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FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

7--The Moniteur of this clay contains
rf t fron of "the Engli,ll Declaration, in answer
tO.rliai of theTtriperor of 114.issia, with a marginal '
commentary.

Oa the following passage ►n the secowt paragraph,
of the Declaration,
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It . .
SMillesly was :nof Una Ware of the nature. or,
" those:eugagetnents which had been imposed upon
‘!'Russia, in the conferences of Tilsit,- (1.)
the 411quiterr says,
We are aut horised to. dedane,. 'that no secret'
• engagement .was' formed -during the conferences at
of,whichnEngland.could cdrnplaiu, and which
concerned her in any • way. Wily does • riot the'
Cabinet. of Lonion:ntake known those: secret.en,
gagements which- are. Contrary to :the Pitnerests •of
England, if it. be-acquainted with-them ? Its Ma-
nifesto_ would inithit case be unacccasary •' • and the
„404..bre- communication of those secret article 4 would's
justify its comhttl Europe, and re-
donble the zeal and.cnergy ofievery English citiz:m.
But. it is the custom of this .Government to set out
with a lakehood, in order to ,authorise its at'Sfs .of
Injustice, and' in :the endeavour to vindicate those
xexationswhieh it natises all the nations of the World
to suffer, alike. :When it was (teethed advisable
not to execute that- articie.of the Treaty:Of Atniens
which required the:evacuation of Malta, the King
was Made :to declare, in a Message to Parliament,
that -all !the French ..poroP were filled; with vessels •
ready <to effilttuate. a descent upon ,Erigland,.•
and all....SurOpe.:knows . whether there was- then
the-least arinament in the ports of Fran Ce. When
_the Cabinet resolved to seizeia few millions drpias-
tres which four Spanish -I:rig:nes: -were. bringing
from the Continent of. America, it told alit: equally
gross, in order to justify the most scandalous aggres.,
stun. • When, finally, it-wished to excuse the inex-
cusable Expedition against Copenhagen, it bad re
course to suppositions whose falsehood is evident to
all Europe. : •
But 'lithe formal-denial of Russia add-France—if
•the experience, so often renewed, of the falsehood
of English assertions—if the challenge which is
given
.to publish any 'secret article of the Treaty of
which'should be contrary to the interests of
England, are not sufficient to convince every impar-
tial,man, a very few refledions will prove that Eng-
land .doea not believe in those secret engagenn...nts
formed by -Russia.- against her.

If, in faa, t h ! Cabinet of London did believe in the
exi,tence of such engagements between France and
Russia, why did it. not, at the very instant that it
made that discovery which induced it'to'attack Co,
penhagen, assail the Russian squadron in the Meth.
terraneau, instead of pernaittingit to clear the Straiti
of Gibridtar ? Why did three Russian Vessel.;
which were coming from the North Sea, pass
through the English squadron which was blockading
Copenhagen?? Why, if secret stipulations had
been made at Tilsit to the disadvantage of England;
did the Cabinet of 'London have recourse to the
meiliatiou of Russia, in order to conciliate its Met-
ences with-Denmark ? Let ,these Ministers be at
least consistent with themielves; and let them not
assert, a few pages lower, these very words---" But
until the Russian Declaration was published (that is;
until Noveniber), his Majesty had no reason to sni-
pe& that any opinions which the Emperor of Russia
Might entertain of the transailiims at Copenhagen,
could be such as to preclude his Imperial Majesty
from Undertaking,- at the request of Great Britain, that
same office of Mediator." Thus the English have re-
course to the mediation of Russia, in Order to come to
an arrangement with Denmark, more than 3 months
after the rreaty of Tilsit ; Und'they prrtend, as we •
.shall see still farther down, that they undertookihe
Expedition against Demnark,- only to oppose the
execution of the arrangements at Tilsit, land to de-
feat one of the objeas of those arrangements."f They
seized Danish vessels, on account of arrangements
which the Emperor of Russia had Made at Tilsit;
tileypermitted the vessels of the Emperor Of IlUssia
to pass freely; they were.at peace WithitllSSin , for they
.had recourse tp her mediation : it is hence not,..trum •
that they then believed tit:it Russia had fanned ar-
rangetneetS againStjliern ; it is hence not trite that
they now believe in the'existence of those arrange
ments. Flow is this Unhappy, nation fallen by
What miserable counsels .are her affairs direCled:
Her illinisters, in 'framing a Manifesto of a few
pages, have not good sense and relleetion enough to
avoid contradiclions thei gross.

