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STATk. PAPERS.

The following ate the Nottt ...i Lad CAertroer, in anfiver
to tin Note cf COW Het:owlet Life:Lod in the STAR cf
the 4th instant
VOTE I. ?rcfelited CC the 276. January by the th:lifh Am-
hiffedor at Begin, Lord Coin rsroar, to his Eliccacncy
the Pruinan Sate and Cab.nct Alistiiter, Count Vox
%unwire.

" As the ttoderfigned Ambairador Extraordi-
nary and Minifter Plenipotentiary has been directed I
by his Court to communicate to the Pruffian Mini-
!try his Majcity's Note, v. hielt, by command of ha
Majelly, the King of Great Britain and Ireland,
was prefented to the Miniflers of Denmark and
Sweden, he cannot difeharge his Commitf.on with-
out likewife espreffing fincere fatisfitelion at be-
kig authorifed to declare how thoroughly his Ma-
jelly is convinced that Pruffia can never have !line-
Coned the meathres which have given rife to the
above recited Note. Thole nieldures openly dif-
cloth an intention to prefcribe Rules to the 13ritifh
Empire on a fubjeCt of the greaten importance ; to
force thole Rules upon Great Britain, and for that
end, before any of the Powers who have concurred
in it have given the fmalleft intimation to his Ma-
jesty, to enter into a le:lgt:.:;the objeft of which is
to renew pretenfions Great Ihitain at every
time has confidered bottle to he sights and in-
terefts, and fo declared whenever an opportunity
prefented—pretenlions which the Ruffian Court
Las abandoned, net only in flu% but which, by a
treaty aatially in force, Rollie is bound to oppofe,
and the execution of which treaty his Majesty is
entitle: to ;Hilt upon.
" When a Blip of war belonging to his Danifh
ntielly refilled by force the execution of a right
which the King of Gnat Britain and Ireland, by
vittst-z of the cleareft and molt exprefs ilipulations
of his treaties with thecourt of Denmark, had de-
manded, his Majeftf on that occafion confined
himielf to the adoption of fuch meafares as the
proteCtion cf the trade of his fubjefts required to
be taken ageing} that meafure of hoftility which
this conduCt on the part of an officer bearing his
Dana Majefly's commillion feemed to thew. An
amicable arrangement put an end to this difpute,
and the King -flattered himfelf, not only that all
milunderßanding on that fubjetft was removed, but
that amity between the two Courts was anew
ftrengthened and confirmed.
" In this fituation of affairs his Majefty mull
have learnt with no lefs aflonilhment than concern
that the Court of Copenhagen was employed in
negotiations to renew the hoftile confederacy
againft Great Britain which took place in 1780,
and that all() great preparations were going on in
the ports of Denmark. Under thefe circumllances
the King mull have been compelled to call for ex
planations from the Coutt of Denmark. At this
moment he received information that a confede-
racy was figned at Petertturgh, stia! the anfwer of
the ausills Minifter left no doubt refpating the
nature and chjea of this Convention, as he de.
tiered in the molt exprefs manner " that there
negotiations had in view the renewal of thofe rela-
tions which had been entered into between the fame
powers in the years 1780 and 1781," adding " that',
his Majefty the Emperor of Rua had propofed to
the Northern Powers the renewal of their connec-
tion in its original form."
" The engagements alluded to had for their ob-
ilUsrinciples of maritime law which never had
recognized by the tribunals of Europe, and
the contraaing partiesmutually engaged to main-
tain them by force, and to comperby force other;
nations to adopt them. They are Rill more repot-
rant to the expects ilipulations of the treaties which
fublift between the Courts of Stockholm and Den-
mark, and the Britith empire.
" The Convention which thee engagements were
to renew was ncgociated at a time when the Court
ofPeteriburgh had adopted hoftile meafures again ft
the perfons and property of his Majefty's fubjeCts,
and when no•hing but the extraordinary modera-
tion of the tang could have anthorifed other
powers not to confider him as at open war with
that Court.
" In fuch a Rate of things nothing certainly could
be more iiiconfi tient with the idea of neutrality, and
nothing more distinCtlyindicate a hotlile ("inanition,
than that thole engagements were not postponed
till it was afcertained whether Ruffia was not to
be confidered as a Belligerent Power. Such for-
bearance was the more to he espeCted, and parti-
cularly from the Court of Copenhagen, as by an
exprefs article of the league of 1780, the Danith
ports and havens in Norway were placed at the dif-
pofid of Ruffia, for the purpofe of facilitating the
profecution of hoftilities out of the
" When therefore the King was informed by
one of the contraFting parties that the object of the
negociations which had been begun at Pact "burgh,
.without giving the !call intimation, and which at
left, according to the information received by the
King, had terminated in the conclistion of a Con-
vention, was no other than to renew the former
confederacy to prefs ur.on his Welty a new code
of law to which he hal already rettifed his affent ;
and when moreover he had the moil certain int,:l-
ligenee, and could no longer doubt dust the powers
of the Baltic, engaged in this tranfitciion, were
purfuing warlike preparations with the titmoll
affivity ; when one of thole powers had placed it-
fell in a Rare of actual hoiiilaie> with his Majeily,
iris other alternative remained but either to iiitsmo,
' or to adopt meal-um whieii v etc CAL: Ui..ted to put
an effeeital flop to the iodide operation of
league which. by the declaration of the Danith
Coos t it fi u, wa • openly &relied againft hisMajelly.
" Mem while his Majeity has not omitted on
this occiflon to difplay his wonted juftice and
For t'-niil.—Aithough he felt it necesfary, for the
maint-nance of his rights, to fecure "bate pledge
arind the hit file attacks which were meditated
again ft his yet he has taken the utmolt care
to a='., ;;t 10f and injury to individuals.
F;rr.:; (..tlyinc.: I that his condsiet towards
N. tiorol Stat. s 11.11 beets conformable to the recog.
p!;nc;; L., of 14W5, whore balls and fintSion
u to be toned not in railing interefts and znomcn-

