STATE) PAPER 5S. 
may contribute to their security.— 
In pursuance, therefore, of the acts 
ef parliament, enabling his majesty 
to call out and assemble the militia 
of the united kingdom, his majesty 
has thought it right to make this 
communication to the house of com- 
mons, to the end that his majesty 
may cause the said militia, or such 
part thereof as his majesty shall think 
necessary, to be forthwith drawn 
out and embodied, and to march as 
occasion shall require. 
His Majesty's Message, announcing 
War with France, May 16, 1803. 
GEORGE R. 
His majesty thinks it proper to 
acquaint the house of commons, 
_ that the discussions which he an- 
nounced to them in his message of 
the 8th of March last, as then sub- 
sisting between his majesty and the 
French government, have been ter- 
minated ; that the conduct of the 
French government has obliged his 
majesty to recal his embassador 
from Paris, and that the embassador 
from the French republic has left 
London. . 
His majesty has given directions 
fox laying before the house of com- 
mons, with as little delay as possi- 
ble, copies of such papers as will 
afford the fullest information to his 
parliament at this important con- 
juncture. 
It is a consolation to his majesty 
to reflect that no endeavours have 
been wanting, on his part, to pre- 
serve to his subjects the blessings of 
peace ; but, under the circumstances 
which have occurred to disappoint 
his just expectations, his majesty re- 
lies, with confidence, on the zealand 
public spirit of his faithful commons, 
and gn the exertions of his brave 
647 
and loyal subjects, to support him 
in his determination to employ the 
power and resources of the nation 
in opposing the spirit of ambition 
and encroachment which, at pre- 
sent, actuates the councils of France; 
in upholding the dignity of his 
crown; and in asserting and main- 
taining the rights and interests of 
his people, 
His Majesty's Message, announcing 
‘ar with Holland, June 17,1803. 
GEORGE R. 
His majesty thinks it right to 
inform the house of commons, that, 
from an anxious desire to prevent 
the calamities being extended to the 
Batavian republic, he communicated 
to that government his disposition 
to respect their neutrality, provided 
that a similar disposition was mani- 
fested on the part of the French go- 
vernment, and that the French forces 
were forthwith withdrawn from the 
territories of the republic: this pro« 
position not having been admitted 
by the government of France, and 
measures having been recently taken 
by them in direct violation of the 
independence of the Batayian re- 
public, his majesty judged it expe- 
dient to direct his minister to leave 
the Hague, and he has since given 
orders that letters of marque and 
general reprisals should be issued 
against the Batavian republic and its | 
subjects. ; 
His majesty has, at all times, ma 
nifested the deepest and mostdively 
interest for the prosperity and inde- 
pendence of the United Provinces 5 
he has recourse, therefore, to these 
proceedings with the most sincere 
regret, but the conduct of the 
French government has left him ne 
alternative; and, in adopting these 
Tit 4 measures, 
