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• 4.' PA, ...II:: roil A %if list. 1606.
” The silence constantly piesArved by tii.rir 4x-
rsi-ilencits the French eleitipoianti.tries, as well as by
Din Eiteeliency the Nlinister of Foreign Affairs, After
the official nine of the Undersigned, and of Lord
Yee:mos:h. dated the kith of this month ; after the
letter addressed to His Exeell,ney the Minister. nt
li'oreign Affairs, dated the Nth; and after the offi
clad note of the Undersigned, dated the 22.1 of the
present month. :topesr to announce clearly, th it the
French Giereinment has ahandmied evety desire of
peace, upon the hasis which it had first propose*
itself, and which the Undersigned has uniformly sle-
ehteed to he that single and nly basis upon which
le was authrerizsdan treitt with this G ,vernment.
•• In 'his c: ate of things, the Undersigned canno
flatter hinfself that any advan. age can result from
his oay--biing continued at Paris-; while, on the
othm hiind,.a farther &hay, might necessarily give
room to the two nations, as well as all Europe, to
stiptiocie that peace, :he et‘ject of their wishes. is spore
the hour 'of 411eitt; eisneluded, at the very Moment'
sefietirvert ressscnahle trope upon this cohjr& arms
t` be intirehe vani•hed. Stronely peeetri ted with
this sentiment, the U. dersigned sees himself obliged
to term/Life-Ms missi,e. I•y making, of Iris Excel-
Poe?, the Minister nt Foreign Affairs, the formal
deroarsel of the necessat y passparts for his return to
his Soverreien.
‘4 At the same time, and io•the spirit of concilia-
thin which ii as constantly charatierised :di his pro-
ceed:nos since his artivai at Paris, tie Undersigned,
unw that he eeeshimself obliged by his instrufhons
to dernaed ', 1 passports, carmen riosolve to render
impessilsle, on the part of the French Government.
a commuaicAtinn of such a nature as would allow
the Vildeesigned to confiner the mgociation, al-
though, atter the long ailer.ce of this Goverment, he
cannot expert so favourable an issue.
" It shady net, 'diet, 'he MAW-nett Wednesday
moriang; the 27tE °llk's mantis, that the Under-
signed will have the honour of awaiting in- person,
, On his fisteetknet the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
to ask formally and definitively, for the necessary
IP p.olsort- fit himself ond suite. He cnly adds, that
the nasspenes which be shall ask, must hi for his'em-
snidiate return, and not paskports to be used ac-
cordir if to circrimstantes, as he has asked for them
, 02 a former occasim
- " LMIDEROALit."
(N'.:".)
''' • • .. Antint 25, leili.
, " ThlPlPiellipOtiflialit.4 of His Majesty, the Fen-
peter of the Feeitieb, and King of (tale. desiring to
confer with his Excellency the Earl of Lauderdole,
reninotentiary of His Britannia Majesty. upon the
subject of the last note that be hat addressed to
, Mew, engages him to-rribwrow, about three o'clock,
at the boos* of the Minister of the interior. where
thry thati meet tern, If this hour fait! his Excellen•
cy's comics-Misc.,
-s' M. De Champagne has the honour of proposing
to the Eof of Lauderdale et, dine with him when
the confctente is en red. H- hopes that his Excel-
*icy will brit in dinner Messrs. Goshiatd,, Stew-
Art and Killion."
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je i at". TS.)
' JSC Earl of LauSkrtfale, Plenipotentiary to His
meanie Alojesty, has theist nour of acknowledgine
, .. the-receipt of tn 4 note' which' has beast just sent to
' him An the plot' of their Excel envies the French
*PAildinitotiarses.. ' "
- *'Kr shall 'have the homier of going to the house
of the Mini-ter of * ,Interior. to-morrow, 3 i"ll-
ibret o'clock, inct afterwards to dine with his Ex-
celleacy AL De Chernpagny. Messrs Gaddord.
Stewart. and Maddison, Will oho have the hontior'
of going there at the hour far dinner i i A
'• LAUDtaIIALE.'
(NO. 19.)
* Tara. A ',Nit Els l&6.
" At their:tome:a of •yenewing with -their Excel-
lencies tie filecT),Piastipetetteariet, the conference
of the ttf:h of This month, the Un.!rri gnrd P.e out
petioniary of Hit Benaenic-Majeste, tfooks &meek.
elii,gri *to til istiy! e their Excellencies the state of
eIF, telocl4ooflii'spich us it was at the sane of send-
'•
inj the floe on Ole part of the Uotieftin -,, and of
. 4.1,A N Y‘: 'MIL dated the 12111 of the present
4
ntpnth. ' lir Execlkneirs the French Ministers
will*, tit Ma statem-nt, that at the point in
which: ibe disens-iou is Ansa!!y at present, it is no
loogrc permitted to the Undessigned to continue it,
.:ars!* by the admission of the only basis upan
which rai is authorised to negceiate, their I•2cei-
iencies shall furnish him with new motives to justify
snob a determination.
" In the official n^te sent to their Excellencies

the French Ple•ipott i.tiwies. on she 12th of August,
it was ob:erved to thi.m, • That the British Go-
instrument. very far from pretending to requite. of
the French Government, all restitutrous, according
vs its pleasure. without being bound to any resiitu-
tioLs towards France, has shewn other desire
than that of treating with the e'reneh Government,
p upon the basis that aas proposed by France itself.
sackers ibeepressedin die note of Loid Lauderdale,
to wit" the treating, generally, on the basis of the
rti paridtis. which was scrupulously I. be observed,
eicept in the case of Hanover, which it was pro-
posed to cede altogether is His Britannic Majesty.
" Even suppose it was possible to _mistake as to
the results which were necessarily to be drawn from
this principle, the conversations which t:44 place on
the 9th instant, betwei n the French Plenipotentiaries
and the Undersigned would not permit a doubt that
the proposition so declared had nut been per-kitty
under,mrd by the Plenipotentiaries.
." Cqnstquently;the Undersigned has only to re-
pt )°, that. pursuant to the instruaians of his Go-
vc r.rneur. he cannat do othensise than insist upon
•his principle heinK previno.ly acknowledged. It is
enly on this condition that it is pertM.rted to Lira to
continue tlro nerntititiaa.
The Acne remained without an. answer, till
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001:115tb.of the month, when tLeir Et Ilencies the
Fiench Plenipotentiaries neitied in writing to the
tinderripned, thrt, being defenu to converse with
h:ni cm the °Nee of thelast note that he had ad-
drissed t:ezn, they teqoested him to meat, on the
next dry, at the OfFte of t: e Interior.
•••Tre Undess'E-ed does nat it i.l:ctsywy to