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till ; I should be informed that this new demand, changing entirely the proposed basis, should be urged no more." He appointed 'next morning for the to receive an answer. • I accordingly returned to the Office yesterday morning, when M. Talleyrand repeited , the same demand, otferihg to desist from the recognition by Great Britain of any or all the new States, waving this'concession to the honour of the Powers created - by France, and,setting Hanover against Sicily, and pleadins. ; that no such recognition being demanded, then 'appear a fair equivalent for that Island. He read the draft-of aii, article to . this effete-: , --that Great Britain - and FranCe should. not oppose each others arms.; against such of the Powers .now at as should-riot-be-named in the Prelitni- • riafy: Articles. ' To this I declined making any answer, repeating tnyorders.'not to converse further till he should abatidon this 'proposition, and ,return to the .fOrmer •basis, I added that, unless ,be did so, I could ex pert nothing but your order to return to England. M. Talleyraud wished to revert to the old topic,, on which I repeated to him, that it. was impossible fOr me to converse on any part of the subject till be should entirely relinquish every mode' of seeking for • the possession of Sicily. M. Talleyrand desired me to inform you, that on the 2gth of Jung the French troops were to take pos session of Cataro.. . No. 17.—Extraa fret a Dispatch from the Earl of Yar mouth to Mr: Secretary Fox, dated ratis, July 'Soo.— . Received luly 4. 'SIR, ' Paris, July r, 1806.—Midnight. After closing the dispatch I had the honour to address to you this morning, lyentforthe passport M. Talleyrand had . promised to have prepared for the Messenger's return.-: • Instead of giving me the passport, he made many excuses for its twine escaped .his nrniory, request it, me to wait till be should come back from .St. Cloud. When I returned, M. Talleyrand proposed to me to offer the Hanse Towns as an establishment,for the King of Naples,- and that the British troops should occupy them the same day they retake possession of Hanover. On a little further conversation, I had little doubt that were .England to, provide in any other manner for..his Sicilian Majesty, the Ding might add the Hanse Towns_and their territories in full sovereignty to his Gerinan dominions. The propositions about the Hanse Towns being entirely new, I promised to refer, it without any comment to you for his Majesty's consideration. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) YA2 MOUTH. No. 18.—Extraa from a Dispatch from Mr. Secretary Fox to the Earl of 'Y armouth, dated•Downing-smet, july 5, ad). MY LORD, .Downing-street, I uly s, tBO6. Your Lordship's dispatches pf the first inst. were received here early yesterday morning, and I lose no timein apprizing you of ,his Majesty's commands upon the present state of the discussion with the French Government. The abandonment of Sicily is a point on which it is impossible for his Majesty to concede. Your Lord ship has already stated unanswerably to M. Talky-- rand, that this demand is inconsistent with his ex press declarations, and' . with the whole principle on, whicb the Negotidtion rests. It is, besides,. a pro posal in itself quite inadmissible. The King's trodps occup) Sicily for its defence, but with no right to cede it to France. It is not easy to contend that the posse4sion of Sictly can be necessary to that of Na- , Oes . ; nor, if it were so, could that.be assignee as a` reason for his Majesty's consenting to abandon that, Island, whiCh he may justly hope his naval and mili tary fOrce will be able to defend against all attacks. The Hanse Towns could not, in the present circum stances, answer the purpose of an equivalent for Sici ly; even if there were not other objeaidns to, such a' proposition Nor would it be possible that- any solid basis for the tranquillity of Enrope could be establish ed on the idea thrown, mit by M. Talleyrand, of iear it°r -Great Britain and France at liberty to prosecute the war against the Allies of each other ; a state of things ih which their rcspeelive fleets and armies would be 'as much opposed to each other as they are now, and the Peace bet‘veen them would be merely • nominal. It is, therefore, to be hoped, that the French Go- Ternment m ill revert to its or;ginal -proposals