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London, England, 1807-12-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

POLITICS-FROM THE NIOt.TITEUR.

PARIS. Nov. 23.—The article we are about to fub-
mit to our has been publithed in Germany,
where it has prrdsieed a very deep impreffinn. It
has pat been iranflaied into French; and the tranf-
-I,ator has (elated it from a variety of others, which
ehe fame feniimcnt has given life to; as including.
in a (hotter compafv, inure fails and reafoning than
the reit.

He wifhes only to have it remarked with delicacy
and decorum what belongs to the charafter of the
nation : that he has thought it his duty to retrench,
in the tranflation, the violent paffsges againft the
King of England—he does not wills to become, in
that refpeB, 11,e imitator of the Englifh Writers ;
too accuitomed to outrage, in the molt fhameful
manner, the Royal dignity.

REPLY

TO TNN KING OT ENGLAND'S DECLARATION, 111LATITIE

TO THE EXPEDITION TO COPENHAGEN.

Pafeit ventum et fequitur atßum s tots die istendseium et valti-
(stens multiptieat. HOSZA, esp. sii. v. s.

When the right of nations paired for fomething with
England—when the laws of nations view the laws of
England, one might have expeCted to fee hollilities
preceded by manifeaoes, and not manifettoes fol-
lowing the confummation of hollilities.
Modern nations have conflantly followed in this
refped the ufage of what the ancients bad left them
the example—thofe ufages which the Romans adop-
ted as foon as they entered into the rank of civilifed
people. From the date of thofe folemn forms, of
which Livy has confecrated the recolleCtion, in the
firll work of his Hifloty, down to thofe expreffiuns
written upon the fword of the molt terrible of Sine-
reigns—Ultima ratio regain.
How many movements arta to us that this lall
and fatal means ought to be preceded by all thofe
of a wife and moral policy; and that. before we ap-
peal to arms, Sovereigns ought to make known
their motives for departing from peace, and the ef-
forts they have made to pteferve it.
Bite arms, which are the kJ reafon of Kap, are
the fiat reafon of Brigands : and the latter iffue no
declarations, until threatened with republican yen
geance ; they endeavour to parry off the blow that is
brought down upon their heads by the ruin and
blood of their viflims. It was only after having burnt
Copenhagen and feized the Danifit fleet—it was only
when they law a general indignation kindling againft
them, that the Englitb Government thought of pub-
lifhing a declaration of their motives.
Brit when a Government has brought themfelves
to refolve upon fuch exceffeo, when they openly pro-
fefs that they difregard the molt facred rights, that
they violate the moll holy laws, that they infult all
Sovereigns, that they outrage every nation, bow is it
that they Roop to a jollification of their condo& ?
What care they for the indignation which they have
excited from one extremity of Europe to the other ?
Are they to be (truck by the general hatred, or
bumbled by univerfal contempt ? Have they any
charalter to maintain, or a remnant of honour to
preferve ? Con they be fuppored acceffible to a kola.
Lion Hof fhame, or to the flightell difpolltion to re-
pentance ?
Can the epee of the ruins of Copenhagen—can
the blood of fo many brave wisaims immolated with
in its walls—can the lamentations of Co many unfor-
tunate families touch the feelings of the Englilh
Government ? Or do the cries of vengeance which
are railed againft them by all the nations of the
Continent, make them fear that at length thefe na-
tions will form a vigorous confederacy againß them,
to avenge all the calamities which they have heaped
upon them ?
No: thefe cries of vengeance are not yet fufficiently
rung in the ears of the inglifh. The Government
flatter themfelves they will be able to Rifle them by
their declarations. They think meanly enough of
the honour or the wifdom of Come Continental
Powers, Rill to attempt to lay fnares for them.—
After having difmayed them by new exceffes, they
would feduce them by new artifices. When a na•
tien has employed fatfehood and perfidy, to prepare
the fuccefs of their crimes, it is by falfeho,ni and
perfidy they will endeavour to excufe them : like that
guilty tribe, who, according to the words of the
Prophet, feeding themfelves with pride, and purfuing
*Els of violence, continually multiplied their falfe-
hoods and their devaflations
Ephraim paletorentum et fequitur cam ; tots die mendaciurn
cc vaftitatern multiplicat.%
But upon what Power, upon what Nation, upon
what Individual even does England flatter heifelf
the can impofe by thefe infidinus declarations ? In
a bufinefs where her condor& to highly condemns hei,
of what avail is her language ?—How are her dif
cot:ries to palliate ber iniquities ?—Since the Eng-
lifh do not hefitate to furnith hiltory with this new
monument of their execrable policy; fince they ven-
ture to prefent themfelves before the tribunal of
public opinion, with this miferable apology, let us
follow them before that Judge, whole competence
they only offal to acknowledge, that they minted
or comet him.

