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I:1.i MAJESTrt DECLAILVCION.
rams's., stanefeci
tflie writercinelitsles with a Phil-Tele agaittst the
good faith and vi derails of the English Government
which fini:les all, he says. " by reLiaing Malta
and declaring war.”)
" The English Govrarnent., &Poop calm. dolor
moderato, unitortilly guided 1.” sentiments of honouj,
and care:al to maintain rhf sfzurity of it: arse, re-
a:sins Malta, aAI .declarer. war. NVie.it are its griefs f
and on the 06er hand, what are the wrongs of
France ? We have exposed, we have explanied.
them • but we ought here to repeat, that of all the
conipiaiets of England, the only ones tv!..-nli she
awes as causes of war, are the three last which we
have, eounieiated, viz. Ist, The execution the
10:h article rif the Treaty of Amiens. .d, An ex-
Irina fiorn the I hunturgh Journal. 3d, 'riven:port
of Colonel 3eitisstiiiiii. 'England Arms it ; she had
'not a more distant motive for the declaration of
teat; it i. true, that at a time much farther back
iusin either of these three complaints, the English-
Govern Tn. ;Pr* ft (meter-order not to evaenute
the Cape, and that this measure was decisively in-
dicative of a man Yest innsinion to renew the WAr.
Then the secret iof thi First Consul's tr's 41V against
the Turks was not developed ; tire itistruaisv letter,
No. 3a, and tie report at Colonel Sebastiatii, had
aim then cleared up to the w-orid the destru.ive
projeas of France. Buz what will deduaions or
reasons do, or es en proofs themselves, against an
express dec'..:ration of his Britannic Majesty, who
has declared that he has made war in consequence
of a demand to execute the Treaty of Amieas upon
a con tors:llion with Lord Whitw,.rth, upon an ar-
ticle in a German Journal, and upon Sebastiani's
report ? He must be believed then.—Thus, became
the French Government demands the execution of
thz Treaty of Amiens, the English Government
destrovs Caat Treaty. Because Lierman Gazett4ers
have printed, that it was by authority they printed
an article, wherein Europe was informed that the
F;rst Consul denied two -falsehoods transmitted to
P..rliameat by order of the King of England, that
Severeign expresses himself offended with France.
Beca•sse the Ministers assent, that I Aid Whitworth
h.,s rendered them an !crown of a conversation, in
which they pretend, that the First Consul has said,
that the duration of the Turlssh Empire would not
be eternal, and that the Grand Seignior might one
<l.ly cede Egypt to France, they pretend to make
Europe believe, that the safety of the Tuil.isli en,-
pire is threatened by France. Ilec.ra.e a French
Colonel has written that the Man .elukes we' e excited
.vrel suppoi ted by I.:0 84nd, and that the Forte en-
tertained distrust and alarm on account of the stay
f. the F.oglish army in Egypt, the English Minis-
t• think they have a right to say that France has
•iiininiated the English Government, and that it
i !'ranee that entertains ambitious and hostile de-
s. ;ns lozainst the Ottoman empire. In'fine, because
tf..t Ottoman empire is threatened, the English
Ninisters pretend to quiet the alarms of the Porte,
on account of its ill subdued Mamelukes, rahellious
Pachas, aad discontented Giteks, by presenting to
it in the moment of its danger, the perspe,ttive of
tree speedy succour of an English squadron, which,
in the course of a week, might bring to its capital
a whole arm, of deliverers, such as those who
v..atehed over the Nabob of the Carnatic dining the
List reorients of his life, who put his son into prison,
where he died, and who possessed themselves of
Iris inheritance.—Slich is the logic of the Declaration
vie have been commenting upon. Let us retire for
a moment from this crooked path of disguises, pre-
tensions, and lies : this is what England has said ;
this is what she is not willing to acknowledge.—
The English Government, in making peace, sub-
mitted to the voice of the ;leapt!, to the shame of
remaining in the rear of other nations, to the fear
rf tinditi,.%- hem self a long time alone in the bloody
fii ld. where so much evil and ruin had been heaped
up by its barb:lnnis policy, and its obstinate and
inhuman insti:ottions.
• ".After the peaev, England saw that the war had
cost her dear, an.i that the acquisition of Ceylon
and Trinidad were not siiticient to satisfy her na-
tional pride, to recompent.l her for the expenditure
of prodigious masures, and abate her envy excited
by the grandeur and glory of France. She has re-
pented Of the peace; she is placed in a double situa-
tion ; having shown pacific dispositions, and taken
hostile ireastires, she has protested her desire to pre.
serve peaces and invented pretences to break it. In
then ira-asnres, in the speeches of her Ministers, in
their diplomatic correspondence, it is visible they
have aided a double oat t, to arrive at a violent con-
elusion, and to eacu)pate themselves from having
entertailbed such a Fanjet% But in these measures
in the speeches ofthese Ministers, in their diplomatic
corresteni.fence, this projed has sheren itself every
instant_ The King's Spe,ch, after the peace, was
praismicet of mistristof tlae peace. The speeches'
of iliaiisters, during the whole Session •at PAT.
Vamert. hare been professions of mistrust of the
continuance cf peace. The counter-order to retain
tar Cape of Good Hope, is a positive declaration of
desire to &mit the peace. hi fine, the delay in
evacuating Egypt was an hostile determination;; and
-the refusal te evacuate Malta WAS an absolute vio-
lation of the Definitive 1 reaty. What was the ob-

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jeer of En ;laud in remaining in Egypt ? It was so
g cat, that all past humiliation disappeared before
v. To keep Alexandria, s% As to possess a position
remarkable as important, and. the only post which
eekted from Timis to Constantinopk. The dykes
of ill; canal had been broken, the lake Ma-
. reotis much swe'itod, and Alexandria had become an
impregnable place. From Akaandria they could
support the revolt of the .keys, assist in r,mdering
t:ittn independent, ex.i:e them successively one
against ;he other, and ;eep up in Egypt an age of
di.zsenti, and anarchy. .‘icxotadri3 would have
been another Bombay ; and the lie) s, like the Na.
bobs, divined, would have trembled at the power i)f
Ea7land. From this to the al:bounded projects of
commerce, of destruCtion, of usurpation, there was
kothirg but the chance of time to expel, and the
almost certain risk the blindness of th'e nations of
Europe, if France had riot been so clear-sighted as
to derelore these projeds. The voyage of Colonel
Sebastian% had given the first alarm. What ray-
- ings !
.what outrages ! what complaints ! upon
the report cf • that voyage. Europe is not yet
so senseless as to believe, that the publka-
Consnl, • and of '

tion of ,a report to the First . the
complaints made upon the condua of an English
veueral in regard to a French colonel, could have
441131:fil sua great clamour, if the bitter regret at

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