not exist any actual object of discussion between the two Governments which can alter, in the slightest degree, the happy relations of this country with France, relations which this court desires efficaciously to promote, and even to render more intimate. Copy of the Note of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the diffe ent Ministers resident at the Court of Portugal. General Lasnes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, having adopted the unexpected resolution of withdrawing from the court, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, my Master, has ordered me to communicate to you this event, which is the more unlooked for as he had received the most ardent and distinguished testimonies of regard, founded upon the most perfect harmony, and entire good understanding subsisting between this Monarchy and the French Republic; and this too at a moment when there existed no object of discussion which could in the smallest degree affect the friendly relations which his Royal Highness desires, and will make it his study to promote. You will have the goodness to give notice of the above to your respective courts. Hamburgb, August 16.-Of the war between Russia and Persia there is yet no farther information, than that the new regent of the latter, Baba Kan, has collected a considerable body of troops, in order to meet the Russian army, which has penetrated from the corner of Astracán, through Derbent, to the Persian province of Ghilan. The circumstance which gave occasion to these hostilities is, that all the Russian subjects resident in the states of the said Regent were driven from their possessions, under a pretence that Russia acted unjustly in taking under its protection the provinces of Georgia and Mingrelia. It is apprehended that this dispute will be attended with a great deal of bloodshed. Aug. 18.-By an Arrêté of the consuls, of the 12th instant, in entrepôt for foreign merchandize and produce is established at the cities of Cologne and Mayence, upon the same terms, and with the same restrictions as in other places, where an entrepôt has been already established. Paris, Aug. 19.-The following letter has been transmitted by the minister of the interior to the prefect of the Somme, the department in which Amiens is situated : I observe with regret, Citizen Prefect, that the unfounded rumours, spread abroad by certain newspapers, relative to a treaty of manufacturers, and caused industry to decommerce with England, have alarmed the crease. Does the trading interest then no longer confide in the promise which I made in the name of government; and can the manufacturers believe that, in any possible case, their interests could be either sacrific fect, to banish such false ideas from among ed or neglected? I invite you, Citizen Prethe manufacturers-falsehoods calculated to discourage them in their labours. Inform them, persuade them that these reports are disseminated designedly by the enemies of their industry; make them entertain full confidence in a government which is worthy of it-assure them once more, that whatever object of the solicitude of the government; can promote their prosperity is the peculiar and that it will take a pleasure in availing itself of the advice and information of the manufacturers, when the time comes to open our commercial intercourse with our neigh bours. Chaptal. the 13th inst. the minister of the interior is Aug. 20.-By an arrêté of the counsel of authorized to put in a state of activity the necessary labours for preparing the palace of the Louvre for the reception of the monuments of art arrived from Italy; as also for the national library, the removal of which to that palace is ordered. The sum of 25,000 francs per month is appropriated for this purpose, until the whole is completed. The chest of the Legion d'Eléte was robbed on the 4th instant of 180,700 francs, but the robbers have been apprehended, and 170,000 francs recovered by the police. Arrêté of the 20th August. The Consuls of the Republic, having seen the Brief of Pope Pius VII. given at St. Peter's, at Rome, on the 29th June, 1802. State charged with all the affairs relative to Upon the report of the Counsellor of worship, the Council of State having been heard, decree, The Brief of Pope Pius VII. given at St. Peter's, at Rome, on the 29th June, 1802, by which Citizen Maurice Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Affairs is restored to the secular and lay life, shall have its full and entire effect. The First Consul, A person of the name of Desjardins, one of the most ferocious Brigands of the Cotes du Nord, has established his residence at Jersey. Thirteen individuals condemned to death as contumacious, for having assassinated several wealthy proprietors of national property, are with him: they appear to enjoy a special protection.Moniteur. It is confirmed that war has broken out between Russia and Persia. The Russians have already made some progress, and beaten the troops of the sovereign of Persia. Extract of a Letter from Fort St. George, Indies) February 17, 1802. The tidings of peace between England and France have reached India. The effect they produced was at first a temporary joy and gladness (for the sound of peace is of itself pleasing to every ear) but on mature and serious reflection, more painful sensations succeeded. To every considerate and reflecting mind, the peace, as extending and applying it to India, presents nothing but woes and misfortunes. It has already frustrated and counteracted all those schemes, that the deep and penetrating policy of the Marquis of Wellesley had formed and arranged for the preservation of our Indian possessions; what may be the consequence time can only discover: the Marquis, as distinguished for his public virtues as for his private ones, for his sagacity and prudence in the formation, as for energy and vigour in the execution of his plans, had conceived it necessary, in order to secure apon a firm and solid