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undersigned, however, cannot with sufficient force remind the deputation, how great is the pressure of circumstances, and of how much importance it is, that, by a speedy and final decision, the German Empire may enjoy the effects of the friendly sentiments of the mediating powers. The deputation will certainly not forget that the term (of two months) prescribed by the said powers for the fulfilment of the public hopes, is nearly expired-Ratisbon, 16th of Vendémiaire, (8th of October).-La Forêt.

(A Note accretly similar was delivered in at the same time by Baron Buhler for the Russian Legation).

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Manifesto of Count Mocenigo, Minister Plenipo

tentiary, on his arrival at Corfu.

deigned yourself, to ensure her by the treaty o Luneville.-Switzerland would long since have been tranquil, if the members of the Helvetic ga vernment, those obscure metaphysicians, had con suited the real state of affairs, instead of obsta nately attaching themselves to theoretic attempts as erroneous as they are expensive.-The vio lence with which they have tried to impose thei system upon the democratic cantons, the civi war they have organized to attain their end, di rected at first against those cantons, then agains all Switzerland; the unexampled severity wit which they have done it, have produced a discon tent equally general and just, and a determine 3. It is not then, General First Consul, a and avowed will to shake off this unsupportab affair of party-it is the sacred cause of huma nity, it is the general wish of a whole nation which has given us our power and our instruction of a nation which you yourself wished to free, an which has been ill-treated and irritated, contrar to your intentions.-Yet that nation, we rende ourselves guarantees, will never abuse the liber it claims. The Swiss have nothing more at be than to attain a state of repose, in which, unde the shield of a mild and just government, caci inhabitant may enjoy his property and existese We are convinced that we shall arrive at that e sential object of all social order, from the mome our will and our efforts shall be no longer fette ed.-General First Consul, all Europe admires you the supreme head of an immense power at empire, which, without doubt, according to yo own views, will be directed to the good of hum

"The Emperor of all the Russias, my august Master, informed of the troubles which have disorganized the Republic, and being deeply affected by learning the evils to which you have been abandoned by anarchy, has formed the generous resolution of re-establishing among you order and tranquillity. My august Sovereign, faithful to the treaties by which he has engaged to guarantee your political existence, has sent me to co-operate with you in his name, and to restore peace among you. I therefore invite all the inhabitants in general, and individually, to second me, with all their power, in this enterprize. The land and naval forces which you see assembled, will unite their means to your's. They are destined to promote the reign of public tranquillity, to enforce obedience to the laws, and to the government, and to protect the inviolability of its members,nity; your magnanimity assures us, that you w and that of all property, both public and private. I am furnished with sufficient instructions and full powers. Manifest dispositions favourable to the establishment of public order, by abjuring all hatred; range yourselves under the protecting agis of his Imperial Majesty, and you will obtain an assurance, by means of his powerful intervention, of maintaining your independence, your safety, and general felicity. This is the only price that my august Sovereign requires for all his beneficent intentions; and for myself I seek for no other reward for the care which I shall constantly employ, than that of having contributed to this end with all the fervour of my zeal. (Signed) "Count George Mocenigo, August 21, 1802. Plenipotentiary."

-Answer of the Diet of Schwitz to the Proclamation of Buonaparté,

not make use of it against a people who only d
sire what you have made them hope, and
only wish what they believe themselves auth
rized to do by yourself.-Penetrated with etent
gratitude, the Swiss nation will do its endeavo
to deserve the good will of the French gover
ment; and will fulfil all the duties which are i
posed upon it by the desire of cultivating go
neighbourhood.—It is with the most distingut
ed respect that we remain, General First Consu
"The Deputies of the Helvetic Diet,
"Schwitz, Oct. 8, 1802."

Proclamation of the Council of War of
Swiss League to their Brothers in arms
Dated Basle, Oct. 12, 1802.

