The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-19 00:00:00

DECLARATION.

Hts Majesty's earnest endeavours for the preservation of
Pew hiving tailed of success, he entertains the fullest confi-
dence that he shall receive the same support from his Parlia-
. Shen. t, and that the same ;eel and spirit will be manifested by
Ilk People, which he has eeperienced on every occasion when
in, Honour of his Crown has been attacked, or the essential
kterects of his Dominions have been endangered.
vaDuring the whole course of the Negotiations which led to
the Preliminary, and Detinitive.Treatics of Peace between His
slajestyand the French Republic, it was His Majesty arsins
Zcete desire not only to put an end to the Hostilities which
tibeisted between the two Couut ries, but to adopt such mea-
sures, and to concur in such propositions, as truAlir must ef.
feCtually contribute to consolidate the general trainjuillity of
lur°Pe• The Inane motives by which- His Majesty was
attuated during the Neeutiatiens tor Peace, have since invari-
ably governed his conduct. As soon as the Treaty of Andrus
'vsas aoncluded, His Majesty's Courts were open to the
people of France Ids every purpose of leealeedress •, all S.
Suestratione were taken oil, their Property ; all Prohibitions
on their Trade which had been imposed durinyethe War were
removed, anti they were.placed, in every respett, on the sante
foot* wit Itregard to Cotmesrce and Intercourse, es the in-
habitants of any other Stets in amity with His Majesty, with
which there existed no Treaty of Conunerce.
T 0 4 sYstent of conduct thus open, liberal, aod.frieddlY,
the proceedings of the Twitch Government ;lard the most
contrast. The Prohibitions whien had .tseeti. placed
on the Cemineree of Ills Majestv'e Subjects during the War,
have been enforced tviili increased strictness atttf Severity ;
violence has beer otieriat in several instances te their vessels
4ed their property ; and, in no case, Ins uetiee been allied.
ed to those who may have been aggrieved in consequence of
• seta ads, nor has any satisfattory
answer, heeit given to tile
tepeated representations made by His Majesty's Ministers or
4 rbt4sssador at Pails. Under such eirctimstances,evhen His
",, o.iesty's Subjeas were not suMreel to enjoy the Commen
stivantsget of Peace within t 1 tin rituries of the French Re-
public:, and the Countries dependent tipult it, the French
Government had recourse in the extritordinaiy measure of
sending over to this Country a number ot persons ftl the
professed purpose cif residing the most consuletable e 37
l'Ott 'futons of Great Britain atel Irelaitd, in the chafacter
of Commercial Agents or Consuls. These persons could
fume no pretensions tO be acknowledged M that character, as
,the right of Nine acknewleelged, as well all the. Privi-
ieses attached to sticlr a situation, eould only be derived front Commercial Treaty; and es no Treaty of-that description
sysis in existence between Ills Majesty and the trench Re-
There was consequently too much reason to suppose, that
lice reel objett of their mission was by no meats of a Cum-
inert:till Nature, and this staspition was ‘contirmed, not only
tthe circumstance that some ot them were Military Men,
Ot be the actual discovery; that severe( of theirs were fur..
tletshad with instructions to 'obtain the Sounclitigsot the liar-
its am! to procure Mairaty surveys ot the i'lsees where
it was intended they sitould resiiit. His Majesty rift, it to
be his duty to proem their departure to their respective pla-
ces of destination, and represented to the Vrenett Govern-
Meet the necessity of withdraw, iog them ; and. it cataiut be
denied, that tlw utnstances under which they were sent,
and t-e instrections winch were given to throe ought tribe
tatneirietea as decisive indications ut the dispositions and in-
tentions of the Government by whom they were eniplbyed.
• The conduct of the French Government. with respect :to
the commercial Intercourse between the two Countries;
must the:rehire be considered as ill suited to u stare of Peace,
and their proceedings in their more general politieul relations,
as well as in those which immediately concern His Majesty's.
Dominions, appear to have beenlllroget her inconsistent with
every principle en good faith, modaratiou, and justice. His
Majesty had entertained hopes, pu coilequehee of the repeat-
eel asstuatices and professions of the I loch Government,
that tiny 'night have been induced to adopt a sytent of policy,
Which,, if it fund nut inspired other Powers with conftelenac,
etnight at least have. allayrd_their jealousies. if the French
Government had really appeared to be actuated by a doe at-
. stention to such a sys ern ; it their dispositions had proved to
be essentially pacific., allowances would have been made. for
• the situation in which a new Governmei.t must be placed
atter so dreadful and exteneiveatonytilsion as that which hat
been produced by the French Revolution. But His Majesty
has unfortunately had too much reason to observe and to !e-
-inem, that the system of violence, aggression, and aggratidiz&
turn", which characterized the 'proceedings al' the difk.
Tent Governments of France during the War, has- been
continued with as little disguise since its termination. They
have continued to keep a French Army ia Holland against
-the will, and in defiance of the remonstrances oft he Batavian
Government, and in repuguanee to the Letter of Three So-
lemn Treaties. They have, in a period of Peace, invaded
the Terntbry, and violated the ln&pendence of the Swiss
Nation, in defiance of the -Treaty of Luneville, which had
stipulated the Independence of their Territory, anti the right
of the inhabitants to chuse their own Form of Government.
They have annexed to the Dominions of France, Piedmont,
Parma,and Placentia, and the Island of E lba,wit bout allotting
any provision tea the King of Sardiniswhom they havedespoil-
cd of the most valuable part orbit Territory, though they were
bound, by a solemn engagement- to the Emperor, of Russia,
to attend to his interests and to provide for his Establishment.
It may, indeed, With truth be asserted, that the period which
hat etamied since the conclusion of the Definitive Treaty, has
heat to with one continued series of Aggression, via-
4tict, find Insult on the part of the French Government.
sit tha Month of o,:lober last, His Majesty was induced,
' lii consequence of the earnest solicitakion of the Swiss Nation,
to Make tineftbrt,_by a RePrestriatation to the French Govern.
-anent, to' avert the WU* which wcro then tementling over,
that: Country. This Repraseatation wan couched in the most
:temperate terms; and measures were taken by His Majesty
• for ascertaining, under the circumstances which then existed,.
the real situation andwishes of the Swiss Cantons, as. well
as the sentiments of the other Cabinets of Europe. His Ma-
iesty Warned-, however, with the utmost regret,
,that no-clise
• Position to countered} these repeated lafrattionsof Treaties
end A its Of Violence was manifested by any of the Powers
Most immediately interested in preventing eheni; acid Ilis
Majesty therefore felt that, with mite& te these objects, his
single Ohne could not be expeeted:to produce any co:linter-
able advantage to those in whose favour they might be exerted.
It was about this time that the French GovernMeni'fiist
distindly , advanced the principle, that His Mejesty. had
no right to complain of the condUCt, or to interfere with the
- proceedings. of France, on any point winch did riot form a
part of the Stipulations at the Treaty of Amiens. That
treaty was unquestionably fouudcd upon the same principle
a' every other antecedent Treaty or Convention, on the as-
'"hPtitto of the state of possession and of engageraznts subsist-
'"it at the time of its conclusion; and if that state of possession
-*lend of engagements is materially affeded hy the voluntary
ill °fatly t Pa: ties, ,SO as to - prejudice the condition on
'bleb the other Party. hss entered into the Contrael, the
change made, may be considered as operating virtually as
breach of the Treaty itself! and as giving the Party ag.
Xtieved a right to demand satisfaetion or compensation for
'1))1 substantial gliftrence which such flat may have eff Lett
in their relative situatioiii • 'bin whatever may k the prin-
etple on which the Treaty is to be considered as founded,
tit"' is iodhP4tably a General Law of Nations, which,
though liable to be limited, • explained, or restreined by
Conventional Law, 'is antecedent to it, and is that law or
rule of condua to Which all Sovereigns and States have been
accustomed to appeal, ''here Conventional Law is' adnlitteti
bave.been silent. 'The Treaty of Amiens, and every other
realY, in providing for the objets to which it is perti-
'4lll4 directed does not therefore- assume or imply an
•
ilnini*rence to all other &heels which, are not speci-
fied in its Stipulations, touch less -dries it adjeidge them
tb be of a nature to bt tett to the will and caprice of the
vit dent and the pnwerful. The justice of the tense is alone ,
a sufficient grcnind to warrant the interposition of any of the
Prnvere Eltrinte in the dlfrerences which niay arise be-
*men other '4.144 and the application and eats* of that
ihrt interposition is to be deter*V4ll44olely by considerations
,st. P.11101'4*(1. These principles esti admit of no dispute ;
but it the new and extraonlinitiet pretemion advanced by. the
french Goveistment, to WIWI; Hie Majesty horn right
°late rfore with ellapen its ehe cavern , ofrpth,2t Powers, tin.
less they made a specific part of the teisatetlensoftheTrestY
fit Amjetts, was rtA4 *Web it was to maintain,
those rowers *red ?marled', at hint, to claim the bole.

