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Majesty the Entiletov sad King esteems the very
'Ara of a negnciatidbun the basis of the &di/lola/els
*nits dishunctun iriasto much the more co ,teary to
pttineiplea,. as t.His Majesty has etestered his 004-
rite*, and he would reign over aprsnlation double
; that which is WIN SUbjea to him, if at the ante is.
..e peace that he made at the expiration of trine nit
et ent.coalitions, he bad taken for his only principles
rd pendent
fhe Undersigned is also charged to declare.
;.so the only basis of negociation which Hi- M ejesty
n,e Emp nor and King will adopt. are those pruposec
. a part by Mr. Fox, and in part contained in the ler-
t.o iddreased to him on the 21 of June he
.iister of For. igie Affairs, and referred to its the 1:2.11
earagraph of the present note.
His Majesty the Entperor and King does not
require from Great Britain any thing contras y to the
interests of her Allies he ought then to raped,
that they would not require of bins any thing con-
trary to the interests of his own.
" The Undersigned is charged to add, that he
refers to all which had been prepared by the mutual
efforts of his Excellency the Earl of Yarmouth, and
of the Undersigned.
1, If the peace is not restored, it is not France
that can be accused of having changed, but Eng-
land: although the peace between France and Rus-
sia, and other events unfavourable to Great Britain,
had taken place since the negociation had been com-
menced, and was almost brought to its conclusion,
in concert with his 'Excellency the Earl of Yet-
month.
" The Undersigned seizes this opportunity of as-
suring their Facellencirs the Earls of Lauderdale
and of Yarmouth, of his high consideration.
(Signed) 11 CL•atta."
(No. IS.)
The Undersigned Plenipotentiaries of His Bri-
tannic Majesty do not think they she u!d allow them-
selves to enter into a detailed consideration of the
official note, which has been sent to them, on the
part of his Excellency General Clarke, dated the
gth of August. After the manner in which the
different points that are the subjea. of that note, are.
there treated, it would be impossible for them to
discus' them with thit calmness and that regard due
to forms, which the cttarater with which tkey are
clothed by their Sovete gn requires. But the sub-
je4 of this note is of a nature so general, and so fo-
reign to the objet immediately in q section, that it
would be perhelly useless to take it into cotsalsieraa
lion, at the present time.
" The Undersigned, the Earl of Lauderdale, far
from thinking that the manner of discussing in writ-
ing
the fundamental points of a negoci iron, can by
any means increase the diffioilty of coming' to an
understanding, thinks. on the contraay, that he al-
ready perceives manifest proofs of its utility in the,,
that the official note presented by him since his ar-
rival, hat led the negociation to an unequivocal
issue, and has put an end to the misconceptions' (no
doubt real ones) which have taken place, and which
could sever have existed, if the same method had
been adopted since the commencement of the nego-
tiation.
" The Undersigned, the Earl of Yarmouth. sees
himself obliged to recur to the mariner in which it has
I been given to be uaderstood, that he has landed at
Calais, clothed with a public char:atter, to treat
about peace. He has only come over to give, in
person, and Viva veer, the answer to a communication
which be had been requested to make to the English
Government, founded upon the basis of the oh pas.
saris), from the following words of his Excellency,
sl. de Talleyrand : 'We demand nothing from
you,' which were accompanied by the positive as-
surance, that the restitution of His Majesty's Ger-
man
possessions Would experience no resistance.—
The same sentiment is fohnd elitely expressed in
the letter of M. de l'alleyrand to Mr. Fox, dated
the Ist of April:.' The Emperor has nothing to
desire of what England possesses I'
" The Earl of Yarmouth thinks himself equally
hound not to pass over in silence the Tema! Its made
by his Excellency, General Clarke, on the sublret
of the delay of the negociation, and of the frequent
intercourse by Couriers. The answers of His Bri-
tannic Majesty have always been frank and ready ;
and if the number of Couriers has been considerable,
it can only be attributed to causes with which His
Majesty is not acquainted.
