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London, England, 1803-05-26 00:00:00

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.FOREIGN IhrtELLIO.IINO,

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FROM TUE Fill!Netl PAPERS.
Last Friday, at three o'clock, the following Mes•
sage was delivered by several of the Orators of go-
vernment to the Senate, the Legislative Body, and
the Tribunate
MtSSAGE.

St. Cloud, May 20.
The Ambassador of Eng!aisd has been re-called ; comiielled
by this circumstance, the Ambassador of the Republic has
quitted a country where he could no longer hear the lam
gull.: of peace..
At this decisive moment the Government :ut;onits to jour
view, and it will submit to the view of France and of Europe,
its first relations with the Britannic Ministry, the negotiations
which were terluinated by the Treaty of Aroiew, and the new
discussions which seem to finish by an absolute rupturei

'fhe present age and posterity will there s:•e all that it has
done to put an end to thu calasnitiet of war, and with what mo-
deration and what patience it has laboured to prevent their re-

turn.

Nothing has been able to interrupt the course of the projects
formed to rekindle 41'.secitil between the torn nations. The
Treaty of Amiens had Leen negotiated amidst the clamours of
a party hostile to peace. Scarcely was it concluded, wheat it
was the object of bitter censure. It was represented as fatal to
England, because it was not disgraceful to France. Soon after,
alarms w^re d4s-minated ; flingers were pretended, on which
was established the nece,sity of a state of peace, such as to be
a permanent signal of new hostilities. There were kept in re-
serve, and hired, those vile miscreants, who had torn the bo-
som of their country, and who were. intended to tear it anew.
Vain calculations of hatred ! We are no longer that France
which was divided by factions, and buffeted by storms; but
France restored to internal tranquillity, regenerated in her ad-
minkratiuto and her laws, and ready to fall, with her whole
weight, upon whatever foreign State may dare to attack her,
and to unite with the banditti whifm an atrocious policy
would once more cast upon her shores to organize pillage and
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At length an unexpeled Message, all at once, terrifies
England with imaginary armaments in France and Batavia,
and suppose, the existence of important discussions, which di.
vitl'ad the two Governments, while no such discussion was
known to the French Government.
lininediat2ly formidable armaments took place on the coysts,
and in the ports of Great Britain; the sea is covered with twr
stii;is of war ; and it is in the midst of these preparations that
the Cabinet of London demands of France th? abrogation of a
fuadainental article of the Treaty of Amiens.
They wanted, they said, hew guarantees ; and they despised
the sanctity ofTruatios, the execution of which is the first of
guarantees which nations can give to each other.
In vain did France invoke that faith which has been sworn;
in ain did she appeal to the forms received among nations : iu
van did she consent to hut her eyes to the actual non-execution

of the article of the Treaty of Amiens, from which England
pretended to release herself: in vain was she willing to delay
taking a definitive resolution until Spain and Batavia, both of
them contracting parties, could have manifested tfieir disposi-
tion in vain, in short, did she propose to request the media-
tion of the Powers who had been invited to guarantee, and
who, in effect, did guarantee the stipulation required to be
abrogated.
Every proposition was rejected, and the demands of England
became more imperious and more absolute.
It was not in time ptinciples of the Government to yield to
meaace ; it was not in their power to bend the majesty of the
French People to laws prescribed to them with forms so haughty
and so new. Had they done so, they would have consecrated
in favour of England the right of annulling, at her sole plea-
sure, all the stipulations which bind her towards France. It
would have authorized her to demand from France new gua-
rantees, on the slightest alarm which she might have thought
proper tc pretend; and hence two new principles would have
been placed in the public code of Great Britain, by the side of
that by which she has disinherited the ether nations of the
coininun sovereignty of the seas, and submitted t her laws
and to her regulatiuns the independence of their flag.
The Gavernmeut stopped at the limit traced out by its prin-
ciples and its duties: The negotiation is interrupted, and we
arc ready to fight, if weave attacked.
We shali at least fight for maintaining the faith of treaties,
and for the honour of the French name.

Hai we iehled t) a vain terror, we should soon have had to

fight to repel new pretensions; but we should have fought dis-
honoured by a previous weakness, fallen in OUT own eyes, and
degradc:l in the eyes of an enemy, which should have once
made us bend to her un;ust pretensions.

