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London, England, 1807-12-19 00:00:00

was under the necessity of employing to discor6ert.
a cdmbination dire6ted against his own immediate
interests and Security.
The vexation. of Russian Commerce by Great Bri-
tain is, in truth, little more than an irnaginarypiev-
once. , Upon a diligent examination, made by his
'Majesty's command, of the Records of the British
Courts of Admiralty,,thete has been discovered only
a solitary instance in the course of the present
War, Of the condemnation of a Vessel really Rm.-
shin i a Vessel which had carried Naval Stores to a
Port 'of the common Enemy. There are but few in-
stances of Ritstian Veisels' detained: and none
ih which justice has been refused to a-party. re-
gularly complaining. of such detention. It is
therefore matter of surprise as well as of con-
cern' to 'his Majesti, that the Emperor of Rus-
sia should have condescended to bring forward a
complaint which as it canniit be seriously felt by
thole in whose behalf' it is urged, might appear. to
•
bc: intended to, cduntenance, those exaggerated, de-
darn:loos' by which ~-ittice perseveringly .endea-
yours to inflame the jealousy of other Countries, and
to justify her Own inveterate animosity aping
Great Britain. • . . 4'„

The Peace of Tilsit wai followed hy an offer of
mediation on,the part of the Emperor of Rnsstri,' for
the conclusion of a Peace bt.twecn Great Britain and
France, which is asserted that his. .Majesty re-
fused. -

His, ty% did not refuSe the mediation of. the
_Emperor of Russia • altheugh the offer of it Was
accompanied by, circuinstances of concealment which
might well have justified his refusal, . The Afticles
of the Treaty of Tilsit- were not cornmunicated to
his 'Majesty : and specifically..'that Article of :the
Treaty, in virtue of .which -die mediation was pro*
posed; •and which prescribed a limited 'Mut for the
return of hiSMajesty7s ansvi.n- to that proposal. And .
his Majesty was .thns.led into an apparent comp.,
atice with a limitation so OffensiVe to the dignity:of
an independent Sovereign. Jut the answer sate-
. turned by, his Majesty was not a refusal. It was a
conditional acceptance. The conditions required by
his Majesty 'Were--,a statetueUt of the basis upon'
which. the Enemy - was disposed to treat and a
cornmurtication.olthe Articles of the Peace' of Tilsit.
The first oc thesc'corrlitions was Precisely the. same
which the. I,.tuperor of Russia had himself annexed
not four .rof)ntlis befor'e tq his oWn acceptance of the
.proffered roediittiou of the .Emperor of Austria. The
second was, one which his Majesty would have had
a right to tequire even as the Ally- of his Imperial
.Maje.sty but which it would h:tve beet
proviln)t when tit;was invited tosonfide
to his 1:11;wria1 Majesty the care of his honour an 4
of interests.

But even if these ecindititins
.(neither of which has
beeri fulfilled, thu fulfdittent of them
been repeatedly royilred by his Maiesty's Atubaf•sa-
c4ir at St. Petri shurgh) had tint 'been in thetnselyes,
perfeOly natttral an,lll4..cessary ; tlerc were not want—
ittg,donsiderations Wll ;.Cl.l might warranted his
'Majesty in eudeavouringt with more than ordinary
anxiet .y, to ascertain the vie4s'and intentiOns of the
Etpperor of itt;Sia, awl the precise naturc;and'egti.et-,
o( the new relations wiliab his 'atrial Majesty hiri
'coniraoed. • -•• , •
The complete abnadOnntent atilt! interests of the
of .Priosia (wholtut , twice` rejeatyll proPoalis
of tit,parate Peztce,frtitn'4!str*'ailberence to his cur
gAgements ..‘nh hieittikett4,4o:,: ato.the
ter of those provisioini..44ll‘4),,the.,,Etnperor of Aup,ia
was contenti to , snake ,for interests hi" the
Negotiation', ile-Titetj;..`*(:.i.2l)ii4ho ent:ouraging
.•1 • • .
,p,prospectof ,the re tilt ,oaf ,exlLtr.tiotis Which his
I.lllpeOal .Nlsiesty mt tit. itist tiltspa*id to, tun gloy, in,
favour of Great •
is not ~viide 'a Vreti,..:ll oectipies and
lays waste the rein:lining dontinitos of the King, of
Pru:sia, in spite of ^tiic stipulations of the Prussiau
n
Treaty of while contributions are art* t:nily
exeled by France from that remnant of the Prus,i,iii
Monarchy, such as,,, in its entire and most now ish-
Mg state, ttrc Prussian 'Altman...Ai), wouid haVe.
unable to discharge bile the in-ft:oder, is denLiml-
ed, in timeof Peace,'6l Pi:tphiao Fortreseq, which
had not been re'tluceddurin,.; tl3r W ir; and while

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the t)o\ver of I.'ratiee is,(..%orcised over Vrussia %;vith.
finch shaniel2i6 tyranny, as to designate and demand
for instant death,' Individuak,' sub:jot:ls of his haus:
slat Majesty, and re?,idctit. iu ht' dominions, upon' 4
Charge of disrop,.eLtov,,,ird3 the emit Govern
went ; it is pot ‘i,,IIW till tir..se things are done and
suffered, under the eyes ut the Emperor of Russia,
arid without his interference on belailf of his Ally,
that his'Majesty, 4,141 feel himsel( called
count to Europe for having • heiitated to rel)Osti an
unconditional cOnlidence in the. et-Hooey 'of
Majesty'i .Nfediationc•
:` Nor, even it that iin',tilatiOn had , taken foirctila,
if a 'Peace
.had'heett edit cluded ntider it, :nal that
Peace guaranteed by 'his imperial Maje:,v, could
hi 3 Majesty' have placed implicit reliance o‘t the At -
hihik of 'any such arrsngernztti, ;_ifter 6!/)
the Emperor of Au*.itt opvoly transfer to Vrance