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Pe: I I`, I II L., nLide a cortinotilication t..
tdc'reircd. on rl e t3th, to the
is 6ti! ..inic Nl,jelly by the Matlittel
tithe
. I:, ar..: I. rioa• foua•i,nc in wltieh the two m
i.•• for the ForelAn
the c he), wares to deliver to dat. Bri•
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•• C:, ti .16 8), bis tritaoide Majefty mai".e
a t•••:1, Iv:Litton w -11-I..nt by a Areisge, that 1(1 widable
wet. r.rt• ot the ports of France-Ind Holland;•
diteudions, of an uncertain evunt divided the

two t:ne....a tin:cote.
.• That un-np. Red and extraordinary d clarnion excited pot-
rat ennithment. 'llc maritime fnuation of France was Orcti. -
' All : ursine hnew that there wa, no formidable awantent either
in the ports of France or of I Tolland.
" •1 he utiderfigned need not rascal to his Excellency I.ord Whit-
w•nth's remembrance what wa.fahl at that time. The fource of
filch intelligence era. inexplicabl.• as it was with.mt any foundation.
T! e Ix rronal lifeernm-nt of 1.i.-.1 Whitworth and the loyalty of
Id, r!•-ra,.er, are not for a moment t, be fufpedted
" The affection that France was making hoflil a-maments was a
maniteit fuppofition, and could not deceive any t.erfun. Its n Aural
etteet was to moue. an opinion that it was only the me ant fought
• al,a .yie it rental' a •le for th it love of dinurbance. and who
fought with avidit, • pretext for exciting treabie, 3:1,1 infl tming
the paffitn.s of thelliritilh peoplz,toCti4to jealeufr,itatred and eleven.
" As to the Englilli Government, though it might by falfe re-
. ports be lad into error with regard to the exiftence of armaments.
It could not 1 c in with regard to the eaiftencc of negotiations.
. The Ambaffador of the Republic at London was no Conner
Informed of the Meffese of his Britannic Maleity, than aftonillied
at hearing of negotiations otwhich he bad not any knowledge, he
went to Lord Hawkerenra', furpeairg that an appeal to arms,
founded upon falfe fuppoLtious, might be a cover for the peak et of
ti viasting the Treaty of Amiens, with regard to the claufea nut yet
executed; and prlented on the oath Ventofe (Feb. so), a note de
I ma: die fan explanation.
. A t the fame time, the anderligned had nedm to ale of his
i Fxcellcoey Lord Whitworth, what studied' could determine his
Government to nit in the Mdfuge, trio affertfoos both e.quallyfalfa,
an weer to area the nation and bream Its emanation with Fran&
" His F:scelleney Lord Newitabury -returned on the sch
V _nide (March it), a vague, aggteffive. and partite NOt...
1 het Note, far from clearing up any point. involved the matters
i' in u.ftulLon in greater ohfciffity It let little means of 'sneaks&
It ' difcuffion, aid Rill let or bringing it to a happy terminaeloa.
~. " The Anfwer of the FrmefrOovernment of the gob Gerrit-
nal (March an), was as moderate avid pacific as that of the Dn-
.?' till Govr t tment had beau hoftik.
4 . "'The Fi.-ft. Conful declared, 'Loa he would not steep: the wag.
'4 like challenge of England ; that ha would avoid weighing abs az-
. prelLons in that bottle (oft in which they might be taken ; and
"p• that, in kart, be wand not believe that ids Brim.: is Majesty
: woad VIUI 4C the factutoC6 of & Tr-sty„ an which the Cahn of
fs all nations depends.
.7, v That declaration. made by order of the Fir* Conftd, brought
forth a new Nest of ryth Germinal (April y), in which the
French Government was furprifed to find an indeternduate de-
mand of fatisfadions addrcffe-d to 't. The vague manner of that
demmid. made without motive and without (Mal, only littered
, the impropriety of its nseanieg.
•• The intentiow evident from that Nate, wes the violation of
t. the Tr.my of Amiens. by refuting to evacuate Malts. They
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bgetvegiattlreafatiolhetionwkl4,*fore htwoP:fthatuppoltbociFfareng,oPomtfralledwouidg•
I int: of which they bed perhaps themfelves a tight to demand fa-
ties Alen.
