The Sun. — London, England, 1803-05-19 00:00:00

I bel !)); i f alfof the Nation whOSe inieiesta are so irrinicaiatelsr af. fe6ted by it. His Majesty mosf Sincerely laments-the Con iulsions towhich the Swiss Cantons have for some time past been exposed ; bU t h e ca n cons id er t h e i r l ate exert i ons in-no *tither light than As the lawful elforts of a brave and generous People to recover their antient I,aws and Government, and to procure ill:: re-establishment of a system which ex perience ,has demonstrated, not only to be favourable to the niaioic nance of their domestic happiness, but to be perfeetly con sistent with the tranquillity and security of other Powers. .The Cantons of Switzerland unquestionablrpossess, in the same degree as every other I ixiependant State, the right of re gulating their own Internal Concerns ; and this right has, moreover, in the present instance, been formally and .expli quaranteed to the Swiss. Nation by the French Govern- Them in th e may , of Luneville, conjoin t.y with the other. towers who were panics' to•that engagement. His Majesty has noothcr desire than that the People of Switzerland, who !;.;. now appear to be to generally united, should be left at liber - •ty to settle their own Internal Government without the in-. lerposition of any Foreign Powers ; and with whatgver regret His Majesty may have'perused the late ProclaMation of the. French Government, he is yet unwilling to believe, that they will farther attempt to control that I ndependant Nation. in the exercise, of their undoubted rights. His Majesty thinks I . l ,;imsillealled upon b y h i s regard for the generalinterests of Lurope, and by hi s pecul i ar solicitude fOr the happiness and welfare of the Swiss-Nation,. to express these hip sentiments With a frankneSs and sincerity which he feels tobe due to his tiharadter, and to the g o od u n derstanding whiCh tie is desirous 44 , Preserving with the Government of France, • Downing-street, October .to, 1802.. . • • OttU, &c. &C. &c. • ' • Sir, (No. till . • Downing-street, Pa. - 10, ti al Maj e sty having deemed it expedient, that a ccinfideri. pal person sh ou ld be sent at the present moment to Switzer. . land, in consequence of the Communication, which he has'te . ceiyed from the Swiss Confederacy, through their Represen- Lait:ave at Paris, I am cominanded to 'inform , you that he ha s' e choice of you for that purpose. I t is of the utmost consequeete, ronsielering 'the nature of the business with which. you •areeutrusted, that yo•u should lose no Pine i n taking your departure from hence, and that you should will tiers_of • make every pradiCable exertion to arrive on'the • Switzetland with as little delay as possible. You wi,l inforrn yourself there tvhat is the aaual.rOsidence of 11 Government of the Swiss Confederation, .to which you will irntncdiately repair, ,Ittving taken the proper mitans to tam a confid ent i al interview with the persons who may be entrusted with the • rt a a' 'of afThirs • you will principal ton . "communicate to them a copy of the note verbale delivered to M. Otto, and width' h here.vith inclosed and nu will tak e every opportunity of impressing upon their ;Ns the deep int e r est whichgajesty takes in the cess this of their exertions. Yon will state to them, that Majesty -entertains hopes, that his reprsetitation to • the t tench Government mar' have the elledi of inducing-the ru s ( ;uncut to' abandon his intention of compelling the swiss Nation by force to renounce that system of -GoVern nrltt under which they had so lohg prospered, arid to which t r Teter to be almost unanimously anxious to return. I " event His Majesty will te.:l himself bound to abstain tein enterferenecon his part . ; it being his earliest desire that the Swiss Nation should • be left at liberty to rigulate • F iei rown internal concerns, without the interposition . of any • ~° , ,reign Power. • If, however', contrary to His AlaiFst) .f .S ex ions,•re the French Govemmeitt should persist in the s ystem o f coercion, announced iu the ProclamatiOn of th e First (.uncut, inserte C in . the Moititeur of the zst instant, 'you will, in that case, inform: yqurself, by every means in l " our pow er , of the dispOsition of the peppleat large of the iss Contederacy, and particularly of those who have the diredlion of their affairs, and of those who' possess t he retest s h are of influence amongst them, to persevere in , the liefenceolth e i r r i g h ts , and in theinaiiitenance of the system lhey have ado:ince. Yeti will likeivisi inquire into the means • f defence of which they may be possessed, and of the pro. tability of their being exerted with success. You will on no account en.:ourage them to persevere in active measures of re sistance which they are not themselves desirous to adopt, or which they inay believe are unlikely to be ultimately dice nal. If, however, you should find that the- peop.e of the I.viss Confederacy are generally determined to persevere in the mainteininceof their Independence, and of their right to return to their