The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-14 00:00:00

FIDE! CH PAPERS.

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PAlT.s,ligq 5. After the celebration; on The 2d
.
instant; of the Anniversary, of the Emperor Napo-
leon's Coronation; an addreo was. preiented to
his imperial Majesty, in the 'ita'n'te of the Senate,
by their - President ,CoUnt Oarnier, thanking his
Majesty for his most gracioascommUnicationof the
happy event of the pregnancy' of the Ethpress. '

OFF)CiAt. DOCUMENTS

RESPECAING TI-111 EXCHANGIS OF PRISONERS WITH

ENGLAND.

Since the 'commencement of the present war,
France and England have agreed 'upon no_ cartel
for the exchange of prisoners. The oh,tacle which
has hitherto opposed itself to any understanding
on this important object, has arisen from a dis-
cordance of opinion with.- rcgatd to the 'wowing
points :

England will not consent to confider as prisonets
only the native Engligh) ntit include. in the
benefit of the exchange the Germans, 'Spaniards,
Portuguese, and others of her Alit* who form part
Of her armies, or who constitute a part.of the.armies
Who combine and co-operate with her's.

The second point of difference is ihe ‘capitulation
General Walnioden ; at the time of tlie Con-West of,
Hanover, 17,606 men then surrendered as .prisoners
of war, England will not consent u consider them as
Such, although the greater part of these troops, offi-
cers as well as soldic:l•s, have since been ii her ser-
vice, in t iolatiOn of the capitulation, and of the law
of hatiOets. •

During tile space of ten years these questiOnS have
furnished' matter of protracted discussions.

In April, 1 810, an English Commissary art ived it
'Morlaix.. In order to clear :away these difficulties,
negociations were ret on loot; and they fated eight
months without being broug{tt to any successful cdn-
clusion.

France proposed two bases :,-414e-first *as, to re-
new what had been done or 1780. .By the wrtel of
1780, the pris,)ners of the two natiqms 'wre e'x-
ctianged in gross, by making up for the dttlerence by
a sum of money. - '

That basis having been refused, France proposed
the total exchange of the whole of .the prisoners,
of the two belligerents, man for in in, rank-for rank.
Men who formed part of the same artily, or of
armiesswho had combined, their operations and co-
operated in their movements, Were separated troin
each other.• Br proposing rhat second baSis, France
went still farther : she consented to restore all
the Spanish prisoners which she had i 3 surplus,
that is, she we's willing to give up inure than. 20,000
prisoners beyond the number that would have been
exchanged
This basis alone was under discussion for eight
months. England affected io be willing to adopt the
principle; it was imagined that the cat ttl had been
resolved upon : but in,her view of cartels, England
soon betrayed the tendency of her real intention,.
It was discovered that while she appeared to adopt
the principle of the exchange, she was anxious only
to lay a snare. Under this pretence, she attempted
to withdraw the prisoners she bad in France, in ex-
, change for an equil number of French prisoners
who were in England; and afterwards give rise to
incidents, in otder to justify. the detention of the
r'o,ooo French prisoners who still remained lo be
.exchanged, and to leave in Frimce.the Spanish pri-
soners, about whose fate she was unconcerned. The
trick was too clumsy to impose upon any one—Eng-
land accepted the i•roposat"ol a general exchange,
arid reserved to herself, at the-same time the means
of executing only a partial exchange, when site would
have had all her prisoners at home 5 for most un-
doubtedly iris not the 'estimation in which he holds
the Spanish prisoners, that would have induced her
to respect the treaty, and to send back to France
the remainder of the French prisoners. The
English NegociatOrs called- this harmOnizing the
principle of the exchange of man for man, rank for
rapk,- of the sum-total of the twoanasses, 13M not to
be effeCted at the same time. And accordingly
did they throw off the mask and freak of the nego •
elation when the conditions of a. cartel were field
out to them, which would have•carried bona flee LI to
effect the principle, that is by establishing an ex-
changoof 3000 French and allies of France'against
3000 English and the alliesart England, in the pro-
portion -which appeared between the prisoners in
their total numbers ; of 3000 Fiend) vgainst Wu°
English and 2000 Spaniards. The proportion of the
mass of the prisoners was in this ratio.,---Wiih re-
spect to the capitulation of Walmoden, there
was- no coming to any undertauding. England
would give up for the 17,000 Hanoverians only 3000
French.—France, in a spirit of conciliation, brought
down her claim to a third, that is, to 6,000 French ;
although it was proved, that of the 17,000 Hano-
verians more titan 9,000 had served, or were actu-
ally serving in the British ranks.

After this preamble, die Monileur COlltaitlS 1V
official Papers :=-
No. 1. A Note from M. Dumoustier, French
Commissary.

