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corps, in order to be incorporated there"with.----The Generals commanding the "military divisions shall enforce the strictest "execution of this order, and shall render "account thereof to the Minister for the "War Department.--General Count | "DUPONT, Minister Secretary of State for "the War Department."

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ever remain great and happy, and proclaima guarantee of their Liberties.-May, Sir, the Prince they recalled to reign over them hold those liberties sacred!—for the benefits of Peace, we ought to be truly thankful to Providence; as well as to those by whose valour and labours, or by whose virtue and wisdom they have, under Providence, been attained.-But, Sir, we should ill acquit ourselves of the duty we owe to our country, and to your Royal Highness, WESTMINSTER ADDRESS.-ihe inceas the Representative of our Sovereign, aid pendent inhabitants of this great city, are the only persons who have followed the we not entreat you to couple with the example of the citizens of London, in praise-worthy conclusion of the war its blanicable cominencement.--Your Royal voting an Address to the Prince Regent Highness would then see, that what we now on the late termination of hostilities against contemplate as a happy result to France, France. I have subjoined a copy of this namely, the government of a represented Address, upon which some useful re- People by a limited King, might have conmarks may probably occur after it has been tinued as it then existed, without any war at presented, and an Answer given by the all-in that case, Sir, the world had not been disgusted by the atrocities of a RobesMeanwhile it be stated, Regent. pierre, nor terrified by the portentous power that the Address, which was read by J. of a Bonaparte. In that case Europe had Lochee, Esq. moved by Major Cartwright, escaped a sacrifice of three millions of bu man lives and countless calamities. and seconded by Peter Walker, Esq. was unanimously approved of by a very large and that case, England had not seen degraded respectable Meeting of the Electors of to paupers a million and a half of her industrious people, nor have felt the scourge Westminster. Several spirited Resoluof a Taxation for paying the annual intetions were also adopted without a dissent-rest of an incurred debt of eight hundred. to one about millions sterling,-As, however, Divine Proing voice, except as America, to which an amendment was vidence brings good out of evil, and as it. proposed by a person who said some- accords with experience, that a constant thing about the great wisdom which growth of knowledge is the effect of an ever-operating cause, and eminently beneMinisters had displayed in their conduct cial to civilized man; so we cannot but of the war, and talked loud about punish-attribute the moderation and wisdom, so ing the American savages. I could not learn the individual's name who proposed this amendment-but it was whispered that he was a Contractor; and his full "fledged plumage" shewed that, at least, he had not been a loser by the warlike mania. It was justly remarked by Sir Francis Burdett, that the proposed amendment had met its deserved fate, in being consigned to oblivion by the unanimous voice of the assembly.

ADDRESS TO THE REGENT.
THE DUTIFUL ADDRESS OF THE HOUSEHOLD
ERS OF THE CITY AND LIBERTIES OF WEST-
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eminently displayed by the Allied Sove reigns, to that growth of knowledge, to that diusion of train, which, in our age, is daily. enlightening the civilized world.--If, Sir, the American and French Revolutions had their accompaniments of calamity, yet the innumerable discussions they generated, did also improve, in a high degree, the science of civil governmcat---master science of Princes and statesmen. The Monarchs who have as virtuously as wisely guaranteed Peace, Greatness, and Liberty to France, as well as their Ministers and Warriors, must carry home with them from Paris the Seeds of amelioration, the scientific principles of amendment, by which the coudition of their own subjects will be greatly betMAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS. On a termination of the conflict with tered; and by which, without convulsion, France, in which our country has so long their States may be rapidly made to enjoy that perfection of polity, that freedom and been engaged---a termination as fortunate as it has been singular, we beg your Royal prosperity, which is equally the ornament Highness to accept of our sincere congratu- and felicity of Princes and of People. In lations. In a war so sanguinary, it has been the political transactions of both hemisa spectacle as novel, as auspicious to huma-pheres, those intelligent Monarchs must nity, to behold a coalition of Sovereigns, at the head of immense armies, on victoriously entering the capital of their enemy, inviting the People to choose the Constitution of Government under which they desired to live, expressing a wish that that People might

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the sword were manifestly wicked; but to For such a purpose, to draw attempt to subdue Independence, Innocence and Patriotism, by the instrumentality of famine, were shockingly inhuman. We bum bly, Sir, and most anxiously intreat your Royal Highness to save your country from this reproach to avert from her this disho nour. And, Sir, among the many happy results of the pacification of Europe, we contemplate, with inexpressible satisfaction, the annihilation of the disputed points respeeting the maritime rights of neutral natious, which have constituted the ground of the ever-lamentable hostility in which we are engaged with the United States of America. Hence, Sir, we confidently trust, that on both sides of the Atlantic the miseries and immoralities of war will shortly be at an end, and the whole civilized world repose under the peaceful olive; studying and practising only the social and moral duties, arts and accomplishments, for their general improvement and happiness.

