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communication of your excellency, and it has been reserved for the present age to furnish so fatal and daring an attempt.-If the facts developed in this correspondence inspire the deepest affliction in the breast of every individual capable of calculating the fatal consequences arising from the abuse of one of the most sacred and respectable of characters, how poignant must be the sensations of one who is invested with this character, and who has endeavoured, by an adherence to his own duties, to acquire a right to that respect, protection, and inviolability, which the laws of nations assure him.-The Batavian ambassador, the minister of a nation renowned in all ages for its justice aud incorruptiLility, to whom loyalty has become habitual, and which observes a religious respect for the laws of nations, must in the present case, feel a double portion of the general indignation..

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been obliged literally to transmit, and which have been given me, and repeated after the interval of a month, with such a solemn severity, as neither allowed me to with bold them altogether, nor to soften them in the slightest degree.-After the discharge of this severe duty, I cannot, my dear Jerome, deny myself the pleasure of lengthening my letter in a way which the attachment I feel to you will warrant, and our military association entitles me to. If I loved you less; if the sentiments with which you have inspired me, did not so perfectly accord with those which I owe to your family; if there were not between you and me a sort of companionship in arms, and of intimacy which I delight in keeping up-I should confine myself to the dispatching of the orders which I have received, and to an accurate official correspondence, the result of which would give me very little uneasiness.—Instead of this, I am going to chat with you at a great rate, and without knowing beforehand what I am about to say; of one thing I am certain, I shali tell you nothing of which I am not well persuaded.-War is carrying on, and you are quiet and peaceable at 1,200 leagues from the theaire on which you ought to act a great part. If, unfortunately, you come not back in the first French frigate which returns to Europe, and I have already given you that order by

Signed, SCHIMMELPENNINCK, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804. Answer of the Minister of the Grand Master of Malta.SIR,-1 hasten to inform your exc, that I have received your letter of the 31 Germinal, with a copy of the report of the grand judge, relative to the conspiracy designed by Mr. Drake, his Britannic Majesty's minister at the court of Munich. I shall immediately transmit the communication to his highness the grand master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem: his at--tachment, his profound devotion, as well as that of the order over which he presides, to the interests of France, and the august person of the First Consul, are such, that he will feel the greatest horror and indignation when he hears of this odious plot. Signed, The BAILIFF of FERRETE, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

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FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. JEROME BUONAPARTE. (See the former Letter in p. 685) Letter from DACRES, French Minister of the Marine to Jerome Buonaparte, dated Paris, 18th April, 1804. I have just been fulfilling, my dear Jerome, a rigorous duty impo ed upon me by the First Consul.; that of forbidding the Citizen Pichon to supply you with money, and prescribing to him to prohibit all the captains of French vessels from receiving on bard the young person to whom you have attached yourself; it being the intention of the First Consul that she shall on no pretext whatever come into France, and should she happen to present herself, that she shall not be received, but be reimbarked for the United States Such, my dear Jerome en chich I have

-, an order which I repeat to you by the Consul's command in the most formal manner: if, I say, you shall not return to France till after the peace, what dignity will accompany your return? How will men recognize in you the brother of the Regulator of Europe? In what temper of mind will you find that brother, who, eager after glo ry, will see you destitute even of that of having encountered dangers, and who, convinced that all France would shed its blood for him, would only see in you a man without energy, yielding to effeminate passions, and having not a single leaf to add to the beap of laurels with which he invests his name and our standards?-O Jerome, this idea alone should determine you to return with all expedition amongst us.; the sound of arms is beard in every quarter, and of the preparations for the noblest enterprize. You are inquired for, and I-vexed that I should be at a loss what answer to give to those who ask where you are, declare that you are just at hand. Give me not the lie, I beseech you. Your brother Joseph, father of a fa mily that he adores, possessed of a fortune proportioned to his rank, invested with the highest civil honours of the state, known throughout Europe for his sagacity and his

