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OFFICIAL DOCUMEKTS inrE , ZTING THE LATE NEGOTIATION BETWEEN FRANCS AND ENGLAND. (Concluded from our Paper of Saturday. (N'°. 31.) " The Undersigned Plenipotentiary of his Bri tannic Majesty has, without delay, transmitted to his Court the communication made to him on Thursday the 4th inst. by . his Excellency the Mi: snister for Foreign Affairs; and he now hastens. to answer that communication by intimating to• his Excellency the line which his Majesty has thought proper to prescribe for his condo& in the actual state of things. His 'Britannic . Majesty, ever attentive to the maintenance of the intimate ties and of the alliance subsisting between his Majesty and the Emperor of All the Russias, naturally finds in the recent con du& of his, illustrious Ally, and the testimonies he has just given of the interest Which be takes in the welfare of Great Britain, and the general happiness of Europe, fresh motives for not separating, in any case, his interests from those of the Court of St. Petersburg'h. " His Majesty'does not, however, pretend to ex tend this principle farther than the Earl of Yarmouth was authorized to do, according to the instructions , of Mr.. Fox, in the communications between his Lordship' and• the French Government. -.Nothing ► prevents the interests of Great Britain and 'France from being discussed separately ; his Majesty merely does 'not authorise the Undersigned to sign any treaty, but a provisional one, it being understood that this 'treaty is not to have full died, but in 'the case-of peace being concluded between the faithful Ally of Great Britain and France. It is upon these conditions only that the Undersigned is actually au thorised to negotiate., " The Undersigned is ordered to add, that his Bri tannic Majesty, perfealy informed of the desire en tertained by the Court of St ) . Petersburgh to make peace on bases reciprocally advantageous, and corn patible at the same time with the interests of Europe; has authorised him to communicate to ,the French Plenipotentiaries conditions according to which Rus sia (in consequence of the intimate and full know, ledge which his Majesty has of the intentions of that Court) would be ready to negotiate with the French Governrneet ; to reduce alert into the form - of a Treaty, should they be agreed to on both sides; and to insert, in the provisional Treaty between Great Britain and France, an article according to which his Britannic Majesty would engage to em ploy his mediation for obtaining the accession of his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias to this Treaty. • " The Undersigned is not ignorant that it is to the French Plenipotentiaries he has to submit the official communication of the conditions. In the mean time, and for the satisfaCtion of his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Atfairs, he has no hesita tion to state, that they will be in substance the same which leave be - en - already communicated to his . Ex- . cellency by his Excellency Baron De Budberg. " The Undersigned will wait, with anxious ex pe&ation, for the - answer to this communication, which his Excellency the Minister fOr'Foreign Af fairs will have the goodness to transmit to him in writing. It is the more essential 'to him to ybtain it in-that form, as his Coat has remarked, that the communications , already made by the Undersigned have several tirnes remained without a written an- swer. • " The Undersigned has the honour to renew to his Excaency the Minister for Foreign .Affairs the asstiranceb of his high consideration. ". LAUDERDALE." '' Paris, Sept. 1 3 , i 3 A." (No. 32.) Copy of a Note addressed to Lord Lauderdale by his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sept. 18, 1 Buti The Undersigned Minister for Foreign Affairs has laid before his Majesty the EMperor, King of Italy, the note which his Excellency the Earl of Lauderdale; Minister .Plenipotentiary of his Britan nic Majesty, did him the honour to address to him on the lath inst. " His Majesty the Emperor and King sees with concern, that the negotiation seems to take everyday a retrograde direction, and he can, with difficulty, expi:iin to himself what end the English Govern ment desires_to arrive at. " At first, obsolete forms, both the text and the grounds of which were never admitted, nut even discussed by the French Government,,were brought forward and attempted to be established its settled rules ; and when that difficulty appeared to Inive been reoloved, and the French Plenipotentiaries an ticipated sacrificel„ which evinced. more and more the disposition of their Government to peace,, points anterior to the negotiation were resorted to, and a question which had been three times decided was again revived ;, first,, by the powers given to M. D'Oubril, and of which the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty