Star.
London, England, 1805-10-15 00:00:00

FP.ENCI I hl E ".101:1 AL.

The incorporation of Ger:0:1 With France was,, it
is well known, the necalton of the prefect important
trills. This meafure has bropglit the differences
which were then pending to an open rupture. Im-
mediately after the union of Genoa with the errpire
of France, the French At.lhalliadors at the d:fferent
Courts delivered the following Memorial, never be-
fore publifhed, in which their Government fiemed to
anticipate the renewal of a Continental war, on ac-
count of Genoa and the other relations of
Subjoined is a tranflation of the above-mentioned
Memorial :

"After many vain attempts of the Genoefe people
to maintain the independent exiitence which Franc,.
had guaranteed them, already on the brink of dc-
i4ruCtion, they unanimontly refolve on the only mta-
lure left them for their prefervation ; they decree, in
tic moil folemn manner, their union with the Fictich
empire, and earnefil, implore the Emperor Napoleon
to receive them into the number of his faithful fub•
jeCts, by a deputation, the members of which were
direlted not to leave Milan till they had, at leall, ob-
tained a promife of his Imperial and Royal Majaly
that he would comply with their detire.
„The molt urgent motives induced ail the citizensof that republic to make a propcfal which entirely
changes their political fituation. Important reafons
invited France not to oppofe this with. All the na-
val powers could not but favour an union, which,
without augmenting the Continental arength of
France, enables her, for the benefit of the commerce
of all nations, to avenge the maritime encroachments
and intuits of England. It may not be amifs to con-
fider in various points of view an otcurrence which
will loon be placed in a falte light, by the panegyrills
of that Government, by whole conduft it was render-
ed indirpentably neceffary.
" The Senate and people of Genoa had made va-
rious efforts to give tl.emfeltes a conaituti.tn, but
without fuccefs. France hertelf had lincerely withed
tbat this State might preferve its rank among the
Powers of Europe. She had defended it during the
war ; the had re-conquered it from Auaria ; the had
endeavoured in various negotiations to ftipnlate for
its advantage ; the had increaled its territory, to af-
ford it new means of profperity, and had fticeeflive-
ly ceded to it the Imperial Fiefs in the valley of One-
glia, Serravalle, and other difbiCt-, inclofed
by its territory, which belonged to France, prevent-
ed a free communication, and were injurious to its
trade. It is Ilia heat in the memory of every one,
that France, after the had, in the B.h year of the
Republic, reconquered Genoa and her dependencies,
from the Power which had taken potieffion of them,
did not infia on thole rights to which the was entitled
by this event. She withilood the with uttered even
at that time by thole who were belt acquainted with
the fituation of their country, and rejeCted the pro-
pedal of an union, which would indeed have contri-
buted more effeCtually to the tranquillity and fecuri-
ty of Genoa, but which would then have appeared
to be merely the effeft of gratitude, and the recollec-
tion of the calamities the had endured.

" Since that period, Genoa has been convinced
that her welfare is no longer compatible with her in-
dependence, and that, in confequence of the change
in •:te Rate of All Europe, the had become too weak
to make head againft the external attacks of armies
or fleets, and to fupprefs internal commotions. Af-
ter many years of difficulty and inquietude, the im-
plored his Imperial and Royal Majefly, who had,
already, undertaken to prefide over the deltinies of
France, likewife to dire& thole of the Ligurian Re-
public, and to unite all parties under a conftitution
better adapted to the Rate of the country and its
old inhabitants. Genoa, accordingly, received a
Government, whole form and regulations were fanc-
tioned by ;he experience of many centuries, and
whore fundamental principles were carefully examin-
ed and approved by the Reprefentattves of the State
of Genoa, who were charged to take upon themfelves
that labour. But this new attempt, made with the
concurrence of all, was not attended with any better
fuccefs. Genoa was incapable of having either a
Government, a marine, foreign commerce, or inter-
nal race. She piddled not even the pima- to ex-
terminate a banditti, who are Rill plundering a por-
tion of her territories, and who even kept the inha-
bitants of the adjoining French departments in a con-
tinu :1 (We of alarm.

" From all thefe fruitlefs etvrtions to improves her
internal fituation, Genoa leara:d that the caufes of
her imbecility, and the means of preventing her to-
tal annlilatinn were to be fought abroad. Genoa,
which had &Wilted entirely by commerce,•has IoR it
ce.ofequence of the aggrand%;ement of all the
commercial powers. Numerous ports, which twenty
years ago were fcarcely known, and others which
boat the peculiar protalion of their relpeetive Go-
vernments, have vied with each other in diminifhing
the profperity of the port of Genoa.
" New maritime Rates were created by the laR
ear. Venice, whofe trade h.td filled' to decay, is
snow the depot of the commodities
.:of great em-
pire. The fame power has acquired a !peat taunt
of coati, and gives animation to the ports which na-
vete has fo richly ditiributed along it. The harbours
in .he Republic of the Seveli Brands foon be of
far greater importance than they woe under the Go-
vernment of Venice. The Engli(h, now mailers of
India, have made Malta a new depot for their mer-
chandise.

