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CDRRE.SEONDENCE WITH THE IDILAIAN AND

FRENCII GOVERNMENTS, RELATIVE TO THE
OVERTURES RECEIVED FROM ERFUKTIE
rat , los .1 IJRPTIrf COMMAND, I 0 00111

not sr.,' PARLIAMEXIL

No, l—Letter front Coast NitOW de Itratuottatr to 4r.
twerrtary canning, dated }Worth, Jut). Setd.--Oet. !
'sue. ketvived Oct tl.
( . LATIO%.'.
SIR—I send t• ~or E iwellesiey u letter which
the Emperors of ikussia uud Frame write to His
Majesty the King of England. The Emperor of
Russia flatters hisiewit that England will feel the
graoJeur mid the ,iocerity of this step. She will
there hod the most Natural and the most simple
answer to 11w overuse, which has been made by Ad.
mina Saumarex. The union of the two retinae. is
Iseyond the reach of sill change. stud the ton
'terrors hove formed it fur pease as well as fur war. I
114 Mujebty has commanded use to stake known
to y our Excellency that he hus noutiouted Pleni-
potentiaries who will repair to Pori*, where they
will await the answer which your Excellency bossy
be pleased to make to sue. I request you
to address it to (h. ItUlsieltl Atillahailt/r at Piano.
'list Plenipotentiaries 11.1111 MI by the F:iiipertir of
ltussia repwr to :hat city on the Cowmen, to
which the Plesiipotesitiaries of Ills Mita • • Ma-
jesty and hicallies shall have been sent.
In l'lptrt to the la-es of the negotiation,
their Irap.•usl '.Lys lie. ate 110 difficulty 111 liiirlit-
nab all tietb‘e f.)rdeerly proittawd by England, name-
ly, the uti pnuidetig, and every other basis laureled
'spots the reequocity oral equality huh ought to
prevail between sill peat nations.
I have the laicisar to be, with sentiments of the
highest consoles:onm. &r. (Signed)
Crottust NICOLIst.DE. Rolla:cum.
To Lis rtterilettey Mr. fuming,

%Lit...Ulan heat Ins 1114orty the liraperar of ail tlss
=sad Skwapsomi, lr Ilia Majosty, skied 14111411
id, un.,4lsoelied oriobet at
(osanst.orson)
film—The present eirrinn,taisees of Europe
hai‘ brought us tie,:rtiter at Erfurt!. Our dtst
thought is to yield to the *lsl. and the wiuds of
every people, and to seek, hi a speedy pacification
with your Majesty, the inns efficacious remedy for
the miseries which oppress all thalami*. We make
known to your 51Mesty our sincere klcsire to this
respect by the present letter.
The long and biocide war which has to-li the
Continent is at an rud,l without the poskibility of
!wing renewed. Many changes have taken place
in Europe; many states hake hetn overthrow...—
The cause is to lie fouml in the state of agitat
and misery in which the stagnation of maritime
commerce has placed the greatest nations. Still
greater chaises may yet tssir• lam r, and all of them
contrary to the policy of the kaluii•li
Peace, then, is at once the iiiterc,t of the people of
the Continent, as it is the iuterera of the people a
Great
11e smite me entreating your Majesty to listen to
the r tact. of hilmaitity. silencing that of the 'lnv-
stoats 7 to seek, wills the isiteistiGn of arrik..4 at
that idtject, to conciliate ail isaeresas, Icy
mra4 s to preserve all the voss el, %%hail extvt,
ras.l to insure the happiase-ss of Europe and of this
ri.iserstio.s. at the head of a Providence Inks
placed os. (Sigurd) A Lit ANYISR.
acimaon.
N., 111 —Lesser from M. De Ci.owspagny, to Mr strerrtory
dat.4 Fara.ll4, Octototr tat 1001,.—.itetelVra
(WILAIIILATIoN.)

Stn—l have the Ino 1111 l rto tniiismit to your Ke.
eelleney a letter. whien the Emperor of the french
and the Emperor of all the Russia's write to His
Britannic Majesty. The graiolcur and the since-
rity of this step will, without doubt, be felt. That
cannot be :Attributed lo weakness which is the re-
sult of the intimate coutiexion bower° the two
greatest Sovereigns of the Continent, united fur
peace as well as for war.
His Majesty the Emperor has commanded me
to make known to yoor Excellency, that he has
nominated Plenipotesitiarieff. who will repair to
that city on the Continent to which His Majesty
the King of Great Britain and his allies ►hall send
their I'l.• ' •..ntiaries. With r4spect to-the bases

of the neveiution, Their Majesties ate disposed to
*Mold tHose formerly by England 'her-
self : •Isistnely. the ail possisktis, end any other
basis retinae:4l upon jtistiee, slid the reciprocity and
sith.firsat
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notions: _ .
I have the honoitr to he. with the lii4hest
ke. (sigio .1) CHANPAGNY.
His Exec-Henry Mr. Canning, &c. kr.
IV.—Letter (rim Bonaparte and His Majesty the Eni-
piTor of all the Itiessiaa, to Hi. ilajemiy, dated Erfurt/a,
Ustuace IJ, I sUs.--Itect•lved Oriolocr
(TRISSI.V:ION