No. 11. May'2s. The projed of the cartel en-
closed in Nu. 1. the substance of which is, that all
French, Dutch,'ltalians, and Neapolitans, who.are
now detained prisoners in England, Spain, Portugal,
or the Brazils, shall be indiscriminately set at liberty,
France 'and her Allies shall do the same towards
England, including Hanoverian prisoners, towards
her prisoners of the above description. Russia and
Denmark shall do the same by their prisoners, and
shall be similarly tieated.'
, .
No. 111. May 'Note from Mr. Mackenzie,
stating, that as lie, was not prepared to treat tor a
general exchange, of prisoners belonging to all. the
Belligerent Powers,-he therefore asks permission to
write to his Government.
No:AV. ' May 26, M. Dumoustier declares to
Mr. Mackenzie, thitl! :England will .notaccede:lto
the principle of generai and absolute liberation of all
the priiOners of war ofilik two Belligerent masses,
he is 'authorised to propose the cartel of, 1780 be-
tyveen France and England as the basis.
.No. V: ::June A‘Noie froin Mr. Macl:eiizie
.• •2
to 'M.'llutubtastier,--,arineoneflig that the counter'
project is•-;arriittd frertittendon... It is in Substance
as follows` 411..p.tisonea.s.in-thephssession of either
Piiwgr„, or .their sballile'set at Mery
, •

manner proposed by tile Fr.'neh Goverrtenr,
and enon Vretncla prisoners shill be set at liberty tot
2000 4nyc:NerilrF,, being the utmost number in, the
Britiih service of thole who capitulated Roder..
CornOte de Walt-7164n. It also states the ranks of
the prisoners, .wh'iclrare to bedeemed equivalent .6n
both sd?s, and concludes with an offer to establish
Commis,aries- in London and Paris, to facilitate the
exi•hange of prisoner din 'more.
No. VII., In
,this Note, which isdated'i.-dv
[fit°, M. Dumoustier discusses the connter7pr(iieicl•
of theßritish Government. RI. sVs, if the prin-
ciPle_ of the genet al liberation of the two belligerent.
glasses was agreed upon,' that was not‘clone,for the
purpose of 'adopting measures which would annnl.
or elude most important ConseqUen'ceS:' The
Fiench Governownt is convinced that the Jiint:is of.
andot her insurgent Governme.nt4
itr SOin, may su.bmit.of cl.sappear trom tlio;,e quar-
ters, thelefore, it beieomes evidently impossible ton
eT.ecnta with.them the paragraphs 11-and 12 of the
ankle 4 of the
:counter-project ol the BlitisliGo-
lveriiMent.3. ardsame at the.sae time it maybe fore4een
that England inay` refuse to- liberate French pri-
soners who mty remain in her power after the: ex-
change of. English prisoners. Thus the adoption of
the erpinter pmjeil 'of the British will be no -mbre•
than a ,Which liberaies the whole-
-of the Prisoners, and part of the Prilich
prisoners • only,, and, the general principle 6t4bera-
tion, on whiCh both Go vernis;tents are will
be found deficient. •
The on!y• and incoplestible Means- executing
completely a concerted pi io'ciple of..a `general esl-
change, is tii' convey •to th,e road of Calais all the
Froneh prisoners, and sti•,),eVl^:4lle PoWer's allied to
Pilate', which art.' iii e"rland. To bring also all
tits English . a. number from '[he 111-
het Of England, snaking 'ibgether a hut-111)er equal
to that of the French, or the France, who
are pri.oneis Eliglan:l, and 'there make the
change.,

Ftoni Clil ifi, the British Government could trarrs;.•
port the 8p prisoners to the ports of Spain still ‘_
in a state of insurrethon, where they may • dispose':'
of them as most noirttqaient. This plan is simple,
and without obstacle, pecans? it su:ts well enough
bOth Governments, • All the French-prisoners in the
power of England,•and the English in r 71,,, power
Of Prance; being liberated by these means, the sur-
plus of . the Spanish prisoners shall be exchanged
against the French prisuners in Spain, acid to this
end the British Government promised Uts'interven-
don (as far as circumst trices rendered it pratticable
to bring about the exchange). •
In making an aetuil .baltince of pri oners of war
between France and England, it is 'evident, -from a
Report of the population of both nations, that there
is to one and the othera propciftinn nearly equal of
prisoners of ; consequently there. 14 an equal
proportion of wishes to hatict and in 'England for
their liberation, eqUal proportion of warranty
for the treatment which they ma'y ex'perience, and
an equal power: of making rept isals, if circumstances
should render it necessary. But if we begin to de-
liver all the English prisoners, England- fiods:herself
irnmediitely disinterested in 'this species of misfor,
tune ; sd much so, that the Frenchmen .detained' in
England will find themselves without warranty of
exchange, and strithont warranty of the treatmet
which they exped. • On this reasoning is establish-
ed the. principle of a general exthange, and the
pricciple of convenience. It is tibis argument which,
in reason, in policy, and in admits not
the eitecution of mem, tending directly orindireatly
to model the tonseqnenceS. The Undersigned raises
not a question which edn •be here removed, in en-
tering into the detail of the deplorable situation of
the French prisoners iii Engi mind, crowded in hulks,
where they are deprived of alt exercise. Cooped op
by thousands in the pi isou of Dartmoor, described
by all the reports which have reached us, as situated
in the most unwholesome spot in all England, breath-
ing in this prison, as in the hulks, and, perhaps,-
worse, a foetid and corrupted air, they have con-
tracted contagious disorders, which carries them
off by hundreds, or which terminates in diseases .
incurable; to say the least of-them, while they re-
Main England lwilf'not derive any advantage from
them.

