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l ordllo/1 7 /Crithonght 1 - 16 - bad stated, A - S - distinee- T l Y.asze,ssible, that the Noble Lord had had'neiin •struaionsto insist on a - Written aeknowledgmentof the basis in the first instance. As the Noble Lord Stated,, he was sent to carry a verbal answer to a ver bal proposition'. He was instructed to obtain in this way - an acknowldgMent of the basis, andedir,e6/ed net to use his full powers till the French Government iliould return to the basis on which tt had set out wes not a written brit an au acknowledgment that the Noble Lord had been instructed to claim previous .to the prodoetion of his full powers; and-as soon as lee should have produced his powers, he was direet :ed to seek, in the first subsequent note, a writ ten acknowledgment. Mr. Fox's - letter went back ,to the original offer of the uti. possidetis. Lie demand of Sicily was a violation of that offer; and it ;'as on - that ground that the Noble Lot deivaS oideied bot to proceed one step. ferther till that - demand -ahould be relinquished, and the basis established ;' un- It'si that retpiisition were complied with, the Noble .. 1 -ord was. ilistrthcled to demand his passports in civil 1. 4 e, ens, and to.come away. He was 'only sorprised, ,tn iltt after the 'explanation 'that had'already been gtvett to this effect,. the Noble Lord should -haVei thought the.vindication he had enteredinto at all ne-y eessary. MONTAGUE, after an attentive and hit; .Partial perusal 'nf the Papers,, was sorry the Ne gotiatibn had at ail lakee place. It had atibrded is , •triuraph to duelicity over credulity to French ; y et' English oteeets; and to • Franee herself a triumph. FreiCe had adopted the policy which - Sir •Paul Rigaud. described as that of the TurkS,' ' ll the more vigorous part of their history. They made short to obtain conquests, and short truces to seeere them. This Negalatinte trod af - forded that facility to,Frence, while it palsied One exertions -and : our reeeos of obtaining continental e 9 - operation. complimented Mr. Pitt, " the Pilot who weathered the storel7--that Gentleman, . even when languishing on his death-bed, would, like Palintirus have refused- tolisteß to ; the monster that . e lud SO o f ten deceived He cowph orated Mr. eUx's pie r ,te charaeterexhich he had always achifteed-, the' ugh tie hod always differed. from him on p..i e leftl He• thought.. tbe r -letternhout the -assessie coutaieed glances` at Peace. which could not escape' a Minister of Tallevranel's sagacity, any "more Watt the profession of personal attachment with which the letter coneluh'es• He did. not know whether this 4 tiachment eommenced in. 1792, when Talleyrand concluded 'here the' Negotiation Which terminated in the first war with the French Revolution.---e At • all events, he - disliked such professions of at tachment to an enemy. He was, however, ready L 9 subscribe to the_ candour and manliness of Mr. pox, iii seeking Peace, so strikingly contrasted with the craft of Talleyrand, it) pursuitig his political object of obtaining, not Peace; but a truce to conso lidate the.aeqaisitionS etTfbriner wars, and to prepare for, new 'aggressions. Talleyrand had used °dr Negotiation to inspire Russia with jealousy 'to wards us, and the Negotiation of *Russia to inspire Js with jealousy towards that Power. He was a man who. wthild not spare misrepresentation_ the forged letter to Lord Lauderdale was a eroof Of that. Prussia was the natural ally of this Country, end France had excited dissention between that Power and us by means of Hanover. He therefore lamed the precipitation with which the Cianntry had .?,etu plunged into a war with PruSsia, at a time when alliance was particularly necessary, and when it 412 -Y have been hoped, upon .the events which were .Cry day arising, to: brieg 'her to t i e r ri g ht senses. ,e r l evi e believed the - Ftench (.4(e - eminent dea . 4 with the and conjured 'up Hanover as a Phantom to ?'lots dissension b etw een,this- Country. and Prussia. -'-hts was the cause of an illiad of woes to us. He thought the Noble Lord oppoSite, in the situation in 'which he was, as a *prisoner anxious for return, • an - befit person; to he charged with the Negotiation.— he - tbought•Ministers had as. ungenerously stig ,Thatized him 'alter the Negotiations, which he had • cotidueled to the best of his judgment ; as they had incautieusly made use of him in them. It was esi dent teat the basis of the .ilti. possidetis,, though said to have beau otK...red by the French at the outset, was not insisted, upon by our Government. 'Mr. Fox . 