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to your Majesty to Tee and to know
that country.
The’ King —I look upon France
v now as heijrig the scourge of Europe.
The Gen.—-Yes, we have heen much
engaged in warfare- The Empeto'r
has a grekt character.
The King.—-I do hot know of any
Emperor of France.
(<Jen. Btune did not attempt to an
swer this remark.)
The Tying —Have you forgot, Ge
neral, that you have a lawful j£ing.
The Gen —I do hot even know
‘Vhdher such a one exists.
’ The King.—‘How l lfheexvfts? He
is exited, unhappy ; but h* s > s your law
ful King, and his nghn*re unqueftion-.
ably lacred. He only wilhfcs to affeni
bie his united fob,i efts round his stand
ard. ’
The Gen. -’*• Where is that standard ?
’ The King
wi'l always find 14. with me.
The Gen.—l am told that fee has
abdicated hts t ights to the Duke of An*
gouleme.
rhe King.—T have never heard that
mentioned Oil the contrary-, the King
has ilTued a proclamation ...a pledge of
his lenttmerits towards his. people, tcv>
which Monheurand all the Princes of
the have given their tonfent.
Do you know that Proclamation ?
The Gen.—-No your Majesty (this
was said with marry of his
honoui.)
The King—The Duke of Pierrr\e,
Mated al des Camps in the service of
the King is here. It is potlible that he
has brought this pub ication with him.
1 will let him V called if you wifil it.
(When hisrSajelfy,inflie countenance
of the Genera!, perceived his riv quie
tude and uncalincl* at this,) he acided,
“ Bui perhaps this would caute 100
much oblervation.”
The General.—Yes; but if your
majetly would fend it to me in a cover at
the out polls. 1 would read it myfclf,
and my officers should alio ice it.
Y he King*—ln this Proclamation
chc ICirtg prornifea to all military per ‘■
ions who wish to return to their duty,
to retain them in their rank and hon
ors. Do you luppofe Geneial, that
the’prefent Bate of affairs 111 France writ
half long ? 4
The Gen.—Every thing is liable to
change.
The you- think that
Providence which hitherto has allowed
you fomany lucceffes, can put a flop
to them for the lake of jultice and the
good cau le ?
The Gen. But it may happen that
pcrlpns who mean well, aft according
to their con-vittion, even againlt the de
crees of Providence.
The King.—l luppofothat you may
Hill have luccefs- Can you, howev'r
think that it will always continue so?
If you had the choice to serve your
lawful king, or thecadle yt>u l ave now
adopted—what would you dofAnfwer
me sincerely.
‘l'iie Gen.—(ln rubbing his forehead)
that is a qucflion which inquires con
iideration.
The King.—To me it seems that
you ought not to want much time to
tbu.k of it. Teh me only whither you
would picfer returning to your duty,
or deier.ding thole principles which
you have adapted.
-T he-Gen.—ln regard to that—Yes,
2 Jhall oefend thole principles, I fhail
do my duly f< r the k relent.
The King.—Do you know that Bona
parte has propoitd to the Kmg to treat
with him on Ids right. ‘This is the
g eaielt proof of hu acknowledging
thole lights that he could give.
The Gen.‘— I am ignorant about >
tjiat. ‘ j
But do you know that the King l)as !
conitamiy reluled if, and laid as Fiiu-i. )
cis Ilf. We have lojl every thing except ;
our honor. j
(Gcu. lirune repeated ihelc woids j
with warmth.)
.The King.— I know the King in
timaieiy >v 4kiiu he dciet ves to he known •
j for his gTent and excellent qualifies, —
You, General, yon can never have tc-il
—lor what will be y'our fit up lion i* all
ischanpeo? ’ _ ’
The Gep.—-I IhU then die an hon
orable death, {'word in hand. As r,
mjlflary man, I am expo fed |o ludr a
fate every rtiomeiu.— I’he qucflion
not to die, but to die as one ought.
T he King.—But that depends upon
utiforeleen circuinfiances. Thereof,
ifts however a happinels, which corf.
