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London, England, 1804-07-09 00:00:00

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Bur, as in this kh.l of bufin,. • .....
depends upon opinion, an..l our :or& :i..ve rla•-e with•
obi cithat suitsclis et h and is it i,, Uurdost,

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that they Unlit have been trautnitted to the Gazetteer with truth
or accuracy.l deem the juftificatkni you require from me perfeelly
ufelcfs, fusee It will be indifferent to the Editor of the Gazetteer
whether he publifb a contrary Itatement tomorrow,the value let
upon thofc accounts being relative to the truth they contain. Such
bat been my opinion when I have ken my charadcr blackened in
Rill darker colours; and he, who Mould eodeavour to reftriln the
aelions of men, whom fortune bas placed out of his power, would
obtain no other end than that of giving tdmfelf coolant un-
calinefs. (Signed) rue PRIMO& or PLACE.
Mr. Fatal, Mlniibs of England.

MADRID, APIIII:10. T 804•

Sta—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Ex-
cellency's Note, and you will fee, by the date of thi,, that I have
well refleded, before I determined to.renew fo unpleafant a fob-
Jed ; but, in truth, the kmger I weigh the ezprelSons of your Es.
canters Note, the lets I find that they anfwes the purpofe for
which it was didtsted, namely, to remove the unfavourable opi-
Woos I might have formed.
Y. E. does me the honour to ebferve, that you ezpetted me to
take fuck a Rep ; it was rot, therefore, quite fuperiluous in itfelf.
And indeed, fine t wu to make application to Y. E. I do not fee
how It was parable for me to prefer a demand more moderate, or
how I could now &lift from It, without obtaining, tome way or
oiler, a fatisfaaory eater. lam fully aware how delicate and
difficult the pretest circumftane es are; bat, If Y. E. did not think
tt proper diredly to oppore the official Gazetteer's affertions, it
would, at leak, have been poffible, by @ripping his aiteMent of
all authority, to reduce k to that vague and emiledural dander,
which you yourfelf have &refilled to It ; for this pupae nothing
shore eves required, than that Y. E. mould afore me you never
had divulged any particulars of our coney rations ; fines It Is evi-
dent, that the Monitcur did not mean to cite furtive and dander-
tins witneffes, but the very perfect of your Excellency. Y.E. might
' likewife have given a very plain and vety natural teltinsony in my
favour, namely. that the only time I (poke with 'you upon the
fubjedt. I expreffed an opinion precifely the reverie of that which
the Gazetteer pretended to cite. (Signed) I. N. ragas.
To H. E. the Prince of Peace, he. ace.

AZANJUILX. AVAIL 13. 1804.
The Editor of the French Gazette fuppofing, in his No. 184,
that a converfation had taken place between you, Strand me, has
been swathing is the coaderation due to my chandler, by belies%
log me capable of enterin.: upon fubjeets unworthy of the grease]:
e 'fed wbnb whew me. Ido not complain of his offence, and you
cannot calm the perturbation of your mini at !ming Implicated In
It. How ball Ibe able to perfuade you? I have nothing to add to
the relleakins contained in nay pieceding Note ; may this =favor
to yours of the loth prove more laudatory, and let vague api.
Diane circulate in arbitrary prints.
(Signed) The Plllll4l or PZACII.
1000 H Fails, Efq. Mlalfter of H. B. M.

M4OllO. A«7L 17. 1304.

Stass-It had appeared to me, that my pelletal honour, as well
as my Sovereign's, in fine, that the value I ought to fen upon the
good opinion of the Spanith Nation, equally impelled me to take
the Rep I have towards your Excellency; and, though unarm/.
ofhtl Y E. has ra jaft a title to claim, bad leaned theimpor
tante of theft confiderations in your eyes, I fhoeld WE have Bat-
tered myfelf, that you would thew tome iodulgenee for the weak
nets of tinge, who, on being confeious of thole diftinpdffied vb.
Sties which mile people above calumny, think, that there are la.
ftancesin which a man, without being wanting to his own dignity,l
'is called upon to thew Tome refpcdt for public opinion. But, ICI
our notions upon the fubjeCt be greatly different, the fituation we
are in is no left fo. On my part. lem charged with having main.
taintil an atrocious principle, white they put is the mouth of Y.
E. funiments worthy of your charaeter, and filch as all who arc
' out ftrangers to your loyalty, mull know that you yoorfeU could
have wiled to have had sfcribed to you, had I been capable of.
holding the language a tributed to mc.
I cannot, therefore, conceal, that in the denial of Y. E. to dif-
avow that converfation,l look in vain for that:m.4o eff,elwhich
you invite me to imitate, when filence, on our part, coils you no.
thing but the faerifice of my reputation, inafmuch, at leaft, as it do-
I rads upon your fuffrage.
Seeing myfelf deprived of this advantage, there Rill remains for
I me the fatisfadtion to think that I can dcfift from further importu.
ning Y. E. upon the (Olt et. and that I am able to await, without
that perturbation of mind you afcribe to me, the decifion of the
Esiblie, the t pinion of my Colleagues, and that of the enlightened
Eerfons In this Court. They have hitherto been pretty decidedly
in my favour, and I flatter myft If they will prove fufficient to
pri.ted me, not only agalift the afperfions of the Gazetteer, but
tikewife againft the conjectures whi:la may be built upon the
(dente of Y. E. (Signed) J. is.
•To H. E. the Prince of Peace.

