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elti / (No: 20 the !'"op-'s f.f. the two Counttles should be th'A 'etk - - . . • tire .. disaKointed by the absolute . dereliaion of 'this , ' " SIR • . . basis, and ir, s)•ll:), , ,iiive a mAnner, on the part of the "7 4 , We have this insfant, received' a Note, - signed French Go - venrnent. -.. .• ' . by their Excellencie.4. M. Champ and 6 -, 2neral Lords ;Lander.lale and Ytn - Mouth :COnclude Clarke, to which, under any Other circums•zances, . with declaring, that .his Majesty,_ always ready to` we should have returned au immediate answ.r. listen to just and honour:dale tel of peace, relies " But it is our diity,to ' ObServe to y6ur Excellency,' with .confidence on the means which the loyalty and : that since I:alt . -past sik oclock theday.betore vester affeetion of his.SubjeEfs afford him. He never will , day, - we, have remained with Out any answer to our listen to any propositions for a negotiation upon any' ; • application fore passport for our Messenger, 's well basis :incompatible with . the honour of his, Crown, as for 'our own pasSpOrts, although the applic<ition and the true.intereStSOf his sublet:lS. . - has . been successively repeated no less than ,thrice " LA'UDERDALE, in the course of that time. , ,„ . " YARMOiITii."• t ,' It is of the ,utmost importance, in the sileation . . .. m ;which we'are, 'to be iisSured of aft4e'lt‘id taint'- , . tempted - com Mun icat ion with 4:itir ()overfill - ten t, as ofth as we. may think it. necessary..., .. . ' ' " -We request your . Excellency fo,satisfy us on this 'point, in order that we may know' whether we maybe-sufe, whenever we may think fit-to:require 1 lea sports, eithd fOr ourselves or our_messengcrs, of obtaining them.withont any delay. " It is equally incumbent on us to mention, that we have no answer to the request which we made to your Excellency respe&ing Mr.- Goddard. .- " We have the horiour„ renew_ to your Excel lency the assurances:of the high consideration with which,' Bze: ' ' -•"-- -- ! ..L. . Paris; Aug. §, 1E36." " SI-R; (No. 16.) • • - - " The claiMs made by the French Government in the official Note of his Excellency Gen: Clarke, `Which are quite incompatible with the 'basis origiA rally proposed by the. same Government, having left us no other -choice . than that of returning to our. •own Government, we have the.honour .to request that your Excellency will send us'the necessary pass ports for ourselves and stilte. " Wcembrace this opportunity -of renewing to your Excellency the assurances of high consideration - with - which We have the honour to be fiec. LAUDERDALE, YA RMOUTH." - • • " Paris, Aug. 9, 1806,P. M. Half-past Six." rc DOJO ER DA T-33, • " - YARMOUTH," " Paris; Aug: ir.;--.Hslffpast six 0'4:1w:1(. 1 ' tr 1" (No. .) . . Copy of a noteaddreSsed to Lords Lauderdale and - Yarmouth, by his 'Exc'ellency the Minister "for Po tteign_ ,Affairs', August a ; Sob:: c : . The undersigned,Minister : for Foreign Affairs . t. has the honour to tran,,rnif to 'their Excellenci es, Lira' `Lauderdale and Lord - Yarn - 16mb, Ministers -Plc= pipotentiary ,of Ibis Majesty the' King .of England, the passport they required for a messenger, He re- a grets that the suspension of business, 'which takes place,ip . the offi,ce-ptv Sundays, did trot allow him to lend it sooner. As to the passports which they have applied for for themselves, the Undersigned flatters' , - himself that they will constine his delay 'in sending them in , the way most natural and likely to.obviate any sort of complaint on their part. The Undersign ed, will never druid being responsible for any delays,: the obieel of which is to continue for a few days the hopes of 'pacifying two great Powers; and-of putting an, end to the 'miseries of W;lr in all pshs, of the kvOrld. The.T.Thdersigned entreats , their .Exeellen , . •• •- cies to accept, Sze. " CH. M. TKI:LEIIt Princo ow 13ytievcuto.'• (No: n,) " The undersigned Plenipotentiaris of .his Bri tannic Majesty - not hsve delayed answering the note of . the I I..th Aigust, transmitted. t 4 them on the part of the,ir Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of tube. French Governinent ; but the repeted applica tions which they made to his • Excellencv the Minister for the Exterior; for passports for their- messenger, having remained without an answer, 'they conceived' it to!be-their duty previously to ascertain whether they were to be allowed to, enjoy a free and uninter tupteacommunication with their Coort, such as has always been maintained in similar cases in all the Governments of Enrope.- • • " The explanation which the Undersigned have .received on thb par .of his Ex.ceileney the :Minister •Tcir Foreign Affairs,. induces them to hope, that on no occasion Whatever a similar delay will take place. After, having duly .considered the Note of their Excellencies, the Undersigned perceive that the British Government, ,far from" assuming to itself to rzquire. frOin the , French Govern "'mem whate:e; .restitutions it may think proper, without feeling-ttself under any obligation to restore . - any thing to .Fiance, has' never shewed_arly other in clination. than to treat with , the Rerich Govern- 'trent on the bagig!proposed 'to it by •France itself, .such as it was expressed in the note of Lord Lauder dale, namely, to treat generally upon the principle. 