" In traefedtting that ecemninkadon, Lard Whitwerth de-
manded, that an arra 'gement Mould be immediately made upon
the belts already =Seined; and he even infinuated, that in cafe
that was not done, be was afraid be timid have orders from his
1 Government way hen to leave France. and put an cod to his
i
;d Brobatly.
What amid the Govarnmeet of the Republic =Ewer to fuck
rod, and *range overtures, Moak: but a grew love of peace
could tubdue indlgeatke.
" To determine upon a atlas and cool dedflon, which might
• give time lc rearm and lattice to fitbdue make. It was neeeffary
' to be dearly isuvel6xf with the Idea that the numerous victim s
, i of th• eiwrrek between Chmanments have no Blare hi doge in-
' felts which crane their attic,; that the [bantam's of brave Chi-
, rens, who. through devou, c to the mask of their Country, OKA
I their blood, have no dellrem offend a neighbouring and power-
-1;. fill people ; sod that they have no lateral hi the proud tied vain
f . pro •.-nFoos of fupremacy.--k k not only neeritary to be imprelfed
' wita there loom, bat to bo entirely governed by them
" His hireelf lay Lord Wlsitwun b contented to write to his
Court, that the Flat earful would not agree to the violation of
a lid, ion Treaty, but that he ward for Pace and 'that If the
Englifh G.•vtrram•nt dermal a Convention in order to fettle the
arrangements which were cwt Included in the Treaty of Amiens,
Is would not *Wed to it; and that the objdelt of that Convention
v. veld be to tearer.' reciprocal grievances. 'floe intentions wre
:narrate and j.•II. It would have been &t .cutt to prupofe a no-
.
t r •i tine on a inure liberal ground. It is not foreign to the par-
:. pd.• here to otiferve, that it was 61 w.eha alter the mcrage in
I; which a mg.:loins. of a (clams nature had been announced; and
that the hlitliftert of the ewes Goverasaents hail not yet. been
' . able to beet' a rail N. "we .MII
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. Lord Whiivr.rilt nteiv,d forth orders; he prefented heed-
Lrely two ri,j, els ut Come mks's.
. . By th• ait it was propofetl. that Malta Mould femain under
' th• tkinsiniosi of the I.< lop of England; and that clauft agreed to
1;1 kris Balton:de le:alai. ..ft -rod to acknowledge all that had been
done its Lort.pe pollerior to the Treaty of /1101100 A.
v 'Me Ki..g of Emden(' pranifeel, bcfides, to take mesforee, In
; that thofe ni. ti,vrhoin different pans of' Lagland,laid plots againit
France. Mould be -ffctlf:ally ter:raid.
Ii "The underfigned had the tumour of obis:ruing to bis Excellency,
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Lord Klldtwinth that the hat Pealed of COVVCOIiOII was a pal-
-4 polite violation of al • Treaty of Ambits, and overturned the hafts
of the Negotiation star -h hit Excellency lad undertaken to present
" to his Court. Thai, as I • the acknowledgment offered by his Me-
jelty, there were no eilledte to which :hat could apply; that thee,
bad beet. no chaogcs in lour opt polterlor to tin •Freat) of Amiens.
except th: tureen:anon of tb. I..mpirs ~ -a which the King of Erg-
land had affented as Fledlur of Nanarer, %Web ..'.4 not, i iced,
any mare than a of calory corlequenee of the Treity of Luneville.
1, long anterior to the Treaty of /laded'-
"That the events relative to the politlftlexiitsne.f of Piedmont,
i
'•I of the lingdom of Etrutla, anti of the Italian and I.lguriai Re.
polities, wets plaint', to the Tr...ty of Antic s ; 11.4 Lac in the
, Negotiation of -hat Treaty France had ward England to acknow-
h-doe the fc three PuW4.ll j but as they could . near agree upoo
that p hit, nor upon the affairs of India, with regard to the de-
% nruction of (owe of :is, leading 'havers, and the unexampled ace
quifdions of the Englifh in that marry, it remained to be coofi.
tiered, as they did not conftltute a past or the Praimicare Arti-
cles, lOW of the fumi-mattal objedt of the Pacification of the two
• &an. The undattgned obbretd, that the French Government
• neither demanded acht...wledgasens nor appruhation 00 the part
of his Britannic Majefty
" -Ile underfigned added. that, as to the Batavian Republic, it
toil in en aeknowkalged Icy the King of England, as he had treated
with i; and that, by the Treaties calitill between that es unary
«...1 fraliee, the rear-guard of French troops was tube witudrawn
to, the cotter fulfilment of the Treaty of Amims.
