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DECLARATION.

His Majesty owes to , imself and to Europe a
frank Exposition of the mooves which have diaated
his late measures in the Baltic.
His Majesty has delayed thus Exposition only in
e,e Mope of that more amicable arrangement with
the Court of Denmark. which it was His Majesty's
first wish and endeavour to obtain; for which he was
ready to m ike great efforts and great sacrifices; and
of which he never lost sight even in the moment of
the most decisive hostility.
Deeply as the disappointment of this hope has
been felt by ills Majesty, he has the consolation of
refleaing, that no exertion was left untried on his
part to produce a different result. And while he
laments the cruel necessity which has obliged him to
have recourse to eels of hostility against a nation
with which it was His Majesty's most earnest desire to
have established the relations of common interest and
alliance; I lis Majesty feels confident that, in the eyes
of Europe and of the World, the justification of his
et-indult will be found in the commanding and indis-
pensable duty. paramount to all others amongst the
obligations of a S wereign, of providing, while there
was yet time, for the immediate security of his
People.
His Majesty had received the most positive infor-
metier, of the determination of the present Ruler of
France oi r.c-upy, with a military force, the territory
of Holstein—for the purpose of es:ludog Great Bri-
tain from all her accustomed channels of communi
Cation with the Continent of inducing or compelling
the Court of Dearnark to close the passage of the
Sound against the Britisb commerce and navigatinn;
and of availing himself of the aid of the Danish Ma.
eine for the invasion of Great Britain and of Ireland.
Con6.'ent as His Majesty was of the authenticity
of the tonnes from which this intelligence was de-
rived, and confirmed in the credit which he gave to
it. as well Sy the notorious and repeated declarations
of the enemy, and by his tecmt occopatiens of the
towns atsd territories of other neutral States, as by
the preparations adlually made for collating a hos-
tile force upon the frontiers of His Danish Majesty's
Continental donsinioes, His Majesty would yet wit.
tingly have forborne to aq upon this intelligence,
netil he complete and practical disclosure of the plan
bad been made manifest to all the world.
His Majesty did forhear, as lone, as there could be
a dooSt of the urgency of the danger, or a hope
of an effaattal coatis:aim to it, in the means or in
the dispositions of Denmark.
But His Majesty could not but recoils% that
when, at the close of the former war. the Court of
Denmark engaged in a hostile confederacy against
Great Britain. the apology offered by that Court
for so unjustifiable an abandon,nent of a neutrality
which His Majesty had never ceased to respea, was
founded on its avowed inahill;y to resist the opera-
tion of external iatheenee, and the threats of a for-
midable neighbouring power. His Majesty could
not but compare the degree of infitioice, which, at
that time, determined the decision of the Court of
Denmark, in violation of positive engagements, se- I
lemnly conttated but six months before ; olds the I
increased operation which France had now the I
means of giving to the same principle of initnida-
tion, with kingdoms prostrate at her feet, and with
tbepopulation of nations under her banners.
Nor was the danger less imminent than certain.
Already the army destined for the invasion of
llol-
atria was assembling on the violated territory of
neutral Hamhirgb. And, Holstein once occupied,
the island of Zealand was at the mercy of France,
and the Navy of Denmark at her disposal.
It is true a British force might have found its way.
into the Baltic. and checked for a time the move-
ments of the Danish Maine. But the season was
approaching when that precaution would no longer
have availed; and when His Maj-ry's fleet mast
have retired Irons that sea, and permitted France,
in undisturbed security. to accumulate the means
of offence against His Majesty's dominions.
Yet, eve, under these circumstances, in calling
upon Denmark for the satisfaaion and security
which His Majesty was compelled to require, and
in demanding the only pledge by which that we-
eity could be rendered if/eh/al—the temporary pos.
ossifyn of that nut, which was the chief iodate-
tnent to France for forcing Denmark iato hostilities
with Great Britain—His Majesty aceorpsnied
this demand with the offer of every condition which
could tend to reconcile it to the interests and to the
feelings of the Gant of Denmark.
It was for Denmark herself to state the terms and
stipulations which shi might requite.
If Denmark was apprehensive that the surrender
of her fleet would be resent-d by France as au eft
of coassivanee ; His Majesty had prepared a force
of such formidable magnitude. as must have made
justifiable even in the estimation of
I rendering resistance altogether una-

