So much for the two first assertions of the Attorney General. The THIRD, namely, that the ARMY was anxious to see me punished, I will inquire into in my next. It will take up some considerable space; for, I am resolved to show, and that in a manner to leave no doubt in the mind of any man, that the Army has no reason to find fault with me, that I have always been the friend of the soldier, and that, of course, I merit not his bad wishes. shall have much to bring up next week, and I propose, in order at once to get things smooth, to publish a double number.The reader will, I am sure, excuse me for giving, under the present circumstances, the precedence to obser vations more immediately relating to myself; but, he need not fear, that I shall trespass much upon him in this way. I shall resume my usual course of proceeding, and, according to my former practice, leave my calumniators to choak in their own gall. W". COBBETT.

13th July, 1810.

OFFICIAL PAPERS.

God has blessed with brains. The public, however much in many cases, some of them dissent from my opinions, will never be persuaded that my views are inimical to my country, or have any dishonourable object. Nothing will ever persuade any man, be he who he may, sincerely to believe this. There are many, who will pretend to believe it; but, they will not believe it at bottom, and they will read on. The public has perceived in me a sort of conduct towards my adversaries, which they never witnessed in any other public writer. They have seen, that I always insert and give publicity to, whatever is sent in answer to myself. This is a proof of my love of truth ten thousand times stronger than any professions however strong. It is a speaking fact, which is always the thing to produce the most impression. The Register has created in England, and even in other countries, a new taste in reading, and an entirely new set of notions upon political matters; and, can it be possible, that any one is to be persuaded, that such an effect is to be produced by mere libel-State Prison, Newgate, Friday, ling? No: nor will any one believe, that it is to be produced by a mind bent upon " base lucre." If " base lucre" had been my principal object, or, indeed, if it had been a considerable object with me, I never should have written with effect; because to write with effect, one's mind must be free, which it never can be if the love of gain be uppermost. Be sides, how inconsistent is this charge of "base lucre" with the charge of seditious intentions? The two things are absolutely incompatible with one another; for, if insurrection and confusion were to take place, all the works above mentioned, all the numerous volumes of those works, whence my profits are to come, if they come at all, would, at once, cease to be of any more use than so many square bits of wood. For a man, who has real property, to wish for the annihi-Napoleon Louis, and of his brother, Prince lation of those laws, by which alone that property is secured to him, is not very likely; for a man, who, like me is planting trees and sowing acorns and making roads and breaking up wastes, to wish for the destruction of order and law and property is still less likely; but, for a man, the chief part of whose property consists of what must of necessity become mere waste-paper in case of a destruction of order and law, for such a man to wish for such destruction is utterly out of belief, and quite impossible if he be a seeker after" base lucre."

HOLLAND. From the Royal Amsterdam Gazette, July 4, 1810.

Amsterdam, July 3-Louis Napoleon, by the Grace of God and the Constitution of the Kingdom, King of Holland, Constable of France. To all those who may see, or hear, or read these presents, health.

Hollanders! Being convinced that nothing more for your interest or your welfare can be effected by me, but, on the contrary, considering myself as an obstacle which may prevent the good will and intentions of my brother towards this country, I have resigned my rank and royal dignity in favour of my eldest son,

Charles Louis Napoleon.-Her Majesty, the Queen, being of right, and according to the Constitution Regent of the kingdom, the Regency shall, till her arrival, be vested in the Council of Ministers.-Hollanders! never shall I forget so good and virtuous a people as you are. My last thought, as well as my last sigh, shall be for your happiness. On leaving you I cannot sufficiently recommend you to receive well the military and civil officers of France. This is the only means to gratify his Majesty the Emperor, on whom your

fate, that of your children, and that of your whole country, depends. And now, as ill-will and calumny can no longer reach me, at least so far as relates to you, I have a well-founded hope, that you will at length find the reward for all your sacrifices, and for all your magnanimous firmness. Done at Haarlem, July 1, 1810. LOUIS NAPOLEON.

In

the name of his Majesty Napoleon Louis, by the Grace of God and the Constitution of the Kingdom, King of Holland, the Provisional Council of Regency of the Kingdom of Holland, to all those who may see, hear, or read these presents makes known.

That in consequence of the resignation of the Royal dignity and authority made of the Crown Prince, his Majesty's eldest by his Majesty, Louis Napoleon, in favour Prince Charles Louis Napoleon, and by son, Napoleon Louis and his brother, virtue of his Majesty's authority contained in the open and sealed letters published by him on the 1st of July 1810, the Proitself, under the Presidency of the Minister visional Regency has this day constituted Van Der Heim, waiting the arrival of her Majesty the Queen, as constitutional Regent of the kingdom, and guardian of the minor King, and in expectation of the pleased to adopt relative to public affairs. measures which her Majesty shall be —Amsterdam, July 3, 1810.

