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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



The more necessary,fideIity,honour, 

 and probity are in the actions of a 

 man to whom has been entrusted the 

 honourable function of diplomacy, 

 the deeper is the sorrow which must 

 be felt at the contemplation of this 

 perfidious plot. — The unbounded 

 sentiments of attachment, and the 

 high consideration which the elector 

 and arch chancellor has expressed 

 for the first consul, are so well 

 known, that the indignation which 

 he will feel at tliis news, may be 

 easily conceived. The undersigned, 

 •who by the express order of his 

 highness the elector, his master, 

 has already had the honour of ex- 

 pressing these sentiments himself at 

 the last diplomatic audience, begs 

 of your excellency to repeat to the 

 first consul an assurance of the 

 ■warm interest in-, and sincere wishes 

 for, his preservation entertained by 

 his highness the elector. 

 (Signed) Charles Comte Dc Boeust. 

 Paris, March 26, 1804. 



Answer of the Neapolitan Minister. 

 Sir, 



I have just received the conimnni- 

 cation which your excellency had 

 been pleased to make to me of the 

 report of the grand judge to the tirst 

 consul, and the annexed papers, on 

 a conspiracy directed against France. 

 — The justice which the first eon- 

 Bul rendered to the sentiments of 

 the diplomatic corps who liave the 

 honour of being accredited by him, 

 excites the gratitude, and corres- 

 ponds fully with the sensations of 

 profound sorrow with which it has 

 beheld the sanctity and dignity of a 

 public character profaned, whose 

 functions are consecrated by honour 

 and fidelity. — I cannot conceal from 

 your excellency the extreme pain 

 with which I read the papers which 



contain this communication, and 

 which I have made it my duty to 

 transmit immediately to my court. 

 The sentiments of his m<ijesty, the 

 king my master, for the person of 

 the fii'St consul and for the interior 

 tranquillity of a respected nation, 

 whose situation has such influence 

 in surrounding nations, are too well 

 known to the first consul to reii- 

 der it necessary for me to remind 

 your excellency of them on this 

 occasion. 



(Signed) De Gallo. 

 Paris, March 26, 1804. 



Ansiccr jdJ the Minister of the free 



Cities of the German Empire. 

 Citizen Minister, 



1 have just received the letter 

 Avhich your excellency did me the 

 honour to address to me, together 

 with the printed letter and authen- 

 tic papers of Mr. Drake, minister 

 of his Britannic majesty at Munich, 

 relative to a conspiracy planned un- 

 der his direction. — The impression 

 which a knowledge of these details 

 must make upon every man who 

 respects the rights of nations and 

 the general interests of humanity, 

 cannot but be of the most jjainful 

 nature. Such at least will be the 

 feelings of the magistrates of the free 

 towns of the empire. This sentiment 

 will be the stronger, as the conspi- 

 racy was principally directed against 

 the ])erson of the first consul, whom 

 all the inhabitants of the free towns 

 of the empire regard as the generous 

 protector, who has preserved their 

 independence, and for whom they 

 feel the highest veneration and the 

 most perfect attachment. — The dis- 

 covery of this {)lot has no where 

 produced so strong and general a 

 sensation of sorrow as among the 

 inhabitants of these towns. The 



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