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MINISTRY POR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

NOTE PROM THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO' THE

upon their execution in Holland ,
country. Holland, on the contrary
to their execution. The Dutch
carry on a commercial intercourse
All the representations of France
were entirely useless. His Impen
obliged to have recourse to measures, igour,
proved how much he was displeased. Twice were
the French custom-houses shut to the commerce of
Holland : they are so at this moment, so that the
Dutch have no legal communication with the nations
on the Continent —and the Emperor determined not
to open these barriers while circumstances remained
unchanged. In effect, it would have been to open'
them to the English commerce. The Dutch nation,
far from imitating the patriotism of the Americans,
have been guided in all their transactions solely by
miserable mercantile considerations.
" On the other hand, the Emperor observes that
Holland is destitute of the means for carrying on war,
and almost without resources for her own defence.—.
She is without marine : the sixteen vessels which she
ought to have furnished have been dismantled : she';
is without energy. During the last Expedition of
the English, the important position of Veere, which
was neither provisioned nor armed, made no resist-
ance ; and the important post of Bathz, upon which
might have depended the success of so many events,
was abandoned s;x hours after the appearance of the
advanced guard of the enemy. Without army, with-
out revenues, it might almost be said without friends,
and without allies, the Dutch are a society animated
only by a regard to their commercial interests, and
forming a rich, useful, and respectable company, but

BARON DE ROELL, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS FOR
HOLLAND.
" The undersigned Minister of Foreign Relations
for Frances is charged with making known to his
Excellency, Baron de Roell, the Dutch Minister of
Foreign Affairs, the resolutions which his Imperial
Majesty has been forced to come to in consequence of
the actual
.situation of Europe. If these determina-
tions are contrary to the views -of the people of Hol-
land, the -Emperor is certainly sorry for it, and has
adopted this course with great regret. But the unre-
lenting destiny which presides over the affairs of this
world, an,d which chooses that men should be go-
verned by events, obliges his Majesty to follow up
with firrttr tess those measures, of which the necessity
has been d emonstrated to him, without suffering him-
self-lobe -turned aside by secondary considerations. • ,
"`• His I mper;:tl Majesty, in placing one of his bro:
flu. rs on the Throne of Holland, did not foresee that
El Islam" would dare to proclaim openly the princi-
pl e of perpetual war ; and that to support it she would
a. 3opt,. as the basis of her legislation, the monstrous
principles: which have dictated her Orders of Council
of November. 1807. Until then her maritime right
was undoubtedly combated by France, and repelled
by neutron ; but it did' not exclude all navigation,-
and left a sort of independence to maritime nations.
There was but little inconvenience to the common
cause in the commerce kept up by Holland- with
England—either through the agency of neutrals, or
by-borrowing their flag. Marseilles, Bourdeaux, and
Antwerp, enjoyed the same advantage. England
had stalls, manage the Americans, the Russians, the
Prussians, the Swedes, and the Danes, and these na-
tions formed a sort of league between the powers whom
the seas separated.
" The fourth Coalition • destroyed this state of
things; Eagland succeeded in uniting against France
Russia, Prussia, and Sweden ; she was no longer oblig-
ed to resort to so much management; it was then that
she abused both words and things ; she set up the pre-
tension of making disappear all the rights of neutrals
before a simple decree of blockade. The Emperor
was forced to use reprisals, and at his entrance into
Berlin, he answered it by the blockade of the British
Isles. Neutrals, and above all, Americans, de-
zrurtde4 an explanation of this measure. He answer-
ed them,that although the absurd system of blockade
was w- state altogether of intolerable usurpation, the
Emperor bounded himself to the stopping on the Con-
tinent the commerce of the English ; that the neutral
flag 'should be respected at sea ; tat his vesssls of
war and privateers should not disturb the navigation
of neutrals, the decree being only tb be executed upon

not a nation.
66 His Majesty desires peace with England. He
took steps at Tilsit with a view to this object—but
they were without effect. Those which he concert-
ed. at Erfurth with his ally the Emperor of Russia
have had no better success. The war will therefore
be long, since all the steps taken to arrive at peace
have been useless. The proposition even of sending
Commissioners to Morlaix to treat for the exchange of
prisoners, although called for by England, remainsi
without effect, because it was feared it might lead to
a reconciliation.

