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FRANCE.

PARIS, sz Pg.a.IRIAL, JUNE 2.
The Englifh Journals cf the 28th May have
come to hand. They are full of tragical events.
According to them General Barr ritsa has been
killed in a duel, an Aid-de-camp of the CHIEF
COXS tn. has been killed on the parade, and the
lEF CONSVI. has been dangeroufly wounded.—
In a word, they talk of nothing but atrairmations
aid divilions among the principal Citizens of the
Republic.
Letters have been diflributed by two row-boats
all over Morbilian, written by the ci-devant Bithops
of er. Pay*n de Lsor. and NovoN againft the Con-
cordat, the Republic, and the Pope. The ci-ckvant
Ai chbifhop of Iloarrrziti is now printing a long
letter to the Pope, to prove that he is jullified in
preferring to his apoßolical career a comfortakle
retirement in England, and the quiet enjoyment
of the forttine conferred upon him by his nephew,
whom be had twenty-five years ago the good fenfe
to make an apoftate from the Catholic religion,
to qualify him for the fuccetfion to eftates and dig-
nities in Ireland.

Other fruall veffeis have inundated Brittany
with a great variety of placards in the Jacobin
ayle. The molt moderate epithet they apply to
the CH ter CONSUL is that of„ poifoner." Thefe
hand bills have been fent to many individuals in
St. Maloes, Dinan, and St. Servan.
At a dinner to which Citizen Orro was invited,
and at which the Heir Apparent of the Euglifh
Monarchy was prefent, the lons of the Prince Lo A-
LITS were among the suet's, and wore the !tars,
croifes, and infignia, or the Bourbons.
A condua fo contrary to the conditions of peace,
to the daily declarations of Minitlers, to the deco-
rum which every Government ought to obferve,
CAD only be explained by the exilkenci of parties
and faaions who labour in a contrary diredion.
Let the fpeech of Citizen Gatixots he compared
with thofe of Mr. WINDHAM and LordGatrivizza;
let the circumfpeft and meafured language of all
the French writers be compared with the furious,
difgulling, and malignant tone affirmed by the
greateß number of the Englifh Journals, and it will
be teen that while the former exprefsthe fentimans
of a people who love and cherifh peace, and who
are anxious to fecond the intentions of their Go-
vernment, the latter abet a party hoßile to the
peace of the world, and to every benevolent, cha-
ritable and generous feeling.—Monlieur.

14 PRAIRIAL, JUNE 3.
ON THE LATE DEBATES OF THE BRITISH FAR-

LIAMENT.

The hiftory of the few laft years is full of pro-
blems which time only can develope, and of im-
portant leffons the developement of which it will
aftift. To prefervc, however, this folution, and
to underhand this development, we ought to at-
tend to the luminous traces which they leave be-
hind them. It enlightens by degrees whatever is
fecret in the relations of politics, whatever is ob-
fcure in the conneaion of events, whatever is myf-
terious in their caufes, or equivocal in the mora-
lity of the principal actors. In collecting all the
rays which it has fcattered in its progrcfs, we have
the opportunity of afcertaining the part which wif-
dom has taken, or the paffions have ufurped in the
conduct of Empires. The inftruaion, which, un-
der this point of view, the Left debates in the Eng-
hill Parliament are calculated to convey, cannot
have 6:aped the notice of any one who has in the
funnel} degree turned his attention to this fubjea.
It is now dilcovered, that in the year 8, Lord
GRENVILLE and Mr. WINDHAM oppofed in the
Cabinet a treaty of peace when it was propofed by
the CHIEF CONSUL. It might be fuppofed that
they would now be under Come difficulty in julli-
fyipg themftives for plunging their country in the
dangers with which it was furrounded ; but in
Orme of thinking cf their juftification they airtime
the character of accufers; and in reading their
fpeeches, it is impoffible Aiwa to conceive that
fuch alfurance could eiift as that with which they
play their part.
If the treaty of Amiens was not as advantage-
ous for England as could be defired, to whom is
this to be act; ibuted, if not to the Minifters, whofe
obstinacy and caprice prolonged the war, when
they had in their power the means of terminating
it with honour ?

