' the Island, of Malta At the tine when this demand was made by Ole French Government, several of the most important stipule. tions of' the arrangement respetling Matte remained Ink* cuter!: *the Election of a Grand Master had not been car ried into e*Ct. The . Tenth Article had stipuiated that the Independence ortliO Island should be placed under the.geta rainee and Pnu rotettiOn of Great Britain, mace, Austria, Rus sia, ,Spain, and Prussia. -The Emperor of Germany had acceded to the gueramee, hut only on condition eft like ac• cession the perrof the other Powers specified in, the arti. cle. Th, Eiliper(ir of Russia had refused his accession, ex • cept on tee condition that the Maltese Langue should tie ab rogetee ; and the King of Prussia had 'given no answer what.: t; . vei to tiie application which haft been made to him to accede to the arrangement. Btu the fundamental principle, upon the elistence of which depended the execution or the other parts,ot the article, had been defeated by the changes which had taken place iii the Constitution of the Oilier since the con clusion of the Treaty of Peace. t was to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem that Hie . Mejeety was,. by the first stipu lation of the loth . . tertiele. bound to rest*. -the NAM of Malta. Order is debt led to consist of Obese Liureues Which were in eiiieenee at the time of the conclusion of the, Treaty : The three French Larig..es having beesu abeliehed, and aMa itese Laneue'aikied to the institution. The (inter eonsisted; therefore, at that time i.l die Piiio,v ig of Aree,oe, Ca•itile, Ginning, 1I varia, and Ittsaia. Vince the conclueion rid; Definitive Treaty, the Lopes of Ate regon and Castile have Nice separated from the Order by Spain, a part of tee I Wien Lag ue has been abilished by the annexation of Pitdinoiit and puma to Prance. There i$ strong teaser to belieee that it hee fa:vain eeiatemjetatiost4.- sequestute the property +:f the Bavarian Langue, and the in..- tention has ben avowed at keeping the Russian Longues Within the DoMiniens of the Emperor., Under these circumstances, the Order of St. john cannot now be considered, as that , b ody to which, according to the stipulations of the Treaty, the Island was to be restored; and . the funds indispensably necessary torits support, and for the maintenance of the Independence of that Island, have been nearly, if nor wholly, sequestered. Even if this had arisen from .circumstances which it was not in thi.power of any of the COntratting Parties to the Treaty to control, His Majesty would nevertheless . have had a right to defer the - evacieition of the Island by his Forces, until such time as an equivalait arrangement had been concluded, for the preservation of the Independence of the Order and of the !slew!. lint if these.' changes have taken place in consequence of any eels of the Other Parties to the Treaty ; if tile French c;overnment shall appear to have proceeded upon a system of rend: the Or der whose Independenee they had stipulated, incapable of maintaining - that Independence. His Majesty's right to can tinue in the occupation of the Island, under such circum stances, will hardly, be contested. It is indisputable, that the Revenues Of the two Snanish Langues have been wlth e • drawn reorn,the Order by His Catholic Majesty ; a part of in the Italian Longue has feet been abolished by France, through the unjust annexation of Piedmont and Parma, and Placentia, to the French Territory. The Eledior. of Itavaila, has been instigated by the French Government tcesequeetrata the Property of the Order within his, Territories; -audit is certain that they have not only sanctioned , but encouraged the. idea of the propriety of sehatatingshe Russian Langues from the remainder of the Order. • As the condu6l of the Governments of France and Spain, have, therefore, in some instances ditealy, audio others in. directly, contributed to the changeS which have takep place iu tho Order, and thus destroyed its means Of supporting its independence, it is to those Governments, and not to His laje:ity, that the non-execution of the tenth article of the Treaty of Amens must be ascribed. _ - _ Such Would be the )ust conclusion, if the tenth article of that Treaty were considered as an arrangement by itself. It must be. obseriedi however, that this ankle forms a 'Dart only of a Treaty of Peace, the whole of Which is.corti.eaed tOgether,, and. t h e stipulations of which must, Uppn a prin... ciple common to ;ill Treaties, be construed as having a refs rence to each other., His Majesty %vaL induced by the Treaty of Peace.to con. sent to abandon, an to restore to the Order of St. John the Island of Malta, on condition of its Independence and Neu. trality. fiut a further condition which