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NOTE U.

COPY OF THE NOTE OF THE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OP
RUSSIA TO THE FRENCH MINILTER, DATED PARIS,
JULY 213 1804.
" It being necatry that the Note which the Ci-
tizen Mini(ler of Foreign Affairs, delivered to the
underfigned Charge d'Affaires of his M4jefty the
Emperor of all the Ruffias, dated 26th Floreal, year
XII. (May 16, 1804), Ihould be tranfmitted to Pe-
terfburgh—The underfigned is obliged to declare
that he incurred the difpleafure of his Court for ac•
cepting a paper, which was in no manner an anfwer
to the note that preceded it on his part, and which
was not of a nature fit to be addrefred to his augua
Mailer. •

" This paper, however, having come to the know-
ledge of his Majetty the Emperor, he has fern with
furprife, that the contents of it are compofed only of
affertions and reafoning, which, betides, being un
founded, have for the molt part no connection with
the object which gave occafion for the note of the z ad.
44 The Emperor feeling for the Calamities which
profs fo heavily on the greater part of Europe, and
the dangers that threaten, in particular, the German
Empire, in the fate of which Ruflia, in confequence
of its engagements, ought to take efpecial intereft ;•T--
having learned the new violation of the rights of na-
tions, lately committed at Etteaheim,has thought it
his duty to invite the Diet and Princes of the Em-
pire, to unite their effcrts with his, in order to remon-
(trate on this fubjett with the French Government, to
which his MajeQy manifelled alio in a dire& manner
the fame fentiments, hoping thereby to induce it to
make reparation for the injury done to the Germanic
Affociation, and to tranquillife Europe, in regard tp
its fears of feeing funilar at% of violeme Rill repeated.
The French Government cannot fail to anfwer
this note of his Imperial Majelly, or cannot anfwer it
as it has done, only in an illufory manner, without
being wanting in its duty to Rullia, to the German
Empire, and to itfelf ; and without endangering that
good underftanding which it aliens it defires, but the
happy effetts of which have not yet been perceived
by Ruffia.

4g We no longer live in thole times juffly called
barbarous, when each country had no other intereas
than thole which direaly concerned it. Modern di-
plomacy, founded on the rights of Nations, has eflab-
lifhed others more confonant with the general advan-
tages of States. No one under the circumflances al-
luded to, could fee with indifference an event, which
made fo fatal an attack on the independence and fe-
curity of nations. The quality of guarantee with
which Ruffia is charged by the peace of Tefchen,and
of Mediator in the German Empire, give it a more
ineonte:table right, and impofed on his Majefty a
(till greater duty of not obferving Mance on this (re-
cation ; and if the French Government, invetted with
the fame titles, thinks Wilt- allowed to violate the
neutrality of Germany, and to aft in it in an arbi
trary manner, it would be difficult to conceive how it
should not belong to his Imperial Majefly to cfpnufe
the caufe of this Empire, the fafery and independence
of which he has guaranteed.
It would be lofiug time to endeavour to explain
in any other manner a fiep, the motives of which are
as char a: wcll founded, and to fearch in it for the
refult of the influence of the enemies of France, ,chile
the foie caufe of it is the wretched (tate to which Eu-
rope is reduced by the influence of the French Go-
vernment. If the objea of Ruffia were to form a
new coalition for the purple of reviving the war on
the Continent, it would doubtlefs have no need of
fearching for vain pretences for its juflification, the
French Government having long furniffied reafon.r,
which are only too valid, for breaking the bonds of
that good underflanding which the moderation alone
of his Majefty has hitherto preferved, and which he
could have wifhed to preferve for ever.
" The objeft by which the Court of Peter (burgh
has been conllantly guided cannot be miffaken, arid
cannot be unknown in particular to the French Go.
moment, his Majelly having taken the ear-Heft oppor-
tunity, even before the commencement of the prefent
war, to manifelt to it his opinion on the neceflity
which exifted of confolidating the peace, and again
preventing the convulfion of Europe, by carefully
retina /in?, all caufes of miftruft, and leaving each fiate
to enjoy, without diflinaion, the advantages and in-
dependence which of right belong to it.