were afterwards informed ; by the powers which England had given to the Earl of Yarmouth ; and finally, for the third time, by those of the Earl of LaUderdale. It Was, it would seem, a fit subject of consideration, that a discussion ter minated before the first conferences of the Negotia . tors, . and decided also by the single fa& of their ne gotiation, would be no more resumed. • " His Majesty the Emperor, however, desirous to give a new proof of his constant disposition for the re-establishment of peace, adheres to the following proposition :-7 That the negotiation between France and England shall continue, and 'that 'the Plenipo tentiary of _his Britannic Majesty shall be at liberty to introduce into the treaty, either by a formal or a secret or under any other form which may answer the same end, every thing which he shall ' think u.-)eful conciliating the differences that exist between France and Russia, and for malting the latter participate in the blessings of peace; it being, clearly understood, that no proposition will be admitted but those which shoald.be respeclively hol• nourable, and in no way atieelina• the real power and dignity a the two empires; and that The extra ordinary. propositions-with ,which M. Novolftzoff • wail charged on the part •of Russia ; shall not7again be brought forward, and which having signalized the origin or a coalition, vanquished and confounded from the instant of its formation, ought, with it, to pi consigned to oblivion. These are propositions, which being but the result of a blind confilence at:id , a kind of inebriation, and which being founded nei 7 ther in the real strength of States, nor, in their geo graphical situation, are destitute of all pacific charac ter, and carry with them their own reprobation, " It is the duty of France not to abandon the in terests of-the Ottoman Porte, nor a position which enables her tb maintain that empire against the ag gressions with which Russia openly threatens it : but all these objeCts, designed to make part of the dispositions of the treaty, being reserved for discus sion, the Undersigned shall not attempt to anticipate the results to' which the discusstbm may lead. " If, since the changes which have occured in the Cabinet of his Britannic Majesty, they continue to wish fpr peace, peace may be made, and promptly. The Emperor will not stop at some sacrifices to ac- Celerate and render it lasting; but if the'disposition for peace has changed at- London—if the wise and liberal views developed in the first communications with the illustrious Minister whom both nations re gret, prevail no longer—a vague discussion, immode rate pretensions, and ambiguous propositions, deviat ing from the tone of candour necessary to coirdna both parties to a true point of approximation, would only tend to farther irritation, and be unworthy of the people. " France does not pretend to dictate to Russia or England ; but she will net be dictated to either by England or Russia. Let the conditions be equal, just, moderate, and peace is made ; but if an imperious disposition be manifested-4f exaggerated terms he proposed—if the spirit of predominance be evinced; if, finally, it he wished to diCtate peace, the Emperor and the French people will not take notice of these propositiens. Confident in theMselves,,they will an swer as an antient people 'answered' its enemies— " Yon demand our arms--come and take them." '" The Undersigned has the Iloilo& to renew, &c. (Signed) . Ca. M. TALLEYRAND, Prince of Benevento." (No. 33.) " The undersigned Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Great Britain (in answering the official note of his Excellency the Miuister for Foreign Al, fairs, dated the 13th of this mouth, which was this day transmitted to him), begins by observing, thet he purposely abstains, as far as possible, from all' remarks oh points which are noticed there, but which are'foreign to the objet immediately in ques tion. He will, by that mode, avoid discussions which in their nature might make him forget the tone and the moderation prescribed by his duty in the whole course of his Mission. This conduct is also the only one conformable to that love of peacu which characterizes all the proceedings of the King, his Master. " When the Undersigned considers that he came to Paris to make peace on conditions understood to have been proposed by France, that notwithstanding the refusal of his Majesty of All the anssias to ratify, the treaty signed by M: D'Ouhril, and the signal ad vantages obtained by his Majesty's arms in Spanish America, he felt himself able to give as he has had the honour' to do) to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, assurances, that the demands of his Court, in its own favour, would not be essentially augmented! the Undersigned could not be but sur prised at observing the wish of imputing