tention of compelling the Swifs Nation by Force to renounce that Syftem of Government under which they had fo long profpered, and to which they appear to be almost unanimoufly anxious to return. In this Event His Majefty will feel himself bound to abstain from all Interference on His Part; it being His earnest Defire that the Swifs Nation fhould be left at Liberty to regulate their own internal Concerns, without the Interpofition of any. Foreign Power. If, however, contrary to His Majesty's Expectations, the French Government fhould perfift in the Syftem of Coercion, announced in the Proclamation of the Firft Conful, inferted in the Moniteur of the 1ft Inftant, you will, in that Cafe, inform yourself, by every Means in your Power, of the Difpofition of the People at large of the Swifs Confederacy, and particularly of those who have the Direction of their Affairs, and of those who poffefs the greatest Share of Influence amongst them, to perfevere in the Defence of their Rights, and in the Maintenance of the System they have adopted. You will likewife enquire into the Means of Defence of which they may be poffeffed, and of the Probability of their being exerted with Succefs. You will on no Account encourage them to perfevere in active Measures of Refiftance which they are not themselves defirous to adopt, or which they may believe are unlikely to be ultimately effeccual. If, however, you should find that the People of the Swiss Confederacy are generally determined" to perfevere in the Maintenance of their Indepen dence, dence, and of their Right to return to their ancient Syftem of Government; and if you fhould be of Opinion that from the Union that subfifts amongst the People, and from their Zeal and Enthusiasm in the Cause in which they are engaged, they are finally refolved at all Hazards to refift the threatened Attempt of the French Government to interpofe by Force of Arms, in the Settlement of their internal Concerns; you will then immediately communicate, in Confidence, to the Swiss Government, that either in the Event of a French Army having entered the Country, or in the Event of your having Reason to be convinced that a French Army is actually advancing for that Purpose, His Majesty has authorised you to accede to their Application for pecuniary Succours. I have furnished you with a Cypher and Decypher that you may have it in your Power to corref pond with His Majesty's Ministers at Vienna and Munich, if you should think it advisable; and as it is highly probable that the Armies of the Swifs Confederacy may be inadequately supplied with Arms, Ammunition, or Provifions, and may be defirous of procuring Supplies thereof from the neighbouring Countries, you will ufe your utmoft Endeavours to give them every Facility for this Purpose. You will be very particular in informing me of the Numbers and Situation of any Auftrian Corps in the Neighbourhood of Switzerland, and of the Probability of their advancing in any Event into the Swifs Territory. As it is of great Importance that His Majesty's Government fhould be regularly informed of the Events which may be paffing in Switzerland, and of the Difpofitions that may prevail there, you will endeavour to ascertain the most safe and expeditious Mode of conveying your Letters which will avoid their paffing through any Part of the French Republic. As it is poffible that previous to your Arrival in Switzerland the prefent State of Affairs may have undergone a decided Alteration, either in confequence of the Submiffion of the Swiss Cantons, or of any Compromife having taken place as to their internal Concerns, it will be proper that, in that Cafe, you fhould take up your Refidence in fuch a Situation as you may think moft convenient in the Neighbourhood of Switzerland, of which you will give me the earliest Intelligence, and there wait for His Majefty's further Orders. I am, with great Truth and Regard, Conftance, October I My Lord, 31, 1802. HAVE the Honor to inform your Lordship that I arrived here on the 27th Instant, and that, having received this Evening authentic Information of of the Submiffion of the Diet of Switzerland, affembled at Schwitz, to the French Arms, I lofe no Time in dispatching the Meffenger Shaw, with this Intelligence; from which your Lordship will perceive that it only remains for me to obey that Part of my Instructions by which I am directed, under fuch Circumstances, to take up my Residence in the Neighbourhood of Switzerland, and there to await His Majesty's farther Orders. I have the Honor to be, &c. (Signed) FRA. MOORE. The Right Honorable Lord Hawkesbury, &c. &c. &c. No. 20. I Sir, Downing Street, November 25, 1802.. HAVE duly received your feveral Letters by the Messenger Shaw. As from the present State of Switzerland your Continuance in the Vicinity of that Country appears to be no longer neceffary, you are at Liberty to return to England as foon as it may fuit Convenience. your No. 21. Extract of a Dispatch from Mr. Lifton to A FEW Hours after I had fent off my last Dif patch to your Lordship, (on Saturday the 9th of this Month), the French Ambaffador, M. de Semonville, waited upon the Prefident of the Government of State, and informed him that he had just received, by a Courier from Paris, Orders to inform the Government of this Country, 66 Que le Premier Conful avoit appris, avec autant de Surprise que d'Indignation, que des Perfonnes avides de Révolutions vouloient de nouveau troubler le Repos dans la Batavie, en abusant même pour cet Effêt de Noms refpectables; et que le Premier Conful, comme allié de la Republique, invitoit le Gouvernement à prendre toutes les Méfures néceffaires pour maintenir l'Ordre des Chofes établi par la Constitution." These were nearly the Words read to me by the Secretary of State, from a Note in his own Handwriting, dictated to him by M. de Semonville, with a View to its Publication, (and a Tranflation was accordingly inferted in the Dutch official Paper of the Hague on the 11th); but they fall very far fhort of the Language employed by the French Minifter for Foreign Affairs in his Difpatches to the Ambaffador, and in the Communication made by him to the Dutch Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, (who |