•
sir.r.—The pre..eot ....0.m0q,00.e4 of Europe
have brought us together at Frforth. Our first
tinnight ield to the wish and the wants of
every people, and to seek, in a speedy. pacification
with your mai, sty. the ilitovt I'iBettCICIIIII remedy
for the miseries which oppress all nations. We
make known to your Majesty cur sincere desire in
this respect by the present letter.
The 101901 nod bloody war which ban torn the
Continent is at au end, without the pt ..I of
reiieweil. Many changes have token place
in Europe; lowly states have been overthrown.—
The cause is to be found it, the state of agitation
and misery in which the stagnation of maritime
commerce hes placed the greatest nations. Still
greater changes may yet take place, and ull of
them contrary to the policy of the English nation.
Peace, then, is at once the interest of the people of
the Continent, as it is the interest of the people of
Great Britain.
1"..e unite in entrenting your Majcety to listen to
the voice IS biturinite, silencing that of the pas-
sions; to seek, with the intention of arriviiig at that
object, to comiliale all interests, and ley that means
to preserve all the 'powers which exist, and to insure
the liappmess of Europe mid of this generation, at
the head of which Providence has placed us.
(Signed) NAPOI.EnN.
ALEXANDER.
No. V —Letter from Mr. Nceretary (*mining to the Russian
Asahassiotor, at Yaris. slated I'm-tips OtLer, October
Mos. ',TRANSLATION.)
Sin—At (lie desire of Count :Nicolas de Ito-
tuanzoll, have the honour to acknowledge to your
Excelleney the receipt of the letter which Count
Ronimiaolf has boil, pleased to write to me from
Erfurth, dated the h September (I.2th October).
us well us of the letter annexed to it, addressed to
the King nsy master.
I shall lose ito time in laying these too letters
before H.s Majesty, and in thisinitting the answers
to 3 OW ElCClAlleltey by an F.liglish courier.
I have the honour lie,
(SiLmeil) thiottut CANNING.
To Isis tardletory the Russian Ambast,ador,
Sic &co. P.rss.

No. VI —teller trots Mr. Secretary Cowin to M. de
ChainpAgtly, dated Foreign Mite, October 52, twos
Slit—l have the I 00000 our to ackitowtolge the re.
ceipt of your Excellency's letter of the llth
from Banal', inclining a letter addressed to the
King my flinger.
I shall lam no time in laying these letters before
His Majesty. and iu tramonating the answers to
them 6) an Eugli•lt totespeng,r to Paris.
I have the tumour to be. Ste.
(Segued) aoSta a CAN c:.
Hi. literetimay 11. Chatapariy. tee. 4.e
ha. Val.—Letter trace Mr.setretan Casting to lice Rus-
hee itadresurier. sa Poe* dated E..resga t October
Os, svgs. tsaaast.svtax.)
Sta--Having laid before the Kitts; my Master
the two letters which his Excellency the Count
Nicolas de Komausoff has transtuttn.l to me from
EriOrth, I base received His Majoity's commands
to reply to that which is addrrsard to him, by the
official note r. inch I have the honour to inclose to
your Excellent 7.
flowerer drvirous His Majesty might he to reply
directly to Its, 11.4e4t ,t the litspetur of ft moth., you
cannot hut. feel, sir. that from the utitootal manner
in which. the Letters signed by If. Imperial
Majesty. were drawn ups mild nirieh entircly
deprived them a the eharaetrt of a ;nitrite and

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?email cemottlicatioa, 116 nijiaty has Cowl it
ussposoilde totde,* that mark of respect towards
the Etuperov of Knosios. without at the issue time
aeknos kriging title* which His Moire? never has
acknowledged.
I Hilleomtssnde.l to add to Ilse cootritts of the
official note, that His Majesty will hasten to cool-
ies •ate to I his Majesty the Kit4t of Sweden. and
to life existing tiovernowad of Spaim the proposals
which have beeti made to him.
Your will perceive that it is slams
lutely necessary that liis Slejehty should receive an
immediate assiarame, Matt Framer acltstostletheres the
Government of Spain as party to coy negus.4atioo.
Tlisit such is the intention of the Emperor of
liras, Fhis Nlitjestx cannot doubt.
his Majesty reco;lects, with satisfaction, the
lively Interest which Ills Imperial Nittjewly IMO
ways itianifested for the welfare And dignity fit Ile
Slani%la Nionirchy. mod he *aids uo other amoral rr
that Ills Imp-rill Majesty centiot bete Ipuro tt.-
duvet{ to suot.t:oo. by his cots( strewr ur hr
prktiostion, ustirpsdiusi, the priticsp!e cf whi.lt :s
uot it s. nnjn.t tll4it ltie4r Chasuplt is dangerous t.)
ail legitiluate StHer•q;4Litt,

as the til/Ml,:rts on thin uctint shall kite.
lweit re,s•iveti, anti a. . ll.r Iltivst/
hare learnt the statement. t't the Ni.,4
and tlio,e of the (lore•naitl,t ~,.t
fail to rt,111.11f5 •1 ;Se C.,111 ttttttt l'hat Ur 1111 Niail.V.ty ;• r
much eninintinic.toon, WI it mu).
niuke unon the ulterior tAjects of the lettt r
Count nunaitizutf.
I have Ow honour to be. &c. •
ltiezneil; (igoact CAtirrts,;.
To his Excellency the fussiwi Arnbsts,utue,
at Pains.

