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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

INTERIOR.

TAILS, OCT. 31.
The Jaunted de l'Ewpire of this lay contains the
following article :
(We hate given some garages of the Declaration of Nis
11:taiin.c Majesty *pen the Ixpedition to Copenhagen. 'We
have received au snide such more hewn int, in which.this
Declaration is copied tiethe awl sou:ding to the text.),
The conduit of the English Government towards
Denmark, has excited the astonishment and indig-
nation of Europe. We know not what could be
the objet of such an attack. It would have been
sought in vain in the writings of the Generals who
commanded the British forces in Zealand.
Tlts se pie,:es contain nothing that can gratify co-
in that respell. Nevertheless, there is rea-
son to believe that a secret motive, of primary im-
portance, had instigat d the British Government to
that odious anion t a d which, for the very reason
because it was ouicu,, could not be supposed to
bays been committed without sortie Cit.!.
By an official declaration, the Cabinet of St.
Jambes has at length put an end to all conjeeure.
It has given information to the nations of the Con-
tinent, and w the English- nati-n itself, which
suredly never saspeßed that its Government ve.,s
devoting it to the execration of Furope, while Lt the
tame time no advantage could possibly result from
its routine. The declaration in question will, for
ever stamp its authors with infamy, and will loudly
procLitra to posterity their unskilfulness and
city.

Most certainly the sovereign who possesses a ge.
rtlrett slrrl, fulfils a duty which k must be pleasing
to I,:m to .:11, when he renders an account to hie
people of the enterptizes which he has undertaken
for their prosperity and their glory ; but that a mo-
narch should not be afraid to make a public avowal
of the motives of a ciisgrsceful •Rion, and that he
should pride himself in the commission of it, is •
procedure of which we should in vain seek aoutLes
ex;..mple.

Cruel irony ! Whit then are "the great sacri-
fices which Ilia tiii.annie Nlajesty W 45 disposed
to make to D.lnark ?" He demand-d that
twenty shkts of tiie hae, which wine in the post
of Copenhagen, the city, the fortress, should be
surrendered to hint. and by a ',wince, truly gene-
row, he consented to restore the Danish ffitet oa
;be conclusion of peace 13in is it not well
known that the L.glish Ministry has established
as a principle the fitness and the necei.sil of a
pe penal seen ? To engags, tivrif,;re, to restore
this C.:et en the conclusion of peace, was the same
thing far the F.:.glish Got ernment as to pioasiso to
itwit never to restore ;t ; and %hat "arrangements"
con!d he •• Jesiratile" for Denmark ? %net could
she accept of tLese eel-di-minis...a traders, accus-
tomed to tra:11: with ir t blood and the happiress
of nations ? Could ;he united wealth of the Indies,
the enure caisital of the immense debt of England,
wipe away the affront cffeied to the honour of the
Crown of D. nmark, to the diLnity and indepfiselence
of the Danish nation ? This affront cannot be c:pi-
ated but with English blond. V paid for with the
gold of England, it would have been eternal ; the
wretched nation which had :u,tait.cd it won;d never
bare recovered its dignity, it, ind.pentlerice, its ho-
nour ; it would have beets it toLortrably dishonoured
and destroyed.
How is it possible thus to efface every 'swim of
j nstice and injostice, and boldly substitute, into. J
of the etetnal basis of the law s I nations, maxims se
subversive of all civilization ? Whatever is conve-
nient to the English Government is just in its eyes.
The clumsy authors of this declaration do not even
suppose it possible to doubt if a procedure that is
urjust can be useful to a nation; widely different
from the Athenians, who rejected a piesposal of
Themistocles, because Aristides deslated, that it
might be useful to adopt it, that the adoptiin of it
was even necessary to the safety Os Athens, bu• that
it was unjust.

:;upposiag even, according to the English 17:1111111,
that considerations of utility ought to have out-
weighed those of justice, it would remain to be as-
certained whether the espectition of Denn.ar it was
useful to the safety of England. Now events have
proved, and will daily prove still more s;risagly,
that this proceeding. so far from being accessary to
the safety cf Li:gland, is she greatest misfortune
that has f-ir a long time befallen her ; a misfortune
snore fatal to her than the declaration of the hide
penitence of 'retard would be.
Why does not the Cabinet of London make known
the sources from which it has derived information
which it pronounces to be so positive ? The reason
is snip'e ; the Cabinet of Londro never rec:ived
:t .y on the ttif•jell. There has never
beea airy ccininsinicathio, a^ir negotiation, soy
treaty between Fiance ar4 losumatte. The
Impenr of the k..ach ce&4 mei Lave any