Friends and brothers, when you separa yourselves from your wives, your children, fathers, and your friends, to conquer for children, liberty, independence, and prosperi you abandoned with alacrity and courage

"Citizen First Consul -The Proclamation which you did us the honour to send to us on the 30th of Sept. by Citizen Rapp, your Adjutant-cottages, and your flocks. This idea," the General, arrived at Schwitz on the 6th of October.-We could have wished that the letter we took the liberty of sending you, General First Consul, on the 30th of September, could have reached you sooner; it contains a faithful exposition of the present state of Switzerland. Permit us to send you inclosed a duplicate of it, and to entreat you to receive it favourably. It will prove to you that the movements which have taken place in Switzerland are not the result of a spirit of party, and that the Swiss nation has no other object in view than to make use of the right which "she claims of giving herselt a central and cantonal constitution, tounded on her position and her wants—a sacred and precious right, which you

"of our fathers is with us, and protects gave you force to brave all the dangers, and despise the fatigues of war. You quitted songs your mountains and your valleys, to en into the field and defend the cause of liberty your country. The Almighty blessed your and heard the just wishes of a nation known by its rectitude, and which had armed for its lib and independence. Our enemies, our opp sors, the soi-disant Helvetic government, with feeble party, have been chased almost to frontiers of the confederate Cantons.-But thers and friends, we have received a notifie tion, that if we did not by our conduct proofs of an entire confidence in the First Com

of the powerful nation of France, who has caused a declaration to be made by his Envoy, General Rapp, to our fathers assembled at Scawitz, that he wishes to interpose as mediator in the war which we are carrying on against the odious Helvetic government, we should be compelled to it by the victorious arms of the French warriors.-Brothers, friends, confederates, who among us could conceive the thought of menacing ourselves with the numerous and experienced armies of France? No, friends, no; que wish to awat peaceably the determination of the First Consul, ad with that order, that moderation, and that scipline, which have hitherto guided your steps, yu will receive, we are convinced, the orders of yur seperiors, of your general; and even, if it should be necessary, you will return to your redmces, in order that our country may not be exhausted by the entrance of foreign troops; that we may not be deprived of the scanty harvest of this year, which we hoped to consume with car children; and that we may not be plunged into indigence and misery. It is only the Helvetic government, directed by its passions and its private interest, that could call in the aid foreign troops; we, who took up arms only for our country and tranquillity, have no need of troops to attain our object. But, relying on our Gradact, we dare to hope, that the First Consul of suho has guaranteed our independence, and who ha. been deceived by false reports, will, as soon as he shall have been informed of the true state of things, take measures, which will secure our honour, and the prosperity and independence of our country. My the Almighty deign to grant this, who has ed us to make an important step towards future happiness, and crowned our arms with benediction.

F.

a disorder, the focus of which was established in that country; and in this state of affairs, the humanity, and the interest of France, and of Europe, demanded of the First Consul that he should de-* sist from acting upon the determination which he had taken, not to intermeddle in the affairs of Switzerland. He has spoken as a mediator and a friend, and Helvetia has been pacified. The people have returned to their homes. Those simple and just men, seeing that they had been abused, have menaced with violence the chiefs who sought to slander France, and who in their public acts were permitted to outrage her. General contempt now does justice to their clamours.-Such, Sir, are the facts which I have thought it my duty to communicate to you. The First Consul did not wish to abandon a country which stands in need of the friendship of France, and which, without the benefit of her influence, would have passed in a short tine through all the horrors of anarchy under their ancient yoke, which they had so happily broken.-But at the time that he recognized the necessity of assisting the Helvetic nation to fix at length for itself, and in an irrevocable manner, its constitutional destiny, he did not cease for moment to recollect, that the more perfect independence ought to be the basis of its constitution. The right of organizing a government which Hel vetia has acquired, is one of the glorious results of the war which France supported against the most powerful armies of Europe, and of the treaties by which that war was terminated.-It is because Helvetia holds this right by the victories and the benevolent, policy of France, that the First Consul wishes now to protect the exercise of it, and to prevent a handful of turbulent emigrants, deserters from foreign armies, who wished to carry fire and sword into their country, from succeeding in their attempt to deprive of their rights the by such men that the treaty of Luneville can be greater part of their fellow-citizens. It is not invoked as to what respects Helvetia, but by the larger portion of the people whom they wished to oppress, and whose independence is guaranteed by that treaty. Are these men so estimable, or so Paris, Oct. 15, 1802.-Sir, The relations of neigh- important a part of Helvetia, as Argovia, the Pays bourhood which exist between Bavaria and Switde Vaud, and the Bailiwies formerly subject, whose tead, and which ought to render yet more secure political rights were guaranteed by France, not the new acquisitions which his Electoral Highness only in the treaty of Luneville, but in all those made in Germany, call for his particular at- which, since the war, have strengthened the anin to the late events of which Helvetia has cient ties between France and Helvetia ?-There see the theatre. That country has long been di- are those who seck to spread a report that the bed. The influence of intrigue and money, has Helvetic Republic may be led by a spirit of imita Etherto prevented the government which had beention to establish with the First Consul those relabished by the suffrages of the majority of the eople, from becoming firmly established, and acng the power necessary to its preservation. st the opposition was confined to insidious obscure menaces, the First Consul did not kit his duty to interfere in discussions to h circumstances, and the influence of the al peace of Europe, promised to put an end. length the enemies of the Helvetic people pted a more open opposition. Blood was , and Helvetia was menaced with ruin.-In frightful conjuncture of affairs, the wishes of demanded the mediation of the First Consul. eputy even who had taken up arms against the ernment, led away by the opinion of men who deceived them, now saw the necessity of sonly claiming the mediation of France. The ntinental powers, neighbours of Helvetia, could et view without fear, the remote consequences of

