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No. 19.—sEttra3 of a Dispatch Crain .J. H. Fiore, Empire, to
pied Ihnroirby, dated Madrid, ratli July, 1804.-s-Received
17th Jahr,
The subsidy paid by this country to France hail been rreu
larly acquitted ay to the month of May, at the rata of Sen,tloo
dollars per mouth A new expedient has since beim hit upon
for enabling the French governnient to avail its:hot the re-
sources of Spain to an extent which will riot be limited by
those difficulties which mutt sooner or titer have put a stop
to the extra:hoe of specie A Man of iv., millions of dull its
has been negotiated at earis in favour of thia I;overaitient,
or, More properly sneakiiig, rat favour of that of France, as it
is not to be imagined that any p art of it will ever had its way
into this country, or he appli-el to any other purpose than that
of the payment of the stipulated tribute. It is agreed thst the
capital is to ba repaid at the end of three years ; the annual ie.
*crest to be six per rent., with as anowance of three per molt.
for commission upon the whole capital subseribi-d ; there is be-
Aides a further advantage allowed to the coot. ,_tors, namely,
a privilege of exportiii e, free of ditty, a qu into, ofd Alms, to
the amount of the capital subscribed ; thPs canto; be calculated
at less that six per cent., and may ha much more. These
sums therefore divided amongst the three yens, make at least
an additional three per cent., and give Mit- tier coin as the
Incest rate of annual interest paid by this govenint mt for an
exigible debt. It may, I should iinagilie, bra safaly reckoned
as only a little short of ten per cent , or nearly the rate of in-
terest upon the vales, which bear six per cent. , and are at a
discount of thirty-bix. .
No. 19.—Copy of a Dispatch front Lord llarraeby to R. Frcre,
Eel dated Downiiitstreet, 29th September, 1804.
• SlR—she preceding dispatch is written with the view of
being real in extenso to M. de Cecilia, in your conference
with him; and if you should find it necessary to make any
communication in writing, you will fame it iii exact captor-
mity to toe instructions contained in that di.patch.
After th • step which has been taken by the Court of Span,
it is impossible to rely implicitly upon arty aiiurances, hover
positive ; anal you will tnerefore take the most speedy and
fectiml means of learning, with certainty, At Ferrol, at Canna
gems, and at Ca Its, whether the armaments have been coun-
ternmoded, ami the or lee; for that puTioe are actually in the
course of c ,ecation ; aod will forward without delay the
intelligence you may receive loin those anti.
In every view io oio:h the t !lA.; liesn'considerist here,
it has appeared so improbable, shot arty explanations can lie
given by the Court of Spain, of thy ututivis of tbis armament,
which can induce 11,4 Ntljtr•ly to acquiesce in its C011611114.1Ce,
(lint I have not adverted to that : but if, contrary to ex-
p...-lation any explanation should he offered, which in your
ju lenient!, appears sattafaaory, you are atuttoriud to suspend
your depaiture from hladitids until His Miticsty's pleasure can
be taken ; but you will exii.mily declare, that you II We no au-
therity to suspend clur,..g mat interval the execution of ewe
measures of precautiosi which His Majesty has already thought
it necessary to die-1 to be taken.
No. 20.—. Extract of a Dispatch from B. Ftere, F..,q to Lord
liarrowhy, dated Madrid, I.ftla Octis'a-ar, 11104.-1-received
2,1 Nove.nber.
The aCCUtIIItA which I have received from Mr. Duff since my
last, mention that there is iio appearance whatever in the liar-
buur of I.Nlia of an intention to rein.
(Translation rit Ne. 21.)
MY LORD. ° Portland place, 22.1 Dee.mb-r„ IFO4.