with 'which your Lordship was charged by M. Talley rand. To that basis of Negotiation it must be your Lordship's encleavoisr to recall him; and if, Unfortu nately, you should find this to be hunratlicable, no thing can remain but that you should state, in per fealy civil, but decided terms, that you are nut at libe.rty to treat on any other ground, and must, therefore, desire your passports to return to Eng land. - I have stated in my last . letters the different ideas that had occurred here for combining our Ne gotiatiOns with that of Russia ; providing, at the .same time, tor the safety of Sweden and Portugal. . Until we are. informed what other proposal is 'made in this respect , by M. Talleyrand, I can only desire that your Lordship will keep thiS subjed in view, so as not to .admit of any thing inconsistent with the principle of good faith to which His Majes ty must in substance adhere, but in such form as m2y best facilitate the great work of Peace. I am, &c. No. O.—Extra& from a Dispatch from the •Earl of Yar." mouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, dated - Paris,,july 9, t 806.— Xeceived July 12. SIR. Paris, fitly 9, 1806. I had the hOnour to receive your dispatch of the Mit, early yesterday morning, and as soon as possible after waited upon M. Talleyrand, to corn- Municate to him that the offer made by France was .by no Means admissible, and that I had no authori ty,ty listen to any proposals whatsoever for the resto ,rifiAn of Peace, till he should desist from all preten anAto the Nand of Sicily. -▪ Aaalleyrand not being willing to /like any such declaration, I asked, him to give me a.passport to re twik, p (i London—he desired me to wait one day, again have taken the Emperor's or % _• aqstrotingly returned this morning, when he de sariq .nqo propose Dalmatia,Albania,,and Ragusa, as i gi ideFtrinity for the IOSS of Sicily to his Sicilian SAaVt,yi; to this I answered, that as the Messenger was relurning, I should-communicate this. proposi, Von but that it by no. means authorized me-to ex . answer, and therefore I must Lief; leave to re tetriii'lo England. Had M. D'Oubrit not - been inimedintetz have iusigord on passports. . I must now inform you, thatbn 'Alonday M. leyrand took the aside, and told me, that the telc7 graph announced the landing of 13,asilico, exPresFin at tliti same time a wish . that the dispatches he. \voted bring might lead to Peace. I answered, that I could expect no; push remilt France dem:mded city ; •and added, that if I might believe . ..)üblic re port, the Emperor, so, far from sheaving any patilic disposition, every day threw new obstacles in the' • way. . , I then mentioned the changes in Germany. M. 1:1 Talleyrand sai that 'they were determined upon, but should no 0 published if Peace took place. lie has since re - ecr,thig to M. DOubril and myself, 'saying; if Peace Nl , il3 made, - Germatiy should remain in its present state. '• • M. D'Oubril writes both to you and to the Comte De Strogonntii - his . Letters will contain probably More than -mine, as I conversed very little with M. Talleyrand.. r-lcit, on very delicate ground, tiad I entered sufficiently into the question of indeinnities ,fcir the King of Sicily, to obtains precise idea to what 4t tent they could be carried, Mons - De Talleyrand Might have formed an opinion that I had Some in- Struaions, and . was prepared to abandon Sicily whenever I was •assured of sufficient compensation. No. 20.—Extraa ft - Om a Dispatch from Mr. Secretary Fox • to the Earl of Yarmouth, dated Downing-strceti l uly 13.6. MY LORD, Downing-street, ath July, !Sof,. Your ,Lordship'S last dispatches have been -re ceived, and considered with all the attention' which'; theirimportance naturally demanded. It unnecessary for me to recall to your Lordship's recolleCtion that the demand of Sicily, in whatever shape it may be brought forward by Fratice,.is in ex?, press centradiaion to the- otThrs originally made to your. Lordship by. M. Talleyrand: But it is material that this topic should Dever be lost sight of in the course of these discussions ; and that your Lordship should observe to M,•Talleyrand, that whateverdif ficUlty now obstruds the conclusion of the Negotia tion arises solely from • this .unexpeaed departure from the.