Wherefore, Sir, we cannot doubt, that in all with the highest admiration, the virtue and çivilized countries Representation will in wisdom so conspicuous in the arrangements time attain perfection. When, Sir, your made on the first day of April at Paris, we Royal Highness shall refect, that after a are unable, Sir, to express the deep concern war of more than twenty years continu- and the shame we feel, touching the hesance, originally undertaken for crushing the tile measure which your Royal Highnes infant liberties of France, the existence of has been advised to sanction in respect of those very liberties is now found to afford | Norway. If it be just that any one Nation the only hope of tranquillity to Europe, and shall provide for its own welfare and haphas therefore been made the basis of Peace, piness by the exercise of its own reason, we must, with additional earnestness, recur and the freedom of its own will, it must be to the impression we endeavoured three just that every Nation shall freely do the years ago to make on the mind of your same. England, Sir, can have no right to Royal Highness-an endeavour in which, force on Norway a sovereignty to which she we trust, we succeeded-in favour of such is adverse. a radical Reform in the Comraons House of Parliament of our own country, as shall afford us the full benefit of Representation. In our former Address to your Royal Highness, we spoke of that Rorough Faction which alike tramples on the Rights of the Crown and People. Were, Sir, that Faction to continue its daring inroad on the Independence of the Throne,-were it to continug its deadly stabs to the Liberties of the People.-were it to continue its depredations on the property of the nation-were, in short, our Freedom to be no more, of what value Peace, or aught else on earth!In proportion, Sir, as a constitutional Commous flouse must be an object of unbounded veneration, your Royal Highness will be sensible that the existence of a Faction, which should greatly impair its excellence, must to every loyal mind be exquisitely painful. The yoke of a Faction-a domestic Faction-that had feloniously broken into the citadel of the Constitution and stolen our Palladium, were even worse than foreign war itself. It were the tyranny The Friends of the Freedom of of a few, who had no other claim to rule over Election will be gratified to find that the their fellow subjects than that of having Seventh Anniversary of the Election of robbed them. It were to bow the head and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, to represent the bend the knce to an audacious corruption. City of Westminster in Parliament, is to It were the very lowest depth of disho-be celebrated at the Crown and Anchor Tanour. On the part, Sir, of an English Sovereign, on the part of an English People, vern, Strand, on Monday next, by a pubto such a Faction there could be no sub-lic dinner. The chair will be filled by Sir mission. A truly patriot Representative FRANCIS.-The following, among other stands, however, pledged to his constituents respectable Gentlemen, intend to be preand his country, to bring before Parlia-sent :-E. B. Clive, Esq.; Sir John ment, at the first convenient opportunity, Throgmorton; Robert Knight, Esq.; J. their great question. It is, Sir, impossible Josling, Esq.; Thomas Northmore, Esq.; that Parliament should then be at war with W. J. Burdett, Esq.; R. M. Biddulph, England. It is impossible that it should not then imitate those Sovereigns who, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Wood; Henry even while at war with France, eagerly Brougham, Esq.; Hon. Thomas Brand; sought the opportunity of offering to he. R. H. A. Bennet, Esq.; Thomas Creevey, their guarantee of all she claimed as her Esq. Francis Canning, Esq.; Rights and Liberties. After contemplating, Esq.; Mr. Waithman. Gwynn,

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the ground, that France, though she had changed her Ruler, was still the sume, and was radically and systematically the enemy of England; and therefore, that it was the duty of every Briton to harbour a constant In the first Number of these Papers, ad- jealousy of her, and to endeavour, by all dressed to your Majesty, I assured you, the means in his power, to keep France in that, if you discovered an inclination to a state of weakness.- -Since the writing act fairly towards your people, you would of that paper, these same persons, increassoon become an object of censure, if not of ing daily in their hostility towards you and abuse, with those persons in England, who your family, as well as your people, have had been amongst the loudest in expressing proclaimed, that we Englishmen ought to their joy at your being called to the throne bear in mind " that the disgraceful interof France; and that your Majesty would," ference of France in our quarrel with in that case, experience the curious change "America, took place under a BOURof having for defenders those who were" BON;" and, inferring from that fact, not for your recall, fearing that it might that we ought to be as jealous of you, as we prove injuricus to the cause of freedom, not only in France, but throughout all Europe.By this time those who have read these papers (amongst whom I am not vain enough to hope that your Majesty is one) will begin to perceive, that my opinion was but too well founded; for, from the moment that it was seen, in this country, that your Majesty discovered no intention to gratify the wishes of the enemies of France; that you did not intend to plunge your country into a civil war by reviving the animosities of past times; that you did not intend to degrade your country, to make her the prey of her neighbours and the scorn of the world; from that very moment the men, who, in this country, had been the forwardest in urging your recall, began to change their tone respecting you.- -The point, aimed at, and, I think, clearly established, in my last Number, was this, that the same persons who recommended to your Majesty to break your promise, to re-establish the ancient regime, and, in short, to oppress your people; and who, at the same time, recommended to you most earnestly to slight and degrade the soldiers of the Revolution; that these same persons recommended to the Allies to strip your Galleries and Museums, to keep their armies in France, and to retain their prisoners contrary to agreement, to narrow your dominions, to suffer you to have no Colonies; and that, too, upon