No. Vlll.—.Lettcr from Mr. Seer lay Canning to M
rimairriy, dated Foreign tshc., Ottuber IS.L
Sie—l laving laid before the King my imas!e-
the two letters which your Excellency trausitinaa•l
to me from Erfurth, one of elm+ was addressed ".
His :Majesty, I hate ret.eivril His Majesty's cm:
naiads to return, in 'unwer to that letter, tl.e
Official Note which I have the hoeuur herewith to
inclose.
I am commanded to add, that His Majesty a ili
lose IN) tittle in tornintioiestiog to the
Sweden and to the Cove iiiii mut of Spain the pi,.-
points which have been etude to His Majesty.
Your Excelleney will see the necessity of an a-•
surance being immediately afforded to His iMuje.-
ty, that the•-ashnissioit of the Governinem of
Spaiivas a party to the negociation is understood
anal "agreist to by France.
After the answer of your Excellency upon tlait
point 114 hove been received; and so soon as :Ls
.:Majesty shall he in possession of the sentimetais
the. King of. Sweden and of the Government of
Span', I shall receive Phi Majesty's commands ia
ointimiticate with your Excellency:oa the remain-
ing points of your letter. •-•- •
I have the hoiolfr 'to be, Ste.
(Signed) GauaoE CANNltilth
No. IX.-.OFFICIAL. NOTE.
The King hats wafforittly declared his readiness
and desire to cutter into negotiations for a general
peace; on terms consistent with the honour of Has
Majesty's crown, with fidelity to his eugageinents,
anal with the permanent repose and security of Eu-
rope. His Majesty reheats that declaration.
If the condition of the Continent he one of agi-
tation and of wretchedness; if many states hove
been overthrown, and inure are still.pienaced with
subversion ; it is a consolation to the King to re-
flect that no part of the eon% ulsions *inch have el-
ready been experiet,ced, or of those which ere
threatened for the futtbe, can be its any degree ian-
putuble to Ilia Majesty. The King is most willing
to acknowledge that all such dreudful changes are
indeed . contrary to the policy of Great Britain.
If the cause of so much misery is to be found in
the stagnation of commercial intercourse ; although
His Majesty ca tbe expected to hear, with un-
iptalilied regret, tied the system devised for the
destruction of the commerce of his subjects has res
coiled upon its authors, or its instrunients--yet 11
it wittier na the disposition of Ilia Majesty, nor in
the character of the people over whom he reigns, to
rejoice in the privatintis mid unhappiness even of
the nations which are conthitied nailed him. Ills
Majesty anxiously desir s the termination of the
sufferings of the Contialead.
The war in which His Majesty is engaged. was
entered into by His Majesty for the immediate ob-
ject of national atiftity. It has been prolonged only
because no secure and Isouourable means of ter-
minating it have hitherto hceu atlorded by his
enemies.
But in the progress of a war, begun for self-de-
fence, new obligations have bean imposed upon
Hi. Nlajesty, in behalf of powers whom the allures
*ions of a common enemy hare compelled to make
common cause with His Majesty ; or who have
solietterf His Majesty's aissistutter and sooport in
the vindication of their national independence.
The interests of the Crown of Portugal and of
flis Sicilian Majesty are yotifided to HIS Majesty's
friendship anal protection.
With the King of Sweden Ili* Majesty is cea-
meted by tics of the closest alliance, and by snot-
lotions which mute their counsels for peace as well
as for war,
To Spain His Majesty is not yet betted by ;WY
forma itistrottient ; but Hit.-Majesty has, iu tl.e
I, free of the world, contracted with that nation en-
gagements not less sacred and not less Wieling
upon His Majesty's mind, than the most irelema
treaties.
His Majesty, therefore, assumes that, in an toes •
tore made to His Majesty for catering into cegas.
vitiations for a general peace, the relations subsist-
ing between His Majesty and the Spanish
Muuw-
chy have been distinctly taken into conaiderroon
and that the Government acting in the nacre of
His Catholic Majesty Fenliminal the Seva oats, es
understood to be a party to any negotiation wide'
His Maj.-sty is iitvited to engage.
(Signed) 6KORCE CANNING..
NO. X....l.itter from Count Nicolas its Rosasasuff, in
3lr. Secretory Casting, dated Paris, Jig October, :sue.
Received Nov. 4tli.
(TRANSLATION.)
Sta—The immediate departure of the Enghsh
courier alto vonveyed to use your Excelleray '-
letter of the .01h of this month, obliges oar to
tontine tuyself for the present to the ackato!vieall,
meld of its receipt. 1 rajoice that any errata{ a:.
Paos has etadelesi use tai receive Ilia% latter ilaysett,

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which wag bOrwoarol to the Asiriamatelsaramlor ;
and M. eta Talent. who held thet post, having hypo
pwillesl IT the Etoneror ray as,,,,ter, in• anevin
lila hWog isimeowie.l hv the Prittre ile'Konrekin, I
:nu happy to tins" myself a lit won In rot'',
spoi ail I ir,vetly wiet yin F.scelleucT. 1 have the
hoitoor to be, with remiaients of high coo..tlei-'
atm, .te. •
istienert) La Coirrr. Nit-31.41 DE Rumxszort.
T. hie Exoflicary Mt. Cassino, &z. Cc. &r.
Nt, Opoot de l'himtrlgny. to Ur. earretary
Clitotwee gated Paris. soil Oeo.ewr, tour. Itecoosa No.
towbar 4. (lAA NII•11110)1.) ,
M•ljesty, the E iiiwror, my Vaster,
h o:mc left 'no not *Wise; to wait his
04104 to t koooledge the reyetpt .or the letter
%lot+ your Excellency &I me the honour to write
to me Oil iLe •IStli of d 0... ur.Ntd4 aii.l which I re-
veivell this ottornitig, ae allo f the o,aciut Note
hielt was annexed to it. I shall lose no time io
there tosinu.s to Ilia Imperial 111aiesty ;
as soon RS his imeotioas shall I. made knawis
.n., I shall liestea to seal another Courier to
17v. elleocy.

