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font aentianed in the okcial note mvfitnied by Lord L a uderdale, which induced his Majefty is confider the balls of mil propofed by France as forcep. ' t ;hl f of a particular application to the terpedtise tits. ation of the two countries. It is to them a tattled of extreme regret, that the expeaation and the hopes of the two countries Mould be thus entirely difappointed by an abfulote deraidion of this bath, and in fo pofitive a manner on the part of the French Government. " Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth conclude with declaring, that his Majelly, always ready to to juft and honourable terms of peace, relies with confidence on the melts which the loyalty and ',Won of his fubjeas afford him. He never will lite' to any propolitions for a negotiation upon any tars incompatible with the honour of his Crown, and the true interells of his fubjefts. (Signed) Pasis,Auguft 9, sloo. LAVDIRDALI. " Y•11/1101.1TH." (No. t 6.) " Sir—The claims made by the French Govern. anent in the official Note of Ms Execlimey General Clarke, which are quite incompatible with the balls originally propofed by the fame Government, of baying left us no other chtAce than that of returning to our owl Government, we have the honour to re. •qtteß that your Excellency will fend us the necelTizy paffports for ourfelves and fuite. or We erobrace this opportunity of renewing to your EraSkim* the affurances of high confidetatton with which we have the honour to be, hc. (Signed) LAUDIRDALI. " vitampuTti." fario. Aura 141636. • P.M. Half pat (No. 17.) " The Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth !Ave the !weaur to reiterate to the &Unifier ft.!. Foreign Al. fairs the retrial which they made at half psit fix yelierday evening for the neceffary pailports for them (elves and fah*, as well as for a paffport for a Coot ter who is waiting for it to fa out on his jtarney. 0 They have the honour to renew the aliurances of their high entifideration, « pals, /Inuit 141806. Elms &Clock, A. M.^ (No. IL) Bsa, ' " Parts, Aug. it, iBc6,Tcn o'Clock, A. M. " It is our duty to renew the demand which we have already twice made for a paffport for a courier, and at the fame time Of the paeports =airy to en able us to return to England. We feel it alto to be our duty to obferve to your Excellency that this requell was made the day before yelletday. Saturday, at half pall fix in the evening, arid that it nentiefterday, Sunday, renewed to your Excellency, at eleven o'clock, and that to this hour we ban received no anfwer to oar requells. " When your Excellency (hall recoiled that about 24 hours are "spired fincc we addreffed you for the feennd time, and that, not to (peak of our own r ail' goner we have been during the whole of this time deprived of the means of fending a costlier to Eng land, you cannot but be convinced that if we abttam from any remarks upon a proceeding fo extraordi• nary, and fo contrary to eflablifhed .ufage; it is through a with to avoid as long as poffible any thing which may create ill humour, and change the tone and nature of the communications which have his therm prevailed between the two Governments. We mud your Excellency to accept, kc. (Signed) LAUDIRDAit, YARMOUTH... (No. rp.) Parts, Aseutt tr, ataG. " The underfigned, Minifters Plenipotentiary of his Majefly the Emperor of the stench, and King of Italy, have read with attention the note dated the gth inaant, which your Excellencies the Plenipoten uteri's of his Majefly the King of the Uoited King. dom of Great Britain and Ireland, have addreffed them, and in which they again propufe the sdi poji delis, as the balls of the negoemtion. /*The French Plenipotentiaries are uncertain \she. titer they are to fuppofe that it is to follow from the adoption of this pruaciple that England is to have a right of exading from the French Government fa bailiff and bee Alliehall the reflitutions Llte may think groper to claimpwitbout any obligation on her past to reflore to France or her Allies, any of the corm/ells Ike has made from them. This is fo extraordinary a pretenfion, that it may as well be Paid that France is to lip whatever the Englift Plenipotentiaries may think proper to propofe, which we can never fuppofe to be really the defign of