The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-08 00:00:00

. - •

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, bußcli S.
A man, of the name of Peltier, has been e r..vietzsi
before the tribunals of London, of having printed
miserable libels against the Fist Consul. It is rather
difficult to conjeecture why the English Ministry has
been so anxious to give so much note); iety to all this
nonsense. As the English Journals have :tssestcd
that this aetion was instituted at the desire of France,
and even that the French Ambassador was present
at the trial, we are fully authorised to coutraditt
both these assertions. 'llle First Consul had no
k rowledge of the existence of those libels, till he
learnt it from the proceedings of the Court.
According to the system of Eniope, all civilized
nations have reciprocal duties to perform ; they
hagh: to shew each other the more respell, as the
opposite system, which, hcwever, has partisans in
every country, would tend to nothing less than
thiowing us into a state of barbarity and anarchy.
It is therefore as difficult to conceive what interest
England can have in encouraging, and authorizing
all the infamous productions whico the libellers of
the country vomit forth, and still less what interest
it can have in protecting the French libellers who
established themselves there during the war, as it is
to conceive the inutility of the apparatus and osten-
tation with which this trial has been conducted.
The Alien-Bill empowers Administration to send
away foreigners, and the Minister is not sparing in
the use of it. More than twenty Frenchmen, who
had long resided and who were well known in Eng-
land, have been sent away without any formality.
Indeed, it is but a few days ago since Citizen Bon-
necarrere, chief of battalion of the Paris National
Guard, who had a law-suit to attend to at London,
and whose wife was there indisposed, received orders
to quit the country within forty-eight hours.
We are acquainted with individuals who were re-
sident and established in London fur thirty years,
against whom that Bill has lately been put in force.
Why, then, the ostentation of dragging before a re-
spect ihle tribunal ft reign, delinquents, such as arc
asways to be found at the close of great political corn-
motions ? Were the under secretaries of Lord Pel-
ham seriously to tell them, write no longer, they
would be silent; and if they do net, the Alien-Bill
gives the power of sending them away.
Tne King of England owes to the rt'speEt for his
own person, and to the honour of his natiiai, once
tor ail to put an end to-those outrages which arc
dons to a neighbouring Nation and Government
witn whom he is at peace, and in which he k.2eps
Ambassadors as distii.guished for their rank, as
they are estimable for their personal merit.
rslthough, then, there was no necessity for that
proceeding, it afforded at least an opportunity to
the distinguished magistrates of the criminal tribunal
of London, to manifest proofs of wisdom, and to
shew themselves worthy of administering jtitice in
a nation so enlightened,. anti which, on so many ac-
counts, is highly entitled to esteem.--Moniteur.
BERNE, FEB. Is.
Letters of several officers of the Third Auxiliary
Demi-brigade, have confirmed the news that the
first battalion of that corps, which repaired to
Ajaccio, conformably to the orders of the Adjutant
Commandant Blauniont, Chief of the Star, Major
of the 2Scl Military Division, is destined to be em-
barked for the East Indies. The Chief of Brigade
has protested against. this embarkation, upon the
ground of the dispositions of the Convention of the
tsOth Nov. 1798, by which it was stipulated that the
Swiss Kegiinents shall not be bound to cross the
sea. This claim has been communicated to the
G.) verurnent.

ROL'E', TEE. 26.
The female Lecardonnel was yesterday brought
hither trora Port Andemer, and confined in the pri-
m of the Coltelergerie, whence slte was to be taken
this morning to Ewen, as there is an order for her
removal to Paris. The arrest of this woman and

of her husband, of Lebout7eois, Pigot, and Letellier,
suggests to me some relations, which I do not
think wirnrot tant.
A vat i.!ty of factions arose out of the revolution,
and to think of charging upon the revolution the
excesses and phrenzy of these different parties would
be most unjust. As well might the sun be consi-
dered a pernicious constellation, because it is ail-en-
livening rays produce as infinite number of hurtful
and noxious inseds.
Amidst all these fadions, th?re i. but oce which
s •ernt to oppose the general wish, the necessity
of order, and the desire of peace, with which all ;.r•
inspired. It is evident, alas! that it would be ,de-
lighted, if it could plunge us anew in political con-
vulsions. Who, in fad, are these that have been
just arrested ? What a standard have they ered ?
If I recur to the epochs of the I Sth Frudidor, and
of the preceding periods ; if I survey the dismal
plains of La Vendee, where I still meet the fright-
ful vestiges of civil dis Cord, of destruction, of lands
without cultivation, and of depopulated cities ; I
perceive that the authors of so niany calamities are
those very pe:sons who have just been arrested for
haying been privy, in p'ain language, to the blacktst
co:•.spi,aey agait,st the life of the lint Consul.
Let us dwell a mcruent on this idea, and 'let us
follow it in the expiication which it naturally pre-
sents. ft was at the house of Lebourgeois, that the
liedes, Cevattx, and many others, who had formed
ass tssination and robbery into a system, used to
meet; it was theie they ns.e 1 to reeeivu their- instruc-
ticats ; there they planned the attack and plunder
of the public treasures. Lebourgeois himself had
been d tabbed a col s'd.7rable time as an accotuplice in
tl:e robbery et the treasury. of Havre.
These are the same men that, in a thousand in-

StaliCeb, Dave engaged hi die plots' Inrmed a-aihst
the trouquillity of the lteruhlic. Lecaidosag wax
formerly broil* before the Military Council of
seine64,l a a suspeaaed of ltaving .ia. his pos-
vssicn a quantity or at-ras, contrary to law. rhe
acquitted him ' hut he ile7.ther changed
bis sentirocrusf um. altered Isis caudal.. It seemed
its it. it ware bat the prelade to more atrocious
desi&s:l. •
It is Plea that WAS so notorious for his dastardly
Tti,:ailieri,,,•and for the horrible crimes with which
be was stained amongst the Chouans. Ti:efi, are
site perso at present natter the hands of the law,
tbr harint conspir!d*thc, diestrattion of the Supreme
Claci.of tic liepuahc.- - -
But let us prodeedr—sleprn now off-n- h;rn,elf
tkeiltiolcipEp to tit4siiixt tpc 'villainous desipt pru-
jeleiT hi-lhese abandoned wretches who but those
wig) charge on the inetperiesec of youth the ‘r.rnes