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nation, and my attaehrnent to her interes►s,
,nor
lessen you in my esteem aud confidence. .
- . Signed) " Laurs."
" Paris, Fed. r, r 1310.”.

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place. The Emperor of ntiajiaj prnvblieil ..by* the
outrages that England -offered:ins flag; While he was
,fighting :oh. her side; and indignant'at the he trible
attack on 'Copenhagen; made COMITIOIT cause with
France: ' : . i . . -
"- France then hoped that. England would hence-
ferth see the inutility of a longer 'struggle, and that
she would listen to terms of accommodation ; but,
~theSe hopes soon vanished. At the time they dia,
appeared, England, as if the .copenhagen ,Expe.cli-
tion. had driven'all shame, 'frorw.lier and broke all
~reitraints., disclosed• her plans, and published her
Orders in council; a ty:antrical and. arbitrary pre,
ceeding, that excited the indignation of -all Europe:
By this, a4l, England determined what kinds of car-
goes foreign ships 'N'era to carry, obliged them to
touch at her ports before they arrived-at their desti-
niiion, and subjected, them to the .payment, of a
duty. Thus she rendered heraelffinsti ess of the ri.a.,
vigatjon,Of the world, no longer recognized the in-
dependence. of any maritime nation,. in_ide all . Conn-
tries tributary to, her, subjected them to her laws,
would. not allow them to trade but for.: her profit,
'established her_ 'seventies on the industry Ok'natiens.
and on the, produce of their , tezritories, declared
herself 'Scivereign.-of the Seas, over' which she as-
sumed a power as absolute as every Government
does of the rivers that run through the interior of
its States. _ ~ : . . . : -. .
,'. : , • • .
• • '-"
At the sight of this legislation, amounting iri
fact to a Prodarhation of universal Sovereignty, ex,
•,tendinie'OVer the world the'jinisdiotion,of thel3ritish
Parliament, the EMFeror felt that he was obliged to
take a, decisive. part, and ,to -have recouri,e to every
thing rattier than alloy; the world to bend under the
yoke that was imposed on it.. lie issued his Milan
Decree, which .declared all vessels: denatitinalized
that should pay the tribute iMposed ,by England:
The Americans, threatened to be again. placed under
the yoke of England, and with the loss of their in-
dependence, so gloriously obtained, ordered a 'gene-
tal embargo, on their vessels, and renounced all
bide and navigation;; 'thus sacrificing their /*then-,
tary to their 'permanent interest, We preservation of
their independence. . ,-
,---
`"The 'success of these,grea't tneaStires chiefly de:.
pended on their execution in Holland Hollatid,,.on
the contrary, opposed GtStaCICS to it j she continued
to trade with England. All thelienionstranceS of
Prance. c....:n this head Were useless.' His Imperial'
litajesty waS obliged to recur to strong measures, '
' which preyed hiS diSsatislaction. Twice Were the
I-,
rn
.erench "Custohonses shut against the trade of
Holland.. They are ..:::,...'at. this: mordent; so that
Honied has no longer any 'lawful ComfinuniCation
With the p'eOpte. of the Continent, and the Empe-
• 'roe is determined not to operi thes& barriers so lono-
-0
as- cireurnitane4.Shall continue as they -are. It
would; in faCt, be to. open
.tham -to 'the English
trade. the Dutch
.people, far from following the
patriotic example of the AMCIICRIIS,_ appear to have
looked to one object- only in this ;State of affairs,-
' • '
namely; their wretched Mercantile interests. '
"• Ori the other hand, the Emperor Sees Holland..
Without the means of making:,.,War; or even itelend