the Englifh Government. They cannot have fent Plenipotentiaries Cutely for the purpofe of infifting upon the admifliun of an unde fined bags, which would place all the conditions of the Treaty in their power. In a Hate of things fo ob fcure, the French Plenipotentiaries require the expla. nations neceffaty for clearing up and advancing the, megociation. They comfit" in a declaration of what cont . :peas England wither to reta i n ; of the con q uers the is inclined to ream to France and her Allies ; "and of the conquelle which the is slefirous France fbould reftore. A fyflem of compenfation would thus be unfolded which would give a clear idea of the prin• ciples and intentions of the Btitith Cabinet. The French Plenipotentiaries will learn what engagement; they contrail by the adoption of the prcpofed to which adoption they moil affuredly cannot accede without comptifing what is required of them. " Have the Englifh Plenipotentiaries, in laying down the principles of the utipg r uktis, in contempla tion to propofe a fyflem of exchange and compenfa• lion ? If that be the cafe, the Emperor adopts it, becaufe he finds it conformable to the two principles *Treacly avowed and contented to in the correfpon• dence between the French Miniller for Foreign Af. fairs, and the Enplifh Secretary of State for the "Foreign Department, namely ; a' IR. To the principle laid down by Mr. Fox, in his letter of the 26th of laa March, • that it fhould be the object of both parties that the peace fhould be honourable for each of them, and for their Allies refpedively, and at the fame time it fhould he of a nature to affure, as far as they could, the future tranquillity of Europe.' 2. To the principle annexed to the foregoing by the Minifler for Foreign Affairs , in the ad of June following, which contills '6 in an acknowledgment in favour of each of the Powers, of a complete right of inlet feting dna guaranteeing affairs, both conti nental and maritime." •' The Underfigned affure their Excellencies the pl e nipotentiaries of his Britannic Majelly of their high conlitieratioo. (Signed) " C CLARK y. tI•MPAGNY... (No se) ' 4 ' Sir—We haie tbu inflant reeei►ed a vole, Signed by their Excellencies M. thampagny ind Crener4l Clarke, to which, under any other carctundances, thould have returned an immediate antwer. ..... " But it is one duty to obferve to your Excellency. that fince half pall liz o'clock the day before yeller day, we havr remained without any anfwer to our application for a paffport for our Meffenger, as well as for our own pA(l'pats, although the application bas been fuccelfively repeated, no lefs than thrice in the courfe of that time. " It is of the utmnll importance, in the fitnation in which we are, to be allured of a free and uninter rupted communication with our Government, as often as we may think it neceffary. " We requeli your Excellency to fatisfy us of this point, in order that we may kiln* whether we may be fuse, whenever we may think fit to require paff. poru either for ourfelvcs or our Meffingers, of obtain. ing them wilmitt any delay. " It is equally incumbent on us to mention, that we have no anfwer to the requell which we made to your Excellency, refpetling Mr. Goddard. " We have the honour to renew to your Excellency the Iffurances of the high eonfideration with which, &c. (Signed) " LAUDIRDALI• " Y•IIIMUTH. " Parts, Augult si, half pact ex o'clock." (No. it.) Copy of a Note addreffed to Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth, by his Excellency the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, Auguff st, 1806 : a The underfigned Minilter for Foreign Affairs has the honour to tranfmit to their Excellencies Lord Lauderdale and bud Yarmouth, Miniffers Plenipotentiary of his Majefty the King of England, the paffport they required for a Meffenger He re grets that the fufpenflon of bufineft which takes place in the offices on Sunday, did not allow him to fend it former. As to the paffports which they have applied for, for themfelves. the Underfigned flatters himfelf that they will conffrue his delay in fending them in the way molt natural and likely to obviate any fort of complaint on their parr. The Underfigned will never dread being refpunfible for any delays, the objemt of which is to continue for a few days the