" Mathis Majesty had enteftained,the hope, that
a review of the trar4aqi&ns of that unfortunate
" goliation, and a just estimate of its etteds upon the
" glory:oldie ItUssian name, and upon the interests
of the Russian Empire,, would have induced his
" Imperial. Majesty to extricate himself from the
embarrassment of thoie new Counsels and cornier-
"tions which he 'had adopted in n moment of de-
".spondeney and alarm ; and to return to a policY
" more congenial to the principles which he has so
" invariably` protessed, and more condi.L:ive to the ho-
“ 'lour, of .his Crown, and to the ptosperity of his do;-
4.. tuinions.",(2.)'
(2). The 'good faith of the Cabinet of London
shines forth here in.alt its brightness ! It' hoped
that the Emperor,of Itussia, having formed ertgoge,;:
ments.opposed. to .Etiglandi would fail in I,:;eepilig
them almost immediately. Doubtless the. Luglish
Government judges according to its own feelings:
It reveals its secri:its to all the world. The Tr.eatieg
which its signs are mmie only for the occasion (ow
. vats i'venthetx) ; the obligations it contracts
ate bat simulated engagementi,. Which it vioitlies
or kt.ttp3;.:44rtling to its Capri; Or interest,.
We rupest it the Emperor of ItLisiifi sigiT!l no.
atgaSit which was contrary to -,Eliteiilt4tat
of Etteliod .ht,IL it :he livid done :03,- his chtira,„
ter,
.4; ,l'esaity, 01.1. nut authorise ,Loglauti

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engagements. We, shall not lay any stress upon
the tone of all this paragraph, in which Russia
is represented as -"yielding in a moment of -de-
spondency 'and alarm !" The Russians will an-
swer it better than ourselves, We.tvill otily observe
'the differer.Ce which subsists between the Declara-
tion of Russia and the Answer of England. We find
in.the first, the noble language of a Prince who
reapeets. supreme rank.: and the dignn of 'nations,
and 'who,' if he speaks of faigs sharnefal- to,a State,
does it only hecaose he is compelled to unfold tl:e
reasons .of his complaint.' We see, pn the cohtrary,
in the Allover of England, the gross insolence e{ an
oligarchic club, which respets nothing, which
seeks .10 humiliate by its expreasions, and which,
for wantof good reasons, has recourse to calumnious
imputations and insultiog sarcasms.
His Majesty had much cause for suspicion, and
" just -:ground of complaint. But lie abstained from
the language of reproach. His Majesty deemed
it necessary to'tequire'speCific explanatioos with
reapeatO• those arrangements with- France, the
" concealment' Of Which from his Majesty could not
" but confirm the impression already received of
" their chargter and tendency. But his Majesty,
" nevertheless, dire6ted the demand of that.e,xpla—
" riaticp to'be made, not only without asperity, or
" the indication of any hostile disposition, but with
thateonsiderate regard to the feelings and shoe-
" tiop :.of. the Emperor of 'Russia, which resulted
"from the . reCollection of former friendship, and
• froiniconfidence interrupted,: but not destroy-
" ed."' (3.). .
(3) Two great nations, equal in power and cou-
rage, were Shedding torrents of their purest blood for
the sole interest, of the oppressors of the seas. These
calamities touched the two Sovereigns : they were
desirous to put ,an` end to them ;, and the Emperor of
Russia, though animated by so powerful a motive,
was desirous that England should.be sensible of the
effeas of his antient 'attachment, and required that
France should, accept his mediation; .a condition
which the generosity of the Emperor of Russia ren-
dered less unpleasant (moires penible) to the Einp. eroi
of the. French. Still it might well be so, since
the mediatiOn he was called upon to..accept was
that of a Prince so' recently reconcilcd,to France.;
and this mediation being so' proposed, and so ad-
mitted, England, instead of accepting of it with
eagerness; answered so great generosity by insult-
ing' distrust. She required that the Secret Articles
set' the Treatrof Tilsit which concerned her should
be communicated to her. She was answered that
there were no Secret Articles which concerned her;
and doubtleis, in order to dissipate an odious a sus-
picion, the Emperor of Russia,' Who was .always
earnest to leave the door open for. riegociation be-
tween' Fratico and 'England', ought to have expressly
fabricated such ArtiCles., Ho had .11‘,i right to expect

