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Monthly Chronicle.
tentions by the establishments which her commercial companies have formed upon the banks of the Missouri , in South America , with the design of penetrating through those countries to the South Sea . Finally , by the conquest which she has made of the Colony of Demerary , belonging to the Dutch , and whose advantageous position puts her in a condition to get possession of posts still more important . But there can no longer remain any doubt of the hostile nature of these projects , when I consider the frequent insults to my flag , the acts of violence
committed in the Mediterranean by her frigates , which have carried awav soldiers coming from Genoa to Barcelona , on board Spanish ships , lo complete my armies ; the piracies and vexations which the Oorsiran and Angio-Corsican corsairs , protected by the English government of that island , exercise against the Spanish trade in the Mediterranean , and even upon the coasts of Catalonia ; and the detention of different Spanish ships , laden with Sp ' anish property , and carried to England under the most frivolous pretences , and especially the rich cargo of the Spanish ship the Minerva , on which an embargo was laid in the most
insulting manner to lny flag , and the removal of which could not be obtained , though it was demonstrated before the competent tribunals , that this rich cargo was Spanish property . The attack committed upon my Ambassador , Don Simon de las Casas , bv a Tribunal of London , which decreed hi ? arrest , founded upon the demand of a very small sum , which was claimed by the undertaker of an embarkation . Finailv , the Spanish territory has been violated in an intolerable manner upon the coasts of Galicia and Alicant , by the English ships , the Cameleon and the Kangaroo .
Moreover , Ca ' pt . George Vaughan , Commodore of ihe Alarm , behaved in a manner equally insolent and scandalous in the islandof Trinity , where he landed with drums beating and flags flying , to attack the French , and to avenge the injuries which he pretended lo have received , disturbing , by the violation of the rights of my Sovereignty , the tranquility of the inhabitants of the island . Bv all these insults , equally deep and unparalleled , that nation has proved to t . hetlnh-erse , that she recognizes no other laws than the aggrandizement of her commerce ; and by their despotism , which has exhausted my patience and
moderation , she has forced me , as well to support the honour of my Crown , as to protect my people against her attacks , to declare War against the King of England , bis Kingdom and Vassals , and to give orders , and take the necessary measures for the defence of my domains and my subjects , and to repulse the enemy . Done at the Palace of St . . ' Signed by the King an- / the Secretary Lauretvzo , Oct . 5 , 179 6 . ' of the Council of War . On Saturday , the Sth of October , War was proclaimed at Madrid in the usual form .
LORD MALMESBURT ' s MISSION . MEMORIAL DELIVERED TO THE MINISTER Of THE FRENCH REPUBLIC TOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS BY I . OKB MALMESBUHY . His Britannic Majesty desiring , as be has already declared , to contribute , as far as depends on himself , 10 the re-establishment of public tranquility , and to ensure , by the means of just , honourable , and soid conditions of Peace , the
future repose of Europe , is of opinion , that the best means of attaining , with all possible expedition , that salutary end , will be to agree , at the beginning of the Negociation , on the general principle which shall serve as a basis for the Definitive Arrangements . . The first objects of the Negociation for Peace generally relate to the Restitutions and Cessions , which the respective parlies have mutually to demand , in con-Sequence of the events of war . Great Britain , after the uninterrupted success of her naval war , finds herself m 3 situation , to have uo restitution to demand of France , from which , on the cu-
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Monthly Chronicle.
tentions by the establishments which her commercial companies have formed upon the banks of the Missouri , in South America , with the design of penetrating through those countries to the South Sea . Finally , by the conquest which she has made of the Colony of Demerary , belonging to the Dutch , and whose advantageous position puts her in a condition to get possession of posts still more important . But there can no longer remain any doubt of the hostile nature of these projects , when I consider the frequent insults to my flag , the acts of violence
committed in the Mediterranean by her frigates , which have carried awav soldiers coming from Genoa to Barcelona , on board Spanish ships , lo complete my armies ; the piracies and vexations which the Oorsiran and Angio-Corsican corsairs , protected by the English government of that island , exercise against the Spanish trade in the Mediterranean , and even upon the coasts of Catalonia ; and the detention of different Spanish ships , laden with Sp ' anish property , and carried to England under the most frivolous pretences , and especially the rich cargo of the Spanish ship the Minerva , on which an embargo was laid in the most
insulting manner to lny flag , and the removal of which could not be obtained , though it was demonstrated before the competent tribunals , that this rich cargo was Spanish property . The attack committed upon my Ambassador , Don Simon de las Casas , bv a Tribunal of London , which decreed hi ? arrest , founded upon the demand of a very small sum , which was claimed by the undertaker of an embarkation . Finailv , the Spanish territory has been violated in an intolerable manner upon the coasts of Galicia and Alicant , by the English ships , the Cameleon and the Kangaroo .
Moreover , Ca ' pt . George Vaughan , Commodore of ihe Alarm , behaved in a manner equally insolent and scandalous in the islandof Trinity , where he landed with drums beating and flags flying , to attack the French , and to avenge the injuries which he pretended lo have received , disturbing , by the violation of the rights of my Sovereignty , the tranquility of the inhabitants of the island . Bv all these insults , equally deep and unparalleled , that nation has proved to t . hetlnh-erse , that she recognizes no other laws than the aggrandizement of her commerce ; and by their despotism , which has exhausted my patience and
moderation , she has forced me , as well to support the honour of my Crown , as to protect my people against her attacks , to declare War against the King of England , bis Kingdom and Vassals , and to give orders , and take the necessary measures for the defence of my domains and my subjects , and to repulse the enemy . Done at the Palace of St . . ' Signed by the King an- / the Secretary Lauretvzo , Oct . 5 , 179 6 . ' of the Council of War . On Saturday , the Sth of October , War was proclaimed at Madrid in the usual form .
LORD MALMESBURT ' s MISSION . MEMORIAL DELIVERED TO THE MINISTER Of THE FRENCH REPUBLIC TOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS BY I . OKB MALMESBUHY . His Britannic Majesty desiring , as be has already declared , to contribute , as far as depends on himself , 10 the re-establishment of public tranquility , and to ensure , by the means of just , honourable , and soid conditions of Peace , the
future repose of Europe , is of opinion , that the best means of attaining , with all possible expedition , that salutary end , will be to agree , at the beginning of the Negociation , on the general principle which shall serve as a basis for the Definitive Arrangements . . The first objects of the Negociation for Peace generally relate to the Restitutions and Cessions , which the respective parlies have mutually to demand , in con-Sequence of the events of war . Great Britain , after the uninterrupted success of her naval war , finds herself m 3 situation , to have uo restitution to demand of France , from which , on the cu-