Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-25
Negotiation Nth France.
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{No. 39)

81. has been received, and lad before the
king.
Ihave great satisfaction in communicar-
ing to you bis majesty approbation'ot the
able and judlcious manner in which you
appear TO have executed the instructions
which gave you 10 my Dispatch Of the
9Th inst.
The account you have given OF your
interview with the first consul is IN every
respect important.
1t is unnecessary for me to remark on
the tone and temper in which the senti-
Dents of the first consal appear to have
been expressed, or to offer any observa
tions III addition to those so property
made by your excellency at the time, up
on several topics witch were brought for
ward by The first consul in the course OF
your conversation ] Will therefore con
tent myself withreferring your exoellenoy
to my dispatch to Mr.. Merry of August
%, 1909, in which the subjects OF the
complaints of the French government,
respecting the freedom of the press, the
enigrants, sc. are partlculae discussed.
/ cannot however, avoid noticing, that
nothing approaching to explanation or sa
tlstacaion is stated TO have been thrown
out by the FIRST consul, Inanswer TO the
lust representations and complaints OF his
majesty, in. consequence OF the unwarran-
table ius,nuations aud charges contained
in Col. Sebastian's report against bis ma
iesty's government, the officer command
ing his forces IN Egypt, and his army IN
thar quarter: but that on the other hand,
the language of the first consul has tend
ed 10 strengtaen and confirm the suspl,
cions which that publication was pecuh,
arly calculated to excite.
shall now proceed to give you some
father instructions on the language which
it may be proper for you to hold respecting
the charge which has been advanced
against his majesty's government, OF
their unwlllingness to fulfil the treaty OF
Anne n. The Treaty of Amiens has been
in a course of execution, on the part OF
his majesty, in every article in which,
according to the spirit of that treaty, II
has been found capable of execution
There can be no doubt, that Egypt IS at
this time completely evacuated. / he
delay winch has arisen in the evacuation
Of Alexandria, was owing to accidental
circumstances, the particulars of which
were explained to you in my dispatch OF
the goth Nov. last; and had every rea-
son 10 believe, from the communication
which had with general Andreossi on
the subject, that the French government
were perfectly satisfied with the explana-
ton which he was authorized at the time
to give them respecting it.
With regard to that article OF the trea-
ty Which relates to Malta, the stipulatiops
contained in it towing to the circumstances
which it was not in the power ofhs ma
iesty to. controul,) have not been found
capable of execution. The refusal OF
Russia t. accede to the arrangement, ex-
cep. On condition that the Maltese Ian,
cue should be abolished /; the silence of
the court of Berlin with respect TO the
invitation that has been made tos it, IN
consequence Of the treaty, to become a
guarantyipg power the abolition OF the
Spanisl, priories in defiance OF the treaty
to which, the king of Spain was party !:
the declaration Of the Portuguese govern
ment of their intention to sequesirate the
property of the Portuguese Priory, as
forming a part Of the Spanish Langue,
unless the property Of the Spanish Pro-
ries is restored to them the non election
of a grand master: These circumstances
would have been sufficient, without any
other special grounds, to have warranted
his majesty in suspending the evacuation
of the island, until some new arrangement
could be adjusted for It's security and IN
dependence. But where it is considered
how erraat the dominion mower and lpflll-