After the abeupt and unexpected 111.11/Inef iu w.;:ch the
British Charge d'AlLitea at Madrid has broken oh all dimmest
tic commuptization with the Spanish Cabinet, I rated Well
disdense with re:ailing to your Excellency's aomitien the corn
plat:, pacific proceedings which have constantly exited the
sy Aro, followed by my Court towards Eitgand ; but desiriag,
tiiiirernialile to Hi: Majesty's orders, to chew to the ',ast mo-
m rut that spirit Of conciliation which CUJomitutrs thy essence of
my mission, and the distinguishing charac!eilVlV of my Soso'
reign, I have thought it my duty en make vet one tows
tending to thee iii it. true ligst the frank and friendly conduct
wirier the Llag has net ceased to Mud ty siro.7e the .uptutre
betw:..m aod Laiglaorl, aroida the ditricuttim of his
situation withi.-gird to the two sellig,reet [enema.
Fro 34 the v_ey inoincat (bat the Emit lad learned the corn-
me:we:tient of haailities oetween France au.l Engluml, 11,,
M4,-,ty gave all attehticm to tit. manner im which lie •lium,l
.duet himself •.1 order ro pr.-emit all room (or die...intent ou
the part of these two S'ates, and to the systems-which he world
have te i, iuw in such a contunause, hit rimier to cnncthate his
engagements as the Ally of France with his duties of friend-
ship towards England. Although His Majesty k sew very
well, C.,at his a mushily of atiailiaryeo the firs!. of these ifowers was
in n•ierise ins•olipstild t with that of friend to the second, be
was, from the ours fist, perfectly sansiuie, a..d his (minion% ha.
been since c.: firmed by accuunti frmii his Miniater at I.ogiaisio,
that the Veit • b Givernru o,t would, with didiculty, consent to
his itirnestiog to Francs, succours, such as are sto unlisted by the
Treaty of 17Vti. In tow persuastoti, end, on ostler to temn.e
eyey motile appearance in ins comieriions with the latter
Poem-. he resolved ti propose to his Ally tine cenchuien of a
new Treaty, by wtech pecuniary succours ilinuid be substituted
for lie succours in trkfeirl and shins, which he had eillititiek.l to
runtish to F' AOC.: by the 'f reAty of Alliance. After lung anal
difficult nogotiations the Ling congratulated himself eit hae-
leg at last °hunted the object of his Amicable views, by the con-
clusion of a treaty of subsidy.
Conachng in the uprightness of bis intentions, and in the
pacific sentuneuts which had ptumpted ohm to take this step,
His Majesty was fully persoad.el that the British fioverument
would not fail to appreciate this very uncluirocdrnark of friend.
ship. The complaints brought lomat! 10011 afterwards by Mr
Frere, against the above-mcistiunctl Convention—complaints
which he has at iliffexcnt times renewed, though always to err
vague lento, and without ever mange an essential and decisive
gins of them—were tharefore a real subject of surprise to
, is Catholic Majesty. •Nevertheless, answers full of moderation
and candour were by his order made to them, in which answers
' were wet fonts the assume which had fed him to make •
treaty, of which the Liigl.sn (luverninent had the les coo-u
for complaint, as it was solely out oh regard to them that 1-lis
Majesty hail determined to conaluel.:. it.