I eon, with the hi'he.t consi.l..r.iCon, &c.
(Signed) Cuatle•(eNie.
:'. a EN:: Woes. Metioni•.tg, tee.
".".r N.ti. Letter i.ttan Cues N:eutas de Rootaaevff, to Mr.
Si-claws casecle, d.,1t.1 Pares, November Iti ,ra), 1005.
Isscsis.:4l Dm:ember S.
(72ae.tirtos.
Sta—l traiisart to your Excellency my an-
swer to the Note of the -28th October. which you
were piensell to ioldrewi to Coma ale 'bikini ; and
I hastea to sing:: this fresh opportunity of renewing
to lour Excellency the assurances of the high con-
shi.ration 'Sitio which I have the honour to be. &c.
1 •tg:ortii Lt..: OW rE NICOLAS Ott RUMANZOni.
MO kacelintey Mr Csnotoc,&c.
Nu Vii,-;Dt A VSLATIOII.)
NOTE.
The Unchr,igned, Minister for Foreign Affairs
of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Itussias,
has the honour to reitly to the Note of dm `lBtH
October, signed hr Mr. Conning, Secretary of
Stale fur Foxign Atfai-s to His Majesty_ the King
of Great Britain, and addressed by his Eseellcuey
to the Russian Aisithassarlor, et Pans :
That the ailosiesion of the Sovereigns in alliance
trial England, to a Congress, cannot he a point of
nay difficulty, and that Russia awl France consent
to it.
Bait this principle lay no means extends to the
Ivo:esti y of admitting the Ptenipoteistiaries of the
Spanish Insurgents; the Emperor of Bassi. cannot
admit their. His Empire, in similar CirCUM-
etanceir—ltild England can recollect one particular
tastatiec—has always been true to the same prin-
ciple. Moreover. he has already acknowledged the
King Joseph Napoleon. Ile lias announced to H's
Britannic Nlajeaty, that he was united with the
Emperor of the French for peace as well as for
war; and His Imperial Majesty here relents that
ill etaration. He is revoked not to separate his in-
terest:from those of that Monarch ; hut they are
both reedy to coin-lade a Pearl.. provided that it
be just, honourable, and equal for all parties.
The Cutlers:pied sees with pleasure, that, in
this differetice of opi ll i ( nt respecting the Spaniards.
notliiii-- presents itself which cast either prevent or
delay the opening. of 31 CAllgresll., He derives his
persuasion he this respect, from that which His Bri-
tannic Majesty has Ininself confided to the two
Etuperrirs, that he is bound lay no positive engage-
ment with those who have taken asp antis in Spain.
After llfteen years of war, Europe has a right to
creiii;ml Peace. • The interest of all the Powers,
utcluditig that of England, is to reader it general:
II ri inanity etitottionds it ; and midi a desire, surely,
cannot be foreign to the feelings of His Britanuie
Majesty. flow I'3ll it be, that he alone can with-
draw himself fmn: such rn ohject, and refuse to
ternthiate the miseries of suffering humanity ?
The Undersigned consequently renews, iti the
Ipme of the Emperor Isis august Master, the pro-
Oral already made, to scud Plenipoteutiaries to
any city on the Cootimit, which His Britannic
Mijesty may pielsoe to point nut ; to admit to this
Congress the Plenipotentiaries of the Sovereigns
In alliance with Great Britain ; to trent upon the
!iatis of the all pussidetis, and upon that of the
respective power of the Belligerent Parties : In
tine. to ace‘.4 any basis which may hove for its oh-
Jeet the emieluvion of a peace, in which all parties
shall find No , justice. and equality.
The Undersigned has the honour to renew to his
Excellencs, Mr. Caaaiug. the ILINIUMIWASI of his
high consid.tration.
....

(Sign dl Comet Niceit.AS DE ROMADZOIR.
To his I:xerlieuel M . &t.
No. ItIV.--lamer from at: an Cilimpegny to Mr. Nerretery
Calming, 'Voted Paris, *Mb November, toes. Received
December te. I.IIIT ION.)
have the It 1111 l )ur to transmit to your Ex-
celleuey the auswer sloth 1 have been couimuniled
to snake to the Note which accompaiiied your let.
ter of the citith of October last.
have the hounir to Iw, with the liigheist roe-
sifler4ti 1111 l &e. (Sigurd) CnifiltrAtitelfe
To his Ex.-allege" Mr. Corning, at. llotiodma.
ll tea.)
NOTE.
The Undersigned bus laid before the Emperor
his Master, the Note of his Excellency Mr. Can-
ning.
If it were true that the evils of war were Mt only
ou the Continent, certainly there would be litre
bole of attaining peace.
The two Emperors had flattered themselves that
the object of their erasure would not huve been
inisinterpreted in London. Could the English Mi-
ni
,try have ascrioed it to weakness or to necessitv,
whets every impartial Statesman most rerOpiAr, iu
the spirit of peace end moderation by which it is
dictated, the characteristics of power ai.d trite
greatness France and 'twists. can carry nit the
star so long as the Court of London skull not remir
to just nod equitable dispositions ; and they are re-
solved to do at,,
How is it poisilile for the French Government to
eatertaiti the proposal which hrs heel. made to it,
of admitting to the uegocistion the Spanish hour-
gents ? %Vilna would the English Gin eminent Entee
*did. had it Ivrea proposed to them to admit die
Catholic Insurgents of Ireland ' France, without
having any. (motion with them, has been in commit.
?iestion with there, hese merle them rromiArs, awl
1:4/s {Twelfth seed theta stieenors. Could 'mil
Proposal have fogad place in a mite, the object of
"gh 011011610 here beets Net to irritate. bet to ea-