"VAN DER HEIM. By order of the Provisional Council of Regency. "A. J. J. H. VERHEIJEN, "First Secretary of the Cabinet of the King.

Louis Napoleon, by the Grace of God, and the Constitution of the Kingdom, King of Holland, Constable of France.-Considering that the unfortunate state in which this country now is arises from the displeasure which the Emperor my brother has conceived against me;-Considering that all endeavours and sacrifices on my part to support this state of things, have been fruitless;-Considering lastly, that it cannot be doubted that the course of the present state of things is to be attributed to my having been unfortunate enough to displease my brother, and to have lost his friendship, and that I therefore am the only obstacle to the termination of these incessant differences and misunderstandings;-We have resolved, as we by these letters, published by our own free will, do resolve to resign, as we do from this moment resign, the royal dignity of this Kingdom of Holland, in favour of our well beloved Son Napoleon Louis, and in failure of him, in favour of his brother Charles Iuis Napoleon.-We further desire, that according to the constitution under the guarantee of his Majesty the Emperor our Brother, the Regency shall remain with her Majesty the Queen, assisted by a Council of Regency, which shall provisionally consist of our Ministers, to whom we commit the custody of our minor King, till the arrival of her Majesty the Queen. -We further order, that the different corps of our guard, under the command of Lieutenant-General Bruno, and General Bruno, second in command, shall render their service to the Minor King of this Kingdom; and that the Great Officers of the Crown, as well as the Civil and Military Officers of our Household, shall con-perty; and also assures these troops that tinue to render their customary services to the same high personage.-The present act done and concluded, and signed by our hand, shall be transmitted to the Le gislative Body, and then deposited copies shall be taken, and these letters be published in a legal manner, and in the customary form. LOUIS NAPOLEON.

Haarlem, July 1, 18T0.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs hereby notifies to the inhabitants of the capital, by special order of his Majesty the King, that on Wednesday next, the 4th of July, the French troops will enter this capital. As it is his Majesty's express will and desire that the troops of his illustrious Brother may be received and treated in a suitable manner, he expects that every one will concur in receiving those brave troops with friendship and esteem, and treat them as is due to friends and allies, and especially to the troops of the Emperor Napoleon-The justly famed military discipline, which, besides so many other military virtues, distinguishes these troops, is a guarantee to the inhabitants of this capital for the safety of their persons and pro

they will every where be received and treated as friends and allies, as every one must be sensible of how much importance it is to the whole country in general, and the capital in particular, to fulfil in this respect the utmost wishes of his Majesty. His Majesty, therefore, trusts that the inhabitants of the capital, feeling their duty in this respect, will zealously co-operate

in that which is of such importance to | As soon as the major part are there colthis city, and to the whole kingdom, and lected, that instant the Sessions shall be avoid the destructive consequences which opened, and in the mean while the Counmust ensue, should they, contrary to all ex-cil of Regency shall occupy itself in repectations, be guilty of an opposite con- moving the difficulties which might obduct. struct the design of this solemn Convention. XAVIER DE CASTANOS, Pres. &c." To Don Nicolas Maria de Sierra.

The above-mentioned Minister,

VANDER CAPELLAN,

Amsterdam, July 2, 1810.

AMERICA.Circular-Treasury Department, May 14, 1810.

"This Royal Decree has been communicated by my order to my Supreme Council, &c. that it may be printed and published, and punctually obeyed. For Governors, &c. in their respective diswhich purpose I command all Presidents,

I, THE KING." ESTEVAN VAREA, Secretary, &c.

June 20, 1810.

Sir-You will herewith receive a printed copy of an Act concerning the Commer-tricts to execute the same, &c. cial Intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their Dependencies, and for other purposes. The instructions formally given respecting the execution of provisions of a similar nature, being applicable to the SOUTH AMERICA.-The Council of Retwo first sections of the Act, it is only necessary to observe, that the exclusion gency of Spain and the Indies being infrom the harbours or waters under the formed that a publication has been made, jurisdiction of the United States, embraces date of the 17th of May last, on the Compurporting to be a Royal Order, of the (subject only to the exceptions made by the act) every description of British or the established law in those dominious→→→ merce with America, which is contrary to French armed vessels, whether public or We hereby declare, that no such order private, and whether sailing with or with- has been issued, and we further direct, out a commission, authorising the capture that all copies of such a fictitious order be of vessels.-All other restrictions on the collected and burnt, and that this notice Commercial Intercourse with France or Great Britain, not previously repealed, gency, and other public Journals, that be published in the Gazette of the Rehave expired on the 1st instant. I am,gency, and other public Journals, that all may be obedient thereto.