irk was really prepared to mist the
France, and to maintain her iadepend•

enee. His Majesty proffered his co-operation for
her defence—naval. military, and pecuniary aid ;
the guarantee of her European territories, and the
security an 1 extension of her colonial possessions.
That the sword has been drawn in the execution of
a service indispensable tothe safety of His Majesty's
dominions, is matter of sincere and plinful regret
to His Majesty. That the state and circumstances
of the world are such as to have required and
justified the measures of self preservation, to
which His Majesty has found himself under the
necessity of resorting, is a truth which His Majesty
deeply deplores, but for which he is in no degree
responsible.
His Majesty bas long carried on a most unequal
contest of scrupulous. forbearance against unrelent-
ing violence and oppression. But that forbearance
has its bounds. V7hen the design was openly avow-
ed, and already but too far advanced towards its
accomplishment. of subjeding the Powers of Eu-
' rope to one universal usurpation, and of combining
them by terror or by force in a confederacy against
the maritime rights and palitical existence of this
kingdom, it became necessary for His Majesty to
anticivate the success of a system, not more fatal to
his interests than to those of the Powers who were
destined to be the instruments of its execution.

Irkwas time that the etre& of that dread which
France has inspired into the nations of the world,
should be counteratted by an exertioa of the power
of Great Britain, called for by the exigency of the
crisis, and proportioned to the snagnitult of the

Manes r.
Notwithstanding the declaration of war on the
part of the Danish Government, it still remains for
Denmark t,) determine. whether war shall continue
between the two nations.—His Majesty still proffers
an amicable arrangement. He is anx:ous to sheath
the sword, which he has been most reluaantly
com-
pulled to draw. And he is ready to demonstrate
to Denmark, and to the worl,l, that having aaed
solely upon the sense of what was due to the secu-
rity of his own dominions, he is not desirous, from
any othe7 motive, or for any objea of advantage or
aggrandizement, to carry measures of hostility
beyond the limits of tl.e necessity which has pro-
duced them.
West .1:11!:r., Sept. 25. 1807.

GIBItALI'AR ;IL.

GIBRALTAR, AVO. IS.

The 3farid Gaze!es and the Joamals have froth
paragraphs upon the f.tilara of a third attempt by
our troops upon Rosetta. and the consequent ens
citation of Egypt. By comparing the dates with
that of the latest intelligence from Malta. it will bs
immediately perceived, that those accounts asnoot
be correa.

By the latest accounts from Algiers, we learn,
that a Treaty has been concluded with the Regency
of that comitry, by which the exclusive right of the
trade of the ports of 13 ma, La Cala, and H Col,
has been ceded to the British, for the exportation
of hides, wool, wax, and T,500 Mediates of wheat an-
nually.
The Dey has also ceded the Coral Fishery, no the
coast, to the Ktigli.ll.
I MUG. '22.
The Spanish troops, in the neigl.L•athood of this
I garrison, a,e under order to march for Portugal, at
I a moment's notice.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, SEPTZUBER 26.

We give, this day. His MAJESTY'S DECLAR A•
TION respeaing the late events in the Baltic. Ne-
cessity, self•preservatien, authentic intelligence of
the intention of BUN AP ANTI to avail him-elf
of the aid of the Danish navy agai!ist this
kingdom, and the inability of Denmark, although
willing, to controul or resist his purpose, are
assigned as the motives of the Expedition to
Zulu's!. and the grounds of its justification. So
far the Declaration offers nothing new for observa-
tion. In the concluding 'part, it states, that His
MAJESTY had originally proffered to Denmark
his co-operation for her defence-7,110a/, nsilitare,
and pecuoinry ad; the g: Grantee of her European te►-
ritsries, and Ms seen, if:, and exiaisian of her colonial
possessions; and His MAP:LIT now renounces all
idea of advantage or aggrandizement beyond the
professed objzdt of the Expedition.

We yesterday announced the arrival of the Auck•
!and packet at Falmouth, with Mails from Lisbon.
Letters from that city state, that the Portuguese
Government have refused BONAPAST es requi-
sition of four millions of crusadoes ;500,0001. 4) and
had determined, rather than be further imposed
open by the French, to quit Portugal altogether.
Former accounts stated that the Portuguese were
fitting out their navy, in consequence of a remisition
from the Court of Madrid. The letters by this mail
confirm the intelligence that the ships are not only

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fitting out, but almost ready for sea: but they add,
that instead of being delivered over to Spain, they
are to be employed in transporting the Portuguese
Government to the Brazils, if it can in no other
manner free itself from the eff:Ets of that system of
robbery from which it has already suffered 53 much.
Ten ships of the line were ready for sea when the
packet sailed from the Tagus. We are not com-
petent to determine what degree of credit is due to
this accounts but it is stated in the Gibraltar Paper,
:hat all the Spanish Troops, in the vicinity of that
Fortress, had received orders to march to Portugal.

Lieut. ElsomwaLL, of His MAJESTY'S frigate the
Sir Ldward Hughes, arrived, last morning, at the
East-India House, with intelligence of the safe
arrival of that vessel off the Isle of Wight, on the
134th inst. with the Nor! butioberland, RAINCOCK, from
Bombay; and Argo wbaler ; lett St. Helena,
the I;ith of July.
FAisalig -rs per Sir Edward Hughes—From St. Helena—
Governor P.itton, and Colonel Scutt, of. the Kmes Say.ec.