were of Napoleon.It is impossible for malice to be discovered more clearly than it is discovered here. What reason was there for the reviving of this subject? It must be manifest to your Majesty, that the motive could have been no other than that of paving the way for a series of hostile conduct towards you. But the cause of this hostility, so wholly unprovoked, ought to be exposed to the world. It is no other than this: that your Majesty has disappointed these people in not making lists of proscription; in not establishing a despotism; in not doing that, in short, which would have totally mined either your people or yourself; in not doing, in other words, that which would have made France the most feeble and despicable nation upon earth. If these men had found you a ready tool in their hands to raise the bloody flag of political revenge; if they had found you, upon your return, erecting scaffolds whereon to murder those who had survived the war and the intestine troubles of France; if they had seen you drive from your presence every man who has acquired glory in the armies of France; if they had seen you ready to agree to every proposition, tending to the degradation of your country; if, in short, they had seen in you a manifest disposition to be at once a tyrant and a traitor, you would have been, to this hour, as much an object of their praise as you were when you disembarked at Dover for Y

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Calais. Your Majesty will hardly believe, that the prints, which I am compelled to point out by name, speak merely "tary force of France, to permit it to be the sentiments of the owners or editors of " accumulated again into so formidable a those publications. You must be well mass, threatening at every moment to aware, that, if these persons, obscure and "break its bounds, and sweep away all becontemptible as they are of themselves," fore it. It would be madness in Great did not know that their publications" Britain to restore to France, Ships, Colowould be palateable to others, they would"nies, and Commerce; to pour wealth so not send them forth.66 -You, indeed, profusely into her lap, as the mere price must be well aware, that these owners of peace, if the first use she made of it and editors are little more than mise-" were to sharpen the sword for war. We rable tools in the hands of men of superior" perhaps pay too great a compliment to this abilities and more weighty interests; and, "loose and unauthenticated paragraph by notherefore, what they publish becomes entit-"ticing it; but if it be really true, we think led to more attention than if they were to "it is quite sufficient to make us pause before be considered as the mere offspring of the "we give up to France a single conquest, brain of these insignificant individuals.- or even restore an individual prisoner." Every article of news from France, rela- I will not attempt to describe the feelings ting to your measures, becomes an object of which must agitate the breast of every criticism, with the persons to whom I al- Frenchman, upon the hearing of such inlude, who fail not to communicate regular-pudence and profligacy as this. Here we, ly their observations to the public. Amongst at once, see with what views it was that the last of these there are some very well these person wished for your restoration. worthy of yourself and your people; for, in Here it becomes manifest, that they only them, you will not fail to see a new proof of desired that event in the hope of degrading the fact, which ought constantly to be kept and crippling France, having conceived in view; namely, that those who are the the notion, that your Majesty would be enemies of a free and just government in made a tool in the hands of the enemies of France, are also the enemies of a due share your country's greatness.What would of power being possessed by France; and, be said here, if the other Powers were to moreover, are your enemies, unless you will prescribe to us what army or what navy consent to be a foul traitor to your country.- we should keep up in time of peace?It was not Napoleon that these persons What an uproar such an idea would create hated so much as it was France! and this here! And what insolence, then, must it fact, which I formerly endeavoured to prove, be in these persons to hold forth the justice they now, of their own accord, prove to a and propriety of France being dictated to demonstration. They wish to see France in this respect!The number of troops despoiled of all power, of all greatness, and spoken of as the peace establishment of of all the means of becoming great. An France, will be less than her proportion, observation of theirs, relative to the mili- compared with the numbers kept up by tary force of France, to be kept up in time other Powers. We shall, in all probabiof peace, has made this a fact not to ad-lity, not come down so low as 100,000 mit of dispute. The publication, to which men of all sorts, besides the half-pay list, I here more particularly allude, was in amounting to many thousands. And France the Times newspaper, of the 21st of has more than three times our real populaMay, in the following words:"It tion, we having no frontiers to guard, and "is stated, but we imagine with no offi- she having many hundreds of miles of fron"cial grounds of accuracy, that the Peace tier.- But, these matters are unworthy "Establishment of the French army is to of notice, when we think of the impudent "be 220,000 men, exceeding by 68,000 and infamous proposition to the Allies to "the number of the army in 1792. Now, COMPEL your Majesty to fix on such a "if the French Government had adopted peace establishment as they, or, rather, as “ any such unwise and extravagant resolu- these vile men may choose to leave you; "tion, we should think it the duty of all and, what is still more infamous, the prothe other Sovereigns of Europe to say at position to retain our prisoners of war, once, and without the last ceremony, unless you consent to strip your country of "THE THING SHALL NOT BE. the means of defence; unless you consent "We have all (British, Germans, Rus- I to annihilate the power of France. It is