fit of this principle, in every case of difference between the
two • Countries. • The, indignation •of all Europe•- mutt
surely then be excited by .the declarations of the French
Government, that, • in "the - event' .of Hostilities, these
very Powers who were •tita Parties to. the Treaty of
Amiens, and who were not allowed tt; derive any advantage
from the Remonstrances of His Majesty in their behalf, •are
' nevertheless to be made- the Xielims of a War which is al-
le eed to arise out of the same Treaty, and are to be sacrificed
in a Contest which. they not only. have.not occasioned, but
which they have had no means whatever of preventing.
Majesty judged it most expedient, under the circum- -
stances which then atfetled Europe to abstain from" a *use
rence to Hostilities on account tit the views at Ambition and
_Ads of Aggression manifested by France on- thc- Continent ;
yet an experience of the 'eharaCter and dispositions of the
French Government ,could not -fail to impress His Majesty
with a sense of the necessity of increased vigilante in guard-
ing the Rights and Oloity of His Crown, and in proteaing
the intertsts of His People. , • . • . •
Whilst His Majestywas aCtitated by these sentiments; He
was called upon by the French Government to evacuate. the
island of Malta.: His Majesty had manifested, from the
moment of the Signature of the Definitive Treaty, an anxious
disposition to carry- into full effoEt the stipulatione of the
Treaty of Amiens relative 'to that bland. As soon as he
was informed that an Eleaiim of a Grand Master hid taken
place, under the auspices of the Emperor of
that it had been weed by the different Priories areeenbled at
St. Peterehureii to acknowledge the person wheal the Court
of Rome ehould seket out of those who had been named by
them- to be Grand Mastereof the: Order. of St. John, His
Majesty, proposed to the French GoVerninenti thre the •
-purpose of avoiding any, difficulties which ought arise
in the .execution of the arrangement, to acknowledge that
Election to be valid: and when, in the month of Auguste
The French Government applied to ;His Majesty to permit
the Neapolitan Troops to be sent to the Island of Malta, as
a prelimmety measure forpreventine any unnecessary
His Majesty consented without hesitation to this propose!,
and gave direet loos for the admissi, oft he Neapolitan Tfoops
into the Island. His Majesty had thus ehewn his disposition
net only to throw no obstacle in. the way of the execution of
the Treaty,' but, un the contrary, to facilitate the execution
of, it by ever/ means in his power. His Majesty .cannot,
however, admit, that at any period since the conclusion of
the Treaty Amiees, the French Government have had a
right to call upon !inn, in conformity to the stipulations of
that Treaty, to withdraw his Forcers from' the Island, of
Malta At the tine when this demand was made by Ole
French Government, several of the most important stipule.
tions of' the arrangement respetling Matte remained Ink*
cuter!: *the Election of a Grand Master had not been car-
ried into e*Ct. The. Tenth Article had stipuiated that the
Independence ortliO Island should be placed under the.geta-
rainee and Pnu
rotettiOn of Great Britain, mace, Austria, Rus-
sia, ,Spain, and Prussia. -The Emperor of Germany had
acceded to the gueramee, hut only on condition eft like ac•
cession the perrof the other Powers specified in, the arti.
cle. Th, Eiliper(ir of Russia had refused his accession, ex-
• cept on tee condition that the Maltese Langue should tie ab-
rogetee ; and the King of Prussia had 'given no answer what.:
t;.vei to tiie application which haft been made to him to accede
to the arrangement. Btu the fundamental principle, upon
the elistence of which depended the execution or the other
parts,ot the article, had been defeated by the changes which
had taken place iii the Constitution of the Oilier since the con-
clusion of the Treaty of Peace. t was to the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem that Hie.Mejeety was,. by the first stipu-
lation of the loth.. tertiele. bound to rest*. -the NAM of
Malta. Order is debt led to consist of Obese Liureues
Which were in eiiieenee at the time of the conclusion of the,
Treaty : The three French Larig..es having beesu abeliehed,
and aMa itese Laneue'aikied to the institution. The (inter
eonsisted; therefore, at that time i.l die Piiio,v ig
of Aree,oe, Ca•itile, Ginning, 1I varia, and Ittsaia. Vince
the conclueion rid; Definitive Treaty, the Lopes of Ate
regon and Castile have Nice separated from the Order by
Spain, a part of tee I Wien Lague has been abilished by the
annexation of Pitdinoiit and puma to Prance. There i$
strong teaser to belieee that it hee fa:vain eeiatemjetatiost4.-
sequestute the property +:f the Bavarian Langue, and the in..-
tention has ben avowed at keeping the Russian Longues
Within the DoMiniens of the Emperor.,
Under these circumstances, the Order of St. john cannot
now be considered, as that, body to which, according to the
stipulations of the Treaty, the Island was to be restored; and .
the funds indispensably necessary torits support, and for the
maintenance of the Independence of that Island, have been
nearly, if nor wholly, sequestered. Even if this had arisen
from .circumstances which it was not in thi.power of any of
the COntratting Parties to the Treaty to control, His Majesty
would nevertheless.have had a right to defer the -evacieition
of the Island by his Forces, until such time as an equivalait
arrangement had been concluded, for the preservation of the
Independence of the Order and of the !slew!. lint if these.'
changes have taken place in consequence of any eels of the
Other Parties to the Treaty ; if tile French c;overnment shall
appear to have proceeded upon a system of rend: the Or-
der whose Independenee they had stipulated, incapable of
maintaining-that Independence. His Majesty's right to can
tinue in the occupation of the Island, under such circum-
stances, will hardly, be contested. It is indisputable, that
the Revenues Of the two Snanish Langues have been wlthe
• drawn reorn,the Order by His Catholic Majesty ; a part of
in
the Italian Longue has feet been abolished by France,
through the unjust annexation of Piedmont and Parma, and
Placentia, to the French Territory. The Eledior. of Itavaila,
has been instigated by the French Government tcesequeetrata
the Property of the Order within his, Territories; -audit is
certain that they have not only sanctioned, but encouraged the.
idea of the propriety of sehatatingshe Russian Langues from
the remainder of the Order. •

As the condu6l of the Governments of France and Spain,
have, therefore, in some instances ditealy, audio others in.
directly, contributed to the changeS which have takep place
iu tho Order, and thus destroyed its means Of supporting its
independence, it is to those Governments, and not to His
laje:ity, that the non-execution of the tenth article of the
Treaty of Amens must be ascribed. _ - _

Such Would be the )ust conclusion, if the tenth article of
that Treaty were considered as an arrangement by itself. It
must be. obseriedi however, that this ankle forms a 'Dart
only of a Treaty of Peace, the whole of Which is.corti.eaed
tOgether,, and. the stipulations of which must, Uppn a prin...
ciple common to ;ill Treaties, be construed as having a refs-
rence to each other.,

His Majesty %vaLinduced by the Treaty of Peace.to con.
sent to abandon, an to restore to the Order of St. John the
Island of Malta, on condition of its Independence and Neu.
trality. fiut a further condition which must, necessarily be
supposed • to have had considerable influence with His Ma-
jesty rn inducing, Him to make so important 4conceasion,
was the acquiescence of the krencli Government in . an ai-
rangement• ror the security of the Levant, by the Eighth
anti Ninth Articles in the Treaty,' 'stipulating the integrity of
the Turkish Empire, and the ledepee.dettee of the lonian
Islands. • His Majesty has, however, since learnt, that the
French Government have entertainedviews hostile to both
these ()Weds • and that they have even suggested the idea of
a partition of the Turkish Empire. Thee views must now
be manifest coati the world, from the °Mild publication of
the Report' of:Colonel Sebastianli ftoin the oenduel of that
Officer, and of the other French. Agents iu Egypt, Syria,
and the lonian Islands, and from the distina admission of the
First Consul himself, 'in his Cernmulication with Lord
Whitworth. His Majesty. was, therefore, warranted in con-
sidering it. to he the determination of the French Government
to violate, those Articles of the Treaty of Peace, which
stipulated tor the Integrity. and Independence of the Turk.
ish Empire, and of the lonian Wands, and consequently
he would not have been justified in evacuating the. Island of
Malta, without receiving some other, Security, which might
equally prdvide tbr these important ohjeets. His Majesty
.accordingly feels that he has an incontestable con.,
sequence of the Canditel of France since the Treaty of Peace,
, and with reference to the objects which made part of die Sri.:
pulations of that Treaty, to refuse, under the present Cir.'
cumironces, to relinquish the• IYeasession of the Island Of
Malta. •

Yet notwithstanding this rightt.so clear arid so utitinesikn.
able, the alternative- presented by the limiters Government
to His Majesty; in language the most premptory and Me-
nacing, was the Evacuation of Malts, or the Renewal of
War.