that such generous cares should be so ill rewarded.
in truth, it is. hard to carry fUrther the forgetfulness
of all decency; all feeling, and all reason.
• His Majesty willingly does justice to the mo-
tives 'which originally, engaged Russia the great
f` siruggle agOnst France, Ills Majesty avows with
f' equal readtricsj, the interest which. Great Britliin
" has uniformly taken in the -fetes and fortunes of
the Pewers of the. Cont 'neut. But it.wotild surely
" he tilt to prove that Great thitain,. who was
licrheif 4 ~tote cif lio,itAhy with Prussia when
" the war broke out between Prussia and France,
had 'an interest awl a duty more direct in. espons.
ing • the. Prussian (Juane' than the E.nperor of
Russia ; the. Ally of his Pt ussian Majesty, the Pro-.
teaor of the Nottb of Europe, and the Guarantee
" of the Germanic .coOtltution." (4.)
~(4) The Ministers of London have indeed a
avenge lack.ef memory. If they wished to persuade
gurolv that they.were not:in connexion.with Rus-
pia when the War broke out between France and
Prussia, they ought to etThce from the memory of
every one, and withdraw 40.111. all the-public docu-
w
mes, the pieces which they published cm the
evi:tits of t •5;0,5. Those pieces,' published by England,
have made known that the Cabihet of London, in or 7
der to turn aside the tempest which was gathering at
Boulogne, formed a Treaty with ithigi.itt and Austria.
Tt ,was f,;ontrary to the opinion of'Prince CftAttr..Cs,and
Art awn of intelligence, that an Anstrian army precipi-
tated itself upon theilicr.,Thefaetion which the En-
g. lish Government had then'at Vienna did not examine
• whether it suited the Powers of the Coalition to wait
tin the Russian troops
_were United to those of
flu-
atria. This delay of three months' was tanning to
, England ; ,the long nights of autumn '.hreatencd her
with too great a danger, and Cosatly;Aat, sent the
Note white!) determined for War,, at the very rag*
went when the army of poulogne was embarked ;
the 'destiny of.MAcK Was decided at. Ulm while
lttissians wereitill in Poland. W4ile England
non be answered by filOs thus .puptic, how should
she deny that it is for her,. and, her alene, that
Austria and 7 Russia . have made War Austria did
.tent delay concluding Peace; Russia .remaitted at
War with .Franco. , Afterwards, n Rus'iian Pleni-
potentiary signed a Treaty of Peace at Paris. Rnssia
did 'not ratity it ; for the sole reason, that having,
in mijoncition with you, made war„.it was in con-
tett \viol yol that. she wished to malt peace.
it'frw, after hmlng made war for England, tt wait
still fur her -sake sake that RUssia did not make peace
it «as for her sake still that Russia'continued the
ar; 'lt, was not fel; Prussia, for Russia owed
itothinif, to thatrower : she owed nothing to.
Pcod'r, because Prtutsa, after having signed at Ber-
lin a Treaty rat co-operation, caused it' to be
inutediately disavowed at Vienna, separated
Lerself,from her allies, arid conelnd'ed apart her ar-
ratiymews with ?ranee. The possesSion of Hano-
i/0," so desired by Prussia, was not only intended
by Russia,' but- even against her 'interests and her
It is farther' an historic 'truth, that' Prussia
wilt; induced to take up arms on ' the reporter' the
Treaty.of Peace signed at Parie by M. Dotipan, and
iii consequence of assurances given by the Marquis
pis thhi by-a secret article of that
limeaty,' Poland had bqn- ceded to the Grand Doke
t;obtorrkwrik C. t This inconceivable Cabinet of
deeeired the whole world, was at
length caught in, her, own'toils.. _lt is hence true,
that when Prussia took up arms in 1,806, 4 was at
ihe same time arit F1.,111C,t and agaillsCßUptia it
no trlteT iati,,after the-battle cif Jena 11:444
Is '
ttl
r patty deeii rtireck fhb ,Pnoisian army, and t [l2 French
tzre., ready. at Berlin and on: the Odet;, - tlibro was
litouty.betwrOn Prtssia. and Rustart. Russia
was übli,cd.to march to the Vt2tula on account of