intention of making war upon Deninark : lie could
not, because that would have been nijust ; and he is
too great, too enlightened. not to know that the
first principle of all wise policy is justice. Such ate
not the sentiments of the besotted oligarchs, who di-
rett the agaits of England. But how happens it,
that they could not see that any war between
France and Denmark would have been ustle4 to
the Emperor of the French ? Had he attacked Den-
mark, he would have thrown her into the arms of
England s he would have given his enemy the em-
pire of the Sound ; he might, assuredly, have seised,
without difficulty, both Holstein and lunen ; but
the Danish army, taking refuge in its own islands,
covered by i:s own fleets, and by those of
England, would have been nut of the reach
of every attack. Thus the only resah of an
unjust aggiession, would have been to compel
Denmark to make a common cause with Swe-
des and England. If the English Ministers
rr tsun ill, tl.ay ought at least to knew,. that the
Emperor of the French is a better logician than
they. Another, and a still more powerful motive,
Gould not but escape them. Incapable as they are
of feeling its force. we cannot be astonished that
they should not have divined is. All attack on
Denmark would have been a s'gnal itju,tice; it
would I Ave been a stain for the Emperor Napoleon
in the eyes of posterity; and the opinion of pos-
terity is not indifferent to this great Snvere"ga.
The ties of every kind which attach the Emperor
of Bossia to Denmark, are known to all Europe.
To attack Denmark would have been to violate the
Treaty of Filsir, to recommence the war, to lose the
advantages gained at Friedland, to strengths, the
forces of the enemy by 40,000 Danes, and the in-
dignation of all Europe. The Peacs of Tilsit would
therefore have been a gu.irantec for Denmark, had
it been necessat y for that Power to seek a guarantee
eirewbere than in the neuuahty, and tha wise con-
due of its Government.

But perhaps the Ministers of London mey say,
that a league against E gland was formed at
to which Denm .rk was to have been a pare. This
assertion, which would have been as tidicalcus as all
the others, i, proved by the event to be false. It
would leave to England nothing hut the disr ace
whkch must inevitably fall upon a Govern/at:it which
constantly guides its conduct by suspicions and false
hypotheses; a habit which is ac once char atleriwie of
weakness and tyranny. It, however, Eegland hid
suffered herself to be deceived by false inteigence.
she would not have failed to declare war against Keto-
sis. to confiscate h r vessels. to attack her fleets; she
has not done it; she ccull r.et therefore hasehadsta:h
a thought. Bold enough it is true to fall upon a
feeble nation of the second order, she dusk out attack
a powerful nation, and of the first order. Be this as
it may. every past of her coodua is ill-jugged and
contradiaory. She feared lest the Sound shnit!ti be
shut against her, and she conceived ibis i Aisensate
expedition, the only result of which is the realiza-
tion of her apprehensions.
It is false that the French army before Helstein
had been nide:tett ; it is equally false that this
army was de-tioed to as against Holstein. What
indeed could have hindered it ? It did nut ell, and
therefore it did out choose to se. It was with a view
to induce Denmark to direS her force towards that
province, and thus to leave Copeuhagen unprote3erls
that the English spud such reports. This Fiends
army bad always bean destined to n; ;ease an ex
pedition which was threatened in tat qii rter ;
bur instead of incurring risk by attacking a French
army, the British forces thought it less deegerous
to take in the rear an allied and defenceless power ;
to bombard a city without garrison ; to set tire to the
habitations of peaceful citizens ; to destroy women,
children, and old men ; and tt add new atir,c;ties
to the history of not,iiiies i tries; a history, of aoieh
the British Government has furnished such numet-
eus and such hors stile pages.
How ludicrous it is to hear the Briesh Cnvern-
mem asserting. that it was necessary to have re-
course to arms. As it it was not the aggress o; as
if it was not endeavewing, by every possible mums.
to perpetuate the war. And against whom is it
that England takes up arms Is it against an
enemy ? No ; she is always ready to attack neutrals.
feeble powers, and allies.
Such then is the true cause of the enterprise of
the British Government against Denmark ! And i:
dares moreover to avow it in the face of all Fornpe
It was not against the French Covet nment, which
intended to seize Copenhagen and the fleet, that
this enterprise was direfted, but against Denmark;
it was to punish that P ,wer fur having knce crened
the epee of the world with respell to the interests of
the North ; for having formerly taken part in a
confederacy hostile to the despotism of thee!.
Britain. Why did not the English Government
likewise assert, that it seas t:etermined to rev. nge
the outrage committed by the Danes when they
sul.jugaied tt e Brizoas is the middle ages ? This
pretest would have beret as tidicuious as the

The Figtish. Government, therefore. avows that it
WAS Denmark it deigned to attack ; it assists itself
to purse, that the ohjeZt of its disqraceful expedi-
tion was not to prevent France from seizing Den-
ma. k.