At !wally the same (nue, Ills Britatelic Majesty's %truster
having addressed to soy Court representations on the armaments
which lie pretended wee cartvimt on iu our ports, and wheel
he supaosed to be dirorted against England,' his Majesty ordered
alliMerli to be in like *amnia mad.; to lien,"'flat the cows
of the Spaiiisli Goverioneet wen-• very far from any ,motive et
hostility ; Mar lie Entsimic Majesty could not mistake pacific
intentions ef toe ling of !Nish., who had given him so nem,
incotitesuble proof. of fnendship ; and that these prenfs were
masifestol as well in the sacrifices mad: by the Kind to secure
peace, as in the steady exercised, even betore it was delimit&
ed, towar Is those of his suifieas who had aled centre/ to the
ditties of neutrality. 1,, fine, that, ac.or.hog to these .hats,
there did not Caillt the halt taus, for appnsh,nsding th,t Spain
would engage iii further armaments, foe that would be acting

aganist her pacific systein "
At the sane tune, ae the Court of Madrid was hot euablerl
to totrn an exact awl f.xed spidgment of the protein's, and the
colidout which the Britten Government priiimed to follow, on
account of the e.tuivtical language in which Mr. Fret. always
enveloped h.. representation., it invited him to express himself
in a clam mid I.oj.Cite Mantle, as t r the intentions and the views
of his Li iverti limn with r.g art to S..ain. It won
of this rrali'.; mid friendly ion ration, that Hu Britanni- Ittaleny's
Mititdor em Lit pmticularised to my Coun, in a Note which
he traostistued to it on the 18th February last, the conditions
on which his Government would be dispmed to tecogitise the
ututraltty of Spain. Ttiens conditions vrer., the suspension of
all ultcrmr armament, and the prohibition Olio tile of prises
in lime Muesty's dominions Not having exacter, other,„ it
petfcctly c:ear, that the British Ministry engatteil noir thereby
to reyeet the neutrality, a; soon as the Ring, my N taster, should
acquiesce in these c.indittons.
wl.o had resolved to make every %urine( com-
patible with the "filter, of his pope, ill nrd -r to .ecor to
-
them the benefit, of a eihil peace, deterrent...l to forbid the
title of prism. in ht. kingdoms i which prohibMin took place
on the "31 Marcit last:—.% lad, with recurt to the armaments,
tenevoil the ionormices, watch the Bitted, Government had
already rcir-iVel toll this head assurances, the stncerity of which
was wed guaranteed by the lively int.lest whim His Nfaiesty
has con,tantty attached to the trianitenanec of peace, since the
rupture between FrAnce and England.
TIM e.tirtrness of the King to fulfil all the wishes of the
British cabinet, and the inktbitil sacrifice which flit Vlaiesty had
just media theadeautagex Which the sale of orilz.l in the Ports
of Spain held out to SAtitsh commerce, need to have corn•
plaid the coohtlence of England, and t, have er..olicate•l from
the ow iion i,f its G.)vertillielit every at on of doted en the pa
• entimei t: of my Cowl: aeconlingly, the keglah mint•
ewe seeteeol to hate felt ell she rahns of s.i b recritices, puce he

brought forward no more dissidents, an.l that the mostperfect
harmony seemed every this to unite mote and diore thd two'
Governments.
Such were the relations subsisting between the two nations
when, in the month of September last, soma diecootent having
broken oat in Roc sy, Hs Majesty ordcwil ties einbarkat ttttt of
a part of the troops winch were in garriion its Ferro., jib order
to t weir Wing trall4pol tea without delay to the place where ti.•
di.order bad occur...id Then it was, that the enemies of Slain,
sowiding tbe alarm, under the pretest that cots‘irllrable. Arma-
ments were carrying on . t her ports. sought to communicate
their (envied une.i.inein to the Erniala GJverraitiPnt, by placing
b..ifore them, in the 161. J“ 110i1j18 CCMOILVS, a Mew. est a fore'to
to the interests of England, es it was iadispelisaide to thastifling
in their birth movements, which had niauifeete.l thenischie
a province of Spain. Then it was, that the Witisli Charge
d'Afiiires hurried on by redorts malevi.lence had exag-
g.irated, and without examining ether the nature, the extent,
the well known oblect of Oleic pretended Armaments, made
complaints of 'liens ni Notii, datcil the 27th S,.ipt. lea,
in
witch he represented there as an aggrt scion against his
Giver:insert% and as a defiance given to England; and exprziaall
himself in other terms uot lees injurious to the reputation of
the Knot, than contrary to the relations which subsisted be-
tween the two c•untries. _

Although such reproaches, in relive fur the proofs which the
King had :titters given of hi. eagerness to eireogthen the bowl.