‘• While this competition arofe round Genoa, Ilse
beheld the remnant of her commerce expofed to the
depred aims of pirates, and excited the envy of Eng-
land, which not only retufed to confider Genoa as
an independent Rate, but employed every pomble
meafure to drive her to defpair ; which inc:tfantly in-
fultcd her ; which during the late war cut out of the
harbour two French higates, and mairacred their
crews, and treated her jut} as (he pleafed during the
blockade.

" Before England had declared this war againfl
hen Upper Italy was yet fut)jea to feveral
'he maritime commerce of Genoa, and
►n trade with the Continent, was caps-
ling her from ruin. The forme, i, nuw
Ind as England, betides throwing a
acles in the way of exportation, like-
every opportunity of fending her cum-
her u...► ports as contraband, his Im-
Royal Majelly, whole dominions fur-

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round Liglst% fonytcl reeelEttted to adtipt a
fyflem for the tubule of thofe frontiers, which, while
it prevented the importation of Englifh commodities
into the departments of France, likewife cut' off all
communication between Liguria and the Continent,
and coL:;:qu,ntly-pdt a flop to the only trade which
England had left the Republic.
Alarmed at a fitnation which could not fail in
a fhort time to involve her in utter ruin, Genoa was
long convinced, that fhe had no other refource than
to unite herfeif more clofely with France. She daily
renounced, from neccflity, a portion of her indepen-
dence, and was prorefted only by a corps of French
troops, f, r which the had applied. By the depreda-
tions of the Barbary corfairs, that hovered about the
illand Af Caprea, in order the better to molea her
trade, (he was at length compelled to cede that ifland
to France.

" Genc,a, unable to equip veffels for the proteaion
of her coatis, poffelling dock yards and magazines,
tinfer viceable in her exhauticd (late, having merchant
veffels, which her marine and her flag were incapable
of proteling, and which were obliged to fail under
that of another power, to efeape the privateers, Ge-
noa could no longer procure bread for her numerous
population, depending for fubfifience on maritime
enterprife, and the incluary that prevails in her ports.
" Not being in a condition to carry on, in a direa
manner, the war is which England had involved her,
the could do no more than fend her feamen on board
the French fquadrons, and implore the French govern-
ment to make rife in France of herlabourer.for whom
(he could not find employment. In perpetual appre-
henfion of civil commotions from the dilcontent of
parties, on account of the general poverty, which was
cotttinually increafing, and the imbecility of the go-
vernment, which could not fit mly eßahlifh itfelf, the
was petfuaded of the neccffity of forming a corps of
gens d'armes, to be commanded by French officers.
" Thus the union of Genoa was imperceptibly ef-
fetted by her fituation. This meaffire was detired by
her inhabitants. Nothing more was, therefore, ne-
ceffitry, than that it fitould be taken into confidera.
tion by thole parts of the Government which fuffered
the molt from this Rate of uncertainty, the expences
and burthens of which rendered the condition cf Li.
guria Ilia more opprelive. Hence proceeded the
fudden enthufiafm, the eager zeal, of the people of
Genoa, to fubfcribe to the with for an incorporation;
when the Senate, atter mature confideration, thought
it their duty to propofe it, and regarded that as the
favourable moment, in which his Imperial and Royal
Majefty could behold, with his own eyes, the diftref-
fes.of a country to which arms had reftored its inde-
pendence, but which, in fpite of all its efforts, could
not again recover its former profperity.
44 As Piedmont, Parma, and Piacenza, by which
Liguria is encompaffed, form a part of the dominions
of his Majefty, as the Kingdom of Italy is in his
hands, and has received a Sovereign from him, as
the Republic of Genoa, which was forgotten by Eng-
land in the Treaty of Amiens, perceives that both
the fea and the land are Phut againtt her, the could
not have formed a refolution better adapted to her
intereft and her dignity, than to incorporate herfelf
with a great nation, and that with an impetuotity fo
enthuliaffic, as perfeitly anfwered for the fuccefs of
the meafure.

