The Sun.
London, England, 1805-02-15 00:00:00

.ROM THE FPENCII PAPERS.

Wu yesterday 'announced the receipt of ,P,;is
Papas to the 6th instant, containing the Lctter
lately sent by BONAPARTE to HIS MAJESTY, with
a Pacific 'Overture.' We had not ro nn yesterday
for the whole Answer of Lord MULGItAYE., or the
Proceedings of the Senate, Legislative Bady,, or
Tribunate, respeding that Letter. Lord e*Mirr....
czAv s's Answer we this day lay before onr
Readers, as also the Speech of M. RrGNAULT (de,
St. Jean d'Angely) in the Tribunate, containing
what may be called a new Expose of the situation of
the French Empire. We have not thought it;rieges,
sary tu extrad the Speech of TALLEYrtANp in.the
Conservative Senate, or of SEGUtt in the Legisla.
rive Body, upon the same subject, as they are com.
posed of similar materiels with that of ReorrAoLT,
and comment upon the same topics, whil;t they are
much inferior in point of ample detail, interest,
and importance.

:.ITTS.it 01 LORD MULGRA.VIt TO HIS IXCF,LLENCY M.

TALLEYRAUD, MINISTRIt FOR FORSIGN AFFAIRS.

" His MAJESTY has received the Letter which has been
addressed to him by the head of the French Government,
dated the 2cl of the present month. There is no objsa which
s MA! EsTY has more at heart than to avail himself, of the
first opportunity to procure again to his Subjects the advan-
tages at a Peace founded on a basis which may not be in-
compatible with the permanent Security and essential In-
terests of his States. His MiSJ ES4PY is persuaded that this,
end can only be attained by arrangenients which may at the
same time provide for the future safety and tranquillity of
Europe, and prevent the occurrence of the dangers and
calamities in which it is involved. Conformably to this sen-
timent, His MAJESTY feels that it is impossible for him to
answer more particularly to the Overture that has been made
him, until he shall have had time to communicate with the
Powers of the Continent with whom he is engaged in con-
fidential connexions and relations, and particularly with the
EMPEROR of RUSSIA, who has 'given the strongest proofs
of the wisdom and elevation of the sentiments with which
he is animated, and the lively interest Winch he•takes in the
safety and independence of Europe.
(Sinned) " MULGRAVE."
";Downing“treet,.74lr. t 4, ISos."

TRIBUNATE, FEB 4.'
/XTRAGAISINARY SITTING.

After the proces-verbal of the last sitting was
read and agreed'to, the Counsellor of State, Reg.
vault (de St. .Jean cl'Angely), Treilhard, and
Berengert were introduced. M. Regniiult (de
St. Jean d'Angely) thus addressed the Tribu.
nate :

" Gentlemen, the Government of England, in
publishing imperfealy the commencement of a ne.
gotiation with France, has violated the Law of
Nations, and imposed' on His Nl,jrsty' the FAR..
peror an obligation to -rnak.:e. known to France, and
to Europe, the circumitanczs 'of the case with all ac.
curacy.

" Europe arkl.France will observe to what fresh
sacrifices of. selt.hve, of every sentiment of vain
glory, a nohle heart, full of pride, and je.alous
of its renown, has submitted, in: order to spare
the edit ion of houran blood, of the blood of
his 'cook more endeared to his lee. They will
perc,•iyc that the first. warrior of his age,has entiew.
voured to restore, as soon as . possible, to peace
and to repose, the existing generations, whose
tranquillity and happiness from henceforth is the
dePre.,4 Of his wishes, and will c,ntintie rite sole
glory which he tvisle; to add to the glory already
acquired by'his military triumphs. These semi.
Ments, Gentlemen,
,at, once. the thoughts and
the aaions of His IVI,j-sty. , •
" And should it be asked how a man, gifted with
a 'charaelcr mote vigorous, who has pro'ved himself
more eriterprising and more daring than the must
daring and enterprising person. recorded in history ;
how a man, in the vigour of.impaslioned youth,
could, in desiring peace, triumph at once over his
remembrances find his hopes ; how the General of
five hundred thousand brave men could keep in
subjedion the most noble, as well as the must ab.
solute -the passions, that of renown;—how he
could renounce the glory which he could still BC.
quire in this'eareee of arms, in which .he has en.
countered only viauries : it !Rust he answered--
this man has need of the repose and of the happiness
of the world.

If one asks how a young Monarch, incessantly
pursued by cowardly enemies, attacked by vile sie.
famers, menaced by assassins, silenei hie personal
resentments, and resolves to present the olive branch
to the Cabinet that hires his defamers, and pays
wages ,to his assassins—the answer is, this Monarch
is above the passions or common men. If one recol.
!eels how Great Britain, bravino, morality,
arid the Law of Nations, has prostituted her Am-
bassadors, degraded her must distinguished sOdierl,
by the vilest tundions. by the most shamtful
aims ; if we consider how she employs the treasures
`of her commerce, acquired in coottmpt of the'Law
,of Nations, and of all laws, to pay the fabricators
of infernal machines, lo'organi2e conspiracies, the
traces of which are still in the midst of us, and
which have excited • cries of indignation that re.
echo throughoUt Europe. If we trace our to our,
selves such a piaure, and ask how the Chief of this
great Nation, marked by France and Europe as the
. avenger of so many outrages, sat isties in his heart the
malice and hatred which would prevail in an urdina..
ry soul---ice. must answer, the man, to whom the
great Nation hail given its Crown, aspires from
that Moment only co the title of Father of the
French.

