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eulation of our finances, as well as in the comp.&

of our glory.
1, I may therefore lay. and f.+t• c-nfidently,
the advantage is on our fide. France is ;nvulniJ. !:•
in all the points of her immenfe territory ;

nothing to apprehend is her advanced pmts .•
Wet and Ea(t Indies. England is every where
tieiible; and without appearing to reach her,
have in reality inflieled wounds upon her, which r
perhaps be attended with a progreflive atony %. -
lent convolfinns.

" Our fleets at Brett, Toulon, and Rochefort, 11, v
annexed to them armies, refolved to pals the oce.or
with them. Our flotillas are ready to depart v. ior
thefe proud fons.of war, who know no impediment-.
becaufe they hai't furmottnted all that, before them,
had aftonithed the molt intrepid. Let cs continue to
keep on our coatis loldiers, inhabi.ing camps inllead
of barracks. and become intrepid tailors, as well AS
brave warriors. Let the people of England in the
mean time, arm, agitate, fatigue, eshauft; and dis-
courage themfclves, lot our rettauccs and our re-
venues [Office foi our eipenees, and let there be na
want but that of Wine extraordinary refources which
the richnefs of our country.infure to us. In En-gland,
let the interea paid to 1,4 n-holders abforb, and ex-
ceed all potlible means to pay thofe levies in mars,
which exhauft the nation without defendingsit : let
this (late of things prolong itfelf, awl let the Englilh
Cabinet 'late the advantages that tefult from this
&nation, from which it derives equal danger and
flame. Shall I (peak to you of there fecret expedi-
tions with whirrh the credulity of the Engliff: people
is every three months abufed, and which terminate
only in ridiculous and fruttlefs attempts. Are thy
embarking Come troops for the renewal of the garzi-
fon of Gibraltar, cut off by the petlilence ; or do they
with to convey Tome troops to India, or Come rein-
forcements to Ceylon, where England has had fuch
loffes ; or do they prepare Come millions of men to
repair the ravages of the yellow fever at Jamaica, to
flrengthen the garrifcns of the Englith Colonies,
threatened by three or four thoufand men, which
Martinique and Guadeloupe can detatch againft
them. When thefe ordinary meafures are in prepara-
tion, the Government Coffers it to be believed, that
formidable armaments menaced France. How long
and with how much myftery did they announcethofe
(hips loaded with (tones, to choak up our ports,
and thofe firefhips focourageoufly, and at fuch a dal
tance launched againa our flotillas And M fat what
other expedition could tempt the Englith. Would they
with a landing on our v:eltern coact, to try how our
national guards alone, united with our peace garri-
fons, will receive them on their arrival, and cut off
their return. Mailers of the lea for two fears,
their fleets have fatigued the ocean and the Mediter-
ranean, and their toldiers have not dared on any
coact ; on all our fhores their veffels have thrown on,
them only brigands. In place of there vain phan-
toms of expeditions. fuppofe, Gentlemen, that the
as,ooo men from Breit, the 6000 from Rochefort,
the 12,000 from Toulon, and the at,ooo from the
Teed, all or even in part rea.th Ireland, Jamaica, or
India ; or even fuppofe that thefe 200,000 men the
boats of our flotillas can carry and pats over in one
night, menace and reach the oppofite coati, on which
their impatient courage keeps them for fo long a
time ; fuppofe what is (till more ample, that the so
frigates, the Go fhips of the line, of all rates, which
two years have feen created, armed, and equipped,
(hould get out in (mall lquadrons and inundate the
fear, and dry up in every quarter the channels of
profperity and life, by the aid of which England
fupports its montirous exiftence. With only a part
of thefe fuppofitions realized, you will fee every
where, and reafon will fee alto chances terrible, and
without counterbalance, againft England. It is
therefore in the very confeiouthels of the (hength of
his people, and of his own power, that the Emperor
found an additional motive for !peaking the fan-
guage of peace. It is with fo many plans of cam-
paigns, the fuccefs of which is probahle, almoit to
certainty, in as much as that which is void of all
danger, produces fucceffes fo real ; it is with this valt
and rapid glance which embraces the whole extent
of his refources, and all the means of drawing them
forth, that his Majetly has taken a Rep which would
have been fhameful to a nation that had a different
Chief—fhameful for a warrior commanding another
people. But could not this confidence of the Mire
of the war with England be dilhirbcd by any uncer-
tainty as to the Rate of the Continental relations of
France ? If there were any danger of that, what
could his Maid-1y have hoped item a Rep taken un-
der fuch circumftances ? and the hiltoty of his life
evinces that no man knew better how to feize the
favourable moment. If a Continental war were
impending, Napoleon knew well that there was no
other courfe than the terrible and neceffary one of
throwing away the fcabbard of his fo uniformly vic-
torious fword, and to make glitter before the eyes of
the world a new lance of Achilles ; far from dela-
ing the kilt pride of his fortune, to propofitions dic-
tated by fear, and fuggelled by weaknefs, and
which would have promifed but humiliation as their
refult. Happily, Gentlemen, in this refped of our
exterior relations on the Continent, two years have
produced alining and honourable ameliorations.
The taking poffeftion of Hanover was neceffary and
indifpenfable. The Emperor willed, ordered, exe-
cuted it. He did it to punith the perfidy of a rupture
without declaration; he did it to fecure to hineelf the
means of compenfation in a war, in which prudence
may dread difadvantages, from which wirelom has
preferved us ; he did it to fetter the commercial re-
lations of thefe dominators of the leas, who carry rot
commerce by war. and war by commerce. But
this poffefllon which, for the first time, carried and