Ruffia at the fame time teflified to the Cabinet of
the Thuilleries how much it could have wilked to
fee it contribute towards the eflablifhmcnt of an or-
der of things fo defirable, in giving, by the example
of its moderation and difintereflednefs, a hope to
Europe, that after the unfortunate Ilruggle, which
had coil fo much blood, each Government might at
length, with fecuiity, employ itfelf tranquilly at
home in promoting the happinefs of the 'pcople en-
trufled to its care. Inflead of walling to rekindle the
flames of war on the Continent, his Majefly Would
have Peen the accomplilhment of his utmoft wilhes;

bad he been able to make them every where mare ;
bin he could wifh alto, that the French Go"ernment,
fince it declares that it entet tains the f ant fentiTnent•,
would leave at tell th.,fe who have had the fli °ova
deure not to take any part in it.
" Such has been the foie ()Ned, and unhappily
for mankind, the fruitlefs wifh of Ruflia, whofe
conduit has never deviated from thefe principies ; its
repeated and always unfuccefsful anemia's with the
Cabinet of St. Cloud, fupported by engagements
which it entered into with it, have never had any
other end. The mediation propofed to the two
powers at war, and which was not accepted, was
fcunded on the fame balls ; and when the French
Government, after the rupture, thought itfelf per
mitred to occupy with its troops, and deprive of their
commerce, countries which vainly remonftrated in
favour of their neutrality, his Majefly alarmed, not
for himfelf, becaufe tile iirength and fituation of leis
Empire might have permitted him to remain an in-
' different fpedator of thefe dißrelling fcenes, but for
the fafety of the left of Europe, after having re
pealed feverat times, and always without effect, his
juft requeft to the Government of the Republic,
to guarantee at leak lilac countries whofe treaties
with Ruffle and France impofecl on the latter
the obligation of refpeding their neutrality, did not
conceal his mode of thinking from the expofed
flutes, which are in danger of participating one day
in the fate of Italy, a part of Germany and the other
countries which the French Government holds al-
ready under its dominion. Seeing, notwithfianding
his care and reprefentations, the danger increafe ;
fceing the French troops on the one hand bordering
on the coatis of the Adriatic, and on the other raif-
ing contributions from the Hanle Towns, and threat-
ening Denmark, his Majefiy determined to pet his
forces in a condition to oppofe farther incroachments,
the theatre of which in this manner might approach
his own frontiers. Thefe fads are known to all Eu-
rope: the Emperor was defirous, in particular, that
they might be known to France, and the explanations
between the two Cabinets have always turned on the
fame objects. Never, tLerefore, did any Govern•
iment ad in a more open manner than Rulla, and in
regard to an ()hied which has lefs need of b ing con-
cealed, or which is lefs fufceptable of a falle inter
pretation ; and if this condto be not 'rank and loyal,
if it can be confislered as offenfive to France, no cif-
ference ought to he made between evident wiongs on
the one part, and the ju't refentment which mull re
fult from them on the other; between the attack and
the defence ; between the oppreffion and protection
of the weak.

" We (hall not here enter into the queftion of pub-
lic right, whether the French Government can pur-
Cue, in all countries, the individuals it has banilhesl,
and if it has the right of prefcribing the manner in
which foreign powers ought to treat or employ the
ci-devant emigrants who have been long in their fer
vice, and naturalized as their fubjeels. It will be
filificient to remark, that this do&rine is entirely con
trary to the principles of equity, and at variance
with thole which formerly were proclaimed info fo•
lemn a manner by the French Nation.
It would, however, be firangely confounding no-
tions and words to be Ferfuaded, that it is Rnina
which attacks the independence of the (fates of Eu.
rope, by not permitting that one of its fervants, in a
foreign country, (hould be difm:iTed at the pleasure
of the French Government, and by claiming an in-
dividual naturalifed in Rufria, who has been delivered
up by a third flare, without any trial, and contrary to
every appearance of right.

" His Majefly never gave protedion to the contri-
vers of plots; his noble and frank charader is too
well known to all Europe, to require that this affer-
tint., as Life a; it is indecent, fhould be contradided.
The French Government is itself perfuaded of the
contrary, and needs only to recoiled thai his Majefly
at feveral tlmea made known to it, that provided it could
produce againft any one of the Ruffian Agents proofs
of the accufation above announced. it would halten
to punifh in him a ;rime which it confiders as of the
molt odious nature. The Cabinet of St. Cloud never
returned an anfwer to this jull infinuation, nor offer-
ed any proofs to fupport its demands, confequently
has no complaints to make in regard to the back.
wardnsfs (hewn to comply with them. In a word,
when Portugal has been obliged to purchafe its neu •
trality ; when the Kingdom of Naples, which was not
able to prtferve it, has been forced to contribute at
an enormous expence, towards the maintenance of
the French troops who are there Rationary ; when all
Italy, with it's republics, to which independence and
happinefs were promifed, Switzerland and Holland,
can no longer be cimndered but as French provinces;
when a part of the German empire is invaded, and
other detachments of 'french troops execute arrefts
in contempt of the facred rights of nations ; the Em-
peror readily appeals to the judgment of all thcfe
countries, and to the impartial opinion of the Cabi-
net of St. Cloud itfelf, to determln: the queition,
which of the two, Ruflia or Fraacc, threatens the
fecurity of Europe ; profelles principles molt favour-
able to the independence of States, and is guilty
towards them of the moll arbitrary ads, by interfe-
ring in their government and internal police
Though the grief which his Majeßy has experi-
enced from a Rate of things fo painful and alarming,
and the light in which he confiders it, mutt he already
fufficicntly known, his Mak ay has thought himfelf on.

