STATE PAPERS. Nas presented to the French Government by M. Kalitscheff, the Russian Minister at Paris. The undersigned hastens to communicate to Citizen Talleyrand the commands he has just received from his Court. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, relying epon the Chief Consul's love of Justice, by which he be obtained so great and so merited a reputation, enteins the hope, that he will fulfil the engagements jar which he had entered with the late Emperor, not insist upon the hard conditions to which the King of Naples had been obliged to submit. The undergned thinks it his duty to remind Citizen Talleyrand, at the admission of the five Articles, presented to the French government by way of answer to its pressag representations for opening a negotiation with Rusia, was the only motive for sending the undersed to Paris. The new instructions directed him to insist, that the said five articles, which had been ereed upon as the basis of the negotiation, should receve their speedy execution. By these articles the two powers agreed that the King of the Two Sicilies, and the King of Sardinia, should be again put in possession of the respective wates which they possessed before the irruption of the French troops into Italy. Citizen Talleyrand, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been authorized repeatedly to give the assurance, that the five articles were agreed to, and that they would be carried into effect. As, however, it has been seen that by force of army the King of Naples has been compelled to agree to other terms: and as, in defiance of the most solemn promises, to conclude a definitive peace with the King Sarnia, by which he was again to be established his dominions, it is evident that the latter is excluded from his territories, there is every reason to suspect cod believe, that unforeseen circumstances have chang the intentions of the French government, and inered it with other views and intentions repugnant to the above articles and measures which had been taken with his Majesty. The undersigned is commanded to represent to CitiTaileyrand, that without positive certainty of the fire articles alluded to being carried into effect, and which were acceded to by the French government as preliminaries, there can be no restoration of harmony between the two countries; and he therefore declares, that neither the armistice of Foligno, nor the conditions which in the first instance were presented to the Marquis de Gallo, and which afterwards, on the refusal of the latter to agree to them, were transmitted to GeneMurat, to be signed by the Chevalier Micheroux, can ever be acknowledged by the Emperor, and that they must ever be considered as directly inconsistent with the promises made by the Chief Consul. This is the substance of the commands which the undersigned has received, and which he has been difted to communicate to the French government. He must also add, that the views which the Chief Consul announced, and his moderation, which was hed out as directed to promote a general peace, were the only grounds on which all Europe entertained the te that the moment of that peace was at no great tance; that it would be permitted to look forward the future with tranquillity; and that the system of robbery taken up by the directory no longer existed. These were the only reasons that induced his Majesty the Emperor to send a Plenipotentiary to Paris, and through whom it was expected that the relationsof amity with the French government would be resto ard, The undersigned flattered himself, that the Chief Consul, in his wisdom, would consider that his fame is concerned in fulfilling the promises he had made, and the hopes he had raised, as it will depend upon him, by the re-establishment of a general peace, to give repose to all Europe. He therefore requests Citizen Talleyrand to make known the contents of this note to the Chief Consul, and, as soon as possible, to communicate to the undersigned the resolution which the French government shall adopt. The undersigned takes this opportunity, &c. (Signed) Kalitschef. As no Answer was given to this Note, Count Kalitscheff, on the 8th of May, presented the following. The undersigned reminds Citizen Talleyrand, that he has yet to receive an answer respecting the objects on which he had the honour, by the command of the Emperor, his master, to address him; and therefore he begs him to notify to the undersigned, whether the French government, agreeably to the admission of the five preliminary articles, intends to keep its promise concerning the integrity of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and the re-establishment of the King of Sardinia in his dominions, as they were previous to the arrival of the French troops in Italy. The undersigned considers it unnecessary to make any farther observations respecting this affair, which has already been sufficiently discussed, and he hopes that Citizen Talleyrand will lay before the Chief Consul the contents of the present note, and that he will communicate to him his resolutions agreeably thereto. (Signed) Kabitscheff [With regard to these articles which are not enumerated in the above notes, it is believed that the first contained a positive assurance that the Pope should be maintained in his temporal dominion; the second, that the Grand Duke of Tuscany should be indemnified in Italy, and not in Germany; and the third, that the arrangements in consequence of the treaty of Luneville should be made with the concurrence of Russia.]