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i , 44 , i i y.,,, ; V, __. .'.! 12g, I 1 r - , iffa NUMBER 44'54.] -TUESDAY, ,DECEMI3ER' 23, ' 1806. [PRICE SIXPENC I'kTU4LLING-OFFICE, • Dec. 17, 1806. 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FASHIONABLE' DANQING AND MUSIC. - - A LLEN and PRINCE privately complete Lai dies and 6,entlemen or any age, who never learnt, or not in the modern style, at No. 19, S herrard-street, -Golden -squaTe, and N. to, Great lie-street, Gooclman's-fiAls--- theif Plan js•expressly formed for those who wish the ac. quirement privately, expeditious, and suitableto , persOns of Rank, and kashion e That others,wrshing to learn cheap, need not go to Dancing Schools where bad company meet, Public Lessons are also given two evenings a week, at only One Guinea per qi.6rter. }fours for Children, Six to Nine—Grown-up Pupils, Nine to Half-past Ten. Mr. Prince teaches Sitigin2 . , Thorough Bass, Extempore Playing, and Music in gener.,,, at School Prices. Schools and Families attende& Piano Fortes sold, exchanzecl, lent on hire, and tunel. COUGHS, COEDS, and AS of many Years standing, have been Cured by ROBBER !Vs BALSAMIC ELIXIR, or COUGH DROPS. . COPY of a LETTER from a Rrspeaable DRUGGIST to Mr. BUTLER. . . sr R, Have lately received froth the use of yotir Rob . berds'i Balsamic Elixir, or Cougn-Vrops, the greatest .benefit which any human preparation can be the means of conveying to distress i —I was violently a,ftlieted with a cough, cold, and fever ; they continued so long, and sliatteted my frame so excessively, that at every fit it was thought 1 could scarce survive another; my food gave rile no nourisinhent, the flesh was .wasted from iby 'bones ; I Was 'for wapy days delirious; all the medical assistance around Okehainptoil faired. A Lady of our town now Suggeste,lto Mis:bately that remarkable cures had been effeded by Robberrls's cele. prated Balsamic Elixir, or Cough-Drops ;. a trial was made of it 9 • the first dose, by the blessing o f God, gave me v e ry considerable relief, from that time I bccii,e. every day seri,. ,fly better; a single bottle restored me to I:iy former perfect health—a recovery altogether above the' expectation of my tainily and fricmis. - 1 think it my duty to make these tads as public as puz,,ible. am; Sir, your humble Servant, ' ARON'LIAZILLY,' Druggist. Oliehamptori, June 22 , 18 0 A A CAution.--To iire'venidiffigerous Prepariaions, per faVour of the Cornmisbioutrs " It. Butler, 4, Cheap ‘Eitle,'.' is engrayea in.a Black Stamit,..which is ;axed. to each bottle.. , - SQld, wholesale and roidil, .:rr Mr. Butler's, 4 * _ . Clieansille, 'comet Paternoster-rimy ; and Inay. be. 'had of ;,most-Country- live,ksellers and Medicine Venders, in Bottles, at Z 5) 9i. Witt bt:. (lath, with ample Diretii9l4. - . _1 lock STATE PA PERS. THE LATE NEGOTIATIbIi WITH FRANCE. PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE NRGOTIA,TION WITH ; ..FRANCE, PRESENTED,-. BY HIS MAJESTY'S COM - I%I•AND, TO BOTH . HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT LAST NIGHT. No. I.—This is the - Letter -trona Mr.- Secretary Fox to M . Talleyrand; relative to the Assassination ',Plot, dated Downi n g- i t ree t, F e b . 20, 1806, which hag been corready'given'in theMoniteur. , • No. 2.—Not correally given in the Moniteui. Letter from M.Tallcirand to Mr.Seeretary Fox, dated PariS, I Marchs, 1 4 , 1 .c6: , ---Received March 191 SIR, - Paris, March s, ISoB. I have laid your Excellency.Letter'before.his Ma le** His.-first words,. after haVing read it, ,were, `,` ./,recognize here the -principles of honour and of virtue by.which Mr.. Fox: has '.ever.been atluated. Thank him on my part." I will - not allow myself, Sir, to add any thing ro the expressions of his Im perial and Royal Majesty. I request you to ac cept the assurances' ably diStinguishedConsideration,. (Signed) all. MAX. TALLEYRANP. NO. 3.. 7 —Omitted altogether ia the Moniteur. Extract from a Lettcr from M. Talleyrand to Mr; Secretark dated Paris, idarch's, 180G,-Received March 19. Paris, March s, IL6. It may be agreeable to you to receive News from . this. Country. I.sen'd'you the Eihperor's Speech to the Legislative Body. You mill therein see that our wishes' at'e still for - Peace. Ido not ask what is the prevailing inclination.with you ; but advantages of Peace Are duly appreciated, you knoWT upon what` basis it may 'be discussed. • No. 4.