" His Imperial and Royal Majefty, *fretted by
the motives which induced Genoa to adopt this re-
folution, was obliged proviforily to comply with a
with, that was the refult of long experience and the
moll mature deliberation. The annihilation of the
hopes of a people who were determined no longer to
be denied, might have been produlive of the moll
ferious confequences.
" The Continental Power of France has not, in
fait, been augmented by this union. A narrow track,
fo cooped up by the fea and by mountains, as to
leave a free communication only at a few points,
which does not produce corn fufficient to fupport its
soo,ooo inhabitants, which is expofed to the havoc
of annual innndations in its mofl fertile difirias, and
oppreffed by the burden of a prodigious debt, with-
out any probability of its •ever being paid off—the
incorporation with his Imperial and Royal Majeßy's
State, of filch a country, which has but little com-
munication with the Continent, and is incapable of
relioring its naval power, on account cf the alteration
which has taken place in the fituation of all other
States, cannot afford any pretext for Continental
dircullions, and its union with France cannot pall-
' bly produce any remonftranceq by which peace is
likely to be endangered. Should England fucceed
in creating difiord on thi, fubjea, no alternative will
be left his Imperial and Royal Majefty, but to prole.
cute with vigour the unjull war that will be declared
against him.
" Enjoying the foi.ttaion of having termed a
(late which threw itfelf into his arms, he will have
in his favour the goodnefs of his caufc, the public
opinion, and all the motives of dignity, neighbour-
hood, and benevolence, which have hitherto induced
him to protea Genoa.
" Far more important confiderations, of great in-
terest to all Europe, excepting England, co-operated
on this occafion in the resolves of his Majefty. France,
which, by her political and geographical flotation on
the Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas, is &flitted to
check the ufurpation of the ocean, and to vindicate
the rights and independi nce of the Maritime Powers,
has not coatis fo extentivi as England. Without en-
larging her Continenta: pAretlions, the will obtain by
the union of Gen 'a (,lc o feamen to fupply the place
of thole whom the Lott tturiig the late war, and will
thus be enabled the better' to cope with a Rate, the
Pole diet of whole effores is to ufurp the &minion
of the leas, which exercifes an univerfal monopoly,
which (irises to make, with every nation, commercial
treaties in her own way r which is extending her
power in India, only with view to employ it againft
Europe ; which violates al: the tights of neutrals, and
which will not condo& het elf with more moderation
towards them, till France grail have acquired a more
formidible navy.
" Were the Engin to reftore Goa to the Porto-
gnefe, Ceylon to the °.inte:h, the vat poffeffions of
Tippoo Saib to his heirs, nd the empire of the Mah-
rattas to its inciepertderce, it would better become
them, than to temonlo ate againft the union of a
narrow track of coast, which is already furrotinded
by the French territory. But there exaggerating
alarmifts, who will infallibly raife a prodigious out-
cry againft a meaftwe which they have them:elves
rendered neceffary for Genoa, for France, and for
the fecurity of Europe, will, it is to be hoped, not

I Make any imprellion on the wirer Cabinets of th
Continent. To all the States of Europe the fituation
of Liguria mul be a matter of inckfirence. They have
long feen that this country is leparared from their
territories by the dominions of his Imperial and
;Royal Majefty, and, from its pofition, can have no
enmmnnication with them. but by fea. They are
already accuaorned to the intimate relations fubfilt-
jug between the Genoefe and France, to the mutual
interefts and mutual operations which have rendered
the two nations brafroifibk. Their union mull appear
to all Europe the inevitable refult of their pofition.
It cannot excite any mittrull in the Continental
Powers, as it will not acrd a tingle battalion to the
French army ; as the &Tana' decay of Liguria for-
bids the annexation of its territory to be afcribed to
wilhes of ambition, fo there is not a court, that ought
to entertain any alarm concerning the intentions of
his Majetly, after the principles of moderation which
he has manifelled, in accepting the crown of Italy
only till loch time as the tranquillity of South of
Europe (hall be reflored.
" England imagined, that while Abe was conquer.
ing India, and plundering the Sovereigns of eaten-
five and opulent kingdoms, the diftance of thefe un-
exampled uforpations would efcape the attention of
Europe. To France alone, defined by nature to
preferve the rights of Neutral States—to France, who
has always exerted all her power, and placed all her
glory in proteaing them.—to her alone, it belongs, I
to reftore the balance of the fear. A few thalami
more feamen will be fufficient for the equipment of
ten (hips which France is building in the midft of war,
and they will be the bell guarantee for the preferva-
tion of any future Treaty between her and England.
It is beyond a doubt, that if, at the moment ofpeace
France (hall have fucceeded in placing her marine on
a refpthable footing, there will be no danger of the
renewal of there capricious hankies, which England
thought proper to commence again(; France in May
1803, and of which the expedition again!" Denmark,
and the capture of the Spanith frigates, lunar a far-
ther demonftration.

" Europe will not then any longer be perpetually 1
diflurbed by the efforts of a government, which is
inceffantly endeavouring to arm the Continent in fa-
vour of its deigns upon the feas, and which has in
vain granted five millions Reding to procureaflitlance.
" The meafure of the Genoefe cannot therefore
in any point of view oppofe the froalleß obßacle to
the negociations with wbich M. de Novosri,TZOFF is
charged.
" All the effentials of an equal, fecure, and ho
nourable peace, Rill fubfift ; and .f it were allowed
to compare trifles with objeas of importance, it might
be raid, that England has no right to complain of the
with for a union between Liguria and France, ac
Ftance has made no complaint concerning the recent
dettrudion of the Mahratta Empire."

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