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No. B...enteral of a Dispatch from John Ilookliarn Frere,
Esq. . to Lord Hankcsbury, dated Escurial, 9th ISMS
a—Received 9th Nov.
k have resereed for a separate dispatch some particulars
may perhaps appear intere,ting to your Lordship, with a view
to ti.rming a judgment relicaing the measures to be pursued
by Great Britain, in consequence of thos-e which have been
adopted by this Court in their present emergency ; arid I inert-
firm them the rather, as they may perhaps appear necessary to
justify my remaining here, which I have determined to do till
such time as I can receive Ohtrtiftions from home. Your
Lordship' may rest assured that the compliance of the Spanish
Government is the effeft of fear and constraint ; and that fear
is nothing less than the apprehension, by no means am exag.
gerated one, of seeing a French army at Madrid, before there
could be any possibility of their rot:eiviug support or assistance
from abroad. Under these circumstances and knowing the
chara,ler of this Government, it will riot appear erwaordinary
to your Lordship, that they should have preferred a 'emote
danger to on. which '.1%.1% pressing and immediate. -At the
mine time I cam venture to say, that there never was a time in
which the British Government or the Britith nation were more
popular here; not Miry with the country in general, bat With
the Court, with the persons in power, and with the Royal
Family; and it is butt doing them justice to any, that the
liberality and generosity of *ha Majesty's C 041,110 lit. been felt
in the manner it ought; while, on the other hand, the disgust,
wh :teen created by the brutality and insolence of the
French, has fid4:ll to mach a pitch u to break through all
disguise.

Ni.. 9.—Extract of a Dispatch from J. It Freres Eq. to Lord
Hawkesbory, dated Escurial, 11th Octieb.n 1803.—!tecsived
9th November.
After having written the two preceding dispatches,
mine d once more to call upon the Prince of Peace, in order to
learn from him, if possible, something farther re.mecting the
additional terms insisted upon by General Bournunsille. He
told me that our conference rota be as short as possible that
he had only to tell n.e, that he had not vet signed any thing.
and that most probably he shmild hot; but that all depend J
upon the disposition of Poi tugal, and upon the answer which
he might get horn Mr. Frere when he should see him the next
day. 'I asked him whit the additional terms were! He an-
swered that they were *holly inadmissible; that they Scrump!.
od„ r eleigaernod des trout) let le prune." 1 said, that passage
through Spain to Portugal ? He answered, t, le p..ei,e pews(
di.uersiat. de Nes troupes-4am nos ports—p:eldiet" I
reminded him of the declaration which the Portuguese Go-
vernment had given, that they cousidered the Pyrenean. as like
common frontier hich protected the two countriet; and 1
assured him that England would not sutler Portugal to shrink,
from eta+ declaration is a Calk" like this, which undoubtedly in 4;
volved the two countries in a common danger.
No. 10.—sExtraA of a Dispatch from J. H. Frlre. Esq. us I,anl
Ilawesbury, dated Madrid, idi December,ll3o3
30th December.

Since the date of my last, the events of this Court hue pro
ceerled in the channel to which they seemed naturally tending;
and the ratification M the Treaty has taken place. It Las been
agreed, that of the six millions which.seere .411,111,1 cl to be
paid monthly, two are to be set apart fur the reimbursement of
the Spanish claimants upon the F tench Government, and are
consequently to bc kept by this Government, in nitlvr 111.1 they
themselves w,c 1 :tay Orr demands of their ow asubjets Since
the arrival of the Ratification, a uew claim leis, however, been
vet up, for iv inent of arrears anriuntmg to about a mil-
lion atellilig, and which arc preten led to be due Aitter the he-
ginning of the war. As vet on payment has been made either
it can this account, or that of the moodily suls;ily.

No. 11 —Copy of a Di.apatch from Lord 11..,,kesbury to J. H.
Fevre r:q doted Dowitioi ;tree', 21st J.I.IU.LIV Itto4
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SI R—st liv Majesty'sGover tne n t having received frequent com-
plaints from it -sera! Cominatiders of His Majesty's ships of war,
of the iimr:andly treatment to which th-y are esposi.d in the
ports of Spain, inure esp.e:ally in that of Ferrol, and of the re-
fusal which they have exits:dented in many lint in.: s of per.
mission to purchase in thiLeporteprovisions, and other neces-
saries for the use of the teepectlve ships of war under the coin-
mend of those officers; Viaveto signify to you His Majesty's
pleasure, that you make thi• most (recibir repreeentations upon
this subject to the Spanish Ministers; and that you state to
teem His Maitnty'a just expectation' that the commanders
of his ships of war shall have foil liberty to purchase in
the ports of • Spain, provisions, and any other necessary
ortietes of which tbby• may be in want; and, generally,
that they may he treatcd precisely in the came manner as the
Commanders of thewkips of war of the French Republic, Or of
any other country which may be at peace with His Catholic
Majesty.-. 4 am, HAWICES4UR.Y.
No. 12 --Copy of a Dispatch from I. 11. Frere, EM. to Lord
Hawkeshury, dated Madrid, fid March 114/4.—Received
£9rl,.