" England, in arrogating by her Orders of Novem-
ber 1807 an universal sovereignty, and in adopting
die principles of perpetual war, has broken every
thing, rendered legitimate every means of repelling
her pretensions. If therefore the change which has
lately taken place in the English Ministry produces
none in the principles of England, which it will be
easy to discover from their speeches in the new Par-
liament ; and if she continues to proclaim the princi-
ple of perpetual war and of universal sovereignty, in
maintaining her Orders of Council ; in that case, the
undersigned is charged to declare to the Dutch Mini-
stry and nation, that the present situation of Holland
is incompatible with the circumstances or the situa-
tion in which the new principles adopted by England
have placed the affairs of the Empire and the Conti-
nent. In consequence, his Imperial Majesty proposes,
" 1. To recall home the Prince of his blood whom
he had placed on the Throne of Holland. The first
duty of a French Prince placed in the line of heredi-
tary succession to the Imperial Throne is towards
that Throne. When in opposition to that, all others
must give way ; the first duty:of every Frenchman,
in whatever situation Destiny may place him. is to.
wards his country.
" 2. To occupy all the months of the rivers in
Holland, and all its ports, by French troops, as they
were from the conquest made by France in 1794, to
the moment when his Imperial Majesty hoped to con-
ciliate every one by establishing the Throne of Hol-
, land.
" 3. To employ every means, and without being
stopped by any consideration, to make Holland enter
into the continental system, and to wrest definitely its
ports and coasts from the Administration which has
rendered the ports of Holland the principal entrepots,
and the great part of the Dutch merchants the bro-
kers and the commercial agents of England.
(Signed) " Duo DE CADORE.—
" Pax is, January 24.1
NOTE FROM THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO
SIR. ARMSTRONG, MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY
FROM THE UNITED STATES.
" Paris, February 21, 1810.
" The undersigned having rendered an account to
the Emperor and King of the conversation which he
had with Mr. Armstrong, Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States of America, his Majesty has
authorised him to return the folowing answer :
" His Majesty considers his Decrees at Berlin and I
Milan as conformable to the principles of eternal jus-
tice, if they were not the compelled consequence of
the Orders of the British Council, and above all of that
of November, 1807. When England proclaimed an
universal sovereignty by the pretension of making the
universe submit to a right of navigation, and of bring-
ing the industry of every nation under the jurisdiction
of her Parliament, his Majesty considered it the duty
of all independent nations to defend their sovereignty,
and declared denationalized the vessels which, rang-
ing themselves under the dominion of England, recog-
nized the sovereignty which she arrogated over them.
" His Majesty distinguishes the visit and the recog-
nition of the vessel. 'I he recognition has no other
object but to ascertain the reality of the flag. The
visit is an inferior inqueit made notwithstanding tl.e
reality of the flag is ascertained, and of which the re-
suit is either the pressing of individuals. the confisca-
tion of inerckandize, or the application of arbitrary
laws or dispositions.
" His Majesty could not but attend to the pro-
ceedings of the United States, who without making
any complaint of France, comprised her in their acts
of exclusion ; and in the month of May prohibited
the entry into their ports of French vessels, under the
k penalty of confiscation. Immediately that his Ma-
jesty was informed of this measure, he ordered a reci.
Lprocity to be used towards American vessels, not (ally
an his own territories, but also in the countridll inger
his influence. In the ports of Holland, Spain, Italy,
and Naples, American vessels were seized, because
the Americans had seized French. vessels. The Arne-
ticans cannot hesitate as to the part which they ought
to take. They ought either to break the Act of their
Independence, and become again, as before the Re.
volution, subjects of England, or take such measures
that their commerce and industry may not be tariffed
by the English, which would render them more de-
pendent than Jamaica, which at least has an Asuem-
,bly of Representatives and its privileges.

