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the British nation, its monarch, its 
constitution, its laws, and its inha- 
bitants.+ 
To France then, on the 15th of 
November, when every circum- 
stance above-mentioned was in ex- 
istence or activity, did we surren- 
der Pondicherry in the East, Mar- 
tinico, St. Lucia, and Tobago in 
the West Indies; the right of fish- 
ery in Newfoundland; and to her 
ally (or rather so long as she held 
it in military subjugation, to her- 
self,) the Cape of Good Hope, Co- 
chin, Demerara, Berbice, Issequibo, 
and Surinam; all flourishing by the 
aid, and enriched by the fruits, of 
British protection and commerce. 
Alexandria too was ordered to be 
evacuated by the English troops, on 
the 30th following, with a multipli- 
city of apologies for the delay, and 
an implied censure on the com- 
manding officer, for having, contrary 
to his orders, protracted that mea- 
sure to so late a period! a circum- 
stance the more extraordinary, as 
on the preceding 13th, a dispatch 
from St. Petersburgh announced, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
that the French minister at that 
court had at last agreed to make, 
conjointly with that of England, @ 
formal invite tion to the emperor of 
Russia, for his guaranty of the sti- 
pulations respecting Malta. A few 
days therefore, would have, in all 
probability, determined upon what 
conditions his imperial majesty was 
willing to accede to the proposition, 
and consequently whether Alexan- 
dria (on which head the Ottoman 
Porte was perfectly quieseent) un 
der the circumstances of an un- 
favorable answer, might not in per- 
fect prudence and propriety be 
retained till some other arrange- 
ment were agreed upon. 
In effect, on the 25th of Novem- 
ber, 1802, the answer of the em- 
peror Alexander was delivered to 
the English minister at his court, 
and thence transmitted to London. 
On a perusal of this instrument it 
is extremely difficult to see, in what » 
its terms differ from those of the 
10th article of the treaty of Ami- 
ens, of which it indeed seems an 
abstract: all the material points, 
+ Though the first consul thought proper to clear up his brow, and send an embassa- 
dor to England a few days after the remonstrance on the affairs of Switzerland was 
presented to him; in order to make himself amends for this moderation and self com- 
mand, the deep thunder of his resentment growled in awful menace throughout the 
laboured and angry columns of his Monitewr. The presumption of Great Britain in 
daring to interfere in the concerns of continental Europe, was a theme for its daily 
abuse ; and on its particular interference in the Swiss insurrection, it was outrageous. 
“ What right had an insular power to intermeddle with the affairs of Germany?’ And 
«* How dare it in any case refer to the treaty of Luneville, when the relations of France 
and England were alone to be found in the treaty of Amiens, the whole treaty of Ami- 
ens, and nothing but the treaty of Amiens?” were some of the demands which this 
official journal querulously urged ; and which were echoed back, through innumerable 
reverberators of the same nature. About this period too, the Argus, the English news- 
paper printed in Paris, had nearly reached the climax of its insolence and absurdity. An 
Rvitation appeared in it in the shape of an advertisement, to English sailors, to desert, - 
and repair to Paris, where they would be received with open arms, and experience 
better food, better raiment, and better pay, than in the service of their own country. 
It also printed a challenge from the pardoned traiter Napper Tandy, to lord Pelham, 
in which the dotard insulted the minister of that sovereign to whose clemency he owed 
his lite, with the grossest abuse, and im terms of the most affected bombast. 
such 
