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The faé& may be, that, -as moft of the 
other difeafes which have recently occur- 
red, could fcarcely fail to be, in a certain 
degree, modified by the caufe of the in- 
fiuenza, and of courfe poffeffed properties 
in common with it, thefe various com- 
plaints, although radically different, have 
from their appearance, been, in many in- 
fiances, confounded. : 
In his laft report, the Writer {poke of 
the influenza, and (till regards it, as, in 
no efjential or important circumftance, dif- 
tinguifhable from what has been commonly 
known under the name of the catarrhal 
fever, nor from the afpeé&t which it has 
exhibited, fhould he, in {carcely any cafe, 
have been inclined to auger an unfavour- 
able refult. 
State of Public Affairs, in April, 1803. 
April 26, 1803, 
[May 1, 
Catarrh rarely abridges life until it has 
drawn near to its zatural termination. 
‘Winter, which is calculated to brace 
the nerves, and to fill with an additional 
fund of vigor, the limbs of the aétive 
and the young, operates, with a cruel, 
and too oftena fatal, feverity, upon that 
advanced period of age, at which the 
{park of life has become too feeble to 
ftand againft the rude vifitation of 
the winds ;: and the cold of the feafon 
freezes, completely, the flow and feanty 
current which ftill labours to linger in an 
enfeebled and nearly exhaufted frame. 
J. Rew. 
Southampton-row, Rufel-fquare. 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In April, 1803. 
FRANCE. 
OWEVER favourable the prefent 
feafon of doubt and uncertainty 
may be to the indulgence of fpeculation 
and conjecture, to the writer who loves 
fa&ts, and is cautious of what he exhibits 
to the public, it is extremely barren ; our 
political article muft therefore be this 
month a fhort one. Of the negocia- 
tions which at prefent occupy the ftatef- 
men of France and England we know no- 
thing through our own miniftry, and the 
cafual and imperfeét information which 
we receive is conveyed only through the 
channel of foreign journals. Through 
thefe the only matter of any importance 
which has tran{pired fince our laft Review 
is a manifefto, or rather Philippic, againft 
this country, which has appeared in the 
Hamburgh Correfpondenten, a kind of ftate 
gazette publifhed in that city. The hif- 
tory of this paper is curious, and we give 
it without comment, from the journals, 
without pledging ourfelves with refpect to 
its truth. Inthe courfe of the laft month, 
3t is faid, the French minifler at Ham- 
burgh made application to the magiftrates 
to procure the infertion in the paper in 
quettion of a manifefto, faid to be from the 
pen of Bonaparte himéfelf. This produc- 
tion was referred to the fyndic and cenfor 
of the prefs, who permitted it to be infert- 
ed, after firiking out fome exceptiorable 
paffages, and it was pubiifhed in the Cor 
re pondenten of the 23d of March. ne 
Eberties which had beed taken with the 
aper, however, proved highly uniatisfac- 
tory to the French minifter, 
that it fhould be publifhed in its entire 
ftate. As the demand was accompanied 
by fome formidable threats, the fenate, 
after a deliberation of four hours, conceded — 
to the requeft of the ambaffador, and the 
manifefto was publifhed on the 30th with 
no mutilation. 
With refpect to the paper itfelf, we are 
of an opinion, contrary tothat of fome per- 
fons in this country, that it bears authen- 
tic marks of proceeding from the Firft 
Conful himfelf. It is evidently defigned 
as an apology for the very undiplomatic 
converfation, which took place with Lord 
Whitworth at Madame Bonaparte’s levee, 
as reported in our laft. 
tion, and indulges in a rancorous fpirit of 
invective againft Great Britain. The ma- 
nifefto commences with noticing the war — 
of newfpapers which had been carried on 
in both countries. A fubjeét, by the way, 
unworthy of the Chief Ccniul’s notice, 
and which he might have known was car- 
ried on in this country without the privity, 
and contrary to the wifhes of the Miniftry. 
It proceeds toallude to what the « riter calls 
the difficulties in the complete execution of 
the treatv of Amiens, adding, that ftill rely- 
ing on the faith ot treaties the French go- 
vernment ‘ecurc!y difperied the remains of 
thetr naval torce. In this Gate of things the 
King’s meflage to the Britifh parliament 
appeared, of which the manilelto fays 
<* people doubted whether it were the effect 
a 
who infifed - 
At the fame time ° 
the writer takes a wider, {cope of juftifica- 
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