The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-06-09 00:00:00

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guifea. put in the tray of those Nvho ate detained
upon slipti pretexts, to endeavour, by exciting cons•
miseratron t•T apparent el-treatment, so betray the
innoeent ion) some strs*7 expressions of indignr•
;ion against the supposed authors of the cruelty,
and therebeave a bold fur tateist *.prosecutian.
This hniv ear in all the luitues (If ditintida.
Agin convey as ides of the equitable praetice of the
CnitsitiAr Gevitnrnent. When the suhjd% of this
Me...atir expressed his indignation to the LAM-mg..,
or *eery of the Temple, for this cruel illiberally*
. iiiviiionslypleaded the ofsf.gations he was under
isy his instruetions ; and at the Intervention of the
ca:.ideotial lawyer who had undertaken the care of
the Iloke's private` contents, the a marten' Was re-
raised to another part of the keep; and by the
'firmness of the samefriend, decent bed ling and re-
freshment were allowed to be brought into the pri-
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leo ftam.without. He wan also allowed, on the
• third day, to be .atisnided by his servant, upon con-
dition, however, of the tatter being con .ia,:red as a
:pfroncr likewise. At the moment, MI the morning
of the 9th tiepternber, when the wickets were opened-,
}..e taped for his release - they were only unbolted
for the admissive; 41the friend who had accompanied
him to Paris, and who came there as ignorant as
himself. of even tie prob..ble cause of the detention
of rinser of them. It appeared that Mr. Merry's
aopresentation and remoss,rance to the Minister for
ForeignAitairs, Citizen Taneyrand, remained with-
out answer —a Jiarpea to the Representative of his
Idaster, and Inv y, that the silbjeet Memoir
fveeiy .1, gave him more pain taan even his
tern. cruel situation JiJ, as he was coolident that
would be of short duration, Although he had not the
rt :o obtain intimation of even the probable
OM ‘e his detention, other than the Kik pretext
tilltioved in M Desmarets' conversation.
• pins state of uncertainty cinitiraied until the
I tth, in the morr.ing, when the keeper of the Temple
brought the glad tidings of liberation, with dire.ftions
to call at the bureau de it Police, the next day at
noon, for their papers. This they did, as preset-IL-
O, and had an interview with M. Desmarets,' who,.
much urged the subjed of this Memoir to write. tq'
the Minister, and state that Messrs. Pitt and Wind-.
ham h.id engaged him to employ all unjustifiable
means of destruthon against the Republic—in short,
to avow all the infernal plots their black minds pre-
sented to their troubled imagituttior s. This he in-
spurned at, and absolutely declined enter.
r..to any sort of corresrndence with M. Fouche.
The fh'lmviny daythey were called,by ante from the
.Pr4•ft rinbtat. ta the bureau de la Prefer tire-Ge-
r.:rate de lit and lia.l etch a passport deliver-
id to theio, yiq toy wor i.d, tending to
er.pase t.:lrm to c:-117 in their
foroti;.;:t ti... 1.• • a they were cons-
monied to '.depart :ram, and to leave the territory
of the Ilepublie in twenty-four hours, which all who
&mew Paris, the roans, and rate of posting, will rea-
sdily apre to be a physical impossibility. On the
lay vi their departure, they were provided with pro-
per ppcsports from his Majesty's Minister Plenipo-
tentiary, slut of Lord Hawkesbury having been
taken away. Those of Mr. Merry were counter.
aired- by the Minister Talleyrand. The subject of
this Memoir, with great satisfanion, ordered post-
horses, and left his interests and fortune to be pur-
sued by agents, to whom he was obliged to confide
them ; having thus unjustifiably, as he has stated it
, fiat the private satisfal.tion .his friends, been ex-
yelikd like an outcast, from a country which he had
espeeted, 4A at peace with his own, after the poi& '
cation of the Treaty concluded at Amiens, under
which he bad conceived himself entitled to protec-
tion), every other Englishmen. And he perhaps
iettild not have compLuned of the insult he has ex,
=teed, if idle curiosity or pleasure had bees the
ca his exciirsioa."

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