" Napoleon had scarcely ascended the thione,
When he had, scarcely gone out of this tnerropolis,
whervallihat is most august in religion had conse-
crated whst is most solemn in the, Wishcb of the
peoOle, when lLs heart, still lull of emotion at the
publk act:18111400n, inspired him with the thought
Of writing
.to Geo. 111.. the letter which I am
charged to communicate to you.
" The 'Emper.:r had vety recently taken to
„
Frahce rhe i,tcred WWI which the Almigitly.had
necepted, to live for , the happiness and glory of
Frrneh People ; and in order to enter upon the
act;-outplistirn,:at of that holy engdgerceqt, he col.
I.tfitd, !ta 'down, and addrewd 0-4.. King of

madeeete, and, if' I may so speak, the reli4.'lol4
sentiments that can be, conceived .and professed by
a noble soul ; and indeed, that immortal Dispatch
will not rank among the less glorious monumentsof the reign of His
.Majesty ; nor will it be the
least certain of his titles to the gratitude and love
oi France ; neither will it be the least secure pledge
of the esteem of those wise Philanthropists, Who!...
in .whatever light they may be rePrecented
lum by 0114
score and perverse men, by whom theY
',jilted without being understood, still form so to'
merous a class in the bosom of enlightened Eutori
But on this occasion may not the humanity of the'
Monarch have deceiVed his wisdom !--Cfold
reason .have long continued to cherish the hopes lug'
gamed by his benevolence ?—Had he forgotten howi
And
,upon what perfidious grounds, the most saeteti
ate a.
Compacts had been violated ?—Had he, forgatteerf
that when the Leopards were tearing the Treaty ?,
Amiens, no fiend of aggtession had provolted•thel!
rage ?.—Had he forgotten how, on the Sth Marchtit
ar
was stated to the Parliament of England, that e
Ports and Arsenals, though then in a state of P2‘
chic silence and ina6tivity, were filled with err,
Vessels, and holding out, in the state. of their eter
mem, a most menacing appearance ?—No, Tft.
banes;, such resolleetions are not to be effaced
since the era that gave them birth, whit WO.
•changestave taken place in the attitude of PO;
attacked, as she has bees, by imprudent and eoi°

enemies! ,;.
,
"'ls it necessary, Tribunes, that I solicit you/ ''',, •
tention to our internal situation, and remind r:
of the strong pledge it holds out to you of securillt
strength, and well grounded expeetation ?---Vietc
you nit' the first to interpret and express OP:
tional wish ratified by the suffrages of five Minn
of Citizens, and which since the accomplishmel"i
that wish, since the establishment of the NaP°4l
dynasty, has for ever fixed the destinies 001„
French Empire ?—Was ever an Empire more
OrT.',
founded ?—Never in any Nation has the cottslitil;.
will and energies of the Government, and e' to
People, created s mass of strength and power ni°o
imposing and more formidablel—Never haserli',e„,,
oidvanced with more rapid strides towards prosi:
lily and greatness t--For these two years passant
t;
no
true, war with England has been declared; gli, 0,
important occurrence has marked its prograll:4
decisive blow has been struck that can WPoO "we
conjeaure of its ttrtnination. But in null rt'.
have Fleets ; in our Harbours armed Flotilla!,',hist
" Of the tour chances to be got over in ff."; l'Ot.
atiCsCeni, sincc, after all, we must utter 't 01
midable word, thee of them have already oeccca„
in our favour. . The Ships are built ; theY the,a to
letted together ; and Ports have been preP,at' slot
receive them. The whole advantage °I. "1%10
has therefore been in our favour; sinc' v/ilatu,
having experienced any check in the face of At'
perior enemy, we 'hive employed two .eats
whole'
sembiing together immense means. '''''e,, sireSt
advantage cat the war has been' in our fav"Ar tett
in spite 91 the numerous Ships chat covet • ,roll,
with the British Flag, we have been able I°l.,•ties
sion and to place in a state of security our 09'
portant and most remote Colonies, the Cl 6".
" Martinique, Guarialotipe, Cayenne, 1 eel
of France, Be.c. &c. are furnished '''','t,'),, bell
thing in
.abundance. Their garrisons in•asitl',
more than tripled ; all the stoics and pro"-a , 0
ist
entirelyheD
tended for them have reached their destineti°4'4l
prelianeefi.nceArnegntte.at has
ex
pfeadiliettilont to arrivefaant tteafoi:10.111:10,ro.
tinique and' the Isle of France. And hilt toe
Colonial territory remains entire and sheller,eleass
(everyliatloVleearr;
" What advan'tamgeini
nothing of our, Poseessions, and' we setup
"
portant Province of the Enem aired l'
in:anvoseur°olpieyod.wEiee::.:::Wa°:c4f h42:3l:lngliii:lo4:lc
compensate fur ohese advantages ? svh"t. l'ai..aarill'"
' these masters of the seas the immense supertio st;
their naval strength ? They have lost IS 6 VI
tdraitighaetdeslU'ltat thlaieveroecitkhse: "n
Theyashorhe:vect I'lql'iti:4lticd:ri:
!sway immense treasures in cruizes dietoted u4iosiil
interrupted by the power of the winds, anti l'ur4iiib'
by storms and other mishaps. At home the toisP:
have seen the merchant forced front his fore
house, the manulatfurer from his loom, and deed
of muskets, compelled to consume the titreharilioki:
for their commerce and their work, in i bildir
clumsy and unavailing pikes, hastily forge-sof t"..-,:
dread of an invesion, Under the pres9uretishrtPs'
fear, ever present to their minds, the Eng- iserl:
vernment has had recourse to every ls"'ilb,lito '4
of defence : they have prepared inu''''''.-rts, '!„/"I
batteries ; they have barrio their 11°-d gr.
fortified their coasts ; 'they have contra
1,
arriages to transport troops, end pot i'll°,o4oof
tion the carriages and horses of the threei'l roe.;
they have purchased the arming of the ,v 1011.41
tian at the price of disorganization. il' OF
fol
merit of its habits, and the counteraction ° ifs ,
ners.' The traveller who, for these two Y,e V
goes from Paris to London, and rettltmin."°tll:cittl
don to Paris, is astonished to behoi" '-0001
tat of the French empire profound peace au,splh'el
established and maintained, and in the ‘--fOA tr
'
'till' Of '
England uncertainty and terror--theagi s'sii 4 ,r''
plevaila at the t)ead.qoartersrof a ihrealc"';
d owls'
defended by an incoherent, unorganize heellt'oi
vices in the trade,of war, struck with (old
%ion of theit own inability to make war 4,
veteran troops of Csar. t„if le i ill
" If we compare the state of oploi"1 in,
Oils Of the two countries, we shall bvti • stotio
,e 0.
Eastern departments of France file tve— rw,l
• of inSurrettion, enlightened Prelates re° illis'
slur '..
to the public mind by re-establishing It -.04
f OP o
their c,insciertee ; vigilant Preleas -t'_° 400
and wholesome adiiiiiiiatration, arrestirV4lA
and punishing the remnant of those batgoorrt ' '
i„A Apt
OM cast upon tint coasts, cone eins:- leig Cey ,
or wandering in our forests. lo tat
ilt eilll'opi
where not long since British gild re,eo,
'to kindle up civil war, agriculture 's'o are 'tl4
ed, tr,anquillity is maintained, the t,1‘08111;1011:
WilhOtit constraint, and paid with Pur`ilo; ioptil j
cities are seen to rise-; canals are stool 0!
roads are completed. The conserirs.sie G4/1 r
our armies, fl ck) to them at the gam . art V
„1,,t00- At
so lately 'excited them to a sscri'..t?„,,ce ir .:
. .__. to in '..