SIADIIID. APLIL 19, 0304,

I cannot avoid returning an anfwer to your Note of the I yth
inft as, although its C.:ltalia I do not vary from the former one con-
cerning the opinions entertained in France upon your charader,
and olive, I fee that you touch other points of greater impor-
tance, fuch as the dignity of your Sovereign, and the public
°intim. This quetUon Is too ferious, and ought not, therefore, to
be blended with private intsretta. I will never believe that the
King of England gives his Miniiters diredions derogatory from
his majelly and dignity; I refpeet his high rank as I mould, and
will not enoknt, Sir, to your snaking a court blanch of what is
merely perfonal ; you know, Sir, that whenever you have called
to converfe with me, I have anfwered, that political affairs were
not within my produce, and that the King my Mailer bad his Se-
cretary of State, through whole medium the demands of Foreign
Courts were to be tranfinitted to him. To the other Amhalfa-
-4.r. and Minifter• I made the fame obfervatinn ; fo that I have
received their dike &emcee adts of goodnefs and civility from them•
Under fuch eircumitanoes. therefore, puke ought not to be con-
founded with fubfrquent events, nor ought what depends upon the
private consiudt of fiabjedls, to be imputed to EWA, of the Go-
vernment. My Enmity has more than once prompted me to cau-
tion you, Sir, that room individuals about you could do you nei-
ther honour nor credit. nom their reputation being blafted in other
Courts, no great opinion could be entertained of their morals in
this. And d., you know, Sir, whether or not tbele people may be
the authors of the Rory put:Mt:bed by the Paris Gazetteer 1 I have
Ilkewile mentioned (rectal other things to you; and it was per-
haps owing to my advice., that you avoided their eonfequences, as
for infante. General Lournonville's affair, when you wanted to
make yaurfclf mailer of his papers. Let your Excellency call to
mind my former conduA, and entertain a proper regard for the
flaunty you have experkoced from your affeetionate 'errant,

(Signed) TOL ruNct O► ►LACI.

If you chute, Er, I wM glue an scrowst of what has taken
pla:e to the King my Matter, that it may be forwarded to the
ML Mars o' H. E M. throci,ts the enamel of his Am:,..ff.idor In
London; and your Eiteltenet may, from the smulrtation and
tern., of my Note, form an Idea of the high raped. I heir 11. B.
M. fusee, it It were not for this just confidcration, I 06 at 14 not
h..e anfwertd year Eft Note.
j. II Is Fatale, Efq. Minitta of H. B. At.

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MADRID, APRIL 10, 1804.
1 rdtcnigy cudgel dig Ngtc of Y. L. which I hacc rcw.i with

all the attention It Merits. There is a very plain ecmfideratioo
which direetty occurs to one's mind, narbely that Y. E. Might have
(pared yourfclf the unplafant talk of continuing a painful corref-
pondenee. Y. E. does me the honour to tell me, that, being no
iylinitter, your corrcfpondenCe cannot be drawn to any political
confeqncnce ; and yet you propofc to bank* it to the Minifter
of his Catholic Maley in London, for the purple of filming
your re(pedt for his Britannk Majefty.—Y. P. adds,that, without
loth motive, you would not have thought yourfelf bound to anfwer
my Note. Upon this I molt ebfene, that expreffions of perfonal
reked from a private individual to a Sovereign, do not appear to
me to be eaftomati ; and that, viewing the Note of Y. E. In this
light, 1 would not undertake to by it °tidally before his Majelly.
And yet, as it contains cabin allnlions to my earadraft, I thought
It my duty to tranfrnit it to the Secretary of State of his Britannic
Majdty with proper explanations. If I return no (Bred anfwer
to Y. E. concerning thole allufions, It is bet on& I think them fo-
reign to the fabled upon which we begin to eorrefpond, and abfo-
lately without an object, fuzee Y. B. has declared that you would
not be looked upon as • Militate. Moreover, nobody being pre.
rent whin the converfadons In queltion took place, the difcutSon
would prove codbfe, and be of no other tale than that of prefenting
to the public the indecent (pellicle of tiro perform, each of whom
has fame claim to their refped, mutually contradieting one another
in the face of the whole world. (Signed) ). r. ,alas.
To K E. the PRINCE of PEACE.

MADRID, AMOR RI. IE04•

I perfuade myfelf that Y. B. wiU not bcfurprifed at the courre
take, and which ta,lo my opinion, the only rational one. Since I
ddifild in my note or 'the 17th, from the demand of a difavowal,
oar eerrefpordence cottld no longerliave any object. From the
mtiwitbt that Y. E. declared, that you would not be confide:cd .4
ti htioifter, I became fenfibie; that further directions would only
produce apa foul alteration. This was the motive why I avoid-
ed directing various points contained in the Taft Note of Y. E. and
it is alio the motive which influences me at prefect. When Y. E,
has taken tato confideration the fituation you place me In, by Itrip-
plod me as well as yourfclf *four klioitterial charaders,l am eon.
Mimed you will not afcribe to a want of regard, that which is, is
reality, the refult of the molt ferious refieStioa.
(Signed)
To H. E. the PaIIICZ of Paaca.

J...

ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TOULON FLEET.

By the Lifban mail we have alto received accounts
ofan anion between Lord Ne Lyon and the Toulon fleet.
The fiat accounts received of it attached to it a con-
fiderable degree of importance : it appears, however.
' by the lateß letters from Gibraltar, to have been of
lefs moment than was at firft Rated—the French
having cautioufly avoided going to any great diftance
from the protettlion Of their own batteries. We fub-
join, the different accounts that have reached as,
which will enable our Readers properly to appreciate
any other Ratements that may be circulated :