The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-19 00:00:00

No. 111.

Extract of a Dispatch from LrydSt. Ilelen's to Lord Hawke*.
burr, d.st.st St. Petersourgh, April ea,
I hope very wort to be enabled to re-r iciech your Lord-
ship's tart nisssenger with the arswer of this (:overa.neut to
the commurricat.uns winch I have nialle to mein, in olicrlicnce
his M.leary's commends, respecteic; the 10th article of tin!
Treaty of Amiens. In the Inean tin.. 1 mu.t n x vine-oat fro.::
your Lordship, that there is arca, naeun LA fear that Its Im-
perial Majesty will decline tatting part in the propused ju ..t
guaranty of the posecenuirs 414 sew cutotauttatt of the Order
04 Made.
No. IV.
ilitract of a Dispatch from Lord St. Helen's to Lord I•Tawkes-
bury, &red ketersbur;h, May 7,
I have reaoya to Lope Ih4 the first imp-scab*. thei hed been
puduced here by certain ',arts of the arrangement relative to
Malta, have been 'removed ; and thst his Imperial Majesty
ow, rota to ulemateiN induct() to guaraitt the s, lid.: of that
frft-gement imervl-r1 that the steps e Wt.& Wye been taken
tisii-ras the elecoon or': new Fraud Master, according to the
Mode rougaicaust by this court, be cousi4tned w frilfilltrg what is
required JII that heed by the latter part or the paragraph of the
10thatitecle of the Treaty of Ammo ; end consequently that
to new election Fa that r 11:e is to take plate in the manner
&Dialog out by the outer put of the suns: supra iattou

No. V.
Sir, Downiiirstreet, June b, 1802.
1 informed Trio in my sispatcit, No. 10, that M. Otto had
facie an osinaal co...amine:lmm to mr, that General A'ial leas
appointed bit the First Consul Minister renipatentiary to the
Onkel id tit. "taw or Jerusalem. Sir Alexander hall hat bees
In consequence sinveiited with the ant.: character by hii.
'testy. He volt proceed immediately to Malta, and he will r 4.
cave instrucieroos to concert with °massif Vial tat bat means
at ea:Tying into complete effect the stipulations cora:awed in the
lath article of the °armoire Treaty. By the paragraph
marked No. 1, in that article, it is stipulated :
" The knights of the (triter, langems shall continue
to 'Midst atter the excha gc art the ratificattoots of the prey it
treaty, are mimed to return to Malta as osoon as that ex.
chatig: shall have taken place t they shall there form a gene-
-141 chapter, aid shall itocced to the election of 4 Giatiil
Matter, to be chosen twin arnougst the natives of these ni-
non, which preserve tangoes, if nu •uch eloortkoi shall have
D oen al:cady mark: since the exchange ot the ratincatious Ut the
preliminary attacks of peace.'
The usject of tan. paragraph was, that in the event 01441
election having taken place sausequeht to the exiiiiiige ot the
ranikatious of the :mi. timuary attielca of peace, a.ai anteccaleut
to the couclualun of the d.itinitive treat), that election klumitt
be cons.deril as valet ; and hough uo mention is made in the
article of the prueastiation of the Emperor of au Ana soon aftr.r
accuntioti to the throne, by win, ii the Knights of tbeOider
Isere uotte4 to 4S3,:lstAt', a. ti to :.roceed to the electioa of a
Gracod :cf,tter, the stipu..nr.ii in quest,ou evidently reierr:d to
the contingency of an election takttlg place tin tile Continent,
sy e•infequence ref kat prociainatiolt.
You will Mahon the trench Gurerninent, that his Majesty
is ready to consider the election which has taken place at St.
Y.:teisburgh, ander the auspices at the Emperor of limit.; to
'be valid, 'l.v:• nto' to the stipulation in the 10th article.
Hie Majesty ha- no other ol4ect In the whole of this trans-
action, than that the 10th article of the Treaty luny be fairly
srxecuted; and that the arratigenicht may tie carried into com-
plete execution with as little diftircaty as possible.
As the Ictht paragraph in the 10th article stipitlakis thxt the.
Obvernments of Austria, Russia, and Prassia, should be in-
vited to asetide krthe arcangensertrU respecting Malta, it is des
sirable that the French Governineut thould instruct, Without
delay, their Aitt...iissadors or Ministers at Vicuna, Petiirsourgli,
and Berlin, to make, conjuintl) with. Ilia Majesty's Minirteis
at thou: courts, an official conununnation, dehriug the access
ion of those possess to the arnthgetnents relative to Malta in
the Definitive Tristy ; hj which it ta provided, that bite inde-
pendence of the islood and the other stipu.at uns;
>Lall be
atartei the gnarautee of those putier, in cinnutiction with his
Majesty, me French Government, and the IC:mg of Spain.
I have the hi/lit:UT to be, Sc.
(Signed) ,11AWEIr,SBUSY.
Anthony Merry, Esq. dx.ke.
Nu. VI —Extiact of a Dispatch from Anthony Merry, Esq. to
Lord Hawletsbury, dated Paris, Juno 17, lba..
I have now the honour to transmit to your Lordship, in-
timed, copy of an answer which reached me last kthough
dated eight days back), front the French Minot r, to the note
Terbale which I delivered to him, containing his :vlaje-sy's pro-
positions respecting the exactition or some points if the sr-
mageatents relative to Malta, colitatred in the loth article of
the Dehniuve Treaty of Peace. lan with find the entire ars
quir:crice of this Govcrnment to those propositioas, expressed
yl a very satisiactury

(limlosuro referred's) in No 6.)
His Britannic Maieety's M salutes Plenipotentiary has the ho-
nour to transmit herewith to Citiseri 'I alleyianil, Minister tar
the Foreign Affairs of the Foincli Republic, the " Note verbale"
of the eourninnication he has beta ordered.res notice U. him by
411$ (,inveruinent, who at., desirous tbat the pro,saats it colt-
W.
all way be acceptable to the French riostromeot ; and they
Nil be woofed, that the British Government, in nialciug these
propsals, lave no other °hied view than to facilitate, the
easiest mauler, the esecution of the Treaty of Animas, and to
ad in this respect in perfect harmony with the French Govern-
silent.
Mr Merry has the honour to renew, on this occasion, the
asatarrttctc of his high consideration Air %I. Talleyralid
'Signed) ANTHONY MERRY.
Paris, Bth Julie, 1802.
Si.e Citizen MMisttr for Foreign /Miss will !sad inclosed a
bat of suffrages obtained :tutu stretal prinks of that /Idyl. of St.
J oho of Jerusalem, tor the election of a and Mer, which
Ilia been received from St Netersbmgli bi the &wastell Govern-
- isms; with the IIO.IA that Cane promo hart agreed arnoigst
Ihethrlelves, that his Whites' the Pope shall .eiect (pro hoc
vire), from animigsr the candidates thirvin 'escorted, the per
ton who is to till the pst of fined Mi tr.
BJti ante MAyorty, es Us pang m waiing to consiila au