Note from the English Ambaffador at Beriin, Lerd Carysfort, to the Pruffian State and Cabinet Minifter, Count Von Haugwitz. AS the underfigned ambassador extraordinary and minister ple nipotentiary has been directed by his court to communicate to the Pruffian miniftry his Majefty's note, which, by command of his Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, was prefented to the minifters of Deninark and Sweden, he cannot difcharge this commifhon without likewife expreffing his fincere fatisfaction in being authorized to declare how thoroughly his Majefty, is con-.. vinced that Pruffia can never have fanctioned the meafures which have given rife to the above cited note. Those measures openly difclofe an intention to prefcribe rules to the British empire, on a fubject of the greatest importance; to force thofe rules upon Great Britain, and for that end, before any of the powers who have concurred in it have given the fmalleft intimation to his Majefty, to enter into a league, the object of which is to renew pretensions which Great Britain at every time has confidered hoftile to its rights and interefts, and fo declared whenever an opportunity prefented-pretenfions which the Ruffian court has abandoned, not only in fact, but which, by a treaty actually in force, Ruffia is bound to oppose, and the execution of which treaty his Majefty is entitled to infift upon. When a fhip of war belonging to his Danish Majefty refifted by force the execution of a right, which the King of Great Britain and Ireland, by virtue of the clearest and most express ftipulations of his treaties which the court of Denmark had demanded, his Majefty, on that occafion, confined himself to the adoption of fuch measures as the protection of the trade of his fubjects required to be given against that measure of hoftility, which this conduct on the part of an officer bearing his Danish Majefty's commiffion, seemed to fhow. An amicable arrangement put an end to this difpute, and the King flattered himfelf, not only that all mifunderstanding on that fubject was removed, but amity between the two courts was ftrengthened anew and confirmed. In this fituation of affairs his Majesty muft have learned with no lefs aftonishment than concern, that the court of Copenhagen was employed in negotiations to renew the hoftile confederacy against Great Britain which took place in '1780, and that alfo great preparations were going on in the ports of Denmark. Under thefe circumftances the King must have been compelled to call for explanations from the court of Denmark. At this moment he received information that a confederacy was figned at Petersburgh, and the answer of the Danish minifter left no doubt refpecting the nature and object of this convention, as he declared in the most exprefs manner, "That thefe negotiations had in view the renewal of those relations which had been entered into between the fame powers in the years 1780 and 1781," adding, "that his Majesty the Emperor of Ruffia had propofed to the the northern powers the renewal of their connexion in its original form." The engagements alluded to had for their object principles of maritime law which never had been recognised by the tribunals of Europe, and the contracting parties mutually engaged to maintain them by force, and to compel by force other nations to adopt them. They are ftill more repugnant to the express ftipulations of the treaties which fubfift between the courts of Stockholm and Denmark, and the British empire. The convention , which these engagements were to renew was negotiated at a time when the court of Petersburgh had adopted hoftile measures against the perfons and property of his Majesty's subjects, and when nothing but the extraordinary moderation of the King could have authorized other powers not to confider him as at open war with that court. In such a state of things, nothing certainly could be more inconfiftent with the ideas of neutrality, and nothing more diftinctly indicate a hoftile difpofition, than that thofe engagements were not poftponed till it was afcertained whether Ruffia was not to be confidered as a belligerent power. Such forbearance was the more to be expected, and particularly from the court of Copenhagen, as, by an exprefs article of the league of 1780, the Danifh ports and havens in Norway were placed at the difpofal of Ruffia for the purpose of facilitating the profecution of hoftilities out of the Baltic. When therefore the King was informed by one of the contracting parties that the object of the negotiations which had been begun at Petersburgh, without giving the leaft intimation, and which at laft, according to the information received by the King, had terminated in the conclufion of a convention, was no other than to renew the former confederacy to press upon his Majefty a new code of law to which he had already refufed his affent; and when moreover he had the most certain intelligence, and could no longer doubt, that the powers of the Baltic, engaged in this tranfaction, were pursuing warlike preparations with the utmoft activity; when one of thofe powers had placed itfelf in a state of actual hoftilities with his Majefty; no other alternative remained, but either to fubmit, or to adopt measures which were calculated to put an effectual stop to the hoftile operation of a league, which, by the declaration of the Danish court itfelf, was openly directed against his Majefty. Meanwhile his Majefty has not omitted on this occafion to difplay his wonted justice and good will. Although he felt it neceffary, for the maintenance of his rights, to fecure fome pledge against the hoftile at'tacks which were meditated against his rights, yet he has taken the utmost care to guard against lofs and injury to individuals. Firmly convinced that his conduct towards neutral ftates has been conformable to the recognifed principles of laws, whose basis and fanction is to be found not in palling interefts and momentry convenience, but in the general principle of juftice; of laws which have been received and obferved by the admiralty courts of all the maritime powers of Europe; his Majefty does not yet forego the hope that the courts. of Stockholm and Copenhagen will not take upon them the refponfibility that will fall upon the authors of the war; that particularly they will not expofe themfelves to that refponsibility for the introduction of innovations, the notorious injuftice of which has induced thofe powers by which they were first broached, to oppofe, when they found themselves at war; innovations befides, which are exprefsly repugnant to thofe ' treaties which have been concluded with his Majefty. The ftep on which his Majefty has refolved muft have long been forefeen. The British government has never concealed that it confidered the league of 1780 as hoftile, and had never ceafed that attention with which it watches over the rights of the nation. It immediately refifted the attempt to renew the principles which at the abovementioned period had been agitated, and the undersigned declared to Count Haugwitz at the first conference he had with him on his arrival at Berlin, "That his Majefty would never fubmit to pretenfions which were irreconcilable to the true principles of public law, and which ftrike at the foundations of the greatnefs and maritime power of his kingdoms."