The Undersigned does not oppose, to this situa-
tiou of the French prisoners,: the good treatment re-
ceived by the Englisli• prisoners in France; distri-
buted in large citadels, situated in the most healthy
cities of the empire, they exercise themselves in all
the extent of these places as freely and familiarly as
our own people; and, those among them who are
laborious often. obtain „the reward which they de-.
serve:from .their: talents and industry. • -So far from
having contagious maladies, they have fewer di -e ises
among themiperhaps, titan if they were pertckilly
tree: , • ' • • -'

The Undersigned will make rho 'more observa._
tions nu the number of Hano.verians described by
the counter-piojea, nor on the-Oinission of,Russia
and Danmark, which are to be taken into cutisi-
.deration with Fiance, in a treiny for the exchange
of their prisoners of war. Fiance will attend to all
these accidental questions, when the basis of the tie-
goci.tttou isagreedon.

[Tu be continuetil ,

The pernicious effetts Of conitination•amofig arti-
Sails for the advance of wages •arid other purposes,
have been felt with such severity, that ,we presume.
the heavy sentence passed upon the Printers has
been intliCted as a matter of tearful example to
workmen in general. It is not the mere length of
imprisonment that is to be considered, though that
is melancholy to men wnh taniihes ; not a cons ;c.:
(ion oi conspiracy carries witii it int-mosi dreadful
consequences that can follow.to n tionest.man, and
.attaches to mini through lite. It iei,ders him inia-
mous in the eye of . the law. His evidence iu a
I
t,our.t.oi Justice is una-.ailable ; t,e cahno.t.serve
.neighbour, a relation, or a tiit;nd, by iti, tvsntuooy,
. howeier c4(-ntidl. to the cause e! Justice and huma-
nity Aiis.linowtedge of the case might bc ,nor can,.
he prove any wrong ted. upktn nor.
oPtain redrss by his own oath ! Ile way tx.:.•
`taine4wilUe in:pri.ouny his trie.nds,.9r ,
dons of his tompa;tions ; but wh.:l can co;,,punlate_
tolitm-far. the' 10-s-rur-Alribe be-St—Fislits-Or a-Cit.zen •
trid'a df credit 1- •

41,.. •
LATK' PO:ir,

toußT:oFcriANcEini, ij.

MORRIS AND.pTIiFtiS pAiRIS AND-OTHERS.

. .. -,.
The appl;t-a;;.on,td the CO.:.l:%_lll.L.dit'was,renei,-.-
ed this day... • It w.is- colfNitdei tbat the Illoprieiori
of Cot:-ent GAldetl.TheThrq bad liitlintiti the Far..v'it:i
question (X. V. Z.) by .a tuna litie couiract. ...Utley
had bought it m .a, considerable rx pehce, •and tinless
the repreiehtmion of it was confinued; the bcnefit
of it wool:1 be list. • '

The affidavit of Mr. tiarris stated that the Proprie-
tors had rceived no nitire of the engagontent be-
tween Mr, Morris and Mr. Colman, unt.i 2uol. had
been advanced to the latter. The daentleas, there-
tore, stood in the situation of purchasers for a vain:.
able 'c onsideralion, ho6t notice,. and con,tlio,mily
the engagement lxi:..yeen•Mi•sirs. Morris arid Colin:in
;ought not to allect.•thorn. Under all the 'circua-
stances, his Lordship. was eahed'on try- the4pleUtti
ants -to oissoh e the injoncOon. , —; •
Sir S,. Ri.istiLLl' addressed the Chancellor in be--
half of the plaintA andirewted to the argumentS
used on the form-r occasion. call,-cf the am.
tentirin of his Lordship ml the deed het wem Messflo
Morris and Colman, - t contended that. the Farce'
.could not la;; performed without manifeiir iCitrr y to
Mr.. MorriS. The representation of the.43:ecu at Co
vent-Garden, -t-pr 4.:tew nights only would maitralty
lessen the.-advantages wbich ,the plaintif s had' a
right to
'.expect front the
_representation of it at the
Haymarket, and if it
~.hould not succeed an the pre•
sent instance, it would, be of no valhe whatever to
the Hay in ark e.: Proprict,T.
The Lutuj C',HA-seEt.Loa, without giving any opi-
nion .on the merits of the case, directed that an order
Should be mdde for stispending the injonetion tot the
present, with this understanding, that on the .nwrits
o? the case being fully before the Court, if it should
appear 'hi 1-1,1) market Theatre were: leglily inte-
rested in its sa.iprel..sion, then the • Proprietors of
Covcnt-G .rden Theatre should be adcountabk tor
the profits during its being pt•rfortned.