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domestic privacy, did I wish to make the voice of natural affection be heard; I became sensible, from his conversation, that, he neither felt nor was liable to feel any pliancy of that kind.-" I will receive Jerome, if, leaving in America the young person in question, he shall come hither to associate himself to my fortune; should he bring her along with him, she shall not, put a foot on the territory of France; and you, must answer to me for this by the order, which you are bound to give to prevent her, landing. If he comes alone, I shall never, recall the error of a moment, and the fault, of youth. Faithful services, and the conduct which he owes to himself and to his name, will regain all my kindness."-Such, my dear Jerome, are nearly the words of the First Consul. Bethink yourself, my friend, that he is only your brother, and that as I have already told you, a brother feels not the

diplomatic labours, wishes to add to so much glory that of sharing with the Consul the dangers of war, and has just got one of the regiments that are about to embark Louis, known by his military services, a general of division, is desirous of adding to that glory, that of displaying talents for civil arrangements; he has just entered into the Council of State; the Section of Legislation.-Lu cien, it is true, has just quitted France, and has exiled himself to Rome, in consequence of a marriage repugnant to the views of the First Consul; but Lucien is known by the services he has rendered, by his genius, by his talents, by the dignity of a senator. He is possessed of a great and independent fortune; and yet the connexions (disavowed by his brother) which he has contracted have been found incompatible with his abode in France. What has taken place in your family, paints out to you sufficiently what the First Consul expects of you, and his in-yielding condescension of a father, who flexibility concerning what you shall do in opposition to his views. Sole architect of the glory of which he has attained the summit, he acknowledges no family but the French people; and in proportion as he exalts his brothers who press around him, so have I seen him shew coldness and even aversion to those of his own blood who push not forward in the career which his genius traces out for them. Whatever is foreign to the accomplishment of his great designs seems to him treason against his high destiny; and believe me, for I know your brother better than you know him yourself, if you should persist in keeping yourself at distance from him, he would get angry at it at first, and would conclude by entirely for getting you; and heaven knows what regrets your obscurity would lay up in store for you, Scarce can a more brilliant career be opened to a man of your age; shut it not up yourself. The union which you have formed has deeply affected him. "Whilst I (thought he), am doing every thing for glory, for that of my name, and for the happiness of the people that have put their fate into my hands, by whom may I hope to be seconded if not by my brothers? And yet the youngest among them forms an inconsiderate connexion, on which he has not even asked my opinion; he bas disposed of himself as a private individual; it is, therefore, as a private individual he wishes me to consider him. What claim does he earn to my benefactions? None; for instead of being useful to me, he takes the rout diametrically opposite to that which I wished him to follow." In vain, availing myself of the freedom which the First Consul permits in

identifies himself, in some measure, with his son; consider that you have as yet done nothing for him, and that in order to obtain the advantages attached to the honour of be ing connected with him, you have not a moment to lose for deserving them. For it is his character, that merit and services ren dered, or to be rendered, are the only things on which he sets a real and solid value.-la truth, I am frightened at the regrets you are preparing for yourself, and the person with whom you have connected yourself. Should you go the length of opposing the views of your brother, your passions will pass away, and you will reproach yourself with the injury which you will have done yourself; perhaps you will accuse, even involuntarily, the young person who will have been the occasion of it. Listen to reason, and she will tell you, that at any rate you have committed the fault of failing in respect for your brother, and for a brother fed for a length of time, with the love and veneration of all France, and with the respect of Europe. You will be sensible how happy it is for you that you are able, by returning to France, to obtain the pardon of this fault; that it would be inconsistent with your personal dignity to carry thither a woman who would be exposed to the mortification of not being received. I know not whether you can hope to overcome your brother's unfavourable disposition towards her, and to deal frankly with you, I see no probability of such a thing; but if there be any means of obtaining it, it must be by your presence, by your compliance with his views, by proofs of your devoted attachment to him, that you can bring it about. You are so young, that