And who is it againft whom they now direa
their accufation ? The Minifler who, repairing
their, faults, has been able by his prudence, by his
firmnefs, and by his capacity, to give peace equally
to the North and the South, to reconquer Egypt,
and to reffore it to the Grand Seignior, to re-efla-
blith the Order of Malta, to maintain the integrity
of the States of the King of Naples, and thus to
preferve the Mediterranean from the influence of
France; to procure the reflitution to the King of
England, his poffeffions in Germany feized by the
King of PruCa, and on the eve of being occupied
by the troops of France ' • to fave Portugal, the
ally of England, at a crifis of almoß total ruin ;
in fine, to fix the power of England in the two
Indies, on true bafec, by giving up what it was
ufelefs to preferve, by preferving for its commerce
its true refources, and by fecurtng to it command-
ing advantages in point of pofition, in cafe of the
renewal of war.

If we carefully confider the favourable oppor-
tunities of making peace which the late Miniflers
fuffered to efcape them, or the fitnation in which
they placed England, it is impoffible not to be con•
vinced that this power never figned a more ad-
vantageous treaty, fence no one ever prevented
greater ills.
The caution and moderation of the anfwers of
Mr. Addington and Lord Hawkefbury did honour
to the Mindferia' eliaraflet ; but there is not in
'Europe an individual of intelligence who does not
fee, that it is their province to retoft on Lord
Grenville all the reproaches which have been
htaned on them.

