I could conclude with that of the dimenfions of his coffin.

Yours, &c.

AID DE CAMP.

BONAPARTE's LETTER.

[From the Times.]

TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF GREAT BRITain and IRELAND.

Health and Fraternity!

WE, Bonaparte, Firft Conful of the French republic, to the fupreme government of which, upon the 10th Nov. 1799, of the Chriftian æra, we were called with one voice, to wit, by our loving brother and counsellor, Lucien, not trufting entirely, as it has been maliciously reported by certain traitorous and evil-difpofed perfons, to our grenadiers and our fortune; but being, on the contrary, ambitious of adding to our other lawful titles and dignities the name, ftyle, and appellation of Grand Pacificator; and being alfo defirous to confirm the aufpicious outfet, and fecure the duration of our happy reign, by a firm and lafting alliance with fome of our fellow-fovereigns in the republic of Europe; and moreover, having lately failed in our royal endeavour to detach the Emperor of Germany from certain treaties, folemnly fworn to between your refpective nations; and for divers other good and weighty reasons thereunto us moving, we have thought it expedient to address ourself to your Majesty, in your turn, whom we are graciously pleased to acknowledge to be King of Great Britain and Ireland. In return for this great conceffion upon our part, our will and pleafure is, that your Majefty should abandon, upon the principle

of mutual compenfation, to us, our heirs and fucceffors, lawfully-ufurping Chief Conful of France, all right, title, and pretenfion whatsoever to the ftyle of King of our realm of France, which fhall be by us affumed, when and at what time to ourself, in our royal wisdom, thall appear meet and convenient.

And whereas we are defirous to restore that good harmony which ought ever to exift between sovereign princes, and to put an end to the horrors of war, we are content to demand of your faid Majesty of Great Britain and Ireland, whether you are inclined to acknowledge our right and title as aforefaid, and alfo to treat for a firm, lasting, and equitable peace; in tokens of our fincere defire to obtain which, we are pleased to offer the following preliminary conditions for your Majefty's acceptance and concurrence.

ift. There fhall be a firm, lafting, and inviolable peace and friendship between their Majefties, Bonaparte the First, Grand Conful of France, &c. and George the Third, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and between their refpective republics.

2d. His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland fhall cede and restore to the faid King of the Republic, all the territories, iflands, counters of commerce, fhips, harbours, prifoners of war, &c. which have at any time fallen into the power of the English, fince the commencement of the prefent war for the liberty of the univerfe.

In return for which conceffions on the part of his Majefty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, the republican King is gracioufly pleafed to abandon the care and defence of all the liberties of all the world, including thofe of his own liege fubjects the French republicans. And he agrees, moreover, to cede the whole of his valuable conquefts in Italy, together with all the right and title he poffeffes to the property of the republic of Batavia, out of which his Britifa

Majefty

Majefty fhall be at full liberty to indemnify himself for all expenses of the war, and the retroceffions of the prefent peace, as for his own part the Grand Conful will, not fail or omit to do from his vaffal kingdom of Spain, and his annexed dominions in Belgium and Swifferland.

Upon this principle of reciprocity and mutual compenfation, we are willing to treat for a separate peace with your Majefty, retaining at the fame time full liberty and permiffion to make war upon and deftroy, unmolefted by your fleets and armies, all or any of your Majefty's allies, whom we graciously propose to attack separately, and at feparate times, and to fubdue one after the other; and during the whole of the period neceffary to accomplish this juft and lawful purpose, we faithfully promise to abftain from invading any part of your Majefty's dominions. And as a firm proof of the fincerity with which we make this gracious offer, and as a guarantee for the peace we are magnanimously difpofed to grant to your Majesty, we have been graciously pleased to command our Institute to invent the form of an oath which we have never violated, and which is fo conftructed by the fkill of our philofophers, and sçavans, that it is phyfically and metaphyfically impoffible for the perfon taking it to become forfworn, or to evade the faid oath in any particular, or for any decree of any Confulate, Tribunate, Confervative Body, Legislature, or other lawful authority, to abrogate, invalidate, or fet it afide, in all time to come.

We further engage our royal-republican faith and honour not to counterfeit, or to caufe to be counterfeited, any ukafe, firman, decree, or state paper. whatsoever, nor to forge your Majefty's feal or fignmanual, in order to caufe revolts and falutary maffacres in your Majefty's ftates and provinces during the present treaty of peace and amity, wholly blaming,

condemning, and difclaiming all fuch ftratagems and arts between yourself, us, and our brother fovereigns of the European republic, and in any countries lying within 35 degrees of northern latitude.

And as a further proof of our friendly and moderate defires, we have inftructed our good and faithful counfellor and fecretary of ftate, Talleyrand, to forbear from all cuftomary fees of his office, and commanded him not to demand a fingle guinea of your Majefty's fecretary of ftate for the liberty of treating with the Great Nation.

We do moreover abfolutely abrogate and give up all right and custom due to us upon your Majefty's pictures, statues, cartoons, jewels, tapestries, plate,

&c.

We are also graciously pleased to remit and difcharge your Majesty and your heirs for ever of all our right, title, mortgage, and fecurity upon the funds of Eng-. land, and the loan raifed by our predeceffors of glorious. memory, upon the fecurity of the conqueft of your kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and to transfer the whole claim and interest of the several subscribers, lenders, renters, &c. upon our kingdom of France, lawfully ceded and made over to me by your Majefty and your faid heirs for ever.

We moreover promife, that in cafe that we shall fend more than one ambaffador to negotiate a definitive peace with your Majefty's minifter for foreign relations, we will give a full, adequate, and firm bond and fecurity, that in cafe that it fhould appear neceffary to our royal prudence, magnanimity, and the dictates of an enlightened policy, to order one or more of our faid ambaffadors or plenipotentiaries to murder one or all of his colleagues, we will under no circumstances accuse your Majefty or your minifters, or any of the regiments of your army, of the said murder or murders,

And

And we do moreover ftipulate and engage, that in the event of a definitive peace being concluded between our refpective Majefties, we will not order the ambaffador we fhall depute, to fuperintend the due obfervance of the faid peace at your court of St. James's, to make any republican proceffions, which we hold in abhorrence; nor to celebrate the feast of the Royal Murder other than in his own private chapel, and in the prefence of the fecretaries and affiftants of our embaffy. And we alfo promife, that the faid plenipotentiaries during the negotiations, and the faid aubaffador after the definitive peace, fhall not difplay any bloody flags from the windows of their or his hotel, nor receive and keep in the French Palace any artillery, howitzers, fhot, thells, cartridges, fwords, mufkets, &c. (other than for the juft and neceffary murder of one or other of the faid ambaffadors in the cafe above mentioned); and that the faid ambaffador or ambaffadors fhall in no cafe levy public war, or confpire openly with his Majefty's Jacobins, under colour, pretence, or privilege of the French flag; but that all treafons, plots, and confpiracies fhall be duly and lawfully carried on by means of the newspapers already in the intereft of his Majesty the Grand Pacificator, and in fuch clubs and affemblies as fhall be legally appointed by his faid Majesty, or his repre-. fentative at the court of St. James's.

The faid Grand Conful fubmits the foregoing propofitions to his Majefty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, without the intervention of any minifter or fecretary whatfoever, with the fame condefcenfion and kindness with which he was pleafed to accept the invitation of his Highness the Archduke of Tufcany; and he relies upon the frankness and loyalty of his good brother the King of Great Britain to return him an answer in his own hand-writing, which he