Tub: THEATRE.—'t'//e Merchant of Fenice was
brought of ward ►ast..n.eht in a very splendid man,
tier. at Covvi.t7Garden Theatre. Mr. KEMBLE, who
had
.h..mg been accustomed to perform the part of
Shyluck before he came to Covent- Garden Theatre,
and who declined to interfere with COOKE'S posses-
sion of it there, has .been induced to resume it on
the absence of that actor. Mr. KEMBLE supported
it with his usual adherence to the niceties of the
text, and with effective energy through the.whole.
Mts. Stmunsis, in Portia, displayed what may be
calledintellectoal comedy, a4eerfulness in the con-
ception, without frivolit; in jha.matiner. .Herjudg-
ment-scene W3i very impressive. CHARLES
EL E'S .89ssanio wai as ❑sual easy and natural. A
new duet, composed by Mr. CONDELL, was sung by
TAYLO,R dad MISS BOLTON ; and the same ingenious
composer remoulded the song of " To keep my
gentle Jessy," into achiet also, which was sung by
the same performers, The several views of Venice,
and of Belmont, arid the general costume were strik-
ing and superb.—A very numerous audience. •

DU ET,
I iitrothiced last night in The .'Merchant of Venice, at Covent..

Garden.

JESSICA AND LORENZO.

JESSICA.

T II vows of ever i:iving truth,
You've won my captive heart, fond youth;
But parted once, might 1 not find,
That out of sight was out of mind ?

Log E

All! do thyself-no yvrolig, my (kill
Away with every jealous fear;
For each fair objeCt I might see
Could but inspiie a thought of thee.

BOTH.

Thus absence fans to stronger flame,
The love that fires the constant soul ;
As distance points v‘ith surer aim
The faithful needle to its darling pole.

On the 23d ult. James M'Ar,a was apprehended.
at Newcastle, in consequence of information re-
ceived from Scotland, on a
.charge of murdering his
own brother, and- has since been sent to Edinburgh,
This man and two -of his brothers wrought at a
slitting-mill called Cramond Mill, about five miles
from Edinburgh, and while .the workmen were re-
delving their wages on Saturday the loth ult. lie. and
• one ot.hiS brothers quarrelled about their work, and
from words they came to Wows, when he took up 4
piece Of iron- and struck his brother over the head,
three different bloWl, which caused his death in twa
~days .: •

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SMITHFIELD MARKET, Dac. r 4.
This day's Market was tolerably well supplied.
with -different kinds of Cattle ; Beef,. Mutton►, Pork,
and Veal, support last prices ; and the trade for the
Most pat t was somewhat flat.—The business done
in the HI Market was trifling ; Stiaw sold at-last
ptice; Hay and :Clover fetched a better price.
'l following area correct statement of the prices
and numbers :

To sink the offal per stone of gib.
}lce' 4s. od to Ss, ed. Mutton 4s. od. to ss. od. Veal
ss. mod. to 71. od. Pork ss. od. to 7s. od. Lamb os. od. to
05. ad. •
Beasts 1310, Sheep 4tOo. calves 210. Pigs 250.
SMITHFIELD HAY-MA EMIT
Hay sl. os. od. to 91. os. od. Straw 21. 10s. od. to 31.
os. od. Clover 61. os. ad. to 01. 95. od.

CORN-EXCUANQE, DSc. t4.-•-To7day there are
considerable supplies of Wheat on hand, and this
trade nearly at out last quotation ; Barley in plenty,
and a falling article ; Malt heavy sale, Peas and
. , •
Beans `of 'both kind hardly at last prices ; new
Ticks les. lb .4 li., ohl . as-uoder ; 'there are large
"suppbesOf Oet9, and ,re.cond, with iiilrrior quattitivs,
clu:ned ratherche,per ; 'Flour expe-ted lower.
1 I I,
witr.q: , s6s,a 70S a S 4 ' %.11:..'iicatb (old) 44s a sos
,'tills 4ittq - - , a 92$ eats - -20 i 24s a 311
Rye (lii,%y) - - 3.6' a 4n, Polaachilttro - 32$ 4 35$
ii,:y 14 • ' '.. -.. ' . 3;,;; a 47.., I
.i'c;tatcm.: ditLo --37 i a -.s
Mull .--...---- -..-- 7as-a -Tics Rape St:,:at . . 451 a 59
. Wilke ee,ls. ~, 54s i. i,,,:. ril,c
crcy •,ii;t4- - - os a j - Secoo446' . - • "s$ A 114$
bean. (4.)1,1) .. pi 9 sy

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REFLECTIOA S

ON THE NOTES IN THE MoNITFOJE OF THR 16TH,
23D, 29TH,`AND 30TH OF NOVEMBER.

