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London, England, 1803-04-05 00:00:00

FORE/GN IWTRLLIGEA'CE.

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FROM TiIL kati:SCII TArEttS.
STUTGARD. M %RCN 1:42.
According to private letters from Paris, alluded
to by the .44,asee:.• &liens, the opinion is generally
prevalent there, that a rupture with Enzland is in-
svF.Able. It is asserted even', that the tirst Consul
said on the 13th before several pevons—
We have made war fur tuns y.. 1 a—we »di make it for ten

years more.
• And upon another occasion lie said to Lord Whit-
worth, atter having inquired with much affability
about his health, and after having spoken of the ap-
poaching fine weather—
In order that the hope of 11.1N:es:Mg you still among us at this
pined be watiutl, it will certainly be IIf•CeSPZITy that your Go-
siernnient stiould aea ig.• its co, iduct . What Joes this M.- ere
mean! 14 it oly to impress ts•rror Two great Pow..rs like
trance and kliel.llll, CAllllOi make e.,ch ialt-r afraid. The
Preach People mar be killed, but cannot be tri:litenetl. We
rrre f-r pracei but we ate also for tie fulfillment of solemn
'treaties.
The First Consul then addressed himself to the
Russian Minister, who was near the English Am-
bassador, and said to him in the most serious tone,
If war he renewed, let all Treaties he covered welt crape.—
GA And Europe will judg,: us.
On the other hand, some persons pretend to hare
heard, from the mouth of the Minister, that it was
four to one in favour of peace ; it is asserted even
that a man was taken up on the Exchange at Paris,
for having spread a report that war was certain.
MA RCS( 2.1.
So many couriers passing from London to Peters-
burg, Naples, Rome, Constantinople, and Paris ;
the movements of the French ti•oops, of which we
hear by the newspapers of Italy, and particularly
the successive marches to the maritime parts of that
country ; so many changes is the future destiny of
Malta, Sardinia, Egypt, the duchy of Parma, and a
part of Tuscany ; and the favour which Lord Elgin
is in some of the newspapers said to have enjoyed
with the Crand Signior immediately before he left
Constantinople, are the reasons upon which certain
persons in their speculations on the present state of
public affairs in Europe, are led to think that Eng-
land now endeavours to gain the attachment of the
Powers of the Continent, to urge them to war, and
to engage them in a new coalition.
Amid these conjectures, persons of sagacity, who
either remain without alarm, or arc not to be encou-
raged against such alarm, without well-founded rea-
sons, think it most prudent to turn an eve upon
France, which. as well as England, can and assist-
ance and resources on the Continent. But, at this
very moment,,when the effervescence of British po-
litics is so remarkable, it is observed, not without
particular curiosity and attention, that the French
;ovvrnment preserves a mysterious silence, having
n.ade no communication relative to preparations fir
war, to either the Senate or the Legislative Body
now assembled.
Russia, satisfied that France means to contravene
its plans for the ultimate settlement of Malta, does
not seem disposed to take any offensive measure
against France, nor even to conceive any distrust of
its power. The most discerning politicans have not
hitherto been able to discover, in the known dispo-
sitions of the Court of Berlin, the smallest indication
from which that power may be suspefted of a
change in its sentiments and its system of policy
towards France. No doubt Lord Elgin was treated
with great distinction by the Sublime Porte. But,
it is generally believed, that tile arrival of the
Frenth Ambassador, and the departure of the Eng-
lish, which took place at the same time, were the
signals of a change in the dispositions of the Porte.
It is, however, more probable that the Porte, not
sincerely attached to England since the Treaty of
Amiens, has only taken this occasion more boldly to
display sentiments which it before entertained.