ancient system of Government ,; and if you should be of.cipinion• that from the • union that subsists ItnongSt the people, and from their 'zeal- and• enthusiasm in • 1 4 cause in which they are engaged, they are reelly resolved IN all haunt* to resist the threatened attempt of the French ~p ler n mem •to interpose by force of arms, in the settlement •• th e ir"lttterital-concerns ; you will thew immediately com utunicate, •in confidence,. to the Swiss Government, that either in the event of a French army having entered the COttntry, or in the event of your having reason to be con- Vince(' that a French Army is allually edvancing for that put. •• Tose, His Majesty has authorised you to accede to their cation for pectunary-succours. I have furnished. you with a cypher andtlecypher that you may have it in your power to correspond with Ilis.Majesty's M. • inisters at Vie n n a and Munich, if - you should think it ad. visable; .and as it i s highly probable; that the Armies of the .Swiss 'Confederacy may•be iinalequately sopplieti with urns,' •• ammunition, or provisions, and may be desirous of procuring supplies thereof front the neighbottrine Countries,. you will use your utmost endeev ours to give them every facility for this purpose. • As it is of great impprtance that His Majesty's Govern, Ment should beregul ar ly informed of the events which may be passing in Switzerland, and of the dispositions that may praiail there, you will endeivour to ascertain the moss. sate and expeditious mode of conveying your letters, which will avoid their passing through any part of the French Republic, • As it is poSsible that previous to your arrival in Switzer. land the present State of affairs may have undergone a de tided alteration, either in consequence of the submission of the Swiss Cantons, .or of 'any. compromise having taken Place as to their internal concerns, it will be proper that, in that case,, you. should take up your residence in such a si, tuation as you may think most convenient in the neighbour !teed of Switzerland, of which you will give me the ear:, 'tinst. intelligence, and there wait for His Majesty's further orders. I am, with great truth and regard, Sir, , • Your most obedient humble Servant, • (Signed) HAWKESBURY. Francis Moore, Esquire. Disatc from M. More to Lord llawkes- hury, dat 19 ed Consta p nce, h Oet. 3 t, r 11101 0 , announcing his arrival there on. the 27th, 'and that he had received authentic infur. of: the submissicin of the Diet of Switzerland. (No. so.) Slr,. • Downing.street, Nov. 1802. I haVe duly received your several - Letters by the Messenger Shaw. As from the present state of Switzerland von' . 'cowl, nuance in the vicinity of that CoLintry appears to be no longer necessary t .you are at liberty to.rbturn to England as soon as it may suit your cobvenience. ant * &c. (Signed) • HAWKESBURY. Francis Moore, Esq. , (No. 21.)-,E4trael of a Dispatch from Mr. Liston to • Lord liawkesbitry, dated Hague,. Ott. 13, iBO2. A few-hours after I had sent olrmy . last Dispatch to your Lordship (on Saturday the gth of this month). the French A t m,bassador, M. de Semonville, waited upon the President _ government of State, and. intormed hitn-that :he tad Jost received, by a Courier.from Paris, 'orders to inform the Government of this Country, • !` Que le Premier Consul avoit appris, aver autant de stir rtr que d'indignation, que des personnes avidos Rovoltt tlens vouloitnt de nouveau troublet le'repos dans la Batavie, en ahusant Mettle pour cet eft 'et de noms respeaables Vet ( Melt , Consul, - comme 41116 de la Republique, in "!°it to Couvernement a prendre routes les mesures neces '4ltes pour imintenir Porclre dei chosen etabli par Is Consti tution." were nearly the words read to me by the Secretary from'a . Note in his own hand.:writing, dietated to him by NI. de Semonville, with a view to its publication jand Tr ans i• • - I. inserted i n t he Dutch e m e: Translation was -tua.ort mg y s 134 P aper o 1 the,H4gue on the t nth) i but they fall very far short ot the language emploivd . by - the. French Minister for Foreign Affairs 'hi Disparciits to the Ambassador and in t he Communication" made bY him- to the Dutuh ' Charge. d'Affaires At P ar i s ( w h o a l so sent a Messenger to the Hilgue upon this occasion). In' these M. de Talleyrand entered Into e_onsicler a bled eta i l ' on the su bj e ct of the Plots s uppose d to be formed in this Country against the Adininistration, mention ed the mines of the Chiefs, 'and ended by inalcing"an ofer, on the part of the First Consul, to come to the-assistance ofthe government Wtould circumstances render it necessary) With alhhis Forces. (No , i . U.; , My Lord ' ,i. . li3gue, Oct. 29, 18 .2. Tile irecelit Attack made by Eunap4rtc upon tbc liberties ' 4 " (1 indePen!loWc..9t the S 4 Canton*, ha 4 natutally ade n strong unpritiSion on the Inhabitants of this Country m an d the public anxiety has been much augmented by certain sYlliPtoms' in the condttd of the .augmented Government, . Which seem to inditale.,art intOrition not tO Witlaratry the French Troops, Avhivir Itavt;' been kept in the Bataviati Re-T public for some time palt, , undrr tile title of Auxiliaries, alq . 