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if you unhappily let slip the opportunity of placing yourself about the Con-ul, you will have many years for regret to steal upon you. The obscurity to which you would thus condemn yourself would be long; and long and bitter the comparison between the lot you had chosen for yourself, and that which once awaited you. Without distinction, fame, or even fortune, how could you bear the weight of the name with which you are honoured? To you, a stranger to the glory attached to it, it would become an insupportable burthen. I repeat it for the last time, my dear Jerome, come hither, come hither by the first French frigate which shall sail from the United States, and you will meet with such a reception as you could desire; but I regret that you know not the Consul sufficiently, because you would then be persuaded that you cannot regain his good will but by this expedient, and this good will is essential to your happiness and your glory. I conclude with the expression of the most sincere attachment which I shall never cease to retain-happy if I have been able to influence your determination in the way I could wish-more happy still, if my letter was unnecessary for that purpose. A thousand kind wishes --(Signed) DACRES.

DISPUTES IN THE GOVT. OF WIRTEMBURGH-Answer of the Superior College to the Letter of the Prince of Wirtemburgh. (See the Letter, p. 644).

We have no other duties to fulfil towards your Highness, than the respect which is due to the son of our Sovereign and a member of the Electoral House; consequently your Highness will yourself be convinced, that we have no intimation to receive but from his Highness the Elector. We have no occasion to justify the measures, which our sovereign, at our request, has taken against the usurpations of the P.ovincial States; on the contrary, we are persuaded that, if Providence should some day entrust you with the government of the Wirtemburgh States; contemplating, wh a mind disengaged from all foreign influence, the relations of the Sovereign in all their extent, you will applaud the perseverance of our Elector, you will acknowledge the wisdom of his views, and you will owe to ourselves an obligation for having in the existing circumstances, augmented not only the lustre of the Electoral House, but farther maintained his right in the interior, &c. Neither could we answer to your declaration relative to the debts; for it is as offensive from the mouth of a son, as it is little adapted to a case, of which a more profound

knowledge would have prevented you from making mention. As men of honour, we find ourselves under the necessity of telling you, with the permission of Monsigneur your father, that no one has the right to make use of offensive and misplaced expressions towards us, from which we pray you to dispense us for the future. We think it our duty to conjure you, as the first servants of a state to which you belong, to conjure you, we say, by all that is sacred in heaven, and on earth, by the duties of a son to his father, not to aggravate the unfortunate consequences of the relations in which you are placed with Monseigneur, your father; banish from your heart and from your conduct every thing that can complete the destruction of the ties consecrated by nature and by Providence, the effect of which would be irreparably to destroy your internal tranquillity invoke the forgiveness of your fa ther, whose heart you have ulcerated a fresh,

and endeavour to obtain an oblivion of the past, and act in such a manner that, if God should sooner dispose of the life of our revered sovereign than your own, every good Wirtemberger may esteem in you a successor worthy of his father. Rescript of his Electoral Highness, dated 224 September, 1804.

For a long time, our paternal care for the well being of our dear and faithful subjects has been directed toward the administration of the revenues and contributions deposited in the provincial treasury.-This administration is confided, according to the hereditary establishment, to a secret committee of the states; and we could have wished that a regular management had prevented us from interfering with severe measures. But for several years the presumption of a bad administration is manifest. When we thought proper to dissolve the last diet, which unintentionally participated in an act injuring one of the bases of the constitution, (this is to be understood of the sums sent to Paris to the Electoral Prince), we nominated a commission to examine the administration of the Provincial Treasury. But the faction which has fill now ruled the assembly of the Provincial States, as well as its committees, and which has always thwarted our views and projects, still opposed this measure. Although we had invited the general committee, as well as the diet, to appoint deputies to be present at examining the administration of the secret committee, these committees, influenced by the aforesaid faction, refused it; and the secret committee sufficiently shewed that their intention was no other than to cover

