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S 7 ATE PAPER.

Lift Frawlassuiv's circular 'note has hitherto
ken pUblifhed in a very inaccurate manner. We
s•i, however, now enabled to give a genuine and cor •
red copy of that important and istereiling paper :
COPY OF A CIRCULAR NOTE ADDRESSED TO THE
tOREAGN IvuNistE.R.s RESIDENT AT THIS COURT.
SIR, Downing-itrect,3oth April, tgoh
The experience which* all Europe malt have had of the con-
dud of the Government of France, would have Induced His Ma.
jetty to treat any charges which might• have been brought by
them agaion. hi. Govanment, with lilence and contempt, If the
...en extraordinary and unauthotifed aLfwers which many of the
Minders of Foreign Powers have thought proper to return to a
recent communication of the ?Monter for Foreign Affairs at Paris,
h..d not given to the fobjed of that communicadon a greater de.
gree of importance than it would otherwife have poffeffed
Majeity has therefore commanded me to declare, that he trails i!
cannot'be neceffary for him to repel, with the Icoen and indigna-
tion which it defence, that moll unfounded and atrocious ca-
lumny, Mathis Government were parties to any puled of Affaf-
finatim—an &mutation molt faltely and caltmnioutly advanced
andevihe fame authority againft memblre of his Nlajefty's former
GirrMintent in the loft was—an accufation incontinent with his
Majcity's honour. and with the known charadcr of the Brides
nation; and to completely untuppored by even any Marlow of
proof, that It may junly be pr efumed to have been brought for-
ward at the preterit moment, fur the tole purr& of diverting the
attention of Europe from the contemplation of that Gangainary deed
which, in violation of the law of nations, and of the plainett dic-
tate• of honour and humanity. has been recently perpetrated by
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the du on:we of the Firft Cndul of France.
That his Majefty's Government fhould difregagi the fend:tient'
of loch of the inhabitants of Frame as are jultly diffatisfied with
ea. sass econtry :that they Geoid refute to Viten
to their defigns for liberating their cannily from the eitgrading
yoke of bondage under which it now grams, or to aid and OM •
them as far as loch dam are fair and jaftifiable, would ace incon-
tinent with the duties wtfleh, under eircumaances like the pre -
fent, every wife and jail Government owes to bid( mad to the
world in general.
It is an acknowledged right of Usitlltrehl Pawnee. win than'
Rives of toy elite-outwits milling in the conneriee with which they
may happen to be at war. The expediency al offing wpm this I
right (even if the tight were in any degree doubtful) wield, in the I
of Chet cafe, be moftfully fandioned; not onlybythendual nate
of the French nation, het by the coodnd of the Otheroment of
that country, which ever lime the commencemeot of the pretest ,
war, has maintained a communication with the ditaffbifted in his
Pilakill's dominion+, particay in helmet!. Ind has oddly af-
ferabkd, on the theft of Fraate,a body at Irith rebds,to=l
pole of aiding their defigns agaleft that part Olds Unked
Ur ,ier there circumnanceshis WOO Governmest would not
lasted be warranted its frophig thhirriglit to deport,
b emitter: with tisofe principles of the law of Melons, which an
el dived Governments have hitherto acknowledged, the efforts of
c.en the inhabitants of France as may profelkhoftility to lea pre •
COVeTOIIIIIII. They feet, In common with all Europe, an
sr slow de to fee cite:11111M in M thantry et ,an order orator.
{roes cauliflast with lac own hoppinds, and with dm Irwin ef
•Sateausding nations. nut if this cannot be accansplilbed, they at
pittified on the (triad! prhaciples of fell defame, lo thasavendog
to cripple the elertesesw4o dared the °voodoos, and to cue-
found the propane ofs Government whole avowed (Titan of war-
fare is not merely to diftrefe the commerce, to reduce the power,
or to abridge the dominions of Its asernyi—bat to carry devallation
soil ruin ions the very bout of the BMA empire.
