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LAW INTELLIGENCL

COURT Or KINGS BENCH, GIIILDHALL, Dee. 44.
situ'''. Pius, before Lord Chief Justice
Estlissosouo is, end Sperisl Juries.
110E/41.1 V. GIACIAS.
This was an anion between two Spanish Mer-
chants, brought upon several bills of exchane,
amounting to about 1,1001., and the question turn-
ed upon the terms on which the bills were drawn
and accepted.
It appeared that the Bills were dr,awn by the
• Plaintiff, upon Defendant, to be by hies accepted,
• payable in specie, at the then tate of Exchange, at
Madrid ; instead of which they were offered to be
paid in papet currency, which was refused, being
contrary to the terms of the acceptance, and there-
fore the *aim was brought.
" Several witnesses were called on the part of the
Defendant, to prove the rate of exchange, at that
period, at Madrid, Cadiz, kc.; when, after a long
•ovestigation, Lord EL LERBOROUGII told the Jury,
that the Defendant, by the law as laid down, was
bound to accept and pay the Bills of Exchange, ac-
cording to the true tenor of them, nor could he
substitute one mode of payment far another.
The lacy, accordingly, found a verditlt for the
Plaintiff.
VAILLY V COCK.
This Will afl anion to recover a compensation in
dotage, from the Defendant, for publi.hing a libel
ea the Plaintiff.
From the pleadings, as stated by Mr. BORROW,
it appeared, that the libel in question related to a
variety of very considerable pecaniary and other
transactions, which had occurred between these
parties and many other person., in the course of
their mercantile concerns, and charged tne Plaintiff
with having, among many other irregular and ins-
',toper mon:lions, made partial payments to some
Of bit et-editors, to the prejudice of others ; with
having appropriated upwards of 46,0001. which
belonged generally to the house of George Bailey
and Co. to his own private purposes, by lending
the same to Governmett, to supply payment of
Exchequer Bills, instead of bringing such sums to
the debit of the account of that firm, &c. Ste.
To these charges the Defendant had pleaded se-
! Veral pleas : first, the plea of not guilty ; and then,
after recapitulating the several. charges in the
declaration, he proceeded to justify, by charging
these several transaftions and assertions so charged,
as libellous against him.
These pleadings were of very considerable length,
and occupied a great potion of time in the state-.
mot, which Mr. Beaaow had nearly gone
through, when—
Mr. Gamow, for the PiJintifF, interfered, and,
addressing himself to tf e Ccurr. aro Jury, said,
the case which the Jury had been jut sworn
to try, must have occupied much of their
time, and required all their attention. This was
a question between two most respectable mer-
chants. relating to a variety of mercantile trans-
actions. in which they were nearly connected ; and
the Defendant having justified, nothing could
be more important, and must have required an in-
finite deal of pains and labour ; 'but the only wish of
the Plaintiff was to vindicate his character, and it
wet therefore thought the better mode to refer all
differences between these parties, to their mutual
friend Mr. Winthorp. The Learned Counsel said,
he thought it necessary to say so mach in explana-
tion, lest it should he imagined that Mr. Barley had
entered into a disgraceful compromise.
Mr. D•t. 1..15, for the Defendant, made a few ob-
servations to the same effect, and Lord ELLRI4RO-
- thinking that the parties had exercised a
very sound discretion, the Jury were discharged
horn giving any verdill.
These two Causes concluded the Sittings at Guild-
hall, until next Hilary Term. In the course of the
Sittings, upwards of 250 causes, which had been
set down, for trial, have been disposed of.

,
On Saturday, Governor Prttok I:lnclement
another examination before a numerous Committee
or the Privy Council, at the Treasury. Colonel
rucx•itrox attended to make good his charges.
The Members of the Pt ivy Council present were—
The Lord Presnlent ( VifeottOt S t4nnuth) i Earls Spencer,
Moira, linckinghainthirr, and Camden; VIICOUIIt Cagle-
:tap ; Lords Grenville and Havrkeseoiy ; Mr. Addington,
Mr. Row, and eeve,al.o.lters.
It will be seen that most of the late Administra-
tion were present ; this is accounted for, in conse-
quence of the investigation hsvuig commenced
before them. The Committee sat from tWelie
o'clock till three.

All the East India Cnmpany't troops at the ctn
put, in the Isle of Wight, have received orders to be
ready to embark, to sail in the next convoy.
The light brigade, formed of the 43d, and 2d
battalion of the 52.1 regiment, it is expelled, will
move from Braebourne Lees to the barracks at
kiythe, lately occupied by General titres brigade.
In consequence of the dispersion of the convoy
of the nth., frigate, from Quebec, arrived at rolls-
zno;:tb, in a storm, between the Bth an." Bth inst.
.*n Lat. 45. 33. N. long 51. 31. W. Lord GAIIOVICII
Len ordered to send out his cxters for their
• •
•e Guernsey, CAILANT, from Newfoundland for
liar ; the Prinew (an American), from nos-
- for ditto; and the Arait (ditto) from England
t..i Leghorn, are captor:l and carried into Alge-
ziras.
The d.riare. PLACE, is lost on the North coast
of Ireland.

he Commerce, from Newfoundland, for London,
is tntally lost in Mount's Bay.
Yesterday, the celebratrel Mrs. Ber,ingion was
brought to Union Hall Police-oilier in the Horongh,
charged with robbing a Carpenter of Stockwell, at
'1 late hour on Tumid Ay night, of a guinea and six
aillings, in th.: Borouzh. Ole of the shillings
being verb cci ioudy man ked, and the eta& sum of
wl ich the Prcseru•or had hem robbed, being found
on her, slit: was filly committed for trial.
The present Lottery w;11 commence drawing the
17th of nett Month. and the first-drawn Ticket will
be entitled to 20,000% t the Scheme is uncommonly
rich, as it cousins 2 Pr:ses 44 50.0001.; 2 of
21,0001.; * a 10,000!.; of 5.0001. kc.
The 'rickets rind Shales are set sot on the best
terms, by Honors and (7.,. Stock, br, ketel hornbill,
Chaos d4treet, and St. J am: 4' s-su

PC LICE.

