Star.
London, England, 1805-03-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

ra CMITIIIVATIOW FROM THI PRICIDING PAO& •
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Rs/WIT IflOl TO HIS MAJESTY THS INPIROS, IH TIP
• SITTING 07 THI SIPIATI, SY N. TAILLITSAIID/
NISTSI ioa romps AFFAIRS.
" Sias—The ideas which I with to &bout to your
Majefty, relate to your Majefty's deareft affeaions,
as well as to the molt important iatereils of the Em.
Fire ; and at the fame, time the objea of thefe ideas
is connetted molt intimately with the great princi-
ples of Foreign Politics, with the Way of a great
number of States,) which eandot eiia without your
fupport, and, in flaw, with the tranquillity of all the
Powers of the Continent.

" For feveral months the eyes of all Europe have
been fixed upon Italy. Great recolleetions, a con-
!holed reties of misfortunes, and the iromenfe glory
which your Majetly has 'acquired there, attach all
minds to its deft toy. They tick themfelves, if the lot
of this great minify, which' fo long ruled the world,
and which twee the time that it has declined from its
ancient grandeur, from age to, age, has become the
(cene and the inftrument of general ambition, (lipoid
at length be decided.' From every port we hear the
generous with expreffed, that Italy should derive,
from the honour, of having decided the fate of the
lafl war, the unexpected advantage to exift by biotin.;
to condo& hertill by'the maxims of an independent
!Otero of politics t in fail, to remain for ever a
granger to-the quarrelsothe mifunderflandings, and
the jealoufy of the great powers.
" Sire, under a reign like yours, all tbofe conjec-
tures which are united to jolt and great things, are
only the prefages and forerunners of the great de-
iigns of the fovcreign. Italy, its intereft and its
wants, have always been the objets of yoqr care,
and it may he confidently announced, that the lot
which you deltined to her, will anfwer all thehopea
that fhe could•fortn, when, at the-conch:lion of your
glorious vietories, the, the firft among all the nations,
proclaimed her admiration and hergratitude, and
exprefkd her willies to you to attach &del( for ever
to your great defliny.
10 It was in consequence of this with, to:often re•
peated, chit twenty nations united, eager to conso-
lidate their liberty, and to lanai(' their obedience,
by the folernnity of a public act, received at Lyons
a common organization, and conferred on your Ma-
jelly the office of First Magiltrate. This intlitution,
undefineclin• its denomination, and unlimited as to
its duration, only ferved to unite the Interens and the
affections, and to allay the nneafinefs of the moment.
But if the organization of France tad. permitted to
thofe people to open themfelves without referee, with
refpea' to the Government which they preferred,
then they would have expelled to your Majefty all
that which, fince the foundation of the empire, the
'ltalian army, the Contlituted Authorities, and nu-
merous affemblies of intelligent and.colightened Ci
tizens, have unanimoufly explained in their addreffes
—that even if the hereditary fyftem had not been
eftablithed in France, the numbers, the diverfitp.the
jealoufy, the wealtnefs, the habits, and the opinions
.of„ the people who inhabit Italy, would there reader
its efiablinunent indirpenfable."
ETALI.IIIIAND here Rates the objeaions which the
Emperor railed agisinft the union of the two'crowns
'in the fame perfoo, and alerts, that it was the with
of all Isaly that he fhooold afinne the fovereignty of
it, in order to protect it from the danger which the
eflabfithment of great powers and great armies in its
neighbourhood prefented. The reprefentations put
into the mouths of the Italians thus conclude :3
" If. from there confiderations we proceed to thofe
which are offered by foreign politics, the danger be-
comes more preffing. A French armj occupies the
State of Naples, where it ha's nothing to do : it re•
mains there to obferve an Englifh army which occu-
pies Malta, and a Ruffian army, which is', perhaps,
only kept up in the lonian Ifles to obferve the French
army. In 'hit confuted expeltation of events; in this
complication of uncertain relations, When a falfe Rep,
from whatever fide it comes, may bring on 'us the
greaten calamities, may cover our country with blood
and mourning, and tender us the viaims of war, and
what it 'fill more dreadful, tender us, perhaps, the
viaims of peace, what can we do but attach ourfelies,
while the danger exills, to our foie protector, our only
hope, our only defender and to bind him, if poffible,
by his generous inclination, to the work of his genius
and his bounty.