fixed our armies in the extremities of the North,
might have alarmed the powers moil attached to Mir
caufe by their porn ion, the moil united to nor tortune
by their interests, the mod faithful to our alit ince by
inclination. Difficulties did in fad wife, but the
wifdom, the moderation, the confidence in the faith
of the Cabinet of the Thuilleties, and its rematched
from every revolutionary and diforganizing idea, dtl=
pelted all the clouds, and never have we had wi:h
Pruffia relations better eltablithed, a correfpondence
more cordial, amity more intimate. Ott the other
band. if the changes that have been cffeacd in the
French Government were called tnr by experience,
pointed out by all men of ferni, &fired by the en•
lightened friends of the county, willed by the ro•
tire nation, no one could hope to ()relate CA.u) 'be
creating of a kingly monarchy; a:11

deft 'might give tire to fears of diftontent and cold.
Deis on the part of AnAria. The difcontent might
liecome exarperated, and dm coldnefs might degene-
rate to refmtment by means of the intrigues of our
enemies. }fence the inetrtitude as to the duration

a.peate, yet irevr and imperrealy fettled. Hence
the fear of feeng rekindled a defol4ting war, af-
i!iaing even for, the conqueror. Far from our new
inftitutions producing fuch lamentable effe.h, the
Emperor of Germany and Aultria has teen, as he
ought, in the enablif6ment of the Imperial Monar-
chy, in favour of a new dynafty, a guarantee given
to his Crown, and a motive fnr a doter alliance.—

It is in the organazation of our empire that Francis
the Second has found a new pledge of fecurity and
;'ace ; a reafon for removing his armies from our
frontiers and thole of our allies, and for not keeping
his forces on a war eflablifbmrnt. In fine, from all

the clouds which je.ilnufy, hatred, fear, or hope had
Tu;fed, nothing has refuhed but happy explanations,
f lid afurances of the duration of peace. and the
maintenance of harmony between the two Empe-