lug herselt: ::; gliglias no navy ; ,the: sixteen sail of the
- 11ne She seas, to have cootributed, have. been. ,dis•
armed.; she has ,no energy. During the late . expe-
NoTn OF Tna metsnsfrp,,R OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO j dition troinEnglana, the important fort of We-ere,
• ,
i .
i A Itol4 PE ItOELL, INIINaTEit OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS which was neither supplied with artiliery nor provi-_,
IN HOLLAND. 1
sions" tnade no resiStauce; an-d
--the More iinportant .
' cr. The dnslersigned, Minister of Foreign Affairs in post. of Bailit, upon which the success of such -
France is ordered_ to corninunicateN) his Excellency great. ,events might ,h4ve depended; was evacuated'
Aaron de Roell, Minister of It.oreiForeign Affairs ii), Hob. Sift, houri before the arrival of the enemy a picepiets.
land; .the detertnination which the aClual state .of Without :in artily; without revenues, and, it may, Europe, compels his Majesty to adopt. .If thlS de- be Minost said; without friends:Or allies, the Mitch'
termination be of a nature unfavourable to the,wishes consist only of 'a, colle6tion of Merchants; 'with no
Of the Dutch, his Majesty leg's much concerii in , other passion than that of their Mereantileinterest,
adopting it ;,:but the Irrevocable:destiny by which constituting a ,rich,. useful; and respedable corn-
the affairs of this world are direEted, which wills that Pany; but not a nation.
jemen. shbtild .bend to ' dircumstanCes, obliges his Ma • " His 'lmperial Majesty wishes for peace With
sty to proceed pith. firm steps in the measures, the England., He Made advances towards it at Tilsit ;
•
necessity of Which is evident, without auffering hiM- - they did not succeed. Those which he adopted, in
Self tobe turned aside by secondary considerations. . concert with, his .ally, -the Emperor of Russia, at'
.. ‘l, Fits Majesty.,. in placing one of his brothers on Erfurt, were equally unsuccessful: The war will
the throne of Holland, could not suppose that Ent, therefore he long; since all the attempts, that were
land would dare openly to proclaim the principle of
Made. to Obtain it have failed. The proposal even ICI
send Commissioners to Morlaix, to treat for the ex-
would.that into adopt, as the basis of her. legislation, the f change :Of priioners,- although suggested by 'Eng:'
monstrous . principles ~ Which' hale
.dictafed her Orf Ond; . miscarried, - When. It. was 'perceived that it
ders in conncil of November 007. Until; then, might leer to an accommodation. , England, arrO.-
gating to herself; by bet Orders of November', 1867,
her maritime_ Code viwi certainly resisted by Franee,
universal sovereignty,. and adopting-the principle of
thnd rejected by neutrals.; but still it did not entire,.
iy•exelude navigation, and left some. sort. of • lode-etereal War; NIS dissolved every thing; and rendered
Pendence to maritiniedontries. The common cause every means of resisting her pretensions laiful. If
was not much injured by the trade between Hot= the Change therefore that has-lately taken place in
land and England carried on :by the mediiini of the English Administration has produced cone io the
Neutral.; .or . under their 'bk. Marseilles, Boor- principles of England, which .i 3 easily to..be asceic
ileaux, Antwerp, possessed , the same advatitage. , tained from the speech that will be made to Parlia-
I.Cngland was stilt obliged to ac} circiiinspeetly to- ment at its next, meeting, and it she Continues to
wards the Athericaris, Russians, Prussians, Swedes, Proclaim the principles- of perpetual War' and urii-