Tiffs in peaeje 0* mind—theconfequcuce
of having fulfilled one’s duties, and
afttd according to the diftates of con.
dc icnie. . Bonaparte can never have
that peeceof mind. Fie might have
made him fell'’-immortal if he had reftor*
■ed the throrre to the King. He may
gain fortuitous honor, much celebrity,
and many advantages, but htf never
can enjoy any peace of mind.
When the Gen. began to /peak of
the talents of Bonaparte, *md said that
there was none of the Bourbon family
who was dillingurfheb r so many, the
Ki''g anlwered, 44 Thete occur favor,
able circtnnftances, and it needs only
to take advantage of them.”
The Gen. feemedto admit this,
The King-—Tlie-clcaih of the Duke
of Enghtens—rwhat an enortiut) !
The Gen.—l was ?t that time in
Conffaniinople and cannot explain
it.
When the conyerfation turned on
the French Revolution, the Gen. said:
I .belong to the Revolution,and it has
been brought about by the will of the
French people.
The King.—it is not the French
people that have made the Revolution ;
it is the rabble. W e now..'fie plainly
the confluences of thefe* mob revo’
lutions of which you speak This one
began with-abolrQnng all diflirvftion in
order to-introduce equality, and now
yourfelf arc a proof that tliefc princi
ples are changed.
Ihe Gen—ls your majeflv had
been in the place, of Louis XVI. the.
Revolution had never happened.
The King.*—l will not piaii'e my.
fell'on ‘.hat head, as j have never found
myfdfin such cut urn fta rices. He was
too good arid . conciliatory, and. has
proved, that those qualifications, wheu
mi (applied, may hare fatal conp qaen.
ces. You have yourfelf'ed p.re on to
this fubjeft. J have been*candid with
you, aid my charatler required that I
should explain myfelf on the fubjett.*—
It is my duty to speak as i have done,
hilt wete I even placed in different
circundfahees, my principles would (f ill
be the feme. Can you imagine that
I should look with indifference upon
people neglecting their du y to their
lawbr 1 Kmg,j/v’hen l am a King my
felf ? that would be to forget what I
owe to my felf. v . . . •
The Gen.—-Your Majcfty confidery
the King a* a biother.
Ihe King.— It fdetos to me that the
F>'nch ought themselves to under ft and
their dunes, without expetting that I
■should set them the example,
Gen. JVunc here returned to the ftife*
jest about the additional clause in the
arjiiidice. Y’our Majefly is tbiu de
termined as to the ten days notice ?
■ The King. Yes.
‘The Gen.—Jiut fliould not your
Majeify with 10 agiee privately that
the armistice fliall not ceale till after a
month's notice ?
The King. You do not know me
rightly if you believe me capable of en
tering inio li.chun agreement.
The Gen.—l know your inajefiy’s
charafter.
Such is the fubflancc of 1 his con
ference, during which General Arune
found it and fli. ult to conceal his embai>
ralfineru, wihen, notwithftafuiing all his
endeavours, was apparent in his coun”
tenance and ccriverlation.
LONDON, August!3.