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Bavaria, Saxony, Here Calle', Baden, Wurt-
teinberg, the Elellor of Ratiomn, all the reigning
petty Princes of Germany, and the Equrflrian Order,
have given his Majelty multiplied proofs of interek
attachment, and Aeon. The Drakes, the Spencer
Smiths, and the Taylors, have been driven away, as
foon as it was known that their diplomatic charafter,
Thamefully profaned by them, ferved to mark the
oen anal mow rdious proceedings, and that the ob-
ject of their intrigues was war; the dangers of which
the prefent seneratinn, fatigued with battles, and de-
firous of rerife, whiles not to encounter, dreading,
as it does, its misfortunes, and abhorring its exciters.
,‘ Having Pruffia and Autlria for Allies, where,
Gentlemen, are we to look for the elements of a eon-
tinenzal coalition ? Is it in Sweden f The young
Prince who reigns over that State, endowed with a
warmth of head, and with an exalted imagination,
(lamentable gifts for Kings when reafon does not
controul them), has not known how to mature his
deftgns by prudence, has negletted to call to his
councils the Sages with whom'Sweden abounds, and
to enlighten his experience by the eifdoin of his
old Minitters. Thus this blonarch has failed In the
refpett due to France, and in the effervefcence of
Ids refelutions, he has kept no meafures with her.
But, at the fame time, his imprudent boldncfs has
not ufe3 more management towards Atifltia, and
he has proved the inconfillency of bis conduet,
that his prcfpefts were without calculation, his pro-
jab without maturity, hie defires without reflec-
tion, eta his paffinns without guides, he had medi-
tated a treaty of futilidy with England. He bad
demanded of the Cabinet of St. James 48.000,000
(byres) in exchante for twenty thottfand foldiers;
but the Engfilk Micifler, trafficking for Men in
Europe as to Mercbanclize in Alia, valued the
Swedes like Sepoys, and would give but Sewn
millions, and thus the Treaty was not concluded.
Prsffia betides interpofed in the negotiation, decla,
ring, that the conelidion of it would be the fignal
for his entrance into Pomerania. And though the
rage prudence of the Cabinet of Berlin Ihould not
have defended the King of Sweden from his own er-
rors, the blood of the Swedes does not belong to him
who barters and fells himfelf to intrigue or to tyran-
ny.—ff France formed a pretenfion contrary to the
interells and to the honour of Sweden, Stockholm
would fee the dettendants of the foldiers of Gliftavus
arm for their enun:ry ; but the would alto find them
irritited At feting their blood let up to auftion, ex-
chanzed for EnAlith guineas, and proving by their
indignation, that the swedith warriors, whore fathers
filled the armic:. of Charles XII. are not made to
linty to fuch bafe:.efs and meannefs !
" Where. then are the elements, the centre of this
coalition to be found?—Will ir be in Ruffia f—The
King
.of England himfelf announces that no tie ex-
alts with that Power. He (peaks of a correfpondence,
but a cuire%iondence begun is not an alliance con-
eluded. 11,-fides, Ruflia is a great Power without
doubt; hut (he can do nothing againll ftc French em-
pire. I go farther, if the Woronzoffs and the Marcoffs
could entertain the idea of felling the force and in-
fluence of Ru(Ga to the Engliffi Cabinet, Alexander
has wifer Counfellors, and forms more prudent Tern-
lotions. He has not forgotten how the Ruffians were
left war treated by England, theirally, and how were
terminated, tin Switzerland and Holland, expe-
ditions undertaken by great Generals and brave
foldiers, but undertaken with plans that could not
be executed, under the influence of a difaftrous Rae.
In fine, the coldnefs between the Cabinets of the
Thudkries and St. Pcterlburgh is not enmity. They
have neither of them any real fubjetl of zhifunderfian-
ding, and what has palled within there three months
between the two Governments, thews fufficiently that
England would, in that ctinjunCture, have conceived
vain projetiv, and (peculated upon falfe hopes, if the
thought of converting her correfpondence into a coa-
lition. Woronzoff may have conceived filch a hope ;
but who does not know that Woronzoff is 1.11 a Ruf-
fian than an Englilhmen ; that, refiding in England,
he wifhes to fix himfelf there, and that a foe, and dif-
approver of Paul the Firlt, he is equally fo of the
great Catherine.
el The Cabinet of St. Peterfburgh is acquainted
with the true inserells of its country ; it will have
always before it the audacious infult of Lord Nelfon,
wifhing to dictate laws in the. Gulph of Finland. It
cannot difremble that the attack committed' in the
Mediterranean by the Englifh againft the Spanifh fri-
gates, againft an almell unarmed regiment, againfl
defencelefs women and children, menaces alfo, on
every tea, the (hips and fubjefta of the Czar. It can-
not d:ffemble that that attack proceeds from the fame
!pith and the fame principles that produced the at-
tack upon Denmark in her capital, which may pro-
duce an attack upon the Ruffian fquadron in the Me
diterranean, or in the Baltic; a (Writ of fury and in-
toxication which, pervading the Englifli Cabinet, in-
duces them to defpife all the Rowers of the Conti-
nent, to make no allowance for any one,and to coat •
der themfelves as of the focial !late, and the great
civilifed family of the world.
" There exits, then, no threatening or poffible
coalition; but the Clued guarantee of the French
empire againft all fear, is, that could one have been
formed, the Emperor would have attacked, beat,
and broken it—and after eittory, would hare
pt npGied peace—he would have written to the King
of England that letter, in which he invites humanity
to the aid of redo*, and the ichereft of the Eng-

lilt people. Let as repeat it then. Gentlemen, one
fentiment, and the• moil honourable of all, could
alone have led the Emperor to take the glorious Rep
he has done with rcfpea to England. This fent.-
ment is the fame which, in other fituations, dictated