-oi - flitted in the Moniteur. Extra Et fi•oiri,a Speech thlivered be the Chief of the French Covernment'to the Legislative l3ody, on tile ad of March, ' 18A. I desire Peace with England. - On thy part I shall never delay it for a Moment. I shall always be ready to conclude it, taking kir its basis the Stipulations-of the Treaty of Amiens:. No. s,—Letter from Mr. Secretary Fox to M. Talleyrand, on the subjeEt of the Stipulation of the Treaty of Amiens, dated Downing -street, March. 26, 18 - 05:—Given correltly•in 'the Moniteur. No. 6.—Letterfrorn M. Talleyrand to Mr. Se cretaiy Fox, dated 'Paris, April Ist, 1806.—Received April 7th.—Given correaly in the Moniteur. No. 7.- 7 -:-Letter from Mr. Secretary Fox to M. Talleyrand,.daied Downing -street, April Bth, ,1806. Corre&ly given in the Moniteur. • , • • No. B.—Letter from M. T:dleyrand to Mr, Secre tary Vox, dated Paris, April 16i-1806.4—Received April 1901.7—00En:611y given in the Moniteur. No. 9.—Letter from Mr. Secretary Fox to M. Talleyrand, dated Downing-street, April 20th, 1806. Corredly,gi'ven in the Moniteur. 'No. t 0.--Letter from M. Talleyrand to Mr. Secre tary Fox, .dated Paris 2d June, 'lBO6. —Received June 4th.—Correaly givet in the Moniteur. No. 11.—Letter from 'Mr. Secretary Fox to M. Talleyrand, dated Downing- s t reet , J une 14, 1806..7 Correaly given in the Moniteur. No. re. —Communicatiorimade by the Earl of Yarmouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, dated June 13, 1826, of course not men ` 'tioned in the Moniteur. , A few days after my arrival at Paris from- the de-: piit at Yerdun, Monsieur Talleyrand desired me to call upon him - ; having done so, he told me thati the French Government had been looking out for!, Some means by which a secret . and confidential com munication might be made, explanatory, of the sen timents and views of France, as. well as• the outlines of, the terms on which Peace might be restored be tween the two Countries. Having mentioned the extreme desire of Making •this communication in such as manner. that no . publicity might in any case ensue, should the object of it not be obtained, Mon sieur Talleyrand propeeded to state, in a long,argu ment, which it . is useless to• repeat, .as it forrns the substance. of. several of the French Government's dispatches, the reasons which prevent their treat-. iegfor a General. Peace jointly with Russia. He said, that. in a dispatch sent some -weeks, before to Mr. Fox, he had been ordered to name Ligle rather than Amiens for the Negotiation of a Definitive Treaty, .in order. to remove all for Mer discussions, and to facilitate to England the posSesSion of Malta. I ttien took the liberty of interrupting Talley rand tOsay,-that however flattering the confidence he was ordered to place in me might be, yet 'that, feeling as I, did, the interests, and, above all, the honour of my Country, it was impossible for me to 'be- the bearer of a communication having Peace for its objea, against which I - should feel obliged to vote iii Parliament ; and viewing -the restoration of *nom in this light, I could not receive any fur ther communication till I had explicit declaration with regard to His Majesty's German 'Dominions. • • M., l l,'alleyrand then btoke Off the conversation, desiring the to return the,third day after. At the capitation of this time I waited upon him again, when he informed me that, considering 'the extreme 410 stress which appeared to. be laid upon 'this- point, , Hanover should make no difficulty. Authorised by the concession of that in which the 'honour of the King and that of the Nation a pp eare d most interest ed, I inquired whether the • poSsession of Sicily would be demanded, it having, been so said : " (a) VOLIS l'avez, nous ne vous la 'de.nandons pas; si nous la possedions elle pourroit augmenter de beau coup les difficultei," Considering this to be very - positive,both from, the words and the manner of de them; I gonceived it improper to make fur , ' then questieos." (b) Nous ne vous demandons Tien," anionnti:ig to•an admission of uti pass/dais as applicable to His Majesty's conquests. (a) You are in possession of it ; we do nokask it of you— if we possessed it, it might very much augment our diffi culties. (G) We a.Sk nothing front you. M. Talleyrand mentioned strongly the recogni tion of the Onfieror aud,-the different branches of his finnily as absolutely expeded. - Ain this I:took occasion to state the solidity which. the recognition of Great'Britain would give to their establishment, and inquired whether the Erench, Government would guarantee the integrity .of the Ottoman Etnpire.