BY A LOVER ov rat] rit.

[Conti'turd Jrnm l'eaeP day.]
What right have you to prescribe to Englane a
mode of exchange repugnant
to the paiernal senti-
ments which animate her Goceromeot ? Why do
yon demand that a' Enghshman, a Spaniard, and a
Portuifuese, be exchanged for three Frenchmen ?
_Why not consent that ;he English shorild be first
Itherated, and then the Allies, as long as there re-
mains a prisoner in Ergl.ind or in France ? Do
yr ir not know, that well-regulated charity begins
at Jieme ? The truth is, that you never seriously
thought of giseng up the English—to hold them in'
your orisons gratifies your pride. -All your efforts
are in vain against the mass of the nation. .Your
self-love is flattered with the chimerical idea of uni-
versal monarchy. Yon wish to have Englishmen in
yo :r power, and you have made yoUr cdiculations
accordingly.
There are in France about 88,000 Spanish and
Portuguese prisoners, whir.),'with.the 12,000 Eng-
hsh at this moment in your possession, -carries the
whole amount to 100,000. We ought, indeed, to
reckon only 6,000 English, since: the. others' were
arrested contrary to the law of nations, at the period
of the declaration of war in 1803 s For the first.
time will travellers and traders be assimilated to
combatants, in order to be exchanged as prisoners of
war. There will be difficulty in crediting such a
violation of the laws of civilization, adopted many
ages ago, and guaranteed by the sacr, d laws of ho-
nour and true interests of society. Had your &loan
been subscribed to, all your prisoners, including
30,000 experienced stanieh, would have been re-
stored to you; and. England having only 50,000
French to exchange fur 100,000 English and Ahies,
would have given liberty to only 6,000 of her sons !
She would have had them nifical ion to leave 6,000
in-.your chains ! You will not fail to s.iy, that you
have not-the number of Spaniards and Porugue-e
that is su,posed ; but we know the contrary. Your
pzisonsare crammed with them ; and you have pour-
ed theie into your fields to replace the conscripts in
the labours of agriculture. On the supposition that
you had 'hem not, you would have had the bail-
faith to make op tar before-mentioned number of
adventurer; ; you would even, perhaps, have gone
brtycocl ii, in order to attain an object which might
be censiitered as childishness, if it did not deserve
to be more severely stigmatized as ch-prving of li-
berty some thous‘inds of brave soldiers and estimable
citizens.

_Your titles 14 givelise ltw to the Fngjish Mini-
sters are don!gle,s, the step& Acre, the• ever-me-
Mora!)le flames of ti't_i•ogiir and Tr ifilgar, the. Con-
cpeit of Eqpt, the capture of all your Col•onies, The
annihilation of your Marine, the war in. the_Penin::
sula, and the love which all the nations of the
world hear you fir hat ing set the Eit;fish. and the
French Sy the ears together. It is known that you
have. the atuit- profound contempt. fur all men,
reckoning from yourself. Ypu must feel - burnt
-
bated uy your follies, disturbed ..by your sugpi-
cknis, and terrtied :by your crimes; • you •grow pale
at. the very name of august truth ; and your life
is only a' mixture of chagrin, of baseness, and of
crime.

h is easy for . you to cause the insertion in the
Nuniteur of the blackest .dwribes : they inspire no-
thing but pity for the folly and the wickedness of
their author, We see in all your furious declama-
tions, that you suppose in others those crimes of
which }on would have been guilty, if you had been •
in their place.. You say, for instance, " that the
English Commissary was Sent to France rather as a
spy th::in as a negociator ;". and to support this ac-
cuia 10.1, which excites ridicule . from your well-
earned-reputation of sktimeless liar, you add, " t::at
it uf.s iropossible,rto behave worse than Mr. Mac-
kenzie; that • he abused the liberty of making ex-
cursions eight. or ten .leagues in the country ; that
he had his corre..potidents ; that he affected to be

superior to the police of the province; and that he

gave into the toyertmencies of a young man will).-

out experiruce and without

It was

iarpossihle to give that Co.tunissJry an attestation
more forUal of the honour of his mission, of the

clelicicy of his conduM, the rese;ve of his behaviour,
and the in!egrity of his proceeding. The -Euglish
Colonel must, forsooth, appear to cringe before

your agents, or to pay court to your coutrutisaries
of Police, ()1 whom one is still cotered with the

blood which lie shed in the massacres of September,
and under ilobespierre !—These are the men whom
you proret as worthy execut.oners of your despotic
orders; you caress them as the most cringin4 of
your skives, and you encourage them ns the most
zealous of your spies; by taking into your considerar
tion the,.•cunuplaigts which they did ricit fail to ad.

