The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-06-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

MINISTRY OF GENERAL POLICE.

Rabaßs of t,,e Report laid iY ,o,e the Nced.itv Cosnrniesion,
and other P.)7.r, rehtiv• to the Affair of wad Rosso-
no, accused and conviled of heing Spies.

The reporter to the commission, in his state-
ment of fads, has, in the first place, proved the
existence of the crime, and afterwards brouget evi-
dence that the accused are guilty of it And
these culprits," says he, " are not of the class of
onscrwe spies, which the subaltern agents of the
English Government I and, from time to time, on onr
coens, arch a; the English send out as a real for-
lorn hope, without concerning themselves respelling
their fitture fare.
" One of these, P.:erre Paul Duhne, formerly -a
naval captain, has filled important situations in
lodise he announces himself as having Seen Com-
mander in Chief of the armies of Timm° Saib, De-
piny of the French Agents in India to the niaerst-
en, and lea-Envoy of Tippoo Seib, and pretends to
have important subjetts of cornpiaint against the
old government of France. Under this pretest, semi
as a naval officer, or as haring lent h-I a com-
mand in India, he could introduce himself nee
every office of government, to all the ministers; he
could procure access into every house, visit all the
ports, traverse all the armies, dive iato every secret,
and frustrate every pennon.
The other, Jean Jeeques Antoine Thomas Ros-
solin, presenting himself with fewer pretensions. but
having the means of rendering himself eq.ially use-
ful, was formerly a Pilot and Ensign. He has A
wife, family, and friends, at Toulon ; an I daring
ten years residence at London, having lived in inti-
macy with the principal agents of the p thee, 'he is
qualified more than any other, to know what per-
sons in France the enemy might imagine they rely
on and consult.
" In the confessions of the accused, and in the let-
ters seized and recognised. you will find, at the same
time, the proof of ihe particular attentions of which
they were the objenl, and the astonishing distr. !km
with which be members of the English Government
avow almost officially both tin's s pion27e and a
more horrible design, which is almost as clearly
proved by the misson of the accused.
tt You will see the accused, Duleam welcomed its
a manner, and even engaged at the vet y moment of
his arrival, by the Baron i'lmbert, formerly an offi-
cer in the marine at Toulon, and now an Agent or
Louis XVIII. and attached to the police of Lon-
don, carried officially, and almost as soon as he had
landed, to the seat of the Minister et War, Lord -
Camden, at a salary of one hundred Innis per month,
to be paid either at Iletrinitrgh or Pans, at his
pleasure; and at the same time he rezeives tne as-
surance of Mr. king, Private Secretary to nlrelitt,
that all the money he may rerriire, or-
nished him from Mr. Pitt's office on giving his
receipt.
" You u ll see that, at the same time the govern-
ment thee aliened to them its treasures, it promised
them, on. the sencr hand, mnitati perm rem, and
the sense treenrent as to Georges and Piehemu.
Certainly the onjeA of the rni.ston of these ten am-
spiraents is nog 'eaown ; the horrid • casein set Leh
England hoped from the conspiracy is known ; et.n
we then forbear s.uspenieg that be who WAS rent by
the same men into France, he to wheal they reeee
the same promises, he to where the fieron d'lrouert
a rote, that in case of any .aesideat, !its ramily wowed
be comfortably provided for—cat we forbear sirs-
peSing that this man is something rens than a mere
spy, and that since be wee t r be rewarded in the
sense manner as Georges and Pit-in:grin he r..n the
seine risk, and had recyived the same conlntisbi
You will find a new plod of the dep:icin, of
she Euglish Government, in the very meth. d ch• -en
by that Gnvsrwnent for intrndue ing into Fran e
its
two new agents. It violates whatever is most sa-
cred—and, trampling under font the law of nations,
conveys in the very cartel of exchange, under the
Parliamentary Beg, and Casts among us, men
charged to ad over again the part of Csurges sad
Pichegru.
" Those fAas are faithfully extralted from ace
knowledge(' letters, from the confessions of client-
cus •d—and they may be said to save themselves
yrritten their I wn accusation.
The cs-derant Berea (Pin:here, whose letters
were found on the accused, aged to whoa% they were
to transmit their reports, was, in 179 i, and- of
the Marine, at Toulon ;he was one r f thnst ho
surrendered the port and the fleet to the English ;
be accompanied them when they evacuated the
place—and has, sir.ce that time, coatis-A:O4 in the
pay of England.
" He resides at London, and is the heed of a kind
of Committee cr Society, composed of Toulon re-
fugees, whose number, in sea:nen and officers,
amounts to nearly 300. These refugees, mostly
men of bad eheraner, re the most :nein spies of
the English Ministry.
et Administration has several times had it in
cnutempletion to employ Ile se tyro:tees agaiast
France, and to seed them in small compenies by way
of Stain into the southetn provinces. In the mean
time, they remain as a disposeable fund, and since the
destruntim or submission of great part of the Chouan
chiefs, the Baron D'lmbert, with his To don re-
fugees, is to the English plice, what Georges was
with his Breton sailors and peasants.
" The followings the account given .17 Pane
in the interrogatory which took place on the 7th
Floreal last, before the Piclea of Police : which
interrogatory was renewed and confirmed before

you :
" The Baron d'lmbort proposed tom', after the
statement I gave him of my mistartiows, and the
complete disgi ace I had experienced from my Go-
vernment, to serve the c tow of Louis XVIII. whose
agent he was, and as Laing --;rh full
powers by the King and the Count
time with I-lie Majesty in Sweden,
salary of 1001. sterliug a month,
paid me by an order of the Mir'
Crmden, to Mr. Coke,o on his
mersley, who oamit
amount, either on Thornton at
burgh, er M. Perregaux at Pae:s
gl.ns I might want should be
Pitt's office, by order of Ml.
Lary to that Minister, and that
on demand, and on giving my
" That, with respeal to my

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he c !tiie of Louis X v tn. wisose
id a, Laing chargo•cf with full
; and the Count sPArt,,is at that
!.,ty in Sweden, he offered me a
•liug a month, which Qh3uld he
1' of the Minister at War, Lord
ooke, on his banker Mr. Ham-
!d transmit me an order for the
Thornton and Power, of Ham.
regaux at Pars ; that any other
t should be ;arnished from Mr.
der of MI. King, private sec:e-
:er, and that it should be paid ma
in giving try receipt.
Wei% to my military promo rt. I
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