." As to the criminal refugees in landon. or in *trier, whet(
I they gave thuM(LIV:i up is. 211 thrift perverfe praiase..., far from
tiring fuppreircel. they .. ere ptnfionol, and weflatreated by Fog-
land; 11,41 the French Government thonght that, in the prefect
twat ion of affairs, no importance Osould be given to that fubjc.l.l.
" I Is, I.xcelkacy Lord N•laitwor.h propofed a fecond Pnsja,
in which taigland demanded. tLat the Civil Goya-moot of Malta
loii.g left to the Grand Matt r, the Britifh Garrifans fhould con.
tine. to occupy the fortifications of the Maud. That propofitioci
was in-predicable and tirefonsc ; and, as the heft Praia, it was
trontr ry to the 1 testy of Anders, and eourequently to the bafis
of t:1- t r, at y acceded to by the Firft Confrl ; .t had, betides, the
ircurrooornahl, i•ictomvailaacy o' ; lacing all the Knights of the
Order beloni,ing to the different Powers of Europe ander the 4.1-
ihori. •snd ,rbitrsiy Government of one; it was, In fait, in hielf,
an ia fu'• I. ii honour a .d religion of the.Onaer,bitund by every tic
to ih- Igor. ••: and rrliaimi of al' Furl,—
Thit. in .dl the pree,-et. of the Negotiation, the Government
1 of the It apoldi.. 4 ,mul not hut fee. that :be En...lini Government
:ad only out. visit soil 00C wi11...4110114.09i (14:111iPS al.; Tr...cy
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of Amiens, and to prefiree Male' for the only reafon that Malta
tutted her: and the called tltal a equifition a fofficient guarantee.
" Blit'wherels the Power lit Europe, even were it ready to ae-
knowledge its Mit riarity, which would fobmit t" the will of ano-
ther. without even a difeillUtio vf irs rights. and without an appeal
totes prittopfts (aria: eel When' is the Power which, placed as
Fence has been duk(og that siikullion, wiiuki have fuhmitted to
co. anions /Mated At the commenatnent of the Negotiation, and
, rather annoureed by the tunic and menace of.war, and
-the prepa.
tallow, for boatilities. thin propufed as the means. of bringing. the
two States to a reconciliation.
" In a cafe fomewhat limilaC to the'prefent, a feeble nation, not
Iv blc by want of courage, but by its Latent and population, dared
to brave the Lnglith power iu its capital—to expole the habitation
01 i:: Kinp—endam..er its migacines,and the fruits of accumulated
indultrys during too years of petite And teconomy,..rather than
fulikribe to the enjult propofals then made to them, as they are
,to us to-day, under the idea of the conveniente of rogland, and
1 fupported by a forcible arguinent—Brave mess perithed—the Da-
-1 nith Colonies were Invaded, but, howecar unequal was the conteft,
honour left that generous nation no choice of the any which it
had to embrace. _

In the preterit dircuffion, policy and honour fpeak the fame
language. It the Batik Goverament has the power to conform or
not to its own engagement-elf it can in the treaties which It has
made diftin;uith between the fliirit ;and the letter-elf one admits
thole mental reltrietions as In many authorifed reftrittions.-11 the
convenience., of F.nglatti are the meaning of Political Conventions
—what will not the conceffions be that it will not hope to extort
fuccefsfully from the weaknefs of France t What will be the mea-
lure of the 1.-weir:ices and humiliation w!,:eh the will undert Ire to
impofe 3 To-day the convenience of England requires a guarantee
agaialt France, an I the keeps Malta! Formerly the eonveniancy
of En:Jand wanted a guarantec.againit France, and the deitooyed
Dunkirk. anti an Englilb Commiffary gave laws in a country, while
th- colours of France hung waving in the air! To-morrow Eng-
ILL conveoieney will demand a guarantee againit the progrefs of
• French indultry, and a tasif will be madt to Itop the propels of
commerce. together with our isdultry.