Every fubjeft of an independent Rate has a right
to examine and canvafs this declaration, which they
do not flit ink from offering to indignant Europe.—
This right more particularly belongs to the inhabi-
tants of a country who, having never employed any
offenfive means againtl England, has, however, been
the moll cruelly affeBcd by her eapeditions. /hat !
does this remark alone point to my poor unhappy
country ! All the States of Germany, taken toge-
ther, have not a angle fhip of the line, nor even a
frigate. They have no weapon by which they could
annoy England ; and it is Germany, neverthelefs,
that the policy of England has torn, in every fenfe,
by her fatal confederacies. It is Germany that the
Engli(h have, for their own advantage, converted
into the theatre of the moft bloody, the moll °bal.
nate, the moll lamentable flruggle ;—it is Germany

• The Fible is very much read In Germany, there is, therefore,
ito reafon fcr furpri'e at (tieing a Germiy qucte a prophet, even in
a political trad. Among the writings to which the Bring of. Co-
penhagen has given birth, and which I have had 0CC26011 to pe.
rule, there is a fort of prophecy againtt England, compored of a
number of paff.iges from the prophets, which the Author para-
phrafes, as be applies them to the iniquities, to the prefent Grua-
dm and the luture fate of England. He has more efpcsially availed
I.lmfelf of Habakuk and Zacharias. This work is very curious,
and is inkribesl to a Clergyman of Finniberg, in Hollteino—(Note
of the {?tench Tranflator.).

which the Englith have always ineigated to rife
againfl their own enemies, but never afforded her
any affiffance. We have only begun to breathe from
the days when the influence of England declined on
the Continent. No people has a nearer interefl than
we have, in fruffrating the effort,, which the is Rill
making, to deceive fame Governments; it is more
peculiarly, therefore, our duty to dem& her fophifms,
and expofe their impoftures.
The article then proceeds to animadvert upon the
Englith Declaration, taking it paragraph by para
graph, and beginning by the fiat.
That hacknied phrafe with which you begin your
Declaration, like almoll all documents of that kind,
has no weight but when coming from Governments
that ad from eonfcience. The examination of your
Declaration will (hew us, if you acknowledge any
duties towards Europe, and if the motives you fet
forth can have been your real motives. You profefs
candour, and it may fometimes be proper from an
ambitious Power, for ambition does not always (loop
to diffimulation ; but Punic ambition bore no relent
blame to Roman ambition.

You deferred your Declaration, beeaufe you re
tained a hope of concluding more defirable arrange.
meets with Denmark. You then chef liked that hope
even while you difembarked an army in Zealand—
even while you were bombarding Copenhagen, and
even kng after you had reduced to allies a part of
that capital. What were firmerly thole more dell-
Table arrangements, which you had hopes of con-
cluding ? You requefted that the Danifh fleet fhquld
be placed at your difpofal, and you wifhed to be in-
debted for it to the cowardice of the Danes ; nowt%
tionably, fuch an advantage would have been mare
defirable for you, for it would have relieved you from
the odium of fuch an expedition : but it would have
difgraced the Dan& name ; and the difallers of Den.
mark can have no longer any thing doubtful in them
for that nation, when it refleBs that they have refuted
it from that difgrace. By what facrifices did you
intend to repay her ignominy ? You take care
not to mention them ; but all the world knows that
your policy is as avaricious as it is cruel, and betides,
how do you come to call facrifices, what you might
have offered Denmark in exchange for her fleet and
her honour ?