of friendship which mined him to the British fioverniiiimit,
were of a nature to excite in him the greatest surprise, His
Majesty, neverthelem, directed atemers to the intern;wrate re-
presentatiorn of Mr. Frere, to be made with that moderation
which is the most striking point in the history of hit political
conduct; a niederation the-mere sigall from this city asstence,
that the aboeeentritioned armament, which excited so much
sensation, was confined orbit the limits prescribed by an
agreement, which WS, conylvid.4 on the '.9th October Plne,
hetweea the two Governments, slime it was restrieted to the
same 'mintier of sew. ha which were alrew:a armed beam this
epoch ; and, what proses still store cleas''y the ',wine views of
the King, is that the armament in queoint had been suss
pealed by tits M desty's orders some days before the Britian
Ch lige d'Affaires had brought forwaia his campleint tot the
subj •
Notwithstanding 014 notwithstanding the amurances of
fsiend.hip and good Ruth eeteessza hi the answer of my Court,
notwithstaudirig the absolute et:adage of then pretended ar-
t/lenient+, on which the enemies of peace bed founded their
c:intinal Mess (a cessation of which the British Charge
d'Affaires could nut be ignorant), instead of softening the me-
nacing tone which he, had at first adoeted, instead of retaining
that friendly language which the perfect jostiieitien of my
Court required of kin, he did . hut accumulat, fresh re-
pro.iclies the harshness and iejnttice pi which hog in to
r,vrel the hostile sy tam whi:.h he has not since diseuntiiimd.
The Bril is% Government on their side, forgetting ,s 1 a 5.1.1.
den the p wih c relatieu; which they had maintain-il during
several months with my Sovereign, cod without Waiting for
more matt mad tem suspicious information on our pi eparatirma
at Ferrol, (rem whence it tia.l rezeiv•ed none but extenuated
accounts, larolight by the .salad, soil, which is silt, more asto-
nishing, without paying attentive. t t the informativa which I
transmitted to it through the channel of yont Exectency, opt
the innneem., arid the time object of these pretend A eruct-
in.mt,, did not hesitate to give that extraordinary girder, which,
as well from its nature, a. from its disastrous conseepienetv,
most have Wrote with heeler every Cabinet in Europe. In-
stead of beginning by deemoilisig explasoations front my Court
on the steijeet of thass. alarms, nbreakt off the good
esanding which subsisted betwere the two nations, by am art
of Inman.; of which the roast rancerous wars searcely afford
an eaa link; and, as if it feared that the explanations of the
Snanib Minister, and ulterier ;tccemits from S;raiii, would
Corse it to res;iect a neotrality, to whirl it seem rd ab
determined to put en end, it hastened to make war against her
without any previous Deeeiretien, ai.d even its the midst of
Safe most profutind peace. The Ail of ~tuber was tins .a f..
the sneadeig of the innocent hl 54 of several women dud
c!,i Mein, who pert:lied victims of in nehesel of viuleiice!
and Oa: 10,54 was shed by the heed. of a tarts, elime
Gover.ourint iheiasolves &edam aperwar-;s that they net
at was with Spain! •••'
Before tile ;wits of this dreadful event came to the knew-
/edit 04 He King,' the Igritsh Chary it tames seems to have
maths it pie business to tzuperete llis Maimity by all ima-
ginable esesue. Net being able to conceal from hinsse: the
frimdity of his accusations relative to me preparations at
Ferfol, since their ex istente had ceased a long time before, he
was tediged to cad to hi+ aid tone new grievaeces, as slighti,
founded a. they are destitute of geed tattle He dA ma fail to
matte new demands, Anne of them cunt try to wrest Itad been
agrcol upon between the two Guieniments, the °theta entirely
inadmissible front their injureimi teiettucy The. it i. that
he exacted froie inv Court the etigataatent, `. that mu arina-
mein whatever should he Carrie I on" in the po.ts rit Spain,
whilst hit Guyeroment aiel :itinself had cuiistrited that the
naval farces of Spain shriohl be It..pt utt um tile sane boit:nr
as they were at the time in the above mentioned agreement.
