The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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obtain the judgment of a Court of Justice; and the inconve-
nience which arises from prosecution, unless there is a reason-
able prospect of sue✓.ss; k frequently sefficient to deter It Alt
tile Government and itglivtduals front undertalcitik it. In the
preNent Cal • I have thought it my duty to rzfer the article
question to his Majesty' Attorne% General, for his opition
whether it is or k not a libel, according to the Corr-true:riot) fit
the law of England, and whether it is st«•h a lihel as he would,
mto-Nall the circumstances, reiroinntencl for prosecution. As
so in at I riteivu his report, I shall have the honour of cuuthtu-
nicatii:g it to sun.

I here the honour to he,..tre.
M. Otto, dc. &c. (Signed) 11AWKESBUR1•
No. Xfll.--;:TResNSLATIGNee-NOTE.
the midersigtsed Minhiter.Plenipousitiaty of the French Re
public !hiving sitbitilited to his Goverilioeut the Letb.er which
his Excellency Lord Ilawketbury; Millittter Mid Principe, Se-
cretart of State of his Breennic Majesty, slid lint the honour
of writing wider clew of the 27th July, is directed to effer the
toque/in" isleervations :
theelleitedi Government tolerates censures elm the act
of its Adininietratitin, and akC peecusial abuse of the !e'en re-
speetebei men, it days nut realer even the slightest attempt
vie mist the public tranchellity, the fundamental laws of the
E mere, and the supreme authority which arises fro's't them.
Every melon is, men ever, at liberty to satrifief. any advantage
whattiier set its Mimes, iii °Mee to obtain another to which
it attaches a higher value ; bet the Cuvernment Which does
not repress the liceiutiousneet 6r the pees:, when it in ty be
in-
juriuu; to the honour ur the intereeta of Foreign Power:, would
al turd an epportunity for libeiliste to eneanger the public tran-
quillity, (gat hest the good under:lending that forms the basis
of it ; end whenever seth serious iiijiirites re contented in a ros
gular and systematic a:teener, doubts must arise at to its own
disenstenns.
The perticula'r laws and constitution of Great Britain are
subordinate to the general principles et the lave of nations,
which ;me:merle the lawe. of. each inilhelual state. If aSc a
right iu Englaed,to ai'low the most extensive liberty to the
ere ee it is a public right of polished illations, '4l the bounden
duty of Ouvenitnente to prevent, repress, and punish; every.
ateick which migia, by those 11111;:illt, be mad.: against the
rights, the interest", and the holiour of Foreign 1' steers.
• This metal inane? of the law of nations has never been
mistaken withweepaveig the was for tree p ?ate,/ diviiions, ants
hat even femislied itt England a plait:dile pretest so those who
have written volumes to prove the necessity of the last war
against France. Are these men now desirons of presenting to
the Conealiir Government a weapon which they have wielded
with so much address? And ce a they Ratter themselves that
the authority which has signed the Penee hat not power to
to:entails it ? .
By the first article of the Treaty of Amiens, the two
powers agree to afford ao peuttetion, either directl} or indi-
rect's', to those whe should cause prejudice to any of them.
But the greatest oh all injuries doubtleet is, that whicheends
to debet,s. a Foreign Gerenifeent, or to excite within its tern.
tory civil and religious eorninetione; and the most decided of
all protections, is that Which places under tl:e safeguard of the
laws, men who 'seek not only to disturb the political tranquil-
lity of Europe, but even to dieselve the first bonds of society.
The undersigned Minister most moreover rib erve, 'hat this
is nut a qdreetion re.spectiii events earagraphs, w his h, throegit
the inadvertence of 'an ed.tor, love been accidentally
inverted in a public print; but it. is a question of a deep and
continued seat ant of defamation, directed rot only ageinst the
Chief of the French Republic, but egainio all the comicality('
Authorities of the Republic, against the whote nation, repre-
sented by their libellers in the most cxliouA and degreding terms.
•It hat: erten been reioarkei, tlea't many of these prints contein
an appeal to the french people, against the Government and
fundamental laws of their eimetry.