• to the application of tbde principles, His Majefly has direded
me further to declare, that his Govenniscat have never authorised
any one ad which will sot fiend the wilt el the aside* principles
• apatite, and the known sod avowed predict of all ages. If OFT
Minder accredited by His Majtity to a kedge Caen, has hthi
correfpondence wifh purlieus to France, with a view et ditainkeg
thfurmatioo of the projeds of the heads Othensistat, or far any
other legitimate purpak, he has done now than litimiters un-
der Smiler eirconittawees have been uniformly othadsrolas Mang
o right to do. with relped to the theatrics with which their So-
vereign was at war.-and much leis than the Isfinialts end Com-
inertial was
of France in neutral cassaba em be Proved to
hast done wish regard to the Maeda is parts at bb MORO
don time..
In condoltlag, thertimm Rich a conelpandthst, Ise
would not, in any,degree. 'labile% his public duty. A hli-
oilier is s ratelen estaltry is bound, s•y the oaten ef his rice,
and the dude. of his fituation, to ablais from all cominvoliadon
with the elf:A/idol in the thantry to which Itc is awaked, as
oral as from any adt Harlots to the imilliata of thus ethustry t bat
be is not fah). ft to tbetame reit:ants with refpcit to that coon- I
Mes with which his Sovereign is at war. His ads refrain, thern
may be rage-worthy or blameable, according to the nature of the
ads themfelves ft.
r, they would not eneltitute any violation of
his public ch grad: r, mole* they militated the peace ut Se-
curity of the country to which he was accredited.
But of all Governments pretending to be tivilimed,tbat of Fresco
lies the k.O Opt to appeal to the law of nations. With what
nifidence can they appeal to that law, who,from the commence-
ment of boltilkles, hwe been in the cow* of conflandy
f--Tteey prosnifed their protedioo to fuels of the fohje=
England as Were retch:ea in France, and might be damns of re•
tnaining there after the real of his Itelajeßy s Asnbaffedor. They
necked this prorate wfthect any previous notice, and condemned
elude very pedals to he prilenen of war, and Rill retain them as
(wk. to defiance of their own engagetnents, and of the univerfal
ornate of all civilised 1116/11. 1 hey apphed this new and barba-
TOM role even tc individuals who had the protedion and authority
of trerch Arohaffaders end Minttlen at loreigu Coons, to return
11 fafety through trame to their own country. They gave dtrec•
dom. that an toglilb packet thould be felled to the of the port. of
thouzh :heir Amhaffador in that country had antece-
de r cif ctigag,l that, until notice to the contrary was given, she
the refpeelive countries Imola pals in fafety. They
list, &LIMA and condemned • veld in a troseb port,which was
f there as a matter of indidgence fur the purr& of conveylog
t1.r.!...r the rends Governor of one of the (need Wands which
1,14, Peen conquered by his Majefty's arm. 1 heir proceedings
wish refpcft to the gerrifon of St. Lucia have one been ids extra-
ordinary. The priticipal fort of that Wand was taken by armpit,
but the garriffori was allowed all the privileges of penance* of war,
and (offered to proceed to France upon an untierflanding that a
proportionate cumber of Frei& prifonersreturn be fet
at liberty ; yet notwithilanding this indulgence on the part of the
Eritilla Commander, to which, tram the nature of the eat the
Prr.ch Fannon could not have the tmaflrß prat-anus, not • Lingle
Ettilith pritnner tun hem rellored to this country.
Such ha. been the eoniud of the French Government with re,
fpc:.. to the power with whom they are at war. What has been
their corolud to thole with whom they have rerna • cd at pence +—
Is there a treaty they fries ace hro4en f—i. there a neightmortny
t.rntury so hole inderodencc they have ant viohteu ?—it is for
• the power. on the Continent to determine leow In
they wellth4
to
Icr,te fetch unuaralieled outrages;
II but is it tun meth ti .iy,
inch a murk of proem-dirty on the part of any ltovrnment, can
be ft. • red to coot:roe es about refinance or control', there moll
Poore craft t' r Rift that f.lutary f)ilesis of Public Law, by tant..lt
the communities of 1. cropc has:, for ayes, nseitstainell and cc
forced the tarred ol.tisations of humanity sod
I have the honour to be, with the highe julticcn
confide:v.6or
Sir, your moft obedient bumble (avant,
(Signed)

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