to his Go vernwent an intention of shewhig itsilt imperious, and inclined to exaggerate. He is not less surprised, that in answering a note, in which he had the ho- , npur to explain distinttly to his Excellency, that it, was on the conditions announced by his Excellency Baron De Budberg, that claims is favour of Russia were insisted on, his Excellency has thought it his duty to mark with the stamp of reprobation, condi tions proposed, under circumstances totally different, by M. Novosiltzoff, and of the nature of which the Undersigned finds himself, in fad, completely ig nonnt. " In short, after having explained himself to his . Excellency as the Undersigned has done, i and after having given him to understand, that he is only au • thorized to treat in a way certaiu to himself, that peace with great Britain.and Russia.shail be made at the same moment and, after having received, in the official note of yesterday, the assurance, that the. French Government does not ref'u'se the admission of an article which shall have for its cud the attain ment of that indispensible objed, the Undersigned has no difficulty in resuming the conferences with their 'Excellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, the instant their Excellencies shall have been authorized to that effeet. " The Undersigned has the-hOndur to renew to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs the • assurance of his high consideration. LAUDERDALE." " Paris, 5ept.,r9,_1806." (No. 34 1 .) " MY LORD, Paris, Sept. 7.1, 1806. "I have the honour to infirm you, that his Ma jesty havi< judged it useful to his service to retain near his person Gen. Clarke, during the course of a journey which he is on the point of undertaking, M. De Champagny alone will be Ilene: fort 11 charged with the- condtid of the negotiatiou commenced with your Eicellency. I have made known his Majesty's intention to that Minister, who is directed to maintain a good understanding with you, in order that the continuance of the conferences and corre spondence of the two legations may experience no interruption. It is my duty, at the same time, to declare to you, that, being myself destined to follow his Majesty, I shall not the less continue to corre spond with yOur Excellency ; the - general' order of the service being such, that all the dispatches belong ing to my Ministry will be sent. to my address daily and regularly. " I beg your Excellency to accept the assurances of my high consideration. (Signed) " CH. M. TALLEYRAND, Prince or 11,:ne vertu)." (No. 35 i 4 a " SIR, . Sent, 27.„ IS.. 6, " I,have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's Letter,' dated ..yesterday, by which I learn that M. De Cbampagny alone . win be henceforth charged with the conduct of the negotia tion with me, and / that this Minister is directed . to' maintain a good understanding- with me, in order that the continuance of the conferences and the cor respondence may not experience any interruption. • " In thanking your Excellency tOr this commu nication, I have the honour of observing, that it is. not this less essential to 'provide., as your '.Excellency wll no doubt, before your departute, that the corn munication by Couriers with my Government may be assured to me d;iring your absence, without any delay or impediment whatever, as the custom has been since my arrival here. It cannot escape your Excellency how impossible it would be for me 'to transmit to you in time the demands which. I have occasion to make on this subje6l, as the necessity of the case may require, and I entreat you in conse quence to have the goodness to point out the person to whom I am to address myself respecting that subjea during your absence. " Should the sending of the English Newspapers to your Excellency as they arrive, be agreeable, I shall have the honour of transmitting them as I have al ? ready done. " I beg your Excellency to accept the assurances of my high consideration. LAUDERDALIC . (No. 36.) " MY LORD, " I have the honour to acquaint you, that I have taken his Majesty's orders' with respect to the objea of the letter which your Excellency did .me the ho nour to write to me under date of the .0.2 d Of Septetn her, and that he immediately authorised M. De Champagny, his Minister • Plenipotentiary, to cause to be delivered •to you all the passports which may necessary to your Excellency for,securing the re gularity and dispatch ,of your communication with the:Ministry of his Britannic Majesty. " I have the honour to renew, &c. (Signed) " CIL M..TALLEYRAND. " Prince of Benevento." (No. 37.). . I " 31 . R, " Paris., Sept. 26, 1306. " do not lose a - moment in making known to your Excellency, that the result of the conference which 1 this day had with his Exc4ency M. - De Champagny, unfortunately; leaves me no hope of being able to bring the negotiations on the part of Great Britain- and Russia to a favourable termina tion " In this state of things, and according to my instmdions, nothing .remains for me but to address 'myself to your Excellency for the necessary ,pr.ss ports, that I may be enabled to return to my Sove• reign. " In thus making this demand of your Excellency, I cannot conceal the pleasure which I feel in declar ing my gratitude for all the personal attentions whithyour Excellency has been pleased to spew me during my residence at Paris; and, at the same time, in expressing all the sentiments of . esteem which I have always felt, and shall ever Nei, at all times, for your Excellency. I beg you to accept the assurance of my high consideration. " LAUDERDALE." (No. 38.)