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[FROM THE MONITEUR.] • i (Ceuenue4 fron, ' , UT Piper of yesterdays.) 14 _ a Tiw•Undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor and King Italy, has laid Wets the eyes of hi. Governmero, the Note sent yesterday by his Excellency Lord Lauderdale, Ple nipotentiary of His Fit itannic Majesty. " His Majesty the Fasprror and King of Italy, could net but he painfully affeoed, to see that a ne• goeiattcm, which has already been the objet of so maay c-nfereoces, which has occasioned the dip. paten of so many Couriers on both sides, which was, in short, conduCted to its maturity, should suddenly hate taken a retrograde course, so asleep to present t • obstacles, not in the a'ature of the stipulations, tut oven in the very basis on which the negotiation was opened. " The Court of Franewhas constantly refused to ir admit, in the same negotiation, the Court of Eng land and of .Rnisia ; and whatever desire His Ma jesty the Emperor and King may have to see the general peace soon 'sod, Oshesl, there is.no consider ation which cpuid have induced him to violate this. principle of his policy. Besides. the negotiations that France hid comn.eneed at Petershurgh, had convinced His Majesty the Emperor and King, that the English Cabinet were muter a delusion, as to the ratan of their conneCtien with Russia. Pk- " After many months discussion. the Cabinet of London yielded upon that point, and his Excellency the Earl of Yarmouth arrived publicly at Calais. and then at Paris. to treat about peace. He had, from his artitral in that Capital, conferences with his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affaits, after having pr vinusly informed him, that be was ouly authhttsesi by his Government. .• Sifter that epoth. Russia has concluded its peace with France. The Undersigned has been named Idioister Plenipotentiary, to treat with the Plenipo tentiary of His Britannic Majesty ; and the first step was an exchange of his powers with those of his Ex cellence. the Ea/ of Yaravosth, 'whom he had a tight to believe. as his fall poteets express; autho tised to treat, conclude, and site definitive treaty tesween France and the OamieWangdons of Great Dr4ti2 and lrelaad. 0 , • ' Very (relent aeatrameee% the greater part of them for mitt,. herre - Mill taken place be . .evriett thetwo robe being of good faith en betas sides, appreed themselves to smooth all difficulties, and laid aside every thing which could tend to irritations or to embarrass Or rota* uselessly the progiess of the negotiation. " (naiad nbetehaviging Notes, metre car less aka , • int but which remote frems rather than approach. the objett to he obtained ; instead of commencing • those controversies in writing. which are not less prejudicial to humanity than apes hostilities, and which prolong the miseries of nations ; and, above all, instead of negotiating a peace in the manner that war it made, the Plenipotentiaries managed with frankness the conferences, in which His Ma jesty the Emperor and King granted all that he could grant, without losing sight of the dig• nity of his Crown, his love fur bus people, and the barrette of h;s Allies. " Never will His Majesty be reduced to other eactitioes. a. Does not the (nurse taken by his Excellency Cie Earl of Lauderdale, the new Plenipotentiary •uf his &hermit.. Majesty, appear to announce, that a multitude of Notes would not be sufficient, even for the two Governments to understand one an other ? and is there not evidently a danger, that by pursuing such a course. of which the abuse has been so mantles' io our time, they will under stand one another still less than they do at present ?. If there is no other wish but to create documents, ' which may aftere.o.rds be ',hewn to the Parliament of Great Britain, His Majesty the Emperor feels no such necessity. It is peace which he desires: that peace equally honourable to France, to Great Bri• tame, and their Allies, which the assiduous and mu. tual labours of the respetive Plenipotentiaries, had ' Tonle acceptable to the two Governments. " Nevertheless, to sbew to the eyes of all, his love for justice, and the sincerity of his pacific sen timents, and that it may be truly known to whom every hindrance to the progress of the negotiation Ought to be attributed, Ilia Majesty the Emperor and King has deigned to permit the Undersigned to dig. as here the rpain rinestion relative to the basis of • 'The follislul ohm* Nines wens omitted in our Series of yester,iv, • • • /Ifs. 10.) Sia...l wrote two ward to yen, to inform you, that i am It pectretly satieied with the at 4tiet that iuu hate Spill itzprosta at tot peace Levi Y4rotuuth, ate ides, has coy entire eee6. defter Every Ming wt.,rh :tit snail ate,.te.ei wyou, you nay ee.tsal.te es protealintir 1/0/1 myself. Time pantie—Ate. ept .yben .tine.. C. J. PDX. liandoe. J aue 11, I .6 . (No. 11 ) . Are