Having failed in bringing the Danes to that ad of
ccovardice, you confole yourfelf for it by the eonvic•
tion of having done every thing to decide them to it.
By one and the fame blow you were &Brous to def.
poil and to difhonour them ; but infamy has fallen
upon yourfclves, and you endeavour to confole your-
felves for having only executed one half your defign
—more diftreffed at not having fucceeded in rendering
them both miferable and infamous, than at having
made yourfelves infamous, by having overwhelmed
them with calamities.

You attempt the plea of a cruel osecOt,; you even
pretend to deplore it. You with that aidis eyes of Europe]
and the world, 'wows:Add may le jiiliOed, by the imperious
and incafpmfable duty of providing for the fafety of your
Nation. You are fenfible, therefore, that your con-
dud (lands in need of jollification, that .Earope and
the World mull have blamed it ; and you taped to be
misled in their eyes by the plea of a trial iteiffiy,
jut( as a wretch might plead before his judges, that
hunger intligated him to lay a knife at the throat of
a de(erving man—you plunged the dagger and you
imagine that there is a juftification, an excufe you'
may fet up. (*) Let us examine into this crud ne-
tety, this indilpenfails duty of providing for year ;
the tenor of your Declaration will futficiently ex-
plain it.
You endeavour to etlablifh three fads, all of which
would indeed be neceffary to your jultificaiion. You
would fain perfuade Europe, i 11, That you had au-
thentic information refpeding the projeds of the
Emperor Napoleon : idly, That theta proses threat-
ened your fafety; adly, That you had no other,
means of providing for your fafety, than by treating
the Danes as you have done. You acknowledge the
neceffity you are under of making good thefe three,
fads. You are fenfible that if one of them proves
unfounded, your conduit towards Denmark will re-
main without an excufe, and mull ever be confidered
as the height of injutlice. Well, then I There three
falls are all falfe, and it is eafy to prove it. And in
the fill place, how can you have been pofitively
informed of thefe refolutions, of tbefe projects which
you impute to the Emperor of the French ? Who
difclofed them to you ? What proof, or even what
appearance of proof can you adduce of Inch infer
mation ? If there had been a tingle fad that could
have been (fated as a begigning of the execution of
thefe projects, how would you not have availed
your(elves of it ? innead of falls, you hold out
nothing to our belief but the mon vague allegations.
You would have Europe look upon your information
as certain, pofitive, and you do not leave room even
to guets at thofe anshentic Jewess from which you pre-
tend to have derived it.

All Europe knows well that you have on the Con.
tinent an army of (pies, whofe bufinefs it is to mike
attacks on the Oddity of every man who approaches
Sovereigns or Minifters. All Europe knows alfo,
that loch foldiers fend you without ceafing certain
frafitivr and authentic iffortnation, but all Europe knows
Bill better that there are countries, and one partl.
cularly, where the charaaer and genius of the &me-
reign, and the devotion of his Minifters, render
every attack of this nature equally ridienlons and
ufelcfs. if there is any thing pofitin and authentic
in Europe, it is the impenetrable fecrecy which veils
the defigns of the Emperor Napoleon ; it is elle that
prodigious rapidity of aaion which is peculiar to him,
and which fuffers nothing to be known of the greater
part of his projeas till they are executed. Thus you
may confers your means of information. They 'are
pointed out.
Let it be °braved, that it has been demooftrated
by fails, that the projeas which you were pleated to
place to the Emperor Napoleon bad no exiftence.—
His power is fuch that we may defy you to anfwer
the following argument :—He has not invaded the
Dani(h territories, therefore he had no &fire e• do
it. Every one knows that for more than fix mendis
there was in Mecklenburg and the other Arun
Lower Saxony, bordering upon Haight, a greater
number of French troops than was massy to °C.
copy the whole of that province and Slefwiek. ' '
is true indeed, Denmark took care to guard thefe
continental provinces ; and, thanks to your fatal
infinuations—thanks to the cruel forefight of your
(,) Queen Matilda, fo famed for her midwinter, the toefort
of Chrifilan VII. and mother of the Prince Royal, 11 if the Mu
of the f reran Wog of England.

