600 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



force, aided by the voluntary zeal 

 and native courage of my people, I 

 look with confidence to the issue of 

 this great conflict; and I doubt not 

 that it will terminate, under the 

 blessing of Providence, not only in 

 repelling the danger of the moment, 

 but in establishing, in the eyes of 

 foreign nations, the security of this 

 country on a basis never to be 

 shaken. 



In addition to this first and great 

 object, 1 entertain the animating 

 hope that the benefits to he derived 

 from our successful exertions will 

 not be confined within ourselves; 

 but that, by their example and their 

 consequences, they may lead to (he 

 re-estabiisment of such a system in 

 Europe, as may rescue it from the 

 precarious state to -which it is re- 

 duced ; and may finally raise an ef- 

 fe(5tual barrier against the unbound- 

 ed schemes of aggrandizement and 

 ambition which threaten every inde- 

 pendent nation that yet remains ou 

 the Continent. 



Ext rod of a Letter Jmin Lord liar. 

 roz;:bij^ his Britannic Majcsti/s Se- 

 cretary of State for the Fore/s:'i 

 Department, to P. Col,quhounGruJ\ 

 Esq. relative to the Navigation of 

 small Craft, betzcccn Tonniiigcn 

 and Hamburgh. — Dated Doion-y 

 ing-sireety July 8, 1804. 



That the lighters be permitted to 

 navigate between the rivers Wcser 

 a^d the Elbe. Orders have ac- 

 cordingly been sent to his majesty's 

 ships of the blockade, to permit thrf 

 passage of lighters, barges, and 

 other small craft, answering the 

 above description, and carrying un- 

 jcxceptionablc goods for neutral ac- 

 count, and to sufier the same to pass 



without molestation to and fro, 

 along the Danish side of the Elbe, 

 through the Watten, between Ton- 

 ningcn and Hamburgh. His ma- 

 jesty hopes, that this permission 

 will be properly attended to, and 

 not abused, and that no unfair ad- 

 vantages shall be taken of it, by 

 which his m.ajesty should see him- 

 self forced to order the blockade to 

 be resumed with greater strictness. 

 1 have the honour to be, &c. 



(Signed) Harrow by. 



Circular Note from Lord Ilazckes- 

 burt), principal Secretary of State 

 for Foreign Affairs.^ to the Minis- 

 ters of Foreign Courts; resident at 

 the Court of London. 



Doicmng-sfreef, Jpril 30, 1804. 



The experience which all Europa 

 has had of the conduct of th« 

 French Government would have in- 

 duced his Majesty to pass over in 

 silence, and to treat with contempt, 

 all the accusations which that go- 

 vernment might have made against 

 his majesty s government, if the 

 verj- extraordinary and unautho- 

 rized replies which several of the 

 ministers of the foreign powers 

 have thought proper to make to a 

 recent conununication from the mi- 

 nister for foreign affairs at Paris, 

 had not given to the subject of that 

 communication a greater importance 

 than it would otherwise have pos- 

 sessed.* His majesty has, in conse- 

 quence, directed me to declare, that 

 he hopes he shall not be reduced to 

 the necessity of repelling, with me- 

 rited scorn and indignation, " the 



atrocious and utterly unfounded ca- 

 lumny, that the government of his 

 majesty have been a party to plans 



Pf 

 Vide the replies complained of in the subsequent pages of the State Papers. 