'paid and maintained at the expellee ot the Dutch Nati9n, These Troops (amounting to •bet Ween to and me::) were to temaan' here till the conclonsion of the Detinitii , e, Treaty with Gfeat Britiiin. It was afterwards formally pro.. - ntised on the part of France, that they should evacuate the Territories of the Republic at the latest; .on the expiration of the last French year (the 23d of September). They ac cordingly began their march to the Southward a few days be fore that period ; and the -Government and the .People re joiced at the prosper of being .tinally relieved from a .load which has .become extremely ..irksome to , thein. But, on pre tence that a great proportion of the - :Corpt -were to be ern; barked at Flushing for L,onisiani, and.tharthere was a.want of Shipping for thAir accommodation, they took up their --Quarters on ale- rrontiers of the Country (at linis-le-Due, Bred; and Bergen-op,Zooni), Wheie they- still remain ; and demands have continued to be made.for their pay and main ' tenance. • . . Hopes were, hOwever, entertained from day to day, that their departure- would take Place ; when, to-the astoniliti ment oklie'llataviati.Government, official notice was (last •week) transmitted from France to the Department of %Var at the l-lague (which has been charged with the support of these Corps), that the First Consul has.bcen pleased- to a new - Commander in Chief (General Alontrichard), and a new . Staff, for the auxiliary Troops in this Countly ; and the no tice was given that Government might provide for the pay of the . Officers in titiestion. The,Administration appear resolved to oppote all the re sistance in their power to this unekpetted and .oppressive 'eictorfion. .An express has been sent oft' to the Dutch Am hasSador at Paris, charging him to claim, in the most urgent terms, the accomplishment of the Treaties • subsisting 4e tween the two Republics, and the fulfilment of "the repeated and recent promises made by the French Government upon this subject. ' And ‘ in case of the failure of this application, they talkoladdressing themselves to the principal Powers of. .Europe who had any share or influence in the conclusion of the Peaee, to entreat their intervention and good offices, with a view to the maintenance ofthe independence of the Re ' public. • 'I have the Honour to he, &c. ROBERT LISTON. Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, • s4e. &c. (No. 23.)—Ext . raa of a Dispatch . from Lord liawkes- to Lord WhittvortiOlated N0v..36, doz. His Majesty's Government have learnt with some surprize from the communications of General. Stuart, _that that Of. tiger had signified to Colonel Sebastiani his inability to eva cuate Egypt, until he should receive specific orders for that purposz. It is certainly true that no warrant has been trans mitted to General Stuart, or to' his predecessor the Earl of Cavan for the evacuation of Egypt : neither was it considered to be necessary, inasmuch as His Majesty's Government had already expressed their intention to _General Stuart, in his instructions, that except in a case of abSolute necessity, the King's Troops should_ remain in Egypt no longer than the month of July fast, In all the instances of places which had bran conquered by the King's Forces, and of which pos. session had beentaken in His Majesty's name, it has been usual %viten the have been restored to the french Republic, or its Allies, that the Comtnatuling' Officer should be fur nishcd with a regular warrant under the King's Sign Manual, authorising him to make'such restoration. But the case of .Egypt is diftilent, as that Country had never been taken possession of in His Majesty's Name, as it had been actually restored to the Ottoman Porte-, and as certain Stations in it were continued to be occupied merely as Military •Posts until the means of removing the -Troops should tie pro ? witted. It is probable, that in the present instance, Ceneral Stuart may have been misled by a doubt'as4o the extent of his own power, and by the opinion that he required a Warrant. to evacuate Egypt, similar to that which had been granted to -Officers who superintended the restitution of cOnqueSts of which possession had been taken in His Alaiesty'snamth. In Order however, io obviate any f a rth e r diff icu l t i es . instruc tions liave now been sent to .General Stuart, directing him to remove the King's Troops from Egypt with as little delay as possible, and information has • been given to this died to Ge neral Andreossy. (No. 24.)—Extrael of a Dispatch • from Lord St. Helens to Lord llawkesbury, dated Pctersburgh, July so, iSos. I have since renewed my Applications to this Govern... meld on the business of Malta, and have some reason-to • hope that some impression has been niade on the mind of His Imperial Majesty. The French Mi n i ster h owever h as not yet received his InstruCtions.; and till they arrive, it Will Of coarse, be impossible for me to take 'the. requisite .steps for bringing this Affair to any satisfaelory, or even po sitive issue. . . ,(Nd: 254—Extr`ail .of a Dispatch from Lord St. lie-. lens to Lord Ilawkesbury. dated Petersburgh, Aug. 1, . 