'of the uti possidetis, which was strialy to be adhered ekept• in the case of Hanover, which it was pro posed to cede wholly to his Britannic Majesty:. " Were it even possible to mistake tl4conse .. quences which necessarily flow from this principle,. the personal discussions which took place on the 9th inst. between the French Plenipotentiaries and the Undersigned; will not allow them to entertain a doubt, that the proposition thus declared was per-, fe&ly understood by the Plenipotentiaries., "Of course,. the Undersigned can only repeat, that agreeable to-the instruaions of their Govern ment;'they cannot do otherwise than insist upon the recognition of this principle as a • preliminary.. It is only. upon this condition that tliey have orders to continue the negotiation, ;As soon as this principle shall be• acceded to, the Undersigned will - be ready to' commence' . the discussion of the other points indicated ,in the letter to'Lord Lauderdale. c' The Undersigned have only to add, that if the French Government manifests an inclination to keep to the proposition such as - his Britannic Majesty supposes it ►o have been made by the French Go vernment, they will consider it as one of the most tbrtimate circumstances--as a circumstance which, according to the expression of Mr.. Fax, cited by their Excellencies, holds out a promise of a peace honourable for both nations, and of a nature at the same time to assure the permanent:tranquillity of • Europe.' " LAUDERDALE. " YARMOUTH:I. " Aug. 12, Eleven o'Clock, P.M. 1806." (No. 23.) " SIR, " ?iris, August i 4, ►3c6, "I'vo, P. M. " We think it necessarx to .acquaint your Excel . - lency,.. that :at an early hour in the morning of the 12th inst. we ,Arqnsmitted to their Excellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, a n'ote in answer to one received from their Excellencies on the 1 tth of the same month.. In this answer yie endeavoured to point out a second tirne the subjeds.which appeared to us to require, under some kind of form, a previous explanation to enable ,us, in conformity with our in struaions, to prOceed in' the .present negotiation. " The. silence of their Excellencies' the'French Pienipot:?ntiaries. subjeel,..aflbrds us room to suppose. th2Clit ,the 'pig sent Moment. we are.not to expe& such an explanation on their part. • " It is frony.tilis wiJAUer,iitto4 l 4tiljlt:Ave:Pel anxious (No. 17.) - 6 'r The. Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth have the 'honour to reiterate to the Minister for Foreign Af fairs the request winch they--made at half-past six yesterday evening, for the -necessary - passports for' thetitselves - and .suite, as well as for a paswort for a .Courin- who is Waiting for it to setout on his journey. " They have 4e honour to renew the •assurances , of their high.icotisideration." " Paris, August to, 18c6, 'evert o'.Clock, A. M." (No. 18.) ' 4B SYa;Paris, Aug. ii, 1806, Ten o'Clock, A.M. ; " It is our duty to renew the demand which we havt already Mice made of a passport for a courier,. and at th 6; same time of the passpOrts necessary to enable us to return to.. England. " We feel it also to be our duty toobserve,:to your . Excellency that this request was made the,day before yesterday, Saturday,. at half past six in, the evening, 214 that it • was.yesterday, Sunday, renewed to y‘?nr Excellency ; at eleven o'clock, and t twthis hour we haVe received no answer to dui. request._ " Whenyour Excellency:shall recoiled that ahout twenty,fonr hours are pxpireOince we, addressed you Tor the second time, and that, not to speak of our own passports, we have been during the whole of thiS time deprived of the means of sendin& a Courier to' Englß;id, you cannot but be convinced that if we ab stain front any. remarks upon a proceeding so extra 0-fdinary, and swcontrary to estabiished usage, it is, throng 2 wish to avoid as long as possible any thing which may Create ill humour; and change the-tone - and nature of the communications which have hi therto preVailed between the two Governments. . "We request your Excellency to accept, Sz.c. 4.‘ LAuDERnALE, YAitmorrii:" (No. 1 9.) " Paris, August rr, iSo6. " The undersigned, Ministers Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and: King of Italy, have read with attention the- note dated the gth inst. which their Excellencies the Plenipoten _ tiaries of his Majeity the King of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland have addressed to - them, and its - which - they : again propose the icti pos. , sidctis as the basis of the . negotiation. - " The French Plenipotentiaries are:Uncertain whe ther they are to suppose-that-it-is to follow from the adoption of this principle that England is-to have ci Tight of exacting from the French Government, for 'herself and her Allies, all .the restitutions she may think proper to claim, without any ohligatiofion