" The Undersigned, the Lords Lauderdale and
Yarmouth, can by no means concur in the opinion
expressed by General Clarke in his Note, t the
negociation had been commenced, and almost
brought to conclusion,' in the interval which passed
between that period when Lord Yarmouth officially
communicated his full powers, and the arrival of
Lord Lauderdale.

On the contrary, they considered the negotiation
as having scarcely begun. The conversations al-
luded to, consisted, on the part of the French Ple-
nipotentiary, in requiring what the Uitdersigned,
Laid Yarmenth„ has uniformly declared triad.
missible; and, on the part of Lord Yarmouth, to
confine himself within the limits of the oh posiidetis,
as the instruftions, from his Government, did not
authorize him to admit any other basis of negocia-
tion; a basis suggested by France, in the commu-
nication made by Lord Yarmouth, and previously
announced in M. Talleyrand's letter of the Ist April.
" The U..dersigned, the birds Lauderdale and
Yarmouth, think it unnecessary to repeat now toe
reasons mentioned in the official note presented by
Lord Lauderdale, which induced His Majesty to
consider the basis of Lai pordrietir, proposed by
France, as susceptible of a particular application to
the respeflive situation of the two countries. It is
to them a suhjeet of extreme regret, that the ex-
peftation and the hopes of the two countties ►hould
be tkus entirely disappointed by the absolute dere-
liftion of this basis, and in so positive a manner, on
the part of the French Government.
Lords Lauderdale and Yarmouth conclude w:th
declaring, th His Majesty, always ready to listen
to just and honourable terms of peace, relies with
confidence on the mewls which the ioyaltrand afF-c-
-tion of his +ubjefts afford him. He never will 'men
to any propositions for a negotiation upon any basis
incompatible with the honour of his crown, and the
true inte►mits of his subjefla.
" L WOK IDA LE
" Pant. Aut Jlt 9, 1606. YAKMOU I II."
($n 16-)
" Tie claims made by the French Government in
the official octe of fits Eseellency General Clarke,

which are quite inonstipatible with the basis origin.
8 ally proposed by the same Government. 11- wine
left us nn other chi ice than that of foto-no-to. t, otr
.Wn tiovernment, we have the hc7sour requ ist
hat y nir Excel.enry will send us die necessary pass.
ports for ourselves and tulle
*. We emhr.see this opportunity of tenew'ng
to
tour Escrllency the assurances old-AO consistelaten
wit t which we have the honour to be, ece.
Pails, Anvot 9, 11106. RANDFRDAI.R,
P. M Hai-past Sus. .4 YARMOUTH...
fmr 17)
"The i'rds Latist.rdale*.alld rottnouth have-the
honour to reiterate t the Maillistef for Iforeign Af.
fairs, the request which they made 4,11411-pea
st
yesterday evening, for the necessary passports (sir
themselves and suite. as well as for.■ passpoit for
Courier, who is waiting for it to set out on his
journey.
" They have the honour to renew the "museum
of their high.consideration. t.
" Paris, August 10, IeGG. Eleven otileek, A. a
(No. 19.) •
" SIR, Pain, Aug 11, 11106, Tea &Clock. A M.
" It is our duty to renew the demand which ee
have already twice made of a passport for a Cow-
rier, an! at the same time of the passports necessary
to enable us to return to England.
" We feel it also to be our duty to oh,erve to pont
Excellency, that this request was made the eap
before yesterday, Saturday, at half p .st six in the
evening ; and that it was yesterday, Su day, re-
newed to your Excellency, at eleven <Alai:, and
that to this hour we have received no answer to our
rs quests.
•• When your Excellency shall recollea that about
teenry four hours are expired since we addressed
you for the second time ; and that. nut to speak if
our own passports, t..e hare heels, deeting the whole
of this time, deprived of the means of sending a
Courier to England. you cannot but be convioced,
that if we abstain from any remarks upon a proceed.
rug so extraordinary, and so contrary to established
wage, it is through a wish to amid, as lang as pos
sible, any thing which may crease ill humour, and
change the tone and mature of the communicatioess
which have hitherto prevailed between the two Go.
vernments.