66.10 d like- a person who woos a -wnmais,'aud fears that tne'abrupt avowal-of his objectewill cause her to shut her doors against him. From the conduit of the second NeleeLiird;entenSted With the negotiation, itl the ye,e - 17,)2, and 'his intimacy With the Brissotine Party, who had put their king to death, end from the patience ith whlciehe had listened 'to the projeas for the destrwilion of Englatid, within the Walk Of the National Assemeiy; he COuld•not. think hun a tit Perso n 'to be chargere with the interests of lli.s country i n this neceeietioe. biamedt-e dalliance which these. Ministers were kept. Their sithatien was rite Defter than prisoners, being refused the passports - they detnateded.' It reminded him of a story he had read )t 'the - Newspapers.' of a Gentleman, whom two 1-)rostibates seized in Bend -street, anti embraced so tips*, one behind mid another bqore, that he was finable to move, ' , While 'a third picked' hit, pockets . — . -uheri they were told the Lmperor wait gone a hunt-- ,ng This was what tire nurses said to the children, li abyletutine', the King iseeene huiniee.•' The n 'Perer was gone to bunt - the Royal Tiger of Prussia, . and the Ambassadors were to have been entertaioed • o wi th :the s i g h t , as L or d M ecartney was in China.— • jr .Ambassador remained at Paris like a nini pini, ; nile th e F renc h MiniSter went off in a' pose 7 chaise, d li) okedtack through the hind gl ass t o s e e whe thn er he remained in-his place. In short, lir Ministers I;rere bamboozled _,froth beginning to - the end. had described •the case. of a person in Turkey, N t V . 11 0, whil e h e r e ce i ve d a . cer t a i n unp l easant applica j.", begged th ose ' who inflicted it to accept the as siurances of hi s hi g h cons id erat i on : Thi s was th e case With Lord Lauderdale at first, but at length. he seem _ disposed t o ret o rt not on l y on the Pr i nce o f Bene ntoi the Prince of Ponte Corvo, and the Duke of vrg, but ev en on t h e E mperor h i mself. OtherWise wotild , not have been des cr ib e d as betraying un 44table, imperious, and sa v ag e manners. He had ; 1 0 doubt that the Noble Lord had done his duty, tbut having sat quietly in the Cyclops' forge, while eetnhthederbelts of, war were forging against his be t rY: he could not think him a proper person to en I •gted With the Neeotiation. • He could see. no b . enent likely to accrue from sending a second Ne riator, after the changes in Germany, - which ren anY Peace that could be made, as the Noble Lord "' totally ins ecure . H e c h arge d Ministers with ' 0 0.4 •• . • sna. t tirh e its to the late Govermelent,whieh they -s relareaersted its. inefficient. fie blttrrneq - them 'for the deficiency of their owe performanee, and for a'he cal ofolficers who have done Vtaell,Merelibec*:e thee were objets of private pique. Lie.joined heartil-/ ha. that part of the Addreas which plelged every heart and every hand to the defence of the Ceuntry.; and if there had been a disposition, on the part of our Go-, verntnent, to sacrifice part of what was neceasery to the balance of power, the ill success of that ilisposi thin afforded double motives for vigorous exertion it war. Now was the time to put forth British lin'titude. In peace, nought was so- becoming as meekness ; hut when the trump of war was sounded, the sinews oeeiet to stiffen and the senses become - fierce as those of a tiger. Let Ministers be vigilant and attentive. !;ind! they should have his support ; not uniform eunquile lifted support, for bethought it right to keep them alert by adMonition and eirstigeion, but qualified and rational support, according as they should be found to deserve it., He begged theM to accept the assurances of his high consideration. To his Ma jesty he wished to convey the fullest nesuratice °lithe willing and loyal deVOtioe of his faithful sulaietis - . Sir THOMAS TIMT N, in . prOceeding to cow skier this question, thought it right to divide it into three stages. The first was from the L'Oth of April to the arrival of Lord Yarmouth in England. The i•second was from that to the conciusien of IrOul;ril's Treatrg and the third from that to the conclusion. With respeet,to the eurnmencement of the-Negotia tion, there was no doubt as to the motives which led our Government to it. When no apparent ad • Vat - nage secened likely to restvt froat war, it be came a duty to try what could be doite by. Nego tiation. This was certainly the 'motive - of • the great . Statesman who had condurted rho Nego e Elation-sae Statesman whom, though he gelieraliy difired Ir6d, him on political subjet'As, he acknow ledged to be the-finest person to conclua a Nego tiation with Tellevrand, ina-much as candour and' manly plainness were the best !teems of foiling endl .. baffling craft. He did not look upt;n a Negotiaiien on the basis of the Treaty of Amiens