land.
But this measure itself, which compelled the
shutting of the ports of Holland against the English
commerce, injured the mercantile interests of the peo-
ple of Holland, and was' contrary to their ancient
habits. This was the first source of the opposition
which began to prevail between France and Holland.
From that time his Imperial Majesty could not but
observe: that tile Xing of Holland was divided be-
tween his most imprescriptible duties—his duties to
the Imperial Throne, and the mercantile notions of
the Dutch nation. Nevertheless his Imperial Majesty
armed himself with patience, and shut his eyes, in
expectation from the turn of events of some incident
which should deliver his brother from the very unplea-
sant alternative to which he found himself reduced.
a:During these transaOtion. s the peace of Tilsit was
concluded. - The Emperor of Russia, provoked by
the outrages which the Englishhad committed against
her flag, while she was fighting the battles of Eng-
land, and indignant at the horrible attack on Copen-
hagen, made common cause With Prance.
France then entertained the hope that England
would have been sensible of the inthillty of protrac-
tinethe War; and that she would have been willing to
listen to reasonable terms of peace. But this hope
vanished very soon. At the same time that they va-
nished, the English, as if the expedition to Copen-
hagen had deprived them of all sense of shame, and
set Oaern free fi-etn all restraint :disclosed their pro-
jecta, and published their Order; in Coma in No.,
veraber, 1807. A.. arbitrary :and tyrannical act,
which finect all -Europe with indignation By this
act England took upon her to make regulations ob-
ligiiigfOreign vessels to come to her harbours before
they proteeded tatheir ultimate destinations, and pay
her tribute. Thus she rendered herself mistress of the
navigaticin of the whtie world .; recognised no mai!:
time nation as independent, rendered all nations her
tributaries„.subjected them to her laws, allowed them
no libeity of trade, unless with a direct profit to her-
self, fixed the foundation of her. rrienues upon the
inchistry of ether nations, aid the produce of• their .
tetritories, and declared :herself Sovereign of -the
c.ceen, of' which she disposed as any Government
Mild do of the rivers in the interior of it:dominions.
a Adverting to this plan of legislation, which was
ni thing else than the public assertion of universal
S. -iercianty, a measure extending the jurisdiction of
tl'e English Parliament over the whole of the globe,
the Emperor found himself under the necessity of
i. k;tilig art extreme part, and of employing every
means of opposition in his power, rather than suffer
the world to bend under the yoke which the English
endeavoured to impose on it. He published the
MilAn.l.)ecree, declaring all vessels denationalized
which lad paid the tribute imposed by the English.
The Americans, threatened with a second subjugation
by the English, •and with the loss of their indepen-
denee, so
..emieusit acquired, put a general embargo
on all their vesseli;and renounced all navigation and
commerci-41sosInaking a sacrifice of the interests of
the nausdiS to that which is her perpetual interest—
tiic of her independence.