England, allnated by that spirit of revenge
which she purposely discloses to terrify all who niil
not submit to be her slaves, has employed her usual
perfidy. While the English fleet was steering to-
wards Copenhage::, and was proceeding to crown a
deed the most unc:-.3mpled, the Danish Ambassador
still remained in London, where marks of the
greatest confidence were profuselylavished upon him.
Tke English Ambassador was still in ”enmark ;
he there repeated, in the name of his Court. the
empty declamations with which the Ca'rinet of St.
James': has for ten years stunned all the Courts of
Europe: declamations always so fa:al t., those who
were imprudent enough to listen to them f
Had not Dennrark been fall of good faith, had
she nor indulged a blind conffdence, she would have
armed her batteries, sad drawn her army to Copen-
hagen. Then, the r. 5,000 men, whom England
vomited upon the coasts of Zealand, would have
been driven back into Oa: s• Ip at the English troops
were at goiberno, at Tonkel, in Holland, at !In-
vite, at Buenos Ayres; as they will be wherever
they dare to show their faces.
The Cabinet of St James's reproaches Franc*
wish having larsernhLtd under her standards the po-
rtal Iti,sn of several n einns. But what obliged
France te assume the imposing attitude which she
preserv?s, and to extend her influence upon the
Co -time, ? It is the hatted and the perpetual in-
rigtics est England. What right has it to reproach
Peens, Meth having opposed the extent of her power
and the valour of her arms to the incessantly re-
;sewed intrigues, and to the efforts cf the unfortu-
nate Princes, who, sedated by English gold, fell
upon her Sr. tear her in pieces ? The English
Government threatens the world with the drea:'-
lid
spenade of a perpetual war. And what
would be the consequence ? nana wool,: become
more pewerful than she is. The moment it shall
be confirmed, that the !nisch& cf a p rrpetnal war
is adopted at London, then will no longer he any
neutral pewees on the Ceatiaest ; they will recal all
their A mbessasfors, they will send back the Ambas-
s•d ire cf England s they wi:i drive their out of
their Lousus, as the polies expels es, d: ,:.e, aof psi-
sdns. This condua will be Fistaeritetd .iera by their
honour, awl by their own intent.: ; they willnot
draw upon their pee:4o the ~:'amities which
are reserved for every power so ill-advised as to
' keep up any eonnetlion wish Eng!and. History
already proves, by examples sucnci, . By striking,
that the moment in which a F. ieee . 'satiates hire.
self with that perfidious Govcrn nent,:- recedes but a
few days that of his abdication.
It is for the inhatieants of Ha:taboret to tell at
what prioil the French army emoted within sawn
walls ; it is for the wretched inLabitants of Lubeck
to medial the moment when Cale territory was
violated by the Prussians. 'rhos, for nearly a year
do,ooo French have be, as in the I lanseatic towns,
and yet Ilolttein, the island of Zealand, and the
Danish fleet, were not at the disposal of France.
In all nese arguments there is a want of sense
and r. fl 4lion, which is apparent in every line. Had
a the Danish nation been so destitute of honour,. as
wibingly to deliver up its arms, would France. in
that cue, have hesitated to seise the continental ter-
ritury of that power ? And if the ices of winter hid
,!epriveul Zealand of its :littoral means of fence,
what would have prevented Copenhazen from fall-
ing into the hands of brace? Thus the English
Mitustry, blind enough to form an erterprize by
w:.ielt it can gain nothing but a few hulls of vessels,
has turntshed Fiance with a strong reason, in the
eyet. :Al F.urope, for seizing the passage of the
Sound and the Danish dominions.
As to the military forces which England might