The nation will repose itself in the consciousness of its
strength, whatever injuries the enemy do to us in places where
we shall not have been able to prevent them or to reach them.
Tile result of this contest will be such as we have a right to
expect Atm the justice of our cause and the courage of our
warreqrs.

The First Consul, (Signed) BONAPARTE.
By the First Coned,
The Seereury of State, (Signed) MARI.T.

LEGISLATIVE BODY.
PRESIDENCY OF LE ORONO.
The Members of the Legislative Body met at
two o'clock. After the proces verbal of the last
sitting was read, the Counsellors of State, Lacuee,
Sally, and liourcroy, were introduced.
Lacuee read the above message from Govern-
meat.

" The President—Citizens Counsellors of State,
the Legislative Body participates in the anxiety
common to all the French, respeeting the Negoti-
ations opened for the continuation of the Peace with
England. They learn with a sentiment suited to
their dignity, with a sentiment no less grand than
ju st, of an entice confidence in the force and wis-
dom of Government, which the state of these Ne-
gotiations leads to fear an approaching rupture.
" Hitherto their vows have been for peace, because
it appeared to be the first want of the people ; but
now a mere imperious want is presented, that of
preserving the honour of the French people, which
Great Britain has dared to despise. And ounong


the French hOnottr is the Supreme fat*. Ciiigense
Counsellors of State, the Legislative Body, anxious
to perform its duties Under all cirturnftatices, parti-
cularly in those points which the ambition and ill-
faith of the British Government has given rise to,
will be firm, immoveable, Unmoved by passoils, and
will have no other passions, and will have no other
sentiments than those of the closest union with the
Government, no other intention than that of assi,st,
ing its efforts, no other desire than that of its pros-
perity.—,-Legislators, you have heard it ! The Bri-
tish Cabinet spurns the Treaty of Amiens, and pre-
pares to sustain its pretensions by
" In vain the French Government has demon-
strated in the negotiations ; it has opened for the
maintenance of peace, both that moderation which
is the diameter of true grandeur, and that desire of
saving humanity from the evils inseparable from
war, a desire which is the first foundation of the
right of the Sovereign, to the lore and obedience of
the people, as that firmness, which derives birth
from consciousness of its force, as of the justice 'of
the cause which it defends.
" England insensible to these just cousidera,
tions, blinded by its own peculiar interests, wishes
to renew those scenes of horror and destruction
which has desolated the world. I have said that she
is blinded by her interests : In effcst, supposing it
true that fortune would balance for a short time
between thirty millions of inhabitants, and one that
can scarcely number ten millions. Could England
hold out the result of the struggle, hand to hand,
with France ? Again, to which nation does war,
undertaken fur any causes but that of legitimate de-
fence, present any advantages ? When, in the
midst of the most brilliant triumphs, in the middle
of the field of victory, the conqueror has always to
ere& tombs near his trophies, and to plant cypress
near the laurels gained by his vielory.
" But do ntt let us seek, in the warlike spirit
of rngland, for motives of its menacing position,
nor the pretexts of its proud pretensions ; they are
to be found in its ambition and in its jealousy.
" She sees - the French Republic advancing to,
wards the summit of prosperity and grandeur with
majestic dignity; she sees out commerce, our arts,
our industry, uphold themselves in a manner which
presages that we shall soon outstrip all our rivals.
" She sees in short that our government and laws
profoundly considered, and adapted to our manners,
by an administration, attentive, just, severe and eco-
nomical, conciliates the respect of the People it go-
verns, and thus founds their happiness on immove-
able bases.
" This is what England cannot endure. This is
the cause of the war which she prepares, and which
induces her to hazard her faith, her repose, her po-
litical existence, rather than suffer us to enjoy the
blessings of a long peace.
" What is this nation, that exhibit* such a cha-
ra6ter ?—I stop myself.—Perhaps if I followed the
impulses of my heart and the dictates of the feelings
which I see depicted in the eyes of all about me, I
should go out of the bounds of circumspection,
which the dignity of the functions of the office with
which you have honoured me, demands that I
should not exceed. In difficult and delicate cone
junctures the high authorities of the Republic ought
only to evince sentiments of stria union with tho
Government, and of harmony with its august Chief,
who will stand equally strong and able, will direa
the destinies of the empire, and will insure it, by new
triumphs, a peace as glorious as it will be .durable."
Vaublanc.—" In the midst of so many subjeas of
public and private hope which surround us, when
every thing advances rapidly to the national pros-
perity, why should a peace so recently sworn be.
violated, be broken by a nation which so lately re-
ceived it with so many acclamations of joy. Dur-
ing the long and sanguinary quarrel which seemed
to be brought to a contlusion, the English Mini-
sters have constantly repeated that they only made
war to repel those dangerous opinions, which, from
the bosom of France, as if it were from a raging
volcano, spread themselves all over Europe, and
menaced laws, religion and governments. A man
arose to whom is confided the destinies of France.
Every thing c!,anges in an instant. The old and
sacred basis of the law of nations are respeaed ;
religion is re-established. In a moment, against the
author of so many blessings, every reproach is di-
reaed ; and, without being restrained by such a
strange contradiction, they accuse the very man,
who, in saving France, saved all Europe from that
general conflagration which they sought to extins
guish by force of arms. Instantly an extraordinary
agitation broke out in the British Ministry; demand!
succeed injurious to France and its independence. The
English Ministers dared to attempt to place the first
Magistrateof the Republic, between disgrace and wars
He who has so frequently displayed ell the grandeur
of a magnanimous soul, has answered as the aation
self would have done. Undoubtedly, after having
surmounted so many obstacles, he would have known
bow to confirm, if it had been pratlicable, that uaka
which should have subsisted between two great na.
dons, to whom the noble ant vast field of
seats more worthy rivalry than the sanguinary
Inky of arms. What bead of a nation ever shgvied

