is TORY 
involved the country in an act of 
aggression and violence, with re- 
spect to the Cape; it may be suppos- 
ed, that it was on that subject alone 
which all disagreement and_ final 
rupture could arise between it and 
that of France; and that all possi- 
ble means would be resorted to, to 
protract, till then, its evacuation.— 
Accordingly, although not till two 
months after the date of the projet 
of the emperor of Russia, the secre- 
tary of state for the foreign de- 
partment instructed the English mi- 
nister at St. Petersburgh, to decline 
the Imperial proposition, unless 
‘some additional stipulations were 
introduced ; an official answer to 
the Russian Court, was also includ- 
ed inthis dispatch. It will be doubt- 
less matter of some curiosity to our 
Teaders, to know what grounds were 
chosen in these instruments, for the 
rejection of that guaranty which they 
had urged, with such vehement so- 
-licitation, from the hour of-the 
signature of the definitive treaty ; 
the terms of which were in all es- 
sentials the same with those of the 
10th article of the peace of Amiens; 
_ and which article, without any new 
_ stipulation or modification whatever, 
had, till the latter part of Novem- 
Be formed the sole basis of the 
English requisition to Russia. It is 
"possible that ministers themselves 
miglit have been at some Joss for 
the ere of this curious spe- 
_cimen of dilatory pleading, had not 
the forgotten, trampled-upon me- 
-morial of the unacknowledged, unac- 
peredited | Maltese deputies present- 
Si itself to their recollection, and af- 
forded an abundant fund of mate- 
: rials. On asudden, therefore, the 
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claims of this insulted, despised peo- 
ple,, (claims which had_ been steep- 
ed in oblivion, from the first mo- 
ment of their being urged,) became 
of mighty consequence, and the 
English government state the im 
possibility of fulfilling the treaty, so 
far as respects them, ~ without intro- 
ducing such farther stipulations, as 
may amply satisfy the Maltese : but 
what they should be, or how modi- 
fied, it would be necessary to con 
sult the principal inhabitants them- 
selves ; for which purpose sir Alex- 
ander Ball should receive the ne- 
cessary instructions ! Sir JohnWar- 
ren* was likewise ordered to state 
the services of the natives to the 
common Cause, during a two years 
blockade and seige;—the loss of 
tnany thousands of their number ; 
their being unassisted by any other 
foreign power, save the English ; 
that, independently of the good 
faith which should be preserved t0e 
wards them, in the event of 
their not approving of the proposed 
government, they were equal to the 
defence of their island ; theretore it 
might be as politic as just, to con- 
sult their inclinations.—it wiil be 
recollected that this is the sum 
and substance of the memorial we 
have already adverted to! Scme 
new ground was, Raweyer, taken 
by the ministers, for the farther de- 
lay of the evacuation: count Wo- 
ronzoff is informed, that the pro- 
perty of the Spanish priories having 
been sequestered, it was indispens- 
ably necessary that they should be 
restored to the order, as well as 
that of the Portuguese, which had 
either met, or was threatened with, 
the same fate !—It does not appear 
* The English minister, at St. Petersburgh, 
Vor. XLV. S 
that 
