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FOREIGN INTELUGL:CeF..

[FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.]
FARMS, APRIL 12.
Seetept Report of the Grand .Jadge, re,pcaing the plots of th,
s . Itirecon tiativrl Drake, If iii,ter from .F.n gland at Munkh,
end of the permit named Spencer Smith, Minister frtnt
Psigtand, at Sintgard, against France, and the person of the
lone Comet.
a CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
"My conjectures are verified. Mr. Drake is not
Ore only tent of England whose political mission is
merely ‘..e plausible mask of a hidden Ministry of
msfisteion end insurrection. I have the honour to
Aloe before your eyes, ;Japers, which prove that
Mr. Spencer Smith, diplomatic agent of England in
die States of Wirtemburgh, after the example of
111 r, lhake, has occupied himself, since his arrival
at his elace of residence, only in prostituting his
Mk charstler, his influence, and the gold of his
at, to that infamous ministry.
a Mr. Spencer Smith has suffered a discovery of
*west part which formed the real objea of his
diplomatic mission. I present to the First Consul
as enlgrnatical letter, which this Miniuer has • writ-
tistecrid. Lolievve de Saint Remi, one of his agents
in Holland 1 this agent, spy, emigrant, and who has
received Ms pardon, was already known to the Po-
lk') but before I had any one of the parts of his
ennotpondence with Mr. Spencer Smith, I knew by
other 'sports, that when be was about to obtain his
amoesty, which he procured in Pluviose, year 11, he
quitted Seer, his place of birth, in Nivose, the same
rile, in ord:r. to $0 to Cambray i and that, on the
Ird of last Frimatre, he had gone to Holland, there
toaerveamder the name of Prnneau, and to follow
thereehe double direflion of a Frenchman and a spy,
*mod Le Clerc, whom the British ministry supported
itt. Abbeville, and that of an accredited spy, named S.
1 Smith; whom, for the purpose of covering his de.
signs, that same Ministry had invested with a diplo-
:tunic chaeaAer. (See Pieces, 8,9, &c.) I further
knervtloy papers equally numerous, and not less in-
onnerne, seized on the spy at Abbeville, that Mr.
rear Smith, before be -plated London, bed enter-
m° istreh intimate eonne.iions with a general
totansittee of Espionage. established by the above
administration, and the diredion of which was en-
tooted to the Abbe Ratel, that he had demanded
au& obtained of that Committee a confidential Se-
- daetzty named Pcricaud, who was to follow the se-
et otterespoodence, and to receive and conontini-
eam all the necessary documents to the agents in
Holland, the spies on the coast, and the conspirators
in Paris. The letters to Lelievre, the credit for
1000 Louis d'ors given on the house of Osy at Rot-
terdam, the cypher, the er.igmatical letter. No. 7,
are of the hand-writing of this Peticaud ; and thus
t will be seen, that Mr. Spencer Smith is gone to
• hie residence with all the exterior of a diplomatic
• Minister from England.; that is to say, with sympa-
thetic inks, watch-words to communicate with all
the spies, bilis of exchange to reward their ser-
vices, and a confidential intermediate agent, to ful-
laiw up their proceedings, and so dire& them, with-
out committing himself.
0 It is netessary to recur once more to Mr. Drake.
Tlw two Reports which I lay before you. Citizen
First Consul, will give you an account of a mission
11.411) inizter by Citizen Rosey, Captain and Ad-
ajar of nth regiment of the line in gar-
rison at Straaburgh, -whom Mr. Drake was very
willing to employ as agent of a pretended General,
Who was to star up four departments, to draw around
. him the French army, to overthrow your Govern-
' sent, to Lintel in its stead a Democratic Directory,
surd finally to put this phantom of power, and all
France, at the discretion of the English Govern-
.• I should hesitate to present to you these mon-
soon absurdities, if I had not to lay before you an
original letter from Mr. Drake, backed by conid:r-
abk sums of gold, counted by Mr. Drake, and de-
plaited at my office by Citizen Rosey. 1 his letter
serves as a proof of the accuracy of the reports of
the French Agent, and ought to be published, be-
am* the odious particulars which it contains, give
additional colreiring to the piaure of infamy, which
Me. Drake has himself delineated of his incendiary
diplomacy, in the first part of his correspondence.
" Mr. Drake replied to the pretended General.
i Ile acknowledges the receipt of his Envoy with his
credentials. lie congratulates himself on the liar-
ineny subsisting between him and the Committee of
.llr Ditorgailisatiou, over which the General presides.
E Your view‘; says he, complacently, d are quite
conformable to mine, and I need not enlarge further
out this point.' '
" Bat '•:c 1 - p•ires (and here he folitevs the lira
vagaties of his pred =nor Wickham) that provi-
sionally they should wore two strong places, Hu-
Mogen by r! n.cres, awl fitraslaur6, ix pos,ible.—
1 By this means oily conli they &i/cad upon a sure
eminntsuication. 'Alien would Mr. Drake take his
rosideoce near the Rhine, , and it will suffice to in-
, furze him immediately .of the moment fixed for corn-
arming the ei:erativos, and of the precise periods
when cisetrier essistante will be necessary. as Neville's-
, ni the amount of tin, succours required, that he may
have time to take PR^Rldr.S to provide for the same,
end that the qe;.•rations may not fail fur want of
. support.' (*e No. tr.)
i " Ilowmer, the mast important point is not the
taltieg of places, and stewing stages for the safe ar-
rival of subsidies. First of all, we must disorganise
the army. Mr. Drake complains of being kit un-
informed' ' of the progress which the Agents cf the
Committee :Any base made to gain over some among
them; but h 4 Lusts to their zeal. IHe supposes,'
N with confidence, • that the ettettipts tried' With ibis
view' hive completely succeeded, mid that they are
certain M. a ponerrfin diversion item that trailer ;'
• without this aid.' he solemnly deelnres, . yaw opera-
tions will be cot finel to cause three or four Dern-
meats to rise, which can never succeed upon the
ft long run, oil the supposition that the First Consul
1 1
rams a power (seer hie troops sufficient to make
there march against you.
es This disquieted', it will be easily believed, is
1 be prevailing idea of Mr. Drake; it seizes him,