demur to egret a avotnal,enstiliatiso' ts4ll gee&
undervaluation
England will find herself ender a strange inia-
take, if. coutrary to the experience of the past. the
-int emeritus.. the ilea of impending seciessfully
upon the Coutiuent, osmium the armlet; of Fraeiee
IA hat hope can she now have, especially as France is
irrtiocadily muted aith Russia?
The Umier.tigneal is commanded to repeat the
Propos:II. to admit to tlw Helve-lotion all the allies
of the King of England; whether it be the King
who reign..lu the Brazils; whether it be the Kit.g
who iregir; in Sweden; or whether it be the King
oho reigns. in ; and to take for the basis of
the negociation the ati ipasitteis. lie is commended
to express the hope that. but losing 6131 t of the
ielevitable results of the Dime of states, it aO:1 kw
remembered, that between great powers there is no
*whit peace hot that which e* at the saute tune equal
and iseenourelele fur *Hinnies,
The Undersigned requests his Excellency Mr.
Causing to accept the ILSIMMUCe6 of his highest
emeeiderotion. (lirieed) CHA SIPAG aY.
No. XVI —Letter from Mr. aermtary Caitutog to Cunnt
teutas tie Rwasasuff, amyl Foreign 11 r, jib Derma-
feces. erne est.sems
shall lose nn rune illlli-Aillting to your
Excellency, by an Eieglis!4 Courier, the ailswer
wideii the Klieg my ast.ister shall command me to
return to the official note, seinexeil to the letter of
yoiir Excellency, dated the inin (.2ittle) of List
mouth, of which I have the honour to mckelowltdge
the reveipt.
I seize with avidity this opportunity of renewing
to your Excellency the assurances of the high con-
sideration with winch l have the /memoir to he, Sze.
(Sigurd) GiciaGa (TANNING.
His Exectleney Costa Iliteotao de RunansuS.
No. NNW —Official Note, elated Foreign Oct,ffi ,9th De-
cember, Pow.
The Undersigned, His Majesty's Principal Sr-
erttery of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid berme
the King his master the note traiiminted to him by
His Excellency the Count Needs:, de Houtelize.d,
.Minister for Foreign A Weirs of His Majesty the
Emperor of all the Hussies, dated on the 16th
(ieth) of November.
The. King learns with astonishreent and revet
the expeceeton which appears to have been enter-
tained that His Majesty should comet., .to com-
mence a negocietion for general pear,. 1.. the pre-
grimes Abandonnieut cif the cause of the Spanish Ha-
tion, and of the legitimate Nlemire by-of Spaiii„ in
deference to an nampatine which has no parallel iii
the history of the *arid.
His Majesty had kneed that the participaf of
the Emperor of Russia it. the overtures made to
His :Majesty would have afforded a security to His
Majesty against the proposal of a condition, so un-
just it. its effect, and so fatal in its example.
Nor can Hie Majesty conceive be what obliga-
tion of duty or of interest, or by whet principle of
Russian policy, His Imperial Majesty can have
found himeelf compelled to acknowledge the right,
'esteemed by France, to depose and i:npreson
friendly Sovereigns, aid forcibly to transfer to her-
self the allegiance of loyal and independent tea-

lions.
If these he indeed the principles to which the
Einpsror of Russia has inviolably attached himself ;
to which His Imperial Majesty has pledged the
character and resources of his empire ; which he
has united himself with France to establish by war,
and to rusiutain in peace, deeply dors His Majesty.
lenient a determination by which the sufferings el
Europe most be iiggravated and prolonged : but
not to 1-lis Majesty is to be attr •ipteil the continu-
ale* of the calamities of war, by the disappoint-
ment of all hope of such I/ peace as would be com-
patible with justice watt with honour.
The Undersileneii, &c.
(Signed) Gigolos CANNING.
No. XVlll.—.Latorr frees Mr. rioreasary Consing to 31. de
Champatnev, dared Farago 0116er, 7th December, tsars.
St hare the honour to acknowledge. the receipt
of your Excellency's later of the 49th of lust
mouth, and of the official note therein inclosed.
As soon as I shall have received the King's com-
mands upon the subject of that note, I shell not
fail to trimennit to your Excellency, be an English
Messenger, the answer which His Majesty may
command me to return to it.
have the honour C 6 he,
With the highest consideration, &c.
(Signed) Gcoanx C•NNING.
No. XlS.—Official Note, dated Foreign Office, 9th Dv.
umber, 1505.
The Undersigned, His Majesty's Principal Se-
eretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid before
the King his muter the note transmitted to him be
his Excellency M. de Cliampagity, dated the igth
November.
lie is especially command...l by His Majesty to
abstain from noticing ally of those topics and ex-
pressions insulting to His ~%lajesty, to he, ;ahem, and
to the Spanish elution. with *lnch the official note
transmitted by M. de Champagur abounds
His Majesty was desirous to have treated for a
prase which might haves arranged the respective
interests of all time powers engaged in the war, on
. principles of equal justice : and His Majesty sin-
cerely regrets that this desire of his Majesty is elni-
appnlnted.
But His Majesty is determined not to Omission
the cause of the Spanish nation, and of the legiti-
mate monarchy of Spain : and the pretension of
France to exclude from the negociation the Cen-
tral toil Stipreme Government, meting in the name
of His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, is
one, which llis !Majesty could not admit, without
ier.pliescing in an usurpation, which has no parallel
in the history of the world.
The Undersigned, be.
(Signed) Grolier% CAVIIVG.
No. XX..7-Letter from Count Nicolas its Romans ff, to
Mr. Sirrrrary Csassusg, doted Paris, 1.5 03819 I) tuber,
leui.—Beceiverl December Mb.
(TIIIANPLATIOV.)
Sta—The Messenger whom I hail eli•patelted
to your Excellency is returned to this place, and
has brought me the letter which you dal me the
honour to write to sue on the 7th of December,
Simms !mars afterwards, the Messenger whom emir
Ewellency has reset to Paris, delivered to He from
sour Exet•llency, n letter without date, which
oas accompanied by a Lote, slated the ;nth of De-
moldier. I shall transmit tke whole for the infor-
ioatioli of the Emperor my master.
I avail myself of this opportunity te renew to 1

yotietneelliser the itestantee !hi '
411ratna 'Pith which I beentire liedionr to he,
Count Me,. eiItoMANZOII,II
Mr. Casein& he. Ste. Loisdee.
• tier from MDe Clinerieny, ?tlt-trealikk4_
' late Paris, t.tth Doorsisbw, tints.--askiews
• mu,.l;. 5$
(TR•NISLATIONt•
Ste—l hove the holionr to itilneorlerige the re-
ceipt of your Exerthiney'l letter of the 9th 'Mk%
together with the offieisi note which necuiti:uthiSll'
it. 1 shset lode no titer in laying this note nefore
tlw Emperor my master.
I own' teysell uf this opportunity to renew to
your Exeellelies the assursiive of the high r04111i..0
ilrottinis with which, I have tile honour to i.e. Stin
(Silnerl) Citner.turiT.
His Excellency Mr. Canning, Ste. ke.

