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cept the assurances of his high con- 
sideration. 
(Signed) Whitworth. 
Paris, 12th May, 1803. 
, No, 71. 
Extract of a Dispatch from Sir 
George Rumbold, Bart. te Lord 
Hawkesbury, dated Hamburgh, 
March 29, 1803. 
Late last night it was determined 
that the senate should be convened 
extraordinarily on this day, in order 
to consider of a requisition from the 
French minister, to insert in the 
Hamburgh paper a most offensive 
article, intended as a justification of 
the first consul, and an attack on 
the measures of the British govern- 
ment. It is with great regret. that 
linform your lordship, that the se- 
hate have judged it prudent to com- 
ply with this demand ; and that the 
article will be inserted in the paper 
of to-morrow. It is now in the 
hands of the publisher for that pur- 
pose. It was the wish of the senate 
that they might at least be allowed 
to omit or qualify the most offen- 
sive passages, but Mr. Rheinhardt 
said his orders were positive, for 
the full and exact insertion of the 
whole. 
ert No. 72. 
Extract of a Dispatch from Mr. Hill 
to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Co- 
penhagen, April 2, 1803. 
The French minister at Ham- 
burgh, received orders from his go- 
vernment to have inserted in the 
public papers of that city, an article 
which was sent to him, containing a 
commentary upon his majesty’s com- 
munication to parliament, respecting 
the necessity of increasing the mili- 
tary forces of the country in the 
present circumstances. ‘The senate 
of Hamburgh consented with much 
‘ral tranquillity of Kurope. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
repugnance to the insertion of this 
paragraph. ‘The French minister 
desired that the same should be pub- 
lished in the papers of Altona; but 
the Danish magistrates said that they 
could not possibly permit it without 
an express order from this govern- 
ment. In consequence of this re- 
fusal, M. Daguesseau, the French 
minister at this court, received from 
his colleague at Hamburgh, a copy 
of the article, with a request that 
he would solicit the permission of 
its publication in the Danish papers. 
Tomy knowledge he had no answer 
yesterday, and I have every reason 
to suppose that this government will 
shew the greatest reluctance in aé- 
ceding to the French minister’s re- 
quest. fy 
DECLARATION, 
Ilis majesty’s earnest endeavours 
for the preservation of peace haying 
failed of success, he entertains the 
fullest confidence that he shall re- 
ceive the same support from his par- 
liament, and that the same zeal and 
spirit will be manifested by his peo- 
ple, which he has experienced on 
every occasion when the honour of 
his crown has been attacked, or the 
essential interests of his dominions 
have been endangered, 
During the whole course of the 
negotiations which led to the preli- 
minary and definitive treaties of peace 
between his majesty and the French 
republic, it was his majesty’s sincere 
desire, not only to put an end to 
the hostilities which subsisted ‘ be- 
tween the two countries, but to adopt 
such measures, and to concur insuch_ 
propositions, as might effectually 
contribute to consolidate the gene- 
The 
same 