-basis,orginally'established. Am exchange is now offered for "Sicily, and it is in that view, and not in that of an absolute and uti. 7 compensated cession, that the question is to be con sidered. In this shape of the business, it is obvibus, that the value of that exchange must be to,bejudged of, not only' by this country and Russia, but also by his Sicilian Majesty, as the King, whose troops were admitted into Sicily for its defence and pre heaion, naturally feels insuperable obje6tions•to any proposal fur abandoning that Island; unless with the ' free and full consent of its Sovereign, and in conse quence of such an arrangement as should provide for his interests by a compensation really satisfa6loty both in point of value and of security: The plan of creating for him a new kingdom, to consist of Dalmatia, Ragusa, and Albania, does not appear likely to answer' 'this description: Albania, which fOrms so large a part of this proposed So vereignty,. is now a' province of the Turkish Em pire; the dismemberment of which is a principal o‘hje6t of the policy both of Great Britain and Russia to prevent : that province has indeed beeii frequent ly involved in' the same sort of confusion which pre- Vails in many other parts of that Empire. But this' circumstance 'only increases the ditticialty. of giving any consistence to a State to be formed out of such materials. It does not lessen the. other objeOtiOnS to stich, a plan. • There are, in like . nianner, many and strong ob.; jeaions to that part of the proposal, which respeEts : Ragusa ; an independent State, whose territory has' never been Ceded to France by any treaty, and of • which she can, consequently, have no right to dis pose, her occupation of - it being, indeed, of a very. recent date. • But even- with Albania and Ragusa, and much more without them, His Majesty sees no hope that such a Power could be . formed in that quarter as would; either in extent of territory-or in amount of, revenue, attbrd the Means' of opposing any barrier ta- Austria or Turkey, or even of maintaiuing own independence. ; What advantage then could be gained to the Al lies by creating a nominal kingdom, without any power either tO -reduce the couutries .of which it would be composed under any iiniforni system of Government, or to defend' itself against the first attack which may be made upon it from without ? • If there could, with the consent of his, Sicilian Ma . jesty, be and question of, an exchange for by the creation of a new State in that (laner, it - is .obvious that this could no 'otherwise be done . than by annexing to Dalmatia not only the'wliole of Is tria, butalso a very large proportion, if not the whole, of the Venetian States, including, if possible, the ,city of Venice itself. In some such shape as this it is possible that the proposition might be rendered - not wholly unacceptable' to his Sicilian Majesty.. • And although the interests of this country separately would bp far less consulted by such a plan than by the continued occupation of Sicily, yet the sense which the Russian Minister at Paris appears to tertain of the advantage which might result from at to Austria and to 'Russia frpm she recovery of Dal rnatia, if it were well combined with future arrange merits of defence, might induce his Majesty to ac cede to proposals of, this description 5 on the suppo sition above-mentioned . Of a tonafide,consent on the part of his,Sicilian Majesty. There appears, however, so little probability of inducing France .so to extend her Otter, that any further discussion might scarcely have been worth pursuing, had not.M,D'Oubril strongly expressed his wish that tills Court might rather seek to temporize; - than to break off a Negotiation now brought to a state which affords•so little pronlise of success-. It is only in compliance with that desire that his Majesty has been pleased to order your Lordship to continue the conferences with M. Talleyrand, so as to ascer-: .tain whether. any. more practicable shape can be given -to the proposal of an exchange -for Sicily.