1806, and in order to deflncl herself. This coil-
founding of the nide'recent eventq, tbis ignorance
of the occurrences of our own times, is worihy,of
the present Minister; of England. Their whole
coriduel, finally, unfolds the selfishness and machia-
velista of this Cabinet.

" It is not in a public declaration that his Ma-
" jesty can disimst the policy of having, at any par-
" ticular period of the war, effe6ted, or omitted to
" effea, disembarkations of troops on the coasts of
", Naples.' But the instance of the war.with the
.44 Porte is' still more singularly chosen tnillustrate
" the charge against Great Britain of indifference to
04 the interests of her Ally a war undertaken by
" Great Britain at the instigation of Russia, and
.11:Solely for the purpose of maintaining Rtissian in-
" terests against the influence of France." (5).

(5.) Therefore, the Emperor of Russia has no
right to complain that the Cabinet of London should
employ the forces of Britain for the sole profit of
England, while he himself was 041n311)% engaged
with the French army. Ifthe English squadron which.
forced the Dardanelles had chosen to unite with
the Russian Squadron • if it bad taken on board
the 10,900 men , which were sent to Egypt, and
united them to 12,000 Russians at Corfu, the at-
tack 'upon Constantinople would have • been an
effeQual diversion for Russia. The condlia of Eng-
land was in a spirit totally opposite to this ; after
having sustained an indelible disgrace before Con-
stantinople; she made an expedition to Egypt,
which did not deprive the .Grand Vizier:ea single
man, and 'which had nothing in common with the
quarrel in which she had engaged Russia.
Therefore, the Emperor of Rusta is to ascribe
the whole blame to himself, since he would not

wait for the succours which England was disposed
to grant him. Bit these succours ought to have
been sent while Dantzic was yet in the possession
of KALKItEUTH. If to the 12,000 men which lay

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down their arms and capitulated in the streets of
Buenos Ayres, England had joined :the, )5,000 men
which have set Copenhagen in Barnes, these forces
would not, it is true, haVe afforded a triumph to the
arms of Britain--,France was in an attitude of de-
fence : she respetaed England enough• to expeEt
greater efforts—but Russia would not have been
able to complain. It was of little moment to the
Cabinet of London, that two Nations of the Con-
tinent were massacreing each other on the Vistula :
the treasures of Monte Video and. Buenos Ayres
excited her cupidity, and Dantzic received no suc-
cours.