hopes of pacifying two great power:, and of putting an end to the miferies of war in all parts of the world. The Underfigned entreats their Excellencies to ec• cept, (Signed) 4 CH. N. " Prince of Benevento." (No. 22.) "The underfigned Plenipotentiaries of his Pritan. nie Majefty would not ha►e delayed anfwering the note of the t 'eh of Augult, tranfmitted to them on the part of their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of the French Government, but the repeated applica. tions which they made to his Excellency the Minifler for the Extetirr, for paffports for their meffcnger, having remained wilhout an anfwer, they conceived it to be their duty prcvinufly tnalcertain whether they were to be allowed to enjoy a free and uninterrupted communication with their Court, rods as has always been maintained in fimilar cafes in .all the Govern. ments of Europe. "The explanation which the Underfigned have re ce.ved rn the part of his Excellency the Minifter f-r Foreign Affairs, induces them to hope, that on no oc cation whatever will a limner delay take place. After having dtily corifidered the note of their Excellencies, the Underfigned perceive, that the Britifh Govern ment, far from affirming to itfelf to require from the French Government whatever reflitutinin it may think proper, without feeling itfelf under any obligation to reflore any thing to France, has never (hewed any other inclination than to treat with the French Go vernment on the balls propnfecho it by France itfelf, fuch as it was expreffed in the note of Lord Lauder. dale, namely, to treat generally upon the principle of the utipoliiktir, which was firiefly to be adhered to, except in the cafe of Hanover, which it was propofed to cede wholly to his Britannic Majefly. "Were it even poffible to mittake the confeqeences which need:oily flow from this principle, the per. finial dircuflinns which took place on the gth between the French Plenipotentiaries and the Under. figned, will not allow them to entertain a doubt that the prnpofition thus declared was perfeelly under. flood by the Plenipotentiaries. " Of cource, the Underfigned can only repeat, that agreeable to the inftruelinns of their Government, they cannot do otherwife than inftft upon the rasing ninon of this principle as a preliminary. It is only upon this condition that they have orders to continue the negotiation. " As form as this principle fhall be acceded tn, the under figned will be ready to commence the difeuf. Finn of the other points indicated in the letter of Lord Lauderdale. The Underfigned have only to add, that if the French Government manifeßs an inclination to keep to the propofition filch as his Britannic Majetty fop poles it to have been made by the French Govern ment, they will confider it as one of the moll fortu nate circumfiances—as a eircurriflance which, accord ing to the et reflion of Mr. Fox cited by their Ex cellencies, holds out a promife, of a peace honourable for both nati.ms, and of a naturs.at the fame time to enfute the permarent tranquillity of Europe.' (Signed) LAUDARDALY, Part!, Aug. ti, t o'clock P.M. iBc6." "YARMOUTH. _o_Stß, (No. 13.) .. Parts,Auguft :4, ac 6, Two P M. " We think it necelfary to w acqUaiirt your Escel lency, that at au early hour in the morning of the 12th roll. we tranfmitted to their Excellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, a note in anfwer to one re ceived Item their Excellencies on the 11th of the fame month. In this anfwer we endeavoured to point out a fecond time the fubjeels which appeared to us to require, under Come kind of form, a previous expla nation to enable us, in conformity with our inffruc tions, to proceed in the prefent negociation. " The filence of their. Excellencies the French Ple nipotentiaries on this fubjed, affords us room to Cup pofe that at the prefent moment we are not to expeEl fuch an explanation on their part. " It is from this confideration, that we feel anxious to put an end to the general expeflations of both countries, where there is Co little probability of their being realized. We are aware that the application which we have made, under there circumflances, for paffports, to enable us to return to England, may admit of a coofttuaion calculated to defer that happy moment, ithen the views of the Trench Government will be eTtwn More clofcfy to dank which :it was fop pored to e ntertain. Tn deftroy the poffiblPty of filch inconvenience, we feel it our duty to affure your Ex. cellericy, that any proceeding which than tend to oh. Brat the renewal of the negociation, will, on that account, be cont. ary to one intentions ; although, fur the reafons we have mentioned, we feel wirfelves under the neceffity of putting an end to 0111 . miffion. " It only remains for us to affare your Excellency. that if, for the happioefs of the two nztions.we &O.! 