" 1805:) 
permit to puth forwards the: remainder 
inftantly fled:to the further end of the 
fort, where, from the fhip, we could per- 
ceive many of them leap from the embra- 
zures upon the rocks (a height of above 
25 feet); fuch as laid down their arms 
- Teceived quarter. , : ie 
In the bufinefs, Mr. Yeo commanded a 
Jsunch and two cutters, and in their paf 
fage they found two fmall privateers 
moored under a batrery of ten gmns. 
The launch commanded by Mr. Clench 
attacked and took the fimalleft privateer, - 
while Mr. Yeo with the two, cutters car- 
ried the largeft, a feluccas armed with three 
eighteen-pounders, four four-pounders, 
and fifty men. They were obliged to 
abandon the fmaller veflel, but fecured 
the felucca, which was* effeéted without 
any other lofs than three men being flight- 
ly wounded. Nineteen men were mifling 
in the felucca, dome of whom jumped 
overboard, but the greater. part were 
killed. 
Difpatches have been received at the 
Watt-India Houle-giving an account of 
fome new and very important fucceffes ob- 
tained by the Britifth under General Lake 
at the town and fort of Dcig. . In these 
actions the Jofs has been confiderable, and: 
among the flain we are forry to find the 
names of Lievt. Col. ‘Maitland, Capt. 
Young of the 8th, and other officers of 
lefs note.. The number of the enemy 
killed is faid.by Gen. Lake,’ to. have been 
immente. 
The Emperor Bonaparte has been 
erowned king of Italy at Milan, at which 
ceremony fome “of, the fenators from Ge- 
noa affitted: thefe accompanied ‘by M. 
Salicetti, the French minifer, returned on 
the 24th of May, and on the next day an 
‘extradrdinary fitting of the Ligurian Se- 
nate Was held, when it was decreed that. 
Genoa and its territories fhould be annex- 
ed to the French empire. 
The following is the anfwer of Bona- 
parte, upon receiving the decree of the- 
Ligurian Senate, for uniting that cougtry 
to the French empire: =e : 
‘You, the Doge, and Deputies of the Senate, 
and People.of Genoa, 
“¢ Circumftances and yout wifhes have often * 
called upon me, for the laft ten years; to inter- 
fere in your domeftic concerns. 
introduce thofe liberal ideas which could alone 
confer on your Government that. {plendour 
which it formerly enjoyed. But I early had 
‘convincing -proof of the utter’ impoflibility in 
which you were placed to achieve,any thing 
avorthy of your forefathers. ~A great change 
has taken place~=the new principles of mari- 
State of Public Affairs iz Fung, 1805. 
FRANCE AND ITALY... = 
I have always - 
endeavoured to procure peace for you; and to: 
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time law which the Englifh haye adopted, and 
compélled the gieateft part of Europe ‘to re#’ 
cognize ; the right of blockade, which it is im 
their power to exten to places which are not 
blockaded, eveit to whole ‘coafls and rivers, 
and which in effeét is nothing elfe than to con= 
troul at their pleafure the ‘commerce of the 
world; the ircreafing depredations of the Bar- 
bary Powers ; all thofe circumftances prefented 
to you only a nominal independence. Pofte- 
rity will be grateful to me for having endea- 
voured to eftablith the freedom of the feas, and 
to compe? the Barbary Powers, to refrain from 
molefting the weaker flags, and to live at home 
as agriculturifts and honeft men.. The welfare 
‘and the dignity of. the human race were my 
only objects. At the Treaty of Amiens, Eng- 
land retuled to co-operate in thofe liberal ideas, 
Since that time a great Continental Power hag 
fhewn as much repugnance to the fame prin- 
ciple. Alone to maintain thofe principles, I 
fhould have had recourfe to arms; but 1 have 
no right to fpill the blood of my people, except 
for their own peculiar intereits. c 
‘* From the moment that Europe -could not 
obtain from England, that the right of blockade 
fhould -be reftritted to places really blockaded; 
from the moment that the flag of the weak 
was unprotected, and at the mercy of the piracy 
of the Barbary Powers, there was no longer any 
maritime independence ; and frem that mo- 
ment every fenfible man mutt have forefeen 
what is now come to pafs. Whenever a com- 
_meércial nation has no maritime independence, 
it becomes incumbent on ‘it to place itfeif under 
the protection of a more powerful flag. I will 
realize your expectations; I will unite you to 
my great people, I fhall thereby acquire ad- 
ditional means of rendering that protection 
more powerful which J have always been fe 
- well dilpofed to extend to you.. My people will 
with pleafure receive you. ‘They know, that 
at all times you have been :friendly to their are 
mies, and that'you-haye .aflitted them with all 
your force, and with all your. means They 
find, ‘Moreover, in your territory, ports, and an 
increafe of maritime power, which: is neceflary 
‘forthe fopport of their lawful rights againit the 
tyrants of the feas. j 
“In the union with my people you will find 
a Continent; you, who have only ports, and 
the fea before you, will in this union find a flag, 
which, whatever may be. the pretenfions of iny 
enemies, t thall fupport throughout all the feas 
of the univerfe free trom infults or attacks, and 
againft. the right of blockading, which J fhall 
“never recognize but-in fuch places_as,are really 
blockaded by land as well as by fea. -In fhort, 
in. dt. you will find. yourlelves proteéted ugaintt 
that shameful flavery, which, contrary to my 
wifhes, I am obliged to fuffen weaker Powers 
to endure, *but ‘againft: which’ I<fhall always 
provect my fubjects. hear, 4 
*s Your people will #hways find, in the re- 
gard I “have ever Nad for them, ‘and in the-pa- 
‘rental fentiments 1 fhall teel*for them hence- 
_ forth, the affurance tliat every thing which can 
contribute to their welfare fhall be done for 
‘‘ Doge,-and Gentlemen of the Deputation 
of the Senate, and People of Genoa, return to 
Dente 4H2 its “your 
