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the bridges and other 55'0.11.6 tie. fintajard stud ye.
paired as the rapence of such cutmdes respedivelt,
and for the recovering of any property belonging to
such cottutiess the name of their surveyor, and
also 1:sall ;slid may be sued in the name bf such sat.; '
veyori and no :idiot' or prosecution to be brought
or.- commenced by or against the inhabitants of fr
counties by virtue of this aft, in the name of the
said surveyor, shall abate or be discontinued, by the
death or removal of such surveyor, or by the aa
of the surveyor, without the consent of the justices
at their griwral quarter sections assembled, but the
surveyor for the time beit.g shall be deemed the
plaintiff or defendant in such alloys, as the case
may bet Provided always, that every such surveyor
in whose name any adion or suit shall be commenc-
ed, prosecined, or defended, in pursuance of this
ad, shall always be reimbursed and paid, out of the
monies in the hands of the treasurer of the public
stock of such county respeaively, all such costs and
tharges as he shall be put unto or become charge-
able with by reason of his being so made plaintiff or
defendant therein ; and alto all the costs and charges
of prosecuting any indidment or indidments, or
other proceedings, against any person or persons
whomsoever.
And for the more clearly Ascertaining the descrip-
tion of bridges hereafter to be ereeted, which inha-
bitants of counties shall and may be bound or. liable
to repair and maintain ; be it further enafled, That
no bridge hereafter .to be ereaed or built in any
county, by or at the expense of arty individual or
private person or persons, body politic or corpo-
rate, shall be deemed or taken to be a county bridge,
or a bridge which the inhabitants of any county shall
be compellable or liable to maintain, or repair, un-
less suchbridge shall be ended in a substantial and
commodious manner, under the diredion or to the
satisfaction of the county surveyor or person ap-
pointed by the justices of the peace of such county
at their general quarter sessitms of the peace asscm- .
bled, or by the justices of the peace of the county of
Lancaster at their general annual session.
Provided always, and be it further enaled, That
nothing herein contained shall extend to any bridges
or roads which any person or persons, bodies poli-
tic cr corporate, shall be lial le. to maintain or repair
by reason of tenure, or by prescription, or to alter
or affett•the right to repair such bridges or roads.
And be it further eiraded, That this ad shall be
deemed, adjudged, and taken to be a public aft,
and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all
judges, justices, and other persons whomsoever,
without specially pleading the same.

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Wa Yes-terilaay gave an I:ateact from the following Articles in
the papers mipeesirig the Negotiation with France. We
think their importarize requires that we should now give
them at full length.
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No. XXX-I;.
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• M Lord, Downing-street, Feb. 18, UM.
Yourlncellency's dispatch, of Fe 3. 21, has been revived,
• WI kid before tile Kin&
snatisrialon in e,.,minunirating to you bin Mae
jrsalyt.i entire approbation of tnc itistiv-atal judicious manner
utivkiFit yo appear to have executed theinstrutlsons winch 1
g vitt:trot in my dispatchof the tith inet.
_.:*riccitunt you have given 01 your interview with tu--
Ortittul, is in every respect isurnttut.

-, 4 c ilNlrk tae the tone and temper hi
theTind Ciaisul aupeur to have been
ly o*eryations in addition saltine, so
Excellency at the time, upon several of
bete& • in, ward by the First Consul
iversatiton ; li.shali therefore mutant
our Excellency to my dispatch to Mr.
44, in which' the subjefts of the corn-
(;overninent, respetting the freedom of
414:431! Palliesthely disclosed. I can
, that moth* approaching to ex-
stated whey, bikil thrown oat by
-49 tiW jell!, roprviehLations and
4, lusconesquence of the unerarrans••
charges contained in Colonel Se-
hi. :Slattery'. Governmetit—.the
(loos in Egypt, aid his artily in that
other diarist, the laue;unge of the First
strength,* and cnnfirui the suspicious
a• tweiuliarly calculated to excite.
.. give you some father interne tions ea
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ilk .a* ittnay be proper for you to hold reveotirg
the itch has beim adveneaxi against htsd'altjestv's Go-
virroi _ their uneilliagnperla fulfil the Treaty of A aliell.4
The Treaty of Amiens has been in a course of executinu, no
the part of his Majesty, is every article id which, according to •
the spirit ofehat treaty, alias been found capable *if te•Aecution
"lure caonut be the least doubt, that Fop, it -at this tune
completely ersiatated. The dzLay which brileimieen is the
etactiation of Alexandria' was owlet 't6 widened circum••
stances, the particulars of which wersexplained to you is my '
depakft of the 36th November last ' • ihd I had every teas in to
balers., from the rommunisatiup lhed•with•General Andre,:
trey on the subject, that the Treads GotrOstment were- per.