- : The answer was yes but it must be soon. (c) Beaucoup se prepatenrkis Oen West .fai ., L7 Revert ing- to .the first con versation; I desired to know, whe ther a middle term tniglii,not be found at the .same time to obtain the object desired br the French Go.- vernmem, and that desifed by Great Britain, of not tredtingin a Manner uncciuneded with Pnsia. To this he Answered; that they were: entirely ready to give every facility to the arrangement of the respfic tiFe interests of the: two Powers; or that a' British Minister shciuld ;. being authorised by the Empil.ror stipulate for both.— _ . 1.11 - e last words ckt . Talleyrand. were -(d), " Les. Sentiments de la France sent entierement changes l'aigreur qui carac - teriseit le commencement de cette guerre n'existe plus i et ce que • nods desirous le c'est de. pouveir ylvre en -bonne intelligence avec Inr.-! Jussi grande niiisanee que la Grande Bre:- tagne." • , - (Signed) _ . , • No. I3.—Note from M 4 r. Seerefary' v o x' to M. Talleyrand; dated- J une 14, 1806,—Correelly in the Moniteur. No. 14.—Extrad froth a Dispatch frorri the Earl of YK. mouth to Mr. Secittary Fog, .dated • Paris, I,une 111,36, 4Received lane ii, of Course not given in Ant: 41onitqur. •, . SIR, • - 4 • Paris, lune 19,18,..46.:. - I have the .honour„ to inform y 9 u,- that. Oience to your orders j made all the ha,te in mypower to.arriVe at Paris as scion as possible--caltn ;it sea, howeVe.. , r, - prevented my getting here till the after, nObn of the 16th. • I. immediately waited upon,,M, Talleyrandto de liver to him the Dispatches you entrusted to my care, and requested to put oft any coversation on the subje6l of my journey till n ex t ,day. T-I intend einpleyingthis i interval endeavour to see M.D'Ou.• if at Paris, and communicate with, him previ ously to' seeing M. Talleyrand, or at any rate to obtain some knowledge of, his motions. . however, to my.leaving M. Talleyrand, he expressed to me, that although • the. ksire of Peace was equally sincere now as . it • was .4 hen I quitted Paris, yet .that some changes had taken place which' he had hinted at the possbility of, w i hen saw him,. alluding to the readiness of Russia' to treat' separately ; and further Mentioned that the Emperor taci received reports from .his bro ther and he General Offiers under ,his orders, stat ing that'Naple, could not be held without Sicily, and the probability they saw.of gaining - possession of that Island: I answered him, that biina ' " ordered to require th e r est or ati on o f N ap l es to the King of Sicily.as a necessAry . article of Peace, there.would be no question oftheir separation. I conceive Sicily to be a . great difficulty, though, perhaps; 'Nerethere no other,. it. might be got over. M. Talleyrand : often and, seriously stated the ahio lute sdeterthination of the Erupersz not. to consent to our demands of Naples, Venice,Jstria, and Dal matia, or to alienate any part of his Italian States to form a provision for the King of Sardinia. - .'Against cessions in . the 'West Indies,or elsewhere, I soletnnly protested---,nor do I think they care suf. fitiently about, these - objedts to give any sufficient Continental equivalent fur them. M. Talleyrand often repeated that the Emperor had inquired whether,l had any powers ; •adding,. (a) ‘. qui en politique on ne .pent parler_ la- merne langue si oh n'y est egafernent autorist?.;" and as frequently said that they considered Hanover for the honour of the Crown, Malta. for the fignour : of the. Navy, and - the cape of Good Hone for the honour of British Commerce, to be sittficient inducement§ to induce his Majesty's Ministers c o.make..Peace.. P. S. On Tuesday,•,l,7th June, ,I. waited upon M. Talleyrand, and begun .the. conversation- by alluding