the power!gi , • ti to Lord Y.A ulouth, 'written in the Lat e . r•in, 12 i . .. • lathe taae.larben a the ...tn.? c'tei d'ffte in sit log trim I 1.1 V .11.4 ! putirce 1.T.11 Us. •,,,, •c %nor •,n.. . I this .usgoeistios, akeisay advanced. and ors the i i int of being terminated. Al "In the Meier written to his Excellenet Mr ' . the Ist of April, by his Excellency the Ft 1 nietee for Foreign . .A4faies.. that Minitel . _ nr • litiounces; that His Majesty the Emperor and Kit k' • opted entirely the principle laid down in the di - . arch of his Excellency Mr. Fox, of the 260 , t. March, and presented as the basis of the Neve. tion, ' that the proposed peace ought to be hone.. able for the two Courts, and fur their respetei., Allies.' " In his letter attic td of Jane, to his Excellence ' Mr. Fox, his Excellerty the Minister of Foreig• Affairs went still farther. He proposed, in the mint of His Majesty the Emperor and King, to establis for bases two fundamental principles . the fir-t take', from the letter of Mr. Fox, of the 26th of March. to wit, ' that the two States should have for their ohjea, that the peace should be honourable for them and for their respeftive Allies, at the same time that the peace should be of such a nature, as to secure, as far as they could, the future repose of Europe.' The second principle was, ' a recognition in layout of both powers, of the right of interference and gua rantee, both for continental and maritime affairs.' " Such were the bases adopted by the British Government, and agreed to by it. It never could have come into the. contemplation of His Majesty the Emperor and King,' to tyke for the basis of the negociation the sits poutdeirs. Ifsuch bad been his iJeas, he would have kept Moravia, a part of Hun gary, Styria, Cat niola, Croatia, the whole of Aus tria, •as well as its capital ; Trieste and Fiume, and the shores surrounding them, would be now under his power, as well as Genoa and Venice. However, Osnahrirgh, and all the mouths of the great rivers in the North of Germany, would be tuhje& to his Empire; and certainly then His Majesty might, without any difficulty, leave the Cape, Surinam, Tobago, St. Lucie, Pondicherry, Ice. in the hands of His Britannic Majesty. " As to Sicily, oven upon that hypothesis, His Majesty the Emperor and King would not have left it to his enemies ; but His Majesty would have thought only that the conquest of that island ought to have preceded the opening of_the negoriations ; and while Prussia and Russia have guaranteed and recognised the changes which have taken plate in the kingdom of the Two Sicili-s, was it to be pre sumed, that England could have been able to p: event the conquest of Sicily, which is only separated from the Continent by a canal of less than 2900 t , rises ? " Supposing even that the Cape and Sui inem, and other Dutch possessions, could be detached de finitively from the kingdom of Holland, is it not certain, that its incorpo-ation with the French Em pire would have been the necessary consequet ett of the Tomcat of England to restee to it its c0i,....es ? What means would there be, in eta, to preserve a nation which had nothing hut debts, and from which the entire abience of commerce would remove every ' means of payment ? Whatever their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of Ills Bsitaanic Majesty may al lege, it is impossible that they should not be con vinced, that it is a thing extremely different for Great Britain to see the Terri, and the mouths of the Rhine and Meuse, subjeet to the French custom house laws, aid to see them subject to those of the Dutch. - thus then, without the restitution of its colonies, Holland would, of necessity, become a province of the French Empire; for, in accepting the crown of Holland, Prince Louis formally sle dared his intention of renouncing it, if the Dutch colonies should not be festered et the general peace. " Let Hanover, moreover, become a province of France; let Trieste. Fiume, and their tenitoriee, become in like manner provinces of the kingdom of Italy : and let Great Britain keep.in compensation the Cape, Surinam, Malta, Pondicherry, &cc. France will consent to it ; and the great principle of oti .Itossidetis shall be applied in its whole extent, both at present and for the future. " Let the new Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty find in the history of the world, a segociation concluded between two great na tions, on the principle of uti pealidirtis. Let him examine whether the rsti poisidttis does not rather belong to an armistice than to a peace ? It is im possible not to say, that in proposing to France the siti posiiiair, especially in the present circumstances, they must have formed a strange idea of the cha rafter of the Emperor Napoleon; and that they must have supposed him reduced to a singular de gree of humiliation and distress. " But, in demanding the sill