Wilhoir preietiuing to any official know,
ledye ul lisr objects and deiiiu.ition of the
exptdt ion ~ .. c simll nonce lire report m
gr.ueialcircui.uion, lh it the object. is to
get possesion oi die D.mish fleet, Copcu
! linen. and the island of s^eahiH.d—Whilst
| sotr'e persons suppose dial hi-se
j X.’ ill hr,"ff-ctecl with the consent ot the
| Danish Government, others ridicule the
( idea that, the Danish governr-ent wdl
J willingly nut its Capital and Its fleet imo
j our hand*. Without an understanding
i rh the Hanes, the experifneirt we are
; told, would both he unp>incit'd and dan
j ge>mis. That anv neutral Nation, should
j have Htr catamlfies of a war wlvc!’ she did
j nor provoke, and in which she has no in
i terj-st, extended to her, h deeply to be la
-1 n nterl. Bin when Bonaparte threatens to
exrlikl.ii us v from the Baltic, and menace*
Denmark with over running her most valu
able provinces, Hohtein S% Sle*wi c k, if sh
do not declare against no one Can com
plain if we act-in .such a manner as to con
vince him that rhe execution of his threat
will in no way his object of ex
chiding us from the-B iltic,-nnJ will only
tend to injure the neutral—\ T o one will
say that it is unjust in us who are menaced
with that exclusion, to adopt such m -
surea as ■will p ovc that we are not on! y not
to be excluded, but that we can make o.ur
selvcs masters of the Baltic, by seizing
‘h“ key of it, A great hardship this is to
the neutral natien, but ft U h irdsh!;i to
which extreme necessity justifies 11s in’sub
jeCiing her. <l F.xtretne neceß,iiy, ,t savs
Vattel, may even authorise the tempo
t&ry seizure of a neutral town 4 and the
putting a garrison therein, with a view to
cover ourselves from she muny, or to
Prevent ihe execution of bps design against
tiwt to” n, when she Sovereign i * not s.'iie
to defend it.”—Now, if, there be no dan*
ger of KonaparuN taking Z aland and
Copenhagen, yet if by a menace of occu*
pying other parts of Denmark* which he
is able to seiee, he is likely t. oblige her
Governrnem to declare against us, we are
justified in taking steps to prevent that
government from giving hitn TheuiSe 0!’ dl
its means and resout ces, and ia seizing
sucli p irt of its territories and re*
sources :is we can seize, in order to cover
ouiselves from theetretny. And induing
so we may produce an rff-ct cvtptuallV
advantage.ous to ihe Neutral Power—for
tht enemv, seeing that he cannot execute
Ills desigiw against u, and that his mea
sures and menaces airainst the neutral,
have only served to moke us more decid
edly the masters of the Baltic, mny at
length agre c bv treaty to suffer the nni.
trail to-e.njov, undistuihed, the riyhtt and
van 1 ages of hi* oeuirabty.— Vi any rate
the sending a powerful fleet into Hie Bal
tic, is a wise and vigorous policy.
A-gust 15.
intelligence has been receiver! from
admiral Gambier. this The
dispatches will in all probability In ing us
fnfelligence of jhe Danish Navy, being
in onr possession. When the last advices
from admiral Gambler were sent off on
the 9‘h,he %vr.s between Elsineur and Co
penhagen, his headmost ships being dis
tinctly seea from the steeples of Copenha
gen. About H9,ctOO troops wefe with him*
The remainder of the troops tyere gone,
with admiral F.ssington anil commodore
Keatcs to to the Great Belt, where they
were to take a position between Fonen
Island and the island of
vent any troops < r< heir.g bent from
Jutland or the Funen Liat.d io Zra
laud. Z inland is thus, in a great
measure surrounded.—There was a retrort
vasterdav, that the Castle of Cronberg
had fired upon u, & that yvc had made an
attack upon L—- There is no foundation for
the rpo>'—l he troops were expected to
be debarked shout the ttih or 12 h, to take
possession of the Danish Capital—When
some intention? were once entertained by
Russia of acting hostilelv against Den
mark, it was believed that the Capital
migh befrken by 10,000 men*
It is supposed that the Expedition has
o*her objects t accomplish besides the
securing possession of the Danish Navy.
A Swedish Btdletin has been received
dated the 6 h four days later than
the one we iiiKerted yesterday.—lt states,
we understand, that no impression had
hern made by the French upon S-u alsund,
that the besieged continued to acUvith the
greatest vigor, and had destroyed oue ol
the. vAji ks which ihe PeencH had erected
vV T e have been tavoied tvith the transla
tion wliicii we have intterted in R proceed
ing page, of the oifici ti statement which
has been published at Stralsund, of the
conference between his Swedish Majesty
and Gen. Brunc. I’iie Hamburgh, Alco
na, and Paris papers, had published a very
incorrect accouot ot it- It alhirds us ad
ditional reason to admire the character of
his Swediih Majesty, llis avowed attach
ment to the unfortunate family ot the
Bourbon.*—his acknowledgment ot Loui
XVIII.— hs declaration th*i the iundard
oi the exiled King should always be found
with him—-His undisguised abSov-ence df
the assavsinatian of the duke D’Eughien by
order tis Bonaparte, do him.the greatest
honour. We had almost said tha* he is
the i-'fily Royalist King upon the Continent .