a, The success of these -measures depended more

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the? na.aient t. Mit the deeeimination of the
/ upon Oa 14110, with that flanness which is
PT their &Meter, and which so intinsudT
belongs, tiourietbe,
denjUst:Ce of
every
lit; ising
r eautZlead our cause in-
I am not ignorW of what every individual suf.
lialtilimetual manner. Neither the loss of time,
:
must then filit t._ . tikell4 1,1 of myyemus nor any other consi:
for honourl __
" The undersigned ranklfionfeeses drat France deration has been able to deter me from my purpose •
has every thing to gain by giving the Americans a and, accordingly, I have every reason to believe, that
reception in her ports. Hir commercial rela- if we can come to any arrangement, which does not
s with neutrals are advantageous to her, and she, exclude the possibly of our existence, Holland ma
is npt in any manner jealous of their prosperity.— still escape thepresent impending tempest ; panic
Great, strong, and rich, she is satisfied, if by her Com- lady if, after all this, there remain not only ns;
merce oe that of neutrals, her exportations give a suit- grounds, but even no pretext for misunderstanding
able developement to her agriculture and manufac- and dissatisfaction, to which all my efforts are a,.l tures. rected. -Your loving King, (.Signed) ‘s mac.,
" It is scarcely thirty years since the States of PARIS, FEBRUARY t 5.
America bmame an independent Government in the By a decree of this day, his Majesty has appointed
besot* of the New World, at the price of the blood of the Household of the Empress. After divine service,
many immortal men, who perished on the field of all the Members of it took the oaths before the Em.
tattle, in order to shake off the leaden yoke of the peror.
English Monarch. These generous men were far On Friday, on his return from Rarle3uillet, his
from supposing, when they thus sacrificed their blood Majesty gave an audience to M. de Czernilchef,
for the independence of America, that a question i Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor of Russia, who deli.
would so soon arise of imposing on it a yoke heavier vered to him a letter from that Sovereign.
-phan that which they had shaken off, in submitting I. Yesterday the Peace concluded on the 6th of ja.
Its industry to the tariff of British legislation, and to I tuary with Sweden was proclaimed.
the Orders of Council of 1807. 1 L It is said that the Emperor and great part of his
" If then the American Minister will enter into as Court will go to Compiegne about the 25th of March.
engagement that American vessels shall not submit His Majesty's journey to St. Quintin is postponed.
1
.ro the Orders of the English Council of November The Crown jewellers are very busy in executing
4807, nor to any decree of blockade, unlesi that ' some ettensive orders.
blockade shall be real, the undersigned is authorized 1 Miami I.—The Emperor left the Tbuilieries yes.
to conclude every species of convention tending to re-Iterday at half past twelve to hunt. His Majesty re-
new the Treaty of Commerce with America; and in I turned at three, and held a Council of his Ministers.
which shall be arranged all the measures proper to I General Lauriston, Aide-de-Camp to his Imperial
consolidate the commerce and the prosperity of the Majesty, set out, it is said, for Vienna, on the 25th
Americans. ult. with his Majesty's portrait.
" The undersigned has thought it his duty to an- M. Anatole de Montesquieu also set out yesterday
swer the verbal overtures of the American Minister morning for Vienna.
by a written note, in order that the President of the M. Halle, physician is ordinary to his Imperial
United States may better know the amicable inten- Majesty, has, it is said, received notice from the Grand
tions of France towards the United States, and her Marshal of the Palace, that he is to set out to-day in
favourable disposition to American commerce. one of his Imperial Majesty's carriages to proceed to
(Signed) 44 DUC DE canons." Brannan, to make part of the procession which is to.
AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 28.
attend her Imperial and Royal Highness the Arch.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed by his Duchess of Austria Male Louisa, the future Spcuse
Majesty to the Legislative Body : of the Emperor.
Amongst the persons also appointed to form part
THE KING TO THE LEGISLATIVE
FBODY.
I, 1810. of the above procession, are M. de Beausset, Prefect of
Park, eb.
di Gentlemen—l have been disappointed in my ex- the Palace; M. de Seyssel, Master of the Ceremonies;
pectation of being enabled to return before the Ist of and four Chamberlains. M. M. de Beam, de Barolle,
January. From the annexed documents contained d'Aubusson, and d'Angosse.
tr
in the Moniteur of yesterday (the 81st of January), The Chevalier of onour, Senator Beauharnois;
you will perceive that the result of our affairs is con- the Grand Equerry, Prince Aldobrandini-Borghese;
and the Bishop of Metz, are also parr to Braunaa.
netted with the conduct of the English Government.
" The regret which I have felt has been consider-
The Prince of Neufchatel is, it is said, chargedably increased upon reading the unjust accusation with powers from all the Princes of the Confederation
of the Rhine, to render every where on their tenet°.
made against us, of having betrayed the cause of the
Continent, that is, of having been unfaithful to our en- ries the suitable honours to the august procession.
gagements ; and I write this letter to you to diminish The King of Bavaria is to live a fete at Munich
the impression which so unjust and astonishing an on the 12th or 15th. His Majesty set out from Paris
accusation must make upon your hearts, as well as last night.
upon the heart of every true Hollander. lt is understood that the days of rest which her
" Whilst, during the four years that have elapsed Imperial Highness the Princess Maria Louisa, will
- -!-_ pass - Munich, Carisruhe, and Ratisbon, will be

