Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-31
EUROPEAN Intelligence.
LONDON, March rs.


ExfsaF efa letter fvoym Paris, Maye6 z7e
I" THEFrench rcvolu lon has not ref
peeaed the etiquette Of courts more than
j, has the laws of nations. Ambaiiadors
from independent itates have been arreited
without .caule, and releafed without apo.
logy !; nay, infult has fome,imes been
added to the offence, and frangeto lay,
it never excited amongR the diplomatic
corps, any other feelings, than apprehen-
Gon for the individual fafety Of each of S
members, and iileat pity for the victims
of the violated laws of nations. BY this
impolitic conduct, the representatives OF
emperors and kings have accu&omed up
fal,s to treat them with impertinence and
infolence, and TO hold to Them at the
courts OF Luxembourg and Thuilieries,
the low language ofthe bar or the haugh
" and commanding language OF the
camp.
{" In former times, even when wars or
confpiracies forced the French monarchs to
order any foreign ambanador TO leave the
court or the country, anger did not gel
the better of dignity, and the offended
never forgot thar the offender was the re-
PREVENTATIVE of an independent prince,
his equal in rank if nor in power.
(" The remarks l beard yeiterday,
when ] dined with the count De NJ
who very jualy obfsrved that
iome new diplomatic regulations are abio-
luteIy neceHary, and either all other inde-
pendent flates mutt adopt the revolution
AIRY laws, language, and conduit Of France e,
orforce Fsanceto FIX the period when It VIII
again acknowledge s. reject the laws. cut
toms g. etiquette, acknowledged by all o.
her Rafes & nations Of Europe and tina.
gill fuch a period, charge d'affaires lhou'd
be the only perfons en- ployed in France,
{" You ak ne if Witt the foreign mi
nitters here, and if they are men of diplo-
matte talents I have the honor Of the
acquaintance of ALL the minifers from
all the yet independent nations, and mott
Of them are grown old in diplomatic EN-
ployment, and are Of tried abilities.
g Count de Cobentzel, the Imperial
ambaaador, brother 10 the iucceflor Of 3D.
ron Thugut, is perfon Of amiable man
ners, and if his attendance at ST. Cloud,
two days after the infult offered to Count
De S,ahremberg, before any fatisfa6tion
was given, OF orders received from his
own court how TO ae, has rather lowered
him in the public opinion, the treaty then
negotiating about the indennities for the
grand duke of Tulcany, forced him, no
doubt, on this, and other occsGons, to
believe differently from what as Kunitz
OF Thugut would have done: he has
abilities, but it is reported, that TaIIey-
rand has faid, that his official dinners are
better than his official memorials.
6 Count De MARCEL, the Ruaian am
baGador, was under the great Catherine
II. amhaGador TO the courts of Vienna.
Stockholm, and Copenhagen, and at her
death, he was left prime minifter: exiled
by Paul |. he was recalled by the prefer,
emperor, and fent as his ambaGador TO
Paris. AccuRomed to the polite etiquette
of courts, the revolutionary one in France
furprized and offended him, and he did not
conceal his fentiments the French in
trigucrs at St. Peteriburgb, much wifhed
his difgrace; they were however, diff,
appointed his great abilities, and his
paf fervices, were nor forgotten by fuch
prince as Alexander, who told his cne-
mics, that count Marcof mutt either re.
main where he is, or re aiume the place
h. occupied at home, at the death of the
late emprefs: this anlwer flenced them
a, once, and he is at prefent hated and
feared at the Thuilleries, but honorcd
and eReemed by the whole diplomatic
corps.
!" The marquis de LuccheGni, the
Pfuflian ambafador, was born at LUCIA,
a., TtaIv and 90 n d;(n;nIe of Uojfa,re