dress to you, of, the circumstance that the 'English
Commisiary went perhaps once or twice to the dis-

ranee of five cr six leagues from Morlaix, to satisfy
his curio%ily : they seized with avidity this oppor-
tunity lo''•cdtnplain to .you; in order to revenge
themselvisii for ,the propriety and dignity of his con-
duct, yd,f, whom love appears to have deprived of

your senses—yon have the audacity: to insert sup 77
positions so pitiable in your Alija! Journal!
should the English Cornmis,ary have gone...eig4.,or.
ten leag►,es' froin Motiaix ? 'To visit theeoast and

the positions ? You know that that vrassnperfinoni ;
General Sarrazin commanded in BAinnny in 1-798,
i,BOO, 1803; and 1805. 'fre •had'his head-quarters
at 13rest, at Morlaix, and it.St..Pot de Leon. The
English Government " knows the coasts and the In-

terlor of Britanny ~rikh: a precision which leaves-
nothlng to be desired.' The case is the same with

the whole of the coasts and interior of France and

. ,
There is rid'lirthei: occasion to send spies who
cost enormous. sums,
..and whose information could
not ill% e the exactness of ,the observations which
Chet otlicer,otoadei.,Ooth as. a tactician and engineer.
In not
.appointing,44..jn his turn General of dtvi-
sio,i, or raitier.by di9lacing him from Bruges to
p!ense ) our 'Satrap Chauvelio, yQLI have'saved the

Engli,h Government wally- n•illionis of Lyres, which
expended almost always without benefit, inconse-
quence the grand inquisition with which you
have covered the surface of ihe Continent. You
have still some agents in Ltn ; but be assured
that they preach in the desert, and that your money
is thrown away.
The English newspapers teach you much more than
the most circumstan6al documents, respeaing an
Opposition, whose object at least is the public good,
and consequently hostile to you; or by reclaina-
lions, which some people amuse themselves in de-
scribing to you as rebellious. Their ,udden disap-
pearance proves to you the wi-dum of the British
Constituilun, and the coptidence which it inspires
in tilt; Government of which it consti!utes the force,
and in subjeols
,whose liberty and happiness it pru- •
teas.

The overflowing of your virulent -bile would not
have been complete, if you had not united Messrs.
Drake, Wickham, and Jackson, in your seoseless
proscription of Mr. Mikkeitile. One is not at all
suiprised at the rage which animates you against
these Gentlemen, distinguished by their talents as
'yell as by 'their devotedness to the cause of hutua-
nity ; but it is very-asttieishing, .that yon have tiot
also comprised in your list the Sidney Smiths, the
Adairi,, the Wellesteys, arc. You pass an eulogy
on the Marquis Cornwallis,' in order to take credit
for a sentiment which you never telt—good Filth.
Yes, England abounds io respet table awe, who, in
doing justice to the.unfort uriate superioi ity of which
nature has given yon.r.e elements, du not cease to
pray of Heaven to preserve them from your des-
potic yoke.
• It will become you:also to say, that the country
contains many political figaros, intriguers, spies; in-
cendiaries ! You doubtless meant to speak of your-
self, of those whian► you employ, .arid in that case
the portrait is very striking. yzont lierthie.•r down
to Roustan, all are devoted to secure your vengeance,
to refine upon your pleasures, to execute your per-
fidious designs, and to pry seri e you. trout the terri-
ble death which the iiinutueranie victims of y-ur
barbarous pride are prepating for you. It is yOu
who abuse the sacred charaeter of Ambassador—nut
to gain infolinmion 9f-the pulley of your rileoly,
but to sow disunion in Councils, to excite discon-
tent among the diftereet classes of society, and to -
certain the esetui positions in ease of illVaSfbn. We
kfiow the instruetions to your privileged ambass -
dors, the Savalys, the Dams, the Antheoisis, the
Caulincourts, the Sebastiatos; the Victors, the Boer-
nonvitles, the Bet thie:s, the Lanneses, &c.
The Continental Cabinets at last opened their
eyes, but it was too late, arid the evil was almost at
its height. It was seen that you incomestibly me-
rited a•plac,ein the first rank, as a spy. "'Touche
was right ivhen he told you, !..‘ that he was obliged
to acknowledge, your superiority in regard to pro.:
tOundness of :views,,, with -respect to the police-of
Europe the success of :whicit, though I, s 4 brilliant
than the victories of your armies, afforded you re-
sults of more solid advantage." Ido not pretend
to blame you for your artful proceedings,at .Foreign
Courts; but I ought, at least,:,to make you feel how.
ridiculous are the reproaches tkilich you pour upon
the tiglish, for wishing to glean after yourself and
your intolerant reapers.
Du not take it amiss, that others avAil themselves
of your learned lessons. "We, ought as much as
possible, to place ourselves in a situation-10 combat
otir enemy with iii. own ,tveapons. I acknowledge
it would be quite impossible for an English gentle-
man to ape the ktiavery of Vittor, the to,ly of Se-
bastiani, the cunning or Andreossi, the charlatanry
of BoUrnouville, the chattering of Betthier, 14. e per-
fidious suppleness of Duroc, the ferocious obedience
of Sa.ary, &c. But\ he will at least distrust your
emissaries. Without violating the laws of honour,
lie will ad upota them in such --a way as not to fall
into those snares whibh your diabolical genius has
hithetto had the artifice to cloak in the most seduc
tive manner.

