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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



Tonr <o conciliate for the sacred 

 character with which I ara invested, 

 the confidence and the regard of the 

 government to which the king, my 

 master, has been graciously pleased 

 to send me. 



(Signed) Marquis de Lircchesini. 

 Paris, March 26, 1804. 



An^zcer of the Danish Minister, 

 Citizen Minister, 



I have the honour to acknow- 

 ledge the receipt oi the report of 

 the grand judge, respecting the con- 

 spiracy carried on in France by Mr. 

 Drake, and I have hastened to 

 transmit it to my court. The pe- 

 rusal of the letters and authentic 

 papers issued by Mr. Drake, must 

 sincerely affli(^t all the members of 

 the diplomatic body. It is a sub- 

 ject of concern, to observe that a 

 minister has practised those in- 

 trigues which ought to be foreign to 

 his character, and to the dignity of 

 his functions. Every foreign mi- 

 nister must regret with me, that a 

 public man can be accused of such 

 conduct; and do not doubt but all 

 the foreign ministers will partake 

 my sentiments and opinions respect- 

 ing the conduct of Mr. Drake. — 

 (Signed) Drcycr. 



March Q5y 1804. 



Answer of the American Minister. 

 Sir, 



I have received the note which 

 you did me the honour to address 

 to me, with a copy of the report of 

 the grand judge, relative to papers 

 •which prove that Air. Drake, the 

 British minister at Munich, has held 

 s culpable correspondence with 

 traitors, for objects which all civi- 

 lized nations must regard with hor- 

 ror ; and that horror must be re- 

 doubled) wbeo we sec thAt it is a 



minister that thus prostitutes his sa- 

 cred character. When a subaltern 

 agent commifs a ba'e or atrocious 

 act, -it may be supposed that he is 

 inUuenced by personal interest, but 

 the actions of a minister are gene- 

 rally attributed to the government 

 he represents ; and even- when ha 

 acts against his orders (which I 

 hope is the case in this instance) 

 his conduct is so much identified 

 with his government, that such acts 

 tend to overturn social order, and 

 to bring back nations to barbarism. 

 I beg your excellency to oiler to 

 the hrst consul, in the name of my 

 government, the most sincere fell- 

 citations for having happily escaped 

 the attempts of his enemies, di- 

 rected not only against his life, but 

 against an object more dear to his 

 heart, the happiness of the nation 

 of which he is the chief; a happi- 

 ness which is the result of his no« 

 ble labours in the field of honour^ 

 and in the cabinet, and which ia 

 not yet sufficiently established, not 

 to be deeply shaken by his loss. — . 

 (Signed) Livingston, 



Paris, March 26, 1804. 



Ansuer of the Barcarian Minister. 

 Citizen Minister, 



I have received the letter by 

 which you have communicated to j 

 me the report of the grand judge on " 

 the scandalous and criminal intrigues 

 of Mr. Drake, minister of his Bri- 

 tannic majesty at my court. I do 

 not hesitate to assure your excel- 

 lency, that the elector will mani- 

 fest, by measures the most severe, 

 the most efficacious, and most con- 

 formable to his personal friendship 

 for the first consul, the grief and 

 indignation which this prince must 

 feel, in consequence of the vile and 

 iniquitQUS designs which hare been 