iiessidetit, his Excel lency the Earl of Laude: dale, Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty. without having any regard to the principle which he advances, wishes, neverthe less, to change the entire destiny of a Continental nation, which furnished to England 25,000 men, and which suppliei her with a part of those means which she displayed in the seven years war, and even in the war of the French Revolution, against the armies of the North. Thus, then, they wish the tell mssinfitis to deprive France of all her com merce and establishments, and to ruin her Allies ; but tile) , wish to violate the principle of the as: pos. :dais, to oblige France to renounce its engage ments ; to break its treaties; and, in short, to dis solve its whole Continental system. Is nut this to ' propose a peace a thousand times mare disastrous than the longest war, and conditions capable of excit ing the indignation of every Fienchrr.an ? What I shall France have conquered all the Powers hired by England, during the continuance of the three coa litions, to see imposed upon it conditions as unjust as they are dishonourable, in spite at the modera tion and generosity that she his shewn. " His Excellency Mr. Fox has himself proposed, , that the peace should be honourable for the two Courts, and ior their respeetive Allied.' His Ma jesty the Emperor and King cannot regard the peace as honourable, if by one of the conditions of it he is to lose a single sithjeft ; and however small nag be ti.e importance of the Colony el Tobao, it is sufficient that it was a past of the French Empire, when His Majesty took the reins of Government, to I prevent His i•lej-sty from ever signior *treaty, in which shall be contained the alienatidn of that Co lony, or of any other which belongs to him in the saris, seta seer. NO reasonable Englishman could Oyer Batter himself to the contrary ; and in his pre sent situation, His Majesty would lest, if he con sented to it, the esteem of every brave and generous man,. evep wens his enemies. •' 1 he Undeseigneil is charged .to &slam, that His Majesty the Entiletov sad King esteems the very 'Ara of a negnciatidbun the basis of the &di/lola/els *nits dishunctun iriasto much the more co ,teary to pttineiplea,. as t.His Majesty has etestered his 004- rite*, and he would reign over aprsnlation double ; that which is WIN SUbjea to him, if at the ante i s. ..e peace that he made at the expiration of trine nit et ent.coalitions, he bad taken for his only principles rd pendent fhe Undersigned is also charged to declare. ;.so the only basis of negociation which Hi- M ejesty n,e Emp nor and King will adopt. are those pruposec . a part by Mr. Fox, and in part contained in the ler t.o iddreased to him on the 21 of June he .iister of For. igie Affairs, and referred to its the 1:2.11 earagraph of the present note. His Majesty the Entperor and King does not require from Great Britain any thing contras y to the interests of her Allies he ought then to raped, that they would not require of bins any thing con trary to the interests of his own. " The Undersigned is charged to add, that he refers to all which had been prepared by the mutual efforts of his Excellency the Earl of Yarmouth, and of the Undersigned. 1, If the peace is not restored, it is not France that can be accused of having changed, but Eng land: although the peace between France and Rus sia, and other events unfavourable to Great Britain, had taken place since the negociation had been com menced, and was almost brought to its conclusion, in concert with his 'Excellency the Earl of Yet month. " The Undersigned seizes this opportunity of as suring their Facellencirs the Earls of Lauderdale and of Yarmouth, of his high consideration. (Signed) 11 CL•atta." (No. IS.) The Undersigned Plenipotentiaries of His Bri tannic Majesty do not think they she u!d allow them selves to enter into a detailed consideration of the official note, which has been sent to them, on the part of his Excellency General Clarke, dated the gth of August. After the manner in which the different points that are the subjea. of that note, are . there treated, it would be impossible for them to discus' them with thit calmness and that regard due to forms, which the cttarater with which tkey are clothed by their Sovete gn requires. But the sub je4 of this note is of a nature so general, and so fo reign to the objet immediately in q section, that it would be perhelly useless to take it into cotsalsieraa lion, at the present time. " The Undersigned, the Earl of Lauderdale, far from thinking that the manner of discussing in writ ing the fundamental points of a negoci iron, can by any means increase the diffioilty of coming' to an understanding, thinks. on the contraay, that he al ready perceives manifest proofs of its utility in the ,, that the official note presented by him since his ar rival, hat led the negociation to