. Convention of St. Petersburgh, between England and Rus sia, concluded June 5th (17th), 1801. In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity-The mutual desire of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias and of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, being not only come to an understanding between thempselves with respect to the differences which have lately interrupted the good understanding and friendly relations which subsisted between the two states; but also to prevent, by frank and precise explanations upon the navigation of their respective subjects, the renewal of similar altercations and troubles which might be the consequence of them; and the object of the solicitude of their said Majesties being to settle, as soon as can be done, an equitable arrangement of those differences, and an invariable determination of their principles upon the rights of neutrality, in their application to their respective monarchies, in order to unite more closely the ties of friendship and good intercourse, of which they acknowledge the utility and the benefits, have named and chosen for their Plenipotentiaries, viz. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Niquita, Count de Panen, his Counsellor, &c. and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of GreatBritain and Ireland, Alleyn, Baron St. Helens, Privy Counsellor, &c. who, after having communicated their full powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following points and articles >> Art. I. There shall be hereafter between his Impe- | the terms of the present Convention, may be reputed rial Majesty of all the Russias and his Britannic Ma- contraband, and respectively to take care of the jesty, their subjects, the states and countries under execution of the orders which they shall have publish their domination, good and unalterable friendship and ed in their Admiralties, and wherever it shall b understanding, and all the political, commercial, and necessary. other relations, of common utility between the respective subjects, shall subsist as formerly, without their being disturbed or troubled in any manner whatever. II. His Majesty the Emperor and his Britannic Majesty declare, that they will take the most especial care of the execution of the prohibitions against the trade of contraband of their subjects with the enemies of each of the high contracting parties. III. His Imperial Majesty of all the Russias and his Britannic Majesty having resolved to place under a sufficient safeguard the freedom of commerce and navigation of their subjects, in case one of them shall be at war, whilst the other shall be neuter, have agreed: 1. That the ships of the neutral power shall navigate freely to the ports, and upon the coasts of the na tions at war. 3. That the effects embarked on board neutral ships shall be free, with the exception of contraband of war, and of enemy's property; and it is agreed not to comprize in the number of the latter, the merchandize of the produce, growth, or manufacture of the countries at war, which should have been acquired by the subjects of the neutral power, and should be transported for their account, which merchandize cannot be accepted in any case from the freedom granted to the flag of the said power. 3. That in order to avoid all equivocation and misunderstanding of what ought to be qualified as contraband of war, his Imperial Majesty of all the Russias and his Britannic Majesty declare, conformably to the 11th Article of the treaty of Commerce concluded between the two crowns on the 10th (21st) February, 1797, that they acknowledge as such only the following objects, viz.-Cannons, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, grenades, balls, bullets, fire-locks, flints, matches, powder, salt-petre, sulphur, helmets, pikes, swords, sword-belts, saddles and bridles: excepting, however, the quantity of the said articles which may be necessary for the defence of the ship and of those who compose the crew; and all other articles whatever not enumerated here shall not be reputed warlike and naval ammunition, nor be subject to confiscation, and of course shall pass freely, without being subject ed to the smallest difficulty, unless they be considered enemy's property in the above settled sense. It is also agreed that that which is stipulated in the present article shall not be to the prejudice of the particular stipulations of one or the other crown with other powers, by which objects of a similar kind should be reserved, prohibited, or permitted. 4. That in order to determine what characterizes a blockaded port, that determination is given only to that where there is, by the disposition of the power which attacks it with ships stationary, or sufficiently near, an evident danger in entering. 