and Danes, which nations fortried a kind of tie be versal Monarchy, in upholding h Orders in COuti-
tWeen Powers separatedi:byththesea: • • eh, in that case the undersigned iser
aUthorized to de-
.
" The fourth Coalition put an end to this state Clare to the lintel Ministry and nation, that the
of affairs. . England having succeeded in uniting aaual state of Holland is incompatible with the cit.-
aoninst France, -Russia, Prussia, and Sweden, no cumstandes in which .the extraordinary principles
w-
longer found herself under the necessity
.of proceed- adopted by England have placed the Einpire and the
lag so guatdedlfr. It was then,,b9 a perversion of Continent; in consequence his Imperial Majesty
words and things, she took upon herself to silence f . proposes; . . and annul, by a mere decree of blOckade, all neutral 1 - " .I. TO meal the Prince of his blood, whom he
tights. Hi* Majesty was obliged to make reprisala,, placed on
.the thrOneof Holland. The first duty o
and, on his arrival at Berlin, he retorted the bloCk- a FrenCh Prince, in the line of succession to the
Ini f.,
'4le of France, by declaring the blockade of the j perial throne, is to' that throne. All others are•to
British `lslands. NeutralS, particularly the Ameri- i.give way when they are in opposition to that ; the
cans, called for eitplanatiOn on this theaSure. They, first duty of every Frenchman; in whatever state his,
were told, that although the absurd plan of block- destiny has placed him, is to his country. - • tiding an entire w
State.as an intolerable 'usurpation, •" 2. TO'occupy all the Outlets of Holland and all;
his Majesty would restrict himself to put an end tot the ports by. French troops; as they were since it
the EnBlish trade on the Gontirient ; that neutral was conquered by Franco, in 1794, until 'the , time
flags would be respeEted ; that his-ships of war and when, his Majesty expected to *conciliate all sides,
privateers would, not molest the 'sailing of neutrals, by ere6ling the throne of Holland.
as the Decree was only to be executed on land. But "
_;3. Th.employ every means, without regard to
this execution of it, which obliged him to 'shut the any consideration, to compel Holland.to engage in
ports of Holland to the British trade, affetited the the Qontinental System, and to wrest, once for all,
Mercantile interests of the Dutch people, and w:4B her ports.and coasts from the,Government that has
opposite to their old habits—the first source of the tni-ele the ports of Holland the principal depots, and
secret opposition which began ill prevail between the greater part of the .Dinch merchants the, pro-
France and the Dutch. His. Majesty then foresaw MOiers and agents of -British commerce. with regret, that the Eing-ef Holland would have - . (Signed) " Tbe Duke of cApottE."'
to make his ele4liOn between his first and most iiti- • .:Paris.-ial• 24, ISlck. . . ' -
prescriptible ditties ; hid dutY towards the Impc-.rial :
. _
Throne, and the hie:cal-11de opinion of the DuToll , . ROTTRROABI; MARCH 1.---Official dispatches of
nation. , Ili's Imperial Majesty, notwitliStaaing i the 2/sth.tuat. from Paris, recei‘edthis day; bring a_
clothed himself with patience,. and shut ills eyes,y . positive assurance that .negoeiations are on. foot te-
expeeling that some happy event would arise; which' tyveen the Gredt Emperor find our King. We may
ittOuld relieve his brother. front' the painful alterna- , expect that :die result will Pbe favourable, as it is'sof-
ficiently known that our king is, disposed, yin circler
Live in which he was thus placed. ' .
in Vic mean time, the peace of Tilsit took i to the preserliiiion of the cvapity, to utxke- eye ci