You have touched the infeaed, without catch-
ing the plague. After the !rained manner in which
Cabahis ha, proved the reciprocal influence (13f mind
and of matter, we ought not to be surprised at ii.
There should run in your veins blood of a diffe-
rent nature from that of other men, You, then,
,were not attached by the plague on touching the
infected; but whoever approaches you, does not
fail soon to catch your pestilential mortality; the ob.
jest of which, for your slaves, is pleasure and sub-
mission, and for yourself tyranny and carnage.
Mankind should therefore be on their guard against
your captious propOsals, and should nut fear frank-
ly to sabmit.such as are addressed to you: to the
judgment of every .friend ,of justice, of truth, and
of honour.

Do, then, as the good. Homer sometimes did ;
nod a little; and tell us at last, a certain little se-
cret with regard . to your refusal to accept the plan
of.-4;onvention in the exolianoe of prisoners. Is it
not true that you
.feared,..rest, when the 12,000
prisoners at.present, io France 'were come over to
England, same subterfuge should be sought to break
through the cartel, so as not to restore you yoUr
30,00 u seamen?
You jildged,•of, the English Government from
yourself; ,yon.have banished those generous senti-
.inents whiCh are its compass. It repels, with the
same indignation, injOrious.suspicions and arbitrary
wetensions. It desires peace, because peace is ne-
cessary -to nations; but it, desires an . honourable
peace, or kresolved to combat with whoever shall
wish to sully the glory of the nation, fetter its coal-
*tierce, or dire& the smallest attack on its immortal
Constitution. , •

• When you sincerely wish' for an exchange of
.prisoners, you• will obtain it without difficulty. In
like Manner as France would haVe reason to find
fault with, you, if you gave the priority to your
allies; so Great Britain would be well founded in
censuring Ministers, if by weakness or imprudence.
"they consented to a similar measure, withdut re-
storing to their families *those unfortunate exiles
of whom the. majority are detained, co:itrary to
the law of nations, because they are ' non-com-
batants.
The wishes of allies are-fully aCcoMplished..

•
You have rally Tecognised the army of your brother
Joseph. By your declaration relathe to the pri-
soners, you proclaim the VgalitY Of the Govern-.
men t of the Supreme Junta, and thd.qotereigfity of
the nation. doing so 3'oujadvanced considerably
towards your true interest, and .the printiples of
justice. You recognize the army of Spain gs allied
with that of England, in consenting to exchange
the soldiers 'Of +hat- nation, man for 'llan, and
rank for rank. This change makes us hope fiat— a
better. _

