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.0it..,1.P04 ;land plac fttlt March, 1304;

MY LORl)—.Having recessed front nity,33l;:oeurtth,"bynshtotiolal.
packet fium Lisbon', e interesting dispatchee, I wished to
cenveree with oreur Excellency on the eubieen of them-; but
Mr. I lam monol having give.' me to understand Low extreinelv -
occupied your Excellency is at present,
to give your Excellency the least possible trouble, arid a the
same time nut to netted- the execution of the order weigh
4.:a4 been wet to me, I .should do better, and it would even be
more agreeable to your lixcellericy, to give you without Mar,
and confidentially, some idea of the object of the anoliettee
which I requested of your Excellency through Mr. Hammiest
That perfect cowidence, with which your Lrndship has In-
spired me, leads nee to communicate to via, or/idiom reserve,
h?tg which can in anywise contribute to cons ore, sour
Excellency, at- well as the British Ministry, of the amicable
intentions. and of the pacific send rents of my Court.
You will recollect, my Lord, that whenever I have had We.
honour to converse with your Excellency on the prig ciides on
which the English Government might cononot to the mantra-
lity of Spain in the present war, even though she furnished
to France them suet-mire ill troops and veksels stipulated bun the
Healy of 1;96, as well as on the means fie which it might be
accomplished, I earnestly rerptested the British Mitiktiy ma•
torely to consider this atfair, before they to dr a decisive oe-o'us
thou; smce, exclusive of the realms which I then alleged in
upport of the system which I, proposea, it mover would
that Spain would furnish, either a singie vessel, or a siugin
dier, against England; since, according to accurate intelligenc.,
the S;lalsich Gwent onion would then nave already entered upon
a negiciasion with Entice to sebstitute money in the plae.• of
the succour+ in tromps and vesicle; and that this substirowne
being rerinrocally vivantageeue to both countries, it could hat
but be effected without difficulty. I cuesidered myself as mannicio
the more atithorisedto seeek with ...eh conFeleoice,as I stia,ee.ol
England perfect's, agreed with us oil this print; s id
Of our convesatiolie, in which your Excelleure cooistantly
testified to ono an opposition to the f rniehing by Spain of ~• .
Milli nt kind, and principally in ships, dad you ever onsk: air
mention efp:cuniary soccuurs.
It was.iii consequene.e of this permasion, to which I myself,
contributed, that Spain Ikt:omitted to inakethoot soreilace of
money, which she has made by her Lot treaty pith Pratt. e,
flatteries' herself that she would by this moans unsure it; herself
tloe friendship of England; else, how would it be irossilole that
Spain would hare signed a treaty of this nature, of it ley. not on
order the better to obtaiit the, accomplohment nil her pacific
wishes with respect to England'. Cate it lire 1111,1011•11, that
Spain would be induced to make sacrifices In order es ...vide
war, and that at the same time she would have reason to tier,
that these very sacrifices would bo a subject of discontent to
the British Ministry ?
The British Government, not having theref ore taken it
amiss. that Spain should furnish money instead of the user
and shopestipulated tit the Treaty ,if 179 d, cannot moreover
complain, if the thins to to paid by Spain ba iro;iortione4 b.
the expeoices which ahe must have been at fur the :maintenance
of the aneseinuttienet skips aid troops It would even be ice
ooaserpoeitt to refme the second contlitina. after having tacitly
acquiesced in the first: the event even of Spain
promiiaed to Franco something more than an equivalent, it
would not be the fault of my Court. All the world well
knows, that she would nit in that case have done mote than
submit to tl • rnocessity of c-reurnstances; for, from the veri
moment that Entand opposed itself too the furnishing Inc
Spain of succours in kind, there remained for her no other
course to take, than that of ceocerting with leer Ally the
amount to he fixed upon as the equivalent.
Ai thoolgh there is no reason to believe, that the French Ca.
veranient Ins exacted from my Court more thin an equivalent
to the &emulated SUCC.:IIfII. it is nevertheless painful to recall :it
tliia municut to your Excelency, one of the ohs re:items Mum
I Iliade during the nog sciation, in once to induce the Brook
Ministry to rec Iroise the neutrality of Spain, even though she
should runtish the socecture in kind namely, that if Entlied
had adhered to it, she would have obtained two great advan-
tages Ist, That of performing a striking action of justice and
of policy ; ats action conformable to the law of nation', a:,.1
likely to pin over :alter the aiolfrages of all Europe: 2.lty,
That of deprisiug France of all means of increasing her ciai.na
un Si sin, in ease slid should sr ish su toile.
If the treaty of pecuniary sainidies lately concluded heti...en
Spain and France eteeives every atteidiun on the pan nut tits
British Government, when examined with respect to the parise
views which were the motive of the former of there powers for
cssuclieling it, awl to the circumstances which preceded and
acconeamoosel its conclusion, it is not the leas an object of ter.
bear.e.re and sit approbation for England, if regard is had to
the miring which it procured to that power of an augment :true
of naval forces which she would have been forced to mAke, to
oppose to the vessels whoelt Sioain would have furnalled to
France, supposing that the treaty of pecuniary subsidier load not
been conchs!. ol
this aolsmotags must be added another, which is not of
let i:upuetance to Moreland ; it is, that a. I•n; as Sraito .11;1
pm the pecuniary suhsidi lately atop:slated, the French tia
vernonent caunut engage its ally iii aty step twittery to 1.31
Lowe of the stri•foit tieutrality ; and that, with this eecurdyi
Eitgianrl may come straw its military of eration% ins the empley•
meat of all its land and sea forcer.
The facts and the reflections which I have now laid bear!.
emu Esceilencv trove, First, the setcerity with which 5,34
has desired, mod still steadies, to maintain her friendship with
Ent:lama Secondly, That her cuuduct has been ill pleffilli
C.:iti",:f31:1111 with these Maine*. Thirdly, That in her last treaty
with the French Government, she ha. sought to eietcoiiate
boor
relate-ins of I, iendeaia with England, and her duties tow vile
e are:: in short, twat EingLand reapa real advantages from the
said Treaty of Subsidies.
From all that I have now stated, there cannot 'email e
doubt, that the Omit of Spain, as well from the good fit o
*hied it has manifested •n all its proceedings doriiog the uree
Cortina, as Gout the reiterated proofs which it has constaney
given to the Br.tish Government, of it+ sincere desire to ewes
twee its relations of friendship with them, has an inc earned!
right t• the moot perfect rezipmcity on the part of "1
whore sentionenta I havuttelose entertained the leist.olonte, pie
tenderly sine. the emiferences which I had with your Escd•
key on the f I ,t and 96th January last.
In these conferences, on the sublet of which I base in4llily
eatisfactim reflecting, Tour Excellency mattiteasel the ewe
Suet and ay..% valisahle sentiments with regard to Spam. They
shoovered to rue, how folly eensib!e Fits Britannic kfainee%
Gore. nourat oi the sitttisti .... of my Court with moped*
Ft.4lls the moment of the conclusion of it. treaty w.th hal;
and that cistern/ intu all the coitaideratioas •it have 0

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