HISTORY’ OF EUROPE. 
receives none; no answer is ever 
given to the Swiss agent, and he is 
left to cool his heels in the anti- 
chamber of Mr. Merry. In this 
instance, however, an English mi- 
nister ventures to make a written 
remonstrance, and no answer is 
given toit. On the 10th of Octo- 
ber the remonstrance is sent to M. 
Otto; but it appears that no an- 
swer was made to it. Rumour in- 
_ deed, says, that one was made, but 
in such offensivé terms, so broadly 
declaring that we had no right to 
interfere in the affairs of the con- 
tinent, and referring us with such 
insolent pedantry to the treaty of 
Amiens, as to the book in which 
alone we were to read our destinies ; 
that it would have justified imme- 
diate war, instead of being followed 
_ by the pusillanimous surrender of 
the Cape and our West India con- 
quests. Onthe same day are dated 
the instructions to Mr, Moore, di- 
 tecting him to proceed to Con- 
stance, where he arrives Oct. 31st; 
and the first news he receives is, 
_ that the struggle is over, and the 
Diet of Schweitz is dissolved. He 
writes home to inquire what he is 
todo; on the 25th of November 
lord Hawkesbury tells him that he 
may return. During all this time, 
is any effort made to back our re- 
_ monstrance at Paris? Is our mi- 
nister there directed to support our 
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interference? Is any answer given 
_ tothe Swiss agent, which he might 
shew to the ministers of other 
‘courts, and which would have en- 
' couraged those courts to give that 
: assistance? ‘The want of which, 
ministers urge as the reason for not 
§ interfering farther, but which, it 
_ appears, we never asked for,— 
Mr. Moore’s instructions are to as- 
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certain whether. any Austrians or 
other continental troops are ready 
to enter Switzerland, in Case it 
was found necessary to support, by 
force of arms, the pretensions of the 
Swiss. From July to November, 
ministers could find no other time 
proper for their interference, but 
that in which no troops could enter, 
much less act in Switzerland, in 
consequence of the severity of the 
season ! he next cause Of war, is 
the non-execution on the part of 
France, of that part of the treaty 
of Amiens, respecting Malta; and 
upon this point the negociation 
appears to have been conducted 
with the same firmness and digsity 
which so strongly characterised its 
whole course. In May, the Span- 
ish revenues of the order were 
confiscated. In October,by the an- 
nexation of Parma more were confis- 
cated ; still the literal execution of 
the 10th article is insisted upon by 
England. During the whole time 
no new arrangement is heard of.— 
The 10th article is constantly rung 
in our ears, the whole 10th arti- 
cle, nothing but the 16th article of 
the treaty of Amiens, til at last 
the farce can be cazried on no 
longer, and the necessity of a new 
arrangement begins to be talked 
of. How is that negociation sup- 
ported by our ministers? On’ the 
2istof July, Bonaparte tells lord 
Whitworth, thaton Malta depends 
the question of peace or war, that 
on no terms shall England be per; 
mitted to retain Malta; that he had 
rather she should have the Faux- 
bourg St. Antoine than Malta— 
On the 11th of March, Talleyrand 
telis lord Whitworth that the first 
consul will look upon the non-eva- 
cuation of Malta, as the com- 
mencement 