Thus it is, that he pretended that Ills Majesty had always
refused to give .a distinct explanation with regard to his en-
gagements with France; that, without this previees tonne ii
CAIK)11, the British Ouveritnient had never been writing hi con-
sent to the neutrality of Spain; iii short, thus it is, that he
ended, by iiniWriously demanding this irommunicetilm, al-
though vithout declaring what would he the ulterior induct
of hi. Court, in case tits Niajiety should acoeiesce in this de•

mend.
Tha Zing, my Master, might have refined an answer to
this extraiihlivary summons. The inaccuracy of the supww-
tions on which it isfounded, and the previous steps of the
British Ministry, who, amingst the conditions Steil by 'Eng-
land for the acknowledgment of the neutrality, had not coin.
prised the necessity of a similar communication, sufficiently
authorised His Majesty not to attend to a demand of this
nature. Your Excelleiscy knows that, immediately after the
conclusion of •he treaty of subsidy, the Smith Government
addressed to my Court re,tesentatioos, the object of whielt was
by no means to demand a distiia explanation with red lid to
the e,gagernerats which that ,realy contained, but positival..
..teerclarathat the furnishing the pectin ary advances, asstipu•
lilted in the Convention concluded with France, could not he
lir ilc-rt upon °chervil-a than At a war 5iib..4.., W." These ex-
pressions, the very sung as used by tit.. Emig,' Xiinintait in the
note which he delivered to thi. foto t nit the di of Ih.....enstitr
list, do not aditi4 the doubt that his Government errs' not
et that time thin-nighty acquainted with the commits or the
above mentioned Convention Had it been cutlery, tc, ....old
Mr. Fiere have held this languag • without known% the
extent of our subsidies, rspeci illy Arizr having deearisd in the
saint note, " That his Government was di=p sad to of !!look
such peessia;ary sacrifices u should inn be of serricient magni-
tude to force attentrou on account of their political cried,?
It, therefore, they were then acquainted with the .aniowit of
the turns which His M Misty had to pay to Irrancr, how cou.d
they now he icnntant of it ? And, not being Ignora.it of it,
what.eitat ilo they at write it propane to thsinwlves in :town,.
ing the disclosure of a wrist which could SWIM, hate bilk gee
to them
Stipp/nine even that hi. hiejefly'estueri!ernents witb France.
with respezt to the rut:indica, thoolia dill rain in a milers,
to the hi ti 1, Government, it . -mkt not b: tetra true, that
th r; haven i(elef toe tight to demand a dininet explana.
lion on this fulaseCt, at Iced, ass cuingition ell,ntial to the
nuintenance o. peace. It the Ittitith Government attached
to much importance to this communication, that they thought
it right to make it a condition, without which they would
not engage to rect the neutrality of Spain, they ought to
have et;orefsly glared fo at the eprch, when, yielding to
the folmitations of my Magee, they tixest the balls of a per-
manent and tolid neutrality. Not hiving then acted in this
manner, they hid no longer a right to do so ; for *the wise,
that act, whereby the conditions essenual to neutrality were
settled, and the obiect of winch was evidently to remove the
iiiieertaialy of those relations ullich subeitttil between the
two Coons, would he entirely i lusory, sine • it would still
leave to Englund a facility of waittionallv artili-.; fresh con-
ditions to thioc already agreed cm. I 1.-ice it fllows, that the
!knish Government could no longer eir-i-t a distinct ctplaini-
. . .. .

•
'anion are but el equivalent for the Itaccours in tronpsord •
Chips which he was ohlated by Om ticaP/ pf .794 to t violet. to
teepee, Oen, in th..t Conventiest, there i. nu article pee.
