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FRANCE.

LEGISLATIVE BODY.

VITT'S° OF 15 ►LUIIOSE, Its. 4.
A letter was read from his Excellency the Secre-
tary of State, announcing that the Counfellqrs of State
&CUR, B►GOIIIII, and DkUOLIS, were charged by
the Emperor to make a communication to thelAgif-
lative Body.

A moment afterwards the Connfellors• of State
wer.: introduced, and N. 41GUll addreffed the Af-
fembly in the following words :

is His Majay, (ince he has been on the throne,
bas thought that this new fituation, and the circem-
fiances which have placed him in it, might authorize
him to eunceive hopes of Peace.
44 The enemy, undeceived with efpet to the vain
hopes which he had founded on the chances of an
eleetive power, finds himfelf in a fituation which
ought to difpofe him to Mien to more moderate coun-
cils. The Emperor has done what General Boma-
r awes, before the battle of the Drave, what the Firll
Conful did before he was forced to combat at
Marengo. He has written to his Britannic Majefty,
the letter which I am about to read to you. (For
...kith foe ►he Star of yejltrdoy.)

" This letter, Gentlemen, was fuitible to the dik.
city of a power which relies on its firength, yet will
not abufe it, the charaaer of the Emperor 130 C per-
mitting the fufpieion of weaknefs.
" To this letter the Briti(h Minifiry retnrhea at an-
fwer not fishable to overtures frank and fo pacific,
but an anfwer the terms'of which at leak if when
compared with thofe employed in the year A, in other
circumßances, 'do not offend spina decorum, and
permit us to hope for More ecimmunications of more
utility. (For 'AA fee Me e
_effigy.)

On there documents M. Sieve makes the follow.!
iag remarks :
This letter is well as the anfsver' rays he, would
have remained among the fecrets of Government, as
all other preliminary ails, the ()Vice of which Is to
lead to effectual negociations,, had not the Speech of
the King of England to his Parliament made it a
matter of publicity. This fpeech, which announces
pacific communications on the part of France, is dif-
tinguiffied by arperiiy, mutation, and reproaches.
In this fpeech a fort of contemptuous pity is attempt-
ed to be exprelfed in confecinence of the neceffity of
unexPeeedly attacking a generous nation, with which
the relations of peace were fully preferred, by feizing
her rails, navigating on the faith of treaties. Even
after this ea, it affects to be ationinsed that the Spa-
nn nation did not humble itfelf in explanations to a
power which had conducted itfelf as a brigand, and
to whole meafures of haility it bad anfwered by a
declaration of war. In the fame fpeech connexions
and confidential communications with the Powers of
the Continent are announced. An attempt is made
to hold out the idea of a coalition, which has no ex-
idence, and which it is impoffible to realize. France
is too great to humble herfelf by entering into any
dircuffion of injuries. She owes to an ally, cruelly
outraed, not vain pity only, but the molt conftant
and faithful rapport.—France has no enemy on the
Continent—She has with no Continental Power any
, ferret dircuffion relative to the war betwixt France
and England.
Aultria, Pruffia, Germany ate all defirous of
peace with France. Within a very thort
_period the
Emperor has received the moll pofitive affurances of
their pacific difpofition. The Emperor ALE:aeon
might have prevented hoffilities, if England had
chofen to accept his mediations. Even now he might
terminate war, if his blinitlers at Paris and London
bad followed the intentions he then difcovered. The
intervention of Rutfia, which might have been very
ufeful in preventing the renewal of hoftilities, is not
equally fo when hottilities are actually commenced.
England has nothing to fear from that power, and
cannot feel any neceffity for jealoufy in watching her
motions. All Europe fees this. The events of the
year nine demonarated it. The Britilh Government
proved it. If England now has confidential commu-
nications with Rutfia, it cannot be with any view of
Skewing pacific difpotitions. The only object can be
to give rife to a belief of a coalition. But here the
has no chance of timers, and her hopes are illufory.
At Peterftwrgh, as well as at Vienna and Berlin, the
attack of the Spanifh frigates, in the bofom of peace,
is regarded as an attack on the Law of Nations, as
an injurycommitted on every Sovereign. There Courts
are convinced that by this attack three hundred in-
nocent victims periflud. In the fame light they con-
fider the capture of a Spanish regiment under the
fame circumflances. As alfo the feizure of eighty
'wads in the Mediterranean, belonging to all nations,

