Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-04-07


the calami!ies of war, and of his dilpoGtion to
maintain the rigid oblefvance of al treaties
concluded /?
The Fra Conful of the French Republic
could not doubt that his Britannia Majelty re-
eognized the right of nations to choofe the form
of their government, iince it is from the exer-
oiie of this right that he holds his crown !;
but he has been unable to comprehend how to
this fundamental principle. upon which refs
the esilence of political focieties, the MiniNer
of his Majeay could annex infinuations
which tend to an interference in the inter.
nal affairs of the Republic, and which are no
lefs injurious to the French nation and to rs
government than il would be to England and
to his Majety, if fort of invitation were held
out in favour of that Republican government
of which England adopted the forms in the
middle of the Iaf century, or an exhortation to
recall to the throne that family from whom
their birth had placed there, and whom a re.
volution compelled TO defend from il.
If at periods not far 6iaant, when the con-
ttitutional fyfem of the Republic prefented
neither the Rrength nor the folidity which it
contains at prefrnt, his Britannia Maleay tho't
himfelf enabled to invite negotiation and pa.
ci6c conferences how is it pofble that he
fhould not be eager to renew negotiations to
which the prefent and reciprocal Gtuation of
affairs promifes rapid progrefs ! On every
eide the voice of nations and of humanity i'm
plores the conclulion of war, marked already
by irch great calamities, and the prolongation
of which threatens Europe with an universal
convulion and irremediable evils. 1t is, there.
fore, to put aop to the courfe of thefe Gala
mites, or 10 order that their terrible confequen.
ces may be reproached to thofe only who ihall
have provoked them, that the Fira Conful of
the French Republic propofes to put an mme.
date end to hoftilities, by agreeing to fuf.
penfien of arms, and naming Plenipotentaries
on each Gde, who ihould repair to Dunkirk, or
any other town as advantageouly lituated for
the quicknefs of the REFLECTIVE communication,
and who fhould apply themfelves without any
delay to effeet the re.efabliihment of peace and
good understanding between the French Re.
public and England
The Fira Conful offers to give the paGports
which may be necelary for this purpofe.
(Signed) en- TAILEYRAND.
Pa,i' '4ts Js' ogb1 yea, IF sis F,srs5 RspusEs.
Letter from Lord Grtnoiik :, The Min;aer 70, For.
e;gn 11a1s at Paris.
Downing areet, Jan. co. 1900.
l have the honor TO inclofe to you the AMI.
wer which His M.jeRy has directed m. to re.
turn to the Official Note which you traniinit
ted to me- have the honor to be, with
high confederation, Sir, your moi obedient
(Sisnsd) GRENvILLE.
Il @s lhi.jssrJsv faras. ASsi,,. Us. t5s. at Peril.
NOTE INFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING.
THE official Note tranfmitted by the Min
liter for Foreign Affairs in France, and received
by the undersigned on the 9Th infant, has been
laid before the King.
His Majefy cannot forbear expecting the
concern with which he obferves in that Note,
that the unprovoked aggredions of France, the
fole caufe and origin of the war, are fyltemati.
cally defended by her prefent Rulers, IN YER the
lame injurious pretences by which they were
originally attempted to be difguifed. His Ma.
Jelly will not enter into the refutation of allie.
cations now universally exploded, and Tin 70
far as they refpe6 his Majeay's condua) not
only in themfelves utterly groundlefs, but con.
tradiefed both by the internal evidence Of the
tranfaetion to which they relate, and alto by
the exprefs teRimony (given at the time) Of
the government Of France inelf.
With refped to the Object of the Note, his
MajeRy can only refer to the anfwer which he
has already given.
He has explained, without referve, the obaa.
cles which, in his judgment, preeludes at the
preient moment all hope of advantage from ne.
gociation. All the inducements to treat which
are relied upon in the French official Note !;
the Perional difpolitions which are iaid to pre-
vail for the conclufion of peace, and for the flu.
tnre obiervancs of Treaties the power of in.
turing the effect of thofe dfpoGtions, fuppofing
them to exiR and the folidity of the fyltem
newly eRablilhed, after 70 rapid fucceflion of
Revolutions-all thefc are points which can be
known only from that tet to which his Maief
ty has already referred them--the rciult of ex.
Perience and the evidence of fae,s.
With that lncerity and plainnefs which his