If we repair our harbours—if we conftraet a canal—if, by
means of encouragement, we re.eßablifh manufactures we Oral/
be ordered to deftroy our harbours, and demob& our moles. our
galas filled up, and our manufactures ruined. hey will demand
the poverty of France, and that it lays down its arms in order to
conform to the eonycniencies of England, and afford a fullicicnt
guarantee to its Government.
" Whether one confiders the principles or examines the conk-
venue, one is equally ftruck with the injultice and difgraee of
the* pretenfto::-. It .nap he aped, if they were fotonitted to an
knglifh Jury, would at hehtate to condemn them unanimoufly
The Government Ode Iterblie has a right to be aftonifned
, that the Britian Miniftre could believe itfelf authorifed to impute
to it Inch a degree of abafarneux-eHew could they conceive that
the Italia' Government of Frauce would lok is Cupid repok both
the memory of all that it bail done, and the eonfrioulndi of all its
duties.

rlur provinces, are they lets extended, lets populous ? Are we
no longer the fame men that have fatritsced every thing for the
maintenance of our jua interefts And if after our uccci ,sc
have sewn the greatek moderation, to what other mute can that
moderation be imputeddinot the juitice of our rights and to thc con-
feioufnsfs of our strength ? The underfagned, in making there ob-
iterations to Lord Whitvrorth.thinks Must& entitled to point out.
that the moderate eondurft of the whole French Adminifkation,
during two whole months of cleave provocations, and in fpite
of the deep impref6ons k it from them, ought to make him air
predate the true charade:r of the French Government. Never.
dad As, it Is when by Its profound Hence upou repeated iofults, the
ft,,,,--ornent of the French Republic had waited in expedtaion of
.v:: !woe reparation, or at loft differences terminated; when,
sv ...Joss to prejudge the final Wok which affairs might take, it
cvlr. ed the attention and with only of coubdcting the means which
n be propokd to conciliate and faddy she BMWs Government ;
it was then that verbally, and without wilting to content to give
sed,y in en deduati
and by order hi.
of his fetknc7
Lard
nt. on the 6th kb
real (April ad), to the rode-Herd the following demands :
" that England kali main Malta ter ten years;
" That England all take pultelion of the Bland of Lampedoill
r. That Holland Dual be evacuated by the French
troupe
" His Exediency Lord Wbkworth farther deelarcd.t theft
propolitions formed the ultimatum of Ida Court, and that upon '
' refutel to steer ducats bill Excellency had orders to Irk Paris io the
murk of (even days afterwards.
4 The underfigned date fay, that there la no example 00 record
of to Imperious an ultimatum.
" What! has war no inconvenicnties but to us ! la the Emilia
Minifter to judge the French nation fo weak that its ms Uaellt wimp
be agitates it by the more important deliberations, he deem not
think hinsfeit bound to conform, on its account, to the doges which
are obkrved by all the Governments of civilized Europe f

" Or, iodee;el, is it not rather that the operation of MP:Mee,
which weighs upon the confeletwe of the public as well as upon
that of the private man, has precluded the DWI& Government
from Ogning the demand which It had made; and which, by a
exude ltds desinve, it endeavours to reface to itkif in future the
!weans of obliterating the traces of its roll claim.. and AMC day id
milked opinion upon the origin or the rupture ?
" Or, in Own, do the .U,inilters of his Britain* Mak*,
know to imperfeetly the elearae ir of the FOR Conful, as to hope,
by means of provocatiem,to exafperate or to intimidate kin, b 7
inducing him either to forget the interdict of the nation, or to in.
ftigaie him to fame. overt ad, fo as that tit y might afterwards in
that eyes of Europe mifreprefent the beginning of the War
'1 he heft Conful, num. than any man who milts, knows the
Crib of war, bccaufe mare than any other man he is secullorned
to its calculations and Ghana.% He belles. a that In fuels circuses
Stances, when the Brft fent;sneuts of Governments ought to be to
calculate upon the cataftroV, a and the calamities which may b.
engendered in a new war—c!, mlieves that their flat duty is not
oe- q out to yield to motiv, s of irritatic co, but to ttempt by every
' way to up:n.o, and to mode. ate the ungovernable panicles of the
pan le.
