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repeated to be personally addressed to him by
tee Noble Lord, which now induced him to rise to
address their Lordships. It struck him with some
degree of astonishment, that the Noble Lord should 1
.eleliim now fur verbal evidence on that extraneous
matter, which he had before refused to take from
Used Yarmouth. It did so happen. however, that
when the letter of the 14th September was writ-
t n, on the same day M. Talleyrand told him, that
the Emptier of Russia had refused to ratify the
t y, and requested he would write to his Court
span the subjtat saying at the same time, that
the French Government would be then inclined
to eater into more favoutable terms, and de-
siring hint to write for further instruaions. While
on his legs, he begged leave to say, how much
the circumstances corroberated this feel, and how
touch the evidence of Lord Yarmouth strongly
and equally corroborated it. Whether the Noble
Lord should look at the Papers themselves, or whe-
ther he should look to the verbal communications
of Lord Yarmouth, they most all thew, that
throughout the Negotiation, he had the tat puddle
solely in view. To Mr. Fox's letter upon this sub-
jets". being a confidential communication to M. Tel-
leyrend, no answer was received until the month of
June. The Noble Lord had said, that Talleyrand
stated to Lord Yarmouth, that the French Go-
vernment had been anxiously looking out for some
person in whom they could confide, to make these
pacific overtures ; and the Noble Lord complains
that Mr. Fox had taken no notice of that in Isis corn-
egunications with the Minister of France; bat Mr.
Foe would have aged incensistently and irregu-
larly, had he done so.• The writtvn comnrini-
cations or the French Gvernment, Mr. Fox
answered in writing ; and by the Noble Lord's
referring to the Papers, he would find, that the
verbal communication was answered by a short
note. The Noble Lord, by referring to the
Caine Papers, would also find, that Mr. Fox wrote .
two notes upon this suejea ; the Best was, a friendly
,communication horn Mr. Fox to M. 'Talleyrand,
and the second was a formal and official note. When
.herd Yarmouth went of Palls, it he had not re-
ceived the instruaions contained is those Papers, then
such supposed instruaions must have been a complete
forgo y ; but if the Noble I .ord would-only take the
trouble of turning to Lord Yarmouth's dispatch,
of re. I Oh of July, he would see that, in a previous
communication with M. Talleyrand, that Noble
Lord positively refused to hear of any overtures to-
wards a peace, until the French Minister should re.
turn to his former grounds, of treaties; upon the
principle of ate mildest ; and, coming more strialy
to the point, he referred to M. Talleyrend's own
wows „wilt this subject. These observations were
alone appiicable to the particular peke in question,
and totally inapplicable to that which the Noble
-Lord st tted. M. Talleyrand had said, that a
chance of circumstances must materially alter the
terms of regoetation, and Lord Yarmouth found it
the more strialy necessary to adhere to the fotmer
preposition. What were Lord Yarmeuth's. ex-
pressions to lernseff ( Lord Lauderdale) upon this
point ? He told him. he not only had a verbal me.
wet satior. with M. 1 alleyrend, bet he also sent him
a 'written note. which remained totally unanswered
be the French Government. He considered there
seas a material difference between making a mere
assertiere 111. • riter, and a wetter decurnenr, which
semeined wholly uudeteed. It the Noble Lord
had CAT chilly examined those Papers, he must be pa-
wl:red upon des point ; hut he says, no such pro-
position as ads jewelers was ever made. But upon
this point theie.could not be possibly any stronger
evidence then that of Lord Yarmouth's frequent
communications with the French Government, iteith
verbally mud by written documents. Their Lord-
ships were aware, that, iii a eenversatinn with M.
l'alieyrand, that Minister declared ally Negotiation.
upon the basis of tits pa:sash', could not stand ; and
referred to a paragraph in the Emperor's Speech.
where he says, he can only treat for peace with
' lkngland, upon the principles of the Treaty of
Amiens. To such a principle they could not agree.
The Noble Lord, therefore, should not have wil-
e fully confounded what was merely in itself a
friendly communication between two parties, one
of wh.om, he was certain, was sincere in wishing to
bring about the happy event a a permaeent and
* honourable peace. With respell to the proposal to
negotiate jointly with Russia, no man could read
those Papers, but he must be convinced that they
were originally nothing more teen meetly a civil
communication between two persons. One thing
snore the Noble Load had observed upon, he felt it
necessary to reply to: and that was, complaini -g
of his teturning from Paris sooner that he should
have done. All he could say upon this subj..%
was, again to request the Noble Lard would peruse
these Papers, from which it was impossible but he
must ace that, under all the circumstances, on the
contrary, he bad staid too long at Paris. The
Noble Lord would see, by those Papers, that he was
daily asking passports, in order to return to Eng-
land, and they were as uniformly delayed by the
. tench Government. On the 4th of September, a
communication was made to hunt of the noreratifice-
It tion of the Treaty with Russia. An accidental in-
, disposition prevented hint horn attending to buss-
' nese for a few days more; but the moment he dis-
t overal the real views of the French Government,
' front that moment be lost no time in pi eller ing tor
Ida departure from Yetis. Under such circum-
stance-, he wished to know how the Noble Lord
himself would have aaed. He concluded with
saying, that nothing but a tense of that duty he
owed to the public, should have induced him to
trespass so long, upon the patience of the House;
but he telt himself celled upon to make those obser-
vations. it answer to what had fallen team the
Noble Lord opposite.
The original Motion for the Address was then
t put and carried, ace. 6:. and the House adjourned,
1 at Eleven o'Clock, until Monday.