I f the views" of ambition and aggramlizement, which haVe
tlit4 bwo mulitintal by the Er-tech Goveramvnt sing: tit

PAPERS
pit:Es,,NTRD,

Br, 1118- MAJESTr's
,C94IIAI4ND,

BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
xPTII MAYO 189.4,

_ .
No. t is a Letter from M. Otto to Lord Hawkesbury,
dasal May 23,-1802, notifying tins Appointment of Gcswrul
Vial as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Order and Island of
Malta".

NO. 2 itt A Letter. from Lord ilawliesbury to M. Otto,
date&ltlay 001, signifying the appointment of Sir Alex.
Bails as !lilt lidiki,estrsltdinister to the Order. • •
_.
No. 3 is :trt• Extratt from a Dispuch from Lord St.
Helens to Lord Hawkeabury, dated Petersbtirgh, April 2.3,
31102 p which states, that there was reason to rear that Ma
imperial Majesty would decline taking part in tin: proposed
guarantee of Malta.:

No. 4, an Extrad ofanother Dispatch t'rom Lord Sr. He-
lens,. dated Petersbutgh, May 7, ,sßoz, .which -states; that
them eras tenon to hope that His Imperial 'Majesty might
be ultimately intitteett to join in'the guarantee. •
No. 5 it a Letter from Load Hawketibury to Mr. Merry,
statistic that His &West, was ready to 'consider the Election
era Grand Maier of Malta, at Petersintrgh,,to be valid, and
that it -was desirable that the French tiovernment snow it
instruct, without delay, their Nibtisterf at Petersburg!),
Vienna, and Berlin, to.mrite those Powers to accede w tei.
get amuta.
_ _

N. 6 is u ntspetch from Mr. Merry, dated June 17,
which states, that Mr. Merry !Ltd made the requis4e ignit-
tuttniestion to the French Gcrventinent, and that tile French
Ministers at the Courts of Austria, 4ussia„, Pritisia,
I.linuid receive instructions to invite ttros;.eowcrs accciic
tho guarantee of Malt
....-

,Nty Lord • Psis, f Imo 4,
I had occasion to teiM ..-Tal tey rand. yeMei.d.ty
a: the' putpote tratolncing to
some Ent.,l:o) previouly
toklay to t`!;..
flavitig • : into till, c::binet,rh —ll
that he 'had ty•xli Genet !), tr!q, :-
tent to me *icy, oces Avii; ": !!1'
of

that the Goveimment heret, possessed proofs of Alt abuse
which they were now making of theprotettion *NO they
enjoyed in England, and of the advantage they I,vere LA.;
jig of the vicinity of their situation to France, by,.,heitie
really guilty of such aets, since several printed, paper; ..hae
lately been intercepted, which it was known they hidient,
and =used to be circulated in Prance, and which had for
objeel, to create en opposition to the Government.,:, I can.
not, my Lord, do better titan refer you to what you will,
have read in the trench Official Paper of the day before
inc between the two Countries and their Gove,rnments,
which it was the First Consul's, sincere wish to, see te..
established, in order that such obstacles might be removed
before the arrival in London of the French Antliassatiar
because although the circumstances in queetion, iir.ci already.
produced a etory disagreeable eM6I, .whilst only. he. Otte,
as Mihister, had* to Witness them, they
.would acquire a.
great additional force„ii they still exist when the 'Aeloes-
sador should het *present ;* and sineethe First Consiii bad
given orders • for General: AndreosSy to proceed to hiS -cleSti.
natiertWith as' little, delay as pussilele, he wished that I
114tildLiake en eatiy Opportunity to give en trecount te'yotir
leedshie, of the observations which he was charged to
Az to me, *
Afte.r a prefbee to this efred, M. t alleyrand proceeded to
staie 'to me, that the accounts whicheM. One It? l trate,.
Mined of the disgust and inconvenience which he could net
het tea end experience at meeting.frequent4 at !Ili Mates.:
WS Court a»d et other places the French Princes, rue! one
French Persons still decorated with th 4 Insignia of Freya),
Orders which no longer existed ,ltd at• seeitre the coun-
tenance and support 'which continued to be given in Jr'..t
jand, to*
what he, a e Lened the ci,degent French Biahops,
well as to other persons iWri.! mentioned Geol•geV to
catle/
Mica! to the present Governinteu ref France,
.so strongly: the First COOSIIi, and were in sit so caleo.,'
hued to prevent that system .at.,..:sl.,Lbat,y
• anxious to see established, that. it WIIS 111C(Itn:Saiit oitois
him to express his wish, that-his Majesty's Government;
might' aisposed to remove out of the British noininions„'
all the FrenetePrhices and their adherents; *together 'With:
the French lhistfops, and other Freech wlteSe,
political principles and ednded nrestnecessarily oeca;..lou,
great jealousy to the French Goverument, Ile centineed to
observe, that the protedion and favohr the' per.,
sons in question coetinued to rnecr With, in a country' SO;
close a neighbour to France, must alere ;Attars cops!,
tiered as •an eneouragement the diseilieted- 1114,
without time persons theitiselveS: being eW Iry or ;thy e:74.4's
to fOlOC;lt fresh disturbances itr thi!'; i.our try but
yesterday, tinder the articie of Patie, . for the e,..;iet tee t or
M. Tel, discourse upon 'this subjee4 r: *which lie
concluded by saying,. that he thoUght-the rifsideiicc;.
,xvii dwas now the proper place for -that of "the: ;:c•,..t of-
the family,.and that I might add thii sugitet moo in 'my re
port to your Lordship. . •
I answered the French Minister, :that without any reference
to you, .I•could assure hime that the praetices of the,Frenelt
residing in England, of which he corn plaiusd, had •no been
encouraged, nur would be countenanced His.ll•letjestyq
Government ; which was as! sincerely disposed to 'cultivate
harmony and a good understanding between the tvvo Court.
tries, as he had represented 'the: First Consul vibe; but that
I could by no means say how far: they would be disposed to
adopt the measures which he halt intimated it to be Cenci-at
Bonapertes wish that they. should pursue, in melte to *re-
move so ette.itually, every thing which might not perhaps be
considered equally by them, as giving just cause of•orlencp
or jealousy to France,.
M. Talleynuul did not rejoin upon the matter; but-asked
me when I proposed writing.. Upon my should
lose no.tinte, he suid, that if I:should write es to.day,. he
• would avail himself of the opportunity to convey . a Letter
to M. Otto. I have the Honour to be, e4c.
(Signed)
Tlte Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury,
. &c. *Sec. tec, •

A. MERRY,

(No;
.
Sir, • Downimr-street; tune To, :La.
o •
Yoittrti, spatches. the. 4!li tam were re4civoa Mon...
day night, and 1u been laid fore the King.
The account given in that t., tspatcit 01 1114;
which pasSed on the 311 instant,, bet weep you awl Al. Canty.;
rand, respeaykg the_ Frehelt .Pritices and their adherents,
Would have afti,rdedbere considszrable stirpri ze I its
ty's Govenunent had not in xome c1.5.:',:;r1,16 been przparshl for it
by inforination which ,liart been prainusly : Irons
t lie. It-tanner, however, in lvbhth this subjeet has. been riven
tioned to you, it is important that you.shou id take 'Myer
OppOttalllity to explawyfu
.
candidlnd fairly, to the ttnnell
qq:criinient, the it.it. (leWildigt-Whiat liis Majesty reels it
to bell 4 duty to pursue in this very delicate tits
Majesty would certainly consider it inconsistent, .with both
the letter and spirit of the T.eaty .ef Peace, between him
and tile 'French Republic, to encourage or countenance ante'
4rprojects that might be hostile to the present, ti&overnment of
Funce. He is sincerely desirous that the PeacC. 4.4
been concluded may, be, permanent,. anti may lead ,to the
estaivitsinnent of a system ,of food understanding ant fuir..
mony baween the two Countries. With these ativinnents
he is disposed to employ, all' the means in his power tagnard
against any circumstance which Jean' ha'Ve the eifitel of
tutbing the tranquillity that .has been so happily restored
and he certainly,expeds that ,all Foreigners who may resido
within his Dointnions, should not only hold a c6nduet eon-
formable to the Laws of the Country, bus should- abstain
from all Reis which may behostile tothe Governnumt ()fatly
Country with which His Majesty may he at Peace. A.s long,
however, as they conduct. themselves .aCconling to these
principles, His Majesty would feel it inconsistent with his
Dignity, with his 1 lonour,. and with the common laws' of
Hospitality, to deprive them tel that protection which
victuals resident in his LiOrninions can .only forteit, by their
own iniscondu6t. The greater part of the persons to whom -
allusion has ,been r.vade in M. Tailcyrand's conversation
with you, are. living in .retirement, and His Majesty has tto
reason , whatever to suppose that since the conclusion of
l'euce they -have availed themselves of their recidencviii This
Country, to promote any designs injurious to the Government
of Pounce.. .1. have the honour to be, Arc.
(Signed) fAWN. CSIWICY.
Anthony Merry, Esq. lee. 4:c.