Had h s resources been equal to his firm
nes*. and his spirit, the sitmtion of Europe
would have been very, very diff.Tent from
*vYu it is.—-There ii one Weapon which
his .Muj -sty H's.-S, and which, though it
in.iv at first vi*w api'ar to not very
formidahU, is one which even now may da
considerable service, hut winch had it
bee;? wielded eatlier by the Continental
powurs, would have been of the greatest
utilitv. He doev. not sulur the Bulletin
statements published by order of Bona*
parte u> b; ci culsted uucontradteted
tliroughoui the Continent—he proves, as
in me present instance their falsehood, and
we venture to that his account of
the conference (whicJi ii ciret:luting over
the Continent u ich the greatest industry)
between him .elf and G- u. B/a.i-:, narticu
-I>4 ly those parts in which the p;usability
of a change in France is bintt and at, nnd the
mur terot the Duke.D’Enghien 19 alluded
to, will jtot be read by Boiinpartc with
svntimehis of in ’otference or conrempt—
Bonaparte does him the honor to hate him
with as much cordiality a* he due* this
country.
From our Correspondents at Lloyd's
LONDON, 19th August 1807.
MV are ri<] anxiously waiting some ar
rival frpm the Baltic.
Bv the Malta Mad which arrived in
I.nndms thiaclxv, letters have been receiv.*
ed,'which state in positive terms that
another engagement between the Russian
and Turkish fleets in the Dardanelles had
taken pl ace, in which the Russians took
two nail of the line. The ‘Turks had also
made an attempt on Tenedos, in trhich
thev were repulsed with great slaughter,
G'wermtnt it is also said is in possession
ot advices on this si hject, which have
now become of no moment. -• ]
No intelligence has arrived from Ad*
mital Gambier this morning; As the
i*hips and troops were ready to ac* at a
few hours notice when the ladt account#
were dispatched, the next advices will in
all probability communicate to us the re.
suit of the attack. The Danes, it is said
are determined upon resistance but nei*
Her Copenhagen nor the Danish fleet can
withstand tlv; fence brought’ against
ihtm,
linpoitant dispatches may be hourly ex
pected from Mr. Jackson, who was sent
oa a particular mission to the Prince Re
gent of Denmai If. The Starling gun-brig
was by the last account* from Tonnin
gen waiting in the Ryder to bring them
over. Mr. Jackson on his passage
• thiongh Tonningrn to Keil, advised all
the British-trade, lately arrived in tire Ey
der, udder convoy • of the Spaiklcr, to
leave that river.
By the Malta, Meesina, aud Gibraltar
Mail, which arrived this morning,we learn
that Admiral Collingwood hid actually
sailed with a strong squadron to the Dar
danelles. What was the immediate object
of this expedition, we have uot been able
to learn,
STATF. PAPER.
Answer of'the Prussian Court to the Aus
trian offer of Mediation
“ His Majesty the King, recognizing
the motives which induced his Apostolie
Maj-sty to offer hi* mediation between
the more distinguished of tlv* powers now
at wnr in order, by means of his good servi
ces, m lead to conferences concerning peace,
is eager to testify all the gratitude he feel*
on this sedount,. Ihe King beholds this
measure of the Court of Vicuhii with plea
sure as it respects himself, considering it
at the t ffcct of that friendship of which
the emperor nnd Kmg has given him more
than *one proof, ami therefore feel* this
more strongly. The desire to the
evils terminated, whifti have pressed up
on Em ope during so many ytmrs, and his
natural moderation would induce him to
accept without scruple, the offer of his
imperial and royal majesty, if he could
convince himself that the basis which
France ivoul l consent to in a negociaiion
would bo such as his honor allowed hi on
to accept. The way and munner in which
Napoleon has constantly evaded explain
ing himself in this respect is no fortu
nate omen. Yet, should his Imperial and
Roval M jesty succeed in inducing Franca
to stave such a basis, and milct it knowh
to the King, and should they be not alto*
gether hostile iq the end which his tVia
ju.y has been ctuHavunug to auxin it*
common wuh. his Allies, his Prussian
majusty will eagerly accept the offer winch
hi* imperial aiul Royal Apostolic uiajsaty
has just nude.”