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love er tiLl more enemas to put an
end to the calamities td' is It it were pussiirie to
separate thi hi'ltnry of the negoti.itions of the .First
Consul from that of his exploits, one would think
he was reading the life of a peaceable IlLigistrate,
who thought of nothing hat the means of establish
ing peace ; this is the condua which his
merited fur him the title of Pacificator. This will
convince the l'epriblic, as much as the knowledge
of the late negotiations, that he Las made the
greatest exertions to keep at a distance the war
with which we are threatened. It, is this
that wilt render this war truly national. Yes,
Citizen Legislators, the whole nation will rally
nr-re than ever under the banner of a Chief, at
great in council as hi the field. The coarage
of
our warriors will answer to his courage, their waf-
like boldness to his brilliant anivit ; 'and since thete
meg be a new .content, they will meet it with a
.nial dal zeal.
move that a deputation of twenty-fire mem
bcrs shonld pre,ent to Government solemn thanks
foi its noble exertion's fdr the mintenance of peace,
for the wisdim of its negutiaticins, and its Magna-
nitions hrmiiess ; awl finally, that this address
shi.uld be the result of the unanimous sentiments of
the ligislative Body. I move that you nominate,
iu.fiecrrt Committee, a commission to prepare and
p t you with a projet upon the subjea."
111 e LegiA:itive
.11,4 y resolved itself into a Ge-
sse4lCuntritittee.


• ??.:SIDF:NCY OF CASTAZ.
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STTIlkiO Or Tilt 20TH 0? MAY. it
Citizen ROM1i;) "UT of Saintl:O,Ntre De-
paitii.e..bi of La explained that 'there was
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!:y the Marme_ bepartment the sum of 1170
hires, for the arrears bf the military service re-
quired by the faW Of the requisition. ereeiThrire. d
to be allowed to make c7knpensation to Go‘iernment
to the amount of that sum.
Referred to the*Gervernment..
'The 11/41ayor of Montauban, the liepartment of
Lot, addressed to the Tribunate a riti;ri al, tend-
.
• ing to prove the. necessity of the prolongatkm of the
canal of the Soutbi as far as Tarn, and to demon-
strate the advantages 'that would result from its
diiedion towards Montauban.
The Tribtinate ordered the memoir to be depo-
sited in the Secietariate,
Citizen Rivaud, commissary oT War,'oketed a
proagram, entitled, the Ca, of rictoriesEor Ike bell of
the Battle of Marengo.
The central Vaccine Committee Presented a copy
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of its report on the Vaccine lnoc'tilati bn.
Blondel, a laW7er, presented the first volume of
the Memoirs of the rarliuniant of Paris, or a collection
of its secret :deliberations, decreeb and remonstrances,
With the. head 'ofiustice held, since PhiTtip the Fair
rendered it sedeufitY, till the moment' of its sup,
pfession by the Corestitutional Assembly.
The tribunate ordered, that mention of them
should be made in the proces verbal, and the depot
of works in its library.
The President read a message of the Goiernment,
dated from St. Cloud, May 20th, in which the First
Consul announced his having sent three 'orators,
charged with a communication, to the Tribunate.
These °raters, who were immediately introduced,
were the Counsellors' of State, lerenger, Miot,
and Petiet.
Berenger spoke and read the Message of the
Government ; to which the President answered as
follows :