• • " Mayenee, Sept. 30, i B o6. "The Undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has laid before his Majesty the' Emperor;King of Italy, the Note which his Excellency the Earl of Lauder dale, his Britannic ; Majesty's Minister Plenipo tentiary, did him the honour of addressing to Itim on the 26thtinstant, His Majesty, after having, in his 'anxiety .for peace, shewn a disposition to adopt any propOals- which could render it durable and respec-. tively advantageous to the two Contracting Po'Wers, and their Allies, would .see with concern the rupture of a negotiation, from which, as far as his inclination could influence, he had hopes. of a different result. If the English Cabinet Will renounce, all prospect of peke, if its Minister Plenipotentiary will quit France, his Majesty flatters himself, notwithstanding, that When the English Cabinet and Lord , Lauderdale shall have considered the extent of the sacrifices he was disposed to make, for the purpose of promoting the re-establishment of a sincere reconciliation, they will be' . thoroughly convinced that hiS Majesty, for the general happiness, wished to weigh no considera tion against that of peace, and that, in the hope of assuring the advantages of' to his people, he could alone bring his paternal affedion to submit to sacri fices, not only' of personal pride, but even of power, InuCh more considerable than the English ; nation supposed, in the midst of a war in which he- has obtained invariable success, without the least alloy r o, disaster. _ Besides, if it should be the Emperor's fate, and that of the French PeOple, to still exist amidst the wars and tempests which the policy and influence of England may excite, his Majesty seeing himself disappointed in his dearest hopes, after having done every thing iii his power to put an end to the cala mities of war, relies upon the justice of his cause, and on the courage, Lineation, and power of his People: Recolleaing, however, the disposition which he his conYinually shewn during the course of this ne gotiation, his Majesty cannot see but with regret, that England, who could illuStrate and establish her vast power by the blessings of peace, the necessity of which is felt by the present generation, and the Eng .fish natiou as well as others, volunta6ly suffers so favourable an opportunity for it to escape. Futurity will reveal whether the new Coalition 'will be more Successtbl against France than the three former futurity will disclose whether they who complain of the greatness and the ambition of France, should not impute them to the hatred, the injustice, the great ness, and ambition of which they accuse her. France owes her aggrandizement solely to the repeated ef forts which have been made to crush her. " Nevertheless, whatever inferences may be de duced from the past, with_rehxel to the future his Majesty will be ready, if the negotiations with Eng land should be interrupted, to resume them, what ever chances or events may arise ; he will be ready to re-establish upon the basis laid down, in concert with the illustrious Minister whom England has \ lost, who ha‘ ing nothing farther to acid to his glory than the reconciliation of the two Countries, conceived the hope of succeeding, but was snatched from the World in the midst of his labours. The Undersigned has the honour to inform Lord Lauderdale, that M. De Chanipagny is autho rised to deliver to hiM the .passpOrts tor which he has applied. He embraces this opportunity to re peat to him the assurances of his high, considera tion. " Cll. M. TALLEYRAND, i• Prince of li..nevcruu." [These Papers are followed by some ad,titionai Papers, winch relate to the Treaty concluded by NI. D'Oubril, at Paris, and nave been already Were ub tic. 3 NTAILS. ARRIVE:I3-1 Dublin, t Waterford. DuE-3 Gottedburgh, i Lisbon, i Dublin, I %Vacant& PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - - I Red. Aim. . 