tar, Convenience, !At ir?the general principle of
of laws which have been received and oh-
ferved by the Admiralty Courts of all the mari-
time powers of Europe ; his Majelly does not yet
forego the hope that the Coons of Stock::4m and
Copenhagen will not take upon them the-refpon-
fibility that will fall upon the autho:s of the war;
that particularly they svi!l not expote thernielves
to that refpontibilits for thz intre."Junion of inno-
vations, the notorious injuaiee of n hich has in-
duced shore powers by which they were MI
broached, to oppote them, when they found them-
felves at war; innovatinns betides, which are ex-
prefsly repugnant to thofe Treaties which they
have concluded kith his Malefiy.
44 The Rep on which his Majefly has refolved
mutt have long been forefeen. The Britilh Go-
vernment has never concealed that it confidered
the league of 178 a as 'lona:, and had never ceafed
that attention with which it watches over the rights
of the nation. It immediately refilled the attempt
to renew the principles which at the above-men-
tioned period had been agitated, and the Under-
figned declared to Count Hanowirz, at the fief
conference he had with him on his arrival at Ber-
lin, "that his Majelty would never fubmit to pre-
tenfions which were irreconcileable to the true
principles of public law, and which ftrike at the
'foundations of the greatnefs and Maritinie power
of his kingdoms.
44 Still later, in the beginning of November, the
ITliderligned had the honour to reprefent to his
Excellency, as the Minillcr of a Power conneded
with his Majelly by the molt ineintate friendflaip,
What difagrceable confequeuccs mull follow from
the attempt of the Northern Powers to prefs for-
ward thole pretenfions. He has never ceafed to
renew this declaration when, by the command of
his hlajefty, be has been die interprea:r of that fa-
tisfadion given to the King by the repeated affur-
ances of the fr;melthip of his Welly the King of
Prtiffia, and of thole connant fentiments of perk&
juftice of which his Malay has never for a mo-
ment entertained a doubt. His Excellency Count
HAUGWITZ will liknoirc eafily recoiled the time
when the Underfigned, intimately convinced of the
friendly intentions of the Pruflian Government,
communicated to him, by the command of hs
Britannic Moja y, the King's refolution to allow
of no'meafures which had for their object to intro-
duce innovations in the maritime law now in force,
hut on the contrary, to defend that fyftem in every
event, and to maintain its entire execution as it
had lublifted in all the Courts of Europe prior to
the year 1780.
• " If the Court of Denmark had announced in
the molt unequivocal manner the real objets and
contents of the engagements into which it had en-
tered, the declaration tf that Court. that Prullia
was one of the powers concerned in the negocia-
tion, would have been fufficient to fatisty the
Kiug, and to prove to him that it could have no
!sonde views ag-ainft his Government; and even
fill his Majefty is convinced that he may implicit-
ly rely on the friendfhip. of his Priiffian Majelly.
It is true that, in relation to Great Britain and
Ireland, there can be no fimilarity between the
Northern Powers and Pruffia. Thole powers arc
connected with his Majelly by the flipulations of
mutual treaties, which are leis favourable to their
interefts, and which more or lets modify and foften
the rigour of the general law; whereas between
his Majelty the King of Great Britain and Prunia
no treaty of commerce tains, and all intercourfe
between diem is regulated by the general princi-
ples of the Law of Nations, and eftabliffied Wages.
If, however, his Majelly were to confider, his
own fentirnents,and the inceflant with be has fhewn
' to preferve the friendfhip of a Monarch with whom
he is conneded by fo many ties, he could not at
all anticipate the poffibility of a difference which
might not eafily fpeedily be terminated by an
amicable difcuthion The repeated alfurances of
fuch fentiments on the part of his Pruflian Malay,
which the Underfigned has been empowered to
tranfmit to his Court, confirms this agreeable an-
ticipation, and the known principles which have
confantly direded his Majefty the King of Pruf-
fia, do not tend to countenance the fuppofition
that the latter has entered into the Confederacy,
or can enter into the Confederacy, toTupport by
force principles in common with other Powers,
whole hullile views againft his Britannic !stolen),
have been openly proved. The King at the lonic
time, while be has given it in charge to the Un-
derligned to make thee explanations, could have
no nther object than to give his Pruflian Majelly
new proof of his confidence and particular relped,
and he is firmly convinced that his Majedy the
King of Pi udia will approve of his Ready refolu-'
Lion to d: tend the ri his and inters:as of his crown.
Neverthelefs, whatever fentirnents the Pruflian
Government may entertain in regard to thenew
principles tlismfelves, yet it is too jut, and knows
too well what Soya eigns owe to their People, and
to one another, to favour fir a moment the de-
fign to employ force in order to induce his Bri-
tannic Majelly to acknowledge a code which the
latter deems inconfident with the honour and fe-
curity of his Ciown. ( Signed) 64 CARTSFORT."
Lrlin, jam. 27, dog.
NOTE 11. rkk.SFVTLD 05 THE IRT OF FEBRUARY TO
H:1 RXEFLLEKCY THE STATF AND CABINET MI-
NISTER, COUNT HAUGWITZ.