her part to restore to France, or her Allies, any of the conquests she has made from them. This - is so ex traordinary a pretension, that it May,as well be said - . that France is to sign whatever the English Plenipo tentiaries may think proper to propose, which we can never suppose to be really the design of the Eng lish Government. They cannot have sent Plenipo tentiaries solely for the purpose of insisting upon the admission of an undefined basis, which would place all the conditions of the treaty in,theirpower. In a state of things so obscure, - the French-Plenipoten tiaries require the explanations necessary, for clearing rip and advancing the negotiation. • They consist in a declaration of what conquests England wishes to retain; of the conquests she is.inclined to restore to France and hers Allies ; and, of the conquests which_ she is desirous France should restore. A system or compensation would thus be unfolded which would. give a clear idea . of the principles and intentions , ol the British Cabinet. The 'French Pienipbtentiaries Will learn what engagements they contract by the adoption of the proposed basis, td ‘`vhich adoption They triust• -- assuredly cannot accede without com promising what is required of them. , l Tare- the, English Plenipotentiaries, in laying down the principles of the uti possidetis, in contem plation to propose a system of exchange and Om perhaticirvi if th:it be the case, the Emperor adopts it, because he finds it conformable to the two' prin ciples already avowed and consented to in the corre !pondence between the French Alinister for Foreign Affairs, and the English Secretary•of State for the Fereign Department, namely ; " Ist. To the principle laid down by Mr. Fox, in. his letter of the 26th of last March, that it should be the object of both parties that the peace should be bunourable for each of them, and tbr their Allies re , spetaively,' and at the same time that it should be of a nature to assure, as far as they . could, the 'future . tranquillity of Europe.' . " 2. to - the principle annexed to the forecroing , 17 - tthe:Ministertbr Foreign Affairs, in the id, .p.t. June following, whiCh consists hi an acknoliedg ialent in favour of each of the Powers, of a corn plete right of interfering and guaranieeing affair's, both continental and maritime.' "Thelindersigned.-assure thci . r Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic .I\l,lj , ..sty of their high conSide'ration. ", " to Ireit an end to the general expeEtitioriS Of both Countries, where there is so little probability of their being realized.. We arc; aware that - the application which we ,have made, under these circumstances, tor passpciftS, to enable tts to return to England, May ad mit of a construftiou calculated to deter that happy moMent when the views of the French Government will ne drawn more clo . sely to those which it was sup posed to entertain. To deStroy the possibility of such inconvenience,we feel it our duty to asure your Ei celiencr that any proceeding Which shall tend to obstrn:t the renewal of the negotiation, will, on that account, be contrary to our intentions ; although, for the reasons we have 'O entioned, we feel 'our selv' es under the:necessity of putting an end to our mission. "It cniy remains fin• its to assure your Excellency, that if, for the happiness Of the two nations, we should 'clianee to be deceived in the inferences which we have made from the silence of the French Pleni potentiaries, we shall wait a reasonable time tor any explanations their Excellencies may have to offer. " prevent, however, the necessity of repeat ing an application as disagreeable for us to make, as it would be far your:Excellency to receive, in case the negotiations shoiild not terminate favourably, we request to h furnished with the passports necessary for us 'n,nd our suite; to be mad,e Use of according to 'ci rcumstance' s. . "We have tl.e honour to renew to your Excel leuc)-- the ..: , isuranecs of our bigh consideration. " LAUDERDALE. • • " YARMOUTH." (No. 24.) . , • • • • tiatis i • August $7, 18c4. '`O d " Undersigned has the liOnour to inform his Excellc.ncy the.-Mmister for foreign A air., that his Britannic Majetity;h:ls - had the goodness to acede to the t - equest of- Lord, Yarinontli, and to allow loin to return io England. The I.lliture of the full powers of the_Undersio - ne:l, already communicated to their Excellencies. the French Plenipotentiaries, authorize 'hint t'o treat either conieintlyor separately with the . Frencli . 