If these observations apply to the English writers, who, for
these three nintalis peel, have deluged the public with the nest
perfidious and unbecoming yublications, they are still more ap-
plicable to a class of foreign calumniators, who appeer to avail
themselves of the atyIUITI effered them iu England, only for the
purpose of the better gtatifying their hatred against France,
and dnilermining the foundations of peace.
It is not merely by insulting and seditious writings, evi-
dandy publiShed with a view to circulation in Franee, but by
other incendiary papers distribirred through the maritime
partments; in order to excite the evil-disposed or weak
tants to resist the exeeution oethe Concordat', that these impla•
cable enemies of France continue t 6 exercise hostilities, and to
provoke the just inclination of the French Government and
people. Not a doubt exits of these wrings having bees teen-
posed and circulated by Georges, and by the former bishop- 9f
France. These eten• can no longer be cottsidered but e. red Ss
against both political and religious authority ; and after their
reiterated attempt& to disturb the good understanding between
the two Governments, their residence in Englaed militates
openly against the spirit and letter et the Treaty of Peace.
The meetings likewise which lease taken place in the island
of Jersey, and rite otLous Vet; weieli are there framed, in
spite of the repretentatiei is which the undersigned Minister has
already taken care to make op this sitbjett, wee demand imme-
diate measuree to be taiall by a Gorerninent, the neighlmur and
frieed of France.
Other persons (attached, by recolleflion never to be effaced,
and by regrets too het fostered, to an order of things which no
longer exists in Trance) fled themselves deity implicated by the
plcti of thus:• who preteed to !mere them. A ,C:1411 of their
own repiestoin will without doubt lead them to avoid a fa-
ce; Of intrigues, with which they ought net to have the least
coneeelion: •
Peace happily re-estab:ished, the mutual desire of the two
Governuiente to render it solid and letting, arse the general in-
termits of humanity, releire that all these mese, of desatiseic•
lion should be dime away,•and that his Meimity's Ministry
should, ley fienk and eneepsie measures, manifest their diseit-
probation of alt the attempt; made to produce new divisions.
The undersigned has in consequence received especial orders
to solicit,
Ist. That his Majesty's Government will adept the most
effectual measures to put a stop td the unbecoming and staid- ,
ous puOhcatiotut with which the newspapers and other writitigs
printeel in England are filled.
21. Thee the individuate mentioned inihe undersigned Ml-
nister's letter of the e3d of July last, shall be sent out of the
island of Jersey.
Sd. That the fornier Bishops of Arras and St Pol. de
and all those who, like them, under the pretext of religion,
seek to raise disturbances in the interior of Frence, shall like-
wise be sent away.
4th. That Georges and his adherents shall be traiwported to
Canada, according to the intention Which the undersigned has
been directed to trahsiii!t to his Government at the request of
Loid ilasekesbury.

:Ali. That, in order to deprive the evil-disposed of every
pretext fur disturbing the good understanding between the two
Governments, it shall he re,:ornitiended to the Princes of the
!louse oiC Bourbon, at presetit in G.eat Britain, to repair to
Warsaw, the residence of the head of their family.
6th. That 6urh of the Frelich Emigrants as still th'olc proper
to wer.r the ool.rns and decorations belonging to the antiet.t
Government of France, shall be requited to quit the territory
of the British Empire
These demands are founded upon the Treaty of Amiens,
and upon the irrbal assurances that the undersigned Minister
has had the satisfaction to reccise in the course 'id' the tutus.
ciations, with regard to a mutual agreement for Maintaining
tranquillity and good order•-in the two countries. If any one
nn panicylar of these demands does not proceed so immediately
from the Treaty concluded, it would be easy to 'justify •it br
str.king examiles, and tti prove how very attentive the British .
Government has been in times of internal• fermentation, is
ma've from the territory of a neighboiring power those who
might endanger tilt pub tc
NVltataver may be the protection Whitt the English Taws
afford to native writers and to other subjects of his Majesty,
the French Government knows that foreigners do ndt here
enjoi the same proteetion ; and that the law, *nowt by ther-
mic of the Alien Act, gives the Ministry or. his Britannic
lalujesty au authority which it has ;Alen exeriived :tr•ivas sb•
reigners whn residence was pr-luilicial to the of
Grait B.irain. Weird z:t St AL`I