— If this cannot be done, your Lordship's attention will of course be direCted to the obje6t of re•calling the French Government to the basis, on which the Negotiation •was originally placed by themselves, and on whiCh his Majesty is still ready to conclude them. M. D'Oubril has stated to - Count Strogonoff the 'proPosals whi,,:h have been made to him for the conclusion of a separate' Peace, and the induce- . ments.which, he thinks, might, lead his Mniesty to judge such an arrangement .useful to the general in terests of Europe. His Majesty has undoubtedly been 24 all times ready to make great sacrifices fur thust.r.'im - Ecsts. But very Ha% ex - pectatiiSn is (in . tcrtained here that "Russia could, in such conrso, ob any ePanal security for them, at a lime wben:" so much new danger is to be apprehended, HantLirt so many quarters, from the lubjeas of France with icspe&l to Germany, Switzerland, 'ewe "den, the Porte, Spain, and . Portugal. - In the present circumstances of Europe,_ the last hope of ,averting these daubers is. tube found in the union of the only two Powers on whom France has yetmade no. impression, Great Britain and Rus- sta. . . • And although the mutual geod disposition and Confidence of those two Powers should, in fait, re main (as. his Maiesty trusts they would) unimpaired by the difference of the situation in which a separate Peace would place them, yet .it is obvious that the Enemy would build the most extensive hopes on that foundation, and woultl . be More encouraged by that, than by.any other circumstance that could he stated,:toproceed in the execution of the plans al ready announced to your Lordship and to M.'D'Ou bril. His'Majesty, therefore, dire that you should express to that Minister, how Material it is in every case,' that the two Courts should continue to com bine their measure's bath of Peace and War, and.' that no expe&ation should be held out to the Enemy . of success in any endeavour to conclUde a separate • ',Peace With either of the Allies.; a line to which, as your Lordship will have informed'M. D'Oubril, his Majesty has, on his part, stri&ly adhered'. • 2T.—Extraa from. *a Dispatch -from the Eatt of Yar. mouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, 'dated Paris, July 'eeiv.ed duty July 19, 1836. sz at night: On the ffith General Clarke wv named Pleni potentiary to treat with Mons. ; they have since had daily conferences ormany" hours, yesterday of fourteen. I hear every where'that peace will be signed to-morrow between Russla and France. On • the 17th, D'Oubril admitted to me,' that he had produced his plowers, and that if conditions, such as he should judge necessary to ensure the repose of the Continent could be obtained, he should sign a truce Of ten months ; and 'this night, pp pres Sing him, and remonstrating both upon his condifel and the impropriety of dispising his intention, I drew from hini these words, which I wrote down in his presence. " Que vojrant le danger immediat' de I'Autriche, ponvoit la sanver il croiroit son de .,vpir de le faire, memo par tine Pttivparticullere."— All he now appears to claim is the return of the troops from Germany ; and if he is willing - to make peace on receiving an assurance that orders to that effee.l shall be sent, nobody_ can doubt but that it will be signed, and probably, not a battaliohinale a retro grade tnoyement of fifty. mills. M. Talleyrand says; that •M. IYOubril is .willing to abandon Sicily and' Dalmatia, and even to engage to solicit the jnbaion of the former to Naples, I have used every argument to dissuade M. D'Ou- , bril 4.orn so unadvised and Unwise a measure, I hope more than I believe, with success. Indeed I feared, from the first hour I met hitn,.that he was 'conic de termined to make Peace good or bad, with or Without Great.'Britain. I may, perhaps,. (min a day, which maybe a great deal, if that day should ' produce dis patches from M. De Stiogonoth On the' 17th, at night, the new arrangements for Germany *ere finally determined upon. The Princes . and the Ministers who. signed were scarce allowed time to read the deed. . There is a considerable army forming - at Bayonne ; thirty thousand men are there already. This army' is ostensibly 'destined against Portugal, but will take SpaiOikewise. M. Herman, one of the Secretaries of the Foreign 011 - I , e set oil for Lisbon with a mission oithe 13th. All the Officers 0f the army, now in Germany, received y6sterda'y orders to join their regiments in , stantly. The. Court say; this is to have troops to occupy the States seized by the New Confederacy. The public ascribe this rt . S,asure to a desire to . frighten the Emperor of Germany, and myself, •to a wish to hUrry M. D'Oubril, wit& has shewn so Much anxiety for, the evacuation of Germany. M. D'Oubril and M. Talleyrand have, as I have learnt, fixed upon Majorca, Ivica, and Minorca, fOr his Sicilian Majesty, if they can prevail upon us to evacdtte Sicily. . I have the honour to be, Sir, Scc.. YARMOUTH. No. tz.