foundation, the Company's safety and prosperity, to deprive the Indian Princes of the assistance of the French officers, whom many of them kept in their pay and service, and who are eminent for their talents and courage. The employment of a great number of these officers by the Mahrattas, became a peculiar objectof jealousy and uneasiness to the Marquis, and he determined to extirpate the very name out of the peninsula; accordingly he There are articles of intelligence, extractcommenced a negotiation with the Mah-ed from the foreign papers (see p. 243, 245), rattas to obtain the dismissal of the French relative to a war between Russia and Persia, officers in their service, at the same time which will, probably, call to the recollec resolved to obtain his ends by force, if he tion of our readers, a passage in the letter could not by negotiation. The Mahrattas of a correspondent at Stockholm, published as might be expected, shewed no great in p. 129 of this present vol. of the Rereadiness to comply with the Marquis's gister. He stated, that Russia and France demands, and he was just on the eve of had formed a project for establishing a redeclaring war against them (and we have public in Persia, and for delivering Hindosno reason to doubt of its success) to force ian; and added, that the Russian troops them into a compliance, when the accounts of the peace arrived, which immediately prevented it, as the object thereof then became unattainable; and now the Mahrattas will not only have the assistance of the French officers, but aided by the intrigues and ambition of the French at Pondicherry, what have we not to expect! For my part, I shall not be surprised to find India, within a year or two, the theatre of a long and bloody war: the peace then, as applying it to India, is pregnant with war, and fraught with folly; no doubt you have, at home, cogent reasons for making it, unknown to us; no doubt it was 66 a consum (East"mation devoutly to be wished," and one of its blessed effects is, the making an and shouts of joy, the carriage of a French English populace drag, with acclamations republican general and ambassador; nothing but such an action remained to complete the list of insults that during the war, have been levelled at our king and country, and hands were soon found ready enough to commit it, for my part I can imagine no sight so disgraceful, so ignominious as this, how it could be patiently borne I am at a loss to account for. Would our forefathers have done so? they would sooner have died. Conquerors of old, have harnessed subjugated princes to their chariots, but the humiliating spectacle only excited sentiments of pity and compassion for the unfortunate sufferers, the victims of adversity and the resisters of oppression; but when a set of fools or villains voluntarily degrade themselves to the most ignominuous state, dragging, like beasts of burthen a foreigner, does such a spectacle excite compassion or contempt, pity or disgust? I have no doubt as to what it excited in your breast, and were highly delighted and pleased with it, yet I fear there are too, too many, who but can they be called, or do they deserve the name of Englishmen ? SUMMARY OF POLITICS. were then on their march towards Ispahan. We cannot much blame those persons, who are disposed to treat this project with ridi cule; let it be remembered, however, that the ridicule which was thrown on the invasion of Egypt did not prevent the attempt from succeeding to a fearful degree; it did not prevent Buonaparté from subjugating Egypt and attacking Syria, which last clearly proves, that India was the ultimate object. We repeat, that the project, spoken of by our correspondent, has in it somewhat of the marvellous, but is by no means impossible, Ten years ago we should have laughed at it; but, woeful experience has taught us, that nothing, which France undertakes, is a subject of derision. While therefore we hope, and, indeed believe, that the invasion of Hindostan by the way of Persia, is a project that will never be realized, we cannot help requesting those, who persist in making their own little minds the standard of that of Buonaparté, to consider; 1. That the Russians are absolute masters of the Caspian Sea, and of great part of its western coasts. 2. That the Wolga, together with its canals, joins the Baltic to the Caspian, and, therefore, the Russians can send every thing necessary for an army by water, as far as Fehrabad, a convenient town on the southern point of the Caspian Sea. 3. That from Fehrabad to Ispahan, on one of the great roads of Persia, is no more than about 300 miles. 4. That all the Tartarian hordes on the borders of Persia, from the Caspian Sea to Thibet, are in connexion with Russia. 5. That the Persian empire has long been a prey to anarchy, and is actually divided into several separate states, which, being hostile to each other, will not be able to make any efficacious resistance against the invaders, who, having no fortifications and scarcely any artillery to combat, will have no occasion for heavy cannon, the conveying of which is always the most formidable difficulty in such an enterprize. 7. That, as to the French part of the expedition, the port of Laodicea is not more than 60 miles from Aleppo, and, by water (on the Euphrates) from Aleppo to Bagdad, is, at most, 400 miles. 8. That Bagdad and Eabylon have several times been taken and retaken by the Turks and the Persians, who have had immense armies in and before those places. Consequently, a French army of 30 or 40,000 men, moving from the coast of Syria to Bagdad, will meet with no obstacle, which has not already been met with, and overcome by armies much more numerous and less capable of such an undertaking. 