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to accomplith fo defirable an object. This 
very Hall, Paris, Amiens, and London, 
can teftify.my love and zeal:for my coun- 
try. 
% I have no doubt of fucceeding in 
thefe undertakings.—My hopes are 
founded on Providence, whom I adore, 
and whofe care and protection we have fo 
often experienced. 
‘6 On the calm reafon and found judg- 
ment of the nation; on that valonr which 
ever diftinguifhed them; en their good 
faith, honour, and inward conviction, de- 
pends this lait attempt to re-eftablifh their 
happinefs. 
 ¢¢ Tt likewife depends on the affiftance, 
and concord in opinion, of your High 
Mightinefles ; on the wifdom of your re- 
folutions; on the power of your exam- 
ple; and on the firmnefs of your courage ; 
objects in which I cannot be difappointed, 
if I have acquired any knowledge of man- 
kind. . 
«¢ Finally, it depends on our love for 
our country, and the great premifes I 
have of the affiftance of the great Napo- 
leon, that extraordinary genius, who is 
admired both by friends and foes; who, 
after having caufed achange in the af- 
fairs of France, which will be a fubject 
_ of wonder and aftonifhment to future ages, 
has obtained the greateft influence over 
us, as well as over feveral other nations, 
of whofe friendfhip I have the greater 
reafon to boaft, becaule it was obtained by 
never fwerving from truth and rectitude 
in all my words, my actions, or even in 
my thoughts, which his penetrating eye 
read in the deep recefles of my heart. 
‘¢ Notwithftanding thefe hopes, Iam 
not certain of attaining my end. The 
book of futurity is fhut to yourfelves as 
wellas tome. As for myfelf, I fhall 
never quit my object till I have ufed-every 
_ poffible effort in my power to attain it; 
I thall never quit it difhonourably. May 
Heaven avert all difappointment ; may its 
bleffings crown our labour with fuccels, 
and re-eftablith the nation in its former 
flourifhing {tate and happinefs.”’ 
EAST INDIES. 
The French Admiral Linois,: having 
found in the Hope {ome difpatches from 
the Englifh Government in India, the 
French Government have oftentatioufly 
publifhed them: and, as the Letter from 
Loid Wellefley to Lord Hobart contains 
the Governor General’s ideas of the pre- 
fent fituation of ovr Indian empire, we 
have judged it proper to prefent it to our 
readers. It is dated November 20, 1803. 
‘¢ The feries of events in India during 
the laft three months has furnifhed matter 
Staite of Public Affairs in May, 1805. 
[June I, 
for ferious reflexions in regard to the de- 
figns of the French in India, and with res 
fpeét to the means by which a formidable 
French party might be eftablifhed among 
the Native Powers. Whatever may have 
been the interpretation given in England 
to the convention of 1787, in regard to 
the nature of the French eftablifhments in 
India, the circumftance which accompa- 
nied the arrival of M. Binot and M. De- 
caen at Pondicherry, added to the general 
conduét of the French at Pondicherry 
fince the conclufion of the peace at Amiens, 
has evidently proved that the intention of 
- France was to eftablifh a military and poli- 
tical power in India. 
<¢ This intention will appear evident ta 
your Excellency, by examining the fub- 
joined ftate of the eftablifhment formed by 
the French government for the occupation 
of the French pofleffions in the continent 
of India. This eftablifhment difpatched 
in a great part from France in the month 
of March, 1803, is now at the Ifle de 
France, under the command of M. De. 
caen, and the reft were embarked at Ma- 
dras for France, under the command of 
M. Binot, agreeably to the terms granted 
to the French who had landed at Pondi- 
cherry in the month of June. 
«© Your Lordfhips will be pleafed to re- 
mark, that the French expedition, fuch 
as it arrived in India, was purely military, 
and that the French goverament had ap- 
pointed for the fervice of India a very ex- 
tenfive Military Staff, capable of furnifh- 
ing officers to a confiderable army. The. 
intention of the French in regard to the 
re-conftruCtion of their old fortifications 
has not been manifefted, but confidering 
the extent of the expedition which has ar- 
rived in India, one muft neceflarily con- 
clude, that the intention of France was-to 
embrace this opportunity of reinforcing 
and extending its military refources and 
its powers in India. 
‘* The civil and military goyernment. of 
the Carnatic being in the hands of the 
company, the French who are arrived 
with M. Binot met with great difficulties 
in their political intrigues, and thefe difii- 
culties are fiill increaled by the fituation 
in which that divifion of the French troops 
finds itfelf, in regard to the doubtful ftate 
of the negociations which exifted between 
his Majelty and the French Government. 
‘* The vigilance of the Government of 
Fort St. George, fupported by thefe ad- 
vantages, rendered all communication be- 
tween the French at Pondicherry and the 
Native Powers of India almoft impoffible. 
— There exit, however, many reafons to - 
juftify my opinion that the French have 
arrived 
