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No. 4.-iirsttract *vf 3.l3lspateli foam 3. R. nett, Van. to Lord
flawlseehutr, dated Madri:•!, Y lit uly, tso4-..Receivel 48th
August. •
MY 4.oft I)-1 tyke advaistawe of a private conveyance, to
inform your Limilltip of the littie,phiclt Nit occurred siuce tha
date of any Lao.
In an interview which I had ramie few days cap.. with the
Prince of Peace, I returned to the sailt:e.:t of the •ititation in
which thit country stood Ile told me that it wa: Los Ca.holic
Nlan-dy's intentton to offer ins toe:Galion, and that the dlfer
would be made in the form of a letter to His Majesty. I an-
swered with exprossions of great respect for the mediation of
this Court, and sati:factinn at the fonts in which it was to-
wn led to be propos..4;-but suggested the prop:toy of ikpurt-
tug from th.:ir usual system of gaming tune, and endeavour-
ing, on the contrary, to hastert this step, ao that it might he
connected with the mediation of Rusaia. I did not, however,
find him disposed to agree with me in my militant upon this
point ; on the contrary, he said, that the cKief it'aject of this
measure was to gain time.
I ought to mention to your Lordship a circunivance which I
cannot well account fur. The Prince of &twee has repeatedly
&dared. that tlimigls some overtures have been made by the
French Government upon the subject of the contingent, yet
that no distinct demand has beets made.

Mn. S.—Extrael of a ll:spatch from J. H. Frere, Esq. to Lord
Hawkoabury, dated Madrid, sth August, lane.---Receiverl
Deh September.
I take advantage of a courier whom Mr. Frere is now dis-
patching, toitsform your letealshie of the subject of a very im-
portant conversation which I had this morning whit the Prince
of Peace; and which amounted ie aubstanee to a declaration,
that the demands and meinaresuf France- bad balmiest, urgent,
as to leave them no seternetive between immediate compliance
and adeclaration of year. Ile endeavoured to chew me that
they had me.* every proposition which could be thought of,
to avert such an extremity ; that they had even prop... Led to
estimate the fell expellee of •the coati t 'gent which was de.
mantled of them by France, and to pay it to that government
as the pike of their neutralite. This had been refuse!, and a
demand matte in retorts, of twenty-four millions per month.
To this outrageous proposal an analyst has been retnoted, that,
a'l things considered, it would be more walkable tad less
• mucus to abide by the tent., of the treaty, and 1.1 runtish the
contingent. Ile then applied himself to prove to me, that if
they were forced tea measure of this kind, and to a nominal
declaretion of war against Great ardain it ought n.t et make
any differenee in the relations between tier two commies, or in
the good untlerstandieg between them. To this I answered,
that I was Moire 1 could not give the kind of answer which he
might ear ri ; that it was any duty to ho frank with him; and
that. wit nout giving any opittien of ray own on the propriety
of continuing the system of forbearance, whirls in the two last
was, had been used with respett to Spain, it was not in my
power to flatter him with a prospeel of its continuance ; that 1
as nothing had been gained by so long a peneyeeance in the
system,it was naturel toe:peel that it would be renounced by
Great eitain.
Flaying your Lerd,hip's last instructions upon the subilect of
the comitigent present to my trued, I did not enter further
into the discussion, though I was persuaded that what 1.11,1
setae', to say penance.% a atinitg impr•seret, and will incline
the Prince to me every possible endeaveur, ai he assured the
that he would do, te divert the Yarnell Government front the
pursuit of thee present Illeinanelt.
No. 6.-seExt.act of a Dispatch fmm J. 11. Freeze Esq. to lord
Havikeabury. dated Madrid, 15th August, 18U3.—Iteteticd
20th September.
I take advantage of the passage of a courier from Mr. Souza
at Paris, whom Mr. Freee has detained for a few hoists.
- Two days after the date of my last. I called upon the Prince
of Peace, in order to taee Imre of him before he set eif tor
St. 111efonan. I (slued him in a temper and tone se different
from that of our last ColitereliCe, that I ventured to ask him
what mutt have pawed to have made such ail alter Won in so
short an interval ? He said that the day before he had had a
long conversation with the French Ankbamedor, and that ho
had spoken to WWI in a tone which had bad its weight. It is
cersatu 'het tics conference had been a very eine sod a very
w..en one; ak.d the Ameassarlor came away with evident
nada of discontent •od ill-humour. It is certain that, since
this conversations and the arrival of some couriers who were
imp:meet to bring very important dispatches, he has very mach
charged. his nose, and has even said to several persona, who
he intended should ilnet his esiveriation to me, that lie was
snrry that the English Altnieter aireeared to give himself.°
much cone ; that in fact there Wss no ground for it ; and
that there was not any dieposition on the part of France. to
make Spain a raft! in the war.
The present report, which I have net the means to verify be-
ewe the dupaiture of this courier, but which comes to me from
good autherity' is, that the Frcioh Government have suc-
cessively redthed then dentate! to an ituedred million of rialt,
or one miilims sterling and Shire so seventy-two million; and
that the preterit &Ito of the Spanish Government is sixty mil-
lion, or sax hundred thoiteend pounds, to be paid as au annual
subsidy in I:eu of tiler contingent.

