The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-05 00:00:00

STATE PAPER.

[Although the substance of the following State Paper has
found its way at several times, and partially, to the Public,
yet it has never appeared entire; we are therefore happy
in being able to give it in an authentic form.i
HOTit OF HIS XXCILLENCY at. TALI.LYR AND, MINIMA
OF FORSIGH AFFAIRS, tO M. o'ousaiL, CHARGT WAS.
ire IRIS FROM RUSSIA., DAVID PARIS, 9 Tittaminok,
VILAR 12.
" The Undersigned Minister for Foreign Affairs
has submitted to his Majesty the EMPlaelt the ,
Note of M. D'Oose.ll., Charga.d'Affaites from
R1386111$ of the 24 TherMidor. The Undersigned has
received orders to declare, that whenever the Court
of Russia shall fulfil the Articles of its Treaty wick
France, the latter will be ready to execute them
with the same fidelity : as Russia must oaturally
think that the Treaty is equally binding upon the
tyro Contracting Powers. If the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh is of opinion that it has some demands
Ictmake in consequence of the Articles IV. V. and
VI. of the Secret Convention of the 18th Vende.
miaire, year to, France also claims the execution of
the 3d Article of that Treaty, which is expressed
i the following terms :
f The two Contracting Parties, desirous, to the utmost
of the r power, to contribute to the tranquillity. of the two
nape Ye Governments, engage not to sutler their respedive
Su*
it
sto maintain any correspondence, died or ino!reet,
with the lipemies of the two States, or to propagate princi-
' pies contrary to their respective Constitutions, by fomenting
any disturbance whatever; and that, in consequence of this
agreement, every Subjed °l one of these Prowers inhabiting
the States of the other, who shall do any thing contrary to
its safety, shall be removed from the said country, and be
transported beyond its frontiers, without having any claim
tribe protedion of his own Government,'
41 This Article, framed with as much precision
ire veledenn, declares the very friendly dispositions
I.lJ*olsktond tlyrilwil Par% 3t t !1f...time...4 1.,,,1nt.g
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e, ere ore, aso not expeti that
. mita would grant Its protedion to French Emi.
Powersgrants,
of
fy
France,accrediting
where
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iindulge hi
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hostile dispositions against their Country : nor did
she exl eft well a condua from M. Mmteore, the
Mif,s ter ef Russia, who was the real cause of the
disunion and coolness existing between the two
Powers, During his 'residence in Paris, he eon.
'Handy encouraged every kind of intrigue that
eopld disturb the public tranquillity ; and he even
went so far as, by his Official Notes, to place under
the proteetion of the Law of Nations French Emi.
grants, and other Agents, in the pay of England.
4.! France did not exped that Russia would our.
poaely eert4 on a Mission to Paris those Officers who
had excited strong complaints against them, as was
well known to that Government, Strange conduct,
wfien it is considered what is the duty of all Go.
ve4nments : but still more so, when references is
made to the Article already cited.
14 Lastly, was the mourning which the Court of
Russia assumed, for a Otto whom the Tribunals of
France had ,condemned for having plotted against
the safety of the Frpnch Government, such a con.
dud as was conformable to 14 letter or the spirit
of this Article ?
14 The French Government demand's the execu.
tion of the 9th Article of the Secret Convention,
in which it is stated, ' that the two Contra ling
Parties acknowledge and guarantee the Independ.
ence and the, Constitution of the Republic of the
Seven United Islands, formerly belonging to Ve.
nice ; and that it be agreed, that there shall be no
Foreign Troops in those Islands : an article evi.
dently violated by Russia, as she has continued to
send Troops thither, which she has openly rein.
forced, and has changed the Government of that
Country without the consent of France.
" France also demands the execution of the 2A.1
Article of the same Convention, the evident ai'pli.
' cation of which should have been, that instead of
manifesting such a partiality for England, and of
becoming, perhaps, the first auxiliary of its arribi.
tion, Russia should have been united to France, in
order to consolidate a General Peace, to re-establish
a just balance in the four parts of the world, and to
procure the liberty of the seas. These are the pre.
cise expressions of the Article.
(1 Such ought to be, without doubt, the condud
of the two Powers respecting the Treaty which
binds them both ; but the Cabinet of Russia expetis
that France will fulfil the stipulations to which she
is engaged, without executing those which she is
bound to perform. This is riding like a Conqueror
towards a vanquished Power : this is to suppose
that France can be intimidated by menaces, or that
she will acknowledge the superiority of any other
Power : but the history of the years which preceded
the Peace made with Russia, plainly demonstrates
that that Power has no more right than any other
to assume a haughty tone towards France. The
Emperor of the French wishes for the Peace of the
Continent. _ He -has made all possible advances to
te.establish it- with Russia ; he has spared nothing
to Maintain it ; but, with the assistance of God
and hit arms, he is not in a situation to fear any
one,

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