der the obligation of erpretrng them a•itlt as ninth
publicity as prlffible, in order that it may net be bid '4l

that at a err& fo fatal to mankind, no Government on
the Continent had the courage to lift up its voice in
favour of joflice ; and that Ruffia might nr.t he re.
proacheJ with not having forewarned its co clines of
the terrible confequences which would neceffirriiy re.
fult from a pr(Jonged forgetfulnefs of good order,
and of the principles on which their happinefi and
eternity depend. In the prelim difcuffion it would
certainly be difficult to prove that, when Ruffia pro.
tells againft a manifeft violation of the Right of Na-
tions, committed beyond the frontiers of the Republic
in a neutral territory of the German empire by a
poner a guarantee and mediator, it is an interference
in the internal affairs of France which have nothing
at all to do with the object in queflion, and in which
his Majelly never had any idea of meddling, or tak.
ing any part.
Every State may, no doubt, declare an inclvi.
dual within its own boundaries out of the protedion
of the law, but cannot of its own authority place any
perfon beyond the protedion o: the Right of Na-
tions; for the latter does not depend on its decrees,
but is lubjzet and rells upon the unanimous will of
all fovercign (fate:. The French Government then,
after the Treaty of Lunesille, could at molt only re-
quire of the Princes of the Empire that the Emigrants
living in their Rates, who had not yet adopted a
country, and againft whom authentic proofs could be
produced, (hould be removed, but in no manner en.
ter with armed men to remove them by force.
"It w 11 fcarcely be believed that to fupport an
erroneous principle, the Cabinet of St. Cloud fnould
deviate from what decency and propriety require, fo
far as to filed from the examples to be quoted, that
which was the leali fir for that purpofe, and to call to
remembrance, in an official paper, the death of a fa-
ther * to the fenfibility of his auguß fon, by making,
contrary to all truth or prob Ability, an atrocious
charge againft a Government which that of France
does not hefitate continually to calumniate, becaufe
it is engaged with it in war,

" Betides, though the moa extraordinary fuppoli-
?ions may be made, none of them can effect the leaft
change in the Gate of the queflion, nor juaify and
render lawful an arbitrary ail, which attacks the
fundamental, and hitherto unconteaed principles of
the right of nations.

r• This analyfis of the contents of the Note of the
Citizen Minifter of Foreign Relations was not necef-
-1.4/.7 to render it clear, that it is in no point fatisfaaory
in regard to the end propofed by the Emperor, in
tranfmitting the Notes of the 7th and 12th of May
to Paris and Ratifbon, and to thew evidently that it
is the intention of the French Government to irritate
more and more the jul► refentment of his Mdjefty the
Emperor, by the evafive and improper manner in
which fo important a quellion is there treated, and
which it has preferred eluding to examining with
candour.

" The Emperor, fuperior- to every fentiment of
hatred, and placing foremoft among his motives the
intereft and tranquillity of Europe, does not hefitate
to make a lag effort (till to preferve, if poffible, far-
ther rektions with France. The only with of his
Majesty would be, that peace may be revived in En-
rope ; that no ore in it may be defirous of arrogating
any kind of fupremacy, anal that the French govei nment
may acknowledge the equality of the rights of the
weaker (taus. but which are as independent as itfelf.
Ruffia, it canner be too often repeated, has no defire
and no intereft to make war. It is the urgency of
circuraftances which will dilate to it the part it (hall
chonfi: ; but it has a right to flatter itfelf, that the
French Government will grant it In much elieem, as
to be convinced that it cannot fee with pave indif-
ference the new ufurpations which it may allow itfelf
to make in future. His Imperial Majesty neither fears
nor withes to intimidate any one ; it is on the footing
of the moth perk& equality that he defires to continue
his relations with the French Government, and as
the firft condition to obtain this, is to fulfil fcrupu-
loufly the engagements mutually entered into ; it is
only on this condition that the two States, after what
has paired between them, can hereafter prefcrve
far relations.

•4 The underfigned has confiquently orders to &-
dare, that be cannot prolong his Ray at Paris, unlefs
the following demands (hall be previonlly granted :
• _

I. That in conformity to the 4th and sth articles of the Secret
Convention of Odober It, rem, the French Government will
order its troops to evacuate the kingdom of Naples, and that
When this is executed it will engage to refpedt its neutrality dur-
ing the prefent and future wars.

11. That in conformity to the 7.d article of the fame COIIVC2Ie
tion, the French Government will prornife to eflahhili from the
prefcnt time, an intimate concert with his Imperial Majeßy, for
regulating the bales according to which the affairs of Italy may be
terminated. .