ed by
yatCh
menti

„,,:r
. .
. . ..,. • , r. f 1 la
• ' sings of fleav'en in fa your Of the. roa:tilleat governs 1 them, Nor do we see any extraordinary measures,
any suspension of the ordinary moire wing laWa ; no
longer arc there any dissentiens between the Mot. •
bilein and the Cote d'Or, between La Vendee an
the Aleurthe.
” In the mean time, at • the other.side of •the
ecean, Ireland
en , rreseno, re on the speneele of never.
ding conspiracies, instigated by Oppressitin as
constantly renewed ; an army of soldiers restraining
With difficulty an army, of citieens, by the aid of
those violent measures of which the revolution
scarcely furnishes an example ; and to concentrate
Ail in one word, we -behold, 'in that unfortunate
country, a war of
religion, persecutions unknown
at this MOITer in the bosom of Europe, that it h
irelignant to obsiove the only sptit upon the eared,
Phere the most sacred
rights are unacknoWledge
ard where Governme
entoroulable power,andnt armsthe itsesacrelf against the un-
toneience. d freedom of
" If, on the other hand, you draw a parallel be.
lweee the finance, of the two States, yOu will find
slot) the opposite Shore new expences accumalating
oPon the expences already immense ; of a nation to
v.dees 4 millioreand a half was yearly necessary in,
40 ordinary war, and who, in the present war,
aro ~ in neel, fOr the first. time, of a let'Y' en.
1,.%"e; el a levy that casts, it hundreds of millions.
•le provider fur 1114 t sum, . it is true : but by goad
ie"Pi the ileum, and by Swellowing up the. future,
'." tesolv ing , to land ire debt,
.instead of being exii:
tingeoteel by. the operation or its sinking .fun
On Q:
l. the 00l , of its only resource,. loans.—
.1,11. cut sttle, our numerous armies lieve been always
the
""‘ of "Ur ereeite;r expellee; and their main-
te,"*llrieg, woe it but an inconsiderable addition
Inuit
ri, : ""t mele.to hear upon a foreign country.—
'e-ree 1-41det, which will be shortly laid before you,
t'
APPthe You,* that our territorial resources have.
Prt"'lded t 1r every tiling; and that, instead of
addiselet;u ()ur d.'br during these two years of war,
(ittlre." ,ing fund lois begat; efficaciously to operate
''', •• x,iilion,
d t'
Wii,n France hes done, she may continue to
'4,e t'for
the 30 years, anti baa only tO ask of HeaVen that
:sue may continue to shine, he rain to fall' upon
iul,flehls, and the grounditeundiza the seed slept_
''''" in it, Years mere of war would make
so addition to our debt ; ter) years more of war
riche do
four milliard,, to the debt of Snglanal,
ret her not forget, feetve erre that
,if public Creole
a pOlVerftil and fOrinitlable weapon, that the bow'
(h) "'cm* bent,
ilia snaps in the hand that holdi: it,
e I •
„e s it
eaves naked and defenceless tare rn
e men that e-
-1
4;
E .
ntlrnd, it must he eiwned,
founnout risque durieg the has 'plundered
first Months Of hOstilitieS,,
tirol Oar unprotedled fillips, fatty or -fifty zillions,
,livres) tE► the detrimnet of our commerce. But at
d.'iti uedeleepe, the Isle of France, every.
II Uniqueur Privateers, carry in. Fangii,h prizes e
etial4lreadyelie balance inclines in our taveur in• the
,rv;tkniun o r finances, as well as in the cam_
with ear
glory.
0 I
~_
tila, ' '"4Y therefore say,
,and say it eonfid!9t!Y,
v.iirien,
jelt:ll4iebnicae,livn)ienp.rigitietgilee
points
jaunts
oourrhesriditen`meF„srealtiecreriits"r“;," to apprehend in her advenced }Busts
Where We ',stand East Indies. England' is "'err
ht
e Tu,'nerdhle e and without app
teri! 11" ltd in reality' iefilaed wounds upbn .her 1
appearing to reach
Itirev (Ind y. perhaps be it.ttended with a progressive
, sr violent convulsionse
li ''
Orr
fl'ets at Brest, Toulon, ,ceeelrt,
and K. 1 I
olc",„:1' n'xrd to the armies resolved to pels ihr.
,v„!',,,— with them. OureflOtillas are ready to del)."1
eitn-t" these_ prood sons of wer,
,w ho know no troPe'•-
terpeniers, heeiuse they have surmounted all that, he-
ten' :.41, hadristonished the naust• intrepid. Let, us
e1e:14,."' ,to keep on eta coasts soldiers inhabiting
satiP' 'nsre.,(l of barreeks, ;not beeeme intrz.'llt
ef e'rs as well. as brave wareiors. • Let o'4 Pe'"iil.e
t"glatuie in the enean• thnee, arm, agit'te) '' .a-
ee,;,u;,' "haust,andsdiscnitreeee thenieelves. Let our
4:i-re's and ont revenues. sufilee • for our expenees,
I;R1 kt there he no went hut' that of some ell:.
s4nrdimary re
soarca whiUle: the recites -"1... our
,e` (I"tre insure, te es., ill :Y6lgl 4illi, let the intee
tett, paid to leen.lneldr re 41.1"`'r1.1; and ex..Ce."411
leltrt4es,i,ll,4e.eneos rO pity those levies ill '11143 .which
se,"llt the nation wit beet defending it : let
.this
-et! t'l things prolong itself, and let the EPgiisFl
4it„ In," state the advantages that .result from thisd
0:"lorl, from which it derives equal danger an
tlit'`lne. Shall I speak to yon of those secret expo.
ie I°l4 vvi:h which the credulity of the English people
"lilyeVerY three """ths almaed, acid which terminate
tr in ridiculous and fruitless attempts. Are they
to. 14rijnr, come. troops for the renewal of the gam.
vu °I t...iiineilter, cat-offby the pestilence ; or do they fol'h 1° etlnVerseme troops to India, ote some rein}
it:eernents to Ceylen, where England hae had such
repair
I et- do they prepare some millions of men to
19)tlie tl'e ravages of the yellow fever at Jamaica,
1)i strengthen the garrisons of the English Polo,
whiches'llir,
_Pater;ed by three or four thousand men,
e. Met tinieete arid Guadeloupe can detach
istoSt them ? When these ordinary rneasuto...arc
eilJ)rePatation, the, GoVCrriMerlt SWIM it
, to. be
pr levedi. that - formidable armaments menaced
.4i,i4t)e new long' end with hove much mystery
" thee announ.-e. those ships. loaded with
shins ti, ch.
~_
c, °( up our nous anti -those fire sniPs so :
'"`"',giOusly anti 1 t . . ' launched
agai'n, -, , at such a distance, .
~
keit r our flotillas. And in feel, what other ex.
4: t lan c°1314 teript the English
'''ll a 13 tr ' ' •>'• • .1 •
how
WOold they
tett , n mg on. our N'l, e4tern coast, to try
ar eettenal guards alone, united with our peace
eilin will receive theta on their arrival,
,and
years,''fr their return f.. a\,•lasters., of . the sea for two
..yi_, their fleets have fatigued the ocean'nd the
e4equerrenean, and, their soldiers have not dared;
tle.le.n.Y: crest ; an all our shore -their, vessels' have
vei‘e.;;' °n !hem only brigands. In place of. these
that '',lictntntn% of expeditions, 'euppose, Gentlemett,
koze4l-e 25,000 men from. Brest, the 6,000 frum
etelii ;it'll' rite men
ado froth Toulon, and the 23`;900
Insie'-je Te3Cel; all, or:eveneila part, resell leelemi,:
i etoyev."):cr India ; or -even suppose, that, these;
Sill Mtn the boats nf.' out flotillas can carry,
iliss. "et in nne night, menaee And reach the
krpitilitithet:4lllBt/ on which their impatient courage.
'lilt
nauttrnii fari
5° long a time ; snpitose, what is
mi. e, thet the so frigates, the 6o ships

