The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-01 00:00:00

PARIS, Aced TZ.

[Second Report of the GRAND IUDGE, respec9ing tire
Plots of the person named DRAKE, Minister from England
at Munich, and of the person named SPENCER SMITH, NII.-
nister from England at Stutgard, against France, and ttir
person of the FIRST Cotis tn..]

" CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
" My conjeaures are verified. Mr. DRAKE

not the only agent of England whose political ink-
sion is merely the plausible mask of a hid len Mi.
nistry of SeduEtion and Insurrettion. I havf the
honour to place before your eyes, Payers, which
prove that Mr. SPENCER SMITH, Diplomatic Age!;r
of England in the States of Wirtemburgh, after the
example of Mr. DRAKE, has occupied himself,
since his arrival at his place of residence, only in
prostituting his public charafter, his influence, and
thesold of his Government, to that infamous NL-
nistry.

" Mr. SPENCER SMITH has staered a discottery
of the secret part which formed the real °hied of
his Diplomatic Mission. I present to the 'Ft kST
CONSUL an enigmatical letter, which this Minister
has written to M. LELIEVR E DE SAINT REMI, one
of his agents in Holland ; this Agent, Spy, Emigrant,
and who has received his pardon, was already known
to the Police; but before I had any one of the parts
of his Correspondence with Mr. SPENCER SmITH, I
knew by other reports, that when he was about to
obtain his amnesty, which he procured in Plavio,e,
year it, he quitted Seez, his place of birth, in Ni_
vose, the same year, in order to go to Cambray ;
and that, on the zd of last Frimaire, he had gone to
Holland, there to serve under the name of Pau.
NE AU, hnd to follow there the double direEtion of
a Frenchman and a Spy, named LE CLERC, whom
the British Ministry supported at Abbeville, and
that of an accredited Spy, named SPENCER SMITH ,

whom, for the purpose of covering his designs, that
same Ministry had invested with a Diph,matic Cita_
ratter (see cite Pieces 8, 9 , Bcc). I further
knew, by papers equally nut-act:Aß, and not less in_
strutlive, seized on the spy at. Abbeville, that Mr.
SPENCER SMITH, before he (pitted London,. Mad
entered into such intimate connexions with a gene-
ral Committee of Espionage, established by the above
Administration, and the direction of which was en.
trusted to the Abbe RATE L, that he had demanded

and obtained of that Committee a confidential Se-
cretary named Ptaiac Auto, who ,was to follow the"
Secret Correspondence, and to receive and comtnu_
nicate all the necessary documents to the Agents
Holland, the Spies on the Coast, and the Conspira-
tors in Paris. The Letters to Lt at E. V R E, the cit..
dit for 2000 Louis d'ors given on the house olaOsv
at Rotterdam, the cypher, the enigmatical Letter,
No. 7, are of the handwriting of this PER I C ;
and thus it will be seen, that Mr. SPENCER SMITH
is gone to his residence with, all the exterior of a
Diplomatic Minister from England ; that is to say,
with sympathetic inks, watch-words to cotninunicao:
with all the Spica, Bills of Exchange to reward their
services, and a confideroial intermediate Agent, to
follow up their proceedings and to direct thein,
without committing himself.
" It is necessary to recyr once more to Mr. DRAK E.
The zwa repeats which I lay before you, Citi-
zen FIRST CON,UL, will give you an account
of a mission to that Minister, by Citizen Ros
Captain and Adjutant Major of the gib Regiment of
the Line in garrison at Strasburgh, whom Mr.
DRAKE was very willing to employ as agent of a
pretended General, who was to stir up four Depart.
ments, to draw round him the French Army, to
overthrow your Government, to instal in its stead a
Democratic Direaory, and finally, to put this phan-
tom of power, and all France, at the discietion of
the English Government.
" I should hesitate to present to you these mon..
strous absurdities, if I had not to lay before you
an original letter from Mr. DRAKE, backed by con.
siderable sums of gold, counted by Mr. DRAKE, and
deposited at my office by Citizen ROSEY. This
letter serves as a proof of the accuracy of the re-
ports of the French Agent, and ought to be publish.
ed, because the odious particulars which it contains,
give additional colouring to the pidure of infamy
which Mr. DRAKE has himself delineated of his in-
cendiary diplomacy, in the first part of his corres-
pondence.
" Mr. DRAKE replied to the pretended General.
He acknowledges the receipt of his Envoy with his
credentials. He congratulates himself on the har-
mony subsisting between him and the Committee of
Disorganization, over which the General preside~.
' Your views,' says he, complacently, are quite
conformable to mine, and I need not enlarge tut ther
on this point.'
" But he requires (and here he follows the first
vagaries of his predecessor WI cattana) that prov,-
sionally they should secure two strong places ; Hu.
flinger) by all means, and Strasburgh, if possible.—
By this means 61-4. could they depend upon a sure
Communication, then would Mr. DRAKE take his
residence near the Rhine, and it will suffice to in_
form him immediately of the in talent fixed for CM-
mencing the operations, and of the precise periods
when farther assistance will be necessary, as well as
of the amount of the succours required, that he may
have time to take measures to provide fur the same,
and that the operations may not fail for want of
support (See No. 6).
" However, the most important_ point is not the
taking of places, and securing stages for the safe ar-
rival of Subsidies. First of all, we must disorganize
the Army. Mr. DRAKE complains of being kit no.
informed of the progress which the Agents of the
Committee may have made to &till over some among
them; but he trusts to their zeal. He supposes, with
confidence,that the attempts tried with this view have
completely succeeded, and that they are certain of
a powerful diverSion from that quarter ; without
this aid, he solemnly declares, your operations will
confined to cause three or four Departments to
rise, which can never succeed upon the long run, on
the supposition that the FIRST CONSUL retains a
power over his Troops sufficient to make them march
against you.
" "This disquietude, it will be easily believed, is
the prevailing idea of Mr. DRAKE ; it seizes him,
it occupies birn continually ; however, he has found
an admirable cx.p,AliCnt to recover his cO-orPze, Yoae