1 must not omit to acquaintyour Lordship, that although in order to prevent any further waste-of time, I have thougia it right to, endeaVour to obtain a definitive explanation of the intentions of thi s Court, with relation to the proposed Gua ranty,' i hive not yet been enabled to demand it officially, according to the Terms of th e Tr ea ty of Amiens, as .the French - Minister hate is still without I nstruetiotis authoriz ing hitu to join with me In that instance. No. ab is an Extract of a DiSpateh froM M. Paget to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Vienna, July 18, 1802,• announcing the interchange of the following Notes, between himself and M. Champagny : The .Undersigned, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Ex,. traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has the honour to transmit herewith to the Vice ,Cliapcellor of Court and State, a 'Copy of the loth Article of the Treaty of Amiens. He has, at' the tame time, the honour to acquaint• His Ex. celleney, that he has received orders from his Court to invite His Majesty the . Emperor and_ King, conformable to the p3th paragraph of that article, to give his guarantee to the arrangements stipulated therein. • He therefore requests the Vice Chancellor of Court, and State, to lay this Communication before His Imperial Ma jesty. The . Undersigned availS himself, with pleasure, of this opportunity to reiterate to His Excellency the expression of his most distinguished Consideration. (Signed) ARTHUR PAC ET. Vienna, fsth July, iBsa.• The Ambatsador of the French Republic, on the invita tion which has been given him by Mr. Paget, His• Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, hastens in conjunelion with that Minister, to communicate to the Vice Chancellor of Court and State, the ic.th Article of the Treaty of AMiens, concerning the Order and Island of Malta, the 6th Paragraph of which Article places the lade pendency of the island of Matra under the guarantee of His imperial Majesty, and several other Powers of Europe. In taking this step, the Ambassador, -who has not yet re ceived any orders respedling it, acts front the knowledge he has of the intention of his Government to execute•all the Sti pulations of the Treaties it has concluded. - The Ambassador seizes, with eagerness, this opportunity to offer to• his Excellency the assur.uices of his high mist deration. • Vienne, 26 Messidor, Year rm. (Signed) , CHAMPAGNY. Count Cobentzel. No. zy contains the formal Ad of Guarantee by the Ern peror of G erinany to the toth Article of the Treaty of Amiens, respeding Malta. No. ag is an extract of a Dispatch !rout Kr..Cassamajor, cv, to Lord llawkesbury, dated Berlin. August 2 which states, that Mr. C. had opened the subjed of hia Lordship's last dispatch to Mr. llignon,.whobirul undertaken to mention the same to his GoTernMent. • No, • 2g is an extrad of another dispatch from the. same Gentleman, (Wed Berlin. August 3 r. tka, stating that Mr. ittignon had received insttuitions train the French Govern- . !tient to invite the King of l'russia to accede to the guaran tee of the Order of Malta. No. 30, dated Berlin, Oa. 2,11802, states that Mr. Casa. major's Nati remains unanswered. , • No. 31 is an Extrad of a Dispatch froM • Mr. Jackson', dated Berlin, Nov: 25, ilea, which states, • that in a confe mice wi th C ount Hauge/its, the latter had intimated that the King of Prussia was. countenanced in with holding its guaranty by the example of Spain, • • • • • No. 32 is all Extract of a Dispatch from Mr. Oarlike to Lord Ilawkesbury, dated Petersburgh, Sepitrnber 17, 1802, which states that the French Ministerhad been directed by .his Government to invite the Emperor of Russia to swan. tee the island and Order of Malta. • No. 33. Extract of a Dispatch from str Jahn norlase Warren to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Sr. retersburgh, Nci. 7 vsonber t 8„ 1802. On the third instant 1 waited upon the Chancellor with General H edouvi l le, when the note of invitation for. Ilk Aerial TVlaicsty's guarantee of the toth Article of the Treaty of Amiens, was presented by each general de Piet ouville entered into various reasons to in. duce the Russian Oovernment to grant the guarantee ; the . principal of which was to prove, that without the guaran. tee of RtlSiia, either. of thi two powers, upon the tirst ... r „ Ilitferinee between then; would „leek iipPrt thenselifes at ,' libertY to seize upon the Island,. whiCh was only import ant in zktuilitdry point of Vies.Y.i and the only. alteration he ShAdd rtiake in his -invitatiOn.tyas, that.thol stand might be 'delivered up to the Neapolitan trOopS. He added that the ad otguarant.c..