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About a fortnight since. M. kcal), one of the
Magistrates belonging. to Bow-sties t, teceiv'ed from
Ireland a copy of an indiarneot, and it vt.:arrant
signed by Judge Day against Mic.ieei Novice. for
a burglary and daring robbery in the house of Ed-
ward Doran, Esq. of Ballymartia.,,ia the county of
Carlow. Mr. Raab barked the warrant, acid gave
it t s Miller and the two Limbericks to execute.
On Tuesday evening, James Limberick went into
a public-house, in Golden-lane, by chance, when he
observed a man who exactly answered the descrip-
tion of Michael Nowlan, both in dress and person.
The Officer charged him with being the man, and
was about to take him into custody, but he trusted
in a violent manner with a shovel, with which he
wounded the Officer in his head, neck, and various
parts of his body. The Officer, however, succeed-
ed in securing him, and yesterday he was examined
before Mr. READ, when he did not deny his name.
He will be detained till his person can be identified.
On Saturday evening, as Mr. Hampton, in com-
pany with two friends, who re,ide in the neigh-
bouthnod of Epping, were tete:fling home hum
London in a single horse cart, over Epping Forest,
they were attacked by four feotpads, in a most
daring manner; after robbing the men of their
property, they discharged three pistols at them.
One of Mr. Hampton's cornyanions had a joint
of a finger shot off. Mr. Hampton had a era-
lent personal encounter with one of the villains .
on the ground; and when Mr. H. got clear of the
villain, in escaping he ran i:.to a gravel pit, which
was so full of water, that he had nearly been
drowned. There is no doubt but all the villains
left Vs'hifechapel on the outside of a state coach on
Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of committing
depredations.
Yesterday, three men were brought before Jas.
Reno, Esq. by one of the Horse ['envie c,f t'.is
Otike, 'who apprehended them the preccd•ng, Light
near Woodford Bridge, on suspicion of heart; con-
cetned in the above robbery.
Jonas Pratt, one of the persons robbed, and who
had the cud of his finger shet off in the contest,
appeared and said, that he believed one of the Pri-
soners to be one of the rubbers, but could not be
positive.
The Prisoners sa:d, that at the time of the rob-
bery, they wet. drinking at a public house at Mile-
End.
They were committed for further examination,
in orJ.r to ascertain the truth of that assertion.
About three weeks since, the boy carrying the
two-penny-pant letter bags to Anal from Peckh sm.
and places adjacent, dropped one of his bags. in
Kent-street. A woman, who resides in the street,
picked it ua ; she was observed by A man, who ad-
vised her us return it to the boy on his return ;
which she reftised to do ; and kept the hag, expeet.
Mg a large reward to be °tiered for it. On Monday.
the man who saw her pick np the hag, went to
Peckham, when he saw at the Post-Offize, a notice
of the bag being lost, and offering a sewatd for the
recovery ; the man, in conseqamce, went to the
Post-Offi,:e, and said, he knew the woman who had
the bag, and related the circumstance of her finding
it. At the same time, a son of tile woman saw a
notice of reward for the bag, in the Borough, and
took it to the Post-Office. Mr. Parkin, the Solicitor
wallas Post-Office, sent Anthony and Adkins, to ap-
prehend the woman and her son ; but on their being
taken before him, on the Officers representing to
him the miserable state of her residence, ande‘:at
her husband was dying, he liberated her and her
son, hitt with a s tvere reprimand ; and said, it was
out of compassion to her husband, or she should be
prosecuted.
For some fme past, a number of letters that
have passel throigh the Ilford Post o;Tiee,•lieve
miscarried. Various endeavours were used to dis-
cover the CALIAII, but in vain ; till at length, a let-
ter, containing a 101. Bank Note, sent from Kit-
verton, near Qplchester, to Tilbury, not being re-
ceived, as direeted ; Mr. Peskin, the Solicitor to
the Post Offit e. sent Adkins, the officer, into that
country, to make inqaanes ; when he found cause to
suspeet the boy, who drirtes the niel-cart on the
cross-road, horn Ilford to Grays t and on Satur-
day, he took the buy into custody. On searching
him, he found a number of letters opened, which
three was no doubt he had stolen ; and on searching
hi: lodgings, th.• letter, with the 101. Bank Note,
direeled to I'iibury, was fount!:
On Monday, Adkins brought him to town, and
In the evening he underwent an eerinination before
Mr: Rer-D, and was committed for further eft-
, araination.

A statute of Lunacy has been issued by the Loan
CH•VICLI.Luk, •g.uast Mr. LVOL A .1.
The man who robbed and m•srdered the Porter
belonging to the Loam Manillas:'tory at Edinburgh,
has lately been seen in women's clothes in the
neighbourhood of Kelso.
The following melanc:ine.y and distressing acci•
dent occurred at Urerpool on Saturday so'nnight
Between twelve and one o'clock at noon, •as Capt.
Aieentsciaa Galt a6Oll was weking arm in arm
with a friend, in Paradise-street, two carts, going
at a quicker rate th so ll>tl.ll, is opposite chrettions,
came in contad with each other at the corner of
the street. Mr. Gniettson, who was close to one
of them, attempting to spring from it, failed in his
effort, and fell, when the cart passed over his heal,
and he expired in about ten minutes. The owner
of one of the carts, riding in it at the time, was
thrown on: by the violence of the concussion, and
the cart p.u•ed over his body. He has survived the
accident, hit his isle is despaired of.
The distress occasioned to relatives by the un-
fortunate loss of the AIL. iiene, falls peculiarly on
the inhabitants of Port:m.)l,th and neighbourhood.
Lieu:. Mcns, of the Marines, who was drowned, was
a soli of the late Capt. Moss, who was killed in
the command of the Monarch, in the anion of Cam.
perd.-iwn, and is brother to Mr. Moss, Clerk of the
Rope-y-rd, an Portsmouth Dock-y std. Lieutenant
Bunoots's father liv,s at Ryde; and Mr. Gummi.
the Surgeon, has heed many years at Portsea. Mr.
Howci.t. is also sou of the late Mr. Howate, an
Officer in Isortimou.h Dock-yard ; and many other
respectable in`la'iitan:s of that town Isar: to lament
the lops of friends and 'elitists.

TIIE LATE N F.G6O-IA.T I ON.