" The Underfigned attending at firft a moment to the form of
that communication of his Excellency Lord Whitworth, begs• d
him to obit; re, that verbal and fugitive convcrfations were infuf-
Scion bat the difeuffion of fueh irirneole interclts, of which In
ordluary mite the modem are treated of in the Cound aof
Nations, after the molt mature deliberation. in fuch Councils,
ai,.. ender Sue it eirc.onstatices, nothing is coufidered a. indifferent ;
forms caps. dons even, are weighed, examined, dlfcuffed, alMae•
1 ciated, and km: to oscidem well as to jellify the party that ought
to ate

6' If fo imprudent and fo grafi a violation of all forms had °d-
eleted wit,. the French, what would not have been laid, what
would not have Ltrn written in England t There is not a fp:aker
in eitiar rife of Parliament who would not have declared that
this departure from the yenera/ rules chat:Med between na-
tions In important cafe+ was an outrage to the Britilh
the judgment of every bud?, an offence of thia nature mold
be 4 motive fulltrient tur puttinz an end to the Negotiation
" As to the fubitanee of the uldmartm propelled; the under-
hoed has the honour to recal to the recoliedUon of Lord Whit-
worth, that he w. charged to declare to him by a Note delivered
the tath Flora-al, that the Heft Conlul was not afTedical with met
nue., or with 'bum, and that he was content even to pars by
every other Government in finailaz circurntianees
a we InGited on.

I At the ilk of I.ampedora did not belong to France; that
it • • .alder the Sovereignty of another Power; and that, upon
the •o of his Britannic Majelly to obtain the phffeffion of It, the
het Conti/ bed no right to expref, in the confent or refufal.
" ilia the independence of the Order and Bland of Ma': was
the refute of a fpecial article of the Treaty of Amine, and that
therefore the ' irlt Conful cannot take any new determination on
the fulleel, without coolititing thu other cositracing parties, the
King of Alain and the Bataviau Republic. That the independence
of the Wand of hi.dta lad been guaranteed by his filajedy, the
Empaine of Germany, and that the ratificaginns of that guarantee
were exchanged; that their Nlajeflies the Enna roe of Raffia and
tee King of Pry Ma had guaranteed the independence of the Order
and of the Illand r. f Al-Ita; that their guarantee, had been de-
mzndcd hy England as sval as France ; that It was the duty of the
Fern. Conful to accept titer.., and that be had accepted them; that
the Finii Conful could not Wien to any propofal with refpedk to
the indcgcndrecc of the Order and Mind of Ilalta, witbont
know trz the in:entity= of the Governr.ients who had guaranteed it.
" That a (mall corps of French troops were at the time of the
hlefr.ge I:at:tined in HelLund, in virtue of a convention between
than Republic and France, arid that the I irft Conful had ant heti-
. taiga! to fay that he amulet evacuate Holland ae loon as the flirt-
lat:ona of the Treaty of Amiens had been carried int• fall died by
England.
" To this Note, which from its Rile and the preeifion of the mo-
tives alkalized, breathed only equity, peace, and modcratioe, l.ord
Whitworth replied. :.y a peremptory de:nandof paffports; and In
giving the Information tt. •t he expected to uf, tlom on Wcejacf..
day, the 4th esf stay, at hoc cidtick ip the messing.

a Ile French Onvernment deeply felt the contrail between a
deterovivition fa &Volute, and that diameter of urbanity, juilice,
and enneihation, which, in all eircurnitancee taut
nartiealariy in
the daft which occurred. it had endeavoaced; to ditpliey. Never
thrlers. it 'lto/iglu a facri See was due to the b.tendil c i hum:mite.
It would not abandon all hopes of Peace till the hi; moment, and
the underAgiael delivered a new note to Lord 'Whitworth by
which France offer. 4 to content that Malta lhould tv: given tip to
the protection of any of thofu guaranteeing powers, etaitriz, k,uf•
fia, or Prullia.