The follo‘ving letter, addressed -by hiS Majesty
to the Council- of State, Was Oats day read bY -the
Minister, the Vice-President, at p meeting Gf the
Catincil, which was attended by the Ministers
and' other

KING TO THE COUNCIL OP STATE.

.. •
" ThOugh I with regret see the end of third
inonth since my departure fast aProaching, nothing
has yet been decided with regard to -our affairs.
" I- cannot, howtver, suffer a single instant to
pass, atter my. recovery, ,without repeating to you
the assurance, that all possible exertions shall conti-
nne to be made to presette the existence of the
kingdoin. • .

. .. . . . . .
We cannot conceal from ourselves, that this will
cost us great and di' fficrilt Sacrifices ; but I sball trot
hesitate, if there lbe but a possibility of Holland,
after all that ean be demanded_ of it; 'teeing suffer::-
ed to exist, to submit myself to the generOsity Of
the Emperor,. my brother, in the just eitPec'tation
that upon . the .renioval.of all the causes of dissatis-
faation, we shall receive those indemnifications.to
*bid] we are .soistrongly entitled, and -Which' will be
more than ever necessary to us. .
.. ,
My intention in submitting myselfto the plea
sure of .the 'Emperof,. my brother, in 'everT.thing
that lie can deinand-Of us, is tOtonVinte. him that
we hive many eneinies ; that we may have been
the vielinistzm y.,;
p 1 calu of petty passioni and in-
terests; but that we have never teased; and still
cOntirine to admire the Emperor, and to. conduct
ourselves as true friends 40 old', allies of trance,
fried by numeroUsSacriflces and various events.
Should •I be able to succeed in this purpose, as I
have every, reason to etpeet, every thing else Will
allow, inasmuch as it •mitSt be both the interest
a
and inclination . of France to favournd aggrandize
lier. _ ,
...,
friends; and not to depress t hem.
.?".1 therefore entreat you to unite all your efforts
to prevent emigration to foreign:countries, and every.
proceeding that might indicate 'dea-pondency, and to.,
exhort the nation, to await the deterMination of the
Emperor upon our fate', with that firmness which is
so pecpliarly their charaeler, and which .so intimate
ly belongs to. thejustice of their Cause; -, •
.„
"Jam not ignorant of what every individual 'stir-
fers. 1 hare done every thing to .plead our cause in •
the most effeelual manner. iSTeithel- the Inss .0
time, not the failure of my effortS, nor any Other
c'Onideration, has been able to deter Me my
froM
'l3l.lrPose‘i. and, .accordingly, I nave every reason to .
believe, that if •we can come to any arrangerfient;
which d4es not exclude the possibility of our exist,
ence, Holland may still eif..sapo the present iinpend-
ing tempet ; particularly it, after all this, there re-
.main not only :no grounds, but even- no preterit for
;nisunClOritanditik and dissatisfildlop; to which all my .
efforts are directed.

" Your Gving King,

Louis."

" Paris, Feb. ir, 010.

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sacrifice in hil power, sand to conforrn, in al; re-
speas, as far as possible, to the Wilies of his IlluS-
trious Brother.