of the lisle, of all rare's, Vale tOo years hate seen
created, "armed, and equipped; should get out in
tin:dl squadrons, ;and:inundate the seas, .anti'dry
in every quartet the :channels/of prosperity and life,
by 'the aid 'of.. which England supports its monstrous
existence. With only a part of these suppositions
realized,• 'You will see every where', and reason •
will see also, chances terrible, and without counter.
balance,'-against England. It is therefore in the
very consciousnese.of the strength of his people,
and of his own power, that the Emperor found an
addition,l motive for speaking the language of peace.
It is, with so many plans of campaigns, the.success
of which is probable, almost to certainty, inasmuch
as that which is 'void of all danger. produces sue.
testes so real ; it is with this vast and rapid glance
which embraces the whole extent of his re.
sources, and all the means :of drawing' them
forth, that His Majesty has taken a step which
would have been shameful to a nation that had
a different Chief—shameful for a warrior com.:
intending another people. But cold not this,.
confidence of the issue of the war, with England be.
disturbed by any uncertainty as to the state of the
Continental relations of France ?s If shire were any
danger of that, 'what could His Majesty have
hoped from a step taken under such circumstances ; •
and the history of his • life. evinces that no man'
knew better how to seize the favourable moment.
—lf a Continental war were impending, Napoleon
knew well 'that there was no otheoCoUrse than the
terrible and necessary one of throwing away the scab.
bard of his so uniformly. victorious sword; 'and to'
make glitter before the eyes of the world a new
lance tit.. Achilles ; far from debasing the just pride
elhis fortune, to-propositions diaated by fear, and
'suggested by weakness, and which would haveyro.
mise'd but humiliation as their result. Happily,
Gentlemen, in this respen of our-exterior relations,
on the Continent, two years have 'produced as,
suring'antl honourable arneliorations. The taking
possession of Hanover was/ necessary and i:ldil-
pensible. The Emperor willed, ordered, executed
it. He did it to. punish the, periuly of a' rupture
without declaration ; he did it to secure to him.
sell the means of compensation in it war, in Which.
prudence may dread disadvantages, from which
wisdom has preserved us ; he did it to fetter the'
commercial relations of these .doniiriators of the. seas,
who carry an conitnerce• by war,„ and' war leto
inerce. But this poilession which, for the'first
,carried and axed our armies in the extremities of
the; North, might . have, alarmed the lowers moa
attached to our cause by their position; the, inc.ist
united to our fortune by their interests ; rite
most faithful to our alliance by inclination.
culties did in faa arise, but the wisdism, the mode.,
ration, the confidence in the faith. of the Cabina
of the Thuifleries, and its remoteness 'from every,
revolutionary and disorganisingA idea, dispelled all
the clouds, and never have we ail with Prussia re.
lations bitter established,- a correspondence more
cordial, amity more intimate.' . On the other hand,.
it the changes thalt- have been effeded in the French.
Government were called for by experience; pointed
out by'all,men of sense, desired by the eitl4.,;htened
friends of the Country, willed by the entire Nation,
no qne choir', hope to.operate' it by the creating of
a Kingly-Monarchy ; and the Imperial title' mighi
give rise to tears of 'discontent 'and coldness on the
pert of Atesttia. The discontent might become cx.
asperated, and the coldness might deeenerate to re.
sentment' hy means of the intrigues ut* our enemies.
Hence the uncertitede as to the duration of a peace.,
yet new anclirnperfetily: settled.' lit'nce the fear of
geeing re.kindled a desolating war, afilitling even
for the conqueror.. Far from our new institutions
producing'such laoientable-effeets,—etit. Emperor -of
Germany and of Austria has—seen, as he ought,
in the establishment:of the Imperial Monarchy in
faeour of, a eiewodynassy, a guarantee given to his
Crown, 'and motive for a closer alliance. it is
in'.the orgAl:4ation of our Empire that 'Ftancis
the Second has' found A new pledge of security
end peace ; a reason for removing his armies
front our Frontiers and those, of our ' Allies,' and for
nut keeping his farces on aWarpstablishtnent. In
flue, from all iheocloude whieh „jealousy, hatred,
fear, or .hope had raised, nothing ....has resulted but
happy explanations, solid 'assurances of the duration
of"peace, and the isiinananet.t. :cif harmony between
he two,Eintierori."