malevolent policy, it left unproteAed the 'nand: of
which you were projeeing the attack, in order to
carry its forces into the provinces in the neighbour-
hood of the war which you had kindled. The great
misfortune of the Danes has been not to have fuls•
ciently diftruned your policy, and to have been too
little acquainted with that of the Emperor-Napoleon.
They have only taken precautions againa a Sove-
reign from whom they had nothing to fear.
;emus, you fay. would have engaged Decmarl to flu:
the Sound agalig you, and might have employed the Dantjh
fleet to load troops on your coal!. I admit for a moment
the reality of your chimerical alarms. I allow the
French to pats, without a navy, over the two canals
that feparate Zealand from the Continent. I Ihall I
fuppofe them mailers of that ;Eland and of Copenha•
gen. But was it in their power to thnt the Sound
againft you without the concurrence of Sweden
How can it be imagined that England, fofficiently
powerful to extend its defpotifm over every tea, had
no other means of providing for its fecurity againft
the Data* fleet, than to furprife Denmark, without
defence, in order to plunder it of all its (hips and all
its maritime Itrength ? The Engliffs, fu ciently
powerful to tyrannife over the van countries of India
—to maintain their dominion in the Antilles—to
IslockAde th•-porti cif Europe—to impofe upon Ame-
rica the harden laws—to defray the commerce of
all nations. The Englifh, with a firperabundance of
means that enables them to menace Connantinople,
to occupy the Tagus, to attack Egypt, to fend an
army to Buenos Ayres—thr Englifh, who difplay
their force with filch a monrous prodigality, and
lava it away in (Welds expeditions—will they
peifuade Europe, that in order to provide for their
fecurity againg the Dania' fleet, they were com•
pelled to have recourfe to a difhonourable expedition ?
You boat} as much of extreme long Aping, as a ge-
nerous power could have dune who had, for a long
time, (offered attacks and outrages, (corning to
avenge itfelf of them. You complain of a violence for
ever affire, as if you had been oppreffed and crufhed
by it,. Let us fubnitute fads for words.

What power is it which forming ani keeping up
four focceffive coalitions, has during fifteen years
fpread over the Continent all the fcourges of war ?
What power is it who was the lad to make peace,
the fird to violate it. conditions, and who firft broke
it, by whom the treaty of Amiens was annihilatedal
mod as loon as it was concluded ?
What power is that, who by hoftility and rapine
committed in profound peace, forced Spain into a
war ?

What power is it which has enriched itfelf with the
fpoils of Spain andof Holland, and which, is India,
has nfurped the throne of Tippon Saib ?
What power is that which his uncealingly varied
and multiplied its vexations with refpeet to neutrals,
which has tyrannifed over all commercial and navi•
gating nations,and which (till pretends to fusjed the
Americans to the moil humiliating law ?
What power is that which has conftantly trodden
under foot the law of nations, in machinating among
its enemies confpiracies, afis(Onations, and profcrip-
dans ?

