246 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



from tlie day on which it is signed, 

 or sooner, if possible. 



In faith of which, we, the under- 

 signed plenipotentiaries of their 

 Danish and Britannic majesties, 

 have signed, in their names, and in 

 virtue of our powers, the present 

 convention, and have affixed to it 

 seals bearing our arms. 



Done at Copenhagen, this 29th 

 day of August, 1800. 

 (Signed) Whitworth. (L.S.) 

 C.BernstorfF. (L.S.) 



Circular Letter addressed by the 

 Spanish Minister to the Foj-eign 



, Ministers at the Court of Spain, 

 relative to a Violation of the 

 Right of Neutral Flags, alleged 

 to have been committed by the 

 English at Barcelona. 



Sir, 



I Have the honour of communi- 

 cating to you a copy of the me- 

 morial which the king my master 

 has desired me to transmit to his 

 minister at Stockholm, in order to 

 bs delivered to tlie minister of his 

 Swedish majesty. The principles 

 which arc there established, and the 

 event which gave rise to them, are 

 of such a nature as must interest all 

 the commercial nations of Europe, 

 and particularly neutral princes. 

 His majesty is already persuaded 

 that your government will consider 

 the affair under the same point of 

 view, and he flatters himself that 

 it wiU concur in effacing, as far as 

 possible, from the annals of this 

 war, an action so destructive to that 

 confidence and hospitality which the 

 flags of neutral powers ought to 

 enjoy, 



I renew to you, sir, 011 this occa- 



sion, assurances of my consideration 

 and esteem ; and um, sir, yours, 

 &c. 



(Signed) Chevalier d'Urquijo. 

 At St. Ildephonso, Septem- 

 ber 17, 1800. 



Letter to the Minister for Foreign 

 Affairs of his Swedish Majesty, 

 on the same subject. 



Sir, 

 The king, my master, has seen, 

 with the liveliest indignation, by a 

 report made by the consul of his 

 Swedish majesty, at Barcelona, to 

 the captain-general of Catalonia, 

 containing a declaration of captain 

 Rudbart, of the Swedish galliot 

 Hoffnung, that on the 4th of Sep- 

 tember last in the afternoon, two 

 English ships and a frigate forced 

 the said captain, after having ex- 

 amined his papers, and found them 

 regular, to take on board English 

 officers, and a considerable number 

 of sailors, and to suffer himself to be 

 towed, in the evening, by several 

 English boats, as far as the road of 

 Barcelona, and under the cannon 

 of the batteries : tliat the English, 

 having compelled the said captain 

 and his crew to be silent, by hold- 

 ing a pistol to his breast, took pos- 

 session of the rudder, and at nine in 

 the evening, by means of the said 

 galliot, and the boats which sur- 

 rounded it, made an attack on two 

 frigates under Spanish colours, 

 which were there at anchor, and 

 which having no reason to suspect 

 that a friendly and neutral vessel 

 could conceal enemies on board, 

 and thus serve to favour a most 

 treacherous attack, were in a man- 

 ner surprised, and forced to sur- 

 render. For the other particulai^s, 