. , .PATERS RELATIVE TO
. THE NEGuCLITION !PITH FRECCE.,
PRESEN TED. 1W tits X.11.S irs COMMAND. TO
ROTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, DE.C. 1606.
(Continual from yesterday's paper.)
Second Licloame (R.) •
Copy of a Nnte ,:tanatrai Clarke t.• the Fads of LeasJerdado
and i arnaouth, dated August 8, ISota.
(immolation )
Paris, August P, 18 A.
General Clarke requests their Excellencies the Earls of Lau-
derdale and Yarmouth will be pleased to• postpone, to four
o'clock in tivr afternoon, the cooference which was fic.d fir
twelve o'clock. Should tho hour of four be inc....m.4M to
their Excellencies, General Clarke begs they aid's name one
that will suit there The G.neral will wait uomi Loiel Lau-
derdale, With hi. Forcelleney hlnrateur de Champ-illy, Wills-
ter of the Interior, who las Neon appoirted by His %apnea the
Emperor and Kul to he has Plenipotentiary, eisoidintly with
General Clarke, to negotiate a peace with Creat Brea-%
General Clarke has the honour of assuring their Excelehries
the Earls of Louterible ant Yarmouth, of h:s n,t;h consi-
deration.
Thitl liclosore (C
Copy of a Note from M. T.lieirsiul to the Ear's of Lauderdale
and Yarmouth, dated August 8, ISA.
(irarteation.)
MY LORDS, Paris, August 8, 1806.
I have the honour to inform your Excellencies. that His
Maj. sty lice Fmperm and king ha+ judged it extr,dient ro
join Monsieur de Cloanipagny, has Monster of the luteraor, as
additoonal Minister Plenipotentiary to the minion which hi-
therto lied been entrusted 5.1.1 y to Ganeril Clnke, and that
these two Sloutsters are equally aothorts el to confer wits goer
Excellencies on •he veat object Mem:cilia:Ong the politics sod-
the interws of the MU States.. 1 low son time in acquainting
them with the intentions of His Majaity, and I doubt nut
they wilco:sten Inea,vrot for theionmediate pt• locution of the
N. goer:it:on which General Clarke tins had the humour to enter
upon er.th yowl Excrhhr lic.es, and which h. Majesty hopes as
well a.. desires to sce terminate in a 'molt u qually advantageous
but mialale to bruit nitioutg'
von: Excellency to accept the anuraime of my
high tousisicr,nor,
(S.gned) CH. MAU. TALLFY:2AND,
POnee of Hcitere.sto.
F mrth Inclosiere ( D.)
Cmy. ..1 a Note from General to the Fa-'s of Lauder-
dale and Yarmouth, dared August 8, 1806.
(Thane:ton )

Paris, August 8,180 G.
The undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of this Mvpssts
the F.:Tuperor id the French, Koine( Italy, has lard before. His
(loyerioneist the Note transmitted payer:lay by His Excellency
LorJ Latelentaie. Plenipotentiary frets His Britannic Majesty.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of lialy,
could net see without pain, that a Negocnitoin which has al-
ready hem the tulijeft of so teiria disrimdon, velich ha. ores.
stoned the dispetchli:g of so many messenuess by both Panics,
which was Ins a woulalready. brought to niaturdy, should Wass
suddenly talien a rstrograale slireaion, so as to missal ulnae...Ws
founded, nut in the tutors fat the wily ilitieus, but on the very
tru rod wi which that Negnciation wasesnimericerd
Tile Cou-t of Freres has constantly refined to artind in the
same Netwiati or, the Coins of I.:nitwit! and Kuria, and
whoever desire His Ifa;toty the Emperor of the French, K, rig
of Italy, may 1127':, to see a chieral Peace shortly r,•rstaul.shed.
no cniii,idetatian could induce to •iulate that pr nciple of
his policy. The Nesociations which France dad diuirnanced at
Pctcr.bargh, had morenyer convinced His Majesty the Empe-
ror of the French, King, of Italy, th it the English Cabinet de-
ceived :tacit with resin:a to the nature of its relation. with
Atter several morths of ditemsinn„ the Cabinet of London
yie'ded the point, and his Er.elfancy the Earl of "(aniseeds
arrived ptibl:ly at Calais, and afterwards at Paris, for the put-
pose of treating for Peace. He had ennterences a ith bra Ex-
cellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs immediately after his
arrival In this 00:ntaii, fraying previously 'mad? known to him
that he war duly alithmiwd by his Onvernmont
Smell, that period, Ritssia has conclgdnd tier Peace With
Frame. The underrtglied has been appointed Minister Ple-
nipotentiary to negocilte with the Pl:nipmentiaiy of His
tannic Majesty, and the ern step was en exchange of His
powers with thole of ba Excellency the Lull of 'Yarmouth,
whom be was bound to believe, as is expressed in his Excel-
ddicy's full powers, autlionsed to negoiiitn, cnuchark, and sign
a Definitive Treaty between Er race and she Unitid Kinigdoiu
of Great Firitain and Ireland.

Very fieriuerit conferences, mord of them of several haunt,
hive inlet. taken place between the two Plenlpoteritieriee,selio
with good faith on betltirdes, erideainured to do away the diffi-
culties, and put avide every Vim"; that could have tendril to
irritate their minds, or to emharrati and unnecessarily retard
the propels of the Negonation.
Initead of transmitting to each other Nam more roi !eq.
geniouv, but which rather reerwre than approximate the oiled
which it is with•d•to attain ; i:istead of bevnairig those writ-
ten colitrovertiea, which are not less irjurioui to humanity
than open hostilities, and whith pinion the miseries rd na-
tion;; initead, above 411 Wit*. neguei Ain, Peace in the
iaine matins, in whirl. %VA,' is conked on, the Plerilpolienciarie.
had free conference+, in which Nis Arlsjeity the Emperor arql
King granted ill which he could grant, Isith-ut losing sight of
the d.g..ty of 11.. CI,. 11, 114 love is people, and ti •
interest of Nei Allies.

His lidaje•ity will . be redocel to make fnither sierifleas
Does ant the toothinf by his Ease. the Earl of
Lauderdale, the new rientootentiarr ~n the pa-t ..f Ht.
Rntaa-
nic Majesty, appear to an:lnunca that • multitude ..f Notes
sill inn Wrath:lent even to bring the Gnat:nments to an un-
derstanding ? And I. note tisk evidently Incurred, be adopting
such• method, the ain.s.• of which has been 34 ntatilf:tt in our
raculletion, of being futther from • grind understanding
thin we have hitherto been! If, on rite contrary, it is nniv
wished to form documents which may hereafter he peesented
the Parlament of Great lii•itain, His Majesty the Emperor
and King has no similar indueetacht, it is a Peter that he Je•
gime ; a Peace equally lion aura ble for Evans.., for treat firearm,
and for their Allies, which the il,titusl and avitduosh labour of
:Zee reapeaive Plenipotentiaries shall have rendered acceptabia
la list Gnvernmenra