5. That the ships of the neutral power shall not be stopped but upon just causes and evident facts: that they be tried without delay, and that the proceeding be always uniform, prompt, and legal. In order the better to ensure the respect due to these stipulations, dictated by the sincere desire of conciliating all interests, and to give a new proof of their loyalty and love of justice, the high contracting parties enter here into the most formal engagement to renew the severest prohibitions to their Captains, whether of ships of war or merchantmen, to take, keep, or conecal on board their ships any of the objects which, in IV. The two high contracting parties, wishing t prevent all subject of dissension in future by limitin the right of search of merchant ships going under con voy to the sole causes in which the Belligerent Powe may experience a real prejudice by the abuse of th neutral flag, have agreed, 1. That the right of searching merchant ships be longing to the subjects of one of the contractin powers, and navigating under convoy of a ship of wa of the said powers, shall only be exercised by ships o war of the Belligerent Party, and shall never extend t the fitters out of privateers, or other vessels, which d not belong to the Imperial or Royal fleet of their Ma jesties, but which their subjects shall have fitted ou for war. 2. That the proprietors of all merchant ships be longing to the subjects of one of the contracting sove reigns, which shall be destined to sail under convoy a a ship of war, shall be required, before they receive their sailing orders, to produce to the commander of the convoy their passports and certificates, or sea-let ters, in the form annexed to the present treaty. 3. That when such ship of war, and every merchant ship under convoy, shall be met with by a ship of ships of war of the other contracting party, who shall then be in a state of war, in order to avoid all disorder, they shall keep out of cannon shot, unless the situa tion of the sea, or the place of meeting, render a nearer approach necessary; and the commander of the ship of the Belligerent Power shall send a sloop on board the convoy, where they shall proceed reciprocally to the verification of the papers and certificates that are to prove on one part, that the ship of war is authorized to take under its escort such or such merchant ships of its nation, laden with such a cargo, and for such a port: on the other part, that the ship of war of the Belligerent Party belongs to the Imperial or Royal ficct of their Majesties. 4. This verification made, there shall be no pretence for any search, if the papers are found in due form, and if there exists no good motive for suspicion. In the contrary case, the captain of the neutral ship of war being duly required thereto by the captain of the ship of war or ships of war of the Belligerent Power) is to bring to, and detain his convoy during the time necessary for the search of the ships which compose it, and he shall have the faculty of naming and delegating one or more officers to assist at the search of the said ships, which shall be done in his presence on board each merchant ship conjointly with one or more officers selected by the captain of the ship of the Belligerent Party. 5. If it happen that the captain of the ship or ships of war of the power of war, having examined the papers found on board, and having interrogated the master and crew of the ship, shall see just and sufficient reason to detain the merchant ship in order to proceed to an ulterior search, he shall notify that intention to the captain of the convoy, who shall have the power to order an officer to remain on board the ship thus detained, and to assist at the examination of the cause of her detention. The merchant ship shall be carried immediately to the nearest and most convenient port belonging to the Belligerent Power, and the ulterior search shall be carried on with all possible diligence, V. It is also agreed, that if any merchant ship-thys convoyed should be detained without just and sufficient mese, the commander of the ship or ships of war of the Belligerent Power shall not only be bound to make to the owners of the ship and of the cargo a full and perfect compensation for all the losses, expenses, darages, and costs, occasioned by such detention, but shall further be liable to an ulterior punishment for every act of violence or other fault which he may have committed, according as the nature of the case may require. On the other hand, no ship of war with a convoy shall be permitted, under any pretext whatsoever, to resist by force the detention of a merchant ship or ships by the ship or ships of war of the Belligent Power; an obligation to which the commander of 1 ship of war with convoy is not bound to observe towards privateers and their fitters out. VI. The high contracting powers shall give precise and efficacious orders that the sentences upon prizes made at sea shall be conformable with the rules of the most exact justice and equity; that they shall be given by judges