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London, England, 1808-01-16 00:00:00

Zia Cabinet, des, by perfidious communications,
Riven itch rood information to the British C -
• bioet) is still in London ; tescatiseEtietrh ves..els
have been received at Memel ; became, in short, i
in the extraordinary circumstances in which use
nets of injustice on the part of .Greet
have placed Europe, Russia and Fkice twist un-
derstood each other (ant a ientesaliil. Au to tto
death of idiviiisaals, suPiecte of Ibis Prussia's Ala-
=sads the, etirretteler Prussisa Artreases
egoist wit be reduced daring the wee, these
assertions are altogether unintelligible. France
hes, on the contrary, restored two more fortresses
to Prussia, Cowl cal Grata. The French make
' • war 'loyally, and certainly do not put to • death
the peaceful *abject, of conquered countries.—
Tney do not seise the property of individuals ;
they protect it. People of foe Contiottit, reed
the maritime cede of England, and you will
owe what her cede on land would lit were she as
powerful there as she is on the ocean. She does
.ant :is* merely the ships of the Princes with whom
. .04142. te at war, but also merchant vessels which
twausport private property. Threw no differenee in
the eye of equity between imuniginesi or aterelien-
dia.; belonging to individuals in eonquered couit-
tries, and the goods of trailers which are stowed in
merchant vessels. According to the relations of
trinity, there is no differetice between merchant res.
vele and convoys of goods transported by land from
.13tiaborgh to'Berlia, or ftoneTriest to Germany ;
home the French armies beeu ever known to .ar-
yestanell convoys? Hare rrenot seen Lord Keith at-
tfanpt to seise al.:cools vessels which were in port,
and good. which were in the possession of the mer-
assists of thateity ? 1 Le did but apply on land the prin-
ciples of the maritime rode of 'England. The
Austrians, and Prince de Von liolienzollern who
commanded them, were indignant at such oppres-
liksv; they resisted them, and the battle of Marengo
Hinging, a few days afterwards, the French into
Genoa, also brought hack the security of privets:
property. Whence then does so different a conduct
arise? the one is the result oldie atrabilariothi and
Itilmst policy of England, and the other of the I--
wog policy and civilisation of France. lf, on her
park the were mistress of the seas, she would be seen
specking none but armed vessels; she would he seen
Ilrfearetecting the property of the euhjects of those
SOB. with which she might be at war. If we wi.h
• the spirit of liberality and the civilisation
terra nations, we should take as the terms of
011ie cunt panson the French axle of war on lend, amid
....11114=individaids and property, and the
she English, and its appluntion to
• l itsfiebisido and property that as found on the

4 But whit motive could have induced the Mi-
nister* of LOSIISIP to mentiou Prussia in this Ma-
idiom / la it the interest of Prussia ? Bat if the
• itstamust of Proton touched them, they whold hare
gramead tiee mediation of Russia, Why-do the.-
polshah at this hour this indisereet paraireity which
idaarly diem, that the spirit which lialt/treerkt
umemillimaibinet of Delia to take soltiollip ma.
- imp* Mpat irmoike i Lit ft Immeitid to Pros-
sesolnoeut
„ale, aisei is median jeer *a literrai*ef France,
• of +Wok. under the. eireutostusek she
.staads to secreel ' *oat Mss avoisiolidnsany
Vaos. &visit oil roar i mod Om pediiimary
' i t ail them megaciaklosa was the sei paid**.
Vtuuraii lowers
with their enemies, they
nve the Oisiveregoents guilty of having
/risk England against the internals of the
, or if they evacuate a cononerod CO4IIF
Igo itibiri cones mace of a durable-pause, alt the
toolli limo of which are observed ; mid in they are
Moor seen to attack their !Allies without a dpelara-
ties et war, sr treat:hello* surprise their capitals,
sp they are never mein to gait a f irtress before it
fete too het* determined by uegociation, The
Ley-lids attack:for the +lake of plineler, and retire
vilerinthgnisine benit and pillaged all before them.
'this war is well suited to them, for it is a war of
pirates. When they once entered Copenhagen,
they should have remained there until peace was
concluded. Nothing conkl ninel the inkier of
their attack, but the dishonour of their disgraceffil

Bight.
m But if it were true that the French have exacted
a little from their enemies, why should they, not in
fact ? IChey have 900,0n0 troops, and they are
ready to make every itterifice to double their force,
if it should he neeeireary ; not that war is their ma-
ntral trade, and That they 010 not sensibly fuel the
tecrifier3 which they. make in withdrawing so *natty
hhinbe from the eultivaitinu of their so fertile soil.
In posession of a tine eonntry, they wish to addict
themselves to the contistrsts of commerce and in-
rinstry ; but emir tyranny will not suffer them.
Ithu have mused a ;pant, whom hating ronsed, you
continue to irritate incessantly. Daring fifteen
foams, ynoir injwitice has only fended to add to his
cheer and 'power, which your perseverance in
your tyranny will still increase. Ile not tittly will
riot lay down his (inns, but he will augment his
force until he has erniquered the liberty of the rear,
whirl* is his hest right, and the patrimony of all
nations. If the afflicting eonsequences of war are
pmetta:led, if the French troops continue a burden
to the territories which they occupy, you are the
canoe. Ali the calamities which oppress Europe,
meet(' bout you alone. These great questions are
not to be rewired by diplomatic •eimumwsepinees.—
When you are disposed to make Peeve, Prioce will
be ready to make it. Of.this you cannot be igno-
rant • you smell know, it. An *met:dote generally
kwars;u may ha eitiotedin support of this assertion ;
When the hnpenid Guard, set out for Jena, and it
was known tint the Emperor was, to join the many a
few days after, Lord Luidderchile asked NI. flisPu-
pagoy., ,whether, if Eugheod ma4u lessee, the Em-
peror Napoleon slosh& consent to Atop and counter-
nand the march of /lip troops against Prussia?—
The Emperor replit sl ;:t ddiraintsse, With one
Word, you mould lucre sews( Train. By prevent-
mg, the fall €if this prnver, n would here main-
tained on the Elbe that fatfTwr cis neeersary tp your
dram-.t interests, the reTestublishnient of which in
future is impossible."

•
Ent while the alleged re/tem:on ef the Fesprom of
RUSSitel, medial.% between Crest Britain and trance, is
Anted es a et 4 erased of Rut Imperial mre)esi.'s resent-
ment; His Maissts's reqmst of thu nswaation, fia the re-
esteblialustsat of weer between Gee's* Britain sail Dasteisek,
is represented as an hunk which it was hityued the bow.. of
Hal I tiapee.l Male•tt)'s asinkratioa to endue (to.)
(101 Ile Emperor of itiovia must necessarily
be offended at the coinnstusieation that Mr. Can-
ning • ssade to Mr. Ryder (M. 1164), awl in which