Star.
London, England, 1801-03-03 00:00:00

STATE PAPER.

TIM FOLL•WING 11 A COPY OF THE NOTE TRANS,
/PITTED ON THE jEtill OF FEIRUARY, BY THE
PEIHIStEIt CoUNT miarowirz, TO
LOAD CARYITORT, THE ENGEM MINAS ADOE
AT itassx.

The urderfigned, State and Cabinet Minificr,
has laid before his Pruffian Majelly the two Notts
which Lord Ciersroar, Envoy Extraordinary,
and Willer Plenipotentiary from his Mojtily
'King of Great Britain and Ir;land, has dope h*.n,
the honour to tradmit to him 'on the 27th of ja-
nuaryt and tit of February lalL '
The Underfigned having it in commidion to re-
turn an explleit and circumffantial anfwer, is cur.
der the neceffity.of informing Lord Cairsrozr„
that 'his Majefty cannot fee without the titmoik
grief and concern, the violent and haffy meafurei
to which the Court of London hat proceeded
againft the Northern Naval PoWers. Error alone
can have given Occa6oti to there *afore', as the
actions in the Note of the syth fufficiently
In that it is (aid, that the hfaritinie Alliance ethos
for its objet, to 'annul the treaties formerly cop.
eluded with England; and to lieferibe laws to
her, with refperft to the principles of them; that
the peut:ality ii only apretext to imp& thee Jaws
on her by force, and to eftablith a haat 'Mina;
a4ainft her."
Nothing; however, is farther from the above.
mentioned negOciarion, than -the 'principles pe.i
ruppori4. It is founded 'in Inftice and modern-
tion, and the cornmonication of a *copy of die
convention to fueh of 'the' Belligerent POweis as
had the junk, ind patience to wait for the fame,
will prove thii beyOnd the poiffbility of a dental.
When in the beginning of January the Water
of his Britanide Majefty officiallrpropored to the
under.figned the queltion, whether the Northern
Courts had aaually cone hided the confederation
which had been reported i and 'whether Pruffia
bad 'acceded to it?'-the Kinn conceived that
the re(pidf' which Sovereigns dire to each other:,
and the kffwaty'podifild by every indepcnden:
State to confidt its own ;minas, without render.
ing an oceanic to any other Power, authorized
him to Withhold any communications relative to
hingelf aid his allies'; and contented'himfelf with
infwering,*that sii he tad feen without interfering,
the cannelloni which England had entered inui
without coolidting him ; he 'confidsred hirnfelfen.
titled to the fame confidence; and that if the Kurd
of Great-Britain thought it his duty to fupport the
rights'and intereffi of his kingdom, ' his NOM=
Majefty conlidered it as not lets his duty to emplOi
every means in the defence of the rights and in.
tenth of his &Wets. •
This anfwer might have fofficed a few weeks
fume, but in the fitnaticni in which affairs now are
thl King thinks Irina( called upon to make an
explicit declaration to the Court of London, 'rela-
tive to the Spirit of the Treaty, which has probably
been attacked becaufe it was not lalown; and which
is far frOm haying the offenfive viewi of which the
contrading pciwrs have been arbitrarily Waled.
They have exprefsly agreed, that their theafnres
(hall be neither hoftile dor tend to the detriment of
any country, but Only 'have for their objet the
fecurityof the trade and navigation of their (objets.
They Lave been attentive to adapt their new con=
nerions to prefent circumflances. ' The an& jullice
of his Majeffy the Emperor of Built has even in the
detail, propofed modifications, which alone might
be (Acing to indicate the fpirit of the whole.—
It has luxe been determined, that the treaty (hall
not be prejudicial to thofe which had before been

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c,ncladed with any of the belligerent powers. It
was alto refblved, that this determination thould
be candidly communicated to thole Power=, to
rove the purity of the motives and views of the
contrafting parties. But England would not al-
!iew time for this. Had fhe waited this confi-
dential communication, fhe might have avoided
:thefe intemperate measures which threaten to
fpread the flames of war till wider.
&fides, it only depended on England, previ-
oufly, to draw fatisfaftory information from the
correfpondenice with Denmark, if, inflead of talc.
ins hold of two ifolated palrages, which Lord CA-
twiner, in his firft note, extraeted from Count

