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of Europe, but even to dissolve the 
first bonds of society. 
The undersigned minister must 
moreover observe, that this is not a 
question respecting some paragraphs, 
which, through the inadvertence of 
an editor, might have been accident. 
ally inserted in a public print; but 
it is a question of a deep and con- 
tinued system of defamation, di- 
rected not only against the chief of 
the French republic, but against all 
the constituted authorities of the 
republic ; against the whole nation ; 
represented by these libeliers in the 
most odious and degrading terms. 
It has ever been remarked, that 
many of these prints contain an ap- 
peal to the French people, against 
the government and fundamental 
iaws of their country. 
If these observations apply to the 
English writers, who, for these three 
months past, have deluged the pub- 
lic with the most perfidious and un- 
becoming publications, they are still 
more applicable to a class of foreign 
calumniators, who appear to avail 
themselves of the asylum offered 
them in England, only for the pur- 
pose of the better gratifying their 
hatred against France, and under- 
mining the foundations of peace. 
{t is not merely by insulting and 
seditious writings, evidently pub- 
lished with a view to circulation in 
France, but by other incendiary pa- 
pers distributed through the mari- 
time departments, in order to excite 
the evil-disposed or weak inhabi- 
tants to resist the execution of the 
concordate, that these implacable 
enemies of France continue to ex- 
ercise hostilities; and to provoke the 
just indignation of the French go- 
vernment and people. Nota doubt 
exists of these writings having been 
composed and circulated by Georges, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
18053. 
and by the former bishops of Franee. 
‘Yhese men can no longer be consi- 
dered but as rebels against both po-« 
litical and religious authority ; and, 
after their reiterated ‘attempts to 
disturb the good understanding be- — 
tween the two governments, their — 
residence in England militates open- 
ly against the spirit and letter of the 
treaty of peace. 
‘The meetings, likewise, which 
have taken place in the island of 
Jersey, and the odious plots which 
are there framed, in spite of the 
representations which the under- 
signed minister has already taken 
care to make on this subject, also 
demand immediate measures to be 
taken by a government, the neigh- 
bour and friend of France. 
Other persons (attached, by re- 
collections never to be effaced, and 
by regrets too long fostered, to an 
order of things which no lotiger ex- 
ists in F rance) find themselves daily 
implicated by the plots of those who 
pretend to serve them. A sense of 
their own reputation will, without — 
doubt, lead them to avoid a focus of 
intrigues, with which they ought 
not to have the least connexion. 
Peace happily re-established, the 
mutual desire of the two countries 
to render it solid and lasting, and 
the general interests of humanity, 
require that all these causes of dis- 
satisfaction should be. done away, 
and that his majesty’s ministry 
should, by frank and_ energetic 
measures, manifest their disappro- 
bation of all the attempts made to 
produce new divisions. 
The undersigned has, in conse- - 
quence, received especial order to 
solicit, 
Ist, That his majesty’s govern- 
ment will adopt the most effectual 
measures to put a stop to the unbe- 
eoming 