• it o tld not be considered as affeeting the arrange 'incur uf any partictil4r Power with the Order, or any alte ration that Pnwa !night wish tb make in_the s Baillages, or that part belonging to itself, as,Spain.had.already'done. No. 3'4, refers to .the following .answer of the Russian Covernment , . , . ConditiOns - upon Which`His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias it willing to aced to the Strpnlations of the. loth Article ofthe, Treaty of Amiens: t. The acknowleclgrnent of the Sovreiglity of the Order ,f 3t. of Jerusalem over-the Island of Malta, • and its Dependencies • .the acknowledgment of the Grand Master, • and of the civil GoVernMent of the Order, according to its ancient institutions, 'with', the admi.s4ion. into it *of - Native- Mattese.; - Upon this point, as well as upon every other that relate-to its interior 'organization,,the logal - Government of the Order shall have the power to clod _and prescribe such Regulations as it . may judge best calculated to promote the future welfare and prosperity of the Order. 2. The Rights of the King.ot the. Two Sicilies, as Suze rain of the Island, shall remain upon the same footing as they were Previous to. the IVar•which is now terminated by the Treaty of Artiietts. • • . 3. The Independence 'and Neutrality of the Island of Malta, its Ports and Dependencies, shall be secured and :guaranteed by the . respedive Contrading Powers, who shall murually.engage to acknowledge and maintain 'that Neutra litY in all cases. of War ; whether between each other, or between any of them ancl , any.pther Power, not excepting His Sicilian Majesty, whose Rights of Suzerainty shall not extend.id as to enable him to cause a departure tioM the Neutrality of-the Island, as guaranteed by the present:•Ad. • . Until the Order shall be in a situation to provide, by its own resources, for the maintenance of its 'independence and Neutrality, us secured by the preceding Article, as' well as for the defence Of their principal residence, the di*rent Forte shall be . occhpied by' His Sicilian Nlajestj"s Troops, . who shall send a sufficient %tee I'M . the delL,ce'or the 1 stand and its dependencies, the number of which shall be agreed .upon by his said Majesty .and :the t.vo Contracting Powers, who skill take upon themselves CoiljOintly, the ,expence or maintaining the whole of the said Troops, so long as the de- . l' e nce the Island shall continue to be intrusted to thetri, (luring which period the said Troops shall be under the autho rity of the Grand Master and his Government: s. The present additional Ad shall be considered as form ing an integral part of the Treaty of .-‘rniens, the same as if it' had been inserted therein, word for word, and shall be tr.- ecutedin like manner, _ _ 6. Their Majesties the ,Emperor of r.lt the Rils,SiaS, the Enipethr of the Romans, the King of Spain, the King of the Two Sicilies, and the King of Prussia, shall be inVited to accede to this Ad at Guar.mtees. (Signed) CONI'rE ALEXANDR,EDE WORONZOW. , • (Lao. 35.). My Lord, Paris, lan. 17, zso3. I 144\1: to report to your Lordship the purport ofd conver sation -I had on Tuesday last by appointment with M. Tal leyrand. He had invited me some clays ago for this purpose., ,The Communicatibn he had to make to me related ice two points, both equally important, as he said, to the mainte nance .of' good harmony between the two Countries ; with this difFerence, however, that the one originated with him self, anti was dittated by his anxiety to do away eery thing which might feed the mutual irritation of the two Countrieo and the other by the express order of the First Consul. That which came from himselt related to the Epglish Newspa pers,' against which he pronounced a most bitter Philippic, assuring me that the First Coosul was extremely hurt to find that his endeavours to conciliate hail hitherto produced no other died than to increase the abuse with. which the Pa pers in England continually loaded him.. lie expatiated much upon this topic, and endeavoured to establish a tact, Which l - assured him a reference to any one Newspaper in Pa ris.would instantly refute, that during tbur months not a word of provocation • had appeared ,in any Preach Journal', which could justify a retort from those published in England. For the rest he advanced nothing but what has been said on more than one occasion to Mr. Merry, and reported by him to your Lordship. I was however given to understaOd, 'that the First Consul was iii fact highly. incensed, and the more • so, he was pleased ,to say, as it came front a Country of whose good opinion he was so very ambitious. In'lnr reply, I could but go over the old grOund, and en deavour to make M. Talleyrand understar4First, That whatever was said in the English Papers might be considered but as a national retaliation for what was publiihed in the French Papers—Secondly, That what was officially pub tished here was by no means so in England—and thirdly, That although the Government posSessed a control over the Press in !ranee, the English Government neither hadnor could haVe, unless they purehased it at the same price, any whatever its England. Upon - this he endeavoured to .prove to me, that there were Papers in