Spy of a letter from the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs to MR. DE CETTO, the
Bavarian Minister at Paris, relative to the
affairs of Switzerland.

tions which unite him to the Italian Republic.) But this idea is very far from the intention of the First Consul, who is inimical to all such determination, and whose formal intention is to assist in the organization of Switzerland, only for the purpose of ensuring to that country an absolute independence. I am persuaded, Sir, that you will be extremely desirous to transmit to his Electoral Highness the communications which I have the honour to make to you, and of which there is no necessity for me to appreciate the importance.Receive the assurance of my high consideration.

(Signed) Ch. Mau. Talleyrand,

Letter of the French and Russian, Ministers to the Directoral Minister at Ratisbon.-Dated -Ratisbon, Oct. 15, 1802.

As the principles inseparably connected with

(Signel) Laforet. Baron de Buhler.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

|ly a sum of money. In the 12th sitting of the Deputation of the Empire, on the 5th October, the various claims and remonstrances were again taken into consideration. The Elector of Ireves gave in a similar memoir to that delivered by the Archbishoprick of Cologne. It was stated, on the part of the Archduke Ferdinand, that the revenue of the Duchy of Modena was 1,500,000 Imperial florins, while that of the Brisgau was only 104,119 florins.

the distribution of the indemnities in the declarations made in the name of the mediating powers, on the 18th of August last, and reproduced with modifications, which they consented to in the general plan of the 8th of October, ought to be entirely comprehended in the Conelusum, which the extraordinary deputation is about to form immediately in regard to the whole, the undersigned (minister extraordinary of the French Republic, and the minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Rus- Oct. 10. Yesterday in the 13th sitting of the sia) take the earliest opportunity of proposing, Deputation, the new plan of indemnities was preafter the enlightened reflections made to them by sented. The Deputation will immediately take it several of the sub-delegates, that the eleventh into consideration. Brandenburgh, Bavaria, Wirof these principles be announced in the following temburg, Hesse Cassel, and Mentz, have already manner-Eleventhly, the preceding dispositions approved the general plan.-It was said and exrender of no avail the pretensions which existed, pected that this would be merely a supplementary both to the territories become French, and to plan to that given in on the 18th of August, but those which existing to property given in the the supplementary matter is inserted in the former room of others on the Left Bank of the Rhine, plan, so as to form an enlarged general plan of inshall not be produced, examined, and settled indemnities. It contains thirty-four sections, and an amicable manner within the course of a year. is printed in four sheets. It will be seen from the This mode of expression, which at first seemed following extracts that the Grand Duke of Tuscany sufficiently explicit, according to the term fixed receives by it no further indemnification.-Sect. 1. in the twelfth principle, for every transaction contains the indemnifications of the Grand Duke whatever, expresses better indeed the provident of Tuscany, which are the same as in the former intention of the mediating powers, and corrres. plan, only that it is determined that the county of ponds better to the solicitude of the deputation Neuburg, on the left side of the Inn, with all its for the general good. territorial and seignorial rights, shall be united to Bavaria. Sect. 2. Bavaria shall receive the town and suburbs of Passau, together with all that appertains to it beyond the inn and the Iltz, and a circle of 500 klafters from the extreme end of the said suburbs; as also the Abbeys of Waldsassen and Eberach, with exception of all rights, properties, and ecclesiastical revenues, which lie in the city and territory of Augsburgh.