Nevertheless, that his love of jtioust, erre the sincerity of,
his pacific sent:me:its may be tnearfest to even ens, and that
It may be truly known, to whnas all hindrarce to the progress
of the Negrsciatem ought to he attriithed, Rla;rsty the
Emm.mr us the French has designed t.-t permit eh- noderwyned
to 11.cne4 here the vain question relative no the bete of Cos
Neeociatims, which was already advanced and un tne point of
Maine ',trainee:A.
In the letter written to his Excellency Mr. Fax, on the t-t
n( Apttl, be his F acellency the Freech. Miliencr fur Foreign
Affairs, that Minuet declared that His Maje.ty the Emperor
of the French entirely adopted the principle se: turth in the
despatch of his Excellency Mr. Fox or the of March,
and offered as the basis of the Negociation ; "'Chat the pro-
.' poseJ Peace ought to be honourable fur the two Courts, and
" fur their reapodive Allies "
Ur he letter of the 211 June to his Exeelleney Mr. Fox, his
Excellency the Minister for Foreign Alain went stir further ;
he prepased in the name of Ilia Majesty the Emperor et the
French, Lire( of Patr, to estabr.h as a base two fundantelttal
Principles, the fint of them te;ea from Mt. Feat letter of
the 'l6th Maseh, namely : as That the object el the ten Powers
'i should be a Peace honourable to themselves, and to their re-
" spective Allies, et the sem, time titre iiits Peace should be
" 01 • neither, manic, as (Cr M should lie in their power, the
" future trinquillety of Europe."
The Second psineipie was, " An acknowledgement, its
favour of both Powers, of the right of interfe:ence and of
guarantee with regard to Coata:.catai affairs, an-I w.th rriatti to
Maritime afairs."

Such was the hosts adopted by the Sritsh Governatent, and
agreed upon with 4. It could never have entered into the
is ,td of Ho Majesty she Emperor of the Frisch, King of
Its'y to take Vie " wt, pulidiu.s" at the beau of the N4o.
clown lf had been btu intesiii,n, he would hues Lept
Mort•is, a pus of Hunlary, Styria, Carnuals, Croatia, the
whole of Austria, et well as its Capital—Trieste. sod Fiume,
and the sorrel/riding coast would sell be in hit power, se well
as elcuta ttc:. k:anoter, Otoalulh, dr:4 all the

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months of tile great lives of the North of Gensesy, would
berubject to ha dominion ; and, doulylev, His Majority lb*
Eipperm.in the Er.ntcb..Kiitunf l•aty. aright then, without
difEculty, have left it a Stataanie Majesty ilt posies•ton of the
Surinana, Tobago, St. Lacie, Po.nd,etthre, &c.
A. to Sicily, in this very M jetty the Ent- '
perm, and Knit would not have .loft it-to its enemies; but Hs
Monate would only have- ttimiget that the canniest of this
Island rhnuld have inc;,: led 'di/opening of the N.-goi lations ;
ander:hilt Prussia and Russia Mier titter gaarameed or reroe• ,
nixed the chnigoi which haat faked place in 'the binge! f ;
she Too S edam, it it ta be supposed did. t0g1a,..4 motet
have prevented the Coriquest,rallSiely;wllico i.iiejorated from •
tire Continont only by a etaiseetlS4' IFS' din two thousand
Wises ? t
• And even supposing that tie Capin/Mbar's', sort other
D
uren poeseitions could bitid the detached from the"
kin: of I folland, it It not certain shar•ita existence es a
nation wOn'd become hoes thirt. very came imporisible; an I
that its incorporation with the French ertintre, would have
boats the necrsaary consequence ea-ref...al given by Englan I
‘.
to restore to it its Colonif," Wh.t, f-et, could be
the meow of maintaining a 'nation
.TllO would have '
!mottling debtr, and froin:which the total drprivition of all '
commerce would take a tray the pbonbigty a paying them!
Whatever their Fx:rliancles, the raniVintchtiaries* of 114 •
ftritaiin.c Maletty, mar impolite:e that they
should not be convinced, thtt it is a very dagferent thing 1.,
Greet Britain to see the. Tette! and the Wm, of the Rohm
turf of tht Meats in the power of 'French ivarnue
*Aces, or to see decor in the ;Wort of thibutell. Tour, •
therefore, Holland, without Goa te,:tiasi,nii ad its Colonie,
wouldnecanarily ;become a province of the French Fteipi.. , • •
(is, on accepting die Crown of Holland, Fri rev Levi. forrethy '
declared his intention eif renorrnentg ir, if the Doteh Colo-
nies were not restored at the general Pear-.
Let Hamner become a movince of France; let Tri&e,
Fiume, and their ter,it,-re, Irkewne beeome fromir.ceii of the '
kingdom of Italy, and let Great itetani keep at a enespettra-
tion, the Cape, Surinam. M. 141, and Pondicherry, ' kr,
France will content to it, aud thd-.great principle- oti
possidetis will be applied, in Its foil extent, bete as le the
resent and 34 I, the. (Our.. • •
Let the new• Minincr Plenipotentiary. of /fie Britannic
Majetty, paint nut, in th I lkiory of the World, a fir gocia.ain
terminated mann hie priiminie of the ;di between to•
;nett nations j lot him exiinaiose whether this princi k Jon irro .
belong rather to en Armistice than 1.5 a-Teeetyrif riezre? It
is impossible not to my, iti.it, nn grope-lug to France the via
paisidais, particularly under the presets, eit:nrintanrea. a
orange 1r1..4 trust nave been formed rd the chuatter ot the
Esperor Napolcon, and it must hiss nee. hetie•od that
lie was roluced to a singular state of litoitilti:ocort and
disttem.
Rut, in demanding the. riti porsidetia, hrs E,ce'lcrier, the
Emil of Lauderdale, Plenipotentimy from His grit-metes Me.
jeaty, without retard to the principle which Ire advance* .
wishes to change e • 'y the destiny of a Cuotteentatl Sista,
which gave 25,000 torn to Fnglapd, and furnished her errirre:
persa the mesas which me agoided in the !M.-n Year. War, •
and even in the War of the French drvolut on, to t• e amok
of the North. nits, th:rafore, it is wirhed to maintain the
ptinciplepf the w.f pooidetis, to order to deprive Frsfo-a of all., •
hey commerce, and of all her establi,hreeitia, soil to ruin '
/sties; but at it wished to tiolde the of tire stiff
peso/Wis, in order to riot go Frartee to nemeses IserTencatt•
'berm, to htellt her Treasure; in a w red, to Mendes her w/mie
Contineatal.yitent ! la net (irk to peopled a Race a thou.
s ind tunes more dim:tress than the longest War, a•-it c•mdl•
time ealrulatrd o excite the indignation of every Frenchman";
What ! shall France have c nu:tutted all the Power, sobsids:4 •
by England, during three coalitions, to ts imposed nr.nn beret -
condittins as unjust as they are Vi.honouiab.., notal:lastand-'
MA the ionisation an I gencro•tv..Web she has then n !
Mt Excellency Mr Fox himiadf proposed, that set the perm;
should be honourable to both- Coen., and to titer resp..ettee"
Alliev
Hit Majesty, the Fmperor of the French, Knit Italy,:
could run errskter the Istare as hone:met*, if, by one of i 4"
conditions.' her Was to lute a • ..nitle say n, and' of hawsers
little Importance the colony of Tobago wily be. outfizue •
that. it ;sat- pan of the Visit+ Empire at the time
toot the -e n. of the t 3 Merriment, to preMent hie *vet.
eareety M which the slienettnn of that Colony, or of tuft' •
other which belongs to lii'. in the • tunic 'manner, shall bb
eumptio•d No* reasonable Eagtiebrarht As Wee earce!c..l.
•itharit wtlßßie eontrany : arid fits Majesty, is the po.itimr
is which he stand,, world, by contesting to it, Iwo' tt•e,
esteem-of every orave and ;Introits p-iton, mina ausong Ire'
. enemies.
The Uirderriem-d it diorSed to d-Alec, that Friel‘faimsy
the Emperor and King C./141,f11 as 1 itiegreee true aerie idea of
a Neg. c atom, founded on she MI e0..,,.ene It ie the owns
contrasito his peinciples itionnach as His Majesty his rotors 4
his composts, end that he shoold be mi. over • tat •••
potation the doolde of that which be in AA retest'', if, at the:
contusion of the Treatim • f Pelee h,. avdasa tl.e .api.:
ration of the several coalnoss, be bed wires OM arf p.ewitefei
Mr his roily principle.
Tire lindoisirri it elm di-efled to declare. th'.t the rinle'
conditions of Negotiation white His Majesty the Emperor ant' •
King is willing to Whin, teethes* propelled •in -part by hie
Excellency Mt. Fos, contained in the letter which was ado
dreved to him on the 2d of June by the Heroine, for s
and repeated in the tweitth paragraph of the present'
Note. •