• ,
" L4Val CaSgeif .DrOen, Wur.
-tembeig, the -Eletior of Ratisbon, all the Iteign
ing Vetty Princes of p:rnianyi and the &ies.
trtati Order, have given. His .Majesty
proofs of -interest, attachment, and esteem. The
Drakes, 'the Spencer Smiths, and the Taylors, have
been drivervaway es soon as it was known that
their diplomatic charaaer, shamefully :profaned' by'
them, served to mask...the vilest and must odious
proceedings, and that 'the objea at' their inrri u.•y
ware war, which the present generation, :I.ltigts4l
with battles, and desirous of reprise, wishes not to
run into dangers, dreading, as it .Les, its tn:sfor.
tunes, and, abhorring its Exciters;
". Having Prussia and Austria: for allies, where,
Gentlemen, are we .to look for 'Ole elements of a
continental coalition ? Ts it in Sweden ? The young
Prince who reigns 'ovcr.ihat,§tite,etitlewed with a
warmth of _head and with an exalted imagination
(lamentable gifts for Kings when reason does' not
controul them), has not, known how to in4tisre his
ileiigns by prudence, has,negletted to call to his'
councils the sages with whom Sweden abounds, and
to enlighten hit,,eXperience by, the wisdom of his'
0;t1 thii Monarch has failed in
the rtspeet.duc to France; and in the, elferveScefice
of his resolutions, lie has kepi no measures with her.
But, at the .same time, his imprudent bolsi:iris
has not used more management towards :Austria;
and he has proVed .by the , inconstancy of his
cunduft, that • his prospeas were • without eal.t,
.culation, 'his prospeas -without maturity, his de.'
Sites without -refleftion, and - his. passions:without
guides,- he had meditated a Tretty of Subsidy
with England. He had detn:ll4ltt:l of the Cahine,t of
Sr, James's 4,13,000,000 (tivrt,) io exchange for
20,000 soldiers; but the English..M,inister traffi.lc-
ing.for men in Europe, as for inercliandi4e. in Ask
valued the Swedes hkc &Toys, ant would give but'
r6,dcao,ooo, emit:tins theTleaty was not concludt.d.
Prussia besides interposed in the itegoti titan, deciar
ing that the conclusion' of -it:would be i}ic gib }at"
for his entrance into Paintratliit :And though the .1

