STATE PAPERS. 
that harmony which has been just 
happily estabiished by a peace. 
When I propose to the Sublime 
Porte to reject M. Semonville, I do 
not mean that it should reject every 
other minister whom France may 
send: this would be declaring my- 
self an enemy to the new constitu- 
tion ; but as a minister is only the 
agent who maintains the bonds of 
amity between two courts, a court 
which may find in an individual 
qualities disagreeable to it, has a 
right to reject him, and to require 
another. By refusing to receive M. 
Semonville, the Sublime Porte will 
in no manner break its connection 
with France, 
Aug. 9, 1792. 
(Signed) KwnoBELspORFFE. 
Memorial presented to the Porte by 
the Prussian Envoy. 
AS soon as the undersigned 
learnt that M. Semonville was ap- 
pointed ambassador from France to 
the Ottoman Porte, he thought it 
his duty, and of the utmost import- 
ance to the Sublime Porte, to com- 
municate to it some information on 
that subject. He made the strongest 
remonstrances, in order that they 
might prevent his arrival; but as 
these remonstrances had no effect, 
he has been induced to present, in 
this memorial, a detail of the reasons 
which made him pursue those steps. 
M. Semonville, appointed some 
time ago minister of the court of 
France at the court of Turin, was 
rejected, because he was known to 
be a zealous Jacobin in his conduct 
at Genoa, where he stirred up the 
people against the government: an 
usual and favourite conduct of the 
Jacobins, who, after having shaken 
the throne of France, and spread li- 
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centiousness and disorder throughont 
the whole kingdom, have resolved 
to seduce the people of all countries, 
to preach up revolt to them, and to 
instigate them to murder their so- 
vereigns. 
The existence of M. Semonvyille 
in any country is dangerous, for he 
is a Jacobin; that is to say, a mem~' 
ber of a villanous sect, composed of 
mad fanatics, inspired with demo- 
cratic rage, sworn enemies and 
avowed assassins of all sovereigns, 
against whom they employ perfidy, 
treachery, poniards, and poison: all 
means are equal to them, provided 
they can deliver the earth from des- 
pots: an injurious title which they 
give to lawful sovereigns. Such is 
their language, and such their mo- 
rality: an infernal morality, which 
they have the impudence to pro- 
pagate in the face of the whole 
world. Such are all the Jacobins ; 
such is M. Semonville—and shall 
such a monster approach the foot 
of the sacred throne of the Emperor 
of the Ottomans? This idea fills 
me with horror; my heart, alarmed 
for days which are precious to it, 
has spoken ; but should it be pos- 
sible that this true language of my 
heart is not heard, I can still add 
that of policy. In the first place, 
it is contrary to the dignity of so. 
great a sovereign to receive as a 
minister a man already rejected and 
despised by another court; that the 
King, my master, now at war, not 
against France, but against the Ja- 
cobins and the unhappy people 
whom they have seduced, &c.__ 
(This memorial, which is very 
Jong, concludes, like that of the 
Imperial Internuncio, by formally 
demanding ‘that the Porte will 
refuse to receive Semonville as am- 
bassador.” } 
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