This ympnfal appeared to lord Whitworth himtest, as' if it
ought to hasty the pretentions of the Court; be tutpeneled his
departure, and took the Note tot the purpofe of referring it toll's
Court.
" In the mean time the Ambatfador of the-Republic at London,
informed of the demand that Lord Whitworth had made of Pali-
porta to return to England, received orders to hold himfelf in
readlnefs for his departure. He confequently demanded his pat(- ,
ports. which were immediately granted him. This Riretermine
propofed by the bunch was far front the Treaty of Amiens; cut
it had the double advantage of coming as near as poll-Mit to its
fpirit, that ts to fay, to make Malta independent of both nations,
nod it the fame time offering that guarantee which was fo much
called for, and which the Britilh Mininers pretended to be the
only objecl of their alarms.
" 'lite Britini Government untlaftood the force of there reatons,
and the unhappy fatality which lords it now into Waz, afforded it
no reply but a faits affertion.
" The a tft of this month Lard Whitworth delivered a Note, in
which he Bated that Ruffu lad minted what had 'urea demanded
I of her.
" There were three guaranteeing Powers, and i( Raffia had ea-
rule her guarantee, hill their SCIMIIIICII the Emperor of Germany
1 and the Xing of Pruffia: But how could Rufft,a have fignified il 5,
I intension on a new proportion which had been fuggefled only a
i few days I It was in the knowledge of England, that Parra and
Pruflia had promifed to guarantee the indepencicnce of Malta with
; tome flight. modibeations, and that the French GOVCOMICIJI Wert
1 anxious to accept the guarantee, and from the confillency and fide-
lity to his engagement, which characterilea the Emperor Alexan-
there was no doubt but he would accept the proportion which
I was fubmitted to him: but P*OVIDENCE, which is fometimes 1
• pleafed to confound had faith, muted to arrive at the lime hour,
at the fame inftant, even when Lord Whitworth delivered his
` note, a Courier fonts itufSa, addreffed to the Pleoipotentiaries of '
Ithat power at Paris and London, by which his Majelty. the Eta- II
‘ peror of Rufna manifeft.:d with particular sneezy the pun that he
had felt at hearing the refolution ot his Bridth Majetty to keep'
Malta : lie renewed the atfurances of his ginr.• -tee, and declared,
that he accepted the demand mote of hi. m.,!:.:ian by the Fink
Conful, if both the powers w, old accede to it. The underfigned
I, without delay informed Lord Whitworth, by a rote, of the error
into whi h his Ceurt had falhn, tot doubting • aat liner that was i
the only °bk.-Ilion which had bum made to the projea which had
been prrlentcd, that as loon as that tour Mould I.lr informed of
the reiterated and pont ive aflurances of Rah, the would readily
deliver Malta to one of the three Guarznt rein. P wets. Nrblt
then malt have been the altonithancnt of the underfigned, when
Lord Whitworti, inßead of entering into any explanation, cc
without endeavouring either to contradldt or difeuts the Oeclara- '
dons which tile underfigned has made him, hes informed him by
a note of the inane day, that by the tenor of his inftrod{ollll he was
ordered to depart thirty-fix hours after the delivery orbit ta is note,
and has renewed his demands for raffports ? The underfigned
therefore forwarded them to hint immediately.
s' Could the Englifti Ambattador have behaved himfelf different-
-1 ly if the French Government had been hefisged in a town locapa- ,
hie of defence, and that the queftion was not about the molt im-
portant interetts which the Bridal Cabinet has treated of for more
than fkm years, but about a Staple at Itulatloo I
" The opening of the Negotiations has been preceded by axma•
Intern announced with great parade. Every day, every hour,the
recommencement of hbfftlities has been min-atilt and what is this
Ultimatum which is prelented to the _French Government to be
Ggned in twenty-four hones I—it mutt confeut to give up an !Rand '
which does Dot belong to k; it mull violate, itt lf, to its own dlr.
advantage, a folenut Treaty, under the pretence that England
wants tome new tensity againn her; it muff give up an the wiped
doe to the other contracting parties, in &it roying, without that
content. an Article of the 1 reaty, which, for their fake, had oe-
coNed a cemfiderabk time in the conferences for Peace. It malt
PI& be wanting in refuel for the Guaranteeing Powerss, in eon- '
tenting that an ifland which they withal to be independent, gall
remain ten years under the authority of the Beitins Crown. That
It is to take from the Order of Malta the Sovereignty of that State
which has been relined to it, and that this fovereignty is to be
tranfmftted to the inhabitants: that by this fpoilation it is to offend
all the Powers which have acknowledged the rneftabUniment of
the Order, which have quarantecd it, and which, in the arrmge-
meat of Germany, have Inured It indemnities for the laffes which
it has experienced.