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as well known to these vile men as it is to me, that there exists a Convention, according to which these prisoners are to be re- are rich in conquests, the restitution of leased forthwith; and yet, in the teeth of "which France must owe solely to our lithis solemn compact, these men would re- "berality, we have both the right and the tain the French prisoners, unless you con- power to insist on her doing justice in sent to leave your country in a state of return. We ought not to cede an inch feebleness, that would make her an easy "of territory to her, until she has agreed prey to all her neighbours. They have the" to an equitable commercial treaty; to a reprofligacy openly, and in plain terms, to "duction of her army within limits which recommend a violation of a treaty, which "would leave us nothing to fear for the has been fulfilled on your part already;" peace of Europe; and, lastly, to an abanand that, too, upon the ground, that in the "donment of the slave-trade."Thus, arrangement of your own domestic concerns as your Majesty will see, they mean to you do not act as they could wish. We have such terms as shall put the resources have, in England, the most profligate of France into hands not her own. They writers in the whole world; but, even think, that you will be made to consent to from their pens, any thing so very profli- reduce your kingdom to a sort of colony to gate as this has seldom issued.- They England. If this were for the real benow discover their real motives for wish-nefit of England; if it would tend to our ing for the fall of Napoleon. They now discover, that their checrings of your Majesty on the occasion of your recall, arose from the hope of France becoming degraded and crippled in your hands.The treaty of peace now begins to be a subject of observation with them; and, it is worthy of your attention, how they here also shew their desire to see you and your country degraded. They take fire at the expression of the Paris journals, that the conditions are to be all honourable to France; and they particularly dwell upon a topic, well calculated to deceive the unthinking part of mankind; namely, that of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.-The Courier, of the 21st instant, observes, that "the King of "France has assumed a tone, which the "Allied Sovereigns were not prepared to expect." By Allied Sovereigns these men mean themselves. They, indeed, expected you to be their slave; a vile tool in their hands.There are two points, on which they begin to harp pretty loudly: the commercial intercourse and the slavetrade, in neither of which the Continental Sovereigns have, in fact, any interest.As to these the Times says:-" As the "negociation branches out into detail, "difficulties of various kinds must be ex"pected to arise. It is said, and we can"not be surprised at it, that M. Talley"rand has started many objections against "the introduction of English manufac"tures, on the footing of the treaty of 1786. All reasonable modifications ought to be acceded to on our part. It would not be a wise policy in us to hold up Louis XVIII. to his people, as a So

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happiness and freedom, I am afraid, that I myself might be tempted to wish for it too. But, convinced that I am, that such a treaty as these men desire would be a ral injury to us; that it would tend to make us, the people in general, worse off than we now are; and that it would be to lay the foundation of a new war, I wish for fair and equitable terms of peace. I wish to see France left in possession of great power; because I am of opinion, that her possessing great power will be for the good of the people of England. It is not necessary for me to state precisely how I think that power is to operate in favour of our liberties. It is sufficient for me, that I am convinced that it will so operate; and it is a strong presumption that this opinion is correct, that we see all the most deadly enemies of our freedom anxiously labouring to prevent France from retaining any power at all.The commercial treaty, existing before the Revolution, was very much complained of in France. It was certainly very advantageous to certain persons in England. But the Revolution has made great changes. France has now the means of manufacturing for herself. She has new resources. She will be able to feed a greater population. She will contain a greater mass of industry and enterprise. She is delivered of her load of debt. Her soil, climate, canals, rivers, and ports, offer abundant means for all sorts of commercial enterprises. But, indeed, all tariffs ought to be thrown aside.French wine, oil, corn, and brandy, ought to come here freely and without duty s and France ought to be open to all our

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