CONVENTION OF CINTR.4.
COPT OF MI OFFICIAL CONSIIINICATIO/1 RiCILMTLY
DUOS TO SIR W!W AAAAA 111FLP.
"The King has taken into his eonaideretion the Report of
the Board of Inquiry, together aid' the document' and opi
pion* therrneto monened.

White His Majesty adopts the Unanim owe °pinto?. of the
tleit nu farther military proceeding is itectaciry to be
had upun the transactions refereed to their investigation,
His Meicsty due nut intend theseby to enurey any er.pre,-
*ion of His Mnesty's sat isferthni at %hokum' 4.41 COU1111:4.10i
of the Armistice and Convention.
" henthuse iiim,resesats wereetwt kid before Its Vl-
- the Kist reserving fur investigation dose parts of the
. . . . .

Convention in which His Meelety's immedtate interests were
canned it to be signiaeil to Sir Hew Dalrymple,
by His Majesty's Secretary of State, that His blajesty, llC-
ecrtheten, felt himself compelled at once to express his dis-
approliati.ei of those articles, in which atipalations were
made, directly affecting the interests or feelings of the. Span-
ish and Portuguese iistiose.
" At the close of the Inquiry, the King, abstaining tom

anyailwervatioti upon other parts of the Convention, repeated
his erossi...irobstion of those articles ; His Majesty dceta•ng
it necessary that his sentiments shutild be clearly understood,
as to the impropriety and danger of the authorised adraissinu,
into ;lilitary Cunt etifonis, of attn. les of such s description,
which, especially when incautiously frr.n:d, tiny lead to
the most If1)0Ti01111 consequences.

" His Majesty caultoi forbear farther to observe, that

Lieuteuant-General Sir New Dale' milk's delaying to trans-
mit rot 11:i int:it-motion the Armistice concluded on the 27d
of August, until the atli of September, Len ►e, ei the same
time, transmitted the ratified Convention, wee eskiimied to
praduce great public inconvenience. and diet rule Isciate-
nie at. e did in feet resell therverom."

..• Far Law latent:race, ke. it Not

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21.

The Correspondence between the Doitish. Rus-
sian, and French Ministers, in consequence of the
proposition from Erfurth, was laid yesterday upon
the table of the House of Commons, preparatory
to the discussion of the subject on Thursday next.
A copy of it is given in our preceding columns;
but, from the lateness of the hour at which it was
received, we have not time for many observations.
A proposition from Admiral SAT:MARE?, in the
Baltic, respecting, we believe, the Russian fleet,
appears to have been seized by the Emperors Na-
routoe and ALLAANDES. at Erfurth, as the
ground for making the Overture, in which they set
out with declaring, that " the union of the two
Empires is beyond the reach of all change, and
that the two Emperors have forined it for peace as
well as for war." This Overture concludes with
proposing for a basis " the seri Fussidetis, or any
other founded upon the reciprocity and equality
that ought to prevail lwtiveeto all great nations," and
to this proposition Mr. CANNING replies, by re-
fusing to eater into any negocietion to which
Spain is not a party.—Fer be it from us to say, that
we ought to abandon Spain; but on reading these
Papers, we cannot commend the precipitate man-
ner in which Spain is brought forward by Mr. CA N..
!CING. One might suppose, from Lord Gnex-
vit.t.e's speech in the House of Lords, on Thurs-
day night, that he had read these Papers. His
Lordship observed, thut at the time the Imperial
overture was made to treat on the nil possidetis,
England woe hi possession of Portugal, end Franc
only of a corner of Spain, between Vittoria and
the Pyrenees. lied the English Minister then ac-
cepted the offer, Fmnre must be embarrassed,
for it was not to be supposed, that, meditating the
subjugation of Spain, she would have been ratio-
tied with a little corner of that country, leaving
England in possession of all Portugal. To have
suggested then to France that her Overture was
delusive, and could not lead to peace in the preselit
state of utitiettainty, his Lordship sing would
hare disarmed all aegry feeling, and snelo au an-
swer must leivc recommended us lamer to the other

nations of Europe. Hie MAJINTIr• Mini-ter, we
regret to foul, thought differently, and the De-
claration of the 15th December, breaking off the
Negoci:ition, winch is already Wore the public,
was the result.

-
Mr. Poi:raiser's speech in the Hawke of Com-
mons, on •liiirstlay, was that of • Slowworm. sand
displayed all the ability which the Public had u
rizht to expert in the sneeessor of Mr. Fox soil
GREY, to the head of a. party, the innet power-
fal ever knows) in this s•orinky iss respect of rank.
pmperty, and tlosts. It was correct without
being minter. A Incid order prevailed through.
out, free from all et et hodivail stiffireqs ; and it was
co.uirefiehisive without being driLer:tre. It tray

