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soner has been restored to this coun- 

 try. 



Such have been the proceedings 

 of the French government towards 

 the power with which it is at war. 

 What has its conduct been to those 

 powers with whicli it remained at 

 peace? Is there a treaty which it 

 has not broken? Is there an ad- 

 joining territority whose independ- 

 ence it has not violated? It is for 

 the powers on the continent to de- 

 termine how long they will tolerate 

 these unexampled outrages. Yet is 

 it too much to say, that, if they do 

 suffer, without controul or resist- 

 ance, the continuance of such a 

 course of proceedings on the part 

 of any government whatever, they 

 will soon see an end to that salutary 

 system of public right, in virtue of 

 which the societies of Europe have 

 maintained and enforced for ages the 

 sacred obligations of humanity and 

 Justice? 



(Signed) Hawtesbury. 



Circular Letter from Lord Ilazokes- 

 bitrij to the Lords Lieutenants of 

 Counties in Great Britain, dated 

 IVhitehall, Jug. 20, 1804. 



My Lord, 

 I have received his majesty's 

 commands to communicate to your 

 lordship the inclosed particulars of 

 an arrangement to be adopted in the 

 several oounties of Great Britain, 

 in the event of the invasion of the 

 country itj force by the enemy. 

 His majesty relics on your zeal and 

 exertions in giving effect, within 

 the county committed to your 

 charge, to those regi;lations, which 

 in the supposed crisis may become 

 indispensable, for the purpose of 

 preventing the confusion which, in 



the first moment of alarm, might 

 otherwise arise, and of the utmost 

 importance with a view to the ope- 

 rations of his majesty's army, to the 

 protection of individuals, and to the 

 internal peace and tranquillity of 

 the country. I request that your 

 lordship would inform me, with as 

 little delay as possible, of the names 

 of the magistrates to whom you 

 would propose to entrust the diifer- 



ent divisions of the county of , 



and that you would communicate to 

 them the heads of the proposed ar- 

 rangements, and concert with them 

 as to the most effectual means of 

 carrying them into complete execu- 

 tion. It is essential, that the ma- 

 gistrates who are thus employed, 

 should, if possible, be persons not 

 holding commissions as volunteer 

 officers, nor liable on any other ac- 

 count to be removed from the county 

 in which they reside. His majesty 

 has the fullest reliance that, in the 

 event of the enemy succeeding in 

 making good a landing on the coast 

 of this kingdom, the loyalty and pub- 

 lic spirit of all classes of his subjects 

 will induce them to submit to every 

 sacrifice, and to concur in every ex- 

 ertion which the safety of the coun- 

 try may render necessary ; and that 

 they will be impressed with the con- 

 viction that the peace and good or- 

 der of those districts which shall 

 not be attacked by the enemy, will 

 contribute most effectually to assist 

 the exertions of his forces in those 

 parts of the country which may be- 

 come the theatre of the war, and of 

 enabling him thereby to bring the 

 contest in whicli we ma) be engaged 

 to a speedy and glorious termina- 

 tion. I have only to add, that di- 

 rections will be given to the general, 

 or other officer commanding the dis- 

 trict in which the county of . 