judicial to lat,-,lentl, or contrary to the laws of nett tralifY•
Thi. :teeter:nu, frank, and fitistactdry asswerr sit or, Coe rt
reeved hut to io luce Iteth complaints on the put of the
Britt di Charge .1".4 flaire., who did slot became at the lame time
to demand ea purports, flit Majelts, conitaotly taithtiii ti
his p.in.ctplcs of moderation, endeavoured to prevent, by
tom v weans compatible with his dignity, the coefe4lleucc• "i‘
iii traordinery a demonl, ant did not rake arty thlti,:eltv it
rOtereimg to him eking the molt atin_able anAl molt traok
aTherem e, as well on the fublitlies, as on tire armaments ; but
all his efforts hive been utelefs. At length, perseiwne that
he we...:Abate in wilLing to leave fileind, More in the (pace
of fevers days lie had tour time, demanded his pafyaorr.. and
that, at the hilt lolie.tetion, he had even threaten...A to remain
there as a titivate individual. or elfe to depart without nail.
ports, the Kim; found hi-Melt under the necellity of. aranthilt
them to ham, h 'Never unpleafing for His Mejefty might to
the conteq4ence which would aril: train fo prec.pitat:
Rep.
At the lame time that this once peHed firore deprive! Ills
Majettyofnearlyallthe hopes he had tilt the.. entertained,
his heart was penetrated with the deepen a:II:aloe on learn,
ing the dreadful event of the eth of Oetaber, aid dire(, •
trouscircumatainees by which it had been accompanied.- Al.
though the details, which he received from all tiLlarterii, and
the titaiforouty of all the accounts, gave to this midi igecto
all the force of an indubitable fizt, Hi. hlajetty) tinder the
influence of the invariable ie.:touts of his fentiments, and ,!
not having ar yet received official intormition oft this lie .4. ea
Mattered Wm: tell by calling question the reality of a.tirr'-
ler mare:, : at lean, he could nor le:trestle hamlet,' that it
hail been cowed Ii f 011. oder illited its' the Blind, Guyer e..iirt I.
Hi. Ntsjelly iia,confequently ordercil me to demand ol *pa .
categorical explanations on the detention of his tr:gateseson•
the .intratlioie, which nay have lai.*cn fent toehe
commends, and ern the motives which may have inelaccd
the Itritith Cliare,c .:'•kft:iires to break °Wall .oiniutaincatioo
with the ieettith Illiniltry.
Notwithtlen•ling the coincideoce of fuch alarminwintellid
genie. with the irregular conduct ot Mr. Frere,the Kipg could
not refolve to tate any nicafUre which had the lead appeatinCe
of handily. So much had Ma at heart the comutessew Of
peace! It was nut till after having learnt, in an'auttio.fm„.
manner, the set of violence eiercifed oat the above-mentioned
lug-item, by virtue of an exprels order of the Illitilh Covent.'
ni ea. that his Majesty found komfelf under the trceeffity, in'
order to coot tilt the meta of his ocuple, to.,rder an coiOargo
to be laid, ho way of reprifele, on all inverts, •
throughout hi, dominions.
In this flue of •thinee,if the King can tio"longer &ger 0.,
binned- widi the hope of an aieuist nddicino, if't fytl irk
mamfefted for faire time ;.alt by kiteland (emits to rawted
inevitable a rupture between two na:toes, rat wlti:At the mei,
pr0...al *utterer oaelit to lead Mein to live alway. in goed'lmi-
derlandine Chit each other, his Malety hes not at leas.tuahathnee
dotted tile dease to liiien to pacific overtures, and is Sill dill'puled,
puled, to avail himfe:t of all tOe rimers of cencihariost which •
may be compatMle with the dignity of his crowe, d
fatety of hi, k:nedi,wis•
Sot if, nowithttanding this conciliatory and pacific declan
ration, which 1 wive the hits nor, conformalsh to the vrithel -
of the King, my Matter, to ma eke to your Excellence, the Sea
Gotri6trient thin6l.l decade .71 taking the refaiution to
declare open war against I ld. Ma's ly, in that cafe, con..
&hog in the fidelity of has fuhjeri.. aid in this purity or his
c.n.fcience. will .have recarfe to thole forces which lhovi-
dance he. cottoned to him fur the defen:c of his eenole. and
will distrait to the ((attune of war the iclult uf a conflict which
he has in no deluge provoi.e.l, anti with the cotTetpten_es of
wilt h IA will accosdmely not have t r reproach hitittclf.