'chance to he deceived In the inferences which we have ' made from the Menet ..f the French Plenipotentiariez, we (ball wait a reafonele tine far any explanations their Excellenciesmay Imr. to offer " To prevent, hot. ever, the neceffity of repeating an application as elifig,reeasill for us to make as it would be for your Esc:l:cozy to receive, in cafe the negociationi thonho not terminate favourably, we re. quell to be flunilhed with the Paffpot ts necelttry for us and nor fuite, to be made tile of according to cir. eumtlances. ..... " We have the hntonr to renew to your Excellency the affurances of now high confejeration. (Signed) ' 6 LAUDERDALC. " YARMOUTH." (No. 54.) " Parts Argon i 7, taco. " The Underfigned has the honour to inform his Excellency the Minifler fur Foreign Affairs, that his Britannic Majefly has had the goudnefs to accede to the requeft of Lord Yarmouth, and to allow him to return to England. The nature of the full powers of the Underligned, already communicated to their Ex cellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, authorife him to treat either conjointly or feparately with the French Government ; and he has received fiat and precire inflrullions to this effeA, in care the anf.ver to the r i me o f sh e a ith inn. diould be of fuch a nature as to allow him to proceed with the negociatiun. "The UnderGgned has the honour to renew to your Excellency the affitrances of his high confide: ation. (Signed) " LAIMADALS. " (No. lj.) " Palls, AITUR 21. 11106. " The onderfigned Minifter P lenipotentiary of his Britannic Maki!y finds himlelf under the hecellity of reminding his Excellency the Minifter fin. Foreign Affairs, " O. That on the morning of the Lath a note (Ivied by the undcrfigncd and Lord Yarmouth, nt the date of the I tth, was tranfmitted to his Erect lency General Clarke, in which the perfuns under figned declared—' that the Britilh Government, far from preftiming to era& from the French Govern ment Inch rellitutions as it might think proper, with out being under an obligation to make any retlitution to France, was never aauated by any other wills than to treat with the French Government upon the bails propofed by France, fuch as it was declared in Lord Lauderdale's note, viz. to treat generally upon the balls the wi peAktis. which was firialy to be adhered tnexcept in thecafe of Hanover, which it waspropofed Ihould be folly reflored to his Britannic Majefty.— That, were it even poflible to be miftaken as to the eonfequences neceffarily fliwing from this prit.ciple, the perfonal difcuflions which took place on the 9th intl. between the French Plenipotentiaries and the Underfigned, did not leave a dnubt remaining that the propofition fo made was perfealy undernond by thefe Plenipotentiaries, sad that in coafequenee the Underfigned had only to repeat, that conformable to the inliruaions of their Government, they could not do otherwife than infift upon the previons acknow. ledgmcnt of this principle—and that it wes upon this condition only othat they would be allowed to continue the negotiation.' 4 , ad. That on the 14th infiant, the Underfigned, 1 1 conjointly with Lord Yarmouth, had the honour to inform his Excellency the Minifter for Foreign Af fairs, in writing, that the filence of their Excellen cies. the French Plenipotentiaries, on the fulled of the note of the t ith inflant, gave room for fuppollng, that at the prefent moment they were not to capes% an explanation, fuch as they required in their note of the tith, which would authorize the Underfigned to proceed with the negotiation, agreeably to their in firu 9ions. " That from this tonfideration they felt an anzi ety to put an end to the general ezpettation of hoth nations, Peeing there was fa little appearance of