has received with gratitude the communica tion, which by order of the First Consul, his exc. the minister of foreign relations, has addressed to him the 3d Germinal.- He hastens to transmit to the Landamman of the Swiss, who as well as all the Swiss will learn with deep regret this new conspiracy against the gracious ally.-The undersigned, highly flattered by the expressions contained in the letter with which his exc. the minister of foreign relations has been pleased to honour him, entreats his exc. to renew to the First Consul the homage of his profound respect and the expedition of his sincere wishes for the preservation of his precious life. Signed C. DE MAILLARDOZ, and dated March 26, 1804.

Answer of the Portuguese Minister.▬▬▬ CITIZEN MINISTER,-I have received the letter which your Excellency did me the honour to address to me of the 3d Germinal, with a copy of the report presented by the Grand Judge, to which are annexed copies of the papers and letters of Drake, his Britannic Majesty's Minister the court of Munich. I thank your Ex for this communication, and I shall hasten to transmit it to my Court. You render justice, Citizen Minister, to my sentiments, in believing the profound grief that I feel by the profanation of the sacre of an Ambassador.- (Signed) J. M. DE SOUZA, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

Answer of the Legate of the Sovereign Pontiff-SrR,-I have received with the lerter of your Exc. of the 3d Germinal, a copy of the report of the Chief Judge, relative to the correspondence of Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty at the Court of Bavaria, with a list of those who have conspired in the interior of France against the Govt. The tender attachment of his Holiness for the person of the First Consul, the respect which I know he entertains for him, in consideration of the important services he has rendered to religion, and the special protection he has extended to the church, the gratitude which, not only French Catholics, but likewise those of neighbouring countries, owe him, have excited in me the most lively sorrow when I learned that his life was in danger, and the public tranquillity had been so near being disturbed. I was then very far from thinking that any of the Diplomatic Agents could be implicated in this conspiracy; the public and sacred character with which they are clothed, sheltered them from such a suspicion. I perceive with great regret, by the correspondence which your Exc. has transmitted to me, that one of these Agents

has permitted himself to address to the enemies of the French Govt. in the interior, instructions, means, and plans. I am persuaded that his Holiness will feel as sensibly as myself this melancholy intelligence. Deign to assure the First Consul that the Pontiff has viewed, and will always continue to view, with horror, whatever shall tend to disturb the interior peace of his Govt., on which rests the entire edifice for the re-establishment of the Catholic religion in France. Every attempt against his precious life will be viewed by his Holiness as a crime as atrocious in itself as it is fatal to the church and to the repose and tranquillity of France. I have no doubt but that the diplomatic corps of Europe will participate with me in these sentiments, and that they will openly disavow whosoever, among the members that compose it, shall abuse his character to propagate discord, and foment disturbances. Signed J. B. CARDINAL CAPRARA, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

Answer of the Minister of Saxony.Ct. TIZEN MINISTER,I have received the note which your Exc. did me the honour to address to me, of the date of 3d Germinal, with a copy of the report which has been

nted to the First Consul by the Grand

on the cor piracy formed by Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty at the Court of Munich; also the printed copies of letters and other authentic papers of the said Mr. Drake, and I have hastened to transmit the whole to my Court. There is no one, Citizen Minister, who will not learn with grief that Mr. Drake, invested with the most honourable public character, should descend to such a profanation of it.

-Signed CT. DE BUNAU, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

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Answer of the Minister of the Arch Chancellor of the German Empire.- CITIZEN MINISTER, The undersigned Minister Plenip. of his Highness the Elector and Arch Chancellor of the Germanic Empire, having received with respectful acknowledgment the letter which your Exc. had been pleased to address to him, of the date of the 3d inst. in which is enclosed a copy of the report presented to the First Consul on the conspiracy formed in France by Mr. Drake, Minister of his Britannic Majesty at the Court of Munich, he has hastened to send the above pieces to his Highness the Elector. The more necessary fidelity, honour, and probity are in the actions of a man to whom has been entrusted the honourable function of diplomacy, the deeper is the sorrow which must be fat at the con

person of the First Consul, whom all the inhabitants of the free towns of the empire regard as the generous protector, who has

bounded sentiments of attachment, and the high consideration which the Elector and Arch Chancellor has expressed for the First

nation which he will feel at this news, may be easily conceived. The undersigned, who by the express order of his Highness the Elector, his master, has already had the honour of expressing these sentiments himself at the last diplomatic audience, begs of your Exc. to repeat to the First Consul an assurance of the warm interest in, and sincere wishes for, his preservation entertained by his Highness the Elector.Signed CHARLES COMTE DE BOEUST, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

