jfomgit 3lnteili3etice;
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
JtOUSM OF LORDS. .
l ucfdaj Jaauary *B.
His Message. .
Lurd Grenville moved the order of thr
day for taking into consideration his M»-
jrlly'i mefUge ; which' being read, together
with the mcffiie it felt", and the titles of the
p&jiers referred to in it;
His lordlhip obferveif, that the conduft of
his maj sty's ministers in this great object
was so per eftlv conformable with the views
lb often exprelT-d from the thion=, so often
approved by the lioufe, and in its
addre&s to the fo'vereigii, that it would
"have been anheceftiry for him t* urge any
preliminary obfervatiou in support of his
motion, if it were not that r>y neglefting to
do so he snight be supposed to entertain any of every efUblifhed government. It won!
doubts upon a fuuj-ft refpc&tng which, of be unnecessary to cite : o ; ijm'e
all Others, he bail the f.n.tllefl que (lion. In- while the face of Euro p.- i x..ib:teii • •: '
deed, he should efleem it wholly fuperfiuous deplorable examples of the influent e of th
to employ any arguments with the majority principle. The French miniffer, howeve:
of their lordships", who always held the asserted, that, were it not for the condu.ft o
fame fcntiments which influenced the go- foreigh powers, France would have r«:;-o-ei
vernmcnt of this country, in all its proceed- faiibful to her declarations. To rlUmati
ings tnr. ugh this iinpotsntconteif ; anil as the value of this argument, it would ne l'ul
to those who, in spite of evtry danger, were | ficient to take a view of that fort of fidelit;
neither w.irned by event?, nor influenced by with which (lie had performed the engage
rrafoning, he defpiired of being able to con- ments fit" hod entered into. He held it; hi
vi»ce them by any thing which he could fay. hand a book, in which were enumerated tht
There were other principles which fiiould be different treaties with France, concludec
V?pt m mind while ir.veftigating the subject : from the commence of the revolution tt> th<
Virft. whether it was expedient at th'u time peac- of Cam (to Formio. He believed lu
* o enter upon a uegcciation—jdly, whether fhouH be warranted in faying, those treaties
such Ilegociation was likely to lead to peace numerous a. they were, had every one beer
—i'lii Jiily, if it should terminate in ape .ice, ! violated by the French ; but of this he wa
whether tliete was any feeurity that it would I confident, that if any person could shew l.irr
he f«.chfiilly mamtaucd on the part as the j one which had not been violated by them
ensin). Some people he knew, were ready Ihe nsuld produce five, or even ten, that bad
to oxprefs an opinion, that, whatever may j been violated. Togo a little farther, h<
be the government of France, or whatever maintained that there i.ot a treaty tht
its dispositions, Kill it was for the interest of republic had been engaged in, which had not
can ft if they did not succeed, no injury , tinder such insults towsuJs the otlisr party,
would be done, and if they ended in a peace, as to a spirited nation would be intolerable,
the whole of our object would acVuslly be Same had been biokui iff with menace?,
gained. These, however, were only tlx: frn- some continued undrr indignities, and f'ucli
tiinents of very short-sighted politicians, ai were concluded afterwards, violated.