,His Majesty, as his Ministers affirm,. made the
greatest dArts the expectations of kis dik.
And what have been the effeas of these great
e.ffOrts? The arrival of 6000 HanOverians at the Isle
of &gen in the month of July ; that is, a month
after the contest had been terminated. Was it
not evident that so wretched an expedition was con-
ceived for no other purpose than to occupy Hanover,
in case the Russiah army had been vi&orious ? Is it
not evident, that it arrived at linen only for Eng-
lish objects ? Is it not evident; that lithe French army
had been vi&orious, the aid of 60u0 men ye guld
have prnduced no eitea Is it not evident,' that
.1)y the month of July the , French army must have

u-een either vi6torioui or beaten ? It is not evident

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that the 20,000 opaniards, and the 40,000 French-
men, from the Army'of Italy (of which a part had
been placed at the disposition of France, by the secu-
rity given her through the EXpedition to -Egypt and
Buenos Ayres), joined. to the 24,000 Dtitcb troops
who were. at Hamburgh, would by the match ,of
July tbrm an army more than sufficient to render
futile all the efforts of England ? .
" It was not, therefore, in the mouth ofJnly that
succours ought to have been Sent ; it Was in .N.Plil.
But the Hanoverian Legion was not then fooled ;
and till the Ministers had it in their power to wit in
motion, this mass of,foreign 'deserters, they had only
national troops at their disposal; and. wei will hate
Why they did not choose to enoloy these. The
15,000 men of Buenos Ayres, joined to the 16,000
British Militia, might have furnished in the month
of April, an army of 36,000. English. That, thow-
ever, did not suit the Cabinet of London,: the blood
of the Continent alone must flow for the defence of
England. Whoever reads attentively the debates
of Parliament,. will find there the developemenf : of
this policy; and it is this policy alone which Russia
justly complains of.. She had a right to see 40,000
English land; in the month of April, at Dantzic or
at Stralsund. Has England {done so ? Not 'Was
she nhle to do. it ? If she' answers in the negative,
she is then a very weak and miserable nation; and
has -little title. to make 'so great demands upon her
Allies. But what. was wanting in the Ministers was
inclination ; , they wish Only for practical operations ;
they ealeulate the results of war at •se much. percent
they think only of profit ; and`the fields of Poland
presented nothing but danger and glory. If England
bad at last taken part in some battles, English ,blood
must have been spilled ; the people of Great Britain,
upon learning the sacrifices which war requires,
would 'have wished for peace ; the mourning of fa:-
thers, the Mothers weeping for, their children fallen •
in the field of honour, might perhaps have produced,
even in the hearts'of those Miniiters,thesatne senti,
• mews which a long war has inspired in the French,
the Russians, and the Austrians. The British Ca-
binet, in its turn, could not prevent itself frem feel-
ing a horror
,at perpetual war, or else the.rnen of
blood who compose it would be execrated by the
people. The land war is not like a war by sea :. the
strongest Fleet does not require more than 16,000
'men, abundantly supplied with provisions, and hav-
ing no privations to suffer. The greatest sea-fight
is not equal to a skirmish at land, and costs but little
blood or tears. France, Austria, and Russia, em-
ploy in war, armies of 400,000 men, who are ex-
posed to all sorts of"dangers, and who are daily
fighting. , The 'desire of peace arises even in the
bosom el vielorn and, in Sovereigns, the fathers of
their subjefts; it finds a place among the dearest
sentiments of their hearts. Of all the fillips of Go-
vernment, oligarchy is the most severe : even that,
however, is inclined to peace, when war costs so
Many vietims. ‘ The 'system which influences Eng-
buil not to support her Allies is the consequence of
her selfishness, and the effeets of the barbarous 'maxim
of perpe!ual warr;:. T 414100 people do not revolt
at this itle.t, hecause care is taken to remove from
them tiulsacriticesof war, It is tilu4 that during four
cealitiens, we have . s et: ll 4 4044 ' laugh at.the,tight
.of the misfortunes of the Continent, feedits commercia
„...