Nn 7—Extract of a Di.,)atch fmnr J. H. Frere, Esq. to Lord
IllAwkesburi, dat-r1 Escurial, 9th cletolorr, ISO —.Received

9th Nnvemiser.

I have to announce to your Lordship the touclusionr of the
negoitiation between this country and France, agreeably to the
conjecture which I Mated in my lot report to your Lordship
upon the subject; namely, that, for the pr.sain moment, the
difference would he patched up with money; and that it can
only he for the present moment. Your Lordship will easily
4 ollee:v , from thd exorbitance of the akin), which 444 WI Ifs: than
six millions of three a month . • a sacrifice beyond the ability of
Spain to runtish, and, as I have distinctly explained 's) the
Prince of Peace, far excesxling the limits of any thing bnt a
mere temporary connivance on the part of England
On thu dd instant M. I Iceman arrived from Paris, and the
same evening had a conference with the Prince nl Peace at this
Sitio. The next day, there was a second conference, at which
M. S.:email", was pre, nt And on the following day, the
Prince of Peace snt to acquaint me that every thing was
nettled; that they hut made ev..re sacrifice to pri,Serire their
neutrality ; arda,th .t they had finally Colipeated to pay six mil-
lions of licre, a month.

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The terms, it seems which M.. Herman had been instriieted
ti demand, included the na,inent of arrears pr,tended to be
11-te siure the beginning of he war, at this saint rate, together
With a payment us advance, the amount of which I could hot
learn. The result of these conferences was, to reduce them
simply bathe monthly payment *foie million* of hetes. Upon
return to Madrid, Gemini Bounioni Mit set off
himself fur the Sitio. Ile had two IbUCCAmelite VAIittCOCIA, with
the Prince of Peace; which terminated in olitaining apse fur-
ther addition to the terms which had beau extorted by M.
Herman, tbe exact nature el which I hose Lot yet been able to
Mare Whim I pressed the Prisee of Pram upon the subject of
thy TreatY, he IA ia (kat them was nothing but-an additional
articleabnut the tratud of Preach woollens to Pumice]. I than
asked elt,t security was olitai..e.l Inc that country ? he said that
was settled: Portug-I was to pay a million of litres a month;
that the denia d upon Soiiti was entravacant in e
and that had been made so, he believed, with a view of a future
round of quarrel, in cast they bilOtild God ilie:nselYes tumble
to fulfil thitengagemenr, which they 11.01 been forced to enter
inta. He said, however, thst ordars had bun sent to St.
Asia, to sign a treaty; and that they should think no pries
tut great fee the mant-s.ance elf their neutrality; and he added
somotbing, which imaliml a prAntaption that men A neutrality
might cuntaiue through the war. I interrupter and reminded
him of what I had mid on a former occasion on th same sob.
jett, that I thosiglisit istes•hle that Great Britain:Mat r.oniiivis
at a tri3ing sacrifice, such as that which was exa.`ted (nun P.,r.
for even at the present, if enusirlenal merely as a tem;.*-
rary.-ftlaa'Alfa, and intended to give tome till the disposition of
the great Powers of Europe should lt2 mere ilveidedly known,
and till those t:avers themselves should be acquainted with the
circitrostatiers and situation of this country. He waked, how
was possiblefor S;ei in to aft otherwise! That !lerir eOll.l Vet
was the elm, oftheir weakness, and not of any real hostility to
England. I admitted it ; but added, that Ow effects were the
same, that a subsidy, such as they were about to Brent, was a
wurlt greater injury to th• interests or Engio.d than any that
email he carrelienited from their hostility. Ile admitted thus;
but phraJoil the utter imps...lolly ,if rs ontance, and the neces-
sity of submitting to demands which went backed op such •
fury::. I saol, that I hoped that tbeu, cotanderaf would it -
due.. England to forbear far a time, and that I would .oust
earnestly re_ornumid it to hiss to 1.... k to something bayonil
the present, w.•icle could Mete is nothing bursa temporary
expedient.