We request your Excellency to accept, &c.
••
" TAR muunt.^
(No. re )
" August 11, MG
" The Undersigned, Ministers Pleuipshentiatv of
Hit Majesty the Emperor of the. French, and King ,
of' Itsly: hire read with atte:ntion the note dated I
the 9th ir.st. Whieltheir Zee 'envie" ;Ise ne. ipo.
tentiasies of His l'Slajesty the ink of the 1.0te.3
KingdoM of Great Erisain_ beleod haye
dressed to them, and in teldcb diey iglisypropow
the eiteesidetirs, is Cie basis of ;the ',mechanise,
•• The French Plerilootentieties are sricertain
whether they are to suppose that it is tc from
the achiptinn of this principle, that Engtuit Is co
late a tight of tear:ling hum the French Gores*.
ment, for hersilt '.lu! her A.lli"s; all the restiturioas
she may think yriTer. to cWin, sit tout any W-
lion on her part to restore t Fiance, or her Asks,
any of the conquests she hiss !Made (turn themes--
This is so entraordi iary a r•etetasion, that ik miy as
All be said that Irimice is to sign wholly's. the
English. Plenipotentiaries may is auk proper to pro-
pose, which we can never suppose to be really the
desigq of the English Government. They cannot
have sent Plempitneniaries solely for the purpose of
insisting utioa the a.rsnission of an undefined basis.
which would place all the conditions art tee Emily
in their power. In a state rif things so obscure, the
French Plenipotentiaries require the explanations
necessary for cleariug up and advancing the nego-
ciation. They consist in a declaration of what cos.
quits England wishes to retain ; of the conquests
she is inclined to restore to France and her tittles;
and of the conquests which she is desirous Frain
should restore. A system er compensation would
this be unfolded, which would give a clear idea of
the principles and intentions of the British
The French Plenipotentiaries will learn what en-
gagements they contrini by the adoption it the
pioposest basis, to which adoption they mast as-
suredly cannot accede, without comprising what us
required of them.
" Here the English Plenipotentiaries, in laying
down the principles of the ors peesseet.4. in contem-
plation to propose a system of exchange and own-
ps.nsation ? If that be the case, the Emperor ad Fes
it, because he finds it conformable to the two princi-
ples already avowed and consented to in the corre-
spondence between the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and the English Seetetary of Slate for the
Foreign Department; namely:
" 1. Tot the principle laid down by Mr. Fox, in
his letter of the 26th of last March, ' that it should
be the °bled of bolt parties that the peace should he
honourable for each of them, and for their alties es
speitively, and a; the same time that it should be of
.a nature to assure, as far as they could. Cue future
uanquillity'of Europe.'
"2. To the principle annexed to the foregoing by
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the 21 of June
following, which coasists • in an acknowlldgement
in favour of each of the powers, of a complete right
of interfering ar.d guaranteeing affairs, both conti-
nental and maritime.'
"The Undersigned assure their Excellencies the
Plenipotentiaries of His Britannic 11:ajesty of their
high consideration.

"CLARKE,
" CNAMPAGNY
tifft, (No SO )
" We Lave this instant received a note, signed h!
their E.xcelieociel M. Chart/paw and General
Cake, to which, under any odser circumstance+,
we shoLld have returned an usrmediate answer.
r. Hut it is our Jury to ob:sr►e to your Etcellercy,
that since J.:41/1)/1st sit o'clock the dy before
we; have remeined without any answer to
our app: suitor for a passport for our Messenger, 45
well a► tor oar own passports, although tne appl 1•4.
tutus has been successively repeated, no less than
thrice in the course a that tint..

" It is of the utmost importance, in the situation
is whic:t we are, to be assured of a free am! tt-t,"'
terruptcd communication with our Govetornent, As
often .s we may think It necessity.
•• W. request your Ercellency to satisfy us on this
point, in order that we may know whether we mAT