Star.
London, England, 1803-04-25 00:00:00

MALTA:

In confequence of the refufal of Sir ALEX. BALL
to furrender up Malta to M. Bust, the Commit--
fary of the Grand Maller applied for the media.
tion of the French Miniller, who Rated to him,
that there could be no doubt that by the jullice
and the faith of Treaties England ought to eva-
cuate the nand, and that it ought to be given up
to the Order. The French Knitter tranfmitted
to the Grand Mailer a copy of the reprefentation
he had made to the Englifh Mini(ler, of which
the following are the principal points

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1. That the 131. dependence of thefe Mande, and arrangements
refpetting them, have been placed, by 6th paragraph of Article
X. of the Treaty of Amiens, underthe protediun and guarantee
of fin of the molt independent powers of Europe. France and
Great Britain, who were the cent:at-tine Parties,and who have
foli cited the other Powers to guarantee that chafe of their treaty
of Peace, cannot, wititcut giving Landal, be the fiat to refufe
to ezccute tbefe arrangements, to infure that independeoce and
to grant that pro:cello° and guarantee.
a. That the Invitation fet forth in the 13th paragraph of the
Lid Article X. to the other Powers to accede to the ftipulatlons
contained in that Article, is oaly a mark of politeneft or an ho-
nour which there Powers are at liberty to refute: but it is o: her-
wife with regard to Prance and Gra dititain,who have promifed
their proteetion and accepted the guarantee, by the very a& of
Ageing the Treaty which contains the arrangements to be gun
reamed, who thus have placed themfelves at the head of the
Powers to whom the invitation was addreffed.

3. 'nlat the non-easuraahti Powers may Waft tbe guarantee
beeaufe k Is a burthea which thek Powers arc at liberty Dot to
impore upon theinfelves ; but how abfurd would It be to believe
the refaW could involve and eket the annulling of the Treaty
of Peace, and noaerate hum their engagements the Powers
that have fused it.

4. That Tin attempt to take advantage of fo frivolous a pre-
teat and fo glaring a kn, in order to decline doing what they
thenifelves have to do, would be a breach of faith
unworthy of a great Power, and with which England would
not molt auras, fully the pap a f ber kdory.
S. That this d• lay In the acceptation of as honourable duty in
the foppolitioa that it ulfts on the part of the non-contriding
Powers, cannot, above all, prove injurious to a third Power,
that ban been acknowledged and fob:sully eft/Milled by the
contraetlog pattks, wilds tie latter be difpufed openly to violate
their own engagements, the faith of Treaties, and the law of
nations.

6. That Raffia, Auftsia, and Preis, if they have not aft-
ally acceded, as the Eng,lifh Mealier pretends, to the invitation
mad. to them, to accgat the guaranty of the Maud, were far
from inisgiulng that by this delay they Would have prevented
the re. ctlablilliment of the Order of Malta, the eteeution of
the Tre..ty of Amens, oe eampronafed the tranquillity of Eu-
rope. .1 he underigned requires to know of hi. Escellenci
what slide Powers will think when they find that their delay
n • (*ling to the invitstionlals reread as a pretest fur the Mu-
atlas fo Us'e nn • Treaty of Peace,

As to the dechtrati-on made by the Miniller of
England, that he had no fpeciad intiruttions from
Isis Court on the fohieB of the refignation of the
Government of the island, or its fUrrender to the
Grand Malicr, the underfigned has the honour
f aferving to his Excellency, that in qnality of
Minisier Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majeuly,
the rtuicir4l and imputable tele of his condo* is

contained in the treaty itfelf: and fuch was Co
clearly the intention of his Court, that in the full
powers given him, and which he interchanged with
the undersigned, it is pofitively Paid, ga You vill,on
your arrival at Malta, immediately inform Gen.
VIAL that his Majeay, defirous of accomplifhing
with the utmoß fidelity the engagement he con-
traded by the Definitive Treaty, wifhes you to
take, in concert with him, the neceffary meafures
for giving effeet to the ftipulations contained in
the loth article of the treaty." His Excellency
might be inverted with another charafter in that
ifland ; but the French Republic does not recognife
thefe contradietory qualities, thefe op poling duties;
and the underfigned fees, in the perfon of his Ex-
cellency, nothing but the Miniftcr Plenipotentiary
of his Britannic Majefty, charged with the execu-
tion and the maintenance of treaties.

The Englifh Minifter has no doubt refleeed duly
on the confequences of an oppofition which cannot
fail to aftonifh all Europe. He ought to have teen
that this refufal was a manifeft violation of the
treaty of peace, and that the Britifh Government,
to juftify its intentions, and to give a ftriking proof
of its good faith, ought dittinftly to difavow a
conduit fo little conformable to honour, and throw
the whole odium on the Minifter, who had re-
forted to it without a pofitive order. For if, con•
trary to all appearances, this violation of a treaty,
which has given peace to the world, was not dif-
approved of by his Britannic Majelly, the Firft
Conful of the French Republic would be reduced
to the necetlity of appealing to the tribunal of Eu-
rope, and then he would find as many allies, as
there are powers friendly to peace, and jealous of
their dignity, their independence of the rights of,
Sovereigns, and the rigorous obfervance of the
faith of treaties.

The underfigned fupports, therefore, in the moll
formal manner, the demands made to the Englifh
Minißer, in the name of the Grand Mailer of the
Order of Malta, by his Extraordinary Minifter Ple-
nipotentiary, M. Bust. Of confequence he de-
mands the prompt and entire execution of the mat
article of the Treaty of Amiens.
Both the French and Englifh Minißers have
written complimentary letters to the Grand Mallet.
The Englifh Minifler gave the Grand Mailer to
underhand, that it was his opinion it might 1 e
better for the Grand Mailer to wait at Meffina for
the decifion of the British Cabinet, which he pro-
miles to communicate to him as loon as it arrived;
and he offered, in the mean time, a country houfe
to the Grand Mafter,lhould he be difpofed to come
to Malta.

The Grand Matter ohferved, in anfwer to the
Englifh Miniiler, that having through the medium
of his Lieutenant, fulfilled what was enjoined him
by the article of the Treaty of Amiens refpeaing
the Grand Mailer, he fhould wait at Meffina the
evacuation of the Ifiand, or the decifion of the two
Courts.

The French Minifler invited the Grand Mailer
to come to Malta without delay. The Grand
Mailer obferved in anfwer, that having performed
the duty impaled on him by the treaty of Amiens,
by the prefenceef his Lieutenant at Malta, he mull
look upon every other proceeding as unfeafonable
at the prefent moment, and that he would wait at
Meflina the decilion of? the Courts.— Moteitatr.

A fire broke out at three o'clock in the morning
in one of the rooms of the Palace of St. Cloud.—
The flames communicated to fome buildings on
the oppofite fide. By the timely apiication of
water the progrefs of the fire was arretted.