" Such is the refinance of this Ultimatum, which prelim:* a
ter fes of pretendons always increafing, in proportion to the made-
rstion which the Government of the Republic has &two. At nett
England contented to the prefervation of the Order of Malta, and
only willsed to fulled the Order and its pottelSom to the &hint
authority. To-day, and for the Srft time, the demands the aboli-
tion of the Order, and that this mutt be agreed to in 36 hum.
. But as to the conditions propofed, were they u agreeable to
the Treaty of k• lens and the late:efts of France, as they are con-
trary tsarist's& the form of the demand, the term of 36 hours pre-
kribed for the antwer, malt decide the determination of the
Fritsch Government. No, never will France acknowledge in any
Government the right of annulling, by a funk act of it* pleafure,
the itipolations the reciprocal engagement. If it buena permit-
ted that In a form tomewhat TPC/IntillZ an Ultimatum of 'nen
day. to be conlidered, if it has united another Ultimatum with a
term of 36 hours annexed to it, and Treaties prdemed in a cant:lu-
au form which were newer negotiated, it could have no other object
than to giv. the Brit& 0 vernment an example of moderation,
but it can cogent to nothing that compromites its dignity or its
pown
" The Underfigned Is then charged to declare to Ms Excellency
Lord Whitworth that no comumnication which, both in tub-
Rance and in form, does not agree with the utages °Nerved
among the Great Powers, and with the molt perfed equality be-
tween the two S ates, can any longer be admitted In France; that
nothing Stall oblige the French Guventment to difpore of countries
which do not belong to it, and that it never will acknowledge In
England the right of violating, in any ir.aaner wbatfocycr, the
Treaties made between the two Countries.

" The Underfigned repeats the peopoLdm of giving up Malta to
one of the three guaranteeing Powers ; and as to every.otistr oiled
uneonneeled with the Trezty of Amiens., it renews its declaration
that the French Government Is ruitly to open a negomatitn svith
refpeet to them.
" You have heard. at year lan meeting, the Meffage of Govern-
ment. The contra between its frank and loyal conduit and that
of England molt !hike all eyes. I faw you inanifeft your opinion
by the noble indications with whi:b you were agitated. Ycu only
keep it within bounds, that you might imitate the wife meafuta
and cireumfpcdion of Government.
" If the Finials Government ILA give the Renal of War,
nothing remains for the G^vernmcnt of the Republic but to con-
.* ip thejuatee of its caufe, and in the GOD Of Armies.
" The Mlnifter of Foreign Affairs,
(fined) • " cu. M. TALLCTRAND."
44444 CT OP Tit ItGISTERS Of Tit C•NILISVArIfr AINATIL
Tit 14TH MAT.

The Senate having the Councillors of State, Bigot-Premeneu,
Otto Hes awl Fleurleo. Orators of Government.
Charges t►e Vice Prelident and Reactants, to whom are joined
the Senators Joreph 13,napartc, Laplace, 1 efvenaffe, Joquemenot,
and Itiederer, to carry to the FieQ Cooful emir thanks fur the corn.
anunkation that had been made to the S:nat,• by his order.
It could not witboid applaufc, from the moderation and lim-
ners which eliaraetcrife the Negotiations gnat bare been opened
with the Brief& Government.

It is impatient togive to Fraoce the Capital frr thanks, if "nee
anfwer to the hopes of the Hs* Conful ; and of devotion, the
national dignity demand war. Witneffed confArnably teethe ori-
ginal, (Signed) cancer, Keeper of the Sc.,!. and Archives.
The Fitt. Confal received the Deputadoc at St. Ciond on Sun
day the Ist's.