must, necessarily be supposed • to have had considerable influence with His Ma jesty rn inducing, Him to make so important 4conceasion, was the acquiescence of the krencli Government in . an ai rangement• ror the security of the Levant, by the Eigh t h anti Ninth Articles in the Treaty,' 'stipulating the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and the ledepee . dettee of the lonian Islands. • His Majesty has, however, since learnt, that the French Government have entertaine dviews hostile to both these ()Weds • and that they have even suggested the idea o f a partition of the Turkish Empire. Thee views must now be manifest coati the world, from the °Mild publication of the Report' of:Colonel Sebastianli ftoin the oenduel of that Officer, and of the other French . Agents iu Egypt, Syria, and the lonian Islands, and from the distina admission of the First Consul himself, 'in his Cernmulication with Lord Whitworth. His Majesty . was, therefore, warranted in con sidering it. to he the determination of the French Government to violate, those Articles of the Treaty of Peace, which stipulated tor the Integrity. and Independence of the Turk. ish Empire, and of the lonian Wands, and consequently he would not have been justified in evacuating the. Island of Malta, without receiving some other, Security, which might equally prdvide tbr these important ohjeets. His Majesty . accordingly feels that he has an inconte st abl e con., sequence of the Canditel of Franc e s ince th e Treaty of Peace, , and with reference to the objects which made part of die Sri.: pulations of that Treaty, to refuse, under the present Cir.' cumironces, to relinquish the• IYeasession of the Island Of Malta. • Yet notwithstanding this right t .so clear arid so utitinesikn. able, the alternative- presented by the limiters Government to His Majesty; in language the most premptory and Me nacing, was the Evacuation of Malts, or the Renewal of War. I f the views" of ambition and aggramlizement, which haVe tlit4 bwo mulitintal by the Er - tech Goveramvnt sing: tit PAPERS pit:Es,,NTRD, Br , 1118- MAJESTr's ,C94IIAI4ND, BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. xPTII MAY O 189.4, _ . No. t is a Letter from M. Otto to Lord Hawkesbury, dasal May 23, - 1802, notifying tins Appointment of Gcswrul Vial as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Order and Island of Malta". NO. 2 itt A Letter. from Lord ilawliesbury to M. Otto, date&ltlay 001, signifying the app o i n t ment o f Si r Al ex . Bail s as !lilt lidiki,estrsltdinister to the Order. • • _. No. 3 is :trt• Extratt from a Dispuch from Lord St. Helens to Lord Hawkeab ur y, dated Petersbtirgh, April 2.3, 31102 p which states, that there was reason to rear that Ma imperial Majesty would decline taking part in tin: proposed guarantee of Malta.: No. 4, an Extrad ofanother Dispatch t'rom Lord Sr. He lens,. dated Petersbutgh, May 7, ,sßoz, .which -states; that them eras tenon to hope that His Imperial 'Majesty might be ultimately intitteett to join in'the guarantee. • No. 5 it a Letter from Load Hawketibury to Mr. Merry, statistic that His &West, was ready to 'consider the Election era Grand Maier of Malta, at Petersintrgh, , to be valid, and that it -was desirable that the French tiovernment snow it instruct, without delay, their Nibtisterf at Petersburg!), Vienna, and Berlin, to.mrite those Powers to accede w tei. get amuta. _ _ N. 6 is u ntspetch from Mr. Merry, dated June 17, which states, that Mr. Merry !Ltd made the requis4e ignit tuttniestion to the French Gcrventinent, and that tile French Ministers at the Courts of Austria, 4ussia„, Pritisia, I.linuid receive instructions to invite ttros;.eowcrs acccii c tho guarantee of M a l t ....- ,Nty Lord • Psis, f Imo 4, I had occasion to teiM ..-Tal tey rand. yeMei . d.ty a: the' putpote tra t olncing to some Ent.,l:o) previouly toklay to t`! ; .. flavitig • : into till , c::binet,rh — ll that he 'had ty•xli Genet !), tr!q, :- tent to me *icy, oces Avii; ": !!1' of that the Goveimment here t , possessed proofs of Alt abuse which they were now making of theprotettion *NO they enjoyed in England, and of the advantage they I,vere LA.; jig of the vicinity of their situation to France, by,.,heitie really guilty of such aets, since several printed, paper; ..hae lately been intercepted, which it was known they hidient, and =used to be circulated in Prance, and which had for objeel, to create en opposition to the Government.,:, I can. not, my Lord, do better titan refer you to what you will, have read in the trench Official Paper of the day before inc between the two Countries and their Gove,rnments, which it was the First Consul's, sincere wish to, see te.. established, in order that such obstacles might be removed before the