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these hostilities can be terminated, and the in- 
tercourse of the two countries renewed. 
His Majesty has already had occasion to as- 
sert, that justice has in no instance been de- 
nied to the claims of his Imperial Majesty’s 
subjects. 
T he termination of the war with Denmark 
has been so anxiously sought by his Majesty, 
that it cannot be necessary for his Majesty to 
renew any professions upon that subject. But 
his Majesty is at a loss to reconcile the Empe- 
ror of Russia’s present anxiety for the comple- 
tion of such an arrangement, with his Impe- 
rial Majesty’s recent refusal to contribute hiis 
g00d offices for effecting it. 
The requisition of his Imperial Majesty for 
the immediate conclusion, by his Majesty, of 
a peace with France, is as extraordinary in 
the substance, as it is offensive in the manner. 
His Majesty has at no time declined to treat 
with France, when France has professed a 
willingness to treat on an admissible basis. 
And the Emperor of Russia cannot fail to re- 
member that the last negociation between 
Great Britain and France was broken off, 
upon points immediately affecting, not his 
Majesty’s own interests, but those of his Im- 
perial ally.—-But his Majesty neither under- 
stands, nor will he admit, the pretension of 
Emperor of Russia to dictate the time, or the 
mode, of his Majesty’s pacific negociations 
with other powers. It never will be endured 
by his Majesty that any government shall in- 
demnify itself for the humiliation of servi- 
ency to France, by the adoption of an insul- 
ting and peremptory tone towards Great Bri- 
tain. 
His Majesty proclaims anew those princi- 
Marriages in and neay' London, 
[Jan. 1, 
ples of Maritime Law, against which the 
armed neutrality, under the auspices of the 
Empress Catherine, was originally directed 3 
and against which the present hostilities of 
Russia are denounced. Those principles have 
been recognized and acted upon in the best 
periods cf the history of Europe; and acted 
upon by no power with more strictness and 
severity than by Russia herself in the reign 
of the Empress Catherine. 
Those principles it is the right and the 
duty of his Majesty to maintain: and against 
every confederacy his Majesty is determined, 
under the blessing of Divine Providence, to 
maintain them. They have at all times 
contributed essentially to the maritime power 
of Great Britain ; but they are become incal- 
culably more valuable and important at a pe-. 
riod when the maritime power of Great Bri- 
tain constitutes the sole remaining bulwark 
against the overwhelming usurpations of 
France; the only refuge to which other na- 
tions may yet resort} in happier times, for 
assistance and protection. 
When the opportunity for peace between 
Great Britain and Russia shall arrive, hig 
Majesty will embrace it with eagerness. The 
arrangements of such a negociatjon will not 
be difficult or compiicated. His Majesty, 
as he has nothing to concede, so he has no- 
thing to reguire: satisfied, if Russia shall 
manifest a disposition to return to her an- 
cient feeling of friendship towards Great Bri- 
tain; and to a just consideration of her owa 
true interests ; and to a sense of her own dig- 
nity as an independent nation. ‘ 
Westininster, December 18, 1807. 
MARRIAGES anp DEATHS, in axp near LONDON. 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifhed Characters recently deceafed. 
Somme 92 ee 
MARRIED. 
By special licence, at his lordship’s house 
in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, the Right 
Hon. the Earl of Craven, to Miss Brunton, of 
the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, daughter 
of Mr. Brunton, late of the Theatre at Nor- 
wich, and now of Covent Garden. 
At Beckenham, by special licence, John 
Spalding, esq. of Hill-street, Berkeley-square, 
to Miss Mary Ann Eden, niece of Lord Auck- 
land. 
At St. Martin’s in the Fields, John Had- 
ley, esq. of Craven-street, to Mrs, Richard- 
son, widow of the late Capt. Wm. R. of the 
royal navy. F 
At St. Pancras Church, Mr. Hughes, to 
Miss Josette Arbuthnot, daughter of the late 
Lieut. Col. A., of the 31st. regiment of foot. 
Mr. William Matthew Thiselton, of Great 
Russell-street, to Miss Louisa Menzeau, 
daughter of Peter M., esq. of Camden Town. 
At St. George’s Queen-square, the Rev. 
John Cracroft, of Brazen Nose College, Ox- 
ford, to Miss Lewis, of Powis Place. 
At St. Mary-at-hill, Mr. Davis, of the 
royal navy, to Miss Crage, daughter of Mr, 
C., of Waterman’s Hall. at 
At Hflingten, James Henderson, esq. of 
Bow lane, to Miss Packer, of Iflington. 
At St. George’s Hanover-square, Charles 
Mackennon, esq. of Upper Grosvenor-street, 
to Miss Sophia Burn, of George-street, Hanes 
over-square, 
At St. George’s Queen-square, Captain 
James Nicholson, of the royal navy, to Miss 
Ann Bennet, eldest daughter of Alexander B., 
esq. of Queen-square. 
At St. Pancras Church, Richard Burman, 
esq. of Southam, Warwickshire, to Miss Ann 
Shuttleworth, daughter of Jobn §., esq. of 
Guildford-street, ie 
At Martin’s in the Fields, Mr. Rowles, 
jun. of Washingley, to Miss Bullivant, of 
Peterfburgh. ve Rs 
At Tottenham, David Pollock, esq. of the 
Middle Temple, barrister at law, to Miss At- 
kinson, only daughter of John A., esq. of 
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