&c.

ALBERT GALLATIN.

SPAIN.-Order to convoke the Cortes. Ferdinand, by the Grace of God, King of Spain and the Indies, and in his Royal name, the Council of Regency, to all Presidents, Governors, &c. be it made known, that under the 18th of the present month of June, I have thought fit to issue the following Decree:

"The Council of Regency of Spain and the Indies, desirous of giving to the whole nation an irrefragable proof of its ardent zeal for its benefit, and to adopt the means for its salvation, has determined, in the Royal name of our Sovereign, that the Extraordinary and General Cortes, already ordered, shall be immediately assembled; and for this purpose it is directed, that such elections shall be completed, as have not yet been concluded. Those Members already chosen, and such as shall be chosen pursuant to this Decree, are hereby required to meet in August next, in the Royal Isle of Leon.

SUPERIOR JUNTA OF CATALONIA.--The Junta of this principality being informed that some ill-intentioned persons, disregarding the public good, and those patriotic sentiments by which all Spaniards should be animated, have dared, from sordid motives, to purchase the estates of certain individuals who have emigrated from the districts occupied by the enemy, and have done this in open defiance of the order of the 30th Nov. last, which makes such practices high treason; the Junta, to restrain such offences, again declares the like practices, so pernicious to the State, treasonable, and commands that the effects of the delinquents be confiscated. It also declares that the property of such persons be confiscated who, having emigrated on the approach of the enemy, have returned to their estates from the fear that the enemy would seize upon their possessions. The value so acquired shall be devoted to those faithful Spaniards who have been driven from

their homes and have preserved their integrity. A reward of 320 rials shall be given to any one who will mention the name of any offender against this order, and the name of the informer shall not be exposed.

SWEDEN. From the Stockholm Gazette,
June 21, 1810.

day issued: We Charles by the Grace of God, King of Sweden-It was with the most profound concern, we received the unexpected intelligence, that on the occasion, when the corpse of his royal highness the late Crown Prince was brought to this capital, and when, by a general mourning, attended by tranquillity and order, the deep sense of the irreparable loss which we have sustained, and which we deeply lament, was to be manifested, daty they owe to their fellow-subjects, some evil disposed persons, forgetful to the atrociously committed a murder, disgraceful to the Swedish name. We consider it as a consolation necessary to our wounded much we feel concerned on account of the feelings hereby publicly to express how the disturbances which again took place unfortunate consequences occasioned by

Gottenburgh, June 25.-By a Courier arrived this morning from Stockholm, we have learnt the intelligence of a riot having broken out in that city on the 21st, the day on which the corpse of the late Crown Prince was conducted to the Palace previous to its interment. Count Fersen, who led the procession in capacity of Riks Marshal (High Marshal) of the kingdom, was attack-last night after all possible admonitions ed by the mob, on suspicion of having been accessary to the death of his Royal Highness. They commenced by assaulting his carriage with stones, &c. but the Count having escaped into a house was followed by the infuriated populace, who literally tore him to pieces. Another account states, having got out of his carriage, the mob entirely surrounded him, and stoned him to death; after which they retired to their homes. Since the above mentioned courier, another express is said to have been received, bringing an account of the mob having re-collected on the following day, and surrounded the houses of Count Uglas and Countess Piper, but fortunately neither of them fell into their power. From subsequent accounts it appears, that several lives were lost, as ultimately the soldiers were, in their own defence, compelled to fire on the people. General Adlerenitz was struck a violent blow on his back, but secured the mhan. The mob at one time agreed to a parley, and consented to proposals made by the General that Count Fersen should be carried to that Count Fersen should be carried to prison; but another party of insurrectionists arriving, he was torn from the soldiers and murdered, by being stoned and trampled on it is positively said, that his eyes

were beat out.

"Public notice is hereby given, that the intercourse of post, which, during the war, was established between Gottenburgh and England, is now to cease.

General Post Office in Stockholm,

June 20, 1810."