111. That it will engage, agreeable to the 6th article of the fame
Convention, and the promifea fo often repeated to Ruffle, to la-
demnify, without delay, the King of Sardinia for the lora he b-1
fuftained.

IV. That in virtue of the obligations of a common guaranty and
mediation, the French GovernMeni will promise to caufe its troops
immuliately to eva:uate the whole of the North of Germany, and
enter into an engagement to refpedt ft:idly the neutrality of the
Germanic Body

•, The underfigned in concluding mull add, that
he has orders from his Government to demand a ca-
tegorical anfwer in regard to there points, and cm-
braces this opportunity, Sm.
• This alludes to the pelages fupprered in the preceding note,

(To k caockded to-ittorrow.)

P.4lt; MMENtARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MAY so.

Counfel were farther beard relative to the ItilhAr-
pcal, Redington o. Redington, •iz. Mr. Romilly in
cnitinuation, and other junior Counfel, on behalf of
the Refposuicnt. The farther confidcration of the
cafe u as adjoin ned till Wednefday.

MOORE'S DIVOR CE.
The order for the fecond Reading of the amended
Bill to diffolve the Marriage between John Moore,
Elq. and Barbara his no* Wife, being read :
Counfeland evidence refpetiinv the fame were called
to the Bar. On the former confideratton of this mea-
fore, we dated ac outline of the cafe ; this was, in a
great degree, fulßantiated by the evidence brought
1,,t ward this day. As the neceffary fags of the mar-
r. ;Age proceedings, in tte Ecclefiaffical and Criminal
Courts ; the endeavours to levy the damages award-
ed agaitaff the Defendant, Captain Dutnford the
clop, mcnt of the Lady the endeavours to perfuade
I.cr to return home, die.

She was traced by a friend of the Petitioner's to a
privatt; lodging-houfe at Aeon, where, it was proved,
Vie was loon after vifited by Capt. Durnford. This
was in July, 1802, and in the courfc of the fame
month, it appeared, from the evidence of a female
fervant of the Defendant, that Mrs. Moore went to
Captain Durnford's hnufe, :n Berklhire. She then
went by the same of Mrs. Durnford. She lived, in
all refpeßs. as the wife of Captain Durnford, lay in
the fame bed, &c. That, in oCober, .1803, they
came to town for about eight or nine weeks; they re-
tided at Mary-la-bonne ; the Lady lay-in there fire
Rill lived with Captain Durnford. It was Ratetithat
the .ady had fince been delivered of a fecund child.
After fome obfervatinns were interchanged between
one or two of their Lordthips, and Mr. Adam, the
Petitioner's Counfel ; . _ -

Mr. Romilly, who appeared on behalf of the Lady,
Rated, he had a few important obfervations to make
to their Lordthips on the cffea of the Bill, in its pre-
font (late. He was aware thefe more properly applied
in the flaw of a Committee, bur, with permiflion of
the Houfe, he would then advert to them. He was
not infiraled to oppofe the principle of the Bill, as
meafore of divorce ; but there were one or two par-
ticular claufes in the Bill, which went on a principle,
he conceived, contrary to that which had hitherto
guided the Legiflatute on fuck occafions ; he alluded
to the claufes, which went to take from Mrs. Moore
all power and difpnfirion, with relpea to what was
fettled nn her, for her own exprefs feparate ufe, and
which her hufband would have no power over, did
the marriage continue in full force. Tbey went to
deprive her all.° of that which was made over to her
for het life, and for which a rent charge was dittinit-
ly affigned, without offering the keit costipenfation
whatever. Thefe provilions of the Bill their Lord-
Ihips, in their wifdom and jullice, would take into
their krious confidtration.
The LORD CHANCELLOR informed the
Learned Counkl, that fuch ennfiderations were ex-
prefsly applicable to the Committee on the Bill ; for
which Rage, thefe points, and form others relative
to the difpofition of property, &c. were, after Tome
further explanation with the Counfel, referred. The
farther confideration of the Bill was adjourned till
Friday. _ _ _

The Bills upon the Table were forwaried ltl t►eir rOitediee
ages—Amona there the Land fax Commiihonen Name Bill—
the In& Emit Fruits Bill, and t►e Property Tax Amendment Bill
were read a fecond time. The left-mentioned Bill w.t. ordered
to be printed.
1% Ir. Al. EXANDER brought up the Mae Duty Exemption Bill,
and the lrifb Common Lands Penile, Bill.

:it T. T. Mk:ITALFE brought •p the St. Pancras Work.
boufe Bill.

A few Private Bills were brought up by Mr. KLCK. General
'NUR Gan, and other Gentlemen. There Bala Were few:rally read
a brit tune.