Answer of the Neapolitan Minister. --SIR, I have just received the communication which your exc. had been pleased to make to me of the report of the grand judge to the First Consul, and the annexed papers, on a conspiracy directed against France.-The justice which the First Consul rendered to the sentiments of the diplomatic corps who have the honour of being accredited by him, excites the gratitude and corresponds fully with the sensations of profound sorrow with which it has beheld the sanctity and dignity of a public character profaned, whose functions are consecrated by honour and fidelity.-I cannot conceal from your exc. the extreme pain with which I read the papers which contain this communication, and which I have made it my duty to transmit immediately to my court. sentiments of his majesty, the king my master, for the person of the First Consul and for the interior tranquillity of a respect ed nation, whose situation has such influence in surrounding nations, are too well known to the First Consul to render it necessary for me to remind your exc. of them on this occasion.-Signed, DE GALLO, and dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

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Answer of the Minister of the free cities of the German Empire.-CITIZEN MINISTER, I have just received the letter which your exc. did me the honour to address to me, together with the printed letter and authentic papers of Mr. Drake, minister of his Britannic Majesty at Munich, relative to a conspiracy planned under his direction.The impression which a knowledge of these details must make upon every man who respects the rights of nations and the general interests of humanity, cannot but be of the most painful nature. Such at least will be the feelings of the magistrates of the free towns of the empire. This sentiment will be the stronger, as the conspi

whom they feel the highest veneration and the most perfect attachment.-The discovery of this plot has no where produced so strong and general a sensation of sorrow as among the inhabitants of these towns. The letters which I received on their hearing the news of this conspiracy discovered, how great was the consternation among all classes of the citizens, and subsequent ones testify the general felicity on hearing that this plot has been completely crushed.Signed, ABEL.

Answer of the Minister of the Langrave of Hesse Darmstadt. -CITIZEN MINISTER, I have hastened to transmit to my court the letter with which your exc. has honoured me, and a copy of the report of the grand judge with the printed letters, authentic pa pers of the minister of his Britannic Majesty at Munich.--Every honest man must be deeply afflicted on discovering that Mr. Drake has so far forgotten what he owed to the dignity of his public character and to himself, as to become the author of the vile conspirary against the Fr. Repub. and its august chief.-I am persuaded that the opinion of the First Consul relative to the diplomatic corps will be fally justified by each of its members, and I hope in regard to myself that, after a residence of many years, the respectful attachment which I have always entertained for the person of the First Consul is so well known to your exc., that you need no assurances to be convinced of the sentiments of indignation and horror with which the dishoourable conduct of Mr. Drake has inspired me.Signed, AUGUSTUS DE PAPPENHEIM, and. dated Paris, March 26, 1804.

Answer of the Batavian Minister.-CITIZEN MINISTER, The ambassador, who while at London, saw the vessels of his nation, brought into English ports, during the time of peace, had reason to expect that a war preceded by such a flagrant violation to the common principles of justice, and of the rights of nations, would be carried on with little delicacy as to the choice of means. It is with governments, as with individuals, when once the barriers of jus tice have been broken down, power is the only guide, and neither know where to stop their career. Although the history of every nation attested this melancholy truth, it was still difficult to conceive the possibility of an event, such as is detailed in the

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 te the sensations of one who is invested with this character, and who has endeatoured, 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 and incorruptitility, 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. 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 communi Ication to his highness the grand master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem: his attachment, 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.

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 hold 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 shall 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 theatre 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

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 glory, 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 heap 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 heard 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 family 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

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.-Lucien, 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, points out to you sufficiently what the First Consul expects of you, and his inflexibility 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 a 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 has 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

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 per son in question, he shall come hither to as sociate 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 yielding condescension of a father, who 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 being connected with him, you have not a moment to lose for deserving them. For it is his character, that merit and services rendered, or to be rendered, are the only things on which he sets a real and solid value.-In 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