64ernmetit ; and . he .has received fresh and precise instruaions tea thiS - effe6.t, in case the answer to the note of the. i l th inst. should he of such a nature as to allow . linn to proceed with the negot " The . Undersigned has 114 honotdto renew it) your. Excellency the as4urances c , of his high con sideration, (No. vi.) " LAUDERDALE." " Yaris, August zz, t&06: " The Undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty finds himself under the neces sity of reminding his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affi . rs, iSt, That on the morning of the 12th a note, signed by the tindersig,ned and Lord Yarmouth, of the date of the lith; was transmitted to his Excel lency General Clarke, in which the persons under signed. declared, that the British Government, far from presuming to eXaCt from The French Govern- Merit such re,titutions as it might think,proper, without -: being tinder an obligation to make any resti tution to France,was neveraiquated by any other wish than to treat with the French Government upon the 'basis proposed by France, such as it was declared in LordLauderdale'snote,viz.to treat generally upon the basis- the .utifiossic;etis., which wasStriCtly tohe adlier ed to except in the case of Hanover, which it ivaS pro posed should be fully restored to his Britannic Majes ty. That, were it even possible ;o be mistaken as to the consequences necessarily floN,Thiz from this the personal discussions which` Wok" plae.On the 9th instant, between the French Plenipotentiaries and the Undersigued, did not leave a doubt remaining that the proposition sO made was perfectly understood by - these Plenipotentiaries, ,and that' in consequence -the Undersigned had only to repeat, that confortna bly,to the' instructions of their Government, .they could not do otherwise than 'insist upon the previous acknowledgment Of this principle ',and .that it was upon thiS Condition only that they would be Illowed to continue the negotiation.'. , " 2d. That on the 14th instant the Undersigned, coni6intly Lord Yarmouth, had the honour to infOrre his EXcellency the Minister for Foreign Af fairs in writing, that the silence of their Excelleh cies the French Plenipotentiaries, On the subject of the note of the I Ith inst. gave room. for supposing,. that at the present moment they were not to ex pc& an" explanation, such as they required in their. note of the t 1 th, which would authorize the Under signed to, proceed . with' the negotiation, agreeably to their instrtClions.' That from this consideration they felt an anxiety to put an cud to the general expetilation of both na tions, see,ing. 'there was. so little appearatiFe of its being re.7..ed. That they w:ere aware that al: appli caton for passports; undei such 4 circumstantes, to enable them to return; might 'be susceptible of con structions of a nature to'defer that liaKT moment when the views of the . French Government wbuld be drawn closer to those which it was supposed to en tertain. That to prevent the possibility of Buchan inconvenience,Shey felt it to be their duty to declare, 4 , that any proceeding, the object of which should be to obstruoi the renewal of the negot:ation,N,vould,. for that very reasoa, be contrary to their intentidns; although, for the reasons before-mentioned, they found themselves obliged to put an end to their mission: " The Undersigned, perceiving that no answer was given to these communications, presumed that this delay might be' the result of a temper favourable to the progress of the neclotiation, and that he would at last_be recompensed by an answer according to his manner of considering it. When he perCeivediliiir none was tOrthcolning, he still pursued that line of condud which must have incontestibly evinced the sincerity of the inclination he had expressed, to re ceive such explanations as should put it in his power to renew the objects of his Mission. But if on the 14th inst: the Undersigned, in con : jundion with Lord Yarmouth, saw himself under the necessity to declare to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, his'apprehensions (in consequence of the silence of the French Plenipotentiaries)t hat no an- saver would be given.on this subject; and moreovq,, if at the period when they found themselves obliged to declare: the necessity under which they were, in' obedience to the orders of their Sovereign,to demand passports, the Undersignert has no occasion to remark to his Exce:lency the Minister for ForeignAllkirsh9w ii p,:tiovsly the new kfays since Ar"3'sri, i\ scrib..tit to the Undersigned to. 'renewhis demand.. . . • " At.the same time the Undersigned - feels it r.. cesSaryY6add, that not being able to per: , ..na c 111. f' • self that in case the answer should not b.• fi'vou, his: Excellency the Minister for Foyeign A would defer for so long a tinie the adoption of I. only alternative, the transmission of p,issports; he ; does riot wholly. forego, even at this m;nient; the expeaatidn'of the renewal of the prOpoAtion, 'such as the Ministers of hIS Britannic Majesty coliccived to Have been Made by the French Goveriinient; be 7 cause it is only by these means that the hopes of the two Nations can be realized. . . " Should these hopes even be dimmdinfed; the Undersigned will never 1 - egret a delay x6ich has afforded him an opportunity, of_proving, in the most unequivOcal manner, the earnest_ desire by N:vhicit his Britannic Majesty has always, been.animated for a permanent . and honourable : Peace, .of whirl . ). His Majesty has given the strongeS: .proof, in, autho rising the Undersigned to treat Upon the basis origi nally proposed by France. It is from this . relleaion that the. Undersigned has supported so long con tinued a state of uncertainty, without protesting in the smallest degree , against it. , . . " In, intreating his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs to transmit to him provisiOnally, to he made use of only in the cases already men-. tioned, the necessary passports for himaelf and his suite, the Undersigned conceives`he has adopted the only means of. preventing the necessity . in which . he ,Might otherwise find himself (if he were ()bilged to repeat this application), of accompanying it with such observations as the. Laws of Nations a nd the dignity of his Soverelp would 44th6rise him to make. " LAUDERDALE," , - (No. 26.) , . " i',:es, 26th August-. 