I avail myfelt of tilt, oppeitunity, Sc.
(Signed) lhe Claw. D'A'NDUAGA.
To 10. Exeelleior Lord Harrosebvs
Prine•pal het:veiny of orate err toicien Atftirs.
No, 91 —Co y of e Letter Gun ,Goorge liamma.d, Esq. to
J H. Fri6r6", kaq data.' tatavioinge•treet, 24th Ilse loship.
15114,
SIR—I het...with Inclose to sou the eotract of aHu e. (eagle
the Chevalier il'Andoaga„ dated tho 21..1 of this inonth,•in
which, you ...II observe an assertion of hat Mi-,:aer, that She
medial armanse.it carried on in tire ports e.O Sliaiii• Ma; coafined
14 ilia Lions prawribed he Aol agreement co cud st 041 1111 19th
of October iintween Britidi awl Spoor+ G••eers-
• merits. No traces ni soy such agreement having been found •
in the torresponclettear of this office, I am directed to regimes
that yeti win sate to me, br the informattott of His ltdeiony't
Gavernmeto, witether you ever entered iutirsany agreentes.r,•ex- •
praised oe iml,lied, with the'Spani.h Ministers which can in
any 'degree warrant th^ tsseitiota of the Chevalier afAieduaga,
to which I have adverted' I ant, &c. GFO• HAMMOND. •
litelonire rewired to iris.. 22 ,—Although melt re.
pinae'.es, in tenon for the proofs tiretzn the King had alwiys
gren of hit eigerne.seto stomethen tine bead. tnertddep
Which unreal in to the tletah Government, were ..f a memoir
esche i i hen the greatest surprise t Ha Marmot, nor:tithe-
lett, directed answers ti the int • o -.rate reprenaltatints. of Mr.
Fier-, to be made with that nitsloratirat *Weil C the n net
striking point in the }throw of hot ;Mins:el conduct; a isitai.-iiso
lion the inure:4gal Irvin thane eireninstanc that the above.
inetaioned 34.11.1111C1/4, which fainted so much %emelt., ~ was
confitted wnliin the limes preserib.Q. by an aereement, which-
was concluded on the 19th O.:timer Iflo3, 'between the ova
Gov..rorn.intr, since it was restricted to the sane number of
vessels which were already armed bef:re this epoch ; %Oat
peeves stilt more clearly the pacific views oh the King, 1., :hat
the armament in question had been vias'pentledisy IS s ai oestYS
urderr some dove before the Staudt Charge d'Adatais hid
brought forward his complaint on the subject.
2..1-oLetter from J. 11. Frere, Esq. to G mrge Hammond,
dated London, 24th Dec 1804.
SIR—I have just received your letter. Tae expression ht
the Chevalier D'Airtuagifil note it quite unintelligible to me.
It appears to sown the'extstenceof something of the nature
of a wane') treaty, .pan the subject of the Seanieh ar-na-
TCIII4, and it assigns the 19th of October, 1813, a. the data
of this stip:word agreement it is certain, neyealidesoith...t
no conyeetion err evertor:tit, either written or verbal, ever
laeleal between Mr. Ceerallee and me, either thou or at any
other tint:. A declaration, indent, was made is. the ed-
dies:eel to .ifr. Cattalos, on the 24th of Janina y; and the 13th
of Feleruaiy, oatiug, that Ha Majesty's (,overnimott wa• dis-
po,ed, in hope. of better nines, exercise, fir the ferment,
a .6arcti.l.4l forbearance; yet, this this foibeatance wo:111
c •ase the moment that Spain departed iron tier cuts+ .p.v with
reeeect to as mainCiits.
Sle*Cevailto, 111 his answer, has described this declaration as
We bets is a neutrality Itindiog upon Great Swain. A iSor-
dank, in km cion--einience with my brother, whose Bret uh-
j-oet wee to bring wee the Spaiiish armaments to the state in ,
which they had lase:, left in cemsequence of Milo doclerat. •, Mr.