Mc Majesty the Emper,r of the Pr...T:12, King of Italy, r•-
enires o,.thing or Great Britain •:tick can be contrary t Ora
interests of her Allies. No is intitted to expect r 1 at not. lig
will be exerted of him, which e.m contrary to the interests,
of Ina owo

'lrtte Uoderugnect iv directed to add, that he refers to wiat'
had hese revered by the routed' of his Excellency the
KATI of Yarmouth, and the Usdersvgiiel.
li'Peace than n.t be reiMitrldnised it is not Frew-e who, earl
be second of having chairrd, but Englatid ; although Peary
between Fiance and Ruitia, and Mew event. unfavourable to
lititais have taken place since the Negitevati,n Wes
entered tyoil and neirly brought to a conal.wion, Is concert
with Ins Lacellitncv the Yarmouth.

The Ilintervigned ay.ila ltinseeit of this opportunity to assure
their P:xcaluttiele• hie Earl* in Landerdie add Yarmouth of
his Itteh mitooleietion. (Signed) CLAIULE.
Fifth Ine'osure )
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Copy of a Note from the tiis of I...denial,. and Yarmouth,
to General Clarke, rlited Aligult 9, Ibt,sis
(Tiarislatlilet )
Par's, Angus: 9, 16:16.
The Undersigned Pleipotent•ari-s of H. Itr Lindsc Nlaja•tr
cannot eidm themsekes hi enter into • detaVed c.niudensthel • '
of this Nets, dated the Silt Anoint, which has Soo beere
delivered to them en the cart or Eh Fir.eefency General Cis _
Freon the madnet in which the il!!foreot points which form the
subject of this Note are treated, it would be imputuiblo fee •
thee, to ,loth., awn with that rations.% cod th.t regard tha
propriety, which the thare,:o., with winch Heir Ootreretoo hie
invested them, de naiads. sut the subject of tins: Note is of jr
nature so general and a., foreign to the object under datieurtied,
that it would Ite perfectly ues:cst to take it into con..4.:cation at -
the prevent moment.
The Undentned, the Fart of Lardentale, far from Wear
ing that the manner of otte-usving in oral- g the ti•rar amanita
points of a Negoeiation can in env shape increase the -I Illmatt'y
of earning to an u on the cootie., a opi.dey
that he strode perce,ves evident proof* of its using', ineimeek
as the officiti Note ore,e-ted by hint since his Mines' %en
ineiight the Negeeiatinti to, an unequtrval re•ue, e.-4 has el“,
an end to those raisundentandings without doubt r. Which
have taken littiCe, al/ who. h never trotsl,l , as. occu,m4 if the
tube mclitud had laces adopted at the conannuicetneot el the
riff rOCia Linn
Th. tJudzttiguerl, the Earl of Yarmouth, find. himself
pzllvd to recut to the spanner iu ninth it hes been et.nd
him, that he landed at Cai.is i.v.sited with a pun c
to treat hr pease. He only same tie give pe,efit Lid siia
met, the ..rnvier to • oemmuni,ation that he had beau wetted-
ed to Wake to the English Govmoin-nt, tounde4 upon that
ba,it of the art pentdetia, in conformity with
woeds of his glicAleney T•ley rani We "sic outili..g
(tom your ace, in ~:,,•d unit poetise rts,.,moes that nib
Restitution of the yr...a:salons of Hr. Masedy in Cronsals,
would Meet rah we e0pee.a....0 Th., 'me ,isailisent also
recurs in the 1, ices (non M 'falityrand to W. V.'s, of the
lit of April, in wane t. erns Emperea covets nothing
that England I.es...in
The Earl of Yerin• t,t i le.l.l.;nyelf mute, en u su, wee .
tity of not pan rig OTTI us silence. the remain ruadv b, k'