at _
consecrated tope: given in honour of her by the So-
vereigns of those residences.
The produce of English merchandise confiscated
between the Scheldt and the Maese, is to be employed
in repairing Flushing.
A letter from the Duke of Dalmatia, dated from
Seville, February 2, give's an official account of the
entrance of the French into that city. The Duke of
Belluno had previously promised, in answer so a flag
Of truce, that the inhabitants should be protected, that
those in arms should be allowed•to serve in the troops
of King Joseph, or retire, end live peaceably on de.
livering up their arms. The inhabitants then sub-
mitted, and the French entered the city, where they
found 263 pieces of cannon, and a large quantity of
arms, ammunition, and provisions.
Another letter from the same, dated Seville, lie.
bruary 3, states, the entrance of Sebastiani into Gra•
nada, and that the Duke of Treviso was the next day
to march for Badajoz. •
A third letter from the same, dated Seville, Fe-
bruary 5, states, that Sebastiani was to be that day
at Malaga, and was to occupy Antequela and Gua-
dix, and communicate by Ronda and Marbello, with
the first corps, the troops of which were on that day
to occupy San Lucar de Barramido, Rota Puerto de
Santa Maria, Puerto Real et Chiclana, and Medina
Sidonia, for the purpose of entirely blockading Cadiz
on the land side.
His Serene Highness the Prince of N.ufchatel,
Major-General, has just received the following letter
from General Belliard, Governor of Madrid : •••
" MT PILINCI' " Madrid, Feb. 15,1510.
" 'inform you with great pleasure, that the eagle and colours-
which were I'ost at Baylen, have bees delivered to his Majesty at
Seville.
" 'The clergy of Andalusia, Ws Majesty acquaints me, conduct
themselves welL 'I he citizens and nobility have offered three
battalions and tllo squadrons, clothed and equipped, which were
to be ready to-day to enter on duty. '
" I have the honour to be, Bcc. Oared)
" AUG. BELLIARD."
On the 22dFebruary his Sereneffighness the Prince
of Neufchatel made the following report to his Ma-
jesty, the Emperor and King :
" have the honour, to lay before your Majesty t
state of the artillery found in Seville, on the first examinadon
aI
the magazines and arsenals. 'The number is WI picots. beet
174 pieces in the foundery; 40,000 bullets, more than 200puu.
of powder, 6,000,000 eartouches for infantry, a peat number
pistols and muskets, 20,000 swords, 4500 lances, and sl3ol3e4g*
nards. Such are the arms obtained In this city.
mttttuni-
" I subjoin also a general statement of the artillery,
Con, &c. acquired in Granada and its neighbsorkood. The own-
ber of pieces are 62, not including 42 found at Jaen, and 10 on
the road between Jun and Granada, besides ten in the maw
taita--: nether 124 pieces."
VIENNA, FEBRUARY 16:
A Courier arrived here this morning from Paris,
with the agreeable intelligence of the signature of a
contract of marriage between the Emperor Napoleon
and her Imperial liighness the Arcbduchess Mss
Louisa. It is impossible to describe the joy to which
this news has given birth amongst all classes of the
inhabitants. It began to be circulated at eleven in
the morning, and at two the Bank Bills had risen
from 10 to 100. It is announced that the Prince of
Neufchatel will arrive here on the 2d, that the cere •
gox.e and the fret will last ten days, and that the
will set out from Vienna on the 14th of March
Oltb the august Spouse of his Sovereign.
sent t
The Emperor of the French has sent a pre
our Monarch of sogte magnifiCentGobelin taped*