.fettle vatisied with the cap/Anacon which he was authorised at
.tl4c time to give thesibtrilpeedng It
sW-41 reeerd 411410allbrilp of, the treaty which relates to
Malta, .the eirdattiMs centaineten it Owing to circumstance!
which tfvras liut in thepower of tli•Miitestv to eentroidj, have
1. iteltbetht found c4lble-of execution. The refusal of litessia
l go #6ode ta the.arritrige•neet, eitiph on entelition that the
btaltree hi,netie Yhtinrd br abolished ; tile silence of the Court
-of lli rein vritillittiptill to the Inlitatioe. that has been mark to
ill, -luicesmAitteldet of ttw rrtity,' to become a guaranteeing
Power; Ito' aboittioci pf the brattish prierici, in defiance of
'the treaty to wi*b the Kitiq of Spain was a party; the des.
eta,,,Nlde iretlrermtngtres•.! ler:eminent of their intention to
werectifrate the propteity of the Porttiginse priory, as forming
a 0,41 of , the
,Span,sh !per. unlem the ,property of.
the' Sp;14•11 fitoric, it restored to them :—the ion-citation of
a,Orand Mietey:-.-Titere. clreurnsialtl;*!, WOlll.ll have been sof.,
f.r'.ent withotefany' other ltareet il'"Illlcii I" bare wettanled
• . Nejetf in •nspendine.thei•bactsufitur of the Wand, until
;1
ini new a. ratierment cottid W olljereed.fir its security and
veriaence*. "flat whet} it ja, ciatidesad Now greatly the
dims Inioiseps. seer, and i nil dcnce'of F.athee hay:. of 12te been ex.
tiebiStl, his Maksty'must feel; tiiit Vic Vas an inset touible right,
elegem:a.. bly to the; pristeiples tut which theTreary of I'-ace was
ueg.,,tiatell atedeorielheed, to cli•ni.irot additional accarituo in
shy 'kw arringetheht which it mill t Ireemne necessary to make
.with lif vice' of efteting the real object, of first treaty. And
these eonsideratiems, sufficient as they might be iu therm:Avec
• to jtottfy_the line of ettrainct which It's. Majeste had &let.
mined to adopt, harm recelitd additional lorcil from tlit views
which have been reeve* mei al...reservedly agnifessed by lb:-
French Gtreernmeet respeetieg the Turkish dominbants, and
the tetanus lathe Adriatic Omit which haw limn iii a tat ticant
ailat7nt, by the Pest neistil, iiili:s ihiervisec with yuerPccifenee).
•-•••Virus which are dioucdy repartee(' not ortlyt tir the sitaii,
belt° the ktter of the' Treaty or Armless. - •
From the 11"111:t in, yovr.Excelleticy's letter, kappa',
that a (delete sedt thfitemplation, by which, accorditig to
the dexisratiortof M. Irailleyrate4 the integrity of the Terkid,
. thelbsey Isinadhe Oltillred so as in do away every catfish of doubt
or emmilems tithe" ebbe:lrani to kype or to atier ether pelt
of the Turkidi cioniniens. His Majesty
.will consider tij
communication efifireh it Prihect as indicating a dlspasi *ape
the -pert tithe Pre** deassistrerat4ll, to a third him' 61E0411160h
and satisfaction respeettagredttle (Orbs points which hive heel)
therealsisktioftisteptdaertateritte: Rat after all Chet Ilat.pmessetk
his Majclty eanuot consent that his troops should, erdemilll:llle
island at.. Malta, witt eitielormilal secarity bat deer
ievkt
fdr litotes objects, whieh, wader the press* elide
•Mizht he materially 'endzitiliaza loy their semi/Yak - 11,
. , i.
(Signed) tIAWKESIVIT,
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i His ty.eclient y Leeil Whitworth, Ile. ke.

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arid Mi-
. laid.be-
lii, iclteel•
wake die
d.
slieitannie
which hal

been Treaty of
Amiens. • s .
The First Consul will not make any complaint relative. 40
theextraortlinary,ismi unexpected assertions of this act issued
by his Britannic Majesty. Not one of theta's founded.
MaMsfy hidieves that hi; kicgdam is fitenaerxl
hr prparation% mink in the pars of Holland and France.
lie has two& deceived : the First Censul made DO pre-
paratinus.
vi• •re at the time of the Message, but two frigates in
the Routs of I foliand, and but three curvettes hi the Howl of
Dunkirk.
I law cin his Britannic Majesty's Ministers have been de-
ed till In lintatinie hisfiesty's•A tuba's:is ii
dors at Paris and at the Hague have seriously tu repeuacit tlismi-
s••lves, if they have credited information so evidently false, and
if did not foresee that they therefore exposed their Govern-
ment to err in the most important &liberal:ma.