-Still later, in the beginning of November, the underfigned had the honour to reprefent to his Excellency, as the minifter of a power connected with his Majefty by the most intimate friendship, what difagreeable confequences muft follow from the attempt of the northern powers to prefs forward thofe pretenfions. He has never ceased to renew this declaration, when, by the command of his Majefty, he has been the interpreter of that fatisfaction given to the King by the repeated affurances of the friendship of his Majefty the King of Pruffia, and of those conftant fentiments of perfect justice of which his Majefty has never for a moment entertained a doubt. His Excellency Count Haugwitz will likewife cafily recollect the time when the undersigned, ultimately convinced of the friendly intentions of the Pruffian government, communicated to him, by the command of his Britannic Majefty, the King's refolution to allow of no measures which had for their object to introduce innovations in the maritime law now in force, but, on the contrary, to defend that system in every event, and to maintain its entire execution as it had fubfifted in all the courts of Europe prior to the year 1780. -If the court of Denmark had announced in the most unequivocal manner, the real objects and contents of the engagements into which it had entered, the declaration of that court, that Pruffia was one of the powers concerned in the negotiation, would have been fufficient to fatisfy the King, and to prove to him that it could have no hoftile views against his government; and even still his Majesty is convinced that he may implicitly rely on the friendfhip of his Pruffian Majefty. It is true, that, in relation to Great Britain Britain and Ireland, there can be no fimilarity between the northern powers and Pruffia. Thofe powers are connected with his Majefty by the ftipulations of mutual treaties, which are lefs. favourable to their interefts, and which more or lefs modify and foften the rigour of the general law; whereas between his Majesty the King of Great Britain and Pruffia no treaty of commerce exifts, and all intercourfe between them is regulated by the general principles of the law of nations, and established ufages -If, however, his Majefty were to confider his own fentiments, and the inceffant wifh he has fhown to preferve the friendship of a monarch with whom he is connected by fo many ties, he could not at all anticipate the poffibility of a difference which might not eafily and speedily be terminated by an amicable difcuffion. The repeated affurances of fuch fentiments on the part of his Pruffian Majefty, which the underfigned has been empowered to tranfmit to his court, confirm this agreeable anticipation; and the known principles which have conftantly directed his Majefty the King of Pruffia, do not tend to countenance the fuppofition that the latter has entered into the confederacy, or can enter into the confederacy, to fupport by force principles in common with other powers, whofe hoftile views against his Britannic Majefty have been openly proved. Whatever fentiments the Pruffian government may en tertain in regard to the new principles themfelves, yet it is too juft, and knows too well what fovereigns owe to their people, and to one another, to favour for a moment the defign to employ force in order to induce his Britannic Majefly to acknowledge a code which the latter deems inconfiftent with the honour and fecurity of his crown. Berlin, Jan. 27, 1801. (Signed) CARYSFORT. Subftance of the Terms in which Lord Grenville replied to Count Roftopfchin, the Ruffian Chargé d'Affaires, in answer to his Repre fentations refpecting the Capture of Malta. THAT all explanations afked by Ruffia were ufelefs, as the court of London was under the neceffity of infisting on the embargo and the fequeftration impofed by the Emperor Paul being taken off, and upon indemnity for what had paffed; that the convention relative to Malta, the execution of which was demanded by the court of Petersburgh, was merely a plan fubmitted by that court to the British administration, in answer to which they had fent back their plan; but before the cabinet of London had fent their anfwer, the court of Petersburgh had difmiffed their am bailador Lord Whitworth; that the negotiations of the court of Petersburgh to organize an armed neutrality by fea, had made the greater impreflion on the court of London, becaufe Ruffia had propofed propofed to Great Britain to prevent, in conjunction with her, the contraband trade which was carried on with France under Danish and Swedish colours; that if a good understanding were to take place between the two courts, the first measure to be taken would be the re-establishment of the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and the mutual interchange of new ambaffadors, to be brought about by the mediation of a neutral court friendly to both powers. Ratification of the Northern Convention by his Imperial Majefty of all WE After a due examination of the motives therein enumerated, we fanction, confirm, and ratify it by the prefent, in the most folemn manner, and in every article promifing, on our Imperial word, for ourselves and our fucceffors, inviolably to obferve and execute every thing ftipulated by the faid convention; in virtue of which we have figned our prefent Imperial ratification with our own hand, and have thereunto affixed the great feal of our empire. Done at St. Petersburgh, (8) 20th December 1800, and of our reign the 5th year. PAUL. COUNT DE ROSTOPSIN. Order of Council, laying an Embargo on Ruffian, Danish, and At the Court at St. James's, the 14th January 1801; prefent, the WHEREAS his Majefty has received advice, that a large Ff by |