-Sect. 3. Prussia receives all the rights and property of Mentz, in Thuringia, as also the Abbey of Kappenberg. The rest of the Bishopric of Munster, which is not given to Prussia, is alloted to several princes.Sect. 4. To the King of England and Elector of Brunswick Lunenburg, for his claims to the county of Sayn Altenkirchen, Hildersheim, Corvey, and Hoster, and his rights and property in the cities of Hamburgh and Bremen, and in the territory of the latter, as shall be hereafter particularly stipulated, and for the cession of the district of WildsRatisbon, Oct. 8-The Supplementary Declaration hausen-the Bishopric of Osnabruck. To the has not yet made its appearance officially; but Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle, the Abbeys of. yesterday, a courier from Paris having arrived the Gandersheim and Helmstadt, under condition of day before, it was fully approved of in a con- paying a constant rent of 2000 florins to the Prinference between the envoys of Brandenburgh, Ba- cess Amelia of Dessau-Sect, 5. The Margrave of Baden receives likewise the Nessian districts Lichvaria, Wurtemburgh, Hesse, and Mentz. It contains many additions and changes: the Maltese tenau and Wildstadt; the Abbeys of Reichenau, Order now loses all its indemnities, and the Tu- Ocheningen, the provostship and Chapter of Odentonic Order receives several; Mentz receives a heim, and the immediate and mediate rights and million of revenue, partly from immediate terri- possessions which depend on the public establishtory, which will now include Ratisbon and Wetz- ments and corporations on the Left Bank of the. lar, and partly from the revenues of mediate foun- Rhine, and to the south of the Neckar.-Sect. 6. dations. Solms Braunfelt receives a voice in the The Duke of Wirtemburgh receives likewise Council of Princes. The six remaining Imperial cities Schonthal, Camburg, with their sovereignties, as will continue a college, but without having a vote also Rothminster, Heiligenthal, Obristenfeld, on peace and war. Hesse Cassel receives no fur- Holzhausen, Margareth-hausen, and all the ab .ther indemnifications, but a considerable addition heys, convents, and chapters in the same, on pay. is made to those of Wurtemburgh, as for example, ing certain constant rents to different princes. the Abbey of Sconthal, assigned in the former Sect. 7. The Landgrave of Hesse Cassel receives declaration to the Count of Liningen Westerburgh; for his claims to Corvey, the Mentz districts of the territory of Comburgh, near Schwabish, Hall, Naumburg and Neustadt, and the town of Geir&c. Brunswick, in consequence of the possession hausen, under condition of paying a constant rent it receives in the bishopric of Osnabrug, will either of 22,500 florins to the Landgrave of Hesse-Ros cede a tract of land to Mecklenburgh, or pay year-thenburg The Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt,

Corfi, Aug. 30.-The Secretary of the Russian Legation, M. Nemerotski, yesterday killed himself in his own apartments. He discharged two pistals into his body. His manners had conciliated the esteem of every body, and particularly of his Excellency Count Moccnego, the Russian Plenipotentiary.

Leghorn, Sept. 29.-Their Majesties the King and Queen of Etruria arrived here on the 26th, and the next morning embarked with the young Prince on board the Princess Louisa, of 120 guns, and at eleven o'clock the whole Spanish squadron sailed with a fair wind for Barcelona. They were saluted at their departure with 101 discharges of artillery

from this fortress.

ver, relative to considerable advantages granted to the City of Bremen, and especially the grant of the district and territory of Vegesack, which is claimed as territorial property of the Electorate of Hanover.

ther at Berne on the 18th. The Executive Coun cil will not set out till to-morrow.