above suspicion, and who shall not be raterested in the matter. The government of the repective states shall take care that the said sentences territories and countries under their domination, which have been conquered by the arms of his Britannic Majesty since the rupture, in the state in which those possessions were found at the period at which the troops of his Britannic Majesty entered them. The orders of his said Majesty for the restitution of those prizes and conquests shall be immediately expedited after the exchange of the ratifications of the acts by which Sweden and Denmark shall accede to the present treaty. X. The present Convention shall be ratified by the two contracting parties, and the ratifications exchanged at St. Petersburgh in the space of two months at furthest, from the day of the signature. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have caused to be made two copies perfectly similar, signed with their hands, and have sealed with their arms. Done at St. Petersburgh, the 5th (17th) of June, 1901. Formula of the Passports and Sea Letters which ought to be delivered in the respective Admiralties of the States of the two High Ccontracting Parties to the Ships of War, and Merchant Vessels, which shall sail from them, conformable to Article IV. of the present Treaty. shall be promptly and duly executed, according to the forms prescribed. In case of the unfounded detenLon, or other contravention of the regulations stipulated by the present treaty, the owners of such a ship and cargo shall be allowed damages proportioned to the loss occasioned by such detention. The rules to observe for these damages, and for the case of unfounded detention, as also the principles to follow Be it known, that we have given leave and permisfor the purpose of accelerating the process, shall be sion to N-, of the city or place of N-, master or the matter of additional articles, which the contract-conductor of the ship N-, belonging to N-, of the' ing parties agree to settle between them, and which port of N-, of tons or thereabouts, now lying shall have the same force and validity as if they were in the port or harbour of N-, to sail from thence to inserted in the present act. For this effect, their Im-N-, laden with N-, on account of N-, after the penal and Britannic Majesties mutually engaged to put their hand to the salutary work, which may serve for the completion of these stipulations, and to communicate to each other without delay the views which may be suggested to them by their equal solicitude to prevent the least grounds for dispute in future. VII. To obviate all the inconveniences which may arise from the bad faith of those who avail themselves of the flag of a nation without belonging to it, it is agreed to establish for an inviolable rule, that any vessel whatever to be considered as the property of the country the flag of which it carries, must have on board the captain of the ship, and one half of the Crew of the people of that country, and the papers and passports in "due and perfect form; but every ves- | sei which shall not observe this rule, and which shall infringe the ordinances published on that head, shall lose all rights to the protection of the contracting powers. VIII. The principles and measures adopted by the present act shall be alike applicable to all the maritime wars in which one of the two powers may be engaged whilst the other remains neutral. These supulations shall in consequence be regarded as permanent, and shail serve for a constant rule to the contracting powers in matters of commerce and navigation. IX. His Majesty the King of Denmark, and his Majesty the King of Sweden, shall be immediately vited by his Imperial Majesty, in the name of the to contracting parties, to accede to the present convention, and at the same time to renew and confirm their respective treaties of commerce with his Britanne Majesty; and his said Majesty engages, by acts which shall have established that agreement, to render and to restore to each of these powers, all the prizes that have been taken from them, as well as the said ship shall have been visited before its departure in the usual manner by the officers appointed for that purpose, and the said N-, or such other as shall be vested with powers to replace him, shall be obliged to produce, in every port or harbour which he shall enter with the said vessel, to the officers of the place, the present license, and to carry the flag of Nduring his voyage. In faith of which, &c. Copy of the 1st separate Article of the Convention with the Court of London, signed the 9th (17th) of June, 1801. The pure and magnanimous intentions of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias having already induced him to restore the vessels and goods of British subjects, which had been sequestered in Russia, his said Majesty confirms that disposition in its whole extent; and his Britannic Majesty engages also to give immediately orders for taking off all sequestration laid upon the Russian, Danish, and Swedish properties, detained in English ports, and to prove still more his sincere desire to terminate