to his Majefly the difpatch he wrote before the paf-
fage of the Saave and the Drave. It is the fame that
infpired that letter to the King of England, fume
months before the battle of Marengo. It is the fame
that, after the viEtory, made the Conqueror offer
peace to Aultria. In fhort, it is the fame fentiment
which, at the Peace of Luneville, made his Majefiy
refolve to facrifice immenfe conqueßs, and upwards
of twenty Millions of inhabitants, who had fubmitted
to the French arms. It is the focial love of order, the
love of the country, the facred love of humanity, fo
often profeffed in vain fpeeches, and fo rarely carried
into aellon, and which, always ref Bed by the Em-
peror, always taken as the guide of his fieps,has been
tke pledge and confolation of his fuccefs.
" You will find, Gentlemen, the touching and
auguß expreffions in the letter I am abcitt to read to
you.—[He then read the letter, and Lord Mut-
oft av a's anfwer.]—Shall I compare at prefent, Gen-
tlemen, the two monuments of what Liftory is al
ready in poffeßion ? Shall I remark to you in the
French document, elevation, franknefii, and force ;
in the Englifh, cunning, duplicity, and weaknefs ?
Here every thing wears a noble air, every thing
bears the Ramp of dignity and grandeur ; warfare
is menacing, but generous; warfare is menacing,
but regulated by the guidance of that rare courage
which facrifices the charm of conqueß, the fplendour
of viaory, the illufions even of glory, to the cry of
humanity, to the tears of a hundred thoufand national
or foreign families. who call out for peace to Flis•
v ea, and their monarclis. There every thing is un-
certainty and hefitation, fuppofitions are given as an-
fwers to fags; the uncertain and equivocal future is
oppofed to the prefent, white no clialbt exills ; to a
frank overture is oppofed the polEhility of a coalition,
which even did it exill, would neither intimidate the
nationnor her Emperor; which whether it continues to
aft, or is vanquifhed, would neither encreafe or re-
traft their pretenlions, neither add to or take from
the conditions written down in the Treaty of Amiens.
If in the communication which file teems to announce,
England (peaks a language more worthy of the over-
ture the has received. peace may be reftored. But if
this only opportunity whiCh Teems to be offered by
the Matter of all Empires, of re-eftablifbing the peace
of the univerfe, is left unimproved by England, all
Europe will fee that the Cabinet of London only has
deft fed, does dare, and will alone dellre, the conti-
finance of war.

46 And if, on the anfwer by which the King In
England, in the Bth yeai, rejetted the noble over
tures made by his Majefty, judgment be paired ; if,
with refpeet to the conduit of England, at that pe-
riod, the prefint generation is, as it were, pofterity ;
if a portion of the great profperity of France, and of
the erifis in which England is now placed, refult
from that refufal to enter into negociation ; I am
warranted in thinking that a fintilar cattle will pro.
duce fimilar effees ; that a frefli refufal, no lets cri-
minal than the former, will open to us new advan-
tages ; and that pofterity, which in this fecond enter
gency swill pronounce upon the Englifh Government;
will all° pronounce between the Emperor of France
and the King of Great Britain ; nor is that potte-
city far from us. If, on the other hand, fo worthy
and fo honourable a ufe of the power with which the
people have insetted Napoleon ; the firtt will call
forth in the empire an unanimous fentiment of gra-
titude anal love.
" On that occafion, at leak we (hould be bound
to give thanks to that Britifh Cabinet, who, by the
equivocal publicity given to the mod candid of com-
munications, has induced the necelky of that feletnn
explanation, of that unreferved declaration, of the
Emperor towards his people ; we Sall congratulate
France on having acquired the proof, that by be-
Rowing the throne on Napoleon,French citizens have
given themfelves a father, jealous of their happinefk,
Iparing of the treafures of the State, and equally
(paring of the blood of their children."
The Prefident made the following reply t
Gentlemen. Orators of the Government, the Tribunate have
long Ihared iu the fentimenta of indignation which Europe mutt
feel at the infatlable cupidity of the Engliib Government, who
Without daring to own it 14 a formal manner, attempt to number
among their prerogatives the abfolute and eaeluive empire of the
leas, and the right of arrogating to thendelves the commerce and
induftry of ail nations. We muff not, therefore, be 'Roadbed,
that they elude every kind of overture of peat..—that they multi-
ply (Macke—that the molt moderate propofitions mould appear
to them inadmiffable ; and that their politica fbould be inch:clan
and ancenain. The Government mutt be well convinced that the
Tribunate will concur with all its might, and with all its influence,
iv the maintenance of the glory of the throne, and ache national
honour, which has Men thus infuhed."
The fpeech of Sr. Jett d'Amany, and that of
the Prefident. were ordered to be printed; and a
Commitfimi was appointed to report upon the com-
munication of the Government.