EFRNSTORres note of the 31ft of December, the
Court of London had :dialed to the folemn de-
claration which it contained : " That it could
never have been fuppofed for a moment that Den-
stark had formed hoftile projefts againft England,
or plans that could not fubfift together with the
'maintenance of harmony between the two Crowns,
and that the Court of Copenhagen congratulated
itfelf on finding an opportunity for contradifting,
la the molt pofitive manner, fuch unfounded re-
ports." This plain and precife Declaration agrees
with the language which the underfigned had ufed
more than once to Lord Ceara roar, when fpeak-
ing on that fubje&, and it can fcarcely be con-
ceived how the Englifh Court, after that decla.
ration had bcen received, could conclude from the
note of the Minifter of Denmark, " That the en-
gagements of the Contrafting Powers had for their
objell the introduetion of principles of naval
risks, which had never been acknowledged by the
tribunals of Europe, and which were of a honile
tendency again& England," The conflation is
totally falfe, and is not authorifed even more by
the enntents of the anfwer of the Danifh Court,
than the other unmerited reproach made to it,
" of having renewed an alliance of a hoftile ten-
dency againft England, and of being actively
employed in armaments with that view."—Never
were meafures more evidently defenfive, than the
meafures of the Court of Copenhagen, and their
fpirit will be mikonceived ftill lcfs, when it is
foundered what menacing demonfiration that
Court had experienced from the Britith Govern-
ment, on occation of the affair with the Freya
frigate, before the above meafures were retorted
to. England's arbitrary conduit on this occafion
is naturally explained by the pretenfions which it
bad made for Tome time pall, and which it has
repeatedly renewed in the notes of Lord Cl/ILYS.
'CAT, at the orpence of every commercial and
aaval power. The Britifh Government has, in
the prefent more than in any former war, ufurped
the Sovereigno of the few, and by arbitrarily fram-
ing a naval code, which it would be difficult to
unite with the true principles of the law of na-
tions, it exercifes, over the other friendly and neu-

mil Powers, an ufurpcd jurifdiaion, the legality
of whifh it maintains, and which it confiders as
an imprefcriptible right, fanaioned by all the tri-
bunals of Europe. The Sovereigns have never
conceded to England the priviledge of calling their
futijeas before its tribunals, and of fubjcaing
them to its laws, fit cafes where the abufe of

power has got the better of equity, and which,
alas! are but too frequent. The neutral Powers
have always had the precaution of addrefGng to it
the mole energetic reclamation, and protefts, but
experience has ever proved their remonftrances
fruitlers ; and it is not furprifing that, after fo
many repeated ate of opppreffion, they have re-
folved tb find a remedy againft it, and for that
purpofe to eftablifh a well-arranged convention,
which fixes their rights, and which places them
on a proper level even with the powers at war.
The naval alliance, in the manner as it has juft
been confolidated, was intended to lead to this
falutary end, and the King hefitates not to declare
to his Britannic Majefty, that he has again found
in it his own principles, tharhe is fully convinced
of its neceftity and utility, and that be bat formally
acceded to she convention, which has been concluded
0.1 the 16th of December loft year, between the
Courts of Ruflia, Denmark, and Sweden. His
!.I::;t.fiy is, therefore, among the number of the
el.r.trafting parties, and has bound himfelf, in
plality, not only to tale a &eel, flare in all
the remit evbicb Me facie of the !Ventral
P but alto, in virtue of is engage-
ments, to maintain :bat connetlion by limb powerful
as the impulfc of circureflances may
The note of Lord CARYSTORT mentions
t fithjet9, to which his Majelty believes himfelf
obi.ged to anfwer, nor even to have a right
entertaining an opinion with rerpat to it.-
I!,cre exit dircuffions between the Courts of Pe-
?-rfhurgli and London, which have by no means
4:17 thing to do with the ha irier. which the latter
hae interwoven with it. But in the fame meafure
ta which the condui of Praia has hitherto been

direFted by the tnoit blamelefs impartiality, the
how's condua will henceforth be direacd by his
• regard for engagements, which in themfelves are
a proof of it. To aipuladons which contain no-
!Ling hoftile, and which the fafety of his fubjeas
•quired, he owes all the means which Paori.

BItNCT has laid in his power. Unple.:rant as the
extremes may be to which England has proceed-
ed, yet his Majegy doubts not the polaility of a
fpecdy return to conciliating and peaceable dif-
ofitions, and he relies on the fentiments of equity
which, on former occafions, he has had the advan
tage of meeting with in his Britannic Nlajelly.
It is only by revoking, and by entirely taking
off the embargo, that agairs can be brought to
their former fituation ; and it is for England to
judge whether it ought to come to that refolution,
in order to offer means to the Neutral Powers for
proceeding to thole communications which they
intended to make,

But while thofe meafures exit, which have been
retorted to from hatred againft a common princi-
ple, and againft an alliance which can no longer
be shaken, the Bylife refolution, which mull be
the confequence, will be the neceffary refult
of the Treaty, and the underligned is ordered
to declare to the Minifter of his Britannic Majefty,,
that the King, while he expreffes his concern at
events of which he has not been the caufe, will
fecretly fulfil the engagements prefcribed to him
by Treaties. The underfigned, thus executing
his orders, has the honour of affuring Lord CA..
RYSFORT.of hishio efteem. (Signed) HAVOWITZ.