-Xopy of.a Dispatch from the Earl of Ydrmouth to Mr. Secretary Fox. Dated' Parts, July zo, 1836.—Re ceived July 24th. SIR, -Paris, Inly ao, t806.---tt at night. At nine this morning,, having . had .the honour: to receive your letters by Mr. Longuinoff, and written a few - lines to you in addition to my 'dispatches of last night, 1 went -to M. D'Oubril ; and, as I am happy since to find, anticipated the''-contents of your' dispatch of the t Bth inst. I used every argument and means to obtain delay ;' engaged' to break off, if he did ; and, filially, authorized .him to hold out hopes, that I.'would listen to propositions of indem nity in lien 9f•Sicily,for. his,Sicilian Majesty, if pro posed by him, and. accompanied by a joint Negotia tion., I begged he would.do nothing till afterßasi licO should have arrived, as I had learned by the telegraph that he had landed last night,' I did not' find him disposed to listen to me; and, not being willing to be too communicative towards him at that moment; I wcrit aW,ay. At twelve, I waited upon M. Talleyrand he was not to be seen. • • At four I heard, irons good authority, that PeaCe *as signed. At six ,Basilico, arrived. I then went to M.D'.oubril. He was said not to be at home ; but, seeing his carriage, I forced my way. He ad mitted the facTt,Peace is signed ; the conditions--the ;evacuation instanter of Germany by the . French troops ; the integrity, &c. of the Ottoman Empire; no attempt to be made upon Swedish Pomerania; and, by a secret Article, Russia promises to obtain his Sicilian Majesty's consent to an exchange of, Sitily•for Majorca, Minorca, and Ivica. Russia to use her good offices to restore Peace between France and England. I have not:seen the Treaty, but I believe it con tains' nothing else material. • M. D'Oubril sends a Copy to Count Strogonoff, land goes himself to St. Peter4burgh, I had no pa- Aienck.; to listen to M. D'Oiibrirs•detence of his con- Iduti, so , 1 did: not claim his good offices. I must " That being aware of the immediate danger of Austria, if it was in.his power to sav4 it, he should think it hit duty "to do so, even s.v.4:4te have asked him omci ily to sty which I did not clause to do. I have the hanour to be, Sir, &e. YAR:'iOI.ITII. No. a3.-sxtraa from a Dispatch from the Earl of Yar mouth to Mr. Secretary fox, dated Paris, july al, 1836. —Received July 24. SIR, • Paris, 2 rst July, 1836. I saw M. Talleyrand to-day. I can perceive that the terms of France are increased, but stilt not so much as-the sudden defeelion. of Russiahad led me to apprehend. Hanover, Malta, the :Cipe, and India, remain pure and unsullied ; and I took , an opportunity in conversation to protest, that come what might come, these were points I never would suffer to, be mentioned, but as point s M. Talleyrand demanded my powers. I did not think 'myself authorised, in the present circuini6hces; to withhold them. General Clarke is named to treat with No. 24.—Fu1l powers given to the Earl of Yar mouth, which were communicated to M. Talley.: rand on the 21st of July, .18 . 06, and exchanged with General Clarke, the French Plenipotentiary, on the 23d. No. zs.—Extraa from a Dispatch from the Earl of Yar : mouth to Mr, Secretary Fox. Dated Paris, July z 4, 6,6 —Received luly 28. SIR, Paris; July 24, 0306. I had the honour to send by Me De Longuinotf, dispatches acquainting you, for his Majesty'Siriforma tion,, of the Peace signed between. the Russian and French Plenipotentiaries, and with as accurate a state- iment of the terms as I was able to'obtain. M. D'Ou bril himself set out for Petersburgh early on the morning of the Ad. On the 22d I received the Official notification of the appointment of General Clarke to treat on the part of. France (a copy of which I have the honour to inclose, marked A),' preceded by a private coin- 7 . monication froth M. Talleyrand, saying, that the Russian Peace being signed, and the season of the year favourable to the aecomplishment of the ulte rior views of France, no arrangement, which might remove for some weeks, or even months, a defini tive treaty, could now take place. . _ I answered the official note (marked A) with one, a copy of which. I inclose (marked B). In the evening General Clarke proposed a con ference for the following Morning, at which we