a ..0.
-

fied, I tiasisiftwai` gird fortenihnowelisin inflicte
kion upon 01. Ow great points that agitate Europe,
and itlEriA the public mind ou hods sides of the At-
tile! expedition against Denmark to
4. f ffiA • • I •
;Appg) It. t most s y ea.sowd the
'igmy views sad mistaken conceptions
aims. luik.metertained of Spain, and of the •
its defence should have beets Du-
The impolicy of 4
CR4C ”frinn a desultory warfare, • which ltcd
proved successful. to a regular cus•upaigu, which bad
bora untried,- so strongly nrged by Mr: Poe.•
4140 a prominent feature is
the admirable speech of Lord Gilt'. 4411.1. E, in
the House of Lords. on the sense nigh.--.
The force, strength. uud truth of . the argil-
mesas urged tliese two able ststesmen, were
strongly mistrusted be the speeches of Minister*.
We insert, this day, a Copy of a cOmmosnication
Made by Ministers to Sir HEw 1)t Lams:PLS. dis-
approving of those articles in the Convecting" 4
Cintra " in which stipulations were made. directly
tefecting the interests or Letings of the Spankih
anal Portuguese nations ;" cud farther statist,
tbut tbs• delay in tnossmitting tile Armistice

communication, we do not expect to see Sir ts...
DA LRY ',Le employed in any important place of
trisst or confidence; awl vet the Board of Inquire,
in theirsentence, allowed Sir flew DA LRY MP LE 11/4
merit of 44 unquestionable zeal and firmness;' and
HIS MAJESTY, adopting 44 the unanimous opinion
of the Board," says, " that no further military
proceeding is necessary to be had upon the pro-
reeding% submitted to their investigation." My
Lord H AWE RY (wow Earl of LIVERPOOL) has
dwelt much in his language to the city of Loudon
upon 44 Britisit justice' and punishment before
t.iiil; but Sir 11rtia Damormpee's case affords a
new illustration of 44 British justice," in punish-
. siieist after acquittal. Among 44 the stipulations
affecting the feelings and interests of die Portu-
guese," is, no doubt, the recognition of the ti- to
of " Duc IYAsartsrres" assumed by Gen. J c 7`. :/ t ;
but it must be remembered that Sir ARTIM a %Vas -
LESLEY recognised this title in the armistice; and
that Lord CASTLEREAGH, ill his private lam:ruc-
tions, desires Sir Hew-to take the advice and coin-
• Mon of Sir ARTHUR. dlliuisters, we find, prwowe
to vote the Thanks of Parham:lit Ix, Sir Atli-FICK
'Wuttstev for his conduct iu the battle of Vi- •
meira. Why do not Ministers extend the Thanks
to the part which he acted in the Armistice and
Convention of Cisitra ? Why wit thank him for
carryiustlniir ariny to Porte**. and not to Spain,
its he and Ministers originally intended ? These
points will, no doill,t, be duly considered before
the Thanks of Parliament are voted fur the achieve-
ment of a victory, in which we did not take one
general officer of the enemy, and the loss of the
victor was nearly equal to that of the vanquished.
From nine o'clock to eleven, on Thursday mere.
ing, a heavy Brio; was heard at Dover, in the di-
rection of the Fi mach coast. The atmosphere was
so hazy the cause couiJ nut be ascertained. Ca-
lids and Boulogne are nests for privateers, and an
action limy have taken place with some of our
cruisers on that station. The French, however,
are in the habit of announcing their victories to
gngland by the firing of cannon on the opposite •
coast, and as, at the date of the last dispatches from
Spain, BONAPARTE MRS pressing close upon
right wing of Sir JOHN 31oonv's army, and
is reason to presume that a battle ham taken place;
the firing, on Thursday, on the French meet. ha
excited very serious apprehemicum.
• BRITISH PRESS-OFFICE.
lIVE. O'CLOCK.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE ON FIRE !
Aliout a quarter past two o'ckck, this meruirfi.
the Centinels gave the alums that St. James's rt.
lace Was on tire. The drums immediately beat the
alarm, and engines began to be in motion. The
fire appears to have broken out between the at.
moury and hits Majesty's private entrance in ?•;t.
James's l'arl. on the south eastern side of the
Palace. It has now a most alarming appointee, •
The Duke of Cambridge's apartments are in it
blase. There is no water, and no hope of stepping
the progress of the flames.
Six o' Clock.
The fire continues in an alarming progress. Its
appearance is most awful. A person
~arrived frets
Staines, says, at three o'clock it was visible there,
and he fancied all London was on fire. The Cu-
rate continue to arrive, and the people are crowd-
ing to the spot, but no water is yet mitered. 'Ms
whole Palace is in imminent da *
it is surpacted was not accidents'.
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On Thursday the Royal. Dyes, visited rink
lIFIAJ NAT'L&
Yesterday morning. about ten o'clock, the
Clismasasaitsi waited upon His Itlasesev
die Address of the House or Lords. In a shed
tune after his Matartary set off for Windom...-.
About twelve o'clock Iler MAJESTIP and the Pa "*.
costars followed His MA/FITT.
The BPEAILER will entertain the principal
hers of Adestuist ration in the Commons, ea
friends, to dinner. this dee. To-morrow fie „
vatartaiss these of the lite ,
will mafioso to giro
during the Sessiosm ,

_

I

LOY 1111'ELLIGAME.

CRINI. CON.

CoSri of Mt SHERIFF of MIDOLItni, BtDFOSD-
STIILLT, Jam. 20.