The following Proclamation was yester

had been used in vain by the Commander of our troops to prevail upon the multitude to disperse; and after public notice had been given, that force would be resisted restore public tranquillity and secure perby force, and strong means employed to ful troops with stones and insulting lansonal safety, the mob attacked the peaceguage, until the latter found themselves the protection of the law and public order, necessitated by our gracious command for and in their lawful defence, to meet force beneficial result, that the multitude disby force, which at length produced the We entertain the confident hope, that persed, and public order was restored. public tranquillity will in future be preserved, and that even those who for a moment would forget their duty, and suffer themselves to become the tools of lawless and perfidious intrigues, will entertain a proper sense of the dangers to which they conduct. All our faithful and beloved are exposed if they continue their criminal subjects we graciously desire and exhort, mindful of the duty which religion, as well as the laws of our country imperiously impose on them, to rely with confidence on the measures which we are determined

to pursue for the purpose of preventing all acts of violence, and preserving public obedience to the order which will be given tranquillity and peace, and to listen with them on our part by their superiors, Magis

all to the peculiar attention of Almighty

trates and Commanders. We commend

God.

CHARLES F. A. BORTZELL. Stockholm Castle, June 21.

GENERAL SARRAZIN.-Report made to the French Emperor concerning General Sarrazin, June 30, 1810.

"Sire-Your Majesty has directed me, by your order of the date of the 18th of this month, to make, a report of all that concerns the Ex-General Sarrazin.-John Sarrazin was born in the borough of Saint Silocshe, in the canton of Penne, in the department of the, Lot and Garonne, on the 15th of August, 1770, bis parents were farmers. On the 27th of September, 1786, he enrolled himself in the 5th Regiment of Dragoons which was disbanded on the 14th of September, 1787.-At this time he settled at Reole, in the department of La Gironde, where he exercised the profession of teacher of mathematics. On the 1st of September 1790, he obtained the place of professor of mathematics in the school of Sorreze, which was then under the direction of the Benedictines, and it was no doubt this circumstance which gave rise to the report that he had been a monk, an assertion which certainly has never been proved. He left this employment two years afterwards, to follow the \movement which almost the whole French mation then made towards the frontiers, and he repaired to the army of the North. Being sent to Chalons for the instruction of the young engineers in the school of artillery, he was there when after the taking of Verdun, the inhabitants of Chalons formed a battalion, of which he was appointed Adjutant-Major, the functions of which appointment he performed till the 20th of September 1792, the time of the disbanding of the battalion; but these circumstances, found in a memoir signed by himself, are only warranted by his own declaration. What is certain is, that he was appointed at Metz, Lieutenant of a Volunteer Company, called the Saint Mawrice, at the end of 1792, and Captain of the same company on the 18th of March, 1793.—On his first entrance into the service, he gave proofs of that restless intriguing spirit which he has constantly

the army of La Vendée, in which he was in quality of Secretary to General Marceau, and was appointed adjunct to the Adjutant's General, on the 9th of Prairial, year 2. On the 6th of Fructidor, of the same year, he was appointed adjunct of the first class to the corps of artillery by the representative of the people, Gilet, who had been sent to the army of the Sambre and the Meuse. On the 6th of Brumaire, year three, the same representative appointed him Adjutant-General Chief of Battalion in consideration of the testimonies which General Marceau had given of his conduct after the expedition of Coblentz.-The 18th Brumaire, third year, his appointment was confirmed by the Committee of Public Welfare; and on the 5th Prajrial following he obtained the Commission of Adjutant-General Chief of Brigade.-He made the campaigns of the year three, year four, and year five, with the armies of Sambre, and Meuse, and Italy.-On the 27th Fructidor, sixth year, he received orders to proceed to Rochefort, to serve in one of the divisions of the army of England. He was one of the small number of Frenchmen who made good their descent in Ireland, and he was appointed by General Humbert, General of Brigade, at the capture of Killala, and General of Division at the affair of Castlebar, where he took a standard from the enemy's horse. On his return to France he found the Executive Directory very little disposed to confirm so rapid a promotion. He demanded to serve as Adjutant-general of the army of Italy commanded by General Joubert. Having been charged to conduct a body of troops to the army, of Rome, he made with that army the campaign of the seventh year in Naples, and was appointed General of Brigade on the field of battle, after the affair. of Trebia. At the army of Italy his suspicious and doubtful conduct exposed him to suspicions humiliating to a military person; he was charged with acting the part of an informer; his constant opposition to the orders of his chiefs strengthened that opiconnion, treatment he perienced 'compelled him to ask leave to retire. On the 11th (Pluviose) he received orders to return to France. On the 1st Prairial year 9, notice was given him that he was no longer in the list of Staff Officers. Retired to private life, his natural inquiétude, inspired him with several plans. He requested sometimes to be employed in America and sometimes in the East

fesses himself in the memoir above cited, that, for having taken part in some remonstrances which appeared seditious, he was broken and degraded by order of General Houchard in 1793, and obliged to serve as a common soldier. He adds, that on the 1st of October 1793, he joined at Chatillon, the chasseurs of the Gironde, that he was present in different affairs, in