" The itaderligned Ambairador Extraordinary
and hfriitter Plenipotentiary of his Bi itannic Ma-
;ear, has the honour to addrefs himfclf to Count
lies cwirz, l'y command of his Court, in order to
comnitinic.o 4: to bun the following particulars
fpirit •.' patience and of moderation which
79-vv;,ils ia the Note of Lord GR iNVILLR to Count
hoer it* r /Vs, will not efeape the notice of his Ex-
cellency. A folemn treaty between the two powers
had given the refpe,Ftive fubjeas of each a complete
fecur.zy for the prolecution of their trade, and
viol hi cafe of a rupture it had been agreed that
not only no embargo Should be laid, but that the
fubjefts on both fides, Should have a wtole year
to carry away their caeas, and to arrange their
mfairs in the country. Notwithlianding there fia-
cred flipolations, the Ships of British fillip:Rs in the
Itutlian ports are detained, and their property, in
an extraordinary manner, upon various pretexts;
fcque!tratcd qr fold. Their ptrfons arc liken ife

put under midi, anta number of Britifh failors
have been forcibly taken out rof their (hips, and
been fent under guard and in the midfl of winter
into the interior of the country. In confequence
of %bele new ads of. violence, Lord GRENVILLF,
Secretary of State for Foreign affairs, received his
Majefty's order to addras a fecond Note to Count
KOSTOPT%ISIN, in which his Majefty Rated Isis hav-
ing appointed a Comniiffary to fuperintend the
fa:ety and the wants of his unfortunate (objets, a
circumftance which is ulual even among the powers
that are aflually at war. Lord GRENVILLE in
that piper likewifc formally intiflcd on the execu-
tion of the treaty of 5793. But, though he made
the Ilrong and jolt remonitrances which fuch cir-
cumftances demanded, yet his Majefty's conliant
difpofition again to reftore the former connexion
and good underftanding between the two Crowns
has been in vain. His BritannielMajefty anticipates
the fentiments which the King of Pruflia will en-
tertain when he is informed of the unheard-of and
iinjuflifiable manner in which his Britannic Ma-
remonftrances were heard by the Court of
St. Pcterfburgh. The Note of Count Kosrorr.
SHIN to Lord Gatsvittr, of the aoth of Decem-
ber, a S. a copy of which the underfig,ned is or-
dered to communicate to Count HAUCWITZ, will
enable his Pruflian Majefty to judge whether the
underfigned is called upon to make any obferra-
tions upon it. The underfigned has received or-
den to make known to the Court of Berlin that
this conduit, on the part of the. Emperor of
Ruffia, has put an end to all connedion and
correfpondence between the Courts of London
and St. Peterguirgh, and the extraordinary vii-
knee committed upon the perfon and property of
his Majefly's (objets, and the conclufion of a
hoftik confederacy, which the Emperor of Ituffia
has formed, for the exprels and avowed purpofe
of introducing thofe innovations into the maritime
code which his Britannic Majefty has ever oppof-
ed, have at length produced a Rate of open war be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland and Ruflia. It
will not be ufelefs to remark that the Emperor
of !tufa, at the prefent crifis, cannot be confider-
ed as a neutral power, hecaufe he was at war with