( No. .
My I arc}, ' 9 Paris, June r 7 'lltc*
I have the. Ilonour to acquaint your Lordship, that t ion
executed the instrucuions given mu by ,ynur and coati-
.dential Dispatch..(No. 4,) m consequence yr WiyitnuAjc4,
eon from M. Talleyrand, which 1 trait...milted in my No, 23,
respecting the residence of the French Princes, and other
French poisons in His I.ll.ljest)'s uninions-.lu •
deitveriog my Ansiver un this'husiness t( the French
Minister, I rook care to express, itt the-strousest manner, the
assurances which your Lordship ;las authortzerlAtte.to give,
of His ,Majesty's sincere desire. that the Peace which.h.ts hap.,
(Lily been colic:lotted should he parartnent, and that it should
lead to timestablishment of a system of harmony and.goutl
derstandint; between the two Countries ; and that, as His Ma-
jcsty CollittletWOUlil, in eVcryll'alie,q, bcgtettei.lby
111ellitip he Of course would nut toter., inut:h les.; ctscotaime,
any proceedings on tfte Nil of p.. 1 his dominions '
which he hostile ti the pie .;nvernment ;?,,3
which assurances might, Iti ; be stlifici:i it
line and satisfy the First ( c, itlturtt re..a.trrhig
titeasitivs.wnich had been it-I'u, :ie.i to roe, and 4;oubt
rtiit hut be! considered ..isisteitt with ilia. it'on-sty'*
- dignity .and honour, as w, ; the conutiait late iii
pithiy, which he coull i]: ••::serve towards .Foreignent
within ni.dotniniotis, itut:; y :Lore turn:tied z hat.
protection by their irtisco;:.,.... . -
.M. 'l*.tiltyyrald expressed to the in. , that the First
Consul lied sus ited nn more than the It; r.::1,./.t
itself intd, at ;s i,.•s ;s: :t
tender was. in , .;1 .. ;,.: t, t,,A
Vt*Ce I 1 othtr (.;overonts..
tluit it: could not see . . 0, 1,4;
he hail imirit:tied to 1;
been at; . . ; 1 •
. • • • '• •
•

• I rejoined nivat the subjeel by observing to the French M.
nistcr, thateven withont adverting to the Serious considera-
tion of the King's 'dignity , and honour, the 'feelings of the
people of England were to be takeninto account on the pc..
casion That he must he sensible the relative situation,
hitherto,of the two Countries, especially in regard to Trade,-
:inimical His Majesty's-Subjects no room -to reap those ad.
vantages which were common to, and which -were' always
cxpecled from a state of Peace, and that it therefore appeared
to methat the First Consul would equally give a proof of
his'Alisptuitiml to see .harmony and a friendly. intercourse
retNabpsited.letWeett the two Nations, by not repeating his
*nth tipoo4,matter which wo,uld operate in the strongest
nter against such 4a.A.p.pri*.rpatioks,imd reconciliatiOn of
leictifittfttS7 were it MAT only to come to the knowledge of
Iklis Majesty's 3ubjetts.
I Ant Wppy, nay-Lord, to say, that M. Talleyrand shewed
-no warmth, or any very parked eagerness, in his manner of
replying to my cunt umcation ; and that our conversation on
• tlushead terminated with the la4t remarks 1 made to him,
when he changed it to another subjed..
1 have Honour to be, ‘fee.
(Sig4ll)• ANTHONY •MERRY.
Right lion, Lord IlawkesbUry; Arc. Ste, - •

(N0.,t0.)
My Lord, Portinan-square, July 25, 002.
I transmitted untie time ago, to Mr. Hammond, a Number
of Pehien' containing the 'most gross Calumnies against the
Freueli Government, and against. the whole Nation and I
observed, that I should probably receive an order to demand
the punishment of such In abuse of the Press, That order is
.actually arrived, and 1 cannot conceal from you, my Lord,
that the reiterated insnlts.of a Isirutll number of Foreigners,
assembled in London to ccinspire. against the French-Govern.
litent, produce the most unfavourable elkels on the good un.
detstunding between the two Nations... Even though the
First Article of the Treaty, of Amiens had not provided for
the maintenance of that respea, which two independant Na:
Cons owe each other, the general Maxims of the Law of
... Nations would formally conclenitaio revolting an abuse of the
Liberty of the Press, It eannot*bc believed, that 64 Law
can give more latitude to a Libellist th:in to any other indi-
. who, without Declaration of War, should permit
himself to violate the dotias of good neighbourhood. The
Altr lice in question is so :tined the' more serious, as it>i ob.
jezt is evidently to disturb the harmouy which intbsists
cell the two Governments'.
• 1 t is not to Peltier alone, but the Edith!' of the a Courier
Francois de Lawdres," to. Gobbet, and to other Writers who
resemble them, that I have to direel the attention offlis,Ma_
jest':; Government. The perfidious and mal,:volent Pub-
licio alns of these men, are in epee contradiction to the prin.
dples of Peace, and it it could ever enter into the minds of
rite F vnjj Government to vcrinit retaliatiOn, Writers Would
driibr less be found In France, willing to aVenge their Country-
hy. tilling their pages with odidttS. Reflections on the
most respedable Persons, and on the dearest Institutions of
Great lititain.
The want of positive Laws against these sort of offences
cannot pal hate the violation of the Law of Nations, according
torwhich•Peace should put a stop to all species of hostilities;
and ddubtless those which wound the honour and repotation
of a Government, and which tend to cause a revolt of the
People, whose interests are confided to that Government,
are the most apt to lesseß the advantages of Peace, and to
keep up national resentments.
• I have the honour to be, (Signed) OTTO.
To his Excellency Lord Hawkesburv, Minister.and
Secretary of State for the Foreign bepartment.

• • (No. It.)
Sir, llowning•street, July zB, iSo2.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Let.
ter, on the subject of the last Number of Peltier. It is impos.
sible that Kis Majesty's Government could petuse the Ar-
ticle without the greatest displeasure, anti without an anxious
desire that. the person who published it should sulfa the
punishment he so,justly deserves. The Calumnies, how.
ever, to which His Majesty's Government, and many of his
best. Subjects in-this Country, are frequently exposed in the
public Prints, must necessarily convince all Foreign Govern.
ments of the difficulties 'which exist in a Constitution like.
that bf (.; teat Britain, in preventing the abuse which is often
, ftn,voidably., attendant on ,the greatest of all political Be-
nefits ; and though Publieations, of this •nature are, as they
certainly ought co be, by the Law of England, stibjea to
punishment, is often, difficult to prove the guilt of an in.
divichlat so saiisfaCtolify as toubtAill the judgment of a Court
of I the. Ka the inconvenience w hie h arises Itonn prosecti..
teat, unleis there is a reasonable prospeet of success, is -fre-
quently sufficient to deter both the t:overnment and in.
uiviiluAls from undertaking it. lu the present case I have
thought it my duty to refer the Article 11l question to His
Majesty's Attorney General, fur -his opinion whether it isnr
is not a Libel, according to the' construetion of the Law. of
England, 'and whether it is such a Libel as he would, under
all the ciNuinstances,. ro.,,,manct for prosecution. As soon
.af it ins report, I. shall have the honour of cummu.
tocating it to you. I hive the honour to be, &c. -
M. Otto, (Signed) ,HAKESBURY:

fNo.'ix,)--NOTE.