arrival in London of the French Antliassatiar because although the circumstances in queetion, iir.ci already . produced a etory disagreeable eM6I, .whilst only . he. Otte, as Mihister, had* to Witness them, they .would acquire a . great additional force„ii they still exist when the 'Aeloes sador should het *present ;* and sineethe First Consiii bad given orders • for General: AndreosSy to proceed to hiS - cleSti. natiertWith as' little, delay as pussilele, he wished that I 114tildLiake en eatiy Opportunity to give en trecount te'yotir leedshie, of the observations which he was charged to Az to me, * Afte.r a prefbee to this efred, M. t alleyrand proceeded to staie 'to me, that the accounts whicheM. One It? l trate,. Mined of the disgust and inconvenience which he could net het tea end experience at meeting.frequent4 at !Ili Mates.: WS Court a»d et other places the French Princes, rue! one French Persons still decorated with th 4 Insignia of Freya ) , Orders which no longer existed ,ltd at • seeitre the coun tenance and support 'which continued to be given in Jr'..t jand, to * what he , a e Lened the ci,degent French Biahops, well as to other persons iWri.! mentioned Geol•geV to catle/ Mica! to the p resent Governinteu ref France, .so strongly: the First COOSIIi, and were in sit so caleo.,' hued to prevent that system . at . ,..:sl . ,Lbat,y • anxious to see established, that. it WIIS 111C(Itn:Saiit oitois him to express his wish, that - his Majesty's Government; might' aisposed to remove out of the British noininions„' all the FrenetePrhices and their adherents; *together 'With: the French lhistfops , and other Freech wlteSe, political principles and ednded nrestnecessarily oeca; . .lou, great jealousy to the French Goverument, Ile centineed to observe, that the protedion and favohr the' per., sons in question coetinued to rnecr With, in a country' SO; close a neighbour to France, must alere ;Attars cops!, tiered as •an eneouragement the diseilieted - 1114, without time persons theitiselveS: being eW Iry or ;thy e :7 4 .4's to fOlOC;lt fresh disturbances itr thi!'; i . our try but yesterday, tinder the articie of Patie, . for the e,..;iet tee t or M. Tel , discourse upon 'this subjee4 r : *which lie concluded by saying,. that he thoUght-th e r if s id e iicc ; . ,xvii dwas now the proper place for - that of "the: ; : c•,..t of- the family,.and that I might add thii sugitet moo in 'my re port to your Lordship. . • I answered the French Minister, :that without any reference to you, .I•could assure hime that the praetices of the , Frenelt residing in England, of which he corn plaiusd, had •no been encouraged, nur would be countenanced His . ll•letjestyq Government ; which was as ! sincerely disposed to 'cultivate harmony and a good understanding between the tvvo Court. tries, as he had represented 'the: First Consul vibe; but that I could by no means say how far: they would be disposed to adopt the measures which he halt intimated it to be Cenci - at Bonapertes wish that they. should pursue, in melte to *re move so ette.itually, every thing whi c h might not perhaps be considered equally by them, as giving just cause of•orlencp or jealousy to France,. M. Talleynuul did not rejoin upon the matter; but - asked me when I proposed writing.. Upon my should lose no.tinte, he suid, that if I:should write es to.day,. he • would avail himself of the opportunity to convey . a Letter to M. Otto. I have the Honour to be, e4c. (Signed) Tlte Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, . &c. *Sec. tec, • A. MERRY, (No; . Sir, • Downimr-street ; tune To, :La. o • Yoittrti , spatches. the. 4!li tam were re4civoa Mon... day night, and 1u been laid fore the King. The account given in that t . , tspatcit 01 1 1 14; which pasSed on the 311 instant,, bet weep you awl Al. Canty.; rand, respeaykg the_ Frehelt .Pritices and their adherents, Would have afti,rdedbere considszrable stirpri ze I its ty's Govenunent had not in xome c1.5.:',:;r 1 ,16 been przparshl for it by inforination which , liart been prainusly : Irons t lie. It - tanner, however, in lvbhth this subjeet has. been riven tioned to you, it is important that you.shou id take 'Myer OppOttalllity to explawyfu . candidlnd fairly, to the ttnnell qq:criinient, the it.it. (leWildigt - Whiat liis Majesty reels it to bell 4 duty to pursue in this very delicate tits Majesty would certainly consider it inconsistent, .with both the letter and spirit of the T.eaty .ef Peace, between him and tile 'French Republic, to encourage or countenance ante' 4rprojects that might be hostile to the present, ti&overnment of Funce. He is sincerely desirous that the PeacC . 