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llephlkSidy•Geftetal Clarke, en the subje t of the delays of
Ilse FiPteleikill. *id of the (region' communication by mes.
orogen lassies of Ili' Sritatoo c Majerty hoes firer
bets frank 199 prollept and if the somber of manecerm has
sun min he atuibaited to motives foreign
MOW %Lire*.
The Undersigned, tbeßarls of Lanslardale iod Yarmouth, can
..by no mean. oalneritai to the °Omen bell out by Excel-
lency G nem' Clathe, in the said mote, that the Negotiatios
of .ad been begun and nearly lonabght toe C.,,,c1u.t0n in the
interval which*. yowl between tbotame when Ltd Yarmouth
ofadly r.immunicalled his lull pew era, aid he arrival of Lord
Lauderdale; on the switrary, dews tnntodat the Negotiatioo
hung scareehr commenced. The conversation: to whicn al-
luoinn ban then made, cousisted, On the part of the French
Pkaitioteutioriet, is making demands, w.iich the Flodersigne.',
the Farl of Yarmouth, ha. uniformly declared to be inst.
misande ; and, on the pare of Lord Yarmouth, in keeping
Stately %ohm the bowel' of the oti possidelis, tint haring any
instructions on the part of his Govern .eni, to admit any other
cooditiolo of Negotiation ; conditions suggested by Franca, in
the communication made lay time Gail of Yarmouth, and pre-
vautoly announced In M. TAlleyrand's letter of the Ist of
April.
The Undersigned, Earls of Lauderdale and Yarmouth, think
11 it 111111e.coary in thin '0 retinal the motives set forth in
the official inter anesemed by Laid Laiskidale, and which in-
' du:rd flu id +env to consider the ha.it 4 the en puraidetis
loop mod by !FA .e.O. pee harry in the ...pactiva
situation of the two cooitries. It to to them a subject of deep
regret, that by so absolute and decided a departure from that
bans; in the part of the Hunch Government, the hopes and
oitpooaticesc of the two nations moot he entirely frustrated.
It only remains for the F. also( Lauderdale and Yarmouth, to
delete, that M. Mej. sty, se.-r ready io listen to just and ho-
nouree • conni.iins o- Peace, relies with confidence upon the
swears which he Arrives from the loyalty and alltotion of his
•....inglissfo• He will ^sem lotto to ant prow ails of Negotiation
whatsoever, ii ..as te.onl oiconapatible with the honour of his
emus), and the real t..tene.is of his unbent..
(Signed) LAATDERDALE.
YARMOUTH.
Sixth Inehoure (F.)
Copy of It Note from the Latin of Lauderdale and Yarmouth,
to M. Taßeyronil, dated Amon 9, INC
(Trsnslation.)
Paris, August 9, U106...,Ha1f-past six p. us.
The pretensions brought roman' by the French Government,
in the' niSciol note of hi. F.•<celfency General Clarke, so in-
compatible onli the bans ("rifted, proposed by that Goren-
men , set kaving us any mile/ alternative than that of return-
ing to F.ogiand, we have the honour to request your Eicelleri-
ty to have the goodnem to send the necessary passports for ours
Woos and our lune
We avail ourselves of this opportunity of renewing to your
Eseelleocy, the assurances of our high condderation, he.
(Signed) LAUDF't ()ALE.
YARMOUTH.
Olio. 3COM)
Latract front a Dispatch from the Earls of Lauderdale mad
Yarmouth, to Mr. tiosermary Fox, dated Paris, August ii,
1106....iteceived August IS.
Mkt, Pun, August 11, 1146.
Is Dillianall, of the 9th Matsui, we h Nthe boomer
of Woe miug yeas AM en that owning oe. bed applied he on*
pate to wont *lgngiand, sod also for a passport for a eau-
Her ore intended to Woe disessebed immediately.
We haws only now to areamiest that, on Sunday, at eleven
Slakes, we not the ineloossre (aserkod A). rctwning dn.
speed ; anti that this moraiag, hoeing ieteived no answer to
ititlart apinitiation, the lockouts (marked IS) was sent to M.
Talkeraiidia house. Roe d'Anjou. The Courier Ihetiko, who
serried the note, nunt64l soon after, to inform us, that Is
-weer rtiosetad. et M. Tadinianda house, to go to the Foreeiga
e (Clive, whims he acc,ordnigly went, but was told that so am.
municatioo would be row** Skate till Mimosa toeless said
fine
We than bogged of Mr. Goddard to go himself to the Fo-
otage 04ee, and deliver the letter : he found that the clerks
had only iust arrived, and that M. Talleyrattil was gorse to St.
Cloud, net co r -turn till bow o'clovlt.
At half after Ave; we received from Maws. Clarke and
Ch nag wan offollial sato (marked C). lnamodusely upon
tto ••c ipt of this new. set sense Om inc:lsom (marked 1") to
111. Tulleyrenri, and ridelhead hese bins, at nine o'clock, an &n-
-oire, (io,rked I), obi* hider/Woo*
Thu imehooro (emodeni I) in lbw imply to the eagle wee,
whit% we tweed Se ersillehe *weft heist bovsmiyhal.
Addithme by this Saul ef Yeeheitath.
Aa t'•• 'tench (isweressest Its% Is meg laserhm admitted
she exactness dem eareatenicatteise seats by nee. I beg iesett,
in addition to this dteMaali. to soneek, that the intention en-
renteri to rue by the Iln,reh Gintallrefallat, as that which made
them prefer ratietwieseled theeitah my almond, Tinker than
on peter, was the etmewelettM 11118 Maksty's Government
their readiness is IMO@ ihtejentes German Sointraions has
oft, but that he &sleet tames this could not be enlivened
on paper till .may ether eseditiest a/ the Treaty should be
ended.
' rust Nelsons (A.)
city of a Nees Amen she Earls of Lauderdale and Yarmouth,
to 14. Tallirand, dated August 10. 1606.
4Transiatien.)
Patin. Annie 10. 11/1145....11 o'clock, e. as.
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The tads of Lauderdale and Yarmouth have the honour to
repeat to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the
ditollloll4.which th'y bad the honour to make to Isis Excellency
yo.torrlair, at half part six o'clock in the evening, of paseperh
necessary for them and their suite, as well as of • pasaport
for a messenger, who is now waning for it to proceed on kis
jou nip 7
Second Inslosure (R )
Copy of a Note from the Esti* of Lauderdale and Yarmouth
to M. Talleyrand, dared August 11, 1686.
(Treeslation.)
SIR, Mavis, Asyut 11, 11106.—.10 o'clock. c.o.
It is our dots' to repeat the demand which we have already
twice made, era passport fora messenger, and of passports foe
one return to England.
We think it right also to remark to your Excellency, that
these demands were made the day 'relent yesterday
at half-past six in the evening ; Nat they were renewed to
yner Excellency yesterday (Sunday), at 11 o'clock, and that
to the preerut moment we have not received any answer to
them. .•
When your Excellency recollects that wear tweetpfeer hours
have passed *lnce we addressed inifeelVoll, far the second time,
to your Excellency, arid that, teeny sinthieg of our own pass-
parts, we have been deprived, iu the interval, of the means of
seeding a memengee to England, you must be persuaded, that
if we abstain from all remark upon a proceeding so extreerdi-
nary, and so contrary to the established usages, it is from a de.
airy to avoid, as much and as long as possible, any thing that
may OCCII9iIIII animosity, and change the nature and tone which
have hitherto characterised the communications between the
two Governments.
We request yner Excellency to accept the assurances of the
high consideration with which we remain, &c.
(Signed) LAUDER D A I.E.
YARMOUTH.
Third Incliner* (C.)
Copy of a nnte from Messrs. Chamiiagny and Clarke to
the Earls of Lauderdale and Yarmouth, dated August
11, 1896.
(Translation )
August 11, 1106.