Was it not cintfurmable to the usage practised among sta-
tists, first to demand explanations, and thus to take means
for being convincinl of the falshood of the intelligence which
the Ministers might have received ? Must not the least effixts
of the tains-ion of this practice be, to bring on the ruin of fa-
Indies, awl to catty confusion, unc.mainry, and disorder into
all the winner/end affairs of both liatiorw The First Consul
looms, bath, front his own sentiments, and judging of other
people by the French, that a groat neion can newr be terri-
fied. lis believes that pool isr7lley alai the feelings of tree dig-
nity ever inspire the sentiment of esteem for a rival nation,
and never the deign of menacing her. A great nation may be
dustroyed, hut not intimidated.
1514 e second part of his Maievity's Message consists of anolier
assertion no better builder!. Hu Britannic Ittajestv makes
inetnion of diocessions, the sur.cess• of wh ch is doubtful.
What are these discussions! What official notes, whet pro-
tocol.• reove the opening, the progress, the vicissitudes of a
debate Can a state of difficulties, which loads tel an alterna-
tive of pelre or war, spriog u,. unawares without commence
meat, wthont prvgre.sion, and lead without distinction, to an
app •al to antis beriwe all the means of culmination have been
exhausted ?
In this awe, the appeal has been publicly made before it
could be known that there was room fur misitniletwanding.
The terminetkiii of the discussion was announced before they
had beg a. The 1411 Vt! of a difficult dis.ussiois hit been de.
elm d before it -arose. What would Europe, what would
lath natioas think, if they knew that these discussions, in—
nounc'el, Ity his Beitampie Majesty as so difficult to, terminate,
were unknown O. the French Government; and that the Fast
Consul, on reading the Mes.ags, could not coinprelvend the
awaiting of either of tit • declarations therein c.mtatued.
H • lia; .Iso abstained front any iisteusibia step; and what-
e'er may have been tile 6.1-Mier, the activity, -the provoca-
tions of war, which have Liken place in E •tanci since that
Message, lie has given nu fiitlari, lie has inad:. a) dispositions,
no preparations. Ile places his glory in an affair of this nature,-
wholly in being taken in an unprovirtel state. He will conti-
nue in this system of honest frankness, until his Britmuic
Majesty has reflected fully on the part he itropieles to tikes
lu Lord Hawkesbures Note, an opinion is es:pressed, that
the French Republic has increased ill poweraince the Peace..
of Amiens. This is a decided error. Sincethat epoch, France
has evert aced a considerable territory. Tile French Power has
received no de:rev of atiementetion. • If his Britannic Majesty
is determined to make war, he may allege all the pretexts he
pleases, he will find few less founded. •
, As to the complaints made respectiopthe publicat.ons which
may have appeared in France, (hey a. e of an order too secon-
dary to he capable of infinencingeuen a decision. • Arts we then
returned tu the age of tournaments? Motivettarthis nature
might have authorized, four centuries ago, thelembat of
• thirties; but they cannot, in this age, be a reason for war be.
tween the two countries.
It might saffice in this respect to reply to.his Excellency, that.
no reprosentation has bean made by him on the subject to the
Government of the Republic ; and that, if it was but justice
to grant satisfaction, the First Consul had a right to expect
that which was required by M. Otto, in his Note of the 2.2 d
Therinithir last, upon grounds more scrim's and more just.
Is it possible that the English Ministry call have been igno. '
rant, that ever since the coaclusion of the Treaty of Amiens,
the English press has not ceased to spread through Eurape the
rage of war, the discredit of peace, and shameless and bound-
: less outrages aglinst every thing which is the object of the love
and the veweration of French People?
A few days after tke ratification of peace, one of his Britan-
nic Vajesty's Ministers declared that the peace establishment
mutt be considerable; and the distrust excited by this declara-
tion, made in Parliament with as much bitterness as impropri- -
env, furnished a commentary for the exaggeration and alarm y;
which MeT,.. circulated in &Sp:cable pamphlets, and its news-
, papent as contemptiole as those 'Mehl. Mare that time, these
writers have fouild themselves ilivariibly supported ill tipOr in-
solent Dissertations by particular phrases taken frunathe speeches
of some leading Members of Parliament. These %beeches,
scarcely to be exceed,d by the news-writers themstetvus, have,
for these eighteen month', tended to encourage insult against
other goveriintents to that degree, that exery European must
be offenkel„ and every reasonable Englishniau must be humili,
alai, es, such unheard-of licentiousness.