to the changes be had • hinted at ,the night before, and desired leave to repeat the . substance of what. had passed at my former i n te rv i ews with him, . and which,l lid by his desire communicatech He agreed that the statement' was accurate. . No. 1 5 , —Extrad of:a Dispatth front- Mr. Sec. Fox to the Earl of Yarmouth, dated Dowaing-street, lune 26, tBo6. Downing -street, une - 26, tSo6; I had the honour on Saturday evening to receive your Lordship's letters of the 19th, and should sooner have answered them, if I ,had• not- been for these three days past ,totally ineapableof•attending to bUsi ness. .. • I am very happy, to learnth;:t.M. , ,Talleyrand ac knowledges your accounts of former conversations to be accurately corre& ; but when he does acknow ledge this, I have no conception on what ground he can ;recede from what be said so distinctly to your Lordship before;. upon the subjekt of Sicily: " (b) Vous l'avez, nous ne vous demandons rien," are words that made the More impressiOniin - me, because, those contained in the latter 'clause of the sentence, had been used try his Excellency in one of his letters to me. It. was on the: \ - taith of the uti' possidel4 being to be strialy observed as the basis, and particularly Sicily, on.which satisfaction had been given to : your Lordship, that •his Majesty was in- duced to authorize your Lordship to hold further conferences with M. Talleyrand. Any tergiversa tion or cavil therefore on that article would be a breach of the p4inciple of the proposed basis in its most essential part.: - To.say that Hanover is an ex ception to the principle is in inasmuch as Han over.. is to be yielded expressly in, honotir, of the, (c) A -great deal,i . g, in preparation, but, twilling is yet ttcmd. (a ): The sentiroetitscniert3iti,,i kta!ice are entirety eat:, feted* vvit,it they were, averity, tertzect the commencement of this war nu 10I1j7er ; and what' we most desire is, to_live in harmony with to great a l'awer as Great Britain. . . (a) "That ill por,t,cs •if is impossible' Cr.) hold the same language,.unless botli parties are equally. authorized." (b) YOU art/ FR pg54444i04 of it—we io..k ne.ll4pg-tion3 you. Crown ;. while, on the other hand, the recognitions proposed with_ regard to the French Empire and its Dependents, are - not only in 'honour of :the - Crania' of France, but tend sulAtantially to establish -the solidity of her power. With regard to the complaint Of the want of full powers ; to avoid all pretence of cavil on ,that account, I aria commanded by his M.l - ti transmit to you the instrument accompley ing this letter. But your Lordship should f.iirtv state to M. Talleyrand; tha: you are not authorized to make any use of them formally until M. Talley rand returns to his .former ground with respe& to Sicily: ; Your Lordship is direded further to acquaint that Minister ; that, if Russia offers to treat sena rately,itis only in the_way in :which we do, th a t i s to say,.separately ih form, lout in kusstancel, in con cert with each other. -- And here you will recoiled that this very circumstance was Canvassed your thnmer,conversations with M. Taneyrand, when that Minister expressed himself.cle , lriy drat there be do objettioll, oh the p ar t o x France, to such pre concert'. The result of what • I have stated to your .Lord- Ship tstrTlthrSicily 'h , ea 'pee qua gran' ,;- ( 1, 1 which subjed„ if the French' Minkter recedes fre74 his - former,ansW6", it is in vatn that any it tiler cussion should take' place. • 'lt is clearly within his firat'opinion - delivered to' yotir Lord , :.hip ,it is clearly within his last description e of places which are reci procally icvise"ssed 'by the two courittieS, :and cannot in all probability - be recovered by war. • ir, aceording, to fht•hobeconceived by your Loni.