The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-03 00:00:00

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NOT! OIT MR. JACKSON, DRUMM. TO TISK
TIMM AN MINISTRY, OCT. 28.

The Undersigned. Ensmiv Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of His Britannic Majesty, addresses himself this
day to His Excellency the Baron de Hardemiberg, Mini.ter
of State, arid of the Cabinet of Hum Pru sia t Majesty, upon the
subi •rt of an event, which, fin the importance of the coml.
derarions which it involves, dun not yield in the smallestdegree
to the most revolting acts with which the history of the civilised
world has made us ACTimulted t an event which, however at
flicting it may lie to acktiouledge, is not without example in
the annals of the French Revolution, and which cannot be de-
scribed in its proper colours, without recalling that period, so
fertile in crimes and misfortunes of every species. It has, how-
ever, been reserved fur the Foist Cuusul of the French Repub-
lic, to give to Europe the mournful spectacle of repeated vin-
Intone of those laws and usages which, tillhit own time, have
governed the correspondence of nations.
He has caused to he carried miff, by an armed .-e, in the
night between the 24th aid 2Sth of this month, George
Rumn.ild, His tirlialltlie Majesty's Charge d'Aff '.• thi.
Circle or Lower Saxony, resident in the City a
This Minister has been seised in the very terrir•mry
and afterwards carried off to Hartung, previous t., son.
disposition of his person.
The Minister of State and of the Cabinet is a:ready inform d
in d..tail of the circumstancm attending this enormity : and the
Undersigned would feel wanting in what he owes to the senti-
ments of friukilesi and generosity which distinguish the Sole-
re.gn bi whom he has the happiness of being a,creelited, if he
were to take pains to excite an indiriatimin, which, doubtless,
will kindle of itself at the relation in what has taken place.
Rot the Undersic led finds himself cornoelled, by the duties
of hit Ministry, to claim the intervention of Mit Prussian N:a-
-j-sty, itt his qoaities of Direclor of the Click tel Lower Saxony,
and of Friend and Al:y of his Master, interested like liiiiiseii
in time maintenance or the rights of uations,and of public justim
The U.nlersigned congratulates himself upon having Al-
ready receive., very recently, 111 his confermnee with M I.
Biro . de H.Eileitberg, such positive assurances of the mote:,
t•-n which Prussia would rant to the neutrality and iorlepend.
en:- of the North of Germany, and especially iif the 11.111.,••
tic Towns, that he is able to appeal with perfefi confidence, in
the name of the King his Master, and in the name of the pith.
'sic law, outraged in the person of his Minister, to the equity
as well as time power of His Prussian Majesty
He claim, the intervention of that Monarch with the
French Government, to obtain the liberation of Sir G. Rum.
bold,- as of a Minister accredited to his august person; and he
is happy to think, that, under such happy auspices, an end
will at last be iaat to a sure of things, win it, if .offered tor
any length of time, would throw back the relations of the
States ot Europe to the times of the stoat barbarous nations.
The Undersigned is eager to renew to the Baron 1): Harden-
berg, the assurances of his high consideration. (Signed)
Berlin, (M.. 78, 1804. F. J. JACKSON.