England attached to dif ferent parties, and went over their names and supposed con nettions with great- precision ; 'and that consequently His Ma.jeaty's • Ministers might so far control those at least • which depended upon them, as to prevent. their inserting that abuse which must be considered as having their sandion, 1 endeavoured to explain, to hint what the influence was, which he supposed • Ministers to possess in England ; that it amounted to nothing more than a preference which your Lordship for instance, might, give to one Paper rather than to another, by sending to it any articlei of hews which it might be wished to make public ; but that your Lordship's influence went no further and that if the ditor of such a Paper 'conceived it more tot his interest to continue to write'atter his own fancy and uncontroled, than to be the publisher of such occasional articles, in that case all influence was at an end, 1 told him, that if he had remarked any abusite article in any Paper of such a de -scription, it was natural and fair to conclude that it did not depend upon Governmeot to . prevent it.. He per sisted his opinion, that His Majesty's Milliliters ought keep certain papers in order, as I did in assuring him, that until the First Consul could so tar. master his feelings as to be as indiarent to the scurrility of the English Prints, as the English/Government was to that which tinily appeared in the French, the state of irritation was irremediable. 1 told him, however. that I would report the substance of this ComMunication to your Lordship, although 1 could assure him, that - your Lordship could a dd nothing to the expluna.. ta m whi c h had been given, and in such detail by Mr. Merry from yontLordship: . M 'Talleyrand, with great solemnity,. • rettuireti of me to inform him, and this 4y the express order ot the First Con sul, , what were His Majesty's Intentions with regard to th e evacuation of Malta, 'Fle. again on this occasion made great profeasions of his sincere desire to set aside every thing which C 139 Id interrupt the good understanding between the two GO yernments ; adding, that it was absolutely necessary that the French Government should knoW what it was meant to do, when that Clause in the Treaty of Amiens, which stipulates the cession of Malta, sleifilirbe fully •accomplished. He said that -another Grand Master Would now very soon be elected; that all the Powers of Europe invited so dO, with the exception of It us,a a, whose diffleul tie* it was'easyto move, and without whom the guarantee would be equally complete, were ready to come forward ; and that consequent ly the term would very soon arrive, when Great Britain could have no pretext for keeping longer possession.. I informed him, that. 1 would report his conversation tip your Lordship, :out would have the honour of 'cothittunicating to him your Lordship's unswer as soon AS. I could reetive tt• 1 haie thO.Honotirto bo, tee. • WHITWOATIL Right lion.laord 'HaWkeibury, No. 36, as a Letter from Lord Hawkesbury to Lord Whit worth, dared Feb. 9, 1803, in which Lor-i ffawkeshury en larges on the • principle on which the Treaty of Amiens is tounded ; and urges the right at Interference on the part of Great Britain, in older to obtain satisladtion fbr essential dif ferences that may have arisen, on the relative situation of England and France. (No. 37. )—Extraft . of a Dispatch from Lord Whitworth to Lord Hawkesbuty, dated Paris, February 17, 18°3, I have the Honour to acquaint your Ltirdship, that I saw M. de Talleyrand on Tuesday last, tbr the purpose of carry= ing into Oki your Lordship's instruelions of the 9th instant. I began by telling him that 1 had nothing new to communi. emu to him; but merely to confirm officially that whieli I had already from myself prerniseg. I did not however pass over with the same indifference,' the arguments with which your Lordship has furnished me. I recapitulated them all ; the Principle on which the Treaty of Amiens was founded ; and the Right,which naturally arose from that Principle, of interference ou our part for thepurpose of obtAning satistk. Lion sir compensaticm, ter any essential difference which may have arisen in the relative situation of, the two Cuuntries. instanced then cases, beginning with Italy and 'concluding with Switzerland, which the territory or influence of France hart been extended subsequent to the Treaty of Aittiens. l'Presented to him that thi4 Principle Compenolthut had been fully and formally admitted by the French Govern. minty itt the vOurse, of the N iiiniatlon. at Amiens. t • Own toil . 411 114 t ttoiNvithstanding . the ihdisTut Able It i&lit 'whielv ftis MajeitY Might ditived poise for such acqttisitiOns:, instrudiona given Me; by which I should betit urktito:(ll.l4fo His Majekty's readiness to birry into ctli:4l - the, the ietb Article of the Treaty, if the, atitictlKA 1:17011.: jesty . 