4.4 been concluded may, be, permanent,. anti may lead ,to the estaivitsinnent of a system ,of food understanding ant fuir.. mony baween the two Countries. With these ativinnents he is disposed to employ , all' the means in his power tagnard against any circumstance which Jean' ha'Ve the eifitel of tutbing the tranquillity that .has been so happily res t o re d and he certainly,expeds that , all Foreigners who may resido within his Dointnions, should not only hold a c6nduet eon formable to the Laws of the Country, bus should- abstain from all Reis which may behostile tothe Governnumt ()fatly Country with which His Majesty may he at Peace. A.s long, however, as they conduct. themselves . aCconling to these principles, His Majesty would feel it inconsistent with his Dignity, with his 1 lonour,. and with the common laws' of Hospitality, to deprive them tel that protection which victuals resident in his LiOrninions can . only forteit , by their own iniscondu6t. The greater part of the persons to whom - allusion has , b een r.vade in M. Tailcyrand's conversation with you, are. living in .retirement, and His Majesty has tto reason , whatever to suppose that since the conclusi on o f l'euce they -have availed themselves of their recidencviii This Country , to promote any designs injurious to the Government of Pounce.. .1. have the honour to be, Arc. (Signed) fAWN. CSIWICY. Anthony Merry, Esq. lee. 4:c. ( No. . My I arc }, ' 9 Paris, June r 7 'lltc* I have the. Ilonour to acquaint your Lordship, that t ion executed the instrucuions given mu by ,ynur and coati .dential Dispatch..(No. 4,) m consequence yr WiyitnuAjc 4 , eon from M. Talleyrand, which 1 trait...milted in my No, 23, respecting the residence of the French Princes, and other French poisons in His I .ll.ljest)'s u ninions-. lu • dei t v e rio g m y Ansiver un this'husiness t( the French Minister, I rook care to express, itt the-strousest manner, the assurances which your Lordship ;las authortzerlAtte.to give, of His ,Majesty's sincere desire. that the Peace which.h.ts hap., (Lily been colic:lotted should he parartnent, and that it should lead to timestablishment of a system of harmony and.goutl derstandin t ; between the two Countries ; and that, as His Ma jcsty CollittletWOUlil, in eVcryll'alie,q, bcgtettei.lby 111elliti p he Of course would nut toter., inut:h les.; ctscotaime, any proceedings on tfte Nil of p.. 1 his domini o n s ' which he hostile ti the pie .;nvernment ;?,,3 which assurances might, Iti ; be stlifici:i it line an d satisfy the First ( c, itlturtt re..a.trrhig titeasitivs.wnich had been it - I'u, :ie.i to roe, and 4;oubt r t iit hut be! considered ..isisteitt with ilia. it'on-sty'* - dignity .and honour, as w, ; the conutiait late iii pithiy, which he coull i]: ••::serve towards .Foreignent within ni.dotniniotis, itut:; y :Lore turn:tied z hat. protection by their irtisco;:.,.... . - .M. 'l*.tiltyyrald expressed to the in. , that the First Consul lied sus ited nn more than the It; r .::1,./ . t itself intd, at ;s i,.•s ;s: :t tender w a s. in , .;1 .. ;,.: t, t,,A Vt * Ce I 1 othtr (.;overonts.. tluit it: could not see . . 0, 1,4 ; he hail imirit:tied to 1; been at; . . ; 1 • . • • • '• • • conelusion of the Treaty of rea:t.., have in so very particular amainner altrailed tire attention of His Majesty, it has been er l n t ily iinpossible tar hint not to feel, and 1)02 to notice, me.r, i p e a t eti indignities which have been oMrcal by that Go vernntent to his Crown, and to his People: , • . . The ReportolColoncl Sebastani cOtitAiil.7 the .most un wartantable.msinuations and charges a'gaii-st His Majesty's Government, against the °Mar who commanded his: Farces iti Egyptoind agaimit thehritish Army in that quarter. This Paper catinot bo„considereti as the publication of St private in:. dividual 't it. hat been evolved, and indeed bears. evidence upon the face at it, that it is the Oltleial Report pf an Ac-* credited Agent, published' by the authority of Mt: Govern ment to which it was. addeessed, who thereby have given it their express sanclion.. . • This Report had been - published a very short time. when another indignity was ollred to this Country in the Com munication al the First Consul of/Frame-to the Legislative Rudy: In this Communkatidn he pre:limes to attinn. in theoharacter of Chief Magir.,rate cf that Country, 0 ' That • Great I;ritain cannot singly contend against the7Power sof *- -Franee;" an abSettiolt as uttlOnnded as it is -ilateixint, di,. proved by the events'of many Wars, and by ‘ notic nit= than y thuseof the War-Whio has be recently coneladr d. sSit:l) assert4Et, itJvattccd" tit the must sol,,lnn . oiticial _Aft of a Gam inn tist. and thereby meant to lie. avowed to ail the Powers of Enrope.