9. That as to any opposition on the part of the Turks, it is, in the present state of things, absolutely impossible. Now, suppose that the provinces between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulph were over-run by the Russians and the French, it is only about 200 miles from Ispahan to the Persian Gulph, and even to Ormus no more than 400 miles; consequently, if the project be at all feasible, Ispahan is a very proper point of rendezvous, whether the intention might be to penetrate into Hindostan by way of the Persian Gulph and the Indian Sea, or by the way of Candahar.-It may, perhaps, be observed, that such an enterprize, were it to be undertaken, and even crowned with success, would be more useful to Russia than to France; to which we reply, that France will never regard any thing as useless to her, which may tend to the destruction of the riches and the maritime power of England. The design of France (of which we spoke somewhat at length in p. 185 of this volume) to invade the Barbary states, appears, we think, more and more evident. A squadron is said to have sailed from Toulon for the purpose of punishing the Bey of Tunis and the Dey of Algiers; and, the very detailed account of the exactions of those pirates, which is given in the Moniteur, strongly indicates the intention of Buonaparté. As we observed before, his Majesty's ministers must see this movement of the French with regret and alarmı; but, they will not dare to remonstrate against it. They would, were they to attempt to do their duty on this occasion have to encounter, not only the wrath of Buonaparté, but the almost universal clamour of the people of England, who would, with some shew of reason, complain, if a peace, purchased with the safety and honour of England itself, were so soon to be broken" for the sake of a nest of pirates." This is, indeed, already the language of all that timid and unthinking mass of mortals, who were, and who still are, for peace on any terms: that is to say, with France, for, as to other nations, they would fight with them to the last drop of their blood. General Victor is, it seems, to command the division destined for Louisiana. This is an enterprize, of which very little is thought in Downing-street; but, the effects of which will, in a few years, fall upon us like a thunderbolt. Nothing that can happen on the continent of Europe, or even on that of Asia, will be half so pregnant with danger to England as the event, which may probably take place on the continent of North America. We shall, in our next sheet, once more endeavour to direct the attention of his Majesty's ministers towards this most important subject, on which we are now able to speak more in detail than we have done before: in the mean time, we think it right to remind them, that there is no time to be lost; that a very few months will see the French safe at New Orleans, and that it will be then too late to think of prevention. The Americans have now most amply discussed the subject, and the result of that discussion is, that they may be ruined by the transfer of Louisiana to France, but that England must be; in which opinion we sincerely concur. gence was true to the extent in which it now appears it was. The French government has published a copy of a joint deciaration (which is too long to come into this sheet, but which shall be inserted in our next) of Buonaparté and the Emperor of Russia, commanding a new organization of the German Empire; a new distribution of territory, of ranks, dignities, offices, and power. For the present we must, however, confine our remarks chiefly to the changes which are ordered to take place relative to the German possessions of his Majesty, and which are signified in the following terms: "The King of England, "in his quality of Elector of Hanover, has "raised pretensions to Hildesheim, Corvey, and Hoexter, and as it would be of "interest that he should desist from his The right to navigate the Black Sea has" pretensions, it is proposed that the Bibeen obtained by France; and, there is "shoprick of Osnaburgh, which now beevery reason to suppose, that it has been "longs alternately to the Electoral House obtained to our exclusion. Our poor minister" of Brunswick, should devolve to him in at the Porte (like our ministers every where" perpetuity, upon the following condielse) is in a truly pitiable situation. He "tions :-First, That the King of England, cannot know how to act, and from Down- "Elector of Hanover, shall renounce all ing-street, as Downing-street is now in- " his rights and pretensions to Hildesheim, habited, what instructions has he to expect!" Corvey, and Hoexter.-Secondly, That We had before obtained a right of naviga- " he shall likewise give up to the cities of tion similar to that now obtained by the "Hamburgh and Bremen, the rights and French; but there wanted an act of the "properties which he exercises and posTurkish government to ratify our conven66 sesses in the said cities, and within the tion on the subject. Whether to ask for "extent of their territory.-Thirdly, That this act, or to slip into the Black Sea un- "he shall cede the Bailliwick of Wildhausen perceived, along with the French, is the "to the Duke of Oldenbourg, and his rights question now to be determined on; the "to the eventual succession of the county of former, it is feared, would expose us to the "Sayn, Altenkirchen--to the Prince of Nasdanger of a blunt refusal, and of course, an "sau Usingen." In a subsequent sheet we exclusion; while the latter might, and most shall give a detailed account of the situation, Ekely would, bring on us that kind of value, and importance of the territories, of chastisement, which is generally bestowed which our sovereign has been thus plundered. on intruders. In short, though we may It is not so very surprising that Hildesheim, suffer much from French intrigue at Con- which lies in the heart of the king's German stantinople, our great danger arises from dominions, should be seized on during the the dread which the Turks have of the time of the minister, who began his career French rulers, and from the contempt which by seizing an estate in the heart of Richthey must feel for the ministers of this coun- mond Park, and whose