's Government had . not been roused by the'o7.,z4vq.; lication of Colonel Schilstiani' ' ,,, Dort to the First t;;tar.. it MS useless to recapitulate tl ictilai'h Of this Very ex trailrclinarY 'Report.; but .1 apt ► liiin whether it not of a nature,, exclusive off the,,. I ;Winslow; it eon: tained, to excite the utmost . jealousy , . the Minds ,ot' Majesty's hlinisiers, and to demand on their.part every pure ot precaution. 1 concluded With . the Alistind Decl.ir.i tiors, that it wao itnpossible for His Majesty to'enter into ;illy furjher disc.usslOq relative to Malta, unless he receivi.es tlielory oxplanations oh the 9ubje4l 'Of .the First Consul's Views. • . , M. de Talleyrind iri . }i ii reply*, did not at tempt to dispLte the drift of my argument. .1-le ,admitted,,,vith.. an alteCt.. ed trine of candour, that - the jealousy we felt : lin the score of Egypt, with a view to, our Possessions in . India, natural. 'But he could nut admit that any thflig had *lp: peared in the cohdua ethic I:reticle Government in.; ustitica: tuin,Of the alarm we cat pressed. A tier repeating tvilat he hart said to me in a former' Conversation on the subject of Seba tiani's Mi ssion, which he.asserted . to be orillets . .col?mitrelql. tie expatiated at great length on the sincere' desire of thc,Firsr Constil to maintain inviolable the Peace which had , been sti lately concluded adding, that the this of the French 'Finances was such, that were not this desire' of Peace in the First Consul an elEctot system,it would tie inutir im p..riOusly dictated to hint by the trtai iniposSibility in which this Coon. try found itself of caring ott that extensive . state of vvarrate; which eVen a vartnif , rupture would naturally lead to. Ile ei pressed 'gr.:at sroos4Vtlieretbre, that any stislncion should attach, when tln.}itteans of diSturbing the public tranquitlity were,. as must be ,known in Em;land, so, completely wanting; and desired to know what was the nature and de gree of satisfaction which tlis Majesty' would require. On this l told him, that 1 could not pretend to say by what means those apprehensions, which the conduct of thiSGovern- MCM had raised in England,',.Wele to be allayed t' but 1 could assure hint, that in the di , s..ussion of them, : we should be 'animated solely by a sin4"t it to be convinced of the troth of his assertions, slat , on that depended the Peace and Happiness of Europe: . I took this, opportimity of assitrir4 hint, thatalthough,,according to his Statement 44 the situa tion of France, ,we might possess .in a greater ilegyte means of supporting the expellee of a War, Since ijp, j v c means arose trona sources "which even a state of Warfare did not dry up, yet such was ViiS - MiljeStVs sincefedeSiro of main taining Peace, that nothing but absolute and unavooable necessity would ever induce him to deprive his SubjeCts ut the blessings which they begin to enjoy. 'No. 34. • My Lohl, .Paris, February 2i, *Boa. My •last Dispatch,, in which I gave sour Lordship cm ac. count of my, conlisrence with M. de Tilleyrand, was scarcely gone, when I received a. note from him, informing me that the First. Consul wishedto converse with me, and desired t would come to hint at the Thuilieriea at nine o 'clock. He received me in ins .Cabinet, with t o l e r a bl e cordiality, and, after talking on different.subjeas .for a.few. minutes, be de .sired we to -sit down, as. he himself did on the other side of the table,. and began. He told xne, that he felt it ncces. sary,after . what had passed bettveen me and M. de Talley. rand that he. should,. in the, most clear and authentic flaunter s make known his sentiments tome in order to their beingcorn municated to Ilia Majesty ; and he conceived this would he more eltielually done by himself than through any Medium whatever. He said, that it was a matter of iniunte disappoint- . .ment to hint, that the Treaty of .Amiens, instead of being folliewed by conciliation anti :Friendship, the natural ,efieets of Peace, had bean produCtive only of continual and increas. ing jealousy and mistrust ; and that this mistrust was -now avowed in such a'manner as must bring the point to awiasee.. He now enumerated the several Provocations which he pretended to have received froM England, lid placed in the first line our not evacuating Malta and Alexandria as wa were bound to do by Treaty. In this ,he kaki that no Lmm. titration on earth should. make him acquiesce ; and of the two he had rather sed,us in possession of the -Fauxhourg St. Antoine than Malta. He then adverted to the abuse throwo .out against hint in the English public Prints • but this h e . said, lie did not , an ' much regard as that whi ch ared 'in the French Papers publishedin London.. Xitis he considered as much More mischievoua, wince it was Meant to excite this Country against hint and his Government. lie complained of the proteclion given to (:comes and otli.3's of hi* &scrip,. tion, who instead of. being sent to Canada, a s -had been re peatedly promised, - were _permitted to remain in England, handsomely pensioned, and constantly connoittingaihsorts of Crimea on the Cdests of France, as well .as the Interior. In confirmation of this, lie told me, that two Men had with. in these few clays