an unequivocal issue, and has put an end to the misconceptions' (no doubt real ones) which have taken place, and which could sever have existed, if the same method had been adopted since the commencement of the nego tiation. " The Undersigned, the Earl of Yarmouth. sees himself obliged to recur to the mariner in which it has I been given to be uaderstood, that he has landed at Calais, clothed with a public char:atter, to treat about peace. He has only come over to give, in person, and Viva veer, the answer to a communication which be had been requested to make to the English Government, founded upon the basis of the oh pas. saris), from the following words of his Excellency, sl. de Talleyrand : 'We demand nothing from you,' which were accompanied by the positive as surance, that the restitution of His Majesty's Ger man possessions Would experience no resistance.— The same sentiment is fohnd elitely expressed in the letter of M. de l'alleyrand to Mr. Fox, dated the Ist of April:.' The Emperor has nothing to desire of what England possesses I' " The Earl of Yarmouth thinks himself equally hound not to pass over in silence the Tema! Its made by his Excellency, General Clarke, on the sublret of the delay of the negociation, and of the frequent intercourse by Couriers. The answers of His Bri tannic Majesty have always been frank and ready ; and if the number of Couriers has been considerable, it can only be attributed to causes with which His Majesty is not acquainted. " The Undersigned, the Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth, can by no means concur in the opinion expressed by General Clarke in his Note, t the negociation had been commenced, and almost brought to conclusion,' in the interval which passed between that period when Lord Yarmouth officially communicated his full powers, and the arrival of Lord Lauderdale. On the contrary, they considered the negotiation as having scarcely begun. The conversations al luded to, consisted, on the part of the French Ple nipotentiary, in requiring what the Uitdersigned, Laid Yarmenth„ has uniformly declared triad. missible; and, on the part of Lord Yarmouth, to confine himself within the limits of the oh posiidetis, as the instruftions, from his Government, did not authorize him to admit any other basis of negocia tion; a basis suggested by France, in the commu nication made by Lord Yarmouth, and previously announced in M. Talleyrand's letter of the Ist April. " The U..dersigned, the birds Lauderdale and Yarmouth, think it unnecessary to repeat now toe reasons mentioned in the official note presented by Lord Lauderdale, which induced His Majesty to consider the basis of Lai pordrietir, proposed by France, as susceptible of a particular application to the respeflive situation of the two countries. It is to them a suhjeet of extreme regret, that the ex peftation and the hopes of the two countties ►hould be tkus entirely disappointed by the absolute dere liftion of this basis, and in so positive a manner, on the part of the French Government. Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth conclude w:th declaring, th His Majesty, always ready to listen to just and honourable terms of peace, relies with confidence on the mewls which the ioyaltrand afF-c -tion of his +ubjefts afford him. He never will 'men to any propositions for a negotiation upon any basis incompatible with the honour of his crown, and the true inte►mits of his subjefla. " L WOK IDA LE " Pant. Aut Jlt 9, 1606. YAKMOU I II." ($n 16-) " Tie claims made by the French Government in the official octe of fits Eseellency General Clarke, which are quite inonstipatible with the basis origin. 8 ally proposed by the same Government. 11- wine left us nn other chi ice than that of foto - no - to. t, otr .Wn tiovernment, we h a ve the hc7sour requ ist hat y nir Excel . enry will send us die necessary p ass . ports for ourselves and tulle *. We emhr.see this opportunity of tenew'ng to tour Escrllency the assurances old-AO consistelaten wit t which we have the honour to be, ece. Pails, Anvot 9, 11106. RANDFRDAI.R, P. M Hai-past Sus. .4 YARMOUTH... fmr 17) "The i'rds Latist . rdale*.alld rottnouth have -the honour to reiterate t the Maillistef for Iforeign Af. fairs, the request which they made 4,11411-pea s t yesterday evening, for the necessary passports (sir themselves and suite. as well as for.