carnage ia`which they took no sfiare. She will pare
take nein ti' the esteem ckf Eutope—s)le
worthy .01 tpvitig dies, wlwn she shall present
berself ih the flout of On, bancl with 80,000 men :

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then, whatever ,mighLbe the eyentn she would. not
wish, for a perpetual wars her people would not
submit to the caprices of an inordinate ambition;
her Allies would not be her vi&ims. It is in fight-

mg with one'anothekohat the Russians, the Aus.
trans., and the French have learned to esteem each

other it is in fighting that they havetnade hostile
and cruel passions yield., to- the desire of peace.—
England has acquired her''.superiority on the Seas
by treachery, at Toulon, and. in La Vendee. To the
conyulsions which shehas stirred up, she has only
opposed u few ships of the line; and some thousands

of men, She has neither experienced the want of
peace nor-the bloody losses of war. But it is natu-
ral that the Continent should wish for peace, and
that the Continental Powers should hold The policy
of England in !terror. •
" The vexation of Russian Commerce 'hy Great
" Britain is, in truth, little more than an imaginary
" grievance. Upon a diligent examinatiou, made
" by his Majesty's comtuatl,:of the Records of the
" British,Court of Admiralty, there has been disco-
" vered only a solitory instanc,e; in the course of
" the present war,, of the condemnation of a Vessel
" really Russian )..a, Vessel which had cartiedataval
" stores to'a port of the common Eneiny. Theie
" are but few instances of Russian Vessels detained,
" and none in-Which justice has been refused to a
" party regularly complaining of such detention. It
" is therefore matter of .surprise as welt as of eon.'
" cern to his Majesty, that the Emperor of Russia
" should have condescended to bring forward a
" complaint which, as it cannot be seriously felt by
" those in whose behalf it is tirecl, might appear
" to be intended to countenance those exaggerated
" declamations by which France perseveringly en-
" deaVotars to inflame the jealousy of other coun-
" tries, and to justify her own inveterate anima-
" sity against Great Britain." (6)
(6) It is true that the Admiralty Court hai only
condemned one Russian Ship, but this argument is
not lets fallaciotis,: more thon one hundred Russian
Ships have been obliged to change the course of their
voyage, have. been. subjea to.odions searches,, and
been detained in England. Since the Manifesto of
the Cabinet of London thore'than twelve of those
Shipi which were detained at the time 'that the
Russians fought for the cause of England have,heen
already condemned. It is not then to the Admi-
ralty Court .that application ought to have .been
made to verify the occasion of Russia's complaints.
It is the registers of the Craizers.. at sea,' and of. the
Commanders of the ports, which ought' to have been
consulted. It is a strange manner of proving- that
one has done no wrong, to seek the proofs of those
wrongs where they do not exist:
" His Majesty did dot refuse the mediation of
" the. Emperor of Russia although ..the "offer of it
" was accompanied by circurnsiances of concealment
which might well bare justified hiS refusal. The
" articles of the Treaty ofTilsit. were not-commu-
" asicated to his Majesty : and specificallT that or-
" tick of the Treaty, in virtue of which the inedi-