ham apprehended in Normandy, ' anti were now un 'their way to yarns, who were hired Aatatasins a .and entOloyed by the. Bishop of Arras, by the Baron, tie Rolle, by Georges, and. by Plaited, as would be fully proved in a Court of fusticc and mate known to the world. He, acknowle dged, that the irritation he telt against Eng ? land increased daily, because every wind - make • use 4$ much as I can of his own ideas and expressions) which blew from England brought nothing but enmity and hunted against him. • .t• He now went back to . Egypt, and told me, that if he li nt felt the smallest inclination to take poasesSion of it by he might have done' it a mouth ago, by ~ sending tweiity,fiv,e thousand men to Aboukir, who would have posseaatai them selves of the whole Country, iii defiance of the four, thousand British in Alexandria. That instead of that Garrison being a means of proteding Egypt, it was only furnishing him wit it ; -pretence tar invading it. Tins he should not du, whatever might be his desire to have it as a Colony, because he did not think it worth the risk of a war, in which. he might, per r , haps, be considered as the aggressor, and by which h e should lose more than he could -- gain, • since sooner or later Egypt would belong to trance, either by the falling to pieces of the Turkish empire, or by some arrangement with the Porte. As a proof of his desire to maintain peace, he wished to know what he had to gain by going to ,tifar. with England. A descent was the only means of oltence he had, and that he was determined to attempt, by putting hiroscl fat t h e h ea d of the Expedition. 'But how could it he supposed, that after hay. ine gained the heighten which he stood, lie would rilA his. lite and reputation in such a hazardous attempt, tin. less forced to it by necessity, when the chances were that •he and the greatest part of the Expedition would go to the bottom of the sea. He .talked touch on this subjeel, but never atneted to diminish the danger. - i-1 acknowledged that there were one hundred chances to we against hint but- still he was determined to attemp t i t, if • War should be the • consequence of the present Discussion ; and that such was the disposition of the Troops, that Army after Army would be fonntlfer the enterprise. lie then expatiated much on the natural forceof the two • Countries. France with an Army of 4130,00 e men, for to this Amount, it is, he said, tn be immediately completed, silk ready for the most desperate enterprises ; and Eitg a Fleet that made tier bastressofthe Soai, and w Lind with rich he. , not think he should he able to equal in less th an T en y it „,.. Two such countries,by a proper underatanding e .might govern the World, buf by their strifes might overturn it. lie said, that If he. had not felt the. enmity of the Britiah Govern.. • ment on every occasion since the 'Treaty of - Amiens, there would have been nothing that he, would not have done to prove his desire to conciliate I P a r t i c i pat i on in ln..- demnities, as welt as irl Influence on the Continent ;.Treaties of commerce, in short t any thing that could have given salts. titetion„ and have testified his friendship. Nothing, however,' had been able to conquer the hatred of the British • Govern ment, .and therefiire it was now come to the point, whether we should have Peace or War. • To preserve Peace, the Treaty of Aniieng must be fulfilled ; the abuse in the pub.. lie Prints, if net totally suppressed,' at least kept within botuiits, and confined to the is nglish Papers ; and the Pre. tettion so openly: given to his bitterest Founntes (alluding to Georges and Persons .of that description) must be with. drawn. It War, it ..was necessary only to- say so, and to retnse to. UMW the Treaty. Ho new Mule th e Tour of Europe to prove to rne,- that in hs-preseuf. state, there was no Power, with which we,COuld eoal e a cts • for die purpose of making War against .France; consequent. ly it was our interest to - gain time, and it we hall any - point to gain, renew the War when. circumstances were more fa. vourable. He said, it was not tieing hiinjustice to sup pose , t h at h e con ce i ve d huns4:ll above the opinton• of his Country or of Etirope. He would .ntit risk uniting Europe against him by any violent aet of aggression; neither • was he s e powerful to France as to persuade the -Nation to go to War unless on good grounds. He- said, that he had not chastised the Algerines, from hia unwillingness to excite the jealousy of other Powers, but he hoped that Englanti, Russia, and France would one day tcel that it was their interest to destroy such a nest of thieves, and force them to live rather_ by cultivating their land than by plunder. In the little I said to him, for he gave me in the c ourse of two hours but very few opportunities of saying a word, 1 confined myself strietly to the tenor of your.l.ordship', o in. struitinns. 1 urged them in the cline manner as I h4 d une to M. Tallmand, and dwelt as .strongly k. wutd . o n the sensation which the publication of SehastianYreport had 1 ;