Star.
London, England, 1805-01-26 00:00:00

WAR WITH SPAIN.

PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE DISCUSSION WITH SPAIN
IN 1803 ♦ND 1804.
• CONCLUDED FROM THE STAR OE YESTERDAY.

No. zB.—tlifiatch from B. Frets, Erg. to Lord Harrowby, datcd
Etruria, syth Oa.ber,lBo4.
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MI Loan-+Your Lordfhip's difpatebes No. t end 1, were de-
livered to me by the Mefeenger Smith, on the night of the illth,in
eonfcquence of which Hoft no time in coming down to the Efeu-
rial, where the Courture refident at pedant, and having demand-
ed an audience of M. Omani, which be gave me on the sift, I
told him that I believed he vrould.lind by his letters from England.
that the fenktion which the kite knexpeeted armament at Ferrol
had cuffed there, had bean by no means over-rated in the note
which I bad addrtfkd to bim upon the fubjed tome weeks. ago
'that I was now charged to declare to him formally his Majefty's
lurprise iod concern at fuck a ntedure having been adopted, with-
out any previous communication to bins, and unaccompanied by
any etpinsations of its object • and to require the immediate re-
call of all orders which might.have been given at Ferrol or ells-
where, for inereafing the naval force, or for altering Its politico •
and that it Ittould be reduced to the !tate in which it was at the
beginning of the war. M Cevallos laid, that be found that there
bad been a great deal of mifreprefentation and exaggeration upon
the Gabled of this armament, which he deeded to treat Very
lightly.; be (aid, that the expedition confifted of a few Mips, which
were already armed at the time, whole deftination I muft be well
acquainted with : that the pined was now given up, and he wifh-
ed to infer, that there was therefore no ground of complaint for
what bad pared. I replied that I knew no snore of the defla-
tion of this expedition,than what I had learnt from publk report,
which Was, that it eras meant to convey troops to quell an infur-
redisp in ilikay ; but that it had appeared to me' fu incredible
that air of war &odd be armed to carry forces to a province,
which had no ports to receive them, which was already in the pot-
(demo of their troop, and which was fo Matta, that the march
by land might be paibimed in a much theater time than was de-
eeffary fur preparing for and making the voyage ; that I had not
ventured to +rite this report home to myGovernment. M. Ce•
ratios however affured me that this was the deign, and extrava-
gant as it in., the march by Lind Into Bikay of the troops before
defined for the embarkation feems to confirm his affurance. I °b-
raved that whatever infest have been the object of this arma-
ment, it was Opal!, a breach of the convention which Spain had
entered into with England • and as M. Cevallos maintained that
the engagement bad been scaly emended for not arming against
Great Britain, I :dared hint to my brother's note of the *Bth
February, in which the eeffation of all armaments is demanded in
the elearelt terms. I told bins, at the fame time. that if be was
now inclined to difpute this point, I mull revert to the inibrue-
eons upon which the demand was framed, and which were to the
full as poStive as thole which I had now received. He protclted
againfl the extravagance of fuch a pretenfion, which he raid would
reduce them to the Sowell Rate of humiliation, if Spain could not
arm to repel the Weeks of a foreign enemy, or to quell her own re-
bellious (objects. I repeated the affurances of his Majefty's difpo-
Mimi to make every potable conceMon in favour of Spain ; but
thet this was an engagement, which the fecurity of his kingdom
' called for, and that Spain might rely upon Its being punted no fur-
-1 tber than that object required. Finding that it was needlds to at-
tempt drawing any fatialadtory affurance from M. Cevallos in con-
wreath)°, I told him that my inftrudlous related likewife to tome
other,important points; that if he ',leafed I would read them over to
him, after which if he thought it neeeffery, I would deliver to him
in welting a luminary of their contents.
In treating of the fubjat of the money furhilited to France, bt
drafted much (write at its being confidered merely as a tempo-
rary meafate, and aka from whence my Court could have got
that idea; of which he bitnfelf difelainsed any there. I told him
that I knew my brother had repeatedly received limiter Efforances
at the very time when the treaty-was negotiating from a perfon
high in authority, whole affurances were them eihserned authentic,
and that as fuch he bad trachnitted them to his Government.—

111. Ceyalics repeated that they had no loch vkwa; that the treaty
was concluded for the whole of the prefent war; that it contained
no ankle whatever Wilk in Great Britain ; and u to the amount
of the fubfidies, be could only repeat what he had already laid.
and what M. Anduaga bad Rated to your Lordlitip, that they are
calculated with a reference to the upon* .1 farniibing the fac-
tours Ripelated by treaty. This atomics be Paid be trotted I
Ewald think ferfickat, and that England would Co far do lattice
to the good fakir of the Spann! Cabinet as to pronounce kafelf
ratisfsed with luta a dtclaratlon.