n'.sage prudence of till Cabinet of *gin altoold not
have defended the King of Sweden flora his own
'errors; the hilnod of the Swedes does nitt ?belong:to
him who -barters.and sells himself to' intrigue, or to
tyranny: . , ' -
if Frame formed a pretension 'contrary to the
interests and to the Kenour of Sweden, Stockholm
.would see the deScendants of the soldiers of Gus.
tavus arm for , their country ; but she .Would also,
hod them irritated at seeing their blood 'set up to
autc.tion, exchanged for Englisb guinea:Le, and proving
IT their indignation, that the Swedish . warriors,
whose fathers filled the armies of. Charles XII. are
not made to stoop to such baseness and meanness I
46, Where then are the elements,a the centre of
this Coalition-to be. found ? Will it, he in Russia .?
The King of Engl.'s-id himself announces that no tie
exists with that Power. He speaks of a corres-
pondence; but a correspondence began, is not an alli,
ance concluded. _Besides, Russia is a great Power
without doubt.; but she can do nothing against the
French Empire. Igo farther; if: the Woronzoffs
and the Marcelts • could entertain ;he idea •
of selling the force and inflnenee of .Russia to
.the English Cabinet, Alikander has. wiser 'Conn..
setlors, and forms mere pt6.lent l'esolUtions: He
has not forgotten hosit the- RusSianS Wert last War'
treated by England,- their Ally, and how wars were.
.teeminated, in Switzerlatid
,and Holland, during the
lexpeditions undertaken-by great Generals and brave
soldiers, hut undertaken with plans that'eciuld not
be executed Under the inn:it:nee of a disnsfrons star..
:—ln fine, the coldness between the Cabinets 'of the
Thuilleries and St. Pet ershti;gh is [tat enm;ty.. They
have neither of them any real sobjeetof .misunder.
standing, and what has passed within these three
months between the' two•Goeerinnents- sheves sari,
Ciently. that England 'would, in that conjunfture,
have conceived vain: projeas, and 'speculated upon
fals'ellopes, if she thought of en-iverring her corret:
pondence into a coalition. 'Worhnzeti" may have'
conceive:l such. a hope ; but who dues not know that
Weironz -ff is less a Russian than an Englishman ?
that, leaidinn, in England, he wishei to fix himself
there; and that a foe,. and disapprover of Paul, the
First, he is equally so of the great Catherine?
41 The Cabinet of Sr. Petershurgh is acquainted '
with the true interests of its country ; it will have.
always „before it the aniliciods insult of Lord
Nelson, Wishing to ite Inws in the, Gulph of
Fitt' end: It cannot 'dissemble that the attack elm-
emitted in the Niediterrahcan by the English against
.the Spanish Frigate=, cgatnst an almost Unarmed. re,-
giment, against delencilisi women and children,
Menaces also, 'on every sea, the ,ships and subjefts
of 'the Czar, eannot,dissenthie that-that attack
proceeds from'ali s_arrie snit-it and the Satneprincipled
that 'protiticed- the attack...upon Denmark in her
capital, which may produee an attack upon the'
RitsSiari Squadron in the IVlediteriantan, Or iri the
Baltie'; a 'spirit of fifty and' intoXic%tiorn Which
pervading the English Cabinet, induces them to
despise'all the POwera'of the Continent, makes nn
allowances ft 4 any one, and considers themselves is
of the serial state, and the great civilized Family
of the World. ,
There exist., then, no threatening or poisible
Co fiti•rn ; het the sacred
.stiar4otee of the Frelnth
Empire against all le•!r, is,-ItilitAtoist.l, one' have
been formed, the —Emperne would. hive attacked,
beat, and broken it ; and after vittory, would still
have proposed 'Peace; he would 'have written
to the King of . England that leitee in which'
he invites humanity to the aid hf reason, anti the in:.
terest of the English•people.. Let us repeat it then,
Gentlernernone: seniiim:nt,- and the must honour.
able of all, could alone 11.1 ye led the Emperor
to take the glorious' step he has done with' rese.ett
to England. This seetiment is are ,same which;
in other situations, diftated to: His Majesty the ,
Dispatch he 'wrote before the patisage• of the Salsve
And the Drave. It ' the sme that' inipirech that
I.;itter to the K.iin; Eegland 'some months ,bes