To enter into a treaty, without considering , These insults indeed, ir them, were confurn
tlie chara&er, views, and dispositions of the ; mate wisdom, if any thiftg could be called
government treated with, nerer was, and, , wifdon: which had To foul an objeft ; tci
in the nature of things, never could be done thtry tended to degrade the guverriments i,l
with wisdom or fccurity. But in the pre- all Europe in the ryes of ihofe whole affaiii
sent infhnte, to agree to a negociition, not | they were to adminiffer. Amongll thele in
only would be productive of no advantage- (lances. he b<lteved would not be f„rgotren,
ouseffcl for ourfrives, bwt might effectual- the negociation at Fan. u'J at Liile ; in the
ly serve the purpose of the enemy, by low- firft of which, our amliafiador was ordered
enng the high tone, and relating the energy from Paris, fvcaiife hi, w -Id not imxediate,-
of this country, at the fa.ne time that it ly shite the terms of the negociation ; and
would deprive it gf the frierdfhip and tonfi-; in tk; f'econd, sent off wl;h equal contumely,
tieucr ot those allies, who juflly confide red because he w. <•!,! (. »t. cgiijeiii;. to ajret to
> Brent Britain us the support and firm bul- | whatever terms they might propole. This
wa.k of a!! Europe, The finir nootives event happened at the of on. of th-ir
which influenced those in the a iniiniftrjtion revolution:, and e. i. 'N- it.' to !! cw how
ef affairs when forced into this war, and I much their relations with foreign power®
which unremittingly continued to a&uste i depended on the caprice 5r character? of the
them through the whole of its progress, j men who rapidly fpcreed each other in the
continued at this moment t6 oj«rate as ' direftion of their affairs. To fliew their
forcibly as cvrr ; and so far fiom being in- J want of faith in the obfi-mnar of treat**,
<!ueed to alter any former opinions in ronfe
quence.of the overtures and prof fions late
ly made, they fevved only to confirm them
:ncre (Irongly in their fixed, and t'.ie trailed
immutable principles. They could not re- |
It upon vague and empty proteffiofls againlt |
the evidence of .acts, and convincej as tht y |
net- ail Europe had, unfortunately, been of!
.the enormous andcontinufd aggressions and
f.rimes of the French government hereto
far? ; it was natural for them tr> examine
-whether the government which at present
.'uid the cfccnder.ry, was ready to reprobut;
the condixfl of its predecessors. Irftead of
this, hrwever, they found that tht prefer.:
government of France, not jtiftified all
former proceedings, but even incorporated
and identified themselves, -n that refpeft,
■with tbofe which went before them. The
French minifW, Mr. Talleyrwid, even we*t
so far as to hold out a challenge on tbii head,
ps if it were a disputable point, and it was
with fomc degree of unwillingness that he
■was induced to take up any of their lord (hips
time, in adverting to positions that had so
'64 ten before been refuted. In hit tetter, M.
Talleyrand fays—" Very far from its beings
Trance which provoked it (the war)—(he
d, it roust be remembered, fretn the eom
inencement of her revolution, loleir,nly pro
i lairoed her love ef peace, and her dtsincli
* nation to conquests ; ber retpect for tie in
dependence of oil governments." That (he
proclaimed all this, he was very ready to tod
mit, but in order to discover the true genius
tid aftive spirit of her revolution it was ne
cessary to examine how far her conJuft tor
rdpordedVith her profeffions- In the ferft
place, then, it was singular to remark, that
this government, so rioch in love with
peace, had, for the last eight years, been ac
tually at war with every kingdom, nation,
and state in Europe, with the exception only
of two—namely, Denmark and Sweden ; and
even xhofe two kingdoms were so little ex
, tnpted from their oppreffions'and depreda
tions, that the mrnifters of both courts had
lately been recalled from Paris. This, then,
was fufficient to exemplify her love of peace.
The next confide ration was how far it had
Si'wn its disinclination to conquests. After
having made this declaration, the firft fuc
ieffes of the French jms manifefted its fin-
-rrity by the decree of the 19th of Noverr.-
'ur, which was in fact a declaration of War
:<£ainft everv ration, the principal objeft of
i'hifh was ; to excite the people against their