What power is it whom Europe has =tried of the
horrible executions at Naples, the an:ruination of
Paul I. and the attempts againa the life of Napoleon?,
What power is it whom the whole world &scorn
of protaliog the butchers of St. Domingo ?
To all there queftions there is but one anfwer. It
is England. —lt is you, however, who now 13(30 of
long Coffering.
After fo many and fuch terrible aas of violence,
what right, have you to complain of the avowed
projea of coalefcing againa you all the States of
Europe ?
Doubtlifs, in contemplating the epoch when you
cnalefced all there States againft France, and looking
at y,our prelim fituation, you may be a little alto-
nifhed at the contra* of theft two fitaations.

Your declarations could face no impure but to
irritate the cruel wounds which you have infliEted
upon the Dana nation, and to difgull more and
more the nations of the Continent. You have in
formed Europa that your, jollification reit: upon the
pretext of your fecurity. A pretext which Eu-ope
knows to be the more ridiculous, in as much as at
the Very moment that you attacked Denmark, you
would not Igen to offers of moderation' on the part
of Rulfia, the objc6 of which was the conclufion of
a peacewhich would have removed from you every
danger. Europe knows from th; language which
you have yourfelves held, that, you had no cask of
complaint again!' the Danes ; that they had done
you no injury, and that all you had to find fault
with was, the exillence of their fleet and their [mac-
verance in neutrality. What a leffon to all the
nations

I am very well aware that you will care but little
for my anfwer to your, apology, and my expofure of
your •impolture. In beholding your fpoils, you will
laugh at the principles which I have oppefed to your
as of rapine. •Reafon alone will, be found to be a
very ineffectual refiraint upon your condos% ; but it
is futhcient to confound you before the tribunal of
Ptitlic opinion, it is fufficient to denionfirate your
guilt in the face of Europe. in expeetation that En-
rope will inflia'the punament which your crimes
deferve, and certainly that expedition upon which ,
you are now, perhaps, congratulating yourfelves,
and of which you• are enjoying the fruits, will acce•
lerate the day of vengeance. You are difappointed
of the re(ults which you expelled from it. Infttad
of terror and difinay you have infpired only horror
and indignation ; you have, it is true, got a few
more !hips than you had before ; but you have taut
againft yourfelves all the remaining ports which
were open is you upon the Continent. You have
rallied road Napoleon all tife States which were
aril reflgued to yourlyranny •whore in)uties he is
new preparing to avenge, and whore rights he is
about to dirt. Yon have compleated our union,
which his policy would festively have been able to ,
*flea, sad the time is net diftant when his genius will
teach you how vain were the hopes which you found.
ed upon your expedition. You will then find that
your mummer of prefervation were rneafures of rnin,
and yein *ill recognize the truth that even in politics
utility can Dever be combined with infamy:
In redeem re, unhurt turpitude men e&pneelt'.
Hiftory abounds with faits infiltrative of this great
troth, but you have either forgot or mifiakeo it.—
Yon have &ewn at what a diltance in morality you
are from the Atimniaas, who. when deliberating
• Cl.. \M.. lib. 3. ' •

upon a meafure propored by Themißocks, and cue.
fidered as extremely tifeful by Ariitides, rejelted it
without inquiring into the details of it, becaufe the
fame Aristides pronounced it unjuft. It was quer.
Lion, however, of providing for thelicurity
nians, by dellroying the enemy's fleet, and Anßidet
was of opinion that the meafure was of iebfaiige
cacy. Dot in that Rate, diftraded with faition,s
the multitude (hewed more juilice and wildcats than
thole men who are with you, who from being called
to the Council of the Prince, tiny be reckoned the
moll Wee of the nation. Yon have, in regard to
Denmark, violated the inna facred laws ; but that
we may hope to find this impious as of treachery
bringing its own veugeance along with it, like that
Spartan Gunton, who expetted his viliory from the
perjury by which his enemies had offended men and
irritated the Gods.
in CO re (=fetal dieebet (Aselbueltniebe.
nes perjurto leo, et houlices ct Den inter
Ceases. Want.
PARIB, NOVEMBER.