Great Britain before he himfelf was at peace with
France. The underfigned lhall have done )ttitice
to the charge with which he is entrufied, when be
declares in the name of the King, His mailer, that
his Majefty, on weighing the prefent cirenmflances
of Europe, is willing to forbear demanding from
the Court of Pruffia that fuccoar which was Ili-
pillared by treaty, though he confiders the cafes
sideris as completely coming within thofe circum-
jllanecs in which they Rand ; and that his Britan-
nic Majetly cannot doubt that he will receive from
his Ally all the proofs of friendfltip which the
events of this new war would have required. The
undcrlignesl has the honour to be, &e.
&Ain, Feb. T, 180.1. (Signed) cART roar."

IMPERIAL VECIZI TO THE GENERAL DIET Of

TNII EMPIRE.

The Plenipotentiary of the French Government
fpecially referring to the precedent of the Nego-
ciation at Raftadt and tbofe at I:Wen in the year
1714, has propofed, in the moil pofitive manner,
to the Plenipotentiary fent by his Imperial Ma-
lay to Luneville, to ncgociate a Peace, *lt his
Imperial Majeßy honk!, at the fame time, flipu.
late, on the part of the Empire, and fign the
Treaty in his capacity of the Supreme Head. The
importance of this propofition, and the different
considerations which it involved, demanded on
the part of the Head of the Empire, the moil ma-
ture examination; and his Majefty could not he-
(hate to communicate immediately by a writing
under his owe hand, the fituation of affairs, and
his 'own refolution, to all the Elators, both in their
quality of EleCtors and Princes, and to the princi-
pal Princes of the Empire. This writing contains
the expreffion of the feiriments and principles of
his Majeay ; and he tranfmits a Copy ofit to the Ge-
neral Diet of the Empire, in the firm confidence
that every appearance of unconititutional views
will be removed by a juft and mature examination
of the contents of that letter. In conformity to
the precedents of the Ncgociations at Raftadt and
Baden, refit red to by the French Plenipotentiary,
the Treaty, of which a copy is fubjoined. has
been concluded. The fame precedent propofed as
a rule of proceeding would fufficiently guarantee
the right of co-operation on the part of the States
of the Empire in every thing relative to Peace,
though in the Treaty now febmittcd to the Diet,
there may not have been inferted, as there formal-
ly was iii that of Raitadt, any claufe confirming
tilde legitimate rights. The motives which have
induced his Imperial Majcßy to conclude this
Peace, will, from their urgency, determine the
Eleetors, Princes, and States, to expedite, as
much as poffible, the Ratification of the Treaty
of Peace now fubmitted to them; more particu-
larly, as the French Government has made the
(peedy approbation of the Empire the condition
of the enjoyment of the firs advantages of Peace,
an exemption from all War Contributions, and the
cl-parture of the Armies now on the Territory of
the Empire. His Imperial Majelly expc.ts, with
the utmoß impatience, the Conclufinn which &all
be adopted to that die&
Radtke. Feb. as.
LETTER OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY TO THE ELEC-
TORS. mac's, AND STATES OF THE EMPIRE.