ass moft unprincipled violation „ that liberty of
the kas which is common to all kingdoms and all
People.
40 This torrefpondence, thefe confidential unman-
dons, are mere chimeras' mere vain pretexts for elu-
ding negociations for peoce. This is always the per-
idious tyftem, which is anxious to fosi the feeds of
war on the Continent, to perpetuate the monopoly of
a tingle people, and to controul the commerce of all
nations. It is the fame fpirit which for the purpofe
of violating the Peace of Amiens, created imaginary
armaments in our ports, and alarmed the Engh(h na-
tion by deftrultive proje&s.
o If the voice of humanity can be heard, thofe
will indeed be culpable who expofe their country to
the dangers which the (late which they accufe as the
author's of them has at all times laboured to avert.
The enlightened politicians of all countries, the Eng-
in nation itfelf, too late perhaps, convinced of its
error, 'have cenihred the unjunifiable policy of the
Government, when in the year eight the opportunity
of concluding an honourable peace was rejefted.—
Perhaps the prefent greatnefs of France is to be af-
eribed to this very reftsfal. The future will dirclole
the effeils of fnch obtlinate blindnefs to every liberal
idea of policy. We have nothing to fear, and per-
haps after the expiration of ten years, our fituation
will be more favourable for treating than at the pre.
fens moment. In war, as in the revolution of poli-
tical events, there are opportunities prefented, which
once refuted,• will never recur, and which leave their
rejeetion a boons of regret for ages. If fuch be the
detliny of England, it remains only fcr French bra-
very to exert its energy, and to triumph over this
eternal foe of the liberty of the fcas and the repofe of
mankind."

TRIBUNATE, MI. 4.

TITIR AORM it Alt Ir SITTIIIO.
Ater the procefe-verbal of the laft fitting was read
and agreed to, the Counfellors of State, RIONAV vt.
(de St. Jean d'Angely ). TRIIL HARD, and Beam
Gee, were introduced. M. REONAULT (de St Jean
d'Angely ), thus addretTed the Tribunate :
"Gentlemen, the Government of England, in
publilhin& imperfealy the commencement of a nego.
elation with France, has violated the law of nations,
and impofed on his Majelly the Emperor an obliga-
tion to mike known to France and to Europe, the
citeumftances of the cafe with all accuracy.
• "Europe and France will obferve to what frefh
facrifices of Pelf love' of every fentiment of vain glory
a noble heart, full of pride, and jealous of its renown,
has fubmitted, in order to (pare the effufion of hu-
man blood. of the blood of his people more endear-
ed to hislove. They will perceive that the firft war
rior of h;s age has endeavoured to reftore as Coon as
poflible to peace and to repofe, the exiaing genera-
tions' whole tranquillity and happinefs from hence-
forth, the &oral of his wifhes, will conftitute the
foie glory which he wifhes to add to the glory already
acquired of his military triumphs. Thefe fetaiments,
Gentlemen, explain at once she thringhts and the
anions of his Majefty.
" And mould it be allied hoW a min, gifted with
a charaaer mare vigorous, who has proved himfeif
more enterprifing and more daring than the molt
daring and entTeprifing perfons recorded in hifiory
how a man, th 'the vigour of impaffionate youth,
could, in defining peace, triumph at once over his
remembrances and hishopes—how the General of five
hundred thoufand brave men could keep in fubjec-
tints the moft noble, as well as the molt abfolute
of all the paffions, that of renown—how he could
renounce the glory which he could Rill acquire in this
career of arms, in which he has encountered only
viaories ; it mutt be anfwered=this man has need
of the repofe and of the happinefs of the world.
" If one Lets how a young Monarch, incelTantly
planed by towardly comics. attacked by vile defa-
mers, menaced by affidlins, •ffiences his perfonal re-
fenements, and refolves to prefent the olive branch to
• the Cabinet that hires his defamers, and pays wages
to his affitiains, the anftver is, this Monarch is above
the paffions of common men. If one recolleas how
Great Britain, braving public morality, and the law
of nations, has proftitute4l her Attballadors, degraded
her moil diftinguifhed foldiero b the vileft hat-ions,
by the matt Blameful intffiridt;... •i if we confider how
the employs the treafines of bekcovartierce, acquired
in contempt of the law of nations, and of all laws,
to pay the fabricators of infernal machines, to orga-
nize confpiracies, the traces of which are Rill in the
midft of us, and which have excited cries of indig-
nation that re-echo throughont Europe. ff we tract
not to ourfelves filch a piaure, and alit how the
Chief of this knit nation, minted by France and
Europe as the avenger of fo many outrages, Rifles
in his heart the malice and hatred which would pre-
vail in an ordinary foul, we mutt attfwer, the man
to whom the great nation has given its crown, of-
pires from that moment only to the title of Father
of the French.