their management with an impenetrable veil, and to withdraw themselves entirely from our superintendance. In order to put an end to dissipation of the funds of the states, we have maturely weighed and considered the advice of our superior colleges, and have decreed, that our extraordinary commission shall proceed against the members of the secret committee of the states, who ought to be regarded as the authors and abettors of the opposition against the sovereign, and who have participated in the illegal act concerning the funds of the country; that in consequence these members of the secret committee, as well as the principal function aries attached to the Provincial Treasury, shall be suspended from their functions; that the administration of the Public Treasury shall be entrusted provisionally to the remaining members of the secret committee, not implicated in the proceeding, as well as to the members of the general committee.

ROMISH CHURCH IN RUSSIA.-Order, addressed by the Emperor of Russia, on the 21st of August, to the Metropolitan of the Church of Rome, in Russia.

M. the Metropolitan of the church of Rome in Russia. As we have thought proper to suspend all communication with the Pontifical State, as long as the circumstances which have induced us to adopt that measure shall exist, we order you, in your quality of Metropolitan Bishop of the church of Rome, in our empire, to continue to exercise the right, privileges, and powers, conferred on you by Pope Pius VI. in order that our subjects, whether ecclesiastics or laics, may receive all the spiritual aid of which they stand in need. Your tried zeal for our service is a sure pledge that, by a prudent use of the power with which you are entrusted, all the Roman Catholic churches, which are under your inspection, will remain in proper order and tranquillity.

SPAIN AND AMERICA.-Mr. Nathan Kemper, with a party of about 30 men, co. lours flying and horns sounding, marched from the neighbourhood of the line of demarcation, between this territory and West Florida, on the 7th instant, against the fort of Baton Rouge. On their way they made prisoners John O'Conner, Esq. (our Alcade), and Captains Pindedo and Terry. They arrived on the following morning, about day light, near the fort. The Spanish Commandant, apprised of their intention, had posted a picquet of eighteen or twenty men, who hailed the party as they approached. They immediately answered by a volley from their

rifles, which dispersed the Spaniards, two of whom were observed to fall. Kemper returned the following day with his party, to the Bayau Sarah; he has established his head quarters near the house of Mr. William Cobb. The following is an exact copy of a paper which is posted up at the quarters of Kemper, and at several other places through the country: -" For a people to be free it is. "sufficient they will it. We, the under"signed, citizens of West Florida, send these

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presents greeting: Whereas the despotism "under which we have long groaned has

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grown to such a burthen, and it is so long "since admitted that men are born with "equal rights, we the undersigned, inhabi"tants of that part of the dominion called "West Florida, have resolved to throw off "the galling yoke of tyranny, and become "free men, by declaring ourselves a free. "and independent people, and by support-. "ing with our lives and property that de "claration; and we do, by these presents, "invite our fellow-sufferers, through the "province aforesaid, to repair to the stand"ard, to aid in the effecting our common

emancipation. We pledge ourselves so"lemnly to each other, and to our fellow "men interested in the event, to avoid, as "far as practicable, the effusion of blood "(save that of our common enemy) and in "all cases shall private property be held sa"cred. So soon as our emancipation shall "be effected, we will offer ourselves to

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Narrative of Transactions hetween the Spanish

Minister in the United States of America, Mr. Jackson, the Editor of a Newspaper in Philadelphia, and Mr. Jefferson, President of the United States. Published at Pbiladelphia. Sep. 20, 1804.