as so very alarming as it •was . described to be out of doors. Though Bonaparte May pin ships, and coloMea, and commerce, he could never gain a goWth of English sailors,. and therefore we had nothing to -fear., The superior skill and elegance of our fa brics would always secure the corn nerce and ma e nufeiares of our .country. f e was of opinion, that the assassin whom Mr. Fox denounCed s Was a spy, of the French Government, like M(Atee' de Li Touche. Ooly three points were agreed upon,inthe long. Negotiation that had taken' place, the integrity of the Turkish Empire,, thecessiOil of Hanover, and -the right of Britain to interfere with the arratgemeota' of the Continent. We refesed, however, to treat ferther without Ilussia, and on what grounds • We had no treaty with Russia, except the treaty of con.: cert. .That was a treaty of subsidy and of Milli - try: operation. In this sense it could not be in , force, far since the battle of Austerlitz no Russian army had acted, and therefore no subsidy could be chinned: The basis of the iti possidetis, stshj..•et to -exchanee and cession, had been aeled upois. It was impeesibie to imagine any thing so vague :Is the princeee of a Peace. honourableto both parties ; for t he honour of each, .and what that hohouy 'required, was entirely in its own conception. He condemn -Ate use - of.a . person, not used to diplomatic transactions,' in the conduCt of the Negotiation.. Hen experienced per son had been employed, the,be.eis would have been ,early acknowledged, or the Negotiation would lave - beet) orokett oil. The Negotiation wag tneavt but to entrap; andhence theaversien to written documents: T • he proposition to indemnify the Kite; of Naples by .the seizere of the Hatise Towns, ouOt-to have beet) Ke ipa e d with inlighation. He thought the reasons .assigned by the Noble Lord for producing his full powers, ought to acquit Minister on that ground. The first Note of the Noble Lord said, oft his c,. .first .Note to General Clarke, he eves ready to discuss-the basis of a General Peace. 'Hence it was to be inferred; that the basis was not considered as .settled. H e s heuld h ave t h ought that Lord Lau derdale would have been instrhaled to brink this matter to a conclusion. Till the 20th April absolately hnothing wasdone, awl the whole six menths passel in Negotiation were nugatory. Though it may be a question, whether:lTOubril had exceeded . his ,powers in concluding ;he Treaty . he had 'signed, there could be no doubt .that he had hut - 11061y to treat separately ; and there were even rnmours that Negotiations were pine on at St. Peterebergh at the present triozilent. .thought we should- con the.refores whether Rtissia had a daitri on us for all tl - ,k attentioneoinonntieg to a reftisal to make i. peace .without her, even when there could be' no assurance that she -was as decidedly with us. — As to thereaestionrespeaing f - lanover, there Was no diciton that was not prepare d to ma k e - any sacr i f i ce fo r recovery', if the loss of His M a j esty 's Elec toral Dominions would produce a lv rinklc. on the brow of his declining years. He could not i , .gree with the Noble Lord, *that; if we had secured and Dalmatia, we, might have givt n up all our other conquests. He saw no reason teiliv we should not have claimed Naples as well as Sicily, It appeared to him extraordinary, that the question of Indemnity for . the King of Sardinia, 'who bad - been ' abane dotted at the Treaty .ot Amiens . , had been ' j this instance revived. . He"was sorry - to differ from his Honotirable . Friend, with' respe& to' the policy of our supporting Prussia. The whole ,history of that Power, for the last sixty years, shewed. that her invariable policy was ditefted to her own aggrandizement. , She had been theeternal ene. „tny of Austria, and the uniform friend of all the dif.;.' ferent successive Governments of France since the French Revolution. He was glad to have observed In the Address on the Speech at the opening of di . Session, that there was none of that desponding' lan guage of exhausted means and dilapidated resources, used on other oceasions,contained in it. Theresources of the Empire were said to remain unimpaired, and if they were unimpaired, it was owing to the measures of that great Statesman now no more; to whose . po litics he had himself been always attached. The Sinkingiund, which had, been the work of that if- ; lustrious Statesman, was that to which this Country ;- owed all its prosperity:. It was:the record of his services; and well heemieht have said, when be queathing such a boon to his Country— " Non omnius - • Muliaque pars mei vitabet ruinam." 