The undersigned Miuister Plenipotentiary of the French
Itepubli. , having .submitted to his Government the Letter
sequeli' ".Excellency Lord Flawkesbury, Minister and
principal Secretary of State of His Britannic Majesty, did
Itint the homier of writing muter date of the 17th July, is
dleaLd toolli.r the following observations; .
t the British Government tolerates censures upon the ;Os
of its AdilliliktfiltiOn, and the personal 'Abuse of the tuo.it,
resp,.!etable does norsulter even the slighteir attempt
a..;aitist the public tranquillity, the fundamental laws of the
Empire, and the supreme authority which arises from them.
Every nation is, moreover, at liberty to sacribee- any advan-
tage whatever, in its interior, in order to obtain another to
which is attaches a higher value ; but the Government which
does not repress the licentiousness of the press, when it may
be injurious to the honour or the interests ot foreign Powers,
would alliard an opporttmity for libellists to endanger the
public tranquillity, or.at least the good understatuling that
fermi the hasisrof it, and. whenever such serious injuries are
continued ih a regular and systematic manner, doubts must
arise asst., its own dispositions.
The is:wielder Laws and Constitution of Great Britain,
are subordinate to the general principles of the Law of Na.
onus, which Supersedes, the laws of each individual State.
It' it be a right in England to allow the moat extensive h.
berty to. the Press, n'is a public right of polished Nations,
and the bounden duty of •Covermnents to prevent, repress,
and punish,. every attack which might by those-means be
made against the rights, the interestsond -the honour of
Foreign Powers-,
This goneral maxim of the Law or Nations has never been
mistaken without paving the way for the greatest -divisions,
and has even furnished in England a plausible pretext to
ritose who -have written volumes to prove the necessity of the
last War iteainq France. Arc these men now desirous of
presenting to the Consular Government a weapon which
they have wielded with so much address ? And 'can they
Better themselves that the authority ,which has signed the
Peace has not power to maintain it ?
By the first . Article of. the. Treaty of Amiens, the two
Powers agree to adbrd no protectiop, either directly or hh:,
to those who 'should cause prejudice to- pity of.
them.

But the greatest of ;All injuries doubtless hi, that which
tends to debase a Enre*it Government, or to -excite wjthin
its Territory civil and relHous connuotions ; and the most
etc.:Mud uf all protections, is that which places under the
sitegisard of the Laws, nv.:n who seek not only to disturb the
political tranquillity ot Europe, but even to dissolve the
tirt-builiis of Society....

!rite undersigned Minister must moreover observe, that
„this, js not a question rcspeding some paragraphs, which,
through the inadvertance of an Editor, might have been ac-
cidentally inserted in a public print ; but it is a question ota
deep iind continued system of defamation' directed not only
nist the Chief of the French Republic, but against all
the CollititittedAtithoritieS of the Republic, against the whole
Nation, represeuted.by these libellers in the most odious and
degrading terms. It has, even been remarked that many of
these Prints contain an appeal to the French People, against
the Movernment and fund 111elltal L:LlVti of their Country.
I f these observations apply to the English Writers, who,
for these three months past, have tieliiAed. the Public with
the Inost perfidious anti unbecoming Publications, they are
still more applicable to a class Of fOrCign calumniators, who
appear to avail themselves of the asylum ()tractf them in
England only for the purpose of the better gratifying their
hatted against lhance, and undermining
,the foundations of

It is not merely by insulting and seditious writings, evi-
daitly 'published with a view to circulation in France, but
hv otlwr Papers distributed through the Marnithe
I),:partactit., in rioter to excite the evil.disposett or wvale.
liitt;thitailt4 to resist the execution of the Concordats, that
tli, se implacable Enetniei of France continue to eXerci4C
Hostilities, and to provoke the just Itatig.tiation of the
i.renelt Government and l'eople. Not a dutch; exists or
these Writings having. been composed and cifeutated by.
Georgest and by the turner Bishops of France. These
Nitmi can no loner blt considetud but as Itt.lvis ogliins; both

political And tell ides authority ;• and after their reiterated
attempts to disturb the good • undervtanding- between the tWo. I
Griveroments, their residence in England militates :Openly
against the spirit and letter of the Treaty of Peace.
The Meetings likewise, which have taken place in the
'Livid. of jersey, arid the odious Plots ,which are there
framed, in spite of the representatiooS; which the under-
signed Minister has already taltin care' to make .on this
Subject, also demand immediate Measures to be taken. by a
Govermnent, the Neighbour and-Friend of yrancc.
....Other Persons (stns heil,..by.yecollettions never. to be ef-
faced, and by regrets too long fostered, to an Order of Things
which no longer exists in Frame) find themselves daily
implicated by the Plots of those who pretend to 'serve them.
A setise:of their- own reputation will without
.doubt lead
them to avoid a fireits of Insrigues, with which they ought
not to .have the least connection. .
Peace happily re-established,'. the mutual desire of the
.two Governments to render it solid and lasting; and the
general interests of Humanity, require that all these Causes
of Dissatistaetion should be done away, and that His Ma-
jesty's Ministry should, by frank and energetic Measures,
manifest their disapprobation of all the Attempts made to
produce new Divisions.
• , The undersigned has in consequence • received especial
Orders to solicit, •
Yst, That His Majesty's Government will adopt the most
eactual•Measures to pnt a stop to the unbecoming and sedi.
4iouV Publications 'with which. the Newspapers and other
Writings. printed in. England are tilled. •
• • ad, That the Individuals mentioned in the undersigned-
Minister's Letter of the is.d July lust; shall be sent out of the
Island of Jersey. . ,
3d, That the former Bishops of Arras and St. Pol de
Leon, and•all those, who, like them, under the pretext of
Religion, seek to raise Disturbances in the.interior of France,
shall likewise be sent away.
4th, That Georges and his Adherents shall be transported
to Canada, according to the intention which the undersigned
has been direded to transmit to his Government at the re-
quest of Lord Hawkeshury. •
• sib, That, in 'order to deprive the evil-disposed of every
pretext for disturbing the good Understanding between the
two Governments, it shall he recommended to the Princes
of the House of Bourbon at present in Great Britain, to re-
pair to Warsaw, the residence of theltead-of tbeir
6th, That such of the French Emigrants as still think
proper to west the •mders and decorations belonging to the
ancient Government of France, shalLbe required to quit the
Territory of the British Empire.
These demands are founded upon the Treaty of Amiens,
and upon the verbal assurances that the Undersigned Mini-
ster less had the satisfuelion to receive in the course of the
Negotiations, with. regard toe mutual agreement for main-
taining tranquillity and good order in the two Countries. - If
atty one in particular of these demands does not proceed so
, immediately front the Treaty concluded, it would be easy to
justify it by striking examples, and to prove how very atten-
tive the British Government has been in times of internal
fermentation, to remove from the Territory of a neighbour-
ing Power those who might endanger the public tranquillity.
Whatever, may be the protection which the English Laws
aftbrd to native Writers and to other Subjecis of His Majes.
tv, the French Government knows that Foreigners do not.
here enjoy the same protection ; and that the Law, known by.
the title of the Alien Oat, gives the Ministry. of His Britan-
nic Majesty an authority which it has often exercised against
I•oreigners whose residence was prejudicial to the interests of
Great Britain,. The first Clause of this Ad states expressly,
that any Order in Council which requires a Foreigner to
wilt the Kingdom shall be executed tinder pain of imprison-
ment .and transportation. There exists, therefore, m the
Ministry a legal and sufficient power to restrain Foreigners,
without having recourse to the Courts of Law, and the
Freach Government, which otters on this point a poled rc.
ciprocity, thinks it gives a new proof of its pacific intentions;
by demanding that those Persons may be sent away, whose
machinations uniformly tend to sow discord) between the two
People. It owes to itself and to the Nation at large (which
has made it the depository of its power and of its honour),
not to appear insensible to insults and to plats during pro.
found Peace, which the irritation of open •AVar could not,
justify, and it is too well acquainted with the conciliatory
dispositions of the British Ministry, not to rely.upori. its ef-
forts to disperse a Faction equally the Eneiny of f ranee and
Englroul.:
The Undersigned Minister seizes this opportunity to pre.
sent to His Excelleney Lord Ilawesbury, the hettlage of his
respegtul consideration. . • s•
(Signed) 011'0.
London, 17th August, 1802.