its being realized. That they were aware that an ap plication for pafrpurts, under fbch tircurnftances, to enable them to return, might be furceptible of con- Ilrutlions of a nature to defer that happy moment, when the views of the French Government would be drawn clofer to thole which it was fteppofed to en• certain. That to present the poffibility of filch an inconvenience, they felt it to he their duty to de clare, that any proceeding, the °Neil of which lhould he to obilruEl the renewal of the negotiation, would for that very reafon be contrary to the intentions, although, for the reafons before mentioned, they found themfelves obliged to put an end to their mil lion.' _ . " The Underfigned, perceiving that no anfwer was given to (bele communications, prefumed that this delay might be the refult of a temper favourable to the progrefs of the negotiation, and that he would at IA be recompenfed by an anfwer according to his manner of confidering it. When he perceived that none was forthcoming, he fill purfited that line of condo& which mutt have inconteflably evinced the fincerity of the inclination he had exprelfed, to feceive fuch explanations as fhould put it in his power to renew the objeas of his miffion. " lint if on the lath intl. the Und,rfirtned, in conjunaion with Lord Yarmouth, law himfelf under the nereflity to declare to his Excellency the Minifer for Foreign Affairs, his apprehenfiuns (in conic qucnce of the filence of the French Plenipment;atiet) that no anfwer would be given on this 103 . 0 ; and moreover, if at the period when they found them felves obliged to declare the neceffity under which they were, in obedience to the orders of their 60ve• reign, to demand paffports, the Underligned has nn occafion to remark to his Excellency the tslinifter (or Foreign Affairs, how imptrion fly the rew delays fince arifenjprefetibe it to the Undet 1vt.:4.1 to renew immediately his denrunl. " At the fame time, the Underrigned feels it ne. ceffaty to add, that not being able to perfuade him• felt, that in cafe the anfwer fhonld not be favourable, his Excellency the Knitter for Foreign Affairs would defer for In Lang a time the adoption of the only al. ternative, the flea/pillion of paffporfs, he does put wholly forego, even at this moment, the tspeilat;in of the renewal of the prnpofition, fuch as the Mini- Bets of his Britannic Majelly conceived to have been made by the French Government, becaofe it is onlr by there IMAM that the hopes of the two n.atuns CAII . be realifecl. r. Should Oleic hopes even he difappointed, the Un. derfigned will never regret a delay which hai atf .rded him an opportunity of proving. in the molt unerini• vocal manner, the earned Mile by which his Witan. 'tic MAjetty has always been anitn.t:d for a perma• nent and honeurable peace, of which his Majetly has given the Iltongeil proof s in autho.iiing the Under. I .gocd to tre.it upon the bafis originally propofed by ance. It is from this refletli-n thiit the Under. ligned has lopporte t i In long continued a Rate of un. certainty, without proteiting in the fmalleft degree againtt In entreating his Excellency the Minißer for Foreign Affairs to tranfmit to him provifinnally, be mace ufe of only in the cafes already mentioned. the necetrary patiports for himfelf and his lithe, the underfigned conceives he has adopted the only means of preventing the neeeßity in which he might other. wjfe find himfelf (if he were obliged to repeat this apprreation) of accompanying it with fuch °brava.' lion. as the laws of nations and the dignity of his Sovereign would autltorife him to make. (Signed) " LAUDIILDALI." (No. 56.) “ Pub, s6th Amok, ris6. " The filence confiantly preferred by their Excel lencies the French Plenipotentiaries, as well as by his Excellency the Minitler of Foreign Affairs, after the trlficial note of the Uoderfigned, and of Lord Yarmouth, dated the it th of this month ; after the letter addreffed to his Excellency the Minifter of To reign Affairs, dated the reth ; and after the official note of the Uoderligned, dated the 2sel of the pre. fent month, appear to announce clearly, that the Ftench Government has abandoned every defire of peace upon the balk which it had firft propofed it., felt; and which the Underfigned has uniformly de clared to he that tingle