'l' E SUN. -59 i SWAM QUIS DICLILZ Is ALSUM A IIDEAT LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15; 1806. No intelligence has reached Town from the Con tinent since Saturday, but the rumours of the defeat of the French in Poland continue td be circulated With confidence. We have already stated, that it is highly probable that some skirmishing and partial aetions may have- . taken place between the/ hostile Armies : indeed unless one party retreated, or both ceased to advavice, .the advanced posts most have fallen in with each other before the end of last mouth ; but as to the reports of a gene ral and decisive battle having been fought, we do not . think, they are entitled to the slightest credit. • Of the French Army there were, about the middle of last month, ,three divisions in Poland, viz. DAVOUST'S, LANSTES . S, and AUGEREAU'S ; it is, in deed, stated, that MURAT had reached Posen on the 2 ist, but this' we conceive to be a mistake ; for in tit* 33d Bulletin, dated the 16th, it is stated, that he was appr6aching Berlin. The French, therefore, would not, we think, hazard a decisive battle with only a portion of their Army, unless the Russians had in cautiously pushed forward with a very inferior force. On the other hand, notwithstanding the numerous reports of the arrival of 170,000 Russians on the Vistula, we are strongly inclined to believe that they do not amount to above one half of the number. This force, however, with the remnan of the Prussian Army, would be quite sufficient to stop the progress of the French until they are reinforced by the divisions that were employed in the pursuit of the gallant General BLUCHER. But we cannot suppose that the Russian Commanders would be rash enough to risk a Battle before the arrival of the Reinforce. meats which are advancing from all parts of the Russian Empire. '\VE take the earliest opportunity of contradiEting the Paragraph which appeared in this Paper 011 Friday last, which stated that Insurances had been effeeted at LLOYD'S upon several Vessels bound to Holland, as we find we have been misinformed upon the subj e . Tli z late reports of an intended competition for the Speakership of the House of Commons are wholly without foundation. Mr. ABBOT, whose abilities ie that important office have been justly admired, is not only likely to succeed, without the slightest attempt at rivalry, but with the unanimous approbation of the Representative Body. On Friday HER MAJESTY and PRINCESSES, ac companied by the Earl of MACCLESFIELD, Count MUNSTER, General DE BUDE, Colonels `TAY Loa. and DEsBUoW, Lady CRANLEY, Misses Ot4sLovr and EGERTON, honoured Mrs. HARCOURT with a morning visit, at her house on St. Leonard's Hill. PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, dud AMELIA, were on horseback. PRINCESS MARY, accompanied by Lady CRAN LET lend Miss .ONSLOW, wwit,...ci there, and returned to Windsor in HER MAJESTY'S car- riage. - On Saturday, notwithstanding the unfavourable ness of the weather, HIS MAJESTY rode on hoise back, accompanied by two of the PRINA;ESSES, in Itie neighbourhood of Windsor. Yesterday morning HIS MAJESTY, PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, attended by La dies ELY, MACCLESFIELD, SUDLEY, and \VALDE-. GRAVE, Lords SUDLEY and MACCLESFIELD, Gen. FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode in the Royal carriages to St. George's Chapel, where a Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. HEATH, and Atter \liar& rode back to the Palace. HER MAJESTY and PRINCESSES ELIZABETH and MARY had Divince Service performed in the 1-'aace. The Brigades of Infantry under the command of Major-Generals Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY and Hut.r.4 have - received orders - niuriediately to march from the Coast 5 but their destination iias not trans ,pired. The Brigade of General WELLESLEY IS at Deal, and consists of the 3d, tith, 7thi, and .Bth Regiments 5 that of General HILL, of the 14th and gist. Seven more Regiments of Infantry are ordered to be embarked immediately for Ireland. On Saturday last a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office., It sat from one till a few min nutes after four o'clock, and consisted of the follow-. ing Members :—Lord GRENVILLE, Lord How ick,: Earl SPENCER, Mr. WINDHAM, the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR ut the EXCHEQUER, the Right Hon. THOMAS GRENVILLE, Earl MoIRA, Lure HOL LAND, and Lord SIDMOUTH. On Saturday the following Rear-Admirals of the Red were promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral& of the Blue: James kempthorne, Esq. Arthur Philips, , ESq. Sampson Edwards, Esq. Sir W. G. Fairfax, Kilt George Campbell, Esq. Sir James Siannaitz, Bart. Henry l•raniclauct, Esq. dna b. is. No other Promotions will take place. Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ is to Moist his Fiag in the Channei Fleet, under Lord ST. VINCENT, to the romi or Sri CI-WIVES COTTON, whu, II is Sai,i, IS to succeed Sir ERASMUS GOWER In int! ciAnniand at Newfoundland. We time out heard wilo io sii.- ceed Sir JAMES SAU4AREZ hIS columand at' Guernspy and Jersey',