His Majelly fet out at four o'clock yenerday morn,
ing, to pafs Tome days at Milan and Venice. He
will retuta early in December. During his Majefty's
Wince, his Serene Highnefs the Arch Treafurer of
the Empire will prefide in the Council of biinifters
and the Council of State.

The Emperor's equipage confifls only of two car-
riages. It is Paid his Malay will be accompanied
only by the Grand Duke of Berg and the Prince of
Neufchatel. It is, however, reported, thatSthe
Italian Minitlers reliding at our Court will ;mate.
diately follow the Emperor. M. de C.hasnpagny,
Mini{ler for Foreign Affairs, will alto take his depar•
cure for Italy in a few days.
Novarassa 2t.—His MajTfly the Emperor is es•
pelted to arrive at Milan this day.
His Serene Highnefs the Arch Chancellor of the
Empire arrived at Sourdeaux on the z Sth inflant.
It is mentioned in two of the Journals, that the
Prince of Attunes has been liberated. Of this there
can be no doubt, as it is mend riled in the• laft Madrid
Papers ; but the fame Journals ailert, that he was
afterwards appointed Commander in Chief of the
army which is advancing againft Portugal, and that
he has received the Grand Order of the Legion of
Honour. The firfi part of this intelligence requires
confirmation. The fecund is evidently falfe, as it is
two years fiuce the Prince of Alturias received that
honour.

Nov. 23.—The Dij ,n paper announces, that au
the 16th, at five o'clock in the evening, two coaehea
and fix paired through that city, but that the ills&
trious travellers prefeived the flritle(l incognito. We
are ignorant who tbele illuatious uavellers are, but
we can take upon to po4!iveli to ofiert that hia
Maiedy did not take that road:

24.—A. letter hom Le!pack, of the syth of
N. vember, Rates, that there were almoll no Englift
merchandise at the tat Le' lick fair, and that the
German merchants had fold a great quantify of
cottons, muffins. and cambrics, of their dun nialai-
failure ; the texture of which was Hide in,ferior to the
Englilb.
a digging be batten of the canal de PQnreq, s
vale Ifni -been dlicoirered containing asoo medals of
bronze in perfect prefervation, and belonging to eight
German Emperors; ;lamely,
Diaelefiv, Maximilian Hereutes, Coattantlas Q lows, Fib-
rins Mallinialf liputior, MOWS, Maxesatlia. aml Canitantiae
the Great.
The mon luck* was truck the fira year of the,
reign of Diocletatt, in theyeir a& of the Chrißiso
era; the mot recent, the fourth year of the reign
of C.onflutint, in the year 309 of the Chriltian era
which 'embraces a period of 26 years.
• The demelitions ne4tary to open a dire& comma.
!ligation between the Louvre and the Caroufel, are
carrying Ott with the apanot
The execution of the new works, which tend to
the embellithment of Paris, -does not fo far occuPi
the adminiAration which fuperintends them as to
make it ueglea the works which are necelTary for the
public fafety. With this objea in view, the' barraCks
which obilruaed the defccnt to the Pont an Change,
at the foot of the tower Called de I'Horloge du Pa-
lais, have be* throwing down, fo that this walk
w4L be completely laid open.

NAP 1.391 NOVEMBERJ.
Letters of a late date, which have been received,
from Sicily, mention that force Ruffian (hips of war
had appeared in the waters of Agofta. A &isms
having approached 'the land, in order to take in
water, permiffion was refuted it. A (hip of the Hoe
and a bigate have likewife entered the port of Mei*
fins in quell of provilions, but the Englifh Com.
mandant abfolutely refaced them every kind of fup-
ply, and obliged them to fheer a without delay.
It appears that Sicily is by no means in a tranquil
Rate. There have been fevers' informations in the'
(mall towns, and when the Courier let off, the Eng.
Sib General was difpatching troops to quell an jailor-
rellion of the Nobles and people of Trafany.