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place in the ifland of Jerfey, and the odious 
plots which are there framed, in {pite of the 
reprefentations which the underligned mi- 
uliter has already taken care to make on. this 
fubject, allo demand immediate meafures to 
he taken by a Government, the neighbour 
and friend of France. 
Other perfons (attached, by recolleCtions 
never to be effaced, and by regrets too long 
foftered, to an order of:things which no lon- 
ger exifts in France) find themfelves daily 
implicated by the plots of thofe who pretend 
tou ferve them. A fenfe of their own repu- 
tation will without doubt lead them to avoid 
a focus of intrigues, with which they ought 
not to have the leaft connection. 
Peace happily re-eftablithed, the mutual 
defire of the two Governments torender it folid 
and lafting, and the general interefts of hu- 
munity, require that all thefe caufes of dif- 
fatisfaction thould be done away, and that 
his Majefty’s Miniftry fhould by frank and 
energetic meafures, manifeft their difappro- 
bation of all the attempts made to produce 
new divifions. 
The underfigned has im confequence re- 
ceived efpecial orders to folicit. 
Lit. That his Majefty’s Government will 
adopt the moft effetual meafures to put a 
ftop to the unbecoming and feditious publica- 
tions with which the newfpapers and other 
writings printed in England are filled. 
2d. That the individuals mentioned in the 
underfigned Minifter’s letter of the 23d July 
laft, fhall be fent out of the ifland of Jer- 
fey. 
3d. That the former Bifhops-of Arras and 
St. Pol de Leon, and all thofe, who like 
them, under the pretext of religion, feek to 
raife dilturbances in the interior of France, 
fhall likewife be feut away. 
4th. That Georges and his adherents shall 
be trantported to Canada, according to the 
mtention which the underfigned has been 
dire@ed to tranfmit to his Government 
at the requeft of Lord Hawkefbury. 
5th. That, in order to deprive the evil-dif- 
pofed of every pretext for difturbing the good 
underitanding between the two Governments, 
it thall be recommended to the Princes of the 
Houle ef Bourbon at prefent in Great Bri- 
tain, to repair to Warfaw, the refidence of 
the head of their family. 
6th. That fuch of the French emigrants as 
fill think proper to wear the orders and de- 
corations belonging to the: ancient Govern- 
ment of France, thall be required to quit the 
territory of the Britith empire. 
Theie demands are founded upon the 
Treaty of Amiens, and upon the verbal als 
furances that the underfigned Minifter has 
had the fatistaction to receive in the courfe of 
the negociations, with regard to a .mutbal 
agreement for maintaining tranquillity and 
good order in the two countries. If any one 
in particular of thefe demands does not pro- 
ceed fo immediately from the treaty conclu- 
- dled, it would be eaty to juftify it by ftriking 
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examples, and to prove how very attentive 
the Britifh Government has been in times of 
internal fermentation, to remove from the 
territory of a neighbouring pow:r thofe: 
who might endanger the public tranquillity. 
Whatever may be the protection which the 
Englifh laws afford to native writers, and to 
other fubjects of his Majefty, the French 
Government knows that foreigners do not 
here enjoy the fame protection; and that 
the law, known by the title of the Alien Act, 
gives the Miniftry of his Britannic Majefty 
an authority which it has often exerciled 
again{t foreigners whofe refidence was pre- 
judicial to the imterefts of Great Britain. 
The firft claufe of this at f{tates, expretsly, 
that any Order in Council which requires a 
foreigner to quit the kingdom fhall be execu 
ted under pain of imprifonment and trant- 
portation. There exifts, therefore in the 
Miniltry a legal and fufficient power to re- 
ftrain foreigners, without having recourfe to 
the courts of law; and the French Gevern- 
ment, which offers on this point a perfect 
reciprocity, thinks it gives anew proof of 
its pacific intentions, by demanding that thofe 
perfons may be fent away, whofe machina- 
tions uniformly tend to fow difcord between 
the two people. It owes to itfelf and to the 
nation at large, (which has made it the depo- 
fitory of its power and of its honour,) not to 
appear infenfible to infults and to plots du- 
ring profound peace, which the irritation of 
open war could not juftify ; and it is too well 
acquainted with the conciliatory difpofitions 
of the Britifh Miniftry, not to rely upon its 
efforts to difperfe a faction,equally the enemy 
of France and England. OTTO. 
London, 17th Aug. 1802. 
o. 13. 
Sir, Downing-fireet, Aug 18, 1862: 
I fend you the eopy of a letter which I re- 
ceived fome days ago from M. Otto, together 
with a copy of an official note inclofed in it. 
i have informed M. Otto, that you would re- ° 
ceive inftructions to enter into explanations 
with the French Government on’ the feyveral 
points to which it refers. It is impoflible not 
to feel confiderable furprize at the circum- 
ftances under which it has been thought pro- 
per to prefent fuch a note; at the ftyle in 
which it is drawn up, and at the complaints 
contained in it. Whatever may be the ge- 
neral difpolitions of the French Government 
towards this country, fuppofing them to be 
as hoftile as they have been at any former 
period, or even more.fo, it-would appear fo 
contrary to their intereft to provoke a war 
with us at the prelent moment, that I am in- 
clined to afcribe their conduct, in the whote 
of this bufine{s, more to temper, than to an 
other motive; but whether their conduét 1s 
to be referred to teinper or to policy, the 
ettects of it may fill be the fame ; itis there- 
fore become ot the utmoft importance that 
a frank explanation fhould be made of the 
line of conduct which his Majefty has deter- 
mined to adept on reafons et the nature of 
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