■ passpoit for Courier, who is waiting for it to set out on his journey. " They have the honour to renew the "museum of their high.consideration. t . " Paris, August 10, IeGG. Eleven ot i leek, A. a (No. 19.) • " SIR, Pain, Aug 11, 11106, Tea &Clock. A M. " It is our duty to renew the demand which e e have already twice made of a passport for a Cow rier, an! at the same time of the passports necessary to enable us to return to England. " We feel it also to be our duty to oh , erve to pont Excellency, that this request was made the eap before yesterday, Saturday, at half p .st six in the evening ; and that it was yesterday, Su day, re newed to your Excellency, at eleven <Alai:, and that to this hour we have received no answer to our rs quests. •• When your Excellency shall recollea that about teenry four hours are expired since we addressed you for the second time ; and that. nut to speak if our own passports, t..e hare heels, deeting the whole of this time, deprived of the means of sending a Courier to England. you cannot but be convioced, that if we abstain from any remarks upon a proceed. rug so extraordinary, and so contrary to established wage, it is through a wish to amid, as lang as pos sible, any thing which may crease ill humour, and change the tone and mature of the communicatioes s which have hitherto prevailed between the two Go. vernments. We request your Excellency to accept, &c. •• " TAR muunt.^ (No. re ) " August 11, MG " The Undersigned, Ministers Pleuipshentiatv of Hit Majesty the Emperor of the . French, and King , of' Itsly: hire read with atte:ntion the note d a ted I the 9th ir.st. Whieltheir Zee 'envie" ;Ise ne. ipo. tentiasies of His l'Slajesty the ink of the 1.0te.3 KingdoM of Great Erisain_ beleod haye dressed to them, and in teldcb diey iglisypropow the eiteesidetirs, is Cie basis of ;the ',mechanise, •• The French Plerilootentieties are sricertain whether they are to suppose that it is tc from the achiptinn of this principle, that Engtuit Is co late a tight of tear:ling hum the French Gores*. ment, for hersilt '.lu! her A.lli"s; all the restiturioas she may think yriTer. to cWin, sit tout any W lion on her part to restor e t Fiance , or her Asks, any of the conquests she hiss !Made (turn themes-- This is so entraordi iary a r•etetasion, that ik miy as All be said that Irimice is to sign wholly's. the English. Plenipotentiaries may is auk proper to pro pose, which we can never suppose to be really the desigq of the English Government. They cannot have sent Plempitneniaries solely for the purpose of insisting utioa the a.rsnission of an undefined basis. which would place all the conditions art tee Emily in their power. In a state rif things so obscure, the French Plenipotentiaries require the explanations necessary for cleariug up and advancing the nego ciation. They consist in a declaration of what cos. quits England wishes to retain ; of the conquests she is inclined to restore to France and her tittles; and of the conquests which she is desirous Frain should restore. A system er compensation would this be unfolded, which would give a clear idea of the principles and intentions of the British The French Plenipotentiaries will learn what en gagements they contrini by the adoption it the pioposest basis, to which adoption they mast as suredly cannot accede, without comprising what us required of them. " Here the English Plenipotentiaries, in laying down the principles of the ors peesseet.4. in contem plation to propose a system of exchange and own ps.nsation ? If that be the case, the Emperor ad Fes it, because he finds it conformable to the two princi ples already avowed and consented to in the corre spondence between the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the English Seetetary of Slate for the Foreign Department; namely: " 1. Tot the principle laid down by Mr. Fox, in his letter of the 26th of last March, ' that it should be the °bled of bolt parties that the peace should he honourable for each of them, and for their alties es speitively, and a; the same time that it should be of .a nature to assure, as far as they could. Cue future uanquillity'of Europe.' "2. To the principle annexed to the foregoing by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the 21 of June following, which coasists • in an acknowlldgement in favour of each of the powers, of a complete right of interfering ar.d guaranteeing affairs, both conti nental and maritime.' "The Undersigned assure their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of His Britannic 11:ajesty of their high consideration. "CLARKE, " CNAMPAGNY tifft, (No SO ) " We Lave this instant received a note, signed h! their E.xcelieociel M. Chart/paw and General Cake, to which, under any odser circumstance+, we shoLld have returned an usrmediate answer. r. Hut it is our Jury to ob:sr►e to your Etcellercy, that since J.:4 1 / 1 )/1st sit o'clock the dy before we; have remeined without any answer to our app: suitor for a passport for our Messenger, 45 well a► tor oar own passports, although tne appl 1• 4. tutus has been successively repeated, no less than thrice in th e course a that tint.. " It is of the utmost importance, in the situation is whic:t we are, to be assured of a free am! tt-t , "' terruptcd communication with our Govetornent, As often .s we may think It necessity. •• W. request your Ercellency to satisfy us on this point, in order that we may know whether we mAT