4. Sire, fuel; are the withes 'of the people of Italy ;
they are fo preffing, fo dtcilive, and fo lawful, that
you mutt hear them. YOur Majefty mall thhs reign
in Italy ; and for fume time to come, the empire and
the kingdom which you have ellablithed, united by
the fame affections, bound by the fame oaths, will
exalt and confolidate tbensfelves under the Metter of
the fame
..power. And when the time comes that
this union (ball no longer be requifite for Italy, Mall
not be intereßing for. France, and Ihall no longer in•
volve the tranquillity of Europe, it (babe dilrolved.
Your Majefty has irrevocably fixed the term of
upon this point you have refilled the mat lively lOU-
citations; you wifhed to leave no doubt, no illufion,
and no expeaation to your Italian fubjeas ; you
wifely thought that when fuch great interefts were at
Rake, and upon fo folemn an eccatioti, it 'isflibied
you, above all; to make a worthy and free site of
your power.
14 Every thing is not uncertain in futurity ftrong
minds and exalted undetflandings, can take into
their view every thing which is within the reach o.*
their patience, and which behings to the great Ar-
biter of events. Your Majefty forefees with certain-

IOC& TO

- • • -.•••••••- '• nut we do not hefitate to declare, that we will JUDGE ME' • Table.
ty the future event of the treedons of. Malta, and the tianfmit this Crown to one of our lawful children, Lnrd AUCKLAND, agreeably to notice, fubmit- WAYS AND smuts.
lawful independence of the lonian Republic... You *natural or idopted, the day when we null be with. ted to the Route a number of motions to the effefl of Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of
do not wifts to put a price on the feearation of -the • out alarm for that independence which we have obtaining the opinion of the Judges as to the mode of the Committee of Ways and Means. The feveral
Crowns of Italy and France; and it is upon that ac- guaranteed to the other Sates of the Mediterranean. proceeding already adopted. or which ought Hill to refolutions with relpelt to the new taxes were read,
count that you have determined the period of it, in 44 The genius of evil willieek itt vain for pretexts be followed in this cafe. He fira moved, that cm and when the Clerk came to that relating to the pro-
order
that you may not one day .expofe yourfelf to to plunge the Continent into war. That which has tiin Ads of Edward 111. Henry IV. &c. be read, pofed tax upon AuSions.
the offenfive alternative of the reparation of the crown 'been united to our Empire by the conflitutional laws which being done, he then moved, that it be referred Lord HENRY PETTY rofe, and after admitting
or of war s for then the relpett doe to your. eignity of (hall remain fo. No new provinee.lhall .for,the opinion of the Judges, bow far a complaint that the other taxes propofed were as unobjetllionable
would =you under the necellityof making the be incorporated with it I but the laws of the Batavian proceeding on the Ratement of an individual Peer of as under the circumstances could be well ex pe6led.
cry of r lift itfelf even above the with of his. Republic, .tlie Ad of Mediation of the Nineteen that Houfe, ought legally to be entertained by animadverted on the tax lull referred to as likely to
insanity." .Swsfs char es again
Captons,
and this tirft Statute of the kingdom them—Whether the matter of the h II bear with peculiar hardfhip upon a very dillreffed
[The next three or font paragraphs merely contain kofltain are conitantly under the nrotedion of our judge Fox amounted to high crimes and mifdemea- part of the people, and therefore irreconcileable with
fame extravagant compliments on Bottairmirei pint Crown, and weasel! never foffer them to be attacked. nouns—Whether the Houfe ought to proceed in en- the principle which the Right Hon. Gentleman (the
deration, placing him above Ale:loader and Cherie- 44 In all cirenintlanees and in all tranfatlions, we tertaining that complaint— and how they ought to Chancellor of the Exchequer) had himfclf laid down
maple. The immeafurable ambition of Alexander will difpla,y the, fame moderation ; and we hope. that proceed. on a former evening. The Noble Lord prelfed upon
.it Paid to have been the prelude of a bloody death I our people will no longer have oceafioti to manila The LORD CHANCELLOR wifhed the Houfe, the confideration of the Houfe, that Au* ions were
and that the heroic thought of in hereditary *Crown that courage
and energy which they have always with the cadent of the Noble Lord, to poftpone the . already fubjefl to a tax of from ten to twelve per cent-
, never entered his imagination. Bak be and Char. Sewn in Wattling their lawful rights." confederation of the motions for eight days. He was/ and that (mall traders, who generally difpofed of
their empire to aaarebya . •
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