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a written meflage from Delacroix, i in an- 
{wer to one from him, demanded, a few 
hours after, of the French negociator, 
whether he was to confider that: “meflage 
as an anfwer or not? 
Mr. Elis, f fecretary of embaffy to Lord 
Malmfbury, fet out for London cn the 
zsth of November, to receive new 1n- 
ftructions from his Court. In the courfe 
of the negociation, Delacroix demanded 
of, Lord Malmfbury, “* whether, on 
every new communication, he intended 
to difpatch a new courier to his Cabi- 
met ?”’ Yo this Lord Malmfbury re- 
plied, “* that he fhould do fu whenever 
the importance of the cafe appeared to 
render mm meceflary.” 
The jong expeéted Declaration of the 
pane Court againit Great Britain was 
figned by his Catholic Majefty, at the Pa- 
dace of St. Laurenzo, on the sth of Oc- 
tober, 1796. 
The Spanith monarch, in this inftru- 
Ment, aAMrMS."-— 
« That_he was induced to make peace with 
France, on account of the” manner in which 
England béhaved to him during the whole of 
the war, and the well- gtounded : miftruft which 
he ought to feel for hie future, from the expe- 
rience of her bad faith, which began to be ma- 
nifeft by the treatment his fleet received, at an 
important period of the war, frora Lord Hood, 
Where he was folely employed in mining all 
that he could not carry away himéelf. 
“ That the Englith miniiier fuffered. the 
fame bad faith to appear. by his filence upon 
the fubject of his negociations with other pow- 
ers, particularly the Treaty concluded in 1794 
with the United States of America, wit bout any 
regard to tle Spanith rights, which were weil 
Known to him. 
“ That his Catholic Majefiy obferved alfo 
the fame fymptoms of bad faith in the reply 
given by Lord Grenville to his ambafedor, the 
Marquis Gel Carnpo, when he demanded fuc- 
cours of him to continue the war: "That he was 
completely confirmed in his fulpicions of this 
bad faith in the condutt and injuftice which 
was ufed in the dif{pofal of the rich cargo of the 
Spanifh fhip the Saint Jago, retaken by an Eng- 
duh fquadicn. 
«« That fince his Catholic Majefty made 
peace with the French Republic, he has had 
farther reafons for fufpecting that England in- 
tended to attack his poffeffions in America: 
That he ne had received direét infults, which 
perfuaded him that the Englith minifter wifhed 
to oblige him to adopt a part contrary to cee in- 
terefts of humanity. 
*© In faét, that England had developed her 
intentions of getting poffefion of his Catholic 
Majefty’s territories, by fending to the An il- 
Jes a confiderable force, and particularly defiin- 
€d againft St. Domingo.’’ 
MontHLy Mac. No. X. 
P blic Afiirsea—Great Brit cin. 
After enumerating feveral other in- 
fults and grievances from the inelifh, 
his Catholic Ma‘efty concludes :— 
«© That the Biitith nation has proved to the 
univerfe, that fhe recoguifes no other laws than 
the agerandizement of her own commerce; and 
that her defpotifm has forced him, for the pro- 
tection of his crown and people, to declare war 
againit the King of England, ‘his kingdom and 
wuffaly.? * 
On the 8th of O&tober, war was pro- 
claimed at Madrid, in the ufual form; 
and, on the r2th of November, the Bri- 
tifh Cabinet ifiued orders for granting 
letters of See to. Britith fubjects, to 
make reprifal s upon Spain and her {ub- 
jects. 
The diminution which the Englifh 
power has fuffered in the Mediterranean, 
trom the alliance betwixt France and 
Spain, and the fhutting of almoft all the 
Italian ports againft her dhips, has induce 
the Britith minifter to order the evacus 
ation of Coriica. 
General Gentili wrote from. Leghorn, 
the xsrh of Odtober, to the French Com- 
mifhoners in Italy, informing them of the 
arrangements which he had concerted 
for the recovery of the ifland, or rather 
for affifting the inhabitants in their de- 
termination to expel the Englifh. A few 
days afterwards, tle French janded in 
Corfica; took Baftia, with 8 or 900 pri- 
foners, moft of which were of D tlon’s 
regiment, confifting principally of emi- 
grants. Sir Gilbert Elfrot, the viceroy, 
with the troops which efcaped from Baf- 
tia, tock refuge in Porto-Ferrajo. 
Our country MIEN, however, have been 
more fuccefsful in their new territories 
at the Cape of Good Hope. Our read- 
ers will recolle&t, that.in the {pring of 
the year a fleet failed from Holland, and 
eluded the vigilance of the Britith cruiz- 
ers; a part of ‘that fleet arrived in Au- 
guft near Saldanha Bay, with a defign of 
retaking’ the Cape ; but this force proved 
{fo inadequate for the purpofe, that no- 
thing but the commander’s ignorance of 
the ftrength of the Englith in that quar- 
ter could induce him to make fo raih an 
attempt. Upon receiving intelligence of 
the Dutch being on the ccatt, dhe com- 
mander of the “Englith forces, Major- 
General Craig, made every difpofition 
for repelling them. 
Vice-Admiral Sir George Elphinittone 
was at that period ftationed in thofe feas, 
with 2 confiderable fleet; and, upon hear- 
ing of the arrival of the enemy, he fet 
fail and made a complete capture of all 
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