NOTE OF.THe MINIST4re OF FoREIGIi-RECATIONS
MR. ARMSTRONG, Mili!'.-:TER FVEiIiPOTENTIA.AY OF
THE'UNITED STATRJ.
•" The inideisignedheS infer-met! his- Majesty, the
Emperor and of the
,conveseation- wh telt die
has had with AI:. Arrnsstrong, Ministei'Plenipoten-
tiary of the United States of Ameriel. fits Ma-
jesty.authoriSes• trim.hernake the following reply :--
" His IVlejeSty would regard. his Decrees.of Ber-
fin.end Milan as vielatioes et thepritee'iele, of eter-.
Dal justice, had; they nor.: he n the necessary Conse-
quences .of..the British Orders in-Coe, cil, and es-
.peciallY. th4steeef November 007. W„o,,i England
proclaimed her universal sovereignty, by the pretene •
sien of subjeaiug the universe to a nlv,y.,aii,m du
and extending the jurisdiaion of het Parliament over
the industry of all =nations, his Majosty
.conceived
it, to be the, duty of all independent nations to de:end
their sovereignty; and declared all vessel: denatie
onalised that should put theneselvesunder the, do
minion of England;Aey recognising the soveteigmy
which she:assumed oVerthem. . •
" His Majesty'distinguishes the visiting from the'
bringing-to of: a ship. Fliebringing-:o has for its.
object only:to ascertain the reality et the flag ;
visit is a search' made On. board,- not withstanding the
ascertainment of the truth of . the flag, and the re-
sult of. which is,- the impressing of certlin indivi-
duals, or:the confiseatirmebf. the merallandize, or
the application of arbitrary laws or dispositions.
" His Majesty could -not have anticipated'. the
proeeedings of the. United States, which, 'without
having any grcand.ot complaint against France, have
included her in their aas of exclusion ; and trorn
the month of May, have. Prohibited French vessels
from entering their ports, under pain of contlication.
As soon as- his Majesty was apprized of this mei.
sure, he .felt it necessary-to dired that American ;
vessels should bp.treated in a reciprocal manner,, not
only in his territory; but alSo iu the countries under
hs intluence..:: In the
„pone' of. Holland, Spain,
and-> lesi—litne.tican vessels hive been
seized, heeentee the Americans had seized French
vessels...-.T}e; Atnericens- cannot. 'hesitate 'As to the
cooduc:l they thee toiadopt. Tbey.ought either to
repeal their declaration of independence; and-to be-
come, as before. the Revolution, ;the stebje§ts of
England,-. or to take measures 'to prevent their Com-
merce and their industry from: being taxed by the
English e. wbi6ll' renders then n more dependent
than Jamaica,' Which has, at leest, an as,enibliy of
representatiVes; ':and its, privileges. •
" Men of 'no political chewier, without honour,
and without energy, may indeed allege that they
may submit to pay-the tribute iniposed by England,
because. it
.is :inconsiderable; but how do _they not
pereeiy.e that the English, as spun as they haVe ob-
tained a recognition of the principle, will increase
the impost e so that thiS burden; at first light, be-I-
coining ineuppOrtable, .ite will 'be neceseary to fight
for interest, after refusing to fight for honour ?,
The Undersigned frankly avo..vs that France
:has every thing to gain by giving the Atnerieansa
. e-welcome reception in her ports: She finds hrr
advantage herecornmercialselatiOns with'neutrals;
S ,
he is respect, jealous of their. prosperity.--.
Great, powerful, opulent, she is satisfied when, by
her own eomotercee or, that of neutrals, her expor-
tations-may give the reepiisite developement to her
agriculture and manofaCtures. .
`er Scarcely- thirty .years have elapsed since, the
States of America founded, in the midst of the
new
world, an independent country, at the expence of
the blood of so Many immortal men who fell in the
field of battle., to: shake off the leaden yoke of the
English Menarche- 'Those generous men were far
from imagining, ,When they thuseshed their blood
lot:alio,- independence of America, that Within so
short a period there: should be an attempt" made to
itnpoSe upon them a still more oppressive yoke than
that they had shaken off, by subjecting their indus,
try to the tarif of Britishs Legislation, and the Or-
ders Coubcil of '1807! •
. "-If, therefore, the Minister Of "America is pre.
pared to engage that the" American vessels shall not
submit to the English Orders in Council of Novem.
ber 1807, nor to any Decree of 13lockade,
.tinl
there be an eau-al blockade, the Undersignedess is
authorised tO conclude any, deseription of convention
tending to rea& the treaty of commerce whit
America, and eemprehending all the measures cal-
ceilated to c,.ittionclate the commerce and prosperity
of America,.
" The Uodersigned- has*lelt it his duty fa reply to
the verbal overtures of the Minister of America, in a
written note, that the. Presidenteuf the United States
written
be better enabled to know 'the friendly inten-
tions of France, with regard to the United, States
and her fiiyourabledisPoSition towards; he American
commerce.
•(Signedi

Th 6 Duke, of CAD one,"

The Royal Inslitittion, it seem:, is to undergo a
change with respell to its 'Subscribers, who are not
in future to possess shares which give a perpetual
interest, but an unalienable interest for lift.—Mr.
Professor DAVY, in an introdtaory Le6ture; explain-
ed the probable advantages of this change, and
made a very eloquerrt - speech on .the great utility of
the Institution, to individuals of landed' property, as
Well as to the nation at large, The speech was
marked throughout by various and extensive kno,.!,_
ledge, delivered ,`l,vi+ll modeit firmness and very jai,
pressive effea, •

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT..-011 Sunday ovenina-
last week, the driyer of hearse coming 'to Aherdeev,i.
from iVlonyrnosk,"` before going into the Inverar7
road, dtsrriourited.'for the purpose of warming him-
self at a neighbouring house, On mounting again he
slipped biS foot, and,
,in his fa11,.-pulled the reins.to
one side, IOY 'which means the carriage was over-
turned. Eight hours afterwards he was driclivered
lying on the road, with one of the wheels resting on'
his hack-. He %las quite dead, and has left a. wife and
two children to lament his fite.

A NEXV SINqU4A)LEXEMDTION FROM DEBT:.—:an
Monday se'imiiht; at Bury St. Edmund's, J. Gas_
SACK was married to Mrs. Lorrs, widow, who,'
it
Order to exonerate her swain from all the demands
of unfeeling creditors, qbsolntely crossed , tile high.
way in a state of perfea nudity, previous to her gQ
ing to Qlaurch,