In the discharge of an important, and to myself, an indispensible duty, the subjoined statement was communicated, in the first instance, to the government. In a respectful solicitude for the rights of our coun◄ try, the deposition and letters are now made public. W. JACKSON,

On Thursday, 16th Sept. 1801, a note, of which the following is a transcript, was left at my office: "The Marquis de Casa Yrujo

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"presents his compliments to Major Jack son, and would be very happy to know "from him when and where he could have "the pleasure to see him in the course of "this day-Thursday, 6th."-Never having before received any communication from Mr. Yrujo-never having even exchanged one word of conversation with him in my life, I was not a little surprised at receiving this message, which I answered by a note to the following purport: "Major Jackson pre"sents his compliments to the Marquis de "Casa Yrujo; and in reply to his note of "this morning, Major Jackson will be at his "office till two o'clock, and at his house in "Chesnut-street, until four, at either of "which places he will see the Marquis de

Casa Yrujo; or if more convenient he "will wait on him."--To this note I received a verbal answer, that the Marquis de Casa Yrujo would be glad to see me at the Marquis's house at five o'clock. I went at five o'clock to Mr. Yrujo's house, and on entering the room, was accosted by him in nearly the following words:" You will "not be surprised, Major Jackson, at the li-' "berty I have taken in sending to you, but "I trust an explanation of the motive will excuse me. I consider you, Sir, as a gen"tleman, a man of letters, and a man of

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honour. By a political intolerance you "have been forced to adopt a profession dif"ferent from what you have heretofore pur-" ❝sued, but it is one in which you are quali"fied to be very useful. I observe, by "certain opinions expressed in your paper, "that you consider the present administra❝tion (for I will not call them government) "as disinclined to go to war with Spain." "In this, however, you are mistaken; the "reverse is the fact; and they (the admi"nistration) only wish the federal papers "to utter those opinions that they may have an argument of that sort for indulging their wish to go to war with my country, which would certainly be very injurious "to your's. For if the King, my master, was to order three ships of the line and six frigates to the Mississippi, three ships "of the line and six frigates to the Chesa"peake, and three ships of the line and "six frigates to Sandy Hook, what would 46 you do? But you have it in your power "to do much good, by espousing the part "of peace, which is so necessary to both "nations; and if you will consent to take "elucidations on the subject from me, I "will furnish them, and I will make you "any acknowledgment."Perceiving at this moment his infamous purpose, I, with difficulty, stifled the emotions which it ex

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cited, and restrained my indignation. He went on to examine in detail the several points in dispute between Spain and the United States; and, as I wished to learn his opinions respecting them, I suffered him to proceed. Among other things, he said, that it Mr. Pinckney had acted by instructions from the administration, or if his con duct should be approved by them, war was inevitable. But he had no doubt war was the wish of our administration; for he had received a letter from New Orleans, dated the 25th of April last, which stated, that there was a letter at that place in Mr. Jefferson's hand-writing, dated in March last, which declared that if the settlers between the Mississippi and the Rio Perdido would raise the American colours, they would be supported. He continued his observations, and pressed me to give him an answer; assuring me that this was no diplomatic management, but an epanchement (unbosom ing) of himself to me as a man of honour; and he trusted I would so consider it. I then quitted the room. He accompanied me to the street door, and again asked me when I would give him an answer. With difficulty I suppressed the indignation of my feelings, and left the house.

W.JACKSON.

"Sworn before me the 7th of September, "1804, that the contents of the within "statement are just and true. (Signed) EDWARD SHIPPEN, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia, Sep. 7, 1804. "SIR,-Considerations paramount to "all others, the love of my country, and a 66 sense of personal honour, which no "change of fortune or circumstances can "efface or diminish, have decided me on "the present occasion to address you."The accompanying document refers to "the most interesting objects that can en

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gage my attention, and for the moment. "those objects banish every other remem "brance.- -Mr. Yrujo's official character "precludes the only reparation. I would "consent to receive for this attempt against "honour. It is for you, Sir, to determine " what satisfaction is due to our country "and its government.I shall wait the "time necessary to learn your decision be "fore I give further publicity to the trans "action. I am, Sir, your most obedient "servant, W. JACKSON."

Thomas Jefferson, Esq. President "of the United States.

"Monticello, Sep. 15. SIR,I have received yours of the 7th instant, and shall use its contents in

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