Mr. DRAKE will be punished, when he shall I
know that his, bids; his grid, his correspondence,
those c,f his Colleagues, the Spies at Rotterdam,
and Munich; are the sport of men,
y approaching him and his Colleague at Stut.
gsrd, watching their steps, and studying their
charaaer, have learned and can teach Europe, that
a Ministry, which render, itself despicable by the
choice and by the condua of its Diplomatic Agents,
cantiat inspire either feat or confidence in the 'Go-
vernments of the Contintint ; and that the insolence
and
.corttioirn, -which that Ministry ettiploy!-as
weapons to intimidate or lead astray the Councils of
Sovereigns, do now find 'a p( werful antidote in the
discovery of the meanness, the immorality and stu.
pidity of their diplomacy.
iConcerning Mr. Sr LACER SMITH, I have
strong reason; to think that the operations entrust_
ed to him arc not confioed to these plots ; that he
diced. tie 'even:s which are taking place in the
Canton of Zurich ; and that the disturbances by
which that miserable Distriti is again agitated, are
owing to his gold- and his intrigues.
" Citizen First Consul, perhaps I transgress the
bounds of my tunttion ; but I must tell you with
that truth which you love to hear, France can.
not suffer a hostile Power to establish, on Dell-
tral"tcrritory, accredited Agents, whose principal
mission is to carry discoid to the bosom of the Re.
public. You are at the,head of a nation'great enough,
strong, and brave enough; to obtain, as your right,
an absolute neutrality. You have constantly com-
manded the not to suffer that conspiracies be framed
in any part of our immense territory, against any
existing Goveronent ; and already, during the
short spate of time elapsed since I have been en-
trusted with the administration of the Police,
have I repeatedly annulled machinations which
/threatened the King of NAPLES and the Holy
See ; I have pursued as far as Strasburgli the for._
gers of Vienna bank.notes. All these fads have
proved ,liot,V sincere your wish is to secure establish-
ed Governme.nts against every kind of propagandas
and plots. Why should you not have the right to
demand an entire reciprocity from the States of the
Germanic Empire ? Why shou d Munich, Stutgatd,
Ettenheirni -and Friburg, have the right of remaining
the centre of the conspiracies, which England never
ceases to form against France and Helvetia ?
" These objects deserve your utmost solicitude,
Citizen First Consul ; and 1 dare to tell you so,
because this privilege belongs to the Chief of Justice,
and the most serious attention-in this respect forms
part of your first duties.
"'lt may be objeded, I know, that England, as
a friendly Power, has a right to send Ministers to
the Eledors of BAVARIA, BADEN, and WIKTEsa.
au R ox. But English Diplomacy is composed of two
sorts of Agents, whom all the Continent well knows
bow to distinguish. Such Ministers as Coßtcrw ALL ts
and WARREN, are never accredited but for honourable
missions, to maintain a good understanding between
nati'ins, and to regulate the grand interests of po-
licy or of commerce; whilst the WiCKHANts, the
DRAKES, and the SPENCER SMITHS, are known
throughout Europe as the artificers of Orimes, whose
cowardice is proteeled by a sacred character: I will
say more—the presence of these contemptible agents
is very mortifying to the Princes in friendship with
France ; and the Courts of Munich and Stutgard
cannot support, without •disgust, DRAKE and
ENC It SM /111, whom numberless reasons render
saipetted of a very different mission from that which
i• ii,:u ced by thcir official title. In conse-

Hampton, Lucy Volunteevs.
William Osborn, Esq. to be Captain, vice Nason,
resigned.
Hopton Volunicers. • •
Lieutenant Robert Nunu to be Captain. Ensign jolin Gov
ling to be Lieutenant.
South Kent Volunteers.
Ensign William Crux to be Lieutenant, vice Rig den, re-
signed. Sawkins, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Crux.

On the 2d inst. the Royal Marine Corps at Ply..
mouth was drawn up on the Parade, in form of a
square, with their band and drums, to witness the
ceremony of investing the man with the Medal of
the Royal ,Humane Society. Mrs. BRIGHT (the
Lady of the Commandant), supported by several
Ladies of. the .Corps, advanced into the centre of
the square, and haVing placed the medal and Chain
round his neck, addressed hith in the following ap..
propriate Speech :
" You are present here this clay,. for tle purPor
of receiving a most distinguished anti most honour-,
able Reward, bestowed on account of your manly
exertions and efforts, at the time when, under the
permission of Divine ProVidence, you preserved
,the
lives of your fellaw.creatures; at the imminent peril
of your own. It has been obtained for you, from
the Royal Humane Society, by that great and good
man, our Port Admiral, Sir JOHN Coti,oys, K. B.
and I feel infinitely proud and happy in assisting
them and him, in bestowing on you this public
testimony of your humane and meritorious condua ;
but remember, a higher reward awaits you than is
in the power of man to bestow—the approbation of
the Almighty. I have only to add, that you will
now have the proud ,privilege of saying to any of
your fellow.creatures and comrades around you,

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