since the commencement of my reign, the nation, and
you in particular, called to watch over her interests,
have borne with so much difficulty and distress, but
at the same time with so much resignation, the doub-
ling of the imposts, so considerable an augmentation
of the public debt, and armaments so great and so
disproportionate to the population and means of the
kingdom—we little thought that we should have been
accused of having violated our engagements, and of
not having done enough ; at a moment when the state
of maritime affairs operates upon us with a greater
pressure than upon all other countries collectively,
and when, to complete our misfortunes, we are, be.
sides, compelled to sustain a blockade upon the Con-
tinent.
" It is the heartfelt consciousness of these consi-
derations, gentlemen, which should lead us to the
exercise of patience, until the moment when the jus:
tice of his Majesty the Emperor, my brother, shall
make reparation for a charge which we have so little
deserved.
" I cannot ascertain how long I may yet be pre-
vented from gratifying the first and most anxious of
my wishes, namely, that of returning to my capital;
and seeing myself in the midst of you at this difficult
and critical juncture.
44 But, however distant that period may be, be
assured, that nothing can alter my affection for the
nation and my attachment to her interests, nor lessen
you in my esteem and confidence. (Signed) " Louis."
The following letter, addressed by his Majesty to
the Council of State, as this day read by the Mi- ,
fiister, the Vice-president, at a meeting of the Coun-
cil, which was attended by all the Ministers and other
members:
" THE XIYO TO THE COUNCIL OF STATE.
" Though I with regret see the end of the third
month since my departure fast approaching, nothing
has yet been decided with regard to our affairs.
" I cannot, however, suffer a single instant to pass,
after my recovery, without repeating to you the as-
surance, that all possible exertions shall continue to be
made to preserve the existence of the kingdom.
44 We cannot conceal from ourselves, that this will
cost us great and difficult sacrifices ; but I shall not
hesitate, if there be but a possibility of Holland, after
all that can be demanded of it, being suffered to
exist, to submit myself to the generosity of the Em-
peror, my brother, in the just expectation that, upon
the removal of all the causes of dissatisfaction, we
shall receive those indemnifications to which we are
so strongly entitled, and which will be more than
ever necessary to us. ,
44 My intention in submitting myself to the plea-
sure of the Emperor, my brother, in every thing that
he can demand of us, is to convince him that we have
many enemies ; that we may have been the victims
of calumny, of petty passions and interests ; but that
we have never ceased, and still will continue to ad-
mire the Emperor, and to conduct ourselves as true
friends and old allies of France, tried by numerous
sacrifices and various events. ould I be able to
succeed in this purpose, as I have every reason to ex-
pect, every thing else will follow, inasmuch as it
must be both the interest and inclination of France
to favour and aggrandize her friends, and not to de-
press them.
44 I therefore entreat you to unite all. your. efforts
to prevent emigration to foreign countries, and every
proceeding that might indicate despondency, and to

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and than in any othsv a Men without policy, without Maoist 1134 with- *don th
•ntrary, was an obstacle' doeeinem, may well allege that salty Ira ism* to Emperor
,utcls still coatipuetsa pay the tribute imposed by England* bismii• it is so petal!'
ourse with the Wdlb. fight ; but will not the English feel that they would belongs ti
'ranee upon this, tiobjpe rather have the principle admitted than increase the. NI au
Imperial Majesty .t tariff, because, if this tribute, now light, should be. fen. I I
aeasures of rigour, which come insupportable, those who had refused to fight the most
isoleased. Twice were for honour must then fight for interest. nor the fa