• (No. 13,1
Sir, ' • • Dowiung..street, Aug. 28, 1802.
!Wild you the Copy of a Letter which I received some
days ago friant M. Otto, ;Nether with a Copy.of an official
Note itiaietl in it. I Wye inliirrned AL Otto, that you
Would receive instrudions • to enter into -explanations avith
the French Government on the several points to which it
refera. It is impossible not 'to feel considerable surprise at
the circumstances under which it has been thought proper to
Present such kNote; at the stile in which it, is drawn op,
and at the complaints contained in it. Whatever may be the
general dispositions of the French Government towardsr this
Country. supposing them to be as.hostile as they have been
at any, former period, or even more so,. it .would appear so
contrary to their interest to provoke a War with us at the
present moment, that I am inclined to ascribe their conduet,
• in the whale of this busituss, inbre to temper, than 'to any
other motive ; but 'whether their conduit is to be reierred to
temper or to policy, the Oil:Choi it may .still bc the same ;
it is therefore become of the utmost importance that a frank
explanation shoitict be made of the line olcolidud which Uis
Akjesty has detertuinctl to adopt on reasons of the nature of
those to which this Nate refers, and of the motives on which
it founded; and it is to he hoped that suclean explanation
will have the abet of putting an end to a course of proceed-
ing which ciiit lead only to perpetual irritation between the
two Governments, anti which might ultimately tend to the
most serious consequences.
The first consideratitin that naturally arises on this trans.
altion, is that of the peculiar eircionstances under which the
Note of M. Otto has been. presented. It cannot be denied
• that some very improper paragraphs haze lately appeared in
some of the English Newspapers against the Government of
France; it cannot be denied likewise, that Publications of a
still morelinpr?per and indecent nature have made their ap.
pearatice in this Country, with the names of Foreigners af-
fixed to them. Under these circumstances the French Go-
venunent would have been warranted in -expeeling every re:
dress that the Laws .of this Country could afford-them ; bur.
as, instead of seeking it in the ordinary crnuse, they-have
thought tit to resort to recriniination theinseive, or at least
to authorize it in others, they could have no right tocom:.
plain-if their subsequent appeal to 1 tis Naic.stY, 41 tailed to.
reduce the elfeet that otherwise would have attended it.
Whatever may have been the nature of the prior injury,
they have, in fait, taken the 1, tw' into their own hands ;
'And what is this reeritiiiiiatiori and retort? Thu paragraphs
in the English Newspapers, the Puhlications to which- I
have above reterred,--have not appeal-6d under 'any authority
of the British Government,. and are disavowed and disapa
proved of-by them; but the paragraph in the Monitcur has
iippored lit a Paper avowedly. .liar which the Gn.
verstment ere theretore considered as responsible., as
data 11a-
jesty's Government is responsible for the contents of the
London Gazette. And this retort is not etrerfirrett: tethe un-
authorized English Newspapers, orto the other Publications
of which ceinptaint is now made,: but is converted into, and
lliak.ur.etence fur a dired attack-upon the Government,of
adds gajeity. Ilia Majesty feels. it- beneath, his dignity to
ntal‘e any fonual complaint on this occesion ; but it .has
been impossible tbr tit. to proceed to-the other Isaias of the
subjede without pointing your attention ,to the conduct
• of the French Government in this reaped, .that you may
observe upon it in the manner-it deservesie
The Ptopteiltions. in.. Al. Otto's Official Note, are six in
number; but may in. tact, bs dividedfun-der two .heads :
the first, that 'winch relates to the-Libeis sit all descriptions,
.which are alletiged to be published eigitinst the Frzilett Go.
vermnent ; the Last? comprehending the Live Complelnts
winch relate to the hmigrants resident in this-Country.- Ott
the first, 1 arts M
sure you must be aware that His ajesty
cainiot, and never cousequence of Any representation
or ally. menace from a Foreign Power, make any concession,
whiela can be in the sffiallest degreedangero-us to the Liberty
ral the Press, as secured by the Censtittition of thicenun..
try.: This liberty is ;justly dear to every British. subject.
'Cite • Constitutien admits of no previous restraints upon Pub-
heailom of any • clescri whin ; • hut there exist 'Judicatures,
wholly independent of CLie Executive. Government, capable
of taking cognizance of such. Publications as the Law deems
to be criminal. and which are botind to indict the punish_
anent the Delinquents -nay. deserve; thesteliebeemres
take cognizance sot only of Libels agahist the Goversumnt
anti the Magistracy of this Kingdom, hilt; as has been re.;
peatedly experienced, of Publications detain:dory of
_those,
ut whose hands the administration of koreign GoVeromente
is placed; That our GOvernmeitt neither has nor want~ any
• other protection than what the Laws of the Country attinal ;
• Snit- though they arc willing and ready to give to every Fo-
reign government nil the 'protection against-oftilncei of this
nature which the principle of their Laws anti Constitution
wilt admit, they wet COrigilt to ticw•lliodvl theit Laws,

Of to change their Constitution, to grAtify the wishes of: any .
Foreigh Posver. If the. present French Government are els-
iitietied with our Laws on the riubjed qt Libels, or entertain
the opinion that the administration of justice in our Courts is
too tardy and lenient, they have it in their power. to redress
theMselvts by punishing the venders and distributors of such
Publieations-_within their own Territories, in ,any manner
that they may think proper, and thereby' preventing -the cir-
euletion of them. • If they think their present lows are not
sitilicient for flits purpose they may mad new ones; or, if
they think it _expedient, .they may' exercise ,the . right
.which
they have of prohibiting the importation of any Foreign
'Newspapers, oe perindieal Publications, into the Territories
of the I. rench Republic. His Majesty will . not complain •
Of such it measure, as it is not His intention to interfere-in
the manner. in which the People. or Territories of- France
should be governed; but he expects, on the other hand, that
the French Government will not interfere in the manner in
which the GovernMent of His Dominions is concluded, or
call for a change in those Laws with . which . His People are
perfectly
_eiatisfied.• With respect to the distinction-which
appears to be drawn in M. Otto's Note, between the Publi-
cations of British Subjeds and those of •Foreigners, and the
power which .His Majesty is' suppoSed to have in conse-
quence at the Alien. Ad, of sending .Foreigners out of His
Dominions, it is important to Observe, that the Provisions of
that Ad were made for the purpose of preventing the resi-
--deuce of foreigners, whose numbers and .principles had a
tendency to disturb the,internal peace of His own Dominions,
and whom the safety.ofthosc Dominions might require in
many instances to be removed,.even if their actual condird
had not exposed them. to punishment by law., It does not
tollow that it would be a warrantable application of such a
law to exert its powers in the cases of individuals such as
those of whonrcomplaint ,is now made, and paiticuiarly as
thee: are liable to be prosecuted under the Law of the Land,
in like manner as others have. been in • similar cases, at the
instance, and-upon the Complaint of Foreign Governments.
The second general head, which includes the five last
Complaints, relates to 'the remove! of some of the French
Emigrants resident in this Country. His Majesty enter-
tained hopes that the explanation furnished on this he:id in
my Dispatch, No. Le, would have proved satislattory, and
would have precluded the necessity of any farther discussion
on this subject. "l'he French Government have upon
several oe..asions resorted on this part or the subject to pre-
cedent, and have particularly rested on the demand formerly
Made by this country, „that the 'person then called the Pre.
tender, should he sent from the French 'Dominion:. It is
important that the difli:reeces between these two cases should
be stated. When urines 11. abdicated the' throne. and left
this Country, he retired with his adherents to France ; and
though in the war which immediately succeeded that event,
the French Government adopted his cause as their own, no
stipulation was made at the Treaty al" Ryswick, that he
should he sent from ;hat Country-, nor was' any sub-
sequent demand ever mad 6 to' the French' Government to this
effect ; but he was suffered to remain at. St. Germain, in the
neighbourhood of Parie, surroundedbylhis famiiy and friends,
till the time of his death; It was nut till after his demise,
when Louie X 1 V . iii dire& violation Of the Treaty of Ries.
wick, had. acknowledged' hie Son as Kiinee.. Of Great Itri.
fain, that a different course . of prOceeding was whined.
by the British Government ; and in the Treaty of- Peace
signed at Utrecht, which put an 'end to the War
which had Keen carried in, on account of the. Spanish
Succession, an 'Article was inserted to prevent the PretentWr
from residing in atiy part of the French 'Deininione. The
demand which was subsequently mole tir the retnoVal of
the Pretender from a town which was situated ut the centre
of these dominions,' was- founded on this; Article of the
Treaty, which wee in fact one of the conditions at the Peace
but bothehe Article in the Treaty and the eleinand were
confined to the Pretender personally, And were not extracted
to any of his family, or to any of his adlierente. After his
reinoval, many (Allis adherents continueertO reside in France ;
many persons resident in thii-Conntry,Who Were attached to
the cause ache` Pretender, and teal vomited the Rebellion
in his favour. and who were cesesequentlY,attainted for High
Treason e' ;oughtreftige in France, :unitw were permitted le re,
tei,i e thine tilt tfiiikr.lieeth„
In• ;:. leThitcle'oy co iiiiiiiih Ceeernment. tor. their removal.
• ti,l7ltilee:O. fkielt, the natioel Sea of fames 11. who
fridint'his:ep.9 • a 6e. and talent's Was the most dangerous
' troth; to' jive!
,rt4.l,:' this Goiatry, and the 'Protestant
it
4,
.... . ted to' be ;1 Geneial in the French Armies,
nod etioUgri-- e centred 'Pont the )(intl. an Englishman, and an
Emierant, it 'Was not reqinred that he should be sent out of
France. In the preset case, there is no Article in the
Treaty of Peace, by which His Majesty is bound to send
trinwthis Country any Frenchman whatever, except on ac-
Count of the crimee epecitied in the Twentieth Article of
the Definitive Treaty, and in consequence a:the proofs
therein required having been etalueed. In the present case,
it cannot be pretended that His Majesty has ever given the
slightest countenance to the cause of the Re Yalists in France.
against the present Govenunent sine the period when he
acknowledged that Government ; and it there were not these
important differences in the two eases, they. would be totally
dissimilar in the only remaining point; for in the case of the
House of Stuart, as has been already .srated, •notwithstanding
the violence of the times, and the danger to Which the PM-
teshint Succession was really exposed, this strong act of au-
thority way confined to the person of the Pretender ; and the
individual who must'be recognized in that character by 'the
French Government, and whose case can alone bear tiny si,
in ilarity to the former even in this respect, is'not, and never
hay been within His Majesty's Dominions : Other precedents'
• might be adduced on this subject ; but it is
.not necessary-to
. state them, as the foregeing are sufficient, '
-
With resped to the Complaints in detail under the 'second
, head.,---Upon the first, you may enform the French Govern-
ment, that the Emigrant's in jersey many of whom had re-
mained there solely on account of die cheapness of subsist.
eke, had adually removed, or Were removing previous to
the representation concerning thent in M. Otto's Note, and
that befote your explanation with M. Talleerand can take
piece, there will inobebl) not he an Emigrant in the !shunt.
TO the Second Complamt, Which relates to the Bishops of
Arras and Saint Paul ite Leon,
and others, ilis Majesty cad
only reply, that it' the fads alleilged against tile:11 cats be
anbstantiated ; it it can be eroVed that they have distributed
Papers on the ('mist of Frame:, with a vieiV oldieturbing the
Government, at or iietneing the Peuple. to resist the new
Church EstabliJoiein, Ills Majesty._ would think himself
justified in taking all measures within his lower fur obliging
therint6 heave the Critintry; bet emne prOolemet be adduce 4
or those taus; and:etch proof must not be that of their hay-
ing in a single iestenr e, vie. in reply to the Pipe's mandate,
published a ViertiLeticu or their own CCldnet, in refusing
to conform to the New Establishment, a proceedingin which
they would be justifiable on every principle oh' toleration and
• justices' but it should slew, that they Katie since availial
themselves or their situation in this Country:lo excite the
People of hence against the authority of that Government,
whether civil in ceclesiastical, - ,. ..