'rave sent to defend Denmark by land, if, however,
she would hire given this first e::ample of a real
assistance afforded to an ally, r et y bAy knows
how it ought to be appreciates!. It English troops
duns• venture to set t.e•t on the C t, their ar-
rival would produce the most sincere joy among
those destined to attach sieems and they would not
long remain there.
And Cee Cabinet of St. limes's still dares to talk
of 5,141 antic ! What continental power is these,
that has ventured to accept this fatal guarantee,
but what has lost every thing together with it ? ft it
necessary to reckoa up here the flovereigas who
have beheld their political existence for ever anni-
hilated, for leaving trusted to the hie! and the gua-
rantee of Eugland What right has the Fatalist'
G.evernment tot xi:eft hericcfarward to inspire con.
fidence, and to find Princes who will trust to its
guarantee; What guarantee cast be offered by a
power whose policy is as much disgraced as its
arms?
11A England been desirous of proving her zeal in
behalf of Lae all.n, in behalf of the Princes whose

ettars site had eepns-J, thelz 26 OM men, whom I
British Ministry se:lr to Copenhagen, should ha
been landed at Dant-tic, at Stralsund, at the mou
of the Weser, and lace endearraired to make
diversion. It was expeeltd ; for it was irnpossi
to exited so much had faith. Fifty 'bons
English would certainly not have turned t
scale long ou the Elbe, on the Weser, en t
Vistula ; the Cuntinent w uld not have trernMel
neath their steps ; but at any rate the undertakini
would have been glorious, and England would is
once at least have proved faithful to bet romises.
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What maritime law" is here alluded to ?
it the maritime law which England has arrogated
herself, or the maritime law common to all natio
France arms for the latter against the former.
if the history if the four coali:ions has proved
they have always turned. to the advantage
France, was it rational of England to augment t
influence or France still more by the forces of
mark? Was it wise to give fresh lustre to
justice of our cause? Was it at a time wb
England had occasion to calm the minds of peo
irritated by the outrageous praiftiee of her multi
code, when she felt the necessity of keeping
moderation certain powers in a system which
nut contrary to her inset ear, that she ought to b
threatened the independence of all Sovereigns,
affright the Continent by a bloody catastrophe,
to endeavour to involve other States in her o
ruin? She would have ruined Denmark, had'
yielded to fear. It it thus that she will ruin Pot
gat, that the House of lhaganza, if it make
sommoo cause with her, will cease to reign.
It is impossiale, without a smile of pity, to etj
serve tl.e English hliaisters espetling results " pre
portionate to the magnitude of the danger," fro
an oreration which increases it a hundred fold
which Sit. s France new geographical pasitiam
which augments her political and military infi
ence ; which obliges Russia no longer to keep
measures ; which draws that power from the state
which she was placed by a simple may of peace,
engage her to make a common cause with Franc
which causes all Europe to resound with elecratio
against that piratical people, against that GOvel
moot, destitute of morality, proclaiming
with as much audacity as the tyrant of the devei
Mountains. And it is by such arguments that 1.1
misters cape.% to convince the English, that haugtu
nation, wilco their every a& is consigning to d
contempt of Europe.

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The cor .luding paragraph proves, like all
rut of the Declar .tion that a spirit of madness
seized she Councils of Great Britain.

Denmark cannot make race with England :
now makes, and will henceforward make, a c
mon cause with the Continent.

Either t'•,t English will remain some time
Zeal ind, and :ilea they will not fail in be dig.
eased, And 20,000 prisoners will avenge the loss
Mtn ,b;ps carried off, an 3 an arsenal pillage
or. they will fly like cowards; and then the Soun
Touningen. and Norway, will be for ever sh
against them ; and these inevita! :e results will
an additional illustration of that incontestihie coati
that whatever is unjust cannot be useful to a natio.
It is in vain to seek, not an muse, but a prete
for the attack of the English upon Denmark, in
1/:claration, which is a flesh insult offered
Europe. The Ministers of the King of Engin.
impatient to undertake some enterprise, to area
the restless spirit of their nation, were overjoyed
find one which requited neither valour, nor ski
vor genius ; they shut their eyes to the situation o
Europe ; they mistook the charafter of the Pr•
Royal ; they listened only to their own passim
Woe to the country. in the councils of which ig
ranee, imprudence, and hatred, are alone permitt
to raise their voice I
AU that is passing in England, proves the ad
vantages of a moderate monarchical government, an
the dangers of an oligarchy. A Monarch has f •
ings ; under such a guide Ministers are just and
lightened. But an oligarchy considers neither
interests of the country, nor the rights of humanity
nor the rules of justice. Happy England. when 4'
will again become a monarchy ! We express our
selves thus, because that country
History teaches us, that when the Government
a stare has taken the last step towards an oligarchy
it is en the brink of ruin. What means of p
servatton are left for England ? Will she find them
in that Parliament which is purchased, which
prorogued and dissolved at pleasure ? Will she find
them in that club of Ministers, headed by that LorJ
Melville. whose malversation and rapine wereso lately
denounced to his country and to all Europe ? When
this oligarchic club shall perceive that it ha
wearied the fates and tired out the patience of th!
people. it will behold only its Galt danger, and ml
abandon the salvation of the State to other bands
A Mune& does not thus separate his interestsfron
these of his country ; with it he determines either
preserve Lis existence, or to perish..., Meaame•l

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MOSLAIX, OCTO3Zit 25.
have been in the habit of send;ng 7140 of
from time to time, to London. Aa order has
issued to prohibit the sailing of any in fit:are.
imuiticati'an must any longer exist with that
governed by the unjust and eternal tne-
the Continent.