" Napoleon had fcarcely afcended the throne—
he had fcarcely gone out of this metropolis, where
all that is molt auguß in religion had confeerated
what is molt foie= in the willies of the people, when
his heart, am full of emotion at the public acclama•
tion, infpired .him with the thought of writing to
George the Third the letter which I am charged to
communicate to you.

" The Emperor had very recently taken to France
the facred oath which the ALMIGHTY had accepted,
to live for the happinefs and the glory of the French
people ; and in order to enter upon the accomplifii-
ment of that holy engagement, he colleted, fet
down, and addreffed to the King of England, the
ezpreifion of all the generous, moderate, and if I
may fo (peak, the religious fentiments that can be
conceived and profeffed by a noble foul; and indeed,
that immortal difpatch will not rank among the lets
glorious monuments of the reign of his Maiefty ; nor
will it be the teat certain of his titles to the gratitude
and love of France; neither will it be the lean fecure
pledge of the efteem of thofe wife philanthropifls,
who, in whatever light they may be reprefented by
obfeure and perverfe men, by whom they are calum-
niated without being underftooel, Rill form fo nume-
rous a clafs in the bofom of enlightened Europe. But
on this occafion, may not the humanity of the Mo-
narch have deceived his willies ? Could his reafon
have long continued to cherilh the hopes fuggeßed
by his benevolence ? Had he forgotten how, and
upon what perfidious grounds the moft facred com-
pels had been violated? Had he forgotten that when
Me leopards were tearing the Treaty of Amiens, no
fiend of aggreffion had provoked their rage ? Had
he fdrgotten how, on the Bth of Much, it was Rated
to the Parliament of England, that our ports and
arfenals, though then in a Rate of pacific filence and
ina&i sit y, were filled with armed veffels, and holding
out, in the Rate of their equipment, a moft menacing
appearance ?—No, Tribunes, filch recollections are
not to be effaced; but fince the era that gave them
birth what happy changes have taken place in the at-
titude of France, attacked, as the has been, by im•
prudent and unjuft enemies !
66 Is it neceffary, Tribunes, that I folicit your at-
tention to our Paternal fituatisn, and to remind you
of the thong pledge it holds out to you of fccurity,
Rreagth, and well grounded ezpeaation ? Were you
not the firß to interpret and ezprefs the national with
ratified by the Mirages of five millions of citizens,
and which fince the accomplifliment of that wili,fince
the eftablifhenent of the Napoleon dynafty, Pas for
ever fixed the deftinies of the French Empire ? Was
ever an empire more firmly founded ? Never in any
nation has the confpring will and energies of the
Government and of the people, created a mats of
ftrength and power more impofing and more formi-
dable ? Never has any Rate advanced with more ra-
pid 'irides towards profperity and greatnefs ! For
thefe two years pat, it is true, war with England has
been declared, and no important occurrence has
marked its progrefs—no decifive blow has been truck
that can fuinifh any conjeture of its termination.—
But in our ports we have fleets : in our harbours
armed flotillas.
" Of the four chances to be got over in making a
defcent, fence, after all, we mutt utter that formida-
ble word, three of them have already decided in our,
favour. The (hips are built ; they are colleted to-

*ether I and ports hare been prepared to feceive.
them. The whole advantage of the war haw there-
fore been in our favour ; fince, without having et•
perienced any check in the face of a fuperior enemy,
we have employed t*o years in allimbling together
immenfe means. The whole advantage of the war
has been in our favour, fince, in fpitc of the numer-
ous lhips that cover the fear with the Zritilh flag,
we have been able to proviuon and to place in a
Rate of fecurity our moll important and moll remote
colonies. ,