' iltrs ; and this was invariably the princi
ple upon which (he aAed, nnder every form
-whatever, to the present moment.. With
•V utmdft perfidy, in defiance of every treaty,
■- n-! without the fwalleft provocation, ihe
'■'. l upon and conquered airthe ftnaller States
that (ur&unded her. Ww not SWitiser
land a Conqui-ft ? Was not Holland a con
quest ? And whs the -Gifal pines and other
republics, fr.hicfr happily fubnftdd no longer,
any otieY that* a conquest? In short, every
date that funouitded her was in a greater
or let's decree cbnquered* with the exception
i of Great Britain, which was secured by *
barrier which, he trusted, would fcparale
them forever. As to her respect for the
Independence <(){ other, governments, it wa*
precisely on a level with her other, declara
tions ; tor nc sooner did her arms enable her
to gain pofTefiion of Savoy, the Netherlands
and other places, bat (lie immediately hal
tented to annex them to the republic by in
diffoluabb ties, if it was pallible that luch
ties could l>e iudiffoluabte. Tn former wars
it frequently happened that nations commit
ted aggrefiions, and even made conquc-flt
upon their neighbours, at the fame time that
they refpetted their national independence ;
but tl)e fyftera of France has, and ever
mud be, as long as she shall be directed by
revolutionary principles, the total overthrow
he w-uH) revert to that •• v/.t'* the p ?.»n " Holland, with pjwrs to tr.nil-rrn was »«var: tl>« thrrr were peilei.j in this p r , ; c< /.■ e 'compatible with- each other
king of Pruflia, which fixed a demarcation ; such Oi -js a* these privateers 1-»d captured, country so extremely tender of the char.c,' ctiu "ld.ilof4*rft together. .Such was tbi
of neutrality for the north cf Europe. It j The United States . f America were not ters of our enemies, as to think it highly ] ■ of Monge, and- fuch,-no doubt
W*s evident to eVfty otie 9 t'uht while France from the effects cf this system, and in that any thing Ihould be laid at were the fentimenta qf'the firft coaful, Buo
was at war with so formidable a power astlie fin thki? own defence were obliged tQ, com- which th«-y Could take offence ; yet the; fe n3 p artc# j-| e before' obJVrwfr that the ex
Emperor of Germany, and while yet they | mente hottilities. After retorting upon the fame persons ielt not the fame atiici-.cy in re- Jftchce ©f th* present confenition inFranc*
retained Holland in a state of abfclutc lub- j British government the charge of acrgreflion, gard to the many calumnies and reproached oh the life*of its prefenr ruler anc
jeftion, to the exclulron of the family which j Fafjeyrand went on to fay that 44 that aiT-til- which the enemy had lavMhedon the govern- event of his who had we tfi
had the hereditary ™nn S e.-nent of its affairs, : "d or. all fides, the republic could not but ment of thbeountry ; yet in the bed pen- wi(b ? Tht • perfi ,J he ' eoiplo ed j (
nothing-was ot more importance to it, than •. extend universally theefforW ot her'defence, ods of 0111 hulnv in the fpceChes from the principal offices of the state wete mer
to r,.m and preserve the friendlhip of the | There was something in this p-r„£ wf.ich throne, or in the addresses of the parlia- •„ t , )e most monft^f c ,; m?B Q ,
kingct 1'; cilia* Yet, all their induce- ' feenud to imply more than could he well mant tnere was no fcrop e oMerved ,n what the motl moriftrou r ; ods of , he Freneh
menta to re.ft rain the violence cf the repub- conveyed Hi the translation, and it seemed we conceive to be the ot truth. . , . # .|V , , .« ~ . ,
lie, (he violated the treaty with Pruflia, by [to have been jargomd for the purpose of J Such was the pradice in the reign of Louis . v : 'a' r * :i • t-f
demanding a contribution from Hamburg, a ' insinuating foraetbinjj which the French XIV. and i: was lingular at the present B ' in t e crirai
neutral state, which was within the line of de- I'rainifter either dared not or did not think it time, that while gentlemen here were afraid _ . ° ,°. P lc ' r ®' e *"
marcation, and wbieh gave it no offence j prudent openly to avow. The French ) Ctf giving ofcnee, the parties concerned re- Ff *. cou e °"ne ra * l e
whatever. What rendered this infracVion ! words were—La Re[)ublique adu porter, ceived all those exprtfJions with the nt in oft iP° l 1 ,on ° uonapare, i e.s co e