The Plenipotentiary of the French Govern-
ment has made to the Minifter Plenipotentiary,
whom I have fent to Luneville to nei,Potiate a peace
with the French Republic, the poiitive propobtion,
that in the treaty to be concluded, I &a!1 likewife
ilipulate for the peace of the Empire, in my qua-
lity of its Supreme Head.
.4, The Imperial and Royal Plenipotentiary knew
that the right of co-operation on the part of the
Elc&urs, Princes, and States of the Empire, in
iritters relative to peace, was fixed in a precife
m.inner by the fund:merit:ll laws of.the German
Empire ; and thus that my Imperial authority was
limited upon this point by the rights of the Ger-
manic Conaitution, unlefs I had previonfly receiv-
e., fill powers from each partkular State of the
Empire to treat in its name. confideration,
and fame othcrs entirely contrary to t:s: above pro.
potifion, raC not treated in the =Amur my Pk-

nipotentlnry had a right to ettp:sl from their
weight and conllitutional evidence. On the
trary, the propofition was infifted on, by a fpec:.,l
reference to the precedent of the negotiations at
Raftadt and Baden in the year 1714, and its ad.
million was demanded in a manner fo urgent at.-. 1
politive, that the negotiation mull have been en-
tirely broken off, had not my Plenipotentiary, af-
ter trying without fuccefs the means of reprzfenta.
tion, at length given his ;Went, referring, hake
manner to the negotiations at Railadt and Bader,
" In my quality of Supreme Fiend of the Ent-
pire, I felt very confideralac cuthatrairraent, cn
being informed by my Plenipotentiat y .if this
of things ; and I regarded it as an dhligation
the higheft importance, to take it into the n,,,,t
mature confidcration. The fuggeilion ef:pprov:
the proceeding of my Plenipotentiary, and, in c,,.,-
fequence of fuch approval, to enter npin a ire ;j
for the peace of the Empire, though I fhoul.d i.#
no means have it in view not to fubmit treaty
to the examination and ratification of t:,e I iict,
yet at variance with the due refpc6l v. Lich i
rain for the rii;lits and privileges of the Sl:o.t, ;.!
the Empire. But, on the other hand, the e,,-•
dcration of the melancholy Hate of a ce•-•:*-d., •
past of Germany at this moment ; that e:11
more unfortunate fate with which
of the French threatens the Empire, Ile•aY. pLet •
be Pill farther deferred ; irY fhnrt, th it of the ;.-...-
ncral with and nniverfal defire c f Ipeedri enoy:l4;
the benefits of peace ; all theft: motiv,... in conp,ne-
don powerfnlly oppolcd my &rapines. ing
given by try Plenipotentiary to the deniaad of the
French Plenipotentiary. I therefore ref, lvet!, in
confequenee of the, declaration made by m: Piera-
potentiary, and approved by me, in thus slate ot"
things, to agree alto to the articles ef the peace of
the Empire. -Your tried wifdom and inforint;ion
induced me to think that, in all probability, in
eircumftances of fu painful a nature, you wculd
have come to a fimilar decifton. _

