Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-18
PARIS, May RI.
CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
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Government, made communicative -
the Senate, of rhe note, addfei1ed on the
Cd of the month, TO the Anhahador OF
his Britannia MajeGy, BY the mlnitter TOR
Foreign Aflirs.
Il Florsal, al XI.
Tn the important and ferrous clrcumlfan.
ces, in which the two Nations find them
felves, the undersigned the Miniitcr tor
Foreign Affairs Of the French Republic,
has received an order to place under the
eyes of the Britiih government the fol-
lowing Note.
The I7sh Ventofe, His Britannia ma
eay cauled 70 be communicated to his
Parliament, by ipecial Meaage, that for
midable ornaments were preparing in the
Ports Of France, and Holland, and that
important negotiations, tie refults OF
which were doubtful, divided the two 60
yernments.
This extraordinary and unexpected de-
claration excited a genera! aftoniihnent
but the maritime fisuation of France was
obvious. England, Earope knew that
there wereno formidable ornaments ei-
Their in tie ports of France or in the ports
OF Holland.
The underigned will not call to the
recollection of Ills Excellency, Lord
Whi,worth, every thiog which was faid
-at that time. Ii was demanded from what
iouFce could fpring information 70 i'll.
founded The perlonal difcermnent OF
Lord Whitworth, the loyalty of his cha
raeter, could not be for moment fufpeet
ed.
The anertion that France was making
hottie armaments, was manifeRiy fup.
petition, and Ore which could not impole
on any perfon. RS natural effect, mua
tend TO create belief, chat it was means,
OF which men fgnalized by their turbu
lent opinions, wiihed TO avail! tLemlelves,
and who fought with eagernefs pretex,
for exciting troubles for enaasning the
the paaions of the Bfitiih Nation, for
exciting defiance, Hatred and alarm.
With relpetf TO The Englfh Govern
ment ii ought to be believed that, if
by falfc reports it had been led into an
error, with refpea TO the exifence of ar
maments, it could not have been equally
20 with relpett to the exi!tence Of Nego
Citations.
The ambaGador, Of the republic at
London, was no fooner informed OF
the Menage Of his Britannia Majeity,
than, aaoniihed that it announced pego-
gociation, Of which he was unacquainted,
he immediately waited upon his excelIen-
cy, Lord Hawkeibury, and before, at
that time, expecting that an appeal TO
arms, founded upon falle fuppoGtions,
could cover the project 70 violate the
Treaty Of Amsins, with reipeet TO the
claules, which were not yet carried into
execution, he preiented TO the Miniiter of
his Britannia Majcay, on the 18th Ven
tote, a note demanding Of him explanae
tions.
AT the fame period the Undersigned
had orders to addrels his lxcellency Lord
Whitworsh relative TO the motives which
could have determined the Englifh Co.
vernment to authorize, ia its Mefsge,
two aGertions, both equally talle, in or
der TO call its nation 10 arms, and 70 break
the bond Of Peace, which united the two
States.
His Excellency, Lord Hawk ibury, re-
mitted on the 18th Ventofe, to General
Andreoai, vague, aggEeaive and iuFe-
rious note, far from throwing any light
on the inbjett Of the difculion, on the
contrary involved it in additional obfcuri-
ty. II fcarcely held DOT the leaf hope Of
the pofibility of arriving at dilcuilion,
and fill lels the hope of feeling itterminate
in an aufpicious manner.
The reply of the French Government,