fore the Battle of l trengo. It i, the yame that,
the v iftery, ie I. Ie L enn r,.ternr offer Peace
to:4utitria. In short, it is tie tattle s'entiment,
which, at the Peace rrn,le. His Dilgjzsty
rest:dile to sacrifice immense coovests, and upwards
of 20'11ailli,.)n-s ofinhabitants, who h.:d submitted to
the French arms. It is:the love of social order, the
love of the country, titc ::tcred love of humanity, So
amen .prolcsSedin vain leeches, and so rarely' ear..
tied' into eetion, and which, always respefted by
the Emperor, always taken as the g;ulr of his steps,
has'been the. Pledg and'Consblation of his success. -
ti YOU will mid, Ce.ralereen, the satirising and ;
august expressions in the lei- --.er I am about 'to read
to Ytitl'---[ He ',then read the letter, 'ancl' 1.1111'10;t1
Gr. AV anstifdr]. !.;hall I c'ompatelltt pteuent,
Gentletnen, the two toonurneitta Of which history is
al ready in pti'siessinnl.."Shall I remark. to'yoe in the c
French document, eleratitin, frankness, and force ?
in tile Eaglislicanning, tied ''SveaknesSl-?!.,
I fere every thing Weal 3 a .tra)li air,. -every , thing
'briars the stamp of 'dignity ara grandeur'; warfare
ii menacing; hat 'generous ; Warfare Is Inenatingin
lost regulated by the guidance of that'rart,,,courageH
which sacrifices the chatin". of cOnqueSt, 'the alden-1
dour of 'viaory,
,the' even'ssf,gioryo to 1
the cry of loreanity,. to the teit'vs:tir a ltundre;hl
thousand tiatioriat or toreign fathilies, who caltnatiti
'for peace to Heaven and their Mbnarchs. There 'f
every thing is uncertainty and hesitation , Sup 4
positions are given as enswers to 1.144;4 the un,t
certain and equivocal` future is' eppiised to .-tile;
present,- where no doubt exists, to: a frank 'over.,
Lure is opposed the poSilbility of it -cenlition, 'which,
even did it exist,, ttinuld: neither intimidate-the "na„
Lion "nor her Eiriperoe ; which,7-whether it continues.
to act, or is vetiqui;.hedewitald:oeither'trrcrease°or
retraa their 'pre(ensic;ittin 't eather. add no or' rake
fruits tile cnntliti•ins 'writteri 4own in' the-e'lreary'
-ol'Atniiris. —II. in the constwarticatioe which she
Set-411S 'to annour'.'Ze, Etigiaed Speaks a language
more worthy of the 'Over?nee -she ha- received,",
l'eaCe nay be restored. • But' if this oely -cpportu.'
nits which seems to be nfiered by the M;tatir of
all 'Empires, of ''reestablistting 'the tetaCe tel the
universe, is left Unimproved by England, all Eurot‘e
will see that 'the. Cabinet of. LOodon only hart: de..
sir'edr; does desire, -and will alone deSire, the conti,
riUat,ee of War.-
" And if, on the answer by which the King of
-England, in 'the -Bfh year, rejetled the n ,ble over--
toes Etude by-His Majesty, juilement be passed e.'

f

if, ivith,cpeck to tile condo& of 11-,lancl, at. that
period, the.,pcsent generati.on is, as it were, poste..
city;; if a portion-of the great prolicrity of France,
and of tl3e crisis Lai:land is, now placed,
rettilt 'from iliht 'reftnil to enter into nego'l.Ation ;
Lam warranted in'thinking that a similaccurse will
prodncesitnilar eireftsi that a fresh tell:sal, no less
Criminal that .the former, will open ;,-) us new a,!-
vantages ; and'that posterity; witich in t!..is second
emergency F7onottuoe (you, the En4lik.ii Govern-
mnit.,. will also.pronoutice between the E:nperor of
France and the Icing olGren: ; n ,r is tiuti
posterity far from tis. 13qt on.the other hard, st,
worthy and so honoUrable a use t•f the power
:which the jleople'have invested N,p.)lenn rhr F
will call Jort:; in .the Empire an unanimous sentf.
ment cf gratitude and love. .
_ _

" On that occioitin, 'at least; we should be bouud
to give thanks totha, British Cabinet, with, by !Le'
ttjuivocal publicity given to the most catidLt ok
fc ,mmunications, has induced the necessity of that
soletnn exadanation, of that unreserved declaration
of the 'Emperor' towards his people ; we st 1::!,
congratulate France on having acquired the proof
that by bestowing the throne .on Napoleon, Trench
citizens have given .theinselves a tit ker., j:alous of
their happiness; sparing of the treasures of the S:il I
and-equally sparing of the Wood of their children."
The President made thefollowing reply