Martinique, Guadaloupe, Cayenne, the cities of
France, &c. are fuinifhed with every thing in abun-
dance. Their garrifons have been more than tii•
pled—all the gores and provifions intended for them,
have reached their deßination ; no reinforcement
has failed to arrive at its intended place. A great
expedition would fail before Martinique and the Ilk
of France. And while our colonial territory remains
entire and ffieltered from every feat, the dominions
of the King of England (Hanover), is entirely in our
power. We have loft nothing of our poffeffions, and
we occupy an important province of the enemy.
41 What advantage have the Englifh acquired to
compenfate for thefe advantages ? what has availed
thefe mailers of the feas, the immenfe luperiority of
their naval lirength ? The have 101 l fifteen fhips or
frigates, that have either run afhore, or have been
dallied upon the rocks. They have fquandcred away
immenfe treafures in cruises di&sted by fear, inter-
rupted by the power of the winds, and punithed by
RolMs and other mifhaps. At home the Englith
have feed the merchant forced from his ceunting-
houfe, the manufeaurer from his loom, and for want
of mufkets, compelled to confume the time defined
for their commerce and their work, in handling
clumfy and unavailing pikes, haffily forged, by the
dread of an invafion. Under the preffure of that
fear, ever Prefent to their minds, the Englifb Govern-
ment has had recourfe to every poffible means of de-
fence ; they have prepared inundations and bat.
teries ; they have barricaded their ports, and forti-
fied their coatis; they have contrived flying carriages
to tratifport their troops, and put into regulation the
.carriages and horfes of the three kingdoms ;—they
hive porchafed the arming of the Englifh nation at
the price of diforganixation, the derangement of its
habits, and the coutiteraCtion of its manners. The
traveller who; for thefe two years paR, goes from
Paris to London, and returns froth London to Paris,
is ationiffied to behold in the capital of the French
empire profound peace and fccurity ellablithed and
maintained, and in the capital of England uncertain-
ty and terror ; the agitation that prevails at the head
quarters of a threatened camp, defended by an inco-
herent, unorganized mafs, novices in the trade of
war, (truck with the conviaion of their own inability
to make war again( the veteran troops of War.
4, If we compare the Rate of opinion in force
parts of the two countries, we (hall behold in the
Eaßern departments of France that were in a Rate
of inferreCtion, enlightened Prelates refloring peace
to the public mind by re-ctiablifhing tranquillity in
their confciences ; vigilant Prefeas founding a new
and wholfome adnundtration, arretting, difarming,
and punithing the remnant of thofe brigands who
were caR upon our coatis, concealed in our cities, or
wandering in con foreßs. In thofe countries where
not long fince Brian) geld was employed to kindle up
civil war, agriculture is meta:bathed, tranquillity is
maintained, the taxes are railed without conttraint,
paid trith punetuality. New cities are ken to rife ;
canals are dug; public roads are completed. The
confcripts fummoned to our armies, Huck to them at
the fame call which fo lately e::cited them to a facri-
legions war, but which now only collets them to
invoke the bletlings of HEAVkh in favour of the man
that governs them. Nor do we fee any extraordi-
nary meafures, any fufpenfion of the ordinary pro-
telling laws; no longer are there any diffentions be-
tween the Morbihan and the Cote d'Or, between La
Vendee and the Meurthe.

" In the mean time, at the other fide of the ocean,
Ireland prefents to us the fpedacle of never-ending
confpiracics, inftigated by oppreffion as conftantly
renewed ; an army of foldiers reftraining with diffi-
culty an army of citizens, by the aid of thofe via
lent meafures, of which the revolution fcarcely fur•
ni(hes an example ; and to concentrate all in one
word, we behold in that unfortunate country a war
of religion, perfecutions unknown at this moment in
the bofome of Europe, that it is indignant to ob
ferve, the only (pot upon the earth where the moil
facred rights are unacknowledged, and where Go-
vernment arms itfelf againft the uncontroulable
power, and the facred freedom of confcience.
" If, on the other hand, you draw a parallel be-
tween the finances of the two States, you will find
on the oppotfie Chore new expences accumulating
upon the expences already immenfe, of a nation to
whom a million and a half was yearly necellary in
an ordinary war, and who, in the prefent war,
Rands in need, for the firß time, of a levy in mats;
of a levy that coils it hundreds of millions. It pro-
vides for that fum, it is true : but by goading the
prefent, and by (wallowing up the future, by refolv.
ing to fund its debt, inftead of being extinguifhed by
the operation of its finking fundgwelled by the ahufe
of its only refource, loans.—On our fide, our nume-
rous armies have been always the camfe of our great-
en expence ; and their maintenance brings with it
but an inconfiderable addition, that is not made to
bear upon a foreign country. The budget which
will be fhortly laid before you, will apprife you, that
our territorial refources have provided for every
thing ; and that, inftead of adding to our debt dur-
ing thefe two years of war, our finking fund has be-
gun efficacioufly to operate for its exundion.
" What France has done, (he may continue to do
for 3o years, and has only to ails of HiAV EN that the
fun may continue to thine, the rain to fall upon our
fields, and the ground fecundize the feed depolited
in it. Ten years more of war would make no addi-
tion to our debt : ten years more of war would add
four milliards to the debt of England. Let her not
forget, however, that if public credit be a poweiful
and formidable weapon, the bow too firongly bent,
fnaps in the hand that holds it, and leaves naked
and defencelefs the man that employs it.
" England, it mutt be owned, has plundered with-
out rifque during the fir& months of hoftilities, from
our nnproteded (hips, forty or fifty millions ()ivies)
to the detriment of our commerce. But at Marti-
nique, Guadaloupe, the Ifle of France, every day
fees our privateers carry in Englills prizes; and al-
ready the balance inclines in our favour is the cal