Should mutually exchange our full powers. We EffirliTy - dict so, and I have the honour to inclose (marked C) a copy of those of Gen. Clarke: . This conference began by an historical recapitula tion of what had previonAy passed, General Clarke saying, he had not yet • receive his.fival instrucz. tions on all the different points in discussion ; it was, theretbre agreed • to adjourn the conference to this elay e wben 'such should cone prepared with el memorandum of the intent ions •of his Government, founded on what had alreaAy passed ; General, Clarke at the same time declaring, 'that a separate Peace With Russia Was to be considered equal, or, superior, in the present circumstances of the world, to any great success in war,' and consequently as entitling France (o terms much more advantageous than those. to whiCh she would have subscrib ed some days eg - o. . 'This Was accompanied by some animadversionS_ upon the Conduct. of Rus-' sia—to which I could only answer, that I felt it my duty to. abstain from any remark, and should,' therefore, be entirely silent upon that sub je& ; but that I could assure him, that if an inten tion existed .of making any change in the great points upon which we had such positive,. though certainly' not official, assurances, namely, His Majesty's . Ge rman Dominiorvi, Malta, and the Cape, I must con-' sider the Negotiation as stopped irl linrinr., and that there would remain only for me to return to Eng land, and acquaint the kiag that too Peace, consist- , ent with. His Majcsty's honour o r that of the Coen try, could be made. Gen. Clarke. reverted to his want of full instruCtions, and premised to meet olo properly prepared the next day. At three o'clock this day, I again Met General Clarke, when I, read a paper, a copy of_which I have' the honour to inclose (marked D), containing. the abstract of what I had always stated to be the basis and terms on Which - his Majesty could alone consent to treat. I did not, however, deliver it to him, con sidering it merely as the heads of past coeveesatious. General Clarke then said, it was impossible I could be prepared with the assent' of his Majesty to the, arrangement proposed by , Russia for, his Sicilian Majesty, on which the terms might much depend,. - mtist consider the eoninthniCation he m a de, as not strialY official in point of form, but as depend ing only on .that circumstance to make it so. General Clarke proceeded to state, that, in the si.; tuation France was in at this moment, the Emperor would feel authorised to withhold some of the great points ; but tiler having repeatedly said the con trary, though not in. an oiiciaLuiauner, he % . voUld abide by it. General Clarke first conversed about His Majesty's. "German D,othinious. On this subject, by secret Ar ticles, any thing . his Majesty thinks right may be ,stipulated: by the public Article, the promise nee to object to some acquisition of territory to be made' by Prussia. I stopped General Clarke here to say, that his Majesty never could consent to the King of Prussia's obtaining the Hanse Towns. Gen. Clarke said,, that it was Fulda, Hoya, and some other trifling principalities, over which it was proposed to extendd• the sovereignty of his Prussian Majesty, but that the independence and present state of the Hanse Town's. should not be meddled with. On the subje& of Malta—Malta, Gozo, and .Conino in full Sovereignty to his Majesty, with a clause iu the Article, declaratory of the dissolution of the Order, and that the two Powers (a) ne'n con noissent, plus l'existance. Some Pensions for tlie' Chevaliers arid others, having " (L) des Droits dans not to extend to Foreign Corn manderies of the Order, or to. any claim net tbcal. • The Cape in equal full sovereignty 5 as a condition it is desired " (c) qu'il y soit (Stabil un port franc" to all Nations : either the port itself declared so, or a part appropriated to that purpose. On the subjea of the maintenance of the integrity of the, territories and poswssions, of the Stiblime Porte, General . Clarke proposed an Article, a copy of which I have the honours to send .(marked told him the usual full clause .would , be StitliCient he persisted that I should send it for his Majesty's consideration. _ _ _ T 9 the.usual full.clause of the integrity a the ter- - (a) No hitter recogr.ice the existence of it. riztlts in the • (C) 1:h;t thzrq ur cc:lblithtti then a free Port