" anon was proposed and whiehyrescribed a li-
" noted tithe for the-return of his Majesty's nn
" swer-to that proposal. 'And his Majesty was
" thus `led into an 'apparent compliance with
" lotion so Offensive to the dignity of an inslepent
dent Sovereign. But theanswer so returned. by
" his Majesty was not •if reftetal : it was; a cyindi-
" flOal;:eeqiiptattee. TAlts:'COfitlitieris reqeireAl by'
" his Majesty were—a statement:of .the basis upon
" which the enemy was diSposed to treat, and a
"--cotunittitotion of the -articles of- the Peacererf
",Tilsit.;, The. first of these conditions .was pre-,
" cisely the same which .the Eitiperor of Russia
" had himself annexed, not four mouths before, to
" his own acceptance of the proffered niedintiina.Of
" the Emperor. of, Austria. The second was tine
" which his Majesty would bait: had a right to re-
" quire even as the,Ally of his Imperial'. Majesty ;
hut Which' it would have Lien highly improvi-
‘,..disot to omit, when he was invited to confideao
" his Imperial Majesty,the care of his honour and
" his interests." (7)
(7) Sophistry and hypocrisy add to, the sentiment
of disguit which is felt at reading such absurdities.
However horrible' the principle of perpetual war.
may be, it would be less shameful to avow it :
there is a sort of greatness in boldly proclaiming
crimes. England says, that she has not refuied the'
mediation offered by 'the .Emperor of Russia ; and
yet the very day.that her note appeared in answer to
that offer, her Irons entered Copenhagen, declar-
ing, in this manner, war, not only against Russia,
but against Austria end the.wholeof the Continent.
Her answer to the Cabinet of St. Petersbutgh was
read by the light of the contiogrOiion Of Copenha-
gen. And what was that answer ? That England
wished to know the basis of 'the negotiation. How
wretched a shift ! when the question involved such
important interests ! Lord YARkotent . and Lord
LAUDERDALE knew these bait's, Let it be asked of
them, whether they' believe France wished for
peace. The most desirable , basis was disclosed in
the notes of Russia, since she offered her media-
tion for ajust daft honourable peace. England de-
manded a guarantee, and the Emperor of Russia of-
fered Isis. \Vas there on earth a guarantee more
powerful and, more august ) As to the communi-
cation of the Secret Articles concerning you, what ,
right .had you to ask for thetn, 'since none such ex-,
fisted' ?. What was your real intention ? To refuse
the mediation. You have refused it ; and the hand
which signed the reftwal wai.then reeking with the
blood of Danes, the dearest and oldest of the Allies
of Russia. . . .
" The. complete abandonment of the interests of
" the King of Prussia (who :had twice rejected
" propcstils of Separate peace, from a stria adher-
‘f ence to his engagements, with his Imperial Ally),
" and the-eharatier of those provisions which the
" Emperor of Russia was Contented to make for his
" own . interests in the negotiations of Tilsit, pre-
" seined no encouraging' prosped of the result of
any'exerliens whiph his Imperial Majesty might
fc be disposed .to 'employ in favour of Great Bri-
tain." -(a)•
(a) 'Prussia' had lost all IN States ; Memel was
on the point of being taken &omits Sovereign. The
Cra.,itita cot , one of the causes of dtis
fOrttniate ' 041/4-Afton; 'Since it had keen one the
PASCO Of, the war, i)y insinuating to Prussi that