for surrendering certain rights on the cities of Wetzlar and Frankfort, and some Hessian districts, receives the Duchy of Westphalia and different districts of Mentz, subject to a constant rent, &c.-Seet. 12. Nassau Dillenburgh, the late Hereditary Stadtholder, receives the abbeys and Lausanne, Oct. 16.We learn from Berne that provostships of Hoffen, St. Gerold, Banderen, and the army of the Confederates has just been disall the chapters, provostships, and convents situ banded. There is now consequently no obstacle ate in the territory assigned him.-Sect. 25. The to the return of the government to that city. The' Seat of Mentz shall be transferred to the cathedral first Helvetic demi-brigade marched from hence of Ratisbon, and the dignity of elector, arch- yesterday morning, and will arrive to-morrow chancellor and primate of Germany, shall be per- evening at Berne. The Senate decreed in its last petually united to it. His metropolitan jurisdic-sitting, that all its members should assemble togetion shall extend over the old ecclesiastical provinces of Mentz, Cologn, and Treves, as far as they extend on the right bank of the Rhine, and excepting the territory of the King of Prussia. The Elector of Mentz receives the principality and city of Ratisbon, and Wetzlar, with the title of a county. Sect. 27. The College of Imperial Cities shall for the future consist of the free and independent cities of Augsburgh, Lubeck, Nuremburgh, Frankfort, Bremen, and Hamburgh. They shall possess their respective territories in full Sovereignty and jurisdiction. They shall also enjoy a perfect neutrality in all wars of the Empire, and shall be always exempt from any military contribution, ordinary or extraordinary; and in all questions of war or peace, shall be entirely and necessarily dispensed from acceding to the resolutions of the Empire; they shall also separately receive the following indemnities, &c.

Berne-Colonel Rapp has traversed Switzerland: he has found the towns and villages a prey to misfortunes-the dismal attendants of civil war. His presence calmed every alarm. The bodies assembled have been dispersed.-The 1st and 2d Helvetic demi-brigades are on their march to form the garrison of our city. The arrival of the Senate is announced for the day after to-morrow. Deputies from all parts of Switzerland are about to proceed to Paris.-We begin to hope that our revolution, which has been continued and renewed annually for eight years, is approaching its end. Let us at length enjoy every thing good and useful it promised; and let the government under which we are destined to live, not signalize the triumph of any party, and be consecrated by the union of all its citizens.-Weak as we are in comparison of the surrounding powers, can we pretend to an honourable independence, a peaceful

Augsburg, Oct. 14.-The Chancellor of the Bishop of Passau, M. de Rademacher, has repaired to Ratisbon, to solicit the Deputation of the Em-neutrality, if we continue divided!-The sentipire, not to separate the city and fortress of Passau from the rest of the bishopric. It appears, moreover, that representations have been made by the mediating powers, to engage the Court of Vienna to withdraw its troops from the city and bishopric; already the Prince Bishop has notified to the Magistracy of Passau, that the presence of the Austrian troops will not be of longer duration, and that it had no other object by the mi-ritory, by which Underwald, Berne, Lausanne, and litary occupation of the country, than to prevent it from being dismembered.

Paris, Oct. 15.-It is said that the Minister of the laterior is to accompany the First Consul in the journey which he is about to make to Havre, Rouen, and Cherbourg, which is expected to take place very soon.

Ratisbon, Oct. 15.-The Deputation of the Empire held yesterday its fifteenth sitting-Mentz and Hesse-Cassel voted for the new plan of Indemnities; the majority is consequently in favour of that plan. Bohemia, Saxony, and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, have not yet vot ed.-The Deputation have not yet agreed to a conclusum; they wait till the Minister of Bohemia has received instructions from Vienna.-The Russian Legation here has received instructions to accede to the alterations in the second plan of Indemnities, as sent from Paris.-The Russian and French Ministers gave in another note to the Deputation of the Empire on the 13th, containing some emendations of the 11th article of the new plan of Indemnities; at the conclusion they again earnestly recommend to the Deputation to vote a conclusum on the plan.-Many reclamations have already been given in against the new plan of indemnities. The most remarkable of these, is that of the Deputy for the Electorate of Hanos

ments of the whole Helvetic people are united in
these three wishes :-1st. A Constitution in which
the oligarchy may never re-appear, and which at
the same time may ensure the equality of the citi-
zens-the equality of our eighteen cantons-the
equality of the five religions which the different
parties of Helvetia profess! 2d. A Constitution
suited to the diversity and inequalities of our ter-