MY LORD—The inclosed note upon the subject of the
armaments supposed to he it sinned to sail from Ferrol, was
dispatched by messenger to Sir Edw. Pell,•w, before I thuught
it adviseable to memu the subject of it to the Government.
On my speaking of it to the Prince of Peace, lye nervitively de-
nied any such intention, which raved me fy/Mithe necessity
of informing bins of the step which l'haideikm.
It has been mentioned to it i one esiiept to the American
Minister, who hail 'keen greatly Attuned, eor.ceining that the
armament was destined tu optaiwe the occupation of Louieissia.
The troops still remo a un Gahicie, but all idea of their being
' destined to foreign se ice scums now at an end.
The American &lit 'er has received a Note, in which the
claim of Ins Government to Louisiana its fumally recognises].
The only remaining difference is with rearm& to its limits,
Which have been cbnatrusrd to comprehend West Florida
I have the honour to be, &c. J. H. FRERE.
(Inclosure in No. 12.)
Copy of a Letter bons J. 11. Frere, Esq as Sir Edward Paley,
dated Madrid, 2Rth January 1844.
SIR—It appears that this Court have it in contemplation to
send out a con.id;rabl'• expedition from the port of Ferrol,
conslstine, at the lowest estmation, of about six thotisaiid men.
Though it is not evident that they have any immediate ob.
jce of hostility in view, vet, in the present 'ideation or the two
countries, I should consider myself as wholly iii.oicueablo, if I
were to connive at the execution of a measure of such all im-
portant, and, under all its circumstances, of so suspicions a
nature. I must therefore recommend it to you as an obit',"
(•s it appears to me) of the utmost consequcivNe to Illt Ma.
jetty's service, that the sailing of the above mentioned ulna:
mamma should b.? opposcd ; first, be a il "sitar:anon of your
being authorised to oppose it by force, and *rally, by the
execution of force, if unhappily such an extremity should be-
come necessary.
The expedition cannot, I supp,.s.., be in a state to put to
se a for some weeks; and tt is possible that the protests, which
I shall think it niv ditty to make, may ao far delay it, as to
render it possible us receive instructions from England. lu the
mean time, however, and unle.s you should Yourself receive in-
structions to the eositraiy, I bee to lie coraiidereil as charging
myself with any responsibility *Wet/ may attach to the Inca-
sure which I recommend.
As it is nee wish to avoid any n-eileas appearance of me-
RM., I would advise the utmost secrucy upon the .uhject of
this let et. I shall myself minimums:ate it to the Monsters
here, but to no one else. They will, I apprehend, he much
more di-pond to give way, when they find that our discretion
eadbles them to do so with decency.
(Signed) J. 11. FRERE.
No 13 —Copy of a Dispatch from J. li. Frere, Esq. to
Lord Haiskesbnry, dated Madrid, 4th March, 11104.—Re-
reivcd 29th M itch.
MY I.ORD-i-1 have the honour to inclose a translation of
the answer which Mr. Cell411(011134 MIIIIIIOI to the re:iera .It:e
thins which I was instructed to make in consequence of the
periniasion given to the enemy at equipping their privateers
fu the ports of the Island of Cubs.
Those the honour t., be, &c. .1. 11. FRERE.
(Translation referred to in No IS
SIR, Arinjites, 3d March, 1804.
I !lave given an account to the King my master of the Note
which you were pleacitl to address to rue under yesterday's date,
c,cueriang the permission Riven in St. Jams de Cuba, and
other i.laers ender the jiniseli,sinis of its Captain General of
that island, to arm privateers which annoy the British coin-
. mem*. Ands((.. Morsel., being unformed of what you have
expressed upon this snbie t, has duetted me to rept'', that
there exist in this Mi si..ry repeated proofs of the citeuinsoec-
: tins. and iworlenee with which the Ca,tain General of the Isle
of Cuba has colidn'led himself in the present eircumnanc 4i, as
will as 'stung the whole of his government ; but that, not-
withstanding, th► complaint which you have mad. shall be