Gewalt,* eoes a ael, further, and calls it a 'Contention of neut a. y
proposed ay I:re.d Britain a this is in his note of the 29th oft)..t.
Indy, whivit coed have lie attest ssss but to the decd tration of the.
tile,, of Januar., and the 111th of l'eltruary. Again, in his
num et the ja u: November, ha refers to a convention or
treats of neutrality of the 19th of October, 1803; attuning, I
supi,i664, the Treaty of S testily with France, the stieulations
of which, though they have utter heel' cotton unteati•d , he re-
lea in at kivinu; and in a mantle Inaplying• that they were
mutually bindiug Great Illetahi hod Stain. I cant' t tot
inlay or that Mr. 1) .. eluage 11695 t have beeu misled by ss
1,50 c rcermeancto, a -1 that, seeing ,t asserted in )fr. Celt-hos'
Nate ow the 29th MO:lobar, that there existed a T.e ay of
Neutrality, ett.i.h hail been proposed by Gee t Renato • and
agatio, Witte Note to toe DJ of Ni.vemb o, that tem state of Ilte
ounansents was e.b...ragelated by a coavention tit the 19th rat
11.2ober ; he may hove coricaded that they were on. aid the
same, and consequently may have Afar! to Os. tustein...ry
treaty the date of the one • concluded with F our'. M cod •
jedure may le: wail, but Mr. D'Auduaga's essereon aopears
to Inc inexplicable tit any other way I ant„ &
(Signed) J. H. FR.F.RE•
No. 24.-I.l%tract of a Letter from Lieutenant General Nugent,
to the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, dated Jamaica, 14th Jao.
ISO*.
I have jos' received the enclosed :street of a letter hem St.
JAgn de Cuba of the Bth inst. and as the intelligence is fe
ty
credited by the Gent finnan who forwatded it to me, .1 have ad-
vised the Admiral of it, content... The French troop. alluded
- • - General

Intent 044 Orlo,lll.3.otOrilment (tam 00 004 yr CA-1, a 000ncg emna,z- viaelf the Arlollfal Of 111 conteni:. 511 V (1.n.0 .....s, • ............
lof 'Shish tiun on the subject of the subsith. ~ as the price of their re- to are parts of tho if -rrisous of Port au Prince, node? Genera.'
is Ntaietlty +vett fo. the neutrality ..f Spain, su 101 l as the two conslitens Li Pouts:; Cape Nicola Mali, uml•rGeneral Nce.lles ; and
, since the r..larivo to C.e unarm:nit, acid t, the sale of forties', should be j,,e,roe ; which i reaped front our cruisers; together with 0
. I strictly fttlftiled. • cooselereb, i umber of sick and cocsalesee,,t., whom it was
his of the Notwithoianding all thefe motives, according I. **eh the COili.dered .141111.0 e to brine away, or to retain in Jamaica. I
'aie.ty had Kind might h •ve ‘iitpenfel with anf.euting alma) ) i.. ihis toil Norry that nic roducric nin our 001-aters hate will out per- .
i the Port. demand, his Majrity, prating himfell above all thole con"
wit met.. reiniorce rtattaienco; bin I aro confident in the
have curn• fiderations naturally sashed ray the uresular comtuel of Mr.
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• e • a ..u, ciaira.l Mice tor the you :coon or that Island and
Free., has even comiefccaitert to make an citplectt and tatistas-
e [nom a
tory antwei, is renewing to ih.ii • tpnilar ulurance t.O that it, ti,l4.l.4e.c'e'• • . i
en the pa We shall look with • very *afoot eye towart4 Cuba, in
wsich [had already given by his unt:r N the liratifil fit.-
ghsh mom veruaneot ; mutely, that the ltlbuntc• itipulatial by the Cum- whleb iel.ial the French
moats hale ueent oatarst/ to the Pie'
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