respectable example, try. perhaps, had no small weight with BuonaWhen we published, nearly a month parté. There are some persons who set ago, the letter from our correspondent at little value on German connexions: some Stockholm (p. 129), in which it was stated, even suppose (erroneously in our opinion) that the King of Prussia had acted as that it would be better for England if Hamediating negotiator between the Em- nover belonged entirely to some other sove. peror Alexander and Buonaparté," and reign; but, whatever may be thought on that they had arranged the division of Ger- this subject, where is the man, where the we excused the incredulity of loyal subjact, who does not feel indignant others, because we ourselves doubted of at the present transaction? Where is the the fact: our doubts were, perhaps, not so Englishman who can patiently see his soveStrong as those of our readers in general; reign thus insultingly pillaged of his patrit little did we imagine, that the intellimonial estates, without despising the men, 66 go to war; unless they abandon the happy system of "Peace and Plenty." This nation deserves to suffer, and the men at present in power seem destined to bring on it its deserts! The London daily papers, after having for some days scouted our opinion, that the threats of Buonaparte's gazette had produced a fall in the funds, have at length subscribed to it in terms even more full and satisfactory than we could have hoped for. The confession is well worthy of attention: whose measures have brought on us this indelible disgrace? The British Ministry were never consulted in this division of Germany; the object of the convention between Russia and France was not communicated to them; they did not, even at the time it was first mentioned in this Register, know of the existence of such an instrument; its ratification was known at Stockholm on the 5th of July; in Downing Street not till the middle of August! Is it possible for the affairs of a nation long to go on thus? On these "indemnities" we shall only further" The very curious intelligence from remark, at present, the unbearable inso- "France respecting the journals" [That lence of indemnifying the Stadtholder, in is, the news which has been received, and part, out of his Majesty's Hanoverian domi- is now confirmed, of the English newsnions, without suffering him or his ministers papers having been prohibited in France] in either country to have the smallest share "made a sensible impression on the funds, in the transaction! On this topic we shall " and it is probable that the measure was quote the Morning Chronicle, as having expressed precisely our sentiments:- In "this transaction we have only to remark "the disgrace attached to the government "of this country in thus allowing this mat❝ter to be wholly transacted by France and "Russia. We are studiously and insult"ingly excluded from the credit of procur 86 altogether calculated for the meridian of "our Stock Exchange. It is a fact worthy "of remark that these bursts of spleen in "the official journal of the Chief Consul of "France have uniformly made their appearance, so as to meet the settling day in our "stock market. It is more probable that it is a jobbing speculation than a symptom of national misunderstanding. Without any "design of a rupture, however, it will ever "be a part of the tactics of France to keep us in incessant agitation. Their speculators "will strive to profit from the fluctuations "which they occasion; and at a time when opinion is so fickle, the slightest show of a "hostile disposition will materially affect the "funds."-Sayst thou so? Why, then, we are agreed at last. This is precisely the state of things that Mr. Windham foretold, in his speech upon the preliminaries of peace; not in substance only, but in so ma ing any indemnities for the House of "Nassau, which was formerly so distin"guished for its connexion with our in"terests, and which, in such times as the present, and under such an administra❝tion, has suffered so grievously by adher"ing to our cause. Every man who feels" "for the honour of the nation must see how "much on the one hand, we are hurt in re"putation by abandoning the Stadtholder, "and on the other, what little influence we "possess, nay, to what contempt we have "fallen, in being left totally out of view in ❝ a transaction which is in every respect sony words. If Buonaparté can carry on this "interesting and important to us. The "Stadtholder disdains, the other powers reject, our interference!" All this is very true, but we cannot but recollect, that this paper was amongst the very foremost to clamour for that peace, that shameful and humiliating peace, which has produced all this insult and contempt. The ministers are here blamed for "allowing" Russia and France to act thus! Allowing! How would the Morning Chronicle have ministers do otherwise than allow them to do as they please? Not to allow is to prevent; to prevent is war, and war is ruin. With what face, therefore, can those who have bel lowed for peace on any terms, blame the ministers for allowing any thing? They must continue to allow any thing and every thing that is demanded of them, unless they again game for a few months, he will not need another rupture with us; nor will he have any reason to envy us that capital and credit, of which he will have the continual command. The power which he possesses of raising and lowering the funds at pleasure, will, with the aid of two or three intelligent brokers, enable him to draw upon this country for much more cash than he will want to maintain his 300,000 soldiers. If we are asked, why the king of France did not formerly make use of the means, which we suppose Buonaparté will make use of, we answer, that the king of France dared not; a threat on the part of the king of France would have brought on a war; we have now entered on a state of things entirely new; Buonaparté is absolute master of the value of our funds, because it rests with |