." Gentlemen,' Orators of the Governmzsit. the Tributuite
have long shared in the.sentiments of indignation which
iecl ;at the irraaiiabi cup;L:ity of the English Go.=
iteminents,who,Without daring to it in a formal manner,
attempt-to number among their prerogatives the absolute awl
exclubive Empire of the .ieas,'and the right. t arroi;ating to
tn&L.:;eives the Combierce and. I ntiost ry of al 1- ,!*.fations, • %V e.
must not, therefOre he astdrrls.lied, thwthey elude every kind
of overture of. Peace.; th-at they mai ti obiAacles that the
most;irme..:rat:. propositions should appear to them inadmis-
sible; and that their politics should he indecisive and !Inca.-
The:Government !Mist • be well convinced that the
Tribunate will concur with all its might, and all its
influence,, in the maintenance of the glory of the. thr,ne, aixt
of the national honour, Nvhich has been thus insulted."

The Speech of Regnat►lt Sr. Jaen D'Angely, anit
that of the President, were ordered toile printed ;
and a Commission Was appointed to rqdrt upon the
communication of the Government.

DZAL, FEB. ri..—Arrivca Ilis Majesty's Sloop
Hrinetta, and. Ariadne Arsied Defence Ship, with a:
small Convoy from rorismouth ; litiadiara Frigate,
from a Ctilize to the Westward ;fiecla, frotr Durige.
ness ; filiihrre, Blazer, Constant, _horn,
a Crcizc of 2svre ; 11 ruizer, 1,.1171), anel Alenkef,
From a Cruizt off Donlogne:
Sai!ed the }rarer:Guth Li,ooter for Wrrolwich.
Car,le d3wn the C.;:vicirA CJ t. 1.11;Doi/ (.I.?,ast
(Lamar)), for,lndia, t:4i sailed for Portstnowh.

"PORTSMOUTH, FEB. I+.—Arrived, the, Grr:erai
Small Bologiling Cutter, c,ipturerl 'by L' Entrepre.

nante Cutter.

Tilt outward-bound West. India Fleet 11611 re.

main 3 w'eathic-bound.

Lmoulit, FP Z. Lt.---Arrived IPiis Majesty's
Ship 11 hisbe, of 28' g40,t,. Captain SHEPHEARD,
from Ply nionth, haunt" to Cuerrtey.,

saopti Castre Ncket,
TON with'Malle for Jarnaica and Crooked bland ;
the Kbiiesbid, jAcon!org. N Jpis ; the
Priedeit, WALLI,, til bali.tst, Its the colist of
Spain,
• 4

The. Aarkland Packet, whicbartived here yester.
day, in tight (flys from Lisbon, left lying there' the
Consiitatis;7l AnicriOn Fiigate, Liwely Frigate, the
Wolf Sloop of war, IValsiushaw and 7' owlirend
Packets. Oct the of.h .inst. in , lac. 4.2. IS. long.
10. I'2. cinis,!.(l and, spoke by the Miner.Jos
f3lig Privateer of J....ondun, on a crutze; all a e 11„,
but had made no captures. A Gentleman has been
here for this s,;,eek'past, taking Soundings, by order
of Government, anti it is sai.i, that a Naval
tAlishinent, is to be Coml.:J. at this Port.

A Cotivoy is appointed
,to sail from Cork for ihe
Weiit Indies can the _1 of Mare!).

By the Dithlin P,?;-.rc rec,;totd this mornzng, we,
learn,-that with t'espe4i to the c:tie of Judge J Fax_
SON, tzfor the rgurnent in the C,ourt Exc;hen4er,
three of the Barovi were of opLtion, that the 2%.rrel;t
wax. , tits ku,til; that it tv.3,1 illegal, The
judgrrirnt Liven 4y the dissentient
Ortratii:i a very Itteat dtztite of attention from the
ibr a TvA the I.tfoltc ; it cilckTiedi font hour 3 in the
delivay. argumentil in Ole c.:.ourt o( Cortunoil
pitas oil the same m.tbjetti-,,, 'lO CD %MU': '.Ce 011
Shttirthy last.• •
Lient. klANcrivr 1,3 11 pplitited. to the corrim.tmi of
the .I.,terate Gun.vessel, at Chatham,

Acicnonts from.' .Sll,ain troniipn, that_ they are
ti tny;.the oreare3:t .Ip,wing to put Ferrol, Cadiz,
.
1; itrekria, Anti -toe otner important 'pointa of the
th state'of ci(ftnce-?gaintt any attack
`tih'flie'part ef`thiVCountry. It is 413 J stated, that
the Court ofSimin i 3 now employed upon o ptojet
the!-:,.lienation o Ecolesitistical ► l'rtverty„ to
ttuthoriie'• rt'Letter has been obt'ailied from
His flot,ineSii-,., 'et nu dOtii); by the pexsuasion
of llortAPAivir, Nvlso will the tile Poi 45 the ler.
rilt'ii)jflll3l-±ot of, irtiustie aed oppre,;sion. Itl the
riht an tithe, the. Fltitish.Cruiz zts,contintie to s
et!., and ha-6;1'41.1;de, and arc daily malciog, rich
ruin.