the more glaring, was, that the c opt ribution paritous les efforts de Sa defensive. 'lfhe , degree of indifference, and were not in the e«»rtatne<l from tbe dtlpol.t.ons .f hlspo
was intended to enable France to make war , did not greatly mifcoi ceive the secret wean- lead intimidati-i from offering us overtures . ,tiea * ocla,t ''- , , r demonstrating that
upon these countries which were at the fame ! ing cf this expression, it implied lone thing of ivi; ' >.«: Such motives, he hoped, .J* ,3te,,er ?"*'*. ara(m {' ot trenctl ad *
time proteflinp the commerce of ilam- ! more mrinftrous and horrible than had en- would never have any weight with a Bntifh > "ercr.ts—tnihu country, the government
burgh, And maintaining its neutrality * tered into the system even of French mora- Senate-; and he, for one, was determined . ~ ievf r '"eHded that the of the
With Sardinia, also, the republic had con- s lity even under the reign of Robespierre. to speak what his real fentiisents,' as well as ancient line ot trench prraceJ flronli be the
cludtd a treaty of peace, purchased at a con- What he collected from it was this, that if his huty (vugefird to him. In treating of * P"" Yfitb !■ ranee, his
fiderable price, which, however, did not pre- France, felt h»rfelf aggrieved by one power, Bu naparte, it was r.ot a private charafler mrdlhip reminded the houfc of that period
vent its armies from invadh g that country, ' Hie held I trrfelf juftißed in inflnfting upon 1 which came under their consideration, but when tliu count y was deserted oy all its
feiiing upon the citadel ol Turin, and after- any ether, the punishment of fi.ch opprr fiion. character of a man who, for the last a'l'es, when the whene forces of France had
wards obliging the king to bcct;me a fugitive It is certain that £g.ypt did not enter into three years bore a conspicuous part in the no other view or object bt»t the 3eftruAiou
and a wanderer and without any other plea any coalition, nor commit any adt of hoQili- great events which must come under their Great Britain ; when much of our force
than that his dominions were necessary for ty againli France, yet France, thinking her- contemplation. They were lft to cohfider was employed in fuppreffi >|r a rebellion in
the convenience of their military operations, fc lf aggrieved by what she called the coali- his personal chara^er; and 2dly t vhutWe Irel?ni ; and if under such circumstances-
The firfl treaty they concluded was with ' tion, found it a perfectly juftifir.ble tiling to the riiipoPtions he ever manift Parliameit of th » country, trusting to
the duke of Tufcany ; but in defiance of ievenge herfclf upon Egypt. Should Eng- the faithful fulfillment of th.e -t e tics he own resources, had determined to abide
the inoft solemn obligations, they afterwards land therefore at this time conclude a peace concluded. His firfl appearance, he belirv- every chance of war, he made no doubt but
forcibly took pofleflion of Leghorn ; plun- with France, the continuance of that peace ed, upon the theatre «f revolution to.©, when ,n prefent moment, when its fuccelfcs
dered the inhabitants, and only evacuated could not, Record ing to this doArine, depend j with month of the cannon he ; contri'ui- ? n d that of its allies, were fufficient to abi
the place in consideration of a sum of money upon the fidelity of England in the observance I ted to establish for a while the constitution j mate its hopes, and place it in a iituation to
extorted under the pretence c f lia\ir»g pro- of that trea*v. but upc-n the Mamelukes of of 179;. which he since overthrew at the j demand terniS of advantage and feenrity if
tested the people whom they pillaged ; and E f ',ypt, or any other pcrfo<« who, by giving point of the bayonet. Perhaps he was then j would manifeft that, as it had already (hewn
which money was paid by the government j offence to the republic of France, (hould as- 1 the only officer in Fiance wrio could be | itfelf ready to meet tVie proportion of the
of Tufcany. Notwithstanding 'all this they i ford it another oration, to " extend univer- j found to execute such a commission. The I extent, so would it now exhibit its readincfi
soon invaded the country again, and com- [ sally the efforts of her defence." Me was al- next time he appeared was at the bead of the to meet the duratioo of it* dangers.