" Citizens, Orators of Government,
" The documents you presented to the Tribunate,
will be an eternal monument of the moderation of
the French people. They will explain to Europe,
and .to posterity, to what point the First Magistrate
of France carried the love of peace.
" Though in all probability, the consequences of
the war will be less formidable to the Republic,
than its enemy, the Tribunate beholds this scourge
of humanity menace it again; it appreciates, and
Lurope undpubtedly apprecia: a all that the
First Consul has done to avoid it. • Our confidence
in the Government is like that of the nation, bound.
less. When in a country so powerful as France, on
which nature has lavished all its means, and there
exists such an union of wills, the future may be con-
templated.without uneasiness, and even with contii
dente.
" The Tribunate wil! examine the documents yon
have laid before it with the care and maturity suited
to such grave circumstances. Its resolutions and
proceedings will be condu&ed by patriotism, and a
profound feeling of national honour."
The message and the answer of the Presider
were ordered to be printed.
In the terms of the regulation, the paper trans-
mitted by the Government was referred to the exa-
mination of a special commission, appointed by
scrutiny. The Members that were to compose it
Were, Citizens Oallios, Boissy d'Anglas, Simeon,
Jaucount, Koch, Feabre of Aude, and Darse.
The sitting then closed, and was adjourned till to-
morrow.

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M V 20.

Tacit gance has just. been received here, lsy an
express from Magdeburg, that all the roads in that
qua.-t,:r are covered with Prussian troops, bagga6e
waggons, and artillery, direCting their match to-
waejs the Eleetorate of Hanover; which country
it scans to b.! one of the most immediate operations
of .the Chlef.Consul to occupy, provided the Pi US-
s ans donut prevent him.
n The Cabinet of Berlin, some time ago, perfefHy
submitted to all the views of that of the 1 hotille-
ries ; but since Russia and Austria have declared
it to be their firm intention to maintain a stria neu-
trality during the present conteq, the Prussian Ca-
binet begins to have the same sentiments.
The arrival of his Majesty's cutter the Constance,
Capt.. Griffiths, on the 16th inst. at Cuxhaven, caus-
ed a greet sersaticn here, as this ship is to convey
the Bi itish vessels which are still hi this harbour. The
nett London convoy is espeted here with great
anxiety.
Private letters from La Vendee mention, that the
spi, it of the inhabitants of that lately so unhappy
proviacc, seems to be again rising from is ashes,
sand th..t the Itepubiit.in aimed force, which is to
be statior,ed there, will be raised to 60,C00 men.
By the last advice' from Constantinople, of the
t4th inst. it app?ars that Gen. Brune is moving
heaven and earth to induce the Porte to shut its
Tiorts against the English, in case of war; but this
leas hitherto been constantly refused."

PAPERS
pizsENT co TO THE HOVSE OF COMMONS DT LORD
HAWK/:3BCRT, assncTiNo THE RESTITUTION OF
CERTAIN CONQUERED !LACES.