The lindenlentil, hfiaitters Plenirotentisry of His Majesty
the Emperor of the French, King r.f Italy, have read with at-
tention the Note dated the 9th of August, addressed to them
by their Eseellimeies the Pleoipotentiaries of Ilia Ntijestv the
Yin, of the United kingdoms of Great liritain and Ireland, in
which thee again propose the an pitarialeirs as the basis of the
The French Pl.n;rnentiaries knew tit whether, by the
adoption of this 'rim 1.4 e, Fugland would obtain the right of
oxatting from the French Government, fur herself and her
every restittitirm which mar suit her convenieoce
without being bound to make any restitution to Franco and;
r alt.'s, of the conquevs which she has made. This de-
mold row extraordinary, that it winibl be equivalent to
France ehqul4 sign all the ensiditions which it may
gene the ForMit Plenipotentiaries to commit to writing One
c rn.wn suppose that sorts ea wally the int. 'l,Oll of the Erigl.sh
rltf stistiv. Then lyre tier sent over Pleolootentiaries for the
ore purpose rerrionst the admission of an Isuirhilltr bass,
wart t's would ern-fir master."( a-1 the ...Milo., of the
Ti,Ti,alr. In a stet:ilex things so rihiwur., ths Vienna/.

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entiaries Jimmied such enpla!ratinnt es 'nay enable them to on.
4*(44'44, Ka to prr..e d in the Negociation. These consist
iu inakirig bowmen what are the coliqu-sts which England wishes
le keep, wino are those which she will restore to France and
her Allies, a•4l what conquests of Fraocit sho requires to be re.
stored This witl unfo'd a system of coonpen,:ation, which may
Aire a elms idaeof the principles and intentions of the Bu itch
Cabutet. The French Pleuipmentiarios will then know what
itugagemersts thry cosine& iu adopting the basis which is isro•
posed to them ; ::or they can cettainly never consent to this
adoption, without knowing what is dein of them
In layMg down the principle of uti pestilent, have the Eng.
Ilk Plenipotentiatire had at in view to propene a means of ex.
then* and of cumpensation ? If this is their mewing, the
Emperor adopts it, because it appears to him conformable to
the two prim:nests already agreed upon by both padie,, in
she Letto.rs of the Emmett Minister no Forcigi, Alias's, and
alike English Secretary of State fur the Departittent of Foreign
Affairs, viz.
Ist. T the principle laid duel, by Mr. Fox, io his fetter of
thi. 26th of March last, " That the objet nf both parties
ought to be, that the Peace should be h in.rurable for both,
and their respeCtive Allies; and, at the same time, of a nature
to insure' as far as should be in their power, the future trail.
quilloty of Europe
2.d. To the principle subjoined to the preceding, by the
Altnister for Foreiros Affairs, in his letter et the 24 of .lone fol-
lowing, which monskta of an acknow'edgment, in favour of
the two Parties, of tie full right of intervention and of gut.
ratite, in Continental and in Maritime Affairs.
The 17n4enignorf take this importunity of renewing to their
Excellencies, the Plenipmeritianes of His Majesty the Kiug of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the anur.
sum of their high consideration.
(Signed) CIiAMPAGNY.
CLARKE.
Fourth Incloture (D.)
Cep, da Note from the Each; of Lauderdale and Yarmouth,
'tst N. Talleyrand, dated August 11, lOC
Trartstetron. )
SIR, Paris, August 11, 11106..mitialf.past Six, p.m.
We have this moment receiver, a Note signed by their Ex.
cadencies M. de Champagny and General Clarke, to which,
tinder any other circurtistaiteet, we should have immediately
replied.
Bu it is our duty previously to remark to your Excellency,
that we have remained since half.past six o'clock of the even.
hog nf the day before yesterday, without any answer to our
demand of a passport for a Me.scoger, or to that of our sawn
passports, although this demand has been repeated three times
in this interval
It is of the highest importance, in our present Situation, to
be certain of a communication limier:llly free end uninterrupt-
ed, and as constant as wv can desire, with our Government
We therefore entreat your Excellency to sandy us nn this
point, on artier that we may know whether, ifs all the possible
cases eat whoosh we may think poorer to demand pasrperis either
fur ourselves or for Messengers, we *Abe sure to obtain theca
without delay.
We are also under the necessity of remarking, that we hate
received nn ensurer to the request we made to your Excellency
on the subjeft of NV Goddard
We take this op;oortuniry of renewing to your Excellency
the wurauces of the high consideration with which we are,
situ ( Signed) LAUDER° LE„.
YARMUIPTH.