FONTAINISLCAO, OCT. 29.
Emperor goes out frequently in a chau,e,
wanied by any person except the Empress,
about suite or guards. Vie s`.l«• him pass
the city the other day in this manner. This

his confidence has made a lively imprrs-
tpon us. In passing the lbspital of M
v, the Empress petceived at a rindow
curer old age; she pointed him out to

Iperor. who called to him kindly, entered
conversation with him, and on being informed

ituation, doubled his pemion.
smelter has bent fur some drys very cold.
Empress, on her return from ore of her rid en,

zed with a severe co!1. which c.)nfined
chamber fur two 'Lys. The anxiety caured
r indisposition is niiw dissipated. We see her
you the Emperor to the chase.

Nov. I.
Excellency Mohib-Effendy. Ambassador of
'a Hine Porte, this day presented to His Ma-
Emperor and King. his new Credentials.
introduced to tics audience in the usual
by the Master .:nd Assistant cf the Ceremo-
who waited upon him with three of Ili; Ma-
He was introduced into the

carriages.

,b 1 tlis Excellency the Grand Master of toe
Cernnen'es, and p:esented by His Serene Mishits's
• Prince Vice• Grand Eleaor, filling tLe folic-
the Arch-Chancellor of State.
?ARM OCT. 25.
terrrs from the Banks of the Main. dated the
' o.lober, announce, that the Baron de Brock-
, new Minis.er of Prussia to ►he Curt of
arrived on the 15th, at night, at Manheins,
is family, and the Counsellor of Le;zation,
.ke. He proceeded on the 17th, for Paris.
oc r. 26.
CeZloral Colleges of the departments, tuto-
r fourth series, have been convened by the
ial Decree, issued at P.mtaiableau. the 17e.
107. The operations of these Colleges h: ye
obje.:l the nominating% of Candidates to t .e
the Lsgirlative Body. &c.

Nov 2.

Majesty has appointed M Remosat. Super•
attalzt of the Poor grand Theatres of tt.e Capt:al.

114611 E. OCT. 20

WeJneulay, 1-1;$ Majesty, atten,:ed by
inscrous suite, went to Catwyck to inspect ti.e
of the ntw canal.
Royal Gassier of yesterday contains the ful-
Decree :

r, by the Grace of God and the Constitution of
Realm, King of Holland, Constable of France;
N.lizond the erfurts of Ili. Majesty, the Emperor of the
?tench, King of 'Lily, against the common enemy, as
moll as the measures already adopted by Ilia Imperial
\f linty, with regard to the Navigation of the Elbe and
the Weser, we have decreer& as follows

IC I E I. MI navigation what.oever, coastwise, from the
ta the Weser, is mollibited, unless made under the
ecnsoy of Our ships of war, and on!y fur thr• arrival
I deprture at and from Ports occupied by our troops.
11. The enttau•s into our poets is prull•Li!el to all
whatever they may be, laden with any merchandise,
• as cannot be supplied by England, such as build•
imber, masts, and o;he• produaions of the North.
lII. kit vessels lads., in whole or its part with cola-
productions and merchand.z.i, which may be sup; sod
frurn England, 'hail be stool at their entranev rots
i• The 'merchandise 'UM be teluetteted, until noon
it shell be ascertained, M a definitive manner,
/ are or net liable to confiscation. Vessels attir-
e the convoy of our ships of war, as stated ilk Arti-
. are excepted trim this regulation.
Baron de Fele, Minister of the Emperor of Aus•
'le:pelted here.

NSPIPS. SEPT. 29.
o4tters frost Malta state, that the garrison of
t Island is reduced to a very small number ;
that the English have been obliged to send all
disposable troops they had to Egypt. Accord-
' the same accounts, the English at Rosetta
sufered a terrible check on the pan of the
As. In the port of that city, there remained
a single English ship of the line sad a frigate.

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