1 - kkhoPed the Hoit.. Geatleman,opposite- wash) not , hereafter give way -to such desponding language as 'was contained in the letter, of the' Noble Lard oppo site to the Lord Mayo, on. the subjea of, the cap ' titre 'Of Hart-,bUrgle That Noble Lord. appeired `steneWhat partial to these'cOrtimunicationOie did.not mean to Say, however, that he was inflnetieed in that reveEt be the cucoethes scribe i., The Hon.' roast cointrited with some seeerlfy upon the con teks of the letter alluded to. He recomMended to the: Nellie Lord, not to make such communications in future and concluded, by assuring the House of his gratitude thrTheir indulgence, and that, tho Ugh he had traspAsed at some length upon their patience, he had not uttered a single , sentithent that was not sincerely :led conscientiou - sly the result of his tin, biassed jodgment and perfeet consideration. Mr. 11/711rBRE)ID had been desirous of addresi ing what he had to say to the House acter the speech .of the Hon. Gentleman who had preceded the Ho&. Baronet that bad just sat down. He was the more anxious to 'succeed that Gentleman in the discussion, because, though he had shown much classical infor- Motion, and had illustrated his sentiments by lively , elassical allusions, there were many sentiments con a:aieed his'extraorditlary speech that would excite feelings Of deep regret in the minds of the .friends of both the Statesmen who were unfor- e o" timately no Mere. The Honourable Gentleman, had' the tight proper to allude 'to political differences which had ekisled at a period now passed. : But when' ?he Hcilionoftrable Gentleman adverted to anhnosities that had 'formerly been en tertaitted, he Seethed to have forgotten that these animosities lead been buried in oblivion; and that one of 'those IllestrieuseCharlAers had, on a subse, quint oceasion, thought himself warranted, in re cenimetel;ng the either to his Alajesey es a most proper,. person to beintrideced into his Majesty's Councils. The Honourable - Gentlemati had forgotten this cir cumstance, and by his speech eteleavoered to i revive art nesitie s svbk,h oo longer exist: The Honour able elentlenem had_ also thouele proper to . find fitult with the appointMent of a ,Noble Lerdes our" Negotiator, becaese he had def.:red withehat Noble Lord upon 50111(;' , itical tupias, a former instance. But differing, as he did, with that Honourable Gen tleinan,:totirily as to the question 'of the Neo-etia lion, getterally as to the charge that that Noble: Lord had snifered himself to be the 'depe of the artifices of the French Government, as to the policy' of enterieg itee the - Nogotiatioti at all, and as to rho .eircainstances which prevented its leading to the coe elusion of Peace; he could not bat expr*.ble .cided disappreb3tl9ll of the preteiples sled positions ;aid down by that +lon e Gentleman. According to his ,reasoning, there could not et anytime ife a pro spa of attaining Peace, whilst the present Govern ment should preside o'er the atnirs Ftence. And lie, was parry: to find that sled] doetrines seemed to have received cobsiderable etivoureeenent . from language employed by' his Noble 1.4 - iketd, in his vete eloquent spcece at the opeierog of t Debate. AQ, , , •. cordeia to SliCh views, it win appear, that ; etno.e ahne, nor under any. ciredinstances, could hiS der's Miuisters thine. that their dusty obliged thew to advise his Mejesty to reneey theNeeetiattun wie-otte present GovernmkettN of Franee for Peazee eitaelee could not conceive it eos.ihie Ce' sticti . a eituatiot t of thiees to takeplace, in which it would ha be the duty u t 2%.lajeste'! . ; tuisters, ou any favourable epening, to advise his Alajosty to renew his gracious ettOrts for the restoration of Peace mains. Country and to the world. "He felt that - he owed it io his reverence fin the inemoky eif the. departed Statesman, to his at, Web neht to deatfrigndS, and-elear cotynexions,•to his-- veneration for the wisdom of the dead, and his ad miration of the integrity and talentS of the living, to give them credit for the sincerity. with which the7Ne- . gotixion had. been entered into for the purpose. of restoring Peace to the two Nations. Biassed, as he must naturally have been, under such impressions, he . had taken it for granted, that every, alert had been made to procure this desirable object ; and that, if Peace could not have been concluded, it was owing to the ambition of France. But, whLin -the doctune;its had been produced, he was extremely disappointedeon tiekling - that all had not been done which ought to have'been done, he was ready to . coetess.; and feeling in that • way, he ,shOuld be ashamed not to proiess e that there were many parts itt the conduA otehis•Nego . flation which he did not approve. Although ,his. Noble Friend had stated, - that no difference of