The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-16 00:00:00

PARIS, Aram 11.

(Exisad of a Letter.)
44 Here itre as many differeat versions as to the
intent of publishing the French Libel in the Ham-
burgh Papers, as on the late conversation at the
drawing-room ; but most agree, that both the one
and the other were meant to throw the odium of a
new war upon England, and to persuade the world,
that the pacific Bonaparte wished for nothing but
peace, and to continue to intrigue and conquer in
peace ; the authentic exhibition of French duplicity
has, therefore, so much the more offended the Great
Peace-maser, and his tractable Minister, as the etrea
intended is lost by die diteorer,-, and in future
Rerulotionary Lampoons against England, either'
printed at Rome or at Haniburgh, at Stutgard, or
at Copenhagen, will make no more dupes, or be
more trusted, than when printed by the Constlar
Press at Paris, and published in that political mon-
ster, the Ofcial Afoniteur.
" Politicians here amile at the political nicety of a
certain C. curt and its guarantee ; many think the
delay originated from no indemnity being offered fur
this trouble; and others, that the Sovereign here, has
hinted to the Sovereign .1141i:ter Acre, his intention
not to respta other guarantee but possestion, which
in fa6t is the best, if not the only security against un-
generous hatred, and restless intrigue, and an ambi-
tion that at present mocks the independence of Na-
tions as it formerly did the principles of Religion. It
betides surprizes many, how. M. de Busy, a French-
man, can be the Lieutenant, or rather Deputy Grand
Master, when after the Treaty of Amiens. no Fpench-
man can be longer a Member y. the Maltue Order. This
justly inspires suspicion, and certainly wants expla-
nation, as, after the Statutes of the Order, ' at the
4 death of the Grand Master the Soveieignty of
• Malta remains in the hands (Allis Lieutenant, un-
• til the elediun of a new Grand Master.'

•' We .expeil every day the appearance of the
Harabargh Libel in the Monitcur, to prove to
Frenchmen, that the public opinion in free Ger-
many is the same as in free France ; and that every
where but in England, justice is dune to the digni-
fied, peaceful, and modest vii tart of their Sovereign Ge-
neral."

Another Letter, came Date.
41 It is believed here, that the principal reasons for
Prince Ruspoll's not accepti, the noniination of

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Grand Master of Malta, was leis u ..‘mination not
to be governed by a Lieutenant appointed by
France ; but what would France have said, had, by
the threats or intrigues of England, the new Grand
Master, Thomasi, appointed Sir Home Popham,
or any other British suiijat of the Maltese Order,
his Lieutenant ? There is no doubt a Protest against
it, both in the Alen/tear, and in The Re7u,si-
rim Carwpaidetuen, would have soon appeared ;
because when the Lieutenant is about 50, and the
Grand Master near 80—and at the death of the
latter, the Sovereignty of Malta belongs ad interim
to the harmer; the probability of the Lieutenant
surviving the Grand Master is great, and his par-
tiality either to England ur France might involve
Europe in a new war.
" The present Lieutenant, M. de Busy, is in the
vigour of age, but the Grand Master, M. Lie Tho-
masi, is enervated by hot climates, and weakened
by great 'about s and long life, and, like most men
of his age, wants more to be governed than to
govern ; were it otherwise, he would not have sub-
mitted to be the tool either of endared Rome, or of
free France.
" By the Treaty of Amiens, the Maltese Langue of
Bavaria is to subsist ; by subsequent Treaties with
France, the income of the Bavarian Langue is
ceded to. the Eledur of Bavaria, an indemnity for,
God knows, what loss.—What do the Guarantees
say to this ? And is England to be reproached as the
violator of a Treaty, idoich
.France neither diredly
nor indirectly has resfreaed Pt)