What. if we comma with those sallies, proceedings more
offensive and serious: the indulgence granted to French cri
missals, Miblishing daily oatrages iu the French language; the
srill more inexcusable toleration extended tu villains covered
with crimes, and plotting assas,dnatioas incessantly, such ns
Georges, who still continues to reside at London priamted,
sod having. a considerable establish ,sent; ill a word, the little
justice which has been shewn to all our representations—Dow
ate we to account fur the publicity of the complaint which his
Britannic Majesty has th.sught proper to make, resdecting sonic
indefini'..• wrongs which he has hitherto thought unnecessary
is bring lidos., Plias Canted ?
tbetllll4llllllloollo had muse to-be convinced that all his
rforesentatiAtabilliga 'these points were useless, a .d that his'
Britannic sooty, *regardless of the ncighbosiring powers,
was resolved to authorise every thing within his own dominions;
hut he did nut on that account entertain a daunt of the conti-
nuance of peace, nor alarm Eutope with the notication of
war. He amfined himself to this principle of conduct, to per,
mit prevent in France, with respect ei England, whatever,
should be permitted •or prevented in England with regard to
France.
He has, however, expressed, and again expresses his wish,
that means should be adopted to prevent in future any mese
lion being mad% of what is passing. ha Eugland, either in the
nßeial diseassjons,, or in the polemical writings in France, as
in like manner in the French nificial discussions and polemic:li
writings, no mention whatever shnuld be made of what ii
passing in England.
Lord Hawkesbury mentions an artick in a newspaper, coos
tlining t report of a French tnilenel In serious discussions
an answer on thispolnt might let dispensed with ; but it if nil.
they a Itibitidi i diffien't matter.
A colonel lit tie Eng ish army bee pUblished a work 121'4-
lend, filled with the must atrocious avid disguiting calamities
aliinst the French army and its General. The lies it centaita
have been et•teribllcted by the reception which Colonel Setae.,
tiani experiesteett • The publicity of his report was at once
a refutation ands reparation which the French army haida
right Vs eximst. _On his arrival in Egypt, this officer, to his
great astsiehibmagst, resod the English army there,,alithough
they should have evacuated it, .and the Turke prodigiously
alarmed at thecOntifidence of the English artny, and at its
relations with the natives in a rebellion and open revolt against
• the Sabbath Bohn. •
• He most have conceit/6d that the treaties which causal us
with the For, and by whistle we have patentee& to it thein-
tegrity of sitt plastaiens,'llinnyellall us to unite oetwelves with •
that .power. It Ws eatufalls think daft Esigleittl, Meant to
dklare war from the billlideibe roftleiht to execute the articles
of the misty: Albeefilii allot Teuseele• nut wawa lobe* a
stale of siefigemialla 011 Ile Mier trtalbee Vie& lOW Vill?
eXeMUJII sigklagilliirs.
Hence the riseeeches Made by this officer, as to the fortes
Which were in Egypt, AA as.to the *Rita occupied by the
tugboat ' •
• Batt Egyptians since been restored' to. the dontieion• a/ iw
4091 beeeteisec sad .the idea of a niptare between else 1.140
iilitioneembsoiegiot: of the engagement contemned wish !thtill
1441 Os no4eseigg.
Halle • thetelaft, but on& eltieetenitthl Of fteil
tlie attention the molestation., 'Me euedisiale at the Teta
of Amiens, is fat at contents Malta His Majnoty has en.:
Moll, ratan it to the Order. sod tits =Vast It Oa the N
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Itis stm.-.•.: iirry for ine to 14
winch the sientimenti of tise.l
expre,sod, or to offer any oho:
properly made i y t our Excel:
the t.rpic. whieh 'retire bvnvi
111 thc:COUPIL of your convey.
myeeli With referring your E
Merry, of Auguat 28, 1844„ it
plaints of-the French Govern
the press, the emigrsnts.dto.a
"(1119*Srlif.:*ri!i aftkciug.
t~n:U.6h or sans' e!lion is st.J
First Consul, tu ausertir,
• c4triiarai!ft
• fd:nations and char)
Aliani's report against hi,
r,161r comrnandiag his Imam
Turret ; hut tha oo the other
thrall: has tcaad d aft 'trent
which that publication vrai pe
I sludi uuw proems/ :ft give
the !baggage which itrftay be
tNesharge which ha* bans EA
rtmlnient,uf their urtwillillgal

it t
fq.n kat. e.—nexiia tote Inu;witig Note :
Th ? an.tcrsigueA General of Diosi.,
slider Venipardiattly front ilia French Ripithlic, hat
fore nit Gniertitrietit the !tote taldterted to him tat his
low! loud Ilawiteeber. He is. received oohing at at
fullowing minuet to the obtervatteuethemin contained.
The object of this 1444 e mipeart to be to explain Win
Majesty's Message; and ,to give some eliiMciationt
wh
been demanded reepectiag the cxecation of Site Ti