opinion had prevailed in his Majesty's Councils previous to the political death of that great States Man, whose loss the country had now more reason than evert() deplore, he- could not bat remark, that the beginning and end of the. Ne gotiation appeared to him to . have a very different charade. As to what had been said of the com . mencement of the Negotiation, and the observations that had been made Lyon the letter of Mr. Fox,.. which ,had given rise to the first overture. from M. T.ilLevrallci., he shouidonly say, that if he were to Wish for arty occasion for the display of the generous humanity that actuated the conduct of the enlight- ened Statesman who had sent that first' letter, he could not devise one better ::.ticulated to , shew it to advantage. In the situation in which the two con tending countries . were placed, though engaged in the prosecution. of active-hostilities,. there 'was no generous mind that would not be ready to admit, that the earlieSt information ought to have been gi ven on the subject of the .. horrible proposal which was the subjea of the letter in question. This- was no ogling for Peace, no advantage towards ate over-. titre,' ,and every per Son who had known Mr. Fox, must .have known, however, that it was not con sistent with his noble, generous, and manly nature, not to give the earliest, intimation of the prOjed of assassination. The answer of M. Talleyrand to this . letter had led to the Negotiation. He could wish to avoid going into any detail in the consideration' of . this question ; but as.he had the misfortune to dif fer from ,those with whom he bad agreed on most other occasions, he trusted the House would alloW him to state the cause of that . ditTerence. It was itti poSsible, in looking at the Papers on this subject, not to be struck with the open, manly, generous, frank, and candid character that marked the letterS of the illustrious Statestitan now no more. By the em ployment of such a ,style of communication, that distinguished Statesman got himself rid of the usual intricacies of diplomacy. Ho got rid too of the Treaty of Aaniens e which was-first . mentioned to him as the basis of a Negotiation, because he foresaw that it would create numberless differences. For this basis he proposed to substitute the generous pried• pie, that the peace to be concluded should be ho nourable for the two Countries and their Allies.— Mr. Fox had entertained a 'jealousy against the' French Got ernmept, founded in porno Lxisseges of • y , sess-, tntemperate speeches and publteattens, that tt,ptAter s taineeltan idea of excluding this Country from any interference in ~the affairs of the . This had also been got rid of by an 'express denial 9f any sfich intention communicated to him op the pat t_ofille 'French Governipepto Having got rid of all these iMpediments,, There remained another pui . itt, to be adjusted, namely, whether we should treat .COn s jointly with RUS4id. Mr. Fox could not. say to' France that she bad not a right to steci.le wheiter or not she would enter into this joint Negotiation; but he could say, that if the French .Goernroent would not consent to treat with. England and Russia jointly, this Government would- enter into no Ne gotiation. He had stated, that if the French Go vernment were disposed to treat on this condition he was ready to open the Neghtiation, and in this stage, it was that these unfortunate words of uti possidetis had first been introduced Before thli period it did not appear from the Correspon‘lence that They had been even thought of, though his Noble Friend was of opinion that they might be deduced by just inference from the contents of the Papers. All that he could discover, respecting a basis in the ,Con'espondence, up to - this period, was the pro posal that the peace should be honourable to, both Countries. He bad listened with atten tion to all that had been - said on this question, but whether it was that he was unable to compre hend it, or that the uti possidetis had not been the basis previously to- this recogni l Sed, he could not dis cover-any evidence of that fa&. Lord Yartneuth was then sent over to treat on the basis ofa'Aual pos session, and he had not the least doubte that the Ne!ile Lord was convinced, that such a basis had been ad mitted ; but he must add, that it was not evident on the. face of the Papers. He ',sots fully persneaed that Mr. Fox, and his Majesty's ;Ministers, had" been sincere in their wishes for peace; and though he may be . singular in ihe opinion, he also thought that the French Minister, aed Government, were equally sincere in their desire of peace. He did, not think that they had int ited the Negotiation with a view to any sinister purpose.ss-iingland lost .nothing