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Fifth Inclining (E) -
Copy of a Note from M.T•lldvraild to the Earls at Lauderdale
and Yarmouth, deed August 'lt. 1906.
(Tran-lauon.
Paris, August 11, 1806.
The Undersigned, Minium for loofa Affairs, has Ilse ho-
soar is trati.not to their Liman...icier, Lords I.aulerdale rind
Yarmouth. Ministers Pleniariteettary of Hie Majesty the King
of Eagland. the peasport fees Messenger, which they demand..
ed. • He regrets that the relaxation from business granted sn
the *Aces on Sundae,. should have prevented him from and.
ironer. With regard in the passports their Eseellencits
taveiremanded for Vientsehres the Undersigned flatters him-
self that 'hey will give to the delay ice s.-nding them, the inter-
pretation the most nawral, and the most proper, to prevent all
complaint on their part The Undersigned can never fear the
ropousibihty of delays, which have for three ornell to prolong,
for some days, the hope of restorine Peace bet-veer, two great
Powers, and of putting an end to the scourge of war in the Sour
cleaners of the world.
The Undersigned. Minister dot Foreign Affairs, begs Olen
Illialleaeres We Plenipotentiaries of Hie Britannic Majesty,
te accept the soutanes of his high consideration.
(Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND,
Prince of Bent.yeuto.
111 MA heinous (F.)
Copy of a Kota from the Earls of Lauderdale and 'Var.
smooth, to Moira Chanipagny and Clarke, dated Au-
gust it, 1806.
(Translation )
Paris, August 11, 1846 —ll o'clock, p.
The Undersigned Plenipotentiaries of His Britannic Me.
jest, would not have delayed their answer to the Note of thin
day's date, addressed to them by their Excellencies the Pleat.
potenharies of the French Government ; bust as their reiterated
demands to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs for
pasepons, even for their Messenger, remained unanswered,
they thought it right first to ascertain, whether they were still
to enjoy an open end uninterrupted communication ooh their
Government, such as in similar cases has always been permit-
ted. hp every Government in Europe.
The explanations which the Undersigned hive received fmns
his Excellericy the Minister for Foreign Affairs induce them
to hope that a like delay will, no occasion whatever, again
take place.
After hawing maturely considered the Note of their Excel.
!entice the Plenipotentiaries of the French Government, the
Undersigned have to remark, that the British Government, far
from pretending to iv egad front the French. Government
every mtitutlon which may suit their convernetue, without
being bound to make any restitution to France,'' never ex-
pressed any other wish than that of treating with the French
Goirenionseiit on the basis which was proposed to them by
France herself ; as it is expressed in the Note of Lord Lauder-
dale, vie. " to eiterally spoil the basis of ati Fortuities,
which was to be scrupulously observed, except in the case of
Hanover, which was proposed to be ceded to His Britannic
Majesty with all its dependencies "
They must also observe, tint if- it were pomade to mistake
the result which would necessarily follow from this principle,
the verbal disonsinns which oink place on the 9th instant, be-
tween the French Pleeipoternissies arid the Undersigned, leeve
no room for doubt, whether the proposition the laid down was
perfectly understood by those Plenipotentiaries.
The Undersigned have therefore eirly is reocat, that they
cannot, consistently with the initiudi iota of their Government,
do otherwise than insist upon the previous recognition of this
principle. It is on this condition alone that they are autho-
rised to continue the negociation.
As soon as this principle shall be agreed to, the Undzrsigned
will be reedy to proceed to the dtscussion of the other points
mentioned to the Note ef Lord Lauderdale.
It only remains for the Undersigned to add, that if the
Fiona' Government expresses a disposition to adhere to the
proposal, such as his Britannic Majesty understands it to have
been made by them, they shall congratulate thennelves as ori a
most fortunate event; an event which promises (according to
the expression of Mr. Fox, quoted by their Excellencies,)
s' a peace honourable for the two nations, and at ti-e tame
time of a nature tin insure the future tranquillity of Europe."
(Signed) Lail DER DALE-

(No. XXXVII.)
Extra et fro. a Dispatch hurt Mr Secretary Fox to the
Earls of Lauderdale and Yarmouth, dated Downing.
at August 14, 1606.
MY LORDS, Downing-street, August 14,1806.
The Memenger,lien, arrived here early this morning,
with the dispatches with which your Lord•hlps had charged
him% and, although it appears most probable, th.a, before he
can again reach Part*, your Lordshio, will by no longer there,
yet, as there Is still a pouibility, from the last Note from tit:
French renipotentia.les, that the Nergociation nray proceed on
the bares Ireiutod nut to n by your itutntatons, it hat been
jedged peeper /bat lla time shou'd be lo►t in re-dispatching
him, in order that you nay by Apprized of His Maprvy's full
approbation of the tensor of the different Notes which have
been delivered on yourpart tin a the Earl of Lauderdale's ar-•
rival at Paris As no other point but that of the general basis
.4 n•So...arion has yet been brought inns Armussion, nntlimg
nsed be to the firma inatructiusa, by which the course

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et acy further discessioas that may take place it still to be ea.
tardy guided.
(No. 3CXXVIII )
Copy of a Dispatch from Mr. Secretary Fee to the Earls of
Lauderdale and yArmoutli, dated Downing street, August
14. 1606.
MY LORD, Downing-street, August le. 1106.
firs Majesty's Servants have nbiserved, from the Gisraielsis
received this day, that some insinuation has been thrown use
be the French Government, of u disposition on the part el
this country to gain some unfair advantage by the einploymeet
r• Two Plenipotentiaries to the present discussions. That
Gown.rient has since taken the obvious mode of menials
&Anis this advantage (if any such there was) by earning MI
their part shwa Second PleMpoteritiary. But the King'. Go•
vernment is desirous, while it adheres steadily to the Sub/twice
of those points whicn are thought fit to be insisted on (or the
honour brudinterest of His Majesty's Crown, to leave no pre.
truce for cavils as 0. the form in which these discussions are
carried on. The advantage which was to be looked to from the
personal share which the Earl of Yarmouth originally had in
these transactions, as the bearer of the overtures made by
France, has now ceased; arid, while his Lordship has, on the
ono hand, properly recorded his decisive testimony as to the rea-
lity of these overtures, and as to the eitaft terms of Peace in
"'fared, the French Government has, on the other hand, not
only refused to adhere to those offer., but has expressly do-
ctor. d, that they never can even have mitered into their
thoughts. w (a) Jamas, it n' apu venir dana la ponies de Sa
MAjeite l'Empereur des Francois Roe dlialie de ',rewire pour
base dela Negotiation 1' eti peardtris."
1., this state of things, the King's Servants are not aware of
any benefits that would be likely to remit to His Majesty's
service from imposing Oil LAM Yarmouth ally further duty iii
this respect ; nor do they wish, that any such ground for cavil
as I have before alluded to, however unfounded it would be,
should be left to the enemy.
They hare, therefore, submitted it as their humble advice to
His Majesty, that, in we of the continuance of the NtleCi.
*Sons. the French Minister should be informed, that they
will henceforth be conducted by the Earl ialy Lauderdale alien,
the Earl of Yarmouth having obtained His Majesty's gracious
permission to return to England ; but that His Majesty does
not, 011 his part, make soy objection to Lord Lauderdale's
treating with both the persons who have been named by the
French Government for that trust...-1 proof, perfectly decisive,
in all its parts, that no unfair advantage, such as the French
Government appears to oppreliecd, can have been in the tang's
contemplation. I am, &c. C. J. FOX.