If I feel fome confolation in informing you by
this letter, of the real !late of things, and the re-
folution which I have taken, /, at the fame time,
feel a very high degree of fatisfa.Rion in the con-
fcioufnefs of the purity of the views by which I am
aftatcd; which are already goaranteed in the molt
folemn manner by feveral declarations made to
the Diet, and particularly by the Imperial Decree
of the ;%h of May, 1795 ; and in continence with
which it cannot be my intention to trench in any
refpeet upon the Fights of the Empire, relative to
the queftion of peace • and when the treaty of peace
(hall have beeutranfin;itted to the Eleaors, I'rinccs,
and States, at the General Diet, you will receive
the complete and confolatory convieiion, that irk
the prefent negotiation for peace, I have, before,
hand, taken every mecfure.and precaution, in con
formic), to the above-cited precedent of the negm
tiations at Ranadt and Baden, in 1714., to lima
the rights a the States of the Empire.
“ Vienna, February as

MOLT Or THI CONVIIIIICL WILD AT 11171110 N.
TIE HALL Or THI cou.gct or PRINCIS,

911CTATIO IY rMlit D1A1970117 97 MERTZ, TH4

asvi ssaatmar.
It has been determined, in the name of the anon

Colleges—
ztt. That the Protocol Stall be opened to tea days. *at h to
fay, co the 7th of March, to Adak:ate au the Redheads%
the Treaty of LuneyjUc.
ail. That the DireCtory of Mentz Nil be =gutted to corn.
municate this refolution, by a Courier, to the lopetial
the at Vitoria.

—.-
34: That following the maniple of the traafintllal of Rill
powers. given the 24th December. typyr to the Deputation
at Rafted:, it lull be ptopofcd to the Imperial Minifter at
.o. authorize the Principal Commilfnmers Oche rusi
perm at Raiff:4o, to ratify not only i the name of the Eat.
pin the Treaty of Peace, but alto to expedite diredly to Count
Ceara Till, at Li:Devine, the Ratification, (or. in other words,
to fandion the conchtfoin by which the Diet will ratify the
Treaty Of Luno
4th. That the llireaory of Menu thill communicate, fit the
ttfital manner, to the. Principal Commiffiouer, the mink of the
prefer; conference, end requeft him to procure from bie
rial Majefty the neeelfary powers for cirrybig it into ere&
sib. To make the Direaors of the Poft refponfthic cur any
delays that the Couriers to be difpatched this day to the Lfith
Contrading Partiesto communicate theft Refefutions to theme
may experience.
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rn!nt during his Wince, tile cetation of which
Is, by his prefence to animate the armaments
.eking along the coatis, and to hav"n ijueryiew
the PKINCE Royat. of Denmark. His MA.
Y has appointed Admirals PA LAENczy isr and
CFl:Eu.llc' m, and ten Captains, to act in concert
with the Danifh, Ruffian, and Swedifh fleets.
Letters from Pcterfburgh, of the 7th ult. men-
tal, that the Englifh goods fold by the Com:
million of Liquidation, notwithftantling the un-
fivourable circumflances under which they were
eipufcd, went at high prices.

Our defenfive preparations are continued, and
an incredible degree of aCtivity prevails in the
Dick-yards.
An Englifts frigate of 44 guns, lately entered a
port in Norway, and captured four Swedifh vef-
fels.—She had taken a fifth, but on finding it to
be Norwegian property, fhe releafed it.
FEB. 26.—A flotilla of 200 fail is meted in the
Sc,und, dettined to the defence of the coaft.
It is reported that the Swedifh Government has
fent to he port of Offer Rifoer, an officer charged
with enquiring into the capture of the Swedifh
veffels. it is added, that he found on his way two
Englifti %rads in one of the ports of Sweden, which
were detained by his orders.
MARCH 3.—The King of Sweden, who is at
prefent at Schonen, has invited our Crown Prince
to give him a meeting at Helfingborg ; and to-
morrow his Royal Highnefs will leave that city
for this purport.