HISTORY OFF EDROPE. 
received, and were daily receiving, 
in the French ports, no redress was 
afforded, no aggression disavowed ; 
the sequestrations on British pro- 
perty were pertinaciously conti- 
nued; arbitrary imprisonment and 
personal indignity offered to her 
subjects in Paris;* the insolent in- 
terference with respect to her inter- 
nal laws and regulations imperiously 
persisted in; the requisition to dis- 
miss the emigrants urged with inde- 
corous clamour ; France commercial 
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agents had commenced their func- 
tions as spies, in activity throughout 
widely divided portions of the Bri- 
tish empire; the guaranty of Malta 
was industriously protracted, and no 
prospect of its ever being obtained; 
refugees and outcasts of Irish rebel- 
lion and English republicanism 
cherished and -protected at Paris; 
whilst the spirit of the most blast- 
ing malignity was hourly displayed 
in its public prints, under the pre- 
text of retaliation, in depreciating 
* We advert particularly to the case of captain D’ Auvergne (Duke de Bouillon,) of 
the British navy, who, accompanied by a friend, and having procured the necessary 
passports, proceeded to Paris onthe 28th of the August after the definitive treaty, on 
business of importance, connected with his claims for the estates of his family in 
France, solemnly entailed upon him. 
- dis deportment at that capital was marked by the utmost propriety and decorum. 
Having a desire to see the military parade of Quintidi, he visited the Thuilleries as au 
English officer in his uniform; but from motives of feeling and sentiment, had not 
made one of the numerous English who were, during his stay at Paris, presented to 
the first consul. On the morning of the 7th of September he was arrested in bed at bis 
hotel by the police, with every mark of indigaity and insolence; thence he was con- 
ducted to the office of the general police, where he was thrust into a common waiting 
room, and detained the whole day, without refreshment, among the vilest runners and 
Spies of the office. The minister Fouche, though repeatedly in the bureau, never 
deigned to give him an audience: but certain inferior’ instruments were employed to 
prevail upon him to calumniate and briig charges of the most odious nature against 
Mr. Pitt and Mr. Windham; in which having met with the success they merited, in 
revenge they conducted him ina wretched vehicle, at 14 o’clock at night, to the Tem- 
Prk, the scene of the sufferings of the late royal family, whose apartments there he 
occupied, and where a straw bag and a filthy blanket were the only conveniences al- 
lowed him. Every means were here made use of to terrify or betray him into confes- 
sions of the nature we have already described. On the Sd day of his confiaement his 
prison gates were unlocked, to admit the friend (also of the royal navy) who had been 
the companion of his journey, and who with himself was equally ignorant of the causes 
of the outraze they had endured. It now appeared that the representation of Mr. 
Merry (the English resident at Paris) to the minister of foreign afairs, on’ the subject 
of this unjustifiable measure, (of which the former was early informed and had of course 
lost no time in taking the proper steps toremedy,) was yet unanswered ! The following 
morning (the 12th) fresh attempts were made to induce the duke de Bouillon to wrile 
to the minister, and state that Mr. Pitt and Mr. Windham had employed tia to tabri- 
cate plots against, and make use of the most unjustifiable means to destroy, the repub- 
lic. This proposition was of course indignautly spumed at: the next day, however, the: 
sixth of his imprisonment, captain D’ Auvergne with his friend were furnished with 
Passports at the police office, very equivocally worded, tending to expose them to ein- 
 barrassments in their progiess through the country, which they were ordered to 
depart from and quit the territory of the republic in twenty-four hours! 
- Thus terminated this shameful transaction, by which two men of rank, bonor, and 
eharacter, were insulted, imprisoned, degradingly used, and finally compelled to quit 
@ country as outcasts, whom business bad called imperiously thither, aud where they 
were entitled by every right to remain in security and protection. 
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