He wilhes to render them refponftble for all the
advantage. which the treaty of Lutieville has &-
cured to France. But was it by the fault of the
new Milliner that &ilk abandoned the coalition?
Was it by his fault }.hat Lultria was compelled to
withdraw, and to enter into feparate negotiations?'
Was it by tlic fat& of the new Arwitta that Eng-
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land brft the opportunity of negotiating in concert
with Anftria and Ruffia? Was it by his errors that
the States of the North renewed the ciliation of
neutrality, and engaged with enthufiarm in a quar-
rel which, however legitimate for them, could
have been fa eafily avoided by England.
England has had, fence the year 7, three different
opportunities favnurable to negociation.
s. The eocich of the 18th Brumaire. France
regenerated, La Vendee pacified, the National
fpirit restored, ought to have pointed out to the
Englifh the afcendancy which our arms were
about to affume. ;The Milliner who then prefided
over their Councils negleted this fine opportunity,
in which they might-have ncgoeiated in concert
with Auffria, with Ruflia, Bavaria, the King of
Naples, the Grand Seignior, and Portugal. In
fuch a neociation all the advantages of a molt
powerful,lnd in tome degree viaorious coalition,
would have been united with the profpea of re-
kindling in the midlt of us the flames of a civil
war, then not altogether extinguished. Not only
did he mifconceive, or neglel there advantages,
felt by every man of fagacity, but he anfwered to
the free and amicable overtures on the part of the
French Government, by a refufal couched in the
groffelt terms. The inevitable confequence of a
refufal, under fuch circumflances, was to
.give a
new impulfe to a nation from which it might be
always fore of commanding prodigies in the name
of honour and patriotifm.
idly, The fecond period was, that when the ar-
my of Suwarrow having returned to Poland,
Ruflia had decidedly abandoned the Coalition.—
This period, it is true, did not prefent all the ad-
vantages of the firft, but the opportunity never-
thelefi was excellent. England then might have
hoped to make common caufe in a Congrefs, with
Aultria, Portugal, the Grand Seignior, and Ba-
varia • and her Allies came to the difinffii on un-
der the aufpices of armies AM viftorious. Inftead
of making peace with France, the Britifh Minifter
made new and formidable enemies. He infulted
Paul I. by refuting to exchange 7000 Ruffians,
taken prifoners in the ridiculous expedition in
which he had been engaged. He infulted the fame
Sovereign in his illignificant pro eats refpeting the
Order of Malta ! He infulted all the States of the
North, by inflaming with abfurd avidity differen-
ces which he ought to have terminated. He irri-
tated, he toured in circumftances, when the molt
fimple notions of policy would have taught amen
to (often and to conciliate.
idly, There was Rill a third period at which
the Britifh Mini iler could and ought to have made
peace. I allude to that of die preliminaries figned
by Count St. Julian. Italy had then been recon-
quered at Marengo. Austria had (hewn a readi-
nefs to treat with France, and the had obtained
peace on more honourable terms than circumftan-
ce. could have permitted her to hope. Thefe con-
ditions, compared with thole of Campo Formio,
would have improved her (halation, which any re-
veries mutt have injured. This furely was the
moment of all others in which the Englifh Mini-
[fry ought to have opened feparate negotiations.
They teemed indeed to waken from ahem lethargy;
hut aill they were fix months behind ; they wilhed
to negotiate in conjunaion with Auftria. To fup-
pufe that the French Government could content
to fuch a propofition is to imagine it very inca-
pable. or utterly unacquainted with the fituation
of Europe. Not being able to conjoin (awalgawer)
its peace with that of Auftria, the Brittfli Miniltry
was defirnus that the latter fhoidd join them in the
war; and Lord Minto, who to be fore has his
reafons for now (hewing himfelf the fupporter of
Lord Grenville—Lord Minto, prcvioufly fo Mi-
nifterial, now fo decided in Oppofition, then fuc-
ceeded in rendering the Court of Vienna blind to
its molt precious anterells. Ihe latter once more
reverted to the fatal counfels of which Lord Minto
was the organ, and once more the fate of the Aut.
trian Monarchy was compromifed.
In a word, it was not till after the treaty of
Luneville, and until the new Minifters had taken
the helm of the State, that England opened ft-
rions negociations ; there was then an end of the
bnfinefs of interfering with the affairs of the Con-
tinent. The peace of the Continent was made
without their concurrence. The ill temper and
halite fentiments (fa raitkur et la nsalveillance) of
Lord Grenville had rejected every opportunity
of contributing to that object, and diflipated every
chance of renewing the coalition againft France.
In theft circumffances what could the Englifh
Nation tape& from the new Miniltry ? That they
fhould preferve for their country in India the in-
eftimable ifland of Ceylon, which cannot be recle-
aned too high. In the Welt Indies, the molt im-
portant and belt fituated of the Wands they had
conquered.
It is potfible for us to refute fentence for fen-
tence the whole fpeech of Lord Grenville. It' is'
not neceffary to thew that be is alone refponfible
for whatever he objets against the ancient* Mini-
fters. If Italy is under the influence of France, he
alone is to blame ? If Naples has recovered its po-
li:ical independence, it is due to the ability of his
fucceffor. If Hanover was taken poireffien of by
the King of Pruflia, acid on the point of being
occupied by France, it was the fault of the old
Miniltry. If the King of England has recovered
his Elctorate, it is owing to the prudence and
wifdom of his new Ministers. If Portugal taw
her fronfieri over run, and in danger of being
blotted out of the lilt of European Powers, it was
the fault of the old Miniltry. If the has been Paved
and 101 l nothing in Europe, it is to the prudence
of the new Miniltry that the is indebted for the
obligation.
Although .England may have brave tailors, like
thofe whom the undoubtedly poffetres, Admirals
like Lord St. Vincent, worthy to command them;
officers intelligent and alive, like Sir Sydney
Smith ; negotiators candid (laymen), firm, conci-
liating, like Lord Cornwallis and Lord St. Helens;
able financiers, like Mr. Pitt. . . . . All
there di flingnifhed men, however, wonl4 be unable
to maintain her in the rank the is deflined to occu-
py, if at the head of her cabinet the had hot-headed
men (des bowies poi onnie) like Lord Grenville, or
• We apprehend from the context that this :lurid be tie
prViet Mintitcre.
. .

