The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-01-30

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which aimed at binding down. 70 England
that power thus subjaeeted, degraded, and
applauding, AS 1t were, every thing that had
happened.
Still less did tho, emperor foresee that Il
would be proposed to him to guarantee that
SUBMISSION, and to promise that that act Of
violence should not be attended with any mis-
chleVous consequences to England.
Inc English ambassador seems to have
imagined that he might venture to propose
to the minister of the emperor, that his inn
Perlai majesty should undertake the apology
ana defence OF n proceeding which his ma
Jesty had so openly condemned To.this step
on the part of the Cabinet of St. James, his
majesty mas thought proper to pay only that
| attention which il deserved, and has deemed
II nigh time to set limits u his moderation.
! The prince rovai of Denmark, endowed
with a character full of nobeness and ener-
Sy, and having been blessed BY providence
with soul as elevated as his high rank, had
| apprlzed the emperor, that, justly enraged a.
gainst what had recently happened at CO.
penhaSen, he had not ratified the convention
respecting it, and that he considered it as null
| and void
| nat prince has Just now acquainted his
majesty with the new propositions that have
been made to him, and which are cf a ma
|
appease his resentment, for they tend to
stamp on his actions the seal of degradation,
the impressions of which they never will ex-
hibit.
L he emperor, struck with the confidence
which the prince rovalplaced in him, having
moreover considered his own grounds ofdis
satisfaction with England, having attended
t. his engagements with the powers of the
North, engagements entered intohy the en-
press Catharine, andby his late imperial ma
sestry, both ofglorious memory, has resolved
upon fulfilling them.
| His imperial majesty breaks off all COM
munication with England: he recalls his en-
bassy from that court, and will not allow any
ambassador from herto continue at his court
There shall henceforward exist no relations
between the two countries.
| The emperor declares that he abrogates
every act hitherto concluded between q. B..
and Russia, and particularly the convention
concluded in 1901. He proclaims anew the
principles of the armed neutrality that mon
uihent of the wisdom of the empress Catha-
rine, and binds himself never to recedc rom
| that system
He calls upon England to give complete sa-
tistaction to his subjects, with respect to all
the just claims they may set up, of ships and
merchandise seized and detained, contrary
to the express tenor of the treaties concluded
during his own reign
| The emperor gives warning, that nothing
shall be re-established between Russia and
England, until the latter shall have given sa-
tisfaction to Denmark.
| The emperor expects, that his Britannia
Majesty, insted of permitting his ministers
toscatter fresh seeds eff war, III compliance
only with his own feelings, will be induced
to conclude peace with his1najesty the en-
II, ;cl, u h.,
| ng, in manner to the whole world, the ines
Unable blessings of peace.
When the emperor shall be satisfied upon
all these points, and especially upon that of
a peace between France and England, with
out which no part of Europe can expect to
ENJOY anv real tranquility, his lmPerial Ma
jesty will then willingly retarn 10 the relati-
ons of amity with G.. b. which in the state of
Just resentment which the emperor should
feel, he has maintained, perhaps. too long.
Done at St. Petersbursh, the 26th October,
| 1907.