1896; " The silence constantly preserved by their Ex cellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, as well as by his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, after the of icial Note of the Underigned, and of Lord' Yarmouth, dated the' 11th of this month; after the letter addressed to his Excellency the Mi nister of Foreign Affairs, dated the 14th ; and af- " ter the official Note ut the Undersigned, dated the 22d of the present month = appear to announce clearly, that the French Government has abandoned every -desire'of Peace upon the basis which it had first Proposed • itself, and which the Undersigned has uniformly declared to be that single' and only basis upori which he was authorised to treat with this Government. " In this state of . things, the Undersigned can hot flatter himself that any advantage can result from his stay being continued at Parisi while on the other hand, a further delay might necessarily give room to the two nations, as well as to all Europe, to suppose, that Peace, the ohje& of their' wishes, is upon the hour of being concluded,, at the very moment when every reasonable: hope upon this subjed seems to be entirely vanished, Strong ly penetrated with this sentiment, the Undersigned. sees himself obliged to terminate his, Mission, by making of his 'Ekcellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the formal demand of the necessary passe ports for his return to his Soveieign. " At the same time, and in the spirit of concilia tioti which has constantly charalerised alj his pro- , .oedings . since his arrival...at Paris,,Ak tb*rsigned.„ .now that he sees himself obliged by his instructions to demand hiS passports, cannot resolve to render impossible, on the part of the drench Government, a communication of such a-nature'as Would allow the Undersigned to continue the NegotiatiOn, although, after the fong silence of this GuYernirieilt, he cannot expe& so faVourable an issue. _' - " It shall not, then, be until next Wednesday ..", morning, the.27th of this month, that the Und e r- , - signed will have the honour of awaiting in person' on his Excellency . the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to ask formally and definitively for the necessary I passports for himself and his suite. He'only adds, I that the passports : which he shall ask, must be I for his immediate return, and not passports to / be used according _to ciremitstances, as he has i asked them on a former occasion. .. “ LAUDERDALL" (No. C 7.) " August as, So 6. " The Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Em peror of the French and King of Italy,, desiring to confer with his Excellency the Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiary of his 13ritannic Majesty, upon the subject of .the last, Note that he has addressed to them, engages him to-morrow, about three o'clock, at the house . of the Minister of the Interior, where they shall meet him, if this hour suits his Excellen,- cy's convenience. " De Champagny has the honpur of propos ing to the Earl of Lauderdale to dine with him when the conference is ended. He hopes that his. Excellency will bring to dinner Messrs. Goddard, Stewart, and Maddison." (No: 28.) " The Earl of LAODERDALE, Plenipotentiary of his BritanniC Majesty; lies the honour of acknow ledging the receipt of the Note whiCh has been just sent to him on the part of their Excellencies the ErenO) Plenipotentiaries; " H'e shall have the honour of going to the house of the 'Minister of the Interior, to-morrow, about three o'clock, and afterwards to dine with his Excel lency -M. De Champagny. Messrs. Goddard, Stew art, and Maddison, will also have the honour of going there .at .the hour for dinner. " LAUDERDALE." (No. 2 9') ~;"‘ Paris, August 79, 1806, "At the moment of renewing with their Es.celien cies the : Fiench Plenipotentiaries the, conterence the 2atli oe toils, month, the .Undersigned l'ionipo tentiaty of his Britannic. Majesty thinks himself obliged to lay. before their ENcellencies the state of the Negotiation, such as it was at the time of ' Sending the Note on the part of the Undersigned, and .of Lord Ifarrooufh, dated the 12th of the pre 'sent 'Month. Their ffiteeliencies the French Mini sters 'will ;see from this statemelit,' that at the point in- whiCh‘thediscussion is amually 'at present, it is no. • longer permitted to the - Undersigned to cofltinue it, urtlOs'iby the — a‘dmission of the only basis upon which