Minifters like Mr. Windham, whole vidence,
would lead to the fame confequences as incapacity.
Gnamit EFFENDI, Minitter Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Estrprdinary from the Sublime Porte,
arrived in Paris the day before yefterday, at five
in the evening. He was concluded by the Adju-
tant Duras, and the Drogman DANTAU, to thl
Hotel Monaco, which the Government has appro-
priated for the Ottoman Legation. His Excel-
lency fent the fame evening his Dragoman, the
Prince Mnaoust, to the Minter for Foreign Af.
fairs, who had an interview with him yellerday
afternoon.
A letter from Bourdeanx, of the 2 7th May, men.
tions the Life arrival of the Efpiegle, from Gua-
daloope, laden with fogar and coffee. When tilt
Efpiegle failed, the colony was in a Rate of tra--,
quillity.
STUTGARD,MAY 3 t.—We learn from Fratt,:oni.s
that the affair of the indemnities is at laft about to
be finally fettled, at lealt in as far as concerns
Prnffia which, of all the States of the empire, has
been the.moft
It is not known whether confederation has been
had to the pretenfions of England as a Rate of the
empire, to the bifhoprics in the neighbourhood
of Hanover. The expetted arrival of an Englifh
Prince in the Eledorate, (hews that his houfe
attaches more importance to there Bifhoprics and
to the Eledorate than was at-firft believed. Some.
German prints maintain, that the fate of Ofna-
burgh, Hildelheim, and Corvey, entered into
the negotiations at Amiens, and that England
made every effort to obtain, through the credit
of France, the poffeflion of thefe principalities, at4l
their incorporation with Hanover.

PRIVATE LETTER.—PARIS, JUNE a.
BONAPARTE having fent to the Klng of ETRU*
RIA a copy of the Concordat, the latter returned it
with a great number of marginal notes written in
his own hand, and containing ohfervaticns to which
he expreffed his hopes BONAPARTE would conform.
—BONAPARTE anfwered in a way that !hewed it
was not his defire the KING of ETRURIA fhould
prefumi to have any thing to do with the affairs of
France, and fent a tranfcript of his MAJESTY'S let-
ter to the archives of Foreign Relations, with the
following title : ' Tole preferveel as a monument of tk
jud,'Zty If Mop, Id:en:hey thenyiket to ie at:-
vernal Prig.'—The Ktiso of El-Jul/Cu has pro-
hibited in his kingdon the execution of thnCe articles
of the Concordat which might have any rciatiento it.

LOA DON.

titormity, JUNE 7.

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Ye(erday we received Paris Journals to the 33
init. inclufive. If we could judge from the Ad-
, dreffes from the Departments, we Mould conclude
that the votes for the Chief Conful are very unani-
mous ; we have reafon however to believe, that*
in France, Addreffes are no certain criterion where,
by to judge of the real nate of the public wind.
The French Government is ufing every exertion
to obtain fupplies of grain, which are all carefully
announced in the Journals.
The Moniteur of the ad contains a querulous pa.
ragraph on a variety of fubjeas, in which it Teems
to be implied, that this country is not offing fuf-
ficiently in the fpirit of peace. The reported duels.
affaillnations, &c. are among the number, though
every newfpaper in London treated thee reports
as groundlefs. Letters and jacobinical writings
have been circulated on the coaft of France /
Jd-
cobinical placards !—To whom is the world in.,
debted for their origin ? Let them a& at home.—
Would they infinuate that the Britifh Government
does, or can encourage fuch proceedings? The
idea is abfurd. But what muff excite contempt in
every generous bofom, is the offence taken at " the
tons of Prince Ectaxorx appearing at the Manfion-
Houle with the ribbons and infignia of the Bour•
bons, when M. Orro was prefent." The French
Government would thew more magnanimity in
paying no attention to fuch an occurrence.
The Moniteur of the 3d contains a very curious
article, copied from the Mercure de France, on the
debates in Parliament refpating the Definitive
Treaty. Though not official in the original fliape.
it is fo in the adoption. The French Writer argues
very ably in favour of the prefent againfi the late
Minifters. We earnealy recommend the pei u:,I
of this article. Among the worthies of this country
Mr. PITT is mentioned as a great financier !
An article in a Franckfort Newfpaper Rates a re-
port of part of Wallachia and Moldavia, hclon;,.
ing to the Porte, being united to Autli ia, d
another tlice to Ruffia, both with the conftut ' f
France. If this be true, there can be no doubt
that France has llipulated fome portion for herfelf.
We entertain doubts, however, of the fcheme of
partition being yet fo ripe. It is probable, how-
ever, that Turkey, like Poland, will be gradually
extinguiffied, and by fucceffive partitions.
Letters from Stuttgaid (late, that confiderable
progrefs has been made in the affair of the indent•

nities.

The Turkifh Minifier has arrived in Paris.
The French funds are 55 f. 8o c.