On the Thira complaint, which respeeti• the removal of
qcurges, aild those persons supposed to IN: described as his
adherents, M. Otto must have mistaken me in What he step.
Vises Me to. have ciid on that subject. His Majesty is how.,
ever very desirous to obviate any Cause of; complaint or un.
easiness with respect to these persons; and measures are in
contemplation mid wil I, be taken, for the purpose of remoy.
ing thriftout.o'flt is Majesty's European Darmnions.
on tkie Fourth Complaint, respecting the Princes of the
House of lionrh,n, I can only ruler you to my fOrmet
An-
s~ctr. His Majesty has no desire that they should continue
in this Country, it they are disposed, or can be induced to
quit it but lie teels it to be inconsistent with his honour
and his sense of jttstiee, to withdraw front .them the 'rights
of I lospitali ty, as lung as they ctinthitt themselves peaceably
and quietly and 010 S some charge can he substantiated of.
their' attempting tridlitiirb the Peace which subiists bet Ween
the wo Goveritmepa:,' 7
With respect to 'the' Fifth Complaint, which relatei to
the French Einigrants ‘vearing in this Country the Orders of
their ancient Government.; there are letv it anY persons of
that d.!s,:rilirion in this Country Who wear such Orders. It
be itiore,propdr, if they all abstained.fronVit ; but the
French Coverunient could nut .persist expeelitg, that,
i vin If Ir were ,:onk`tstent «itli Law, His Majesty could be:
induced to commit 'so, harsh an at of authority as to send
tlieth-out atilt; Country On such an account. . .
I have thus stated to you Ili* Majesty's Sentiments on the
several points contained in M. Otto's Note. You will
takean early OpOftitlii ty ofeommanicating these Sentiments
to the French Ciovernment, and of accompanying them with
the 'Arguments and,, Explanations iiWve stated. Anti if it
should be desirixl, and you should be of opinion that it was
likely to produce any; good elfect, there is no ohjediort to
yourpuittng the •SUbir:4llCe of what 4ott shall have said in
writing, and delivering it to the Mintstet. tip' Foreign 3.4irs,
as a memorandum of your Coniersation:.
Upon the general tone and style of ~M. Otto's Note,. it is
important to observe, that it is far from conciliating ; and
that the tit-A.o4x .of presenting Notes of this desCription, on
any 1111.41Y0 at suggestion of itersonal irritation, cannot tail to
have- the elect of indisposing the two Governments towards
each.other, instead of consolidating itrul. 'strengthening the
Peace which happily subsists between them. That after a
War, in which the passPms-ormen have been' roused beyond
all former examples, it is. natural to suppose that. the dis.
trust,. jealousy, and.other hostile t.elings of 'individuals
should' trlt itulltvliatc!y subside, and under these ei.edm.

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• stances it apltears .o be bath # the intero,t ,*nd of
ra+
two vernments, by a talk! and tenipzrateLondtrzt, g
Gcr
.dually to allay these feelings, and not, on the contrary,
provoke and allr,lTlCilt theta hi' untimely .irritaflOo cul their
part, and by ascribing proceedingS like those ahoven,tiad,
to causes to which they have no left mice. . tlt, Ni,,j:;Ty has
dins fully and trAnkly explained his Sellthiltia:,,* and the
ground of his Conduct... • He is sincerefv dispo,co to adept
every measure tOr the preservation of fleace -Which is on.
sistent with the honour and independence Of the Countrli
and. with the security or its Laws and Constitution. hut the
Ft-cinch Government must have thriiied a moit errouPU*
judgment of the disposition of the British NatiOn,' and of the
chancier of its Government, if the.. hive been taught tr,
expect that any Representation of a foreign Power wilt dyer
induce them to consent to a violation of those on.
which the Liberties -of 'the' Pei:l)(e of .this: Cottntry 'arc
founded. •.
I have the honour to be, dec.
(Sigttcd)- -HAWKESEIRV,
Anthony Merry, &c.