pe I led the g rand duke to fly from his domi- nroft ashamed, he said, to wafle the time of army of Italy, where his conduft certainly
nions. They were under a similar treaty their Lordships, in defending' this country, gave little promise which could induce this
with the sovereign of Naples, and from the from the charge of being the aggreiVor. country to think that his disposition wai
time ot llgning it had never defided from Those who thought proper to be the allies j much inclinable to peace, or that he was par
committing some adlof hodility. AH this of the French upon this queflion were in ticularly of the faith' of treaties
hr bore, till they obliged the miserable re- the habit of confounding dates as well as facts.; If Sardinia, if Tufcany, if Venice, if Ge
public of Rome, which had no other terri- They bad forgot that the continental war! noa were deceived and undone by their reli
tory than the little diftri&s which surround- was commenced in 1792, and tiia: it was j ance on the faith of treaties—it was to Buo
ed it, to declare waragainft that compara- not till the next year that England found, naparte they owed it. If the deftru<ftion
tively powerful monarch; and under the itfelf compelled to take a (hare in the of the liberties of Switzerland, and the maf
r m 1- rr n _ •_ u- t\ T l • _ -«• /"'i i • r> ... . —— J
pretext ofaffordingaffiflar.ee to its allies, I contest. Previous to this, M. Chauvelin facre of the people was propcfed—it was
expelled him from his. country. His Lord-.! was sent as Minister to Greit Britain; done by Buonaparte, who now employed the
(hip then went into a long and circumftan ana after the French king had accepted the fame general Brune, at the head of 60,000
tial enumeration of their infraftions of trea-j constitution, M. Talleyrand, then ex-bi(h- men, to thed the blood of the Royalists iB
ties, and the advantages they took of the bp of Autuu was joined with him in the the departments, as he t.ad before done that
fnfpenfion of arms in thefmaller states of iniffion—The kings of England and France jof the peaceable a,nd inoffenfive inhabitants of
Itaty and Germahy, and particularly of their had formerly been rivals ; but when his mis- ; the cantont. Alter enumerating the vari
ftiameful pillage of the friendly dukedom of fortunes came on, the latter monarch couldj oils .cruelties and fx-rfidks of the conqueror
lylodena, which they afterwards annexed to only view the former in the light of a of Italy in Eurrpe, hi* lordlhip said, that
their creature, the Gifalpine republic. Swit- and poifibly a pfswftor. It was therefore .the next flep wi. to follow hiii into Egypt,
zerland bad presented a ftrihuig tufhnce of
their perfidy, cruelty, and ingratitude; in
habited by a Jrappy,' peaceful, unfufpefting
race of m-n', who coultl not, be believed,
have b'-cn riduced under To le-radßnjj; a yoke,
but for the suspension of hottilitiev which i
left them unprovided for rep'-l!in:* Jo formi
dable ati'ftttatk. Thus was that neutral nnd
qu»et peopte now obliged to endure the cala
mities of war in n more severe degree, tn-n
been experienced by any other nation.-
H's Lordflfcp tl»enppid\tffed the circuihit.uice4
ullder which Rome had been compelled to
adopt tlvc revolution which the French go-
V"r..'r.e7',t pop-frd to it. Ihe republican
amhaff-idnr io that city, An 4 their Lordihips
could not f xgrr_ who that atnb iff-.dar w.ts,
(riie brother of BvtM»ap«irte-} fomented an in*
fui reilio:; in the Roman c ipital, which the
troops of the government were called out to
repress. This was-conftrurd into an off-nee
which all the humiliations of.the rerefend
old nnn, whe* wiflied t** avert the misfor
tune* which he saw prep irir.£ nrn
hi-, people, were not fufiicient to do awi'
it war., however, expiated in the deAruci
i<inipf the proverw*nent, and the death ot the
.i:;rd p-mtifT, under ciicun.ib'ces, in a place
uli.ch mufl charad\erife his persecutors, who
now asserted to m.nke bim the objed\ of re
:u u and w-ncration. The Genoese two,, as
well as tl e Venetians, whose great fault
w;is too much to befriend the ambitious
views of France, Hud without whose afliftance
it could not have succeeded in the conqueA
«fl:aly, have (hared the fume ftte us the j
other powers, who tfcoui'! . t! cmfclves pro- |
tested by treaties. The Venetians were en- j
couraged to enter into a war in which they ;
had no interest. The French army entered j
into their territory under the avowed pre- f
tence of p'ote&ing them from the ambition
of the house cf AuArta : after which they
basely gave them up, bound hands and feet, !
that very power agiinA whom they preten- '
drd to guard them. But let their Lordships
look further for a moment even to those I
governments which were of their own crea- |
tion ; ;.nd fir Ato the Cifpine. It was pro- j
poled that a treaty of commerce and alliance ;
lhouhi >c concluded between that new Aate I
and the French Republic* This was object
ed to by the Cisalpine council of Elders, and
what was the consequence ? Twenty-one
membeis nf that c .incil were immediately
impiifoncd, not by a general, or a minister,
mistaking perhaps, the inftruclions of his
couAituerits.- tut by an order ot the French
j executive directory, as being influenced by
| the artifices and mancsuvres at its enemies.
