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the French republic. His majesty will 
not complain of sucha measure, as itis 
not his intention to interfere in the 
manner in which the people or territo- 
ries of France should be governed ; 
but he expects, on the other hand, 
that the French government will not 
interfere in the manner in which the 
government of his dominions is con- 
ducted, or call for a change in those 
laws with which his people are per- 
fectly satisfied. | With respect to 
the distinction which appeared to 
be drawn in M. Otto’s note, be- 
tween the publications of British 
subjects and those of foreigners, and 
the power which his majesty is sup- 
posed to have in consequence of the 
Alien Act, of sending foreigners out 
of his dominions, it is important to 
observe, that the provisions of that 
act were made for the purpose of 
preventing the residence of foreign- 
ers, whose numbers and principles 
had a tendency to disturb the inter- 
nal peace of his own dominions, 
and whom the safety of those domi- 
nions might require in many in- 
stances to be removed, even if their 
actual conduct had not exposed 
them to punishment by law. It 
does not follow that it would be a 
warrantable application of such a 
law to exert its powers in the cases 
of individuals, such as those of whom 
complaint is now made, and parti- 
cularly as they are liable to be pro- 
secuted under the law of the land, 
in like manner as others have been 
in similar cases, at the instance and 
upon the complaint of foreign go- 
vernments. 
The second general head, which 
includes the five last complaints, re- 
fates to the removal of some of the 
French emigrants resident in this 
country. His majesty entertained 
hopes that the explanation furnished 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
on this head, in my dispatch No. 
14, would have proved satisfactory, 
and would have precluded the ne- 
cessity of any farther discussion on 
this subject. The French govern- 
ment have, upon several occasions, 
resorted on this part of the subject 
to precedent, and have particularly 
rested on the demand formerly made 
by this country, that the person 
then called the pretender should be 
sent from the French dominions.— 
It is important that the differences 
between these two cases should be 
stated. When James the Second 
abdicated the throne, and left this 
country, he retired with his adhe- 
rents to France ; and though, in the 
war which immediately succeeded 
that event, the French government 
adopted his cause as their own, no 
stipulation was made at the treaty of 
Ryswick, that he should be sent 
from that country, nor was any 
subsequent demand ever made to the 
French government to this effect ; 
but he was suffered to remain at St, 
Germain, in the neighbourhgod of 
Paris, surrounded by his family and 
friends, till the time of his death.— 
It was not till after his demise, when 
Lewis the Fourteenth, in direct vio- 
lation of the treaty of Ryswick, had 
acknowledged his son as king of 
Great Britain, that a different course 
of proceeding was adopted by the 
British government: and in the trea- 
ty of peace, signed at Utrecht, 
which put an end to the war which 
had been carried on, on account of 
the Spanish succession, an article 
was inserted to prevent the preten- 
der from residing in any part of the 
French dominions. ‘The demand 
which was subsequently made for 
the removal of the pretender from a 
town which was situated in the cen- 
tre of these daminions, was founded 
on 