It is said that the charms of female
_association,
and, above all, the pleasures of a father, soften
even the hearts of tigers. This double sentiment,
joined to the tears and the anguish ,of the- families
of the prisoners of the two rower,,. it is to be hoped,
will determine you to accept proposals as just
as they are candid. If yoa,.persevere in your hors
rible resalution of proscribing during your lite
50,000 'French and 12,000 English ; if you re-
tuse to restore them to the embraces of their friends,
their relations, and ihsir companions ; is it not evi-:
dent, that you suspend over .your head_ the swords
of 60,000 Dsmocleses ; and-that every
friend of,hu-
n:anity will chosider it. an. honour, and esteem it a
duty, to put an end to 'the misfOrtunesof so rnatiy
brave men by the dagger or, byspoison ? You will
not tail; according to custotst,' tnithrow the blame
-of this upon the E.glish,,,,fil,,sylsose. magnanisnity
you had such strong pivot's_ irshtl,iesortlicialsadvices
which put you on your kuiii4,Againstssidanaers,
which the state of hostility iti,,,4re,t; saw -na-
tons were might well have justified !Ahem negm,
You were apprised,, that -there was .a design to
assasinate you; and. you h .it9pudenee-4o
cast upon the same nation ".the odrtitn of yntus iunpo-
tine inea.mes, your iiieffeetnal rage, and ybur' in_
satiably anthiqort. Be assure',
,that your,. ingrati-
tude revolts iit trillat'S of that ilitensious Statesman,
t e celetsr,ahal fox, as lunch your ciuelty irritates
the prisoner., the se sbiave men who 'eser,e -.het-
r tale. . now ssenhe rewards thaasysss.be:-
stow on their an,; faithful service's ; they fought
wi,h more I,linoor thsti success in the CL,lowes amt.:
Eurt-Te;* they have merited our esteem,.‘shiles-
) mm persecute them in their prisons with that hatred
hich yon,aie, known ro, bear towards every
-that is Fisnch. Know, then, 'that spice they be-','
'Arne acquain ed with your fatal decision, several
-of'
them have destroyed themselves ! The English
Go: eminent has done every in its power to Iran
quilize them,. by holding out a
,better prospect Li-
them, and for heir cOuntry, and in reiterating to them
the assurance of their earnest desire to see yeurome
to a more favourable determination. .In the mean
thee every, thing that is possible, circumstances cons.
sidered, shall be done to soften the rigours of their
affliCling captivity.
The-Notes of the lionitear on the affairs .of ror-
tug.' are not in the same bombastic strain with
those that preceded. They disclose some particu-
lars of Lord Wellington's army, which aliew that
Alassena has nbt yet planted' your eaglesajpm. the
ramparts of Lisbon. In The SUN of the •14th of -
August, yOu were forwarned
,ot the movement of
Lord Wellington in the favoarable posinpus of the
right .bank of the Tagus;,.onacCount of, the supe-
rior numbers of the tegnlar'inasses of your army.;
and you were told, that the rear 4nriflanksof your'
army would be harassed, by a swarm of Portugnese..
Patriots. Notwithstanding these observations;
which it would be extreme iediscretion its any milk.
tory man not to attend to, you placed your General
under the necessity of being completely defeated at
Busaco, and of disgracefully withdrawing from -his
position at AleMtper, without having even attempt-
ed to make -tone attack on the lines of the allied
army, and-thus to avow himself conquered in the
face of military Europe. He suffered his sick and
wounded, and all the movable hospitals of his .
army, to be taken. The necessity. of Subsisting by
Plunder has occasioned a greater loss of wren to. you
by marauditig, than tile English have lost by sick-
nesS or in action.
You Will, perhaps, say, that Massena has only..
retired to advance wiihgreater.energy ; that in re-
tiring to Santarem, he occupies a position more con-
cent rated than that of Alemquer ; that he has drawn
nearer to the city of Abrantes, for ,the purpose of
laying siege to it; that he has given greater extent
to his cantonments ; that he has quitted an exhaust-
ed country for the purpose of approaching his ma-
gazines and preserved villakes, the va:lies of the
Tagus and the Zezere ; and that, in. short, ha has
a better opportunity of communicating with. Spain,
and of effecting his junction with Drouet and. Mor-
tier. -All this will not prove that IMasbeno has not
been defe-ated.. He wished to enter Lisbon; lie
vent no farther than Aletnquer ; he has retreated
to Santarem ; he has manoeuvred for the second
time eccentrically from his line of operation, the
consequence of the loss of the battle of Busaco.
Why do you call that important action, in which
the whole army was engaged, nothing more than a
false attack ? You say that you had 1,500 wound-
ed in it ; and in the battle of Austerlitz you ac-
knowledge the loss of only 15 or 1600, as' will ap-
pear from the 30th bulletin of the grand army, dated
the 12th Frimaire, 3d December, 1805,. The bat-
tle of Busaco may well ratlk with the most brilliant
attions of this war. Toe two armies were engaged
on the 27th of September, on every accessible
point of the Sierra, and on the preceding, evening
the skirmishing was general along the trout-of the
whole line of battle. If your General had obtained
the least advantage, you.. would not have failed to
compare this battle to your favourite engagements
at Marengo,' at Jena, and at Friedland. The real
truth is, tbat you were completely 'defeated. You
had 2,000 killed, and about 6,000. wounded. lithe
Portuguese had been as well disciplined as the Eng-
lish, Lord Wellington would have caught Massena
in a flagrant error in his march by his flanks ; he
Would have destroyed half of his army, and the rest
would have saved themselves, as ,fast as their legs
could carry them,. under the walls of Almeida, or
perhaps of Ciudad Rodrigo.

You have suffered yourself to be influenced by a
rile jealouy. You dreaded to givc. General Soult an
opporuiuity of acquiringfresh laurels, He was-the

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