• There was not a country with width France
[.had formed any nominal treaty of alliance
I which was nor, in fx'dl, a conqueA, unlets
| Spain liiay bc. excepted ; which, however,
j was placed to ;he republic, in a
; ftr.te very litlle.jfhpft.ct fubie&ion.—How
I then uid it itfelf "n regard to those
' allied slates of Spain and Holland ? When
' France, by tw rfeuu&ipt) of its navy,
j thought proper. t.o retort Co the fyAein of
I fitting- out pfjvatfrji to commit of pira
-1 cy on aily. v. ffeL they ntf&fhf meet. Spain and
i Holland found thernfrlve* in a Worse
1 Ctyation than the open, enemies cf the repub
lic ; f r not oril.yjwere the vefTels c f those
two ailjed Aates seized on indilcriminately.
but even Consuls eflablffhed"in the ports of
natural'to R*»fc i&»
under such unhappy c,n.unift|>i><*s would be
couched ii) the molt amicable language ; but
the letters which accredited M. lalkyrtfid
were not written by tliat UHM'
but by the jacobin party »-hich then direst-
L-d the government. Xct i*wa« remarkable
chat even i» the very letter, the Frenchmo
narch wsj made to thank the king of Eng
rftbe coalition which was the# fuppoted to
xi/h' M. Ciiauwiin ?.itb rn hiv difpatcbes
rprrf-nted it. iot as viie prdfeffions -bat
vne made to him, but as his o*.i
hit the Bntifh government was avrVS# to
"Ui tc-nance hoftilr designs. In relp-cl t»
he so much talked of coalition, it W.af ne*
eir.try that he QtoM d-chre -xpii
itjy. As f) the {jjial coalition ot P
t was absolutely chimerical, and never had
xiftence. The treaty of Pilnitz *' ;, s
, coalition of sovereigns agaiuft Fr^V-f? W]
(lßfplft declaration which was purely ot S
tefenfive nature, and when it first began t<
IC fpokew of, and complained ot by th
s. ♦ ' f this country in If
tint courts received inOrufiions to employ fc»*e repliantof the French navy at l.ber
;heir utmort endeavors to prevent it. So ! ty'to fail ircm one. port to another, andfor
alfo, when the mediation of Great Britain ! tify plates which were now acceffiWe. It
wai tailed for, 'the gdveVnmenjt of the ct-un- | «<??» give the means ot recrumng the ar
trv declined it, still cfcerifhing the hope, j n.irs in the interior in such a manner is may
that by oUfcrviruc a neutrality, it might be I completely drftroyall the hopes entertained
•nailed to prefcrve peace. Peace was un-by the Koyalifls, and, what is alfa an
loabtedly, under mod circumdances, the J important cooperation, it creates dif- «
noredelirable thing for this and perhaps for , trtlft and difasrreement between the allies,
ny other country ; and he wa S not so fra- But, on the other hand, when he came to
ned as to be insensible of the calamities think of a general peace, he could fee tio
rbich were sure to follcw the interruption of interest the French Consul eould H»»e in
t : but there was also one thin;; frill more concluding it. The armies now afting on
lefirable than even peace itfelf, which was the frontiers, having no farther employ,
his security ar.d preservation of the bleffinj* ment, they roust neceflarily be brought inu
ire already enjoy. This and an overruling the interior of the Republic, and tbe hif
leoeflity were Jttufcs which compelled this to'jr of all military despotisms shewed that ' 4
ountry to enter into the war. He trusted too great a number of troops aWSys ltd to '
heir lordlhips would not think that he would their subversion rre» one part of the nation
If forward ; n giving a ialfe relation of such to the other. The nfurpa'ion of Buona
hings js mull have fallen within his own parte was only fultained by-Wiiliury vio.