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England.. I; it by the assistance of England that
the King of Prussia Ilas been extricated from a des-'
perate situation ? It was the Emperor, of 'Russia
who fought for him, and caused the restoration of
his Crown. This is to strange dianner of abandon-
ing his. Allies. The old Allies of England would be
very happy-if they had on'y to complain of being
_abandoned in the same way. It -is certain that
did twice propose to Prussia a separ4o-
- peke ; but it was well understood, at a time when
she had not the generous ituerposition of Ranh"
in her favour, that the Prussian territory was not to_
have been evacuated until the English should bay,'
made peace.

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" It is not, while a French army still occupies and
" lays waste the remaining dominions of the King
" of Prussia; in spite of the stipulationslorthe Pros-
" sian Treaty. of Tilsit ; Contributions are
" arbitrarily exaaed by France from that rein- ,
'"'nent of the -Prussian 'Monarchy, such as, in
".iiS' entire and most flourishing atate, the Prue-
" sian Monatthy would liavw been ' unable to
" diSehargei -,while the surrender Is' 'ilernitittl
" ed, in time Of peace, of -Prussian fortresses,
" which had not been reduced during the war ; ,
" and while:'the power of France is exerci=sed over
" Prussia such shameless tyranny,' as to de--
" si„rmate end demand for; instant death, individuals:,
" subjects of his Prussian Majesty, and resident in
• " his dominions, upon a_charge 'of dtsrespea to-
." wards theYrencli Government ,•—it is net:while
" all these things are done and suffered, under .1
" the eyes of the Emperor of Russia, and ,without
" his iaerference on behalf of his Ally, thAt his
"- Majesty can feel himself called upon to account
". to Europe for having hesitated to repose-an uncon
" ditional-tcontidenee in the efficacy of his Imperial'
" MajeSty'sinediation." -(g) .)
(g.)' Thisparagraph contains only false assettiotAl
No new contributions have been laid upon the.
Prussian States : but those which had been imeute4
during the war were to be discharged.* All 414
countries, between the Niemen and the :Vistula&
forminga Population of more than a million, bar* •
been evacuated ; the refit has not ; and the reason
it has not' itbecause the Treaty has not fixed the pe•
tied for its- evacuation .; because the preliminary if
`-ratigements with the King of Prussia are not yet ter.
'urinated bedause the expedition to Copenhagen (nit
recently thrown more uncertainly into the affairs of
the North-of Europe ; because the Prussian Minister
(who, according to the ancient policy of his Cabl-
net, has by perfidious communications given such
good. information to the British', Cabinet,) is still in
London; beCause English Vessels have been receive
•,e4iat -Memel: ; because, in s.tort, in the extraordi-
!LlLT circutostances in which the ass of injustice-oil
the pars of. Great Britain have plaCed Eutope,ltua.
sia and France must understand each other ont-
s'entendre),* As to the death of individuals, "
yells of his Prussian Majesty, and the surrender 4
Prussian flirtreises which could not be redueeildur-
ing the War," 'these assertions are altogether unintel-
ligible. France has
.restored two more fortresses to
Prussia, Casiel and'Gratz. The French make war
loyally,.andeertainlydo not put to death the peatZeilli
subjects of conquered countries. , They do not Seize
the property of individuals; they protea it. Peopla4
the Continent, read the maritime code ofEngland, atut
you will see what her code on land would be were she
as powerful there as she is on the ocean. ' She does
not-se4e) merely the ships of the Princes with Wheat
she is.at,war, but also of merchant vessels which
transport private property. There is no difference
it the '.eye of .equity' between magazines of nier-
chanclise._ belonging to individuals in,. conquered
countries; arid-the goods of traders which are stowed
{to merchant vessels. According to the relations of
equity, - there is no difference between. merchant
vessels and convoys of 'goods transported by laud
from lianabiargli to Berlin, or 'from Trieste. to Ger"
many; and have the French errnies been ever known,
to arrest such convoys? Have we not seen Lord
KniTit attempt to seize at GLeoa vessels whiCh water
.-Pert, and goods which were in the possession of the
merchants of that city ? He did but apply on land the
pririCiples of the maritime tode of England. The
Aqatrians, and Prince Da Vox FfotiNzottautrt, who
,commanded them, were iedignant at such oppression;
they'resisted them, and the battle of Marengo bring*
ing, A few days afterwards, the-French into Gepoes
.also I=lol back the security of private property'.
Whence then does so different a conduct arise ? The
,one is the result of the attabilarious and unjust policy`
of -England,_ and the other of the liberal policy and
nt France. If, on. her part, 'she were
mistress of the seas, she would be seen attacking
noneprotectingattit)needprvoepsseerltsT;
oschett.isoev suul dbi
abeet seoefn
tehvoesoe:
States with which she riiiot he at war. It' we' wish
to compare the spirit of liberality and the cwilitatioo
itnthlsi
applicationt citoatnl epacro i
cote
o i ito, pp
cfit h.
tiej
eciFi rEvei
English,
lahiisscho,adnedof
of the two nations, we should take as the terms of
the individuls and property that are found on. OP
and its alicationito
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