and only balls upon which he was authorized to treat with this Government. .. In this date of things, the Underfigned cannot titer himfelf that any advantage can refute from hie flay being continued at Parisi while, on the other hand, a (either delay might Getaway give room to the two nations, as well u all Europe, to fuppofe that peace, the objed of their willies, is upon the hour of being concluded, at the very moment when every reafnnable hope upon this fubjea teems to be entirely vattilhed. Strongly penetrated with this fentiment, the Underfigned lees hirnfelf obliged to terminate his mifflon, by making of his Excellency the Minifter of Foreign Affairs, the formal demand of the needier, paliports for his return to his Sovereign. 4. At the fame time, and in the fpitit of conciliation which has coollantly charaderized all his proceed ings fince his arrival at Paris, the Underfiped, now that he fees himfelf obliged by bis inftrudhons to de mand his ',airports, cannot refolve to render im. poffible, on the part of the French Government, a communication of fuCh a nature as would allow the Under figned to continue the negotiation, although, after the long faience of this Government, he cannot career fo favourable an iffue. It thall not, then, be until next Wednefday morning, the, a,th of this month, that the °Muir ed will have the honour of waiting in perfon, on is Excellency the Minider of Foreign Affairs, to atk formally and definitively for the neceffery paffports for hinifell and his idle. He only adds, that the paffports which he (ball afk, mull be for his immediate return, and not palfports to be ufed according to ar. cumftances, as he has milked them on a former occa fion. (Signed) ss LINDIRDALII." (No. 3 7.) 0, Aura 15, do& " The Plenipotentiaries of his Majefty, the Em. peror of the French, and King of Italy, de fi ling to con fer with his Excellency the Earl of Lauderdale Ple nipotentiary of his Britannic Majelly, upon the cub jet of the haft note that he has addrefled to them, engage him to•morrow, about three o'clock, at the houle of the Minihler of the Interior, where they Bran meet him, if this hour ft:its his Excellency's come nience. tt M. de Champagny has the honour of propoling to the Earl of Lauderdale to dine with him when the conference is ended. 'He hopes that his Excellency will bring to dinner Meffrs. Goddard, Stewart, and Ma ddifon." (Na 88.) The Earl of Lauderdale. Plenipotentiary to his Britannic M.tjelly, has the honour of acknowledging the teccipt of the note which has been juft fent to him on the part of their Excellencies the French P:eninatentisi ies. _ _ _ He than have the honour of going to the hours of the Mini(ler of the Interior, to-morrow, about three o'clock, and afterwards to dine with his Excel lency M. de Champagny. Metres. Goddard, Stewart. and Maddifon, will elf() have the honour of going there at the hour for dinner. (:;igned) " LAODIRDALE." (No. 29.) " rail. Augurt 29, 111z6. " At the moment of renewing with their Escel lencies the French Plenipotentiaries, the conference ()I the a6th of this month, the Underfigned Pletripo tent)ary of his Britannic Maioly, thinks himfelf obliged to Iry before their Excellencies the (late of the negoc:arton, inch as it was at the time of fending the note on the past of the Underfigned, lad of Lord Yarmouth, ditch the I rth of the prefent month.— Thcir Excehencies ti? French Milliners will fee front his Itatern-ur, that at the point in which the difculton is aridly ' , relent, it is no longer permitted to the t r continue it, unlels, by the admitlion of rice ohiy upon which he is aothorifed to mgr. sire, the r E-rcllencies than furnifh him with new motives to :Hid F inch a determination. In the (.91r1.)1 note fent to their Excellencies the rrench I.l,..pno.i.tiattes on the r ash of Auguß, it was (Arrived to thcm, That the Britith Govern• mew, eery tar from pretending to require of the French Government all reflituthlts according to its plcafure, without being bound to any reditutinns to. ,wards France, has (hewn no other defile than that of treating with the French Government upon the bats that Writ pi °poled by France itfelf, fuch as is exprefliti in the note of Lnrd Lauderdale, to wit, the treating genetally on .ht bans of the ariplidair, which was El i i ; il ,