-can be eousidered in no other light than as a derianceptinlielv itMred to His Ntliesty, end to a Lr.ryo and Nit,.:rtiff Peeple, who are Koth aid able to de fend" his just Willits, and those of .their Country, against every insult and aggression. . • The conduct ofiha. First Consul t o Ills: ej a i esey , e A m ., bassador et his andience, in presence sd f the Minleters.oftnost of the Sovereigns and States of Europe furnishes another instance of provocation on the part of the French Govern , merit; which it would be impropernot to notice on the pre. twat occasion, and the subsequent explenatiort of this 'trans-' anion may be considered as: having the erect of aggravating instead of palliating the attionti At the very time when His -Majesty was •demanding sa tisfadion and explanation on same of.the points abate—men tioned, the French &I loiter at Hamburgh - endeavoured to obtain the insertion inn Hambureh Paper lot a most gross anti opprobrious . Libel against His Majesty ; and when difficulties were. made respeeding the inecnion of it, he availed himself of his reffiiial Character, of Minister of the French Republic, to - require the publication of it by order of his Government in the Gazette of the Se nate that Town. With this requisition so made, the Scuateof Hamhurgh were induced to comply ;'.seal thus has the independence of that Town been violated, and a - Free State made the Instiument e by the menace of the French Government, of propagating throughout Europe, upon their authority, the most otEneive and unfounded Calum nies against His Majesty . and His Government. His Majesty might add to this' Ilia of indignities, • tee re quisition w hi ch the which. the- French Government have repeatedly urged, that the Laws and Constitution .or His Country should be changed - relative - to the Liberty of the Press. His Majesty might likewise adcl,the calls which the French Government have on several occasions made upon him • to violate the Laws' of Hospitality with reaped .tre persons who had found an asylum within. his Dominions, and. against whose condud no charge whatever has at any Time been sub.; stantiated. It is impossible to retied on thesedittirent pro eeentoge, and the course which the French Government have thought proper to adopt respelling them, without the thorough crinviclion that they are nut the eneet of accident; but that they foam a pert of a system which has been adopted for the purpose of degracliog, Vilifying, and insulting Hit Majesty ane His Government. Under all theseinsules and provocations, His Majesty,tiot without otitie sense of his dignity had proceeded with every . *gm of temper andinotieration to obtain satisfadion and re alma, while he hail negleded no means consistent With his Honour and the safety of his Dolitiiiions, to induce the Government of France to concede to him, viral is, in his judgineet, absolutely necessary for the future, tran quillity of ,Euroee. His cited in his reaped have proved abortive, ire has ',therefore judged it necessary to or elereHis..Antbaseader to leave Paris. Ir, haviley recourse to 'this proceitling, it haS been His MajestY'eetijed'' to. put an end to the friiithss discussions which have too long subsisted between the two Governments, to close a pee flout of:,auspensepeetilierly lojtirioute'to the Subjeets of ,ilis But though the prevoeations which His Majesty has'rere,ved might entitle li:nt talei plaints than those whidt he has advanced, yet anxioti., to prevCrit calamities which might thus be ex tendril to ieart Eiirope, he is still rig ling, as far asie consistent with' :rwn Honour, and the in refc:its of His People, to :Iford facility to any just and honourable artangement, le; iielfraeli evils pray be averted. He ha.; therefore, ii., in declaring to all'-Europe, that not withstandie, .:,1 tile changes which have takeii place Since the Treaty of Peace, notwithstanding the eN.tenSion of the Power or , France, in repugnance to that Treaty, and to the spirit ofTeace itself, His Majesty will not avail Himself cif these circumstances, to demi,nct in conitiensition all that He is liititled to require,' but will be ready to concur, even now, an an arrangement' by which Satisfaction shall he given to Him, for the Indignit'res, which have been oifercii to I lis Ctown and to his Peopte, and substantial security atterded against further encroachments on thepart of France... His Majesty has thus .distinctly and unreservedly stated the reasonstif those proceedings to which he has found him self compelled to resort. He is actuated by no disposition, to - ottani:re in the internal concerns of sny other State ; by no projetis 'of cenquest and aggrandfzement 1 but solely by a sense, of what is diie to thc honour of His Crown, and the interests of His People, and by an anxious desire to ob strud the further progress of a. system, 'which if not re eisted, may ,prove Wattle every pallor the:civilized:mild.