Mais depuis l'Egypte eft rentrée fous la Domination de fon Souverain legitime, et l'Idée d'une Rupture entre les Deux Nations, par Rapport à l'Obligation contractée avec la Porte, fe trouve evanouie,

Il n'exifte donc qu'un feul Objet qui foit digne de fixer l'Attention des Deux Nations, L'Execution du Traité d'Amiens en ce qui concerne Malthe.

Sa Majefté s'eft engagée à la reftituer à l'Ordre, et jufqu'à ce que l'Ordre foit en état de la garder à la confier à l'Armée Napolitaine. Sa Majefté rejet tera tout Sophifme, toute Distinction, toute Reftriction mentale qu'on pourroit lui prefenter pour mettre en Doute la Force & la Validité de Son Engagement. Le Garant du Gouvernement François eft à cet Egard dans la Réligion, la Confcience de Sa Majefté Britannique. Quel Moyen auroient deformais les Deux Nations pour s'entendre s'il en étoit autrement. Tout ne feroit il pas Cahos? Ce feroit veritablement ajouter une Calamité aux Calamités qui ont menacé l'Ordre social.

En refumè le Soufigné eft chargé de declarer que le Premier Conful ne veut point relever le Défi de Guerre que l'Angleterre à jetté à la France: Que quant a Malthe il ne voit aucune Matière de Difcuffion, le Traité ayant tout prévu et tout arrêté. Le Soufigné a l'Honneur, &c.

F. ANDREOSSY. Portland Place, le 8 Germinal, an II.

(29th March 1803.)

(Tranflation

Tranflation of Inclofure referred to in No. 49.) THE Underfigned General of Divifion, Ambaf

fador and Minifter Plenipotentiary from the French Republic, has laid before his Government the Note addreffed to him by his Excellency Lord Hawkesbury. He has received Orders to make the following Anfwer to the Obfervations therein contained.

The Object of this Note appears to be to explain His Britannic Majefty's Meffage; and to give some Elucidations which had been demanded refpecting the Execution of the Treaty of Amiens.

The First Conful will not make any Complaint relative to the extraordinary and unexpected Affertions of this Act iffued by His Britannic Majesty, Not One of them is founded.

His Britannic Majefty believes that His Kingdom is menaced by Preparations made in the Ports of Holland and France. He has been deceived: The First Conful has made no Preparation.

There were at the Time of the Meffage, but Two Frigates in the Roads of Holland, and but Three Corvettes in the Road of Dunkirk.

How can His Britannic Majefty's Ministers have been deceived on Facts fo evident? His Britannic Majefty's Ambaffadors at Paris and at the Hague have seriously to reproach themselves, if they have credited Information fo evidently falfe, and if they did not foresee that they thereby expofed their Government to err in the most important Deliberations.

Was

Was it not conformable to the Ufage practifed among Nations, first to demand Explanations, and thus to take Means for being convinced of the Falfhood of the Intelligence which the Ministers might have received? Muft not the leaft Effects of the Omiffion of this Practice be, to bring on the Ruin of Families, and carry Confufion. Uncertainty, and Disorder into all the Commercial Affairs of both Nations? The First Conful knows, both from his own Sentiments, and judging of other People by the French, that a great Nation can never be terrified, He believes that good Policy and the Feelings of true Dignity ever infpire the Sentiment of Efteem for a Rival Nation, and never the Design of menacing her. A great Nation may be destroyed, but not intimidated.

The Second Part of His Majefty's Meffage confists of another Affertion no better founded. His Britannic Majefty makes Mention of Difcuffions, the Succefs of which is doubtful. What are these Dif cuffions? What official Notes, what Protocole prove the Opening, the Progrefs, the Viciffitudes of a Debate? Can a State of Difficulties, which leads to an Alternative of Peace or War, fpring up unawares without Commencement, without Progreffion, and lead without Distinction, to an Appeal to Arms before all the Means of Conciliation have been exhausted.

In this Cafe, the Appeal has been publicly made before it could be known that there was room for Mifunderstanding. The Termination of the Difcuf

fions was announced before they had begun. The Iffue of a difficult Difcuffion has been declared before it arofe. What would Europe, what would both Nations think, if they knew that these Discuf. fions, announced by His Britannic Majefty as fo difficult to terminate, were unknown to the French Government; and that the First Conful on reading the Meffage, could not comprehend the Meaning of either of the Declarations therein contained.

He has alfo abftained from any oftenfible Step; and whatever may have been the Clamour, the Activity, the Provocations of War, which have taken place in England' fince that Meffage, he has given no Orders, he has made no Dispositions, no Preparations. He places his Glory in an Affair of this Nature, wholly in being taken in an unprovided State. He will continue in this Syftem of honeft Frankness, until His Britannic Majefty has reflected fully on the Part He propofes to take.

In Lord Hawkefbury's Note, an Opinion is expreffed, that the French Republick has increased in Power fince the Peace of Amiens. This is a decided Error. Since that Epoch, France has evacuated a confiderable Territory. The French Power has received no Degree of Augmentation. If His Britannic Majesty is determined to make War, he may allege all the Pretexts he pleafes. He will find few lefs founded.

As to the Complaints made refpecting the Publications which may have appeared in France, they

are

are of an Order too fecondary to be capable of influencing fuch a Decifion. Are we then returned to the Age of Tournaments? Motives of this Nature might have authorized, Four Centuries ago, the Combat of Thirties; but they cannot, in this Age, be a Reafon for War between the Two Countries.

It might fuffice in this Refpect to reply to his Excellency, that no Representation has been made by him on the Subject to the Government of the Republick; and that, if it was but Justice to grant Satisfaction, the First Conful had a Right to expect that which was required by M. Otto, in his Note of the 22d Thermidor laft, upon Grounds more ferious and more just.

Is it poffible that the English Ministry can have been ignorant, that ever fince the Conclufion of the Treaty of Amiens the English Press has not ceafed to spread through Europe' the Rage of War, the Difcredit of Peace, and fhameless and boundless Outrages against every Thing which is the Object of the Love and Veneration of the French People?

A few Days after the Ratification of Peace, One of His Britannic Majesty's Ministers declared that the Peace Establishment must be confiderable; and the Distrust excited by this Declaration made in Parliament with as much Bitterness as Impropriety, furnished a Commentary for the Exaggeration and Alarms which were circulated in despicable Pamphlets, and in Newspapers as contemptible as those Libels. Since that Time, thefe Writers have found