Basle, may be governed according to the local cir-
cumstances, languages, and manners peculiar to
them.In the last place our third wish, no less
national than the other two, is, to see maintained,
in their whole integrity, our ancient relations with
the French people, and the men who are in the
pay of foreign powers, deprived of all their influ-,
ence. In the bosom even of a general conflagra
tion, its real interest is to remain neuter: this
will never be that of a Bachman and a Vatteville,
who since their infancy have served those powers,
which are enemies to France. If war should again
be kindled up in Europe, and if, as was the case
with the King of Sardinia and the Republic of
Venice, neutrality should to us become impossi
ble; the alliance of France would be our only
wish, our justest and dearest interest.-There is
not one of us who does not think the Swiss united
to the French, will always defend with glory our
mountains, and render impenetrable to the enemy
our plains and our large towns, such as Zurich,
Berne, Soleure, Fribourg, Basle, and Lausanne.
In a word, there is not one of us who is not sen
sible that our political system ought to be that of
our fathers, who, through a love for liberty and
for their country, were always intimately con
nected with France. If any man, born in our
territories, does not participate with us in this

opinion, he does not think like a real Swiss. He abandons himself blindly to affections foreign to the interests of his country.-The cry of rallying around the nation is equality among the cantons, the independence of Helvetia, and concert with the French Republic.- Moniteur.

Berne, Oct. 17.-The Deputies which our Provisional Government sent in order to consult with the Diet of Schwitz, respecting the steps that ought to be taken in the present situation of affairs, have returned: they have brought an order to General Bachmann, to disband the Confederate Army. Yesterday and the day before, the contingent troops belonging to the smaller Cantons returned home. Those belonging to Schwitz carried with them an Helvetic standard, which they took in the battle of the 3d inst. The levies of troops which were ordered in several of the Cantous, have been suspended. General Auf-dermaur passed through this city a few days ago, on his way to Schwitz. General Bachmann is here with his staff. Citizen Guadolphe, Secretary of Legation to Citizen Verninac, has invited the Commission of Ten to re-assemble, and has made some important propositions to them. Yesterday General Rapp gave a grand dinner, at which General Bachmann and his staff were present. The Helvetic government are not yet arrived here.

Basle, Oct. 18.-The troops belonging to Basle, which were ready to march on the first signal to join the Army of General Bachmann, are to remain here until farther orders. It is said that the Diet of Schwitz will govern the Republic until the government is definitively organized, and the Members of the Central Government, who are to return to Berne, have given in their resignations. | The 1st and 2d Helvetic half-brigades ought to have arrived by this time in this city. The troops on both sides are to be disbanded.

DOMESTIC.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1802.

BANKRUPTS.

Annesley, Abraham Levy, Chiswell-street, merchant.-Augarde, Francis Joseph, and Francis Joseph Alaicant, Oxford-street, hosiers and hatters. Clark, Daniel, Liverpool, master mariner-Britt, William, Loddon, Norfolk, shopkeeper.Peach, Robert, Wakefield, York, woolstapler. Jowet, Joseph, Rothwell, York, coal miner.Wheldale, William, Oxford-street, linen draper. Nix, James, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, breeches maker-Hodgson, Luke, Cow-lane, apothecary.Cawthorn, Samuel, York, grocer.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

Marriages On Tuesday, at Totteridge, Hants, the Rev. Thos. Cope Marsham, vicar of Kew and Petersham, to Miss Maitland.

Deaths.-On Friday, at his house in Duke-street, Westminster, Dr. Arnold.-A few days since, at Kew, George D'Auber, esq. late Captain of the 11th Light Dragoons,

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MY LORD,-Previous to the discussion of

the " high matter," of which I spoke to your lordship, at the close of my last letter (p. 510), previous to any remarks respecting the necessity of a total change in the warpolitics of the country, it is incumbent on me to show, that the evils and dangers, which I attribute to the policy hitherto pursued, do really exist, which, I trust, I shall do, to the entire satisfaction of your lordship, in discussing the 4th, and remaining proposition of my former letter; to wit: That, though for various reasons, the present, dispute with France may not terminate in open bostility; yet that, in whatever way that dispute is accommodated for the present, this nation must, ere long, be at var with France, and that the peace will then be found to have produced an irretrievable injury to our position naval and military, domestic and foreign.

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