amicably the differences which have arisen between Great-Britain and the northern courts; and in order that no new incident may throw obstacles in the way of this salu-, táry work, his Britannic Majesty binds himself to give orders to the commanders of his forces by land and sea, that the armistice now subsisting with the court of Denmark and Sweden shall be prolonged for a term of three months from the date of this day; and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, guided by the same motives, undertakes, in the name of his allies, to have this armistice maintained during the said term. This separate article, &c. Copy of the 2d separate Article of the Convention with the Court of London, signed at St. Petersburgh, the 5th (17th) of June, 1801. The differences and misunderstandings which subsisted between his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland being thus terminated, and the precautions taken by the present convention not giving further room to fear that they may be able to disturb in future the harmony and good understanding which the two high contracting parties have at heart to consolidate, their said Majesties confirm anew, by the present convention, the treaty of commerce of the 10th (Feb. 21, 1797), of which all the stipulations are here repeated, to be maintained in their whole extent. This separate article, &c. In faith of which, &c. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. exception of Mourad-Bey, the little, who was left for dead, and covered with wounds. The English General, hearing the report of cannon at Alexandria, ordered his troops under arms, and learning what had passed, commanded the Captain-Pacha to appear before him. The latter set off, and having arrived at some distance from the tent of the English General, who was encamped on the place of Alexandria, he was arrested and disarmed by the Swiss grenadiers of the regiment of Roll, who received orders to this effect from General Oakes. The General reproached the Captain Pacha in, the severest terms; but the latter excused himself, by declaring that he had received an order from the Grand Seignior, to put all the Beys and Mamelukes to death, and declared he was to answer with his head for the execution of the order. The English General commanded the Captain Pacha to be secured till the bodies of the Beys were found. They were brought, and interred by his direction, with great pomp. On searching for the bodies, it was discovered that Mourad - Bey, the little, was only wounded. Seven hundred individuals were to have been massacred at the same time at Cairo, by order of the Grand Seignior. Lyons, January 27-Yesterday, the First Consul, accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, by four Counsellors of State, twenty Prefects and several General Officers, proceeded to the sitting of the Cisalpine Consulta, and pronounced, in Italian, the following discourse: Paris, January 31.-A letter written from Malta, by a French officer, who arrived from Alexandria, gives the following details: "Some days after the departure of General Menou from Alexandria, four beys, viz. Osman-Bey-el-Bardissy, Osman-Beyel-Ascar, Mourad-Bey, the little, and it is not known whether the fourth was OsmanBey-el-Fambouzy or Ibrahim-Bey, all arrived from Cairo, on a visit to the Captain Pacha, who was encamped about two leagues from Alexandria, on the road to Aboukir. The next day, they expressed their desire of paying a visit to the English General, Oakes, commandant of Alexandria. The Captain Pacha said he would gladly bear them company, and ordered a felucca to be prepared, to go by the Lake Mareotis, as far as Pompey's Pillar, where they were fo take horse. Being all on board the felucca, they had arrived within a league of Alexandria, when a Tartar appeared on the shore, and with a speaking-trumpet in formed the Captain Pacha that he had just arrived with dispatches from Constantinople, desiring him at the same time to land immediately and read them. The Captain made excu-pelled, by force of arms, your enemies from ses to the Beys, and told them they could proceed on their journey, and he would rejoin them on horseback at Alexandria. The Beys continued their route, and were only a small distance from Pompey's Pillar, when six large canoes, filled with Turkish soldiers, and three gun-boats of the same nation, came and assailed the felucca with cannon shot and musquetry, and attempted to board. The Beys, with the small number of Mamelukes that were with them, defended themselves like lions; but at length overpowered by numbers, they were massacred with the "The Cisalpine Republic, which has existed since the treaty of Campo-Formio,. has already experienced many vicissitudes. The first efforts which were made to establish it, proved unsuccessful. Having since been invaded by enemies' armies, its existence did not appear probable, when the French people, for the second time, ex your territory. Since that time, every thing has been attempted to effect your dismemberment. This has been prevented by the protection of France. You have been recognized at Luneville. Being