The dirly Cwtle, Buwas; and Lord Ihnst.)!mr..,.
SMITH, outward-bound, arrived at St. klelenl the
13th July last. On the loth July, the Lend Hawker-
burg fell in with the Alfred, Wert-1.6w ; United
Kingdom, D'Esreitae ; Werceshr, S. WOOD; and
flake of Monfrost, PATIOISON, uutward-bound, 115
miles South of St. Helena, 6•e, days from that
Is-
land, all well.

The fleet of Indiznen, which sailed from Ports-
mouth, on the 18th April last, under convoy of
His Nisi ess. v's ship gaipiter. were, on the 15th
.Tune, in lat. 5. 10. 8. long. 22. 30. W. all well,

iliye„ Captain PendergrarS ; Surat Castle, itibertvon ;
Taunton Castle, Timbrell ; Earl Camden, Samson ;
turd, ; Surrey, Cum'atriego ; Charlton. G. W,-.41;
Conti+, liar ; Ceylon, liudwn ; Devonshire, J. Murray ;
Walpole, Sandilanild; and Lacy Castlereagh, T. G. Murray.
The Surat Caitle was leaky, in consequenCe of
which she was to go into port.
The Sir Ail.aast! Hogliee convoyed the China
fleet, lately arrived, to St. Helena, and from thence
WAS proceeding to England with the fleet, when
'His NIAJEsr los ship Nassa4 fell in with them, took
the convoy under .charge, and sent back the Sir
Edward lifitzha to St. Helena, to take the ships
that might arrive at That. Island, btfure the '2(O
July, ender convoy for England.
The Ataldoits whalei has captured a ship worth
10,000:. She was at St. Helena when the Sir Ed-
ward Hughes left the
Lieutenant Baouwat.t., after he had delivered
his Dispatches at the East India House, yesterday,
proceeded to the Admiralty, with Dispatches from
Sir Eow ASID Pat. Law. He was also the bearer of
seers:a French letters, some of them, it is said, from
the French Governm•mt, intercepted on board some
French ships, captured by our cruisers. All hopes
of the safety of the Blenheim, we understand, have
entirely vanished.

Government, yesterday, received dispatches from
Malta, dated the '.23:11 July. They state, that our
troops in Alexandria were unmolested, and were
plentifully supplied with provisions by the Bedouin
Arabs. Lord Corsurt.wooo had sailed from
;Malta a short time before the Mail, with the dis-
patches, came away.

Five sail of the homeward-bound Leeward Island
Fieet are arrived at Bristol.

The Harry. Captain Hour, is arrived in the
Downs, from Jamaica ; she paged from the fit
on the 2.)th ult. in let. 42. 54. long. 50. '24. in a
heavy gale, and thick weather, which continued for
szveral days, and he supposes the fleet is dispersed.

Captain SOI arm arrived last night at the Admi-
ralty with dispatches (torn Halifax, which were im-
mediately sent off to Lord MULGRAVC, then at his
seat at Fulham. Their cont.nts had not transpired.

The Channel Fleet has been bluwa oil its station
and has put inres Torbay.
Report states, that Parliament will mart, for the
dispatch of business, on the 21. th of November.
A Messenger left town last night from the Fo-
reign Office. with dispatches to be put on board the
Belwark, of 74 guns, at Portsmouth, which is or-
dered to sail immediately for Heligoland.
The Loao M•voa bad. yesterday, a long cora-
-1 ference with Lord Muccsaav a, at the Admiralty.
In the avowing, two letters were sent from the Ad-
miralty to the Loan M•Ir011, at the Mansion-
house. _

The Ha Packet, Giesoir, and the Baigrr,
THoMPSON, from Deblin, for Oporto, were taken
on the 91st ult. by some row-boats, off Oporto
and run on shore ; the latter has since been get cif
by the Miibirook schooner.
The Freedom, Cut, from Surinam, for Linann,
was captured on the 27th July, off St. Kitts, and
re-taken on the 29th, after having been on shore near
St. Martin's, where she lost her rudder and anchors.
The Rechael, —, from Gallipoly, is detained
and sent into Malta i cargo condemnei.
The Scout, of Dumbarton, BLAIR, master, from
Glasgow, was wrecked at klolyhead the 6:h inst.
The Fien4bler:, of Copenhagen, from Messina, is
detained by the Ciesrhs armed ship, and arrived at
Grimsby.
The Viewer, JAMIIOII/, from to Flensburg,
is detained by the Lord Cech•aae privateer, and sent
into Dartmouth.

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