by the Negotiation,, and France could ' not have gained any thing by it. No man could suppose that,, if the Negotiation had not b, en en .tered into, the Confederation of the Ito* would not havetaken plaCe.' The Negotiation hill cer tainly produced the war With the fiStissians, bet then his ,Majesty's :Ministers were not blameable for ;oat. They had adopted that cause which appeared to them most eligible. When T.erd Yarmouth went .back to Paris with Mr. Fox's ansiver to M. Tal leyrand's vcrhal message, he - 'lOund,. with' sur prise, that the Minister' did not 'deny his having admitted the basis' of actual possessioo ; he Was then disposed to recede frOm it. There was some thing e \traordinary in the votiversations on the Snb . - jeJ of the basis of actual .posse4sihn. , If that basis , was to be admitted, it vvould appiy to the enemy as well -as to us • and yet' Lard •Yar,noutli, in his first mversation with l'alleyrAd, ,rencycd ivalilot !Pies. Li its cohterence Vretich Pienipo6;ntlariei, after dewanding Istria, with. Jialuiaiia, for : the , King 91 S:coy, tie pi - otested against any cessions .in the Indies, alt.! by This atforded the French Negotiatofs a suJieiset groond for departing from tine basis. Nothing could be worse for the interest .of a *general 'than such special pleading towards the Ettears, and such a laxity with respect :to zerselves. Mr. Fox, in his answer to Lord Yarmouth's, dispatch, directed him to make Sicily a sine qua non, bat 'did not say a word of the basis of actual possession.— As' to Henover, the first mention of the cession of that Ele&orate had been made by Lord Yar mouth, and the French Minister took three days to consider the subje&, and it was net until after such deliberation that. that point was given up. It was necessary to examine into the actual state of the question, in order to.ascertain whether it had been owing to the ambition of. France that tse Negotia tion had failed,and whether the moments when peace Might have been obtained had be. n satfered' to pass by, never to be recalled, or whether there Was still any hope of Peace. Certainly, the Noble Lord:had not given any offence to the French Government by his manner of insisting on the basis of actual pos session ; and, in justice to that Noble 'Lord; he could' not but observe, that his conduit-in producing his full powers did not deserve the reprobation that had been bestowed upon it, as the sine qua non re spe&ing Sicily had been given up, and the conclusion of M. D'Oubril's Treaty had placed him in a situa ,tion of great difficulty. The Noble Lord then opened his conferences with Gen. Cleft, and though there appeared a considerable recession, on the part of the French . Negotiator, from their former admissions, that recession did not merit the reprehension which his Noble Friend had expressed against it, France was justified in rising in her del - notch after the conclusion Of her separate treaty with Russia; as well as we were on the refusal of the Emperor of 'Russia to ratify that Ireaty. Another Negotiator was then sent so Paris, and notwithstandincs all that had been said upOn that subje& by the Hon. Gentletnau opposite, the Noble Lord who had beeh scut, both horn his accomplishments and talents, was. the most fit person to be sent on such a tnission ; and be- sides; what was no :Rangel-1A circumstance, • he had the advantage of beins, acquainted with the per ' sons with whom he was to treat. That Noble Lord had been furnished with his instruaions, and in the execution of the duties of his mission had Maintained with firmness the dignity of the Country, though, ha his opinion, he bad insisted too peremptorily upon what was but a mere form. His first aa had been the transmission of a Note, stating, that unless the basis 'of uti possidetis were admitted, he should demand his passports. His mission, and-his peremptory`demand, at the time at the political death of Mr. Fox, pro duced an impression unfavourable to the happy is sue of the Negotiation. Thepoiitical death of Mr. 'Fort produced a considerable sensation on the Continent,_., whatever it might have done here, and when a hear Negotiator had' ''Osten ,ent ,utst at that particular moment, and it 'cods COdsidered what , Itersons remained in the L'abioet, toough` he was perSuaded every one of his Majesty's Ministers was sincer i tly desirous of Peace, it NAaS not suss prising that the French GovernmetiCishould have Supposed that some :change hail taken h itsc s , the sentiments ollissiMajesty's Ministers- He thought it would have been better, if; instead . of-demanding his passports on the receipt of his note. from the French Plenii'otentiaries, That had been so commented upon,, Lord Lauderdale had .returned a, moderate ao-