increased by one-fifth, you now exist more powerful, more consolidated, and with greater hopes !!! Composed of six different nations, you will be united under a constitution better adapted than any other to your manners and circumstances. I have assembled you around me at Lyons, as the principal citizens of the Cisalpine Republic. You have given me he necessary accounts, to enable me to ful- account of the interment of the Pacha. the august task which my duty imposes Some days before his death, the Janissaries me, as First Magistrate of the French had again refused to pay him any obedience, People, and as the man who has most con- and had caused him to be strictly guarded. tabuted to your creation, The choice which It was added, that the Janissaries had deI have made to fill the situations of your clared they would no longer acknowledge irt magistrates, have been made indepen- any other master than Passwan Oglou, whỏ dently of all idea of party or locality. With was shortly to come and take possession of respect to the situation of President, I have the town. On the 27th the guard of the fcad no person among you who is suffi- Pacha consisted of 200 men, two of the most cently divested of the spirit of locality, determined of whom entered his chamber and who has rendered important services to in the afternoon, and massacred him, having country sufficient to entitle him to such a first asked him where he kept his treasure. tuation. The proces-verbal which you Shortly after this event, the Janissaries orbare transmitted to me through your Com- dered a proclamation to be made by sound tee of Thirty, in which are analysed of drum, that all the shops should be shut rit as much precision as truth, the internal up, and the families remain quietly in their external state of your country, have in-houses, except such men as were capable rested me extremely. I adhere to your of bearing arms, who were to appear arm*h; I shall still continue to pay, as long as ed, before the upper fortress. The acremstances may require, the greatest at- counts above-mentioned are all that could tion to your affairs. Amidst the conti- be then collected respecting the tragical meditations which are required by the end of the Pacha. As soon as the news was pest I hold, all that may relate to you, and known here, estafettes were dispatched to may tend to consolidate your existence and Vienna and Peterwaradin; at which latter prosperity, will ever have a place amongst place resides the commandant-general of e most lively affections of my soul. You our province. While waiting for superior ve now only private laws; you will henee-orders, several measures of safety have been h require laws of a general nature. adopted; and it is expected that commu Your people have only local customs; it is nication between Semlin and Belgrade will accessary they should adopt national man be cut off. Pers. Lastly, you have no army; the powers who may become your enemies have numereforces: but you possess what will pro re them; an abundant population, fertile selds, and the example which has been ven to you, on every important occasion, the first people in Europe." Castantinople, December 13.-Lord Elgin still ans here, and probably will not proceed Egypt, but to England direct. He is on at of quitting the Hotel de France, has been given to the embassy from that on: this embassy in the mean time occutwo houses in the vicinity of the place, ch the Porte has purchased for the purpose building a hotel for the English embassy. Rome, Deecniber 29.-Cardinal Rinuccini on the 27th of December, of an attack faroplexy. His excellency was only 8 ars of age. His funeral took place on e goth in the church of Saint Marcel, at h the sovereign Pontiff assisted, together th the Sacred College. Salin, January -12.On the 28th of Dehor, in the morning, we heard the report f artillery from the ramparts of Belgrade.. was supposed that the guns were fired on Manheim, January 18.-The changes which have been effected, and which are still to take place in Bavaria, relative to the Roman Catholic religion and Clergy, have induced some writers to ascertain the number of ecclesiastical foundations in this country. From their inquiries, it appears that there are at present in Bavaria ten colleges, fifty. eight abbeys and provost marshalsies, twen ty-two convents of nuns, twenty-eight mo. nasteries, four hundred and fifty-nine benefices, fifty-nine establishments of charity, two hundred and forty-eight images of saints, considered by the people as miraculous, three hundred and ninety-two brotherhoods. In the upper Palatinate there are seven abbeys, one of which, that of Waldgassen, possesses thirteen thousand square miles of territory, a thousand farms, fifteen hundred and three houses, and has under its jurisdiction eighteen-thousand four hundred and tinate likewise possesses four convents of sixty-nine inhabitants. The upper Palafemales and six of males, fifty-four benefices, forty-two images reputed miraculous, and forty brotherhoods. The suppression which the Elector proposes to make is the more remarkable, on account of the extent of the |