(No. Lt.) NOTE.
General Vial, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic at
'Malta, having set out for his Destination about 4 1:,..11
si
July, it is to be presumed, that he will soon be in a LUnd.
tion to enter into a Concert with his Britannic Majesty,.
Minister Plenipotentiary on the Evacuation of Nlalta, aril of
its Dependencies.
The three Months, in which this Evacuation should have
taken place, are expired ; arid it being the intention ot
the
two Governments that the Execution of the 'freaty
of
Amiens should experience the least possible delay, the firf,
Consul would have been desirous that the two thousand
Neapolitans who are_rearly to depart, could have been trans-
ported- at an early peeing to the island of Malta, to llc in„
readiness whenever the EVacuation be on the- point 91
being etlitted.
It appears, nevertheless, that Mr. Drummond, thc, Ent'
fish Minister at Naples, has not been authorized by 16•G`)*
vern t mento facilitate his Transport ; and that the Ivo ito
alledgeol by that Ttlinister was; that the Stipulations which
ought to precede the Evacuazion-wit being fulfilled, 1163
Evacuation could not yet take place:
*in contmunicating the above Details to' his Excellency
Lord 1-lawkesbury, Hi; Britannic Majesty's Principal S• toil
tary of State tin- the oNign Department,
theh te
is directed to observe, that the sending two thetio "i.,
heapolitaris,to the lila:l46f Malta, cannot but be coniitlacu
as a preliminary step, in order to accelerate the Evaci",
soonas as the necessary measures shall have lien tali
entio
the respedive Plenipotentiaries ; and thud it does not in 30Y17
manner prevent the subsequent' concert on the Details o•
the Evacuation, conformably to the Clauses of the
of Amiens. • •
The Undersigned is moreover ilireaerl to ictren the 131i*
fish Ministry to give general 'lnstructions :o Mljcsty's
Plenipotentiaries at Naples, and at Malta, that the (;vacuaetixoejnutaed w
ndtihnewoutthoerb t.,.;onadliet:ioannstio‘frittlhieousi:lliiitA,sertil.;le,
tiariei conceiving thintiselves oblige& to refer to
their
vemment en each ofth:: snceessive Operations which shrl,!•
take place.
• •
Under The
nderirned embraces this opportimity to present to
his 'ExCellency Lord Hawkesbnry,- the Homage or bii rt.
speetful'Consuteratinh.
London, Aug. •
• • • (Slgll6d) arTo•
Itis Excellency Lord I-lawkesbury, •
ego. ri(;

(No. rs.)---NOTE. , .
The Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the re.
ceipt of M. Otio's Note of the 2/$t irßtalit.
.... When the Neapolitan ,Govemnient notified tcrslr. Doan).
Mond, the King's Minister at. Naples, that I lie;aooia. TWO
which His Sicilian Majesty bad seleettal to servein SIAlt h
were ready to proceed to their destination, that Gent iCIII4I
,declined taking any step to facilitate their embarkation, till
iip,ihou lit receive intelligence of the arrival of Sir AlexalutOr
boll in that laland, and fill he should be informed that the
Commander in Chief of the British Forces had made Vit.
able preparations for their reception. By the last ailvias.
from Malta it appears,• that Sir Alexander Ball hail arrivll
there on the lath of last month, .and that alter liaviag
ferred with General Fox u the subject, he had wriricit ::
Mr. Drumond, that there was no impediment whatever t
their quarters would he prepared aecoriliiir f
the immediate reception of the Neapolitan Trooir, 41,(1 ilia
signed has the honour to state this to M. ( tto s$ the ntiol
satisfatiory answer which he Cill give to his NoreL, Lily
probable, therefore, that the Two . t• nikSii:jha" 'l4 c
ps o go pervro
are alretu% embarked aid on t hob passile i risco —Plis.l
Inc - . •f•
!Rub, .fty .01 any unnecessary {Way. 0r,„.---1. in‘4,l.iiircwis•
ttohe tnost-exolleit..baltsuel loot wiil"l'ic 110,0°"'"."'
my. Drummond on this sub cat. Note, the
With reaped to the other
points. in M., Otto's iiotei .
to
undersignemi, can only repeat what he has before suittic.
him, that is Majesty is most sincerely desirous to ;CC
t,
_1!
the Stipulations. of the Tenth Article of the I)cfint rag
anti.
'Cteaty carried into Oka with the utmost PuitcluahlYttakei
veldt the least possible delay. With this view Iv r
this opportunity of observing iki the nder.
0 that. be the Ye y
last Dispatches front the English itinbasttsisi'alor aS t; Vetc.ts"._
viting the Emperor to become a
bar4h, the French Minister at that Court had not even ttr..
received any instructions from his Government retative.to
.o.:
steps, to be taken in concert with Lord St. Helens, toir.!_
and Stipulations of the • Article in quest(on. ~,,1101,1‘a,
Minister at Merlin, was in- the sante predicament. . ii- -....
dersigned, thcretbre, requests that M. Orto would Itayc,,z,
goodness to represent these- eircumstailces to his 600.'1
anent, and to, urge them, if they have not already dove nt
to transmit without delaytheir fif lets at those COO'
. to MIN bus.
the necessary instrudions for bringing this part of the •
ness to a conclusion. .
The Undersigned. Asia*
guarantyof the
riteov ion.y.o,
requests M. ,Otto to accept the-
. (Signed)
Down'n
~ i g-street, August 23, L:O2. HAWK ESBURY.

1.1314:ke516 blitt: 'ran. Extraat')of a Distsiatchl.rogt Mr.
,Merry,
tt°011'.„.44
y•, dated t , 3, ' i oa, giving an a‘koil i
interview which he had hail with' 4 COlititienTl3lperiCal tierf
"S7hY long the Swiss Cantons, intreating the. iiiterterenc"
the fliiii.di t;uvernment and ineliiiing• the thilowittg
i
!flii.L...v.piltilvattsoSefvviftitit..:l::)elici:lo'tilvel'.:ll4C:iasocti:ticltl:L:ikeit . freelY man' ftltft t
were the mere tricks ()Fermin Faaions, in which the NAP.):
at large took but a very trifling interest. Scarcely did 51„..1
zerland think herself independent when 'she was desirous„o
IrenGtleotoruvs 'trebnrtynitnlneghle,evtirctloltiaullctere;'siattsisltictlsi
veftn;titrlzteni;lirtil:Etia:ziiiitaiu:atiii°(ll 1 st'h the Canrabeirtts; ialcit(sleao74;ll.4.
and moderation, shook oil' the ,)‘tovbkietehPrn.dleblillic3fcntiiies °lfellC:Fiti)liflic'ellGil'illoc:ltililssniA4.loisll).lor,l7t.'ll.:
themselves into Constituent Bodies;' and Twelve unto
..,,
Thirteen Cantons of Switzerland sent Weir R..prcsvidativci
to the Diet of Seliwitz, in order there to cr,,,inize a t;nr3l
Power which might be• acceptable to .the neighbottrinD
Powers. ,to
The Aristocratical Cantons -renounced' their
,V:ellls,rl
rights ; the Pays,de Valid 'was. left at liberty to tbrui its (,) .
Constitution, as well as Thurgovis and the other iiebv (-Jll
tons. • i fir
- The Government having taken -rnfuge.at Lausanne, wra ii
no means secure there, notwithstanding its regular Tioi)
perhaps even at the present mernelit lt no longer exists. , t,„
Who would not have thought, that according to the sttl".,„
lation of the
Switzerland,TreatY of Loney' le, w hich grants 1 ridepenat"
rn-
•to and the right of choosing its osvn Gove
mm ..,
e, every,„ thing
was sclll,A, :iild th.lt this NAtluii 1110 it 't-
it* former happiness and traininillity revi‘`e ? .lici
Who conh 'have thonght, that the First Consiii ,s'o`.er
have issued such a I)eeree 0. that 'of the Bth Vertiletttoo
')
? . .
po Wt. .
.1s an'independant Nation to` he'thus. treated ? Should 1,co•
naparte persist in his deterMii)lltiOli, ana the &Ahern
__ ..,,,
should noliaterpose in our ta‘onr;it Only reinai o_lllh
,either to bury ourselves in itte. riiiii•i of our houses, ait.'n:ba,
without hope of resistance, 'exhausted i....$ NV.e ;ice by tilo..i.n_ei
;lossus' who,is about to overt helm us, or to dchase in rs Iv
iti the eyes o'f the'whole universe !
at all t ifilifi attimterl *I.) Maly; prot)l4, of flie.ll.lteiV:it li, ::,_
Irt..
Will the Government .:f this generous Nation, oillick4,,,!liil'st.
the welfare.of the Si.viss, do i••?thini, for iis nottc.r cihrcurni,4
'ces which ate t', dechic, v. het her tad" SR Still ta L'e
' . • tl 1 ,
I aillOilk;st tree.' copi .
the., i ,
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LetitOtArkotnilot two -1 -Wreirtsl"ol4#l4s.l,l7 i4u.yengie 141
0111104114*f** !'. ' , 'At'Otto) -to Lbo,iitior4 ~,i,iiot in 11,!$.
the sentuncap :‘, :.,•••,..2egrit W. 40.11 ter, .„,„:,,,ei;,„11,0 tg rix•
Majesty's' minjt,'Vy i 7 , - - blreffer44lle'ktrUi. gioi Authority in the.
I lelyetie People, whii: i was published by
...
___esentotiotis,
1 Moniteur of the tst instant, and by the _P.,4l.','`subjeti, no
I which hey: been troJe 20 WS hfajcsTy ui Inn

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