- ship, this !matter •shohld' be an-zing - 6(1 , , .yiat "ni , ay Open yourfull powers ; 'Sfaiing, atbtlie's ame tiree, the de termination - Cif."th'ts 'Court -not m to'coe to my filial agreement without - the - consent You will of courseagaih mention^the qu6stions of Naples one Istria. If•we could'attain . eitlier . til,fheln, it Would beivaieli; 'but if - we' caneote your Lordship will net state these points as conclusive reasons against agree, ing on preliminary articles,-provided .stfch 'articles he considered prktrisional, •a01.1,' S abject to the approba tiOn OPRusSia. t' ' 'With regard fo -the mod e of provisional agreertlept, two suggest themselves "to' my mihd ; the One, .to svd the,agreement' we shall have entered into, ci r tO-Pethrsburgh,_ or to. sothesauthorized eagent-of the ErrperOr'Afeeannlein. --- at Vienna, Paris, .or else wheree :or apeiobatiene the other, to cope the precedent adopt :d by Lord tailsdoWne and Dr. Franklin' iti:the year l'ef , "2:" At that thot a provi . slow! Treaty was signed by the Pleiiiimfentiarie;; ef Great Britain fl-cl the united State; oC America, With the reservation, that the - said treaty'shoWd t., t have et - I*(26f till a peace should te agr'eed upon la.- .. tweet - I' Frana'e aud,England:. Of thei:e too seder} should prefer the latter. It does not appear that there his' been arty versation between your Lordship and M. Talieyrand. on a point which was mentioeed . to you, and which appears to 'be of cOnsiderable importance ; I Mem the future atdmission of, Russia and Sweden to b:- come parties in' a DefinitiVV i rreaty. I do not say that this is a point that must be, determined upon' previous to your settling the basis proposed; but it is one which should not be lost sight of, but, on the contrary, urged as far as Possible._ , No 16—Extra s d from a Dispatch - from the Earl of Vat., mouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, (I.:zed Paris, July Received iuly 4. • SIR, Paris,' ply Ist, tSo6. I had the honour to receive, on Saturday night, the full powers with which it has - graciously plea:,ed His -Majesty to entrust me, and your Diseatch of the 26th of June. • , I waited upon M. Talleyrand next morning, and 'stated to,hial'in the strongest manner the impossibi lity of Conversing any further npon the general out lines of peace,- until he should return to the former ground, and consider Sicily in its true and real situ ation, namely, a State not conquered by France, or 'likely to be so, and coming roost. stria ly within the 'meaning of his own words ; drat it had been clearly i expressed by him, and repeated to you in the first -instance, that France did not intend -to make Sicily ,an obstacle to, Peace. . M. Talleyrand answered, that while the war continued, and till terms were adually agreed upon,. change of circumstances were always •to be considered as reasons fora partial change of terks ;' that Bonaparte bad been but lately convinc ed of the fcility of taking Sicily a t some - f uture pe riod of th e `war; but that, above all, he felt more and more its absolute necessity tb make Naples and the neighbouring territories tenable : that had any 'confidential overture been made 3 months ago, they would have been ready. to settle the questiohot Na ples in the Manner most satisfadory to Great Bri tain ; the same a month later with' regard - to Hort-and. Thosesubjeds were -now arranged, and the Empe ror would consider any : retrograde measure As equi valent to abdication. I.observed to that' Minister, that however much good faith may be necesary in every transaction of the world, yet, that'being peal-- kith' so when a communication is made secretly and verbally, I had a right lo be doubly surfiriSed at any Change of gr_Sund. He deli:nth:a himself by his former 'arguments about altered circumstances, and said, - that when no change of diSpositien was mani fested towards Great Britain. herself, as to the resto- • retion . of Hanover, or the possession of Majta and tbs Cape, be *right we might suffer them to pessess 'themselves of a part of the States 'of their enemy,— necessary to the tenure of the rest,•which no consi deration would now induce Franee to restore. , M. Talleyrand then asked, whether I had any • powers. •' I told him that I must decline answering that question, until he should inform me that there - would be no furTher'diicussion abobt Sicily : but that he'mistlit - easily draw a conclusion that I had, from the thononrable manner • in which Great Britain en ,,teavoured to remove every obsta:ile not in its own nature insurrnouetable. • The Zlinister then mentioned his being obliged - to go to St. Cloud,-and asked, What I said ; I answared, ". that was ordered to cOritklq no conver,ennee