THOMAS BEST, ESQ. e. JOSEPH HENRY, ESQ.
This was an ut thin brought by the Plaintiff, a
gentleman of fortune, against the Defendant, also
is also a gentleman of considerable property, for
the recovery and assessment of damages, incurred
by bins in consequence of criminal co:leers:l6mi
with the Plaintiff'. %vire.
Mr. Serjeaut SHEPHERD, with his usual abilities,
stated the case of the Plaintiff, from which it ap-
proved that his client had married the daughter of
Lord Aldborriugh, 110 W known by the name of
Lady Amelia Best; that lie had been first intro-
duced to the Defendant at Cheltenham; that the
Defendant had frequently thereafter visited at the
'Plaintiff's house, unit happened to be in Ireland
wheu Lady Amelia wai resident at her father's
house, where he frequently visited. This %villeiat a
period when the Plaintiff's affairs had bee 44444 e em-
barrassed, and lie was ler the ueeessity of being
resident in the King's Bench prison. In his rib-
.
some, which was :thirst eight oil
howl been delivereil of a child, and alien she return-
ed to this country site resided with her liiislanel at
Stafford-place, and suckled that child far the
SVICe of three months, when shu soddenly eloped,
leaving huslormil and child loeliiinl ; 111.4 although
the Defendant did not at that tiinF make frequent
visits, nor appeared to be,implicated in that elope.
meat. yet it turned out that. they-lived afterwards
together, aim% the alleged eriininal eouversation.
then took place. The damages were laid at
gO,OOOl. it feting also allegcol, that the Defeinlaiit.
hail, when in Ireland, put iu practice the 111119 t
in-
sidious means of seduction, by which-the Plaintiff
hail ultimately been deprived of the society of his
wife.
11r. Doper v., the Solicitor of the Plaintiff,
proved the inarriage, and the sotto went which then
tusk place in favour of Ludy Amelia, of 12091.
u-year„ with certain additions in case of children.
Mr. Chow. Clarke, a medical gentleman, proved
his having attended Lady Best during an indispo-
sition, find that the greatest harmony seemed to
prevail between her and her husband; but lie prin-
cipally confined his attention to his proirssinual
inquiries.
Another Wittier:, who visited the family: spoke
as to the affect winch subsisted lotto ixt the mar-
ried couple. De !mew that Mr. Best hail the ink-
fortune to go to 'insole and he could not say upon
what terms they lived ato r that periool.
Colonel J. !o; Conway was acquainted with the
parties after the marriage, and thought they hued
happily together,
John Peacock, butler to Mr. Best, said, that be
went to Lord Alilleorough"s, in Ireland, uloug with.
Lady Amelia, with whom he returned to this coun-
try; lie never saw any husband more attentive to
hi• ife than the Plaintiff was, and no abatement
of knotlness took place between the parties upon
his retitrii; he nevi. r saw any thing improper Oil
the part of Lady Amelia, either 'luring her resi-
dence here or in Ireland.
James Ricketts said, he lived ut Lord Alsibe-
rough's daring Lady Ilea's resideure there, and
frequently saw two or three Messrs I leery there,
tad particularly the Defendon. but did not notice
any thing improper.
Charles Best, brother of the Plaintiff,
Mated, that hr lived with his brattier in Stafford-
place till his (the Plaintiff's) affairs became ember..
rassed. Ili. misfortunes produced no alteration of
his afftetirm towards his Lady ; and lie nevi r un-
derstood there had been any disagreement or mis-
uuslerstaiiiling between them, till the very morning
of her elopement, when she elated to the Witness,
that her husband had become of late very invi-
eihle, ui con-,quenee of his misfortunes. Ile
knew the Defendant, having been introduced to
bum at Cheltenham by his brother. lie knew that
the Defendant kept several servants affil horses, but
nu carriage. Ile relived his brother was left 11 fortune
of about 80,0001. at the death of his hither, be-
sides Ilia property in the %vest, Indies. Ile thought
his income altogether might at a moderate
calculation amount to ‘2,0001. a-year.
Mr. Sri-jowly Cocett.l. woke at considerable
It isgth in beiialf of the Defendant, in mitigation of
damages. and particularly enlarged upon the cir-
cumstance of the married parties not ltiug appa-
rently upon the most atfectionate ternis,anol argued
that no proof had been adduced to chew that the
Defendant hull aggravated his misconduct by lay-
intidown a deliberate plan of seduction.
The SHERIFF then summed up the evidence
with great impartiality, and the Jury, after a short
deliberution, returned u verdict fur the
4,0001.

ph LI ('Y..

KORAN I P-hlitt TT.
Yesterday, Aan Babson, a girl shout twrhe grain of age,
was aweheadrd by VlCkery, the Ultkrr, and brought hr.
fore Mr. Mosta, fur ste.tline several silver .pout., belong-
tog to Mr. Franco, of tpital Nowt.
The Prisoner is the Jan:later ut a laundress,' who washer
for Mr. Franco 's' family, and has bees in the habit of corning
backward and forward. to Mr. F.'s house with the
Lees November lastommal silos, spoons hams been ,
from the kitchen, nod no idea was entertained at first that the
Primmer was the thief; for, unfortunately fur the servants,
they were suspected, sod Mr. F. two moan ego applied to
the Magistrates, rind the miscasts were all examined scpm
rately, tut nothing could be made out; and, frepiently,
spoons were missing as usual. At lost mispii ion &II upon
the Primate, as they sever missed spoons bat on the days
she was there ; which caused the Cook, when the Prisoner
cane me Tuesday lam, to leant two spoons on the dresser,
gu out of She kitchen, leaving the goLl behind her ;
before she returned, the Prisoner wrist 11.3 V, and Or tlie
sumps was solve she was iumethatsly pursued and brought
back, and the spoon taken oat of her pocket.
The Prisoner then confessed that she was the person who
had taken the irpooos. and had pledged them at a pawn-
broker's in Shoreditch. She ockaowledged,
.alori, that she
had stolen an melon. lie front the passage of Mr. Ir.'s home,
wharb she took house and told her mother sloe 6.irglie it wish
soot matey she lim, given to her for Christmas hosts; that
eheopeut all the money she pawned tlw spoons fur, in treat-
log sower giros of Jinx own age with apples, kr. Vickery
wont to the powiihrokees, ahem be fused eight spoon. In,
hoagies to Mr. F. The paisehruker's shoposais, who bad taken
the spoons in pledge, ideutitied the Primmer es the pumas
who piwned them.
The blaascravra asked Wm bow ha came to ware
sash seticies tram seek a &Ad! and bin carver was, site
be wade all the inquiry be could, and the girl said she ant
twelve yaws of age. Tb. Matto'. said ha ass very

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