tnowledge; and he unequivocally declared, iei.ee, and when other armie9 were intro
hat every means were taken to preserve duced, th~e fame temptation might be offer
leace with France, lo much so that he was ed by others which brought him to tjie
>nw ef Winion Enoland remained too long helm of affairs On the (lability of such.a
quiet and unconcerned fpeftator of the government, on the charafter, ciprire, even
vents upon Hie continent. This, Imwev- of a Chieftain placed in fuch'ii situation, ft
r, did norrett entirely upon his t.ft inor.y : imp-(able for any eftablifli-d govern
or it was notorious to all Europe, that as ment to have any prudent reliance.; The
0011 as Louis the XVlth. had accepted the u fu per, to disengage him from the danger
onfkitution, the emperor L-op.-Hdetermin- ©♦' the army, mult always keep them in a
dto detach hiuilelf even frbm the terms of state of warfare to divert their attention from
he former declaration, afled so far up- his personal concerns. With this view,
n this p:imiple. that v.her, '..sr w.is cot". - v.h■ tever may > e the immediate objects of
nei'.crd a;;airft his fo_n, tlie reigning empe- Buonaparte, no dependance could be placed
or, those parti of tfte 'A'liftfian pefleffions on the (Tncerity of hi; overtures,
'■hie!' I' y rn"ft confi/'tiour, to rr-tnet-, '.' ere t (j jt ; n 0 -^ cr refpefts,' segocialioii was ad
peedilv over run in ccniequerce of having vife-bie. In order to judge of the good
o lufficieot army to protect .them. Having difpolition of this man towards England,
lius W adverted to the general argumi-nts he would recall theii attentien tb the treaty j
Biployed by the French minified and Clew. c f Campio Fomiio, the articles #f whicfc
d, he t-rufh'd. that t.cre was DO'-n'iu in were remitted by him to the Executive Di
he principle> * the, nt governni.ent..or reef <>ry by his confidential friends and agents
onlhtyticr < ; Fra.::e which e if.-red n.jte- Monce and Berthier, who are n«» employed
)■'. y, ri to t"' 1 ' h.rn'in the firll offices ,'f the : Siate, Oo
hole entertained by te ! ■ that Oceau-ri Monge. ih I's.ipcech to the
- ceeu-o to examine .the feeq. ty w,s D ; reaory declared that the- termination of
obe met with id the pe.fsnal ttUpolitioi. th€-V> . ar , upon .the Cdhtifiea";, would-'leave
hich the person now at the head ot, the ,'0- nr ). b ,„y to employ ihe whole of
■ernment was 1.(13 tri have always lhewn the'de'flruflirtn. of Great
or the eflt-.bl.om.rnt of a general peace. He B , iu ; n> „ tlic gov , rnmeflts 0 f :E l.ghnd aad
freTMci
wfoere, ortiitvnjj ttie abetnhva'Me maffxcre of
the garrison arid peiple of Alexandria, the f
i'lcnlf jnus destination of ihe French being
th'fc true muffulmen. and the innumerable
atrocities committed, and degrptions at
tempted, fulfieiently evinced thej»riiiciple«
entertained and relied Upon by this.JJiilitayr
usurper. His own letters and thofc of the
persons in the hig'heft employments under
him in the Egyptian expedition, as appear
ed by the intercepted correspondence, par
ticularly that of Pouffi-lgue, fufficiently
(hewed the policy of making peape, if poflj
ole with England, in hopes to embroil it
with thof* allies of which it is now the prin
cipal fnpf ort. The prelent overtures feemr.
ei to be a part of that policy, notwithfland
ing which he doubted whether it woutel I>e ,
;he interest of Buonaparte to conclude a
peace with this country—l~h.it he wnyld
find it to be hit interest to hive an armlftice
for* while, was fufficiently apparent. It
| would as long as it foiled restore the com
: merce of the republic. It would open its
! now blocked up'ports to receive pr»vi{ions
! and naval fttircs of every kind. It wouH
To be Rented,
AND immediate pofleflion given, if required,
a new two (lory Brick Hou'e And Kitchen,
ah'.ut 14 miles from Philadelphia, on the great
road to Newtown, liaquire of the Primer,
march *7 dtf.
FOR St. THOMAS'S,
I . THE SHIP
Thomas Chalkley,
Thomas Kenny, Majler.
yfljjrWrOS?' Sails fait and expe&ed to depart
in fix or eight days, 3 or 400
barrels will be received on freight, if speedy ap
plication be made.
For which or paflige apply to
MOORE WHARTON,
No, in South Water street*
March i»