I obferva to him that my Government was already in potleftion
of thusptich information upon the fulled, when my relent in-
ftruetions were forwarded to me, and therdore that 1 ntuft elped
a more explicit lawn.. or comply with the °Men to demand my
marine ; that in the terms in which he fisted k, the amount of
the It:cease Itipulated was without any limit, duce the treaty pro
vides that, its cafe pf ncerffity the auxiliary power is liable to be
called upon to aZft her ally with all her Forces • in which Mita-
don there would be no bounds to the fume which Spain might fur.
that to the enemy under the denomination of en equivalent for
theft Ficcoun.
I did pot however Exceed in obtaining any further explanation
upon the fubjed ; and there was in M. C.evallos' manner, a more
decided determination not to give way upon this point, and more
difpolltioa to ill humour at being prefect upon it, than upon that
of the total nitration of all armaments hrtimports. He took no
other notice of the orders given to Admiral Cochranee to Ihut
the Pak of Ferrol to their (hips of War, than by *thing me to reed
that paragraph a fecond time; and when I bad !lodised tbc difpateh
he laid that Spain would continue to adt with the fame good faith
which the bad always hitherto dote; that England ought to be
perfolly at cafe upon the fubjett of the armament, which had
never been of any eonkquenee, and was now laid afide ; that npon
the queftion of the fubUk4, the had all the fatisfadtion that the
could reafonably require, and that it was time that the beefed
amid give fume affurance of her own difpations, without which
a neutrality, reftlds and difturbed as that which Spain now pof-
t Idles would proves. prejudicial to the country as War itfelL I
anfwered, that the difpofnions of my Government towards Spain
were not lets friendly than they had always been, and that it was
to the condo ft of Spain it erred that he mutt attribute the unfettled
ftate of the connedtlea between the twoeottntriet—nor could it be
otherwite, as long as the maintained this referee upon a point
which affetts fo effentially the interefts of Great Britain as that of
her pecuniary engagements with France—and I left him by laying
that I hoped, that upon confitkration he would fec it in, the fame
light, and that I moats receive a inure fatisfadory =firer to die
Note which I thould tranfinft to him, thin I had been able to ob-
tain from the conference.

Your Lordihip will obferve an interval of Come days between
this conference and the date of my Note, during which I have been
confined by a return of indifpolitlon which &fabled me from writ.
ing ; having however Dated fo fully before hand the nature of my
inarudtions to M. Caitlin', I am in hopes that no time will have
been loft by this eircumitance and that I (hallreceive hisanfwer
as boon as if my Note bad been prdented immediately after our
conference. (Signed)* I. /Rill.

(Trandation of factOfun referred to in Nall.)

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Efeorial, Odtober s 6, Ole.

in eonfequence of the deli= your Excellency has expected to
me, I have the honour to tranfrnit to you in writing the faltanee
of the reprefeatations which I have been &rafted by my Govern-
ment to make to you.
It is with equal (cuprite and concern that his Britannic Majefty
received the account of the Naval preparations which have been
carrying on in the ports of Spain, having an his pan omitted no-
thing, from the very commencement of boltilities with France,
which could contribute to remove from Spain thofc calamities of
a War, In whiCh, owing to her twain' the was in fad placed in
the number of his enemies. Nothing, indeed, could have induced
his Majefty to perfevere in this (Atm of moderation, except the
fame benevolent motive' fupported by a difpofition to give credit
to the affurances of the Spanish Government, that the turns for-
alba to France were only paid under the idea of gaining time,
until circumftances would enable her to follow a fiftem More cuss=
genial to her Willies and inierefts.
His Mainly has repeatedly requefted a communication of the
engagements concluded with France; but the only Wirer has uni-
formly been a vague autumn, that. whatever might be the
amount of the fume to be Mid by Spain, they were calculated ac-
cording to the eftitnate of what the honours, naval and military,
illpulated by treaty, would amount to. But his Majefty has never
been finnl n! with any means of judging, whether theft payments
arc In fiat only a fair equivalent for thole favours, or whether
they fo far exceed it, as to render it neeeffary to confider Spain a
principal in the War.
In this fine of uncertainty, his Makfty has been compelled ex-
pitfall to referee to hitnklf the full right to regulate big conduet
towards Spain nwordh3g to the appearance of eiresmikances at the
mouwai. as is has ever tictiaed, itacquiviicallya that tlw dif-