Copy of his Ahresty's Os out fur the nesritution, to the
French mid Ritavian Rerublics, of the fohuwing lsiands of
Sentermintst
Capes,/ fisted Hope, Surinace,
leturripique, .Demerara,
Ti &ago flerhi to and Essequibo,
St. Lucie, St. Eustatius
Dwells awl the Saints, St ../vlartiu's,
Pierre and Miquelon, Game,
Curacao, Conquests in East Inilles.
C. R.
Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well r Whereas a De-
7i/Nmy of Peace has been signed at Amiens on the
27th Jae of March last,•-bv Our Minister' Plenipotentiary, and
thoae'of the French Repubrie, his Catholic Ma esty, and the
tostivian Republic : And whereas it is stipulated by the Third
Article Of the 'said Treaty,: 1114 we shall restore to the French
Republic and her Allies, namely, his Catholic Majesty and the
Renuhllc, all the inirtssions and colonies which be-
.lWiged to them respectively, and which bad been oeiupiod or
donquered-by our forces in .the course of the war, with tile, 9-
ception of the island of Trinidad and the Dutch pons. inns rn
the island of Cet Lin : And it being further stipulated, in the
Twelfth article of the said Definitive Trteity, that the evacea.
tons, cesrious, and restitutions_ stipulated fin by the present
Treaty, except where otherwise expressly provided for, 'shill
etjce pl ice in the Continent and seas of Africa, within three
snonths after the ratification of the prese:tt lieinitive Treaty,
which ratiAcatiuni were exchanged on the ^.:d clay of April
last : And it being stipnlated by the 1:; h Article of the said
Definitiie Treaty, that in all the cases cif restitution egrets'
epee by the present Treaty, the fortifications shall.be delivered
op is the State in which they may have been at the time of the
Signature of the Pielimirtery Treaty, and that all the winks
Sehicit shall have been constructed since the occupatiou shall
main mitouched, our will and pleasure is, that you do, pet-
Utant to the Stipulations above reeeffed, deliver, or Milk! to he
11,4ivited to such Commissary us Commissaries as shall be
lacteal and autlioriied on the part of the Republic to
receive the same, the of with the fortifications
thereof; in the state in which they may have been at the time
of the signature of the Preliminary Treaty, leaving untonched
the weeks which shall have been constructed since the occups-
title ; and for .so doing this ,hall be your warrant.
Given at Our Court at St. James's, the day of May,
1602. in the forty-second year of Our Reign.
BY HIS MAI !STY% COM mArip,
((;ounterslnerl) HOBART.
To our trusty and w,..11-beloved Governor of the of
or to the Oltcer .commanding our troo:is in the
said stub:meet, arid to all others whom it may concern.
Copy of an lnstru,hion front the Right Hon. Lord linhart, to
the Governors of, or Officers commanding ..t
Surinam, St. Lucie,
Demerara, Tobago,
Berbice and Essequibo, Curacao.
I;th OEI. 1802. •
(Circular)
Sir, Doreirie. street, 17th Oct 1802.
Circumstances haring occurred, which tender it advisable to
delay the restitution of the of to the
Republic, I am to signify to you his Ma;estv's commands, that
you should retain possession thereof until forther orders,
1 have the honour to be, &c. IIUBART.
To the Governor of

Copy of an Instruction from the Right !lon. Lord Heart
to the Governors of, or Officers commanding at
Surinam, St Lucie,
Demerara, Tobago,
Rerbice and Euequibo, Curacao.
Martinique, 15th Nov. 1804.

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(Circular.)
Sir, Downing street, 15th Nov. Mr.
I have the honour to acquaint you, that, notwithstanding the
artrs, which, by the King's commands, I communicated to
you on the 17th ultimo, it is his Majesty's plea-sure, that you
do immediately proceed to the restitution of the settlement
of to the Government ; in conformity to the
directions you have already received for th:it purposo
have the honour to be, &c. IIUBART.
To the Governor of &c. &c. &c.

OLD B AILEr.

;WZONTSDA MAY 25.

This day the Sessions of Oyer and Termi:ler, and
of Gaol Delivery, commenced at the Old Bailey,
before Lord ALVANLEY, Mr. Justice Goose, and
Mr. 13.11:011 GRAHAM. "
Thomas and .lickert Beav;‘, two genteel looking
young men, and brothers, were tried, the one for
stealing a variety of articles, the propetty of Mr.
0 v ey, linen-draper, in Tavistock-street ; and the tither
for receiving it, knowing it to be stolen. They were
both shoprnen to linen-drapers, and it was sus-
peded, that they had carried on depredations to a
very great extent. The evidence only applied to
one of them, who was found guilty of stealing ; but
the other was acquitted of the charge of receiving.
John Ati..x4on seas indiaed on a charge of horse-
stealin, at Northampton, on the 2d of January
last. file beast, which was a poney mare, was
traced in his possession ; but it also appeared that
he sold the mare to. a neighbour, without any cir-
cumstances of concealment, and that he had bought
it of a person who was now in gaol for the same
charge.
The Learned Judge, Mr. Baron Grt !aim's, di-
rdled an acquittal.
The Jury having returned a verdict of—Nor
Guilty,
The Judge addressed the prisoner, and advised
him to be more cautious in his future bargains, and
not. purchase any thing under suspicious circum-
, stances, as he had now proof of the dangerous con-
sequences of such incautious conduct.