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meritorious Officers, whose honour and zeal for his Muje&t
service were undisputed. The Right Hon. Gentleman concludt•it
by congratulating the Rouse on the newly acquired ninderatio.
of the Gentlemen opposite, and hoped they would persevere i:•
so laudable a system, so different from last Ses,inn, and so
agreeable to every honourable feeling, when it was discovered
that Ministers made every exertion in their power for the ad-
vantage of the country.
After some general. observations and explanations the Spen ker
put the question on the Address, which was carried in the affiro,-
;give without a division.
Pie 'louse adjourned at half past eleven o'clock,

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20.

Mr, GRANT, from the Committee of Military Enquiry, pre-
sented the 7th and Bth Reports of the Committee, which were
ordered to be printed.

PRIVATE 131 LLS.
The CHANCELLOR of the Ex ell EQU ER proposed as standing
orders of the House, That no Petitions for Private Bills he re-
ceived after the 24th of February ; that no Private Bill he re-
ceived after the 27th of March ; and no report of a Private
Bill after the Bth of May.

DUKE OF YORK.

Mr. WAttorta. gave notice of a motion on the conduct of
his Royal Highness the Duke of York, in granting Commis-
sions, and in a variety of other military detail* conuected with
the basiaess of his oflice.—Adjourned.

STATE PAPERS.

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con ESPON DEx cg

WITH THE

RUSSIAN AND TRENCH GOVERNMENTS RELATIVE TO VALE
OVERTURES RECEIVED FROM ERFURTII.

Count Nicolas de Romanzoff to Mr. Secretary Canning,
• dated Erfurtb, Oct. 12, IRK Received Oct. 21st.
(Translation.) * •
• send to your Ekcellency a letter which the Emperors
'ef Russia and France write to his Majesty the King of e,ngland.
The Emperor offßussia flatters himself that England will feel the
grandeur and sincerity of this step. She will there find the most
natural and the most simple answer to the overture w hich has
been made by Admiral Saumarez: The union of the two Em-
pires is beyond the reach of all change, and the two Emperors
have formed it for peace as well as for war. His Majesty has
Comnianded me to make known to your Excellency that he has
nominated Plenipotentiaries who will repair to Paris, where
they will Wait the answer which your Excellency may he
pleased to make to me. I request .you to addre,s it to the Rus-
sian Ambassador at Paris. The Plenipotentiaries named h.% the
Empernr of Russia will repair to that City (ft the Continent to
whielt the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty and his
Allies shall hayb been sent, In respect to the basis of the ',ego-
elation, their. Imperial:Majesties see no difficulty in adopting all
those formerly proposed by l'ngland, namely, ,tlie (Ili Possidetis,
and eiery other basis founded upon the reciprocity and equality
whieu ought to prevail between rili great Nations. I have the
honour to be, with seattmeuis of the bighest•consideration, &c.
(Signed) Count NICOLA S DE ROMA NZOFF.
Letter from his Mkjesty the Emperor of all the RUS)iAS, and
Bonaparte, to his Majesty, dated Erfurth, Oct. 12, 1808.—
Received Oct. 21.
(Translation.)
SIRE,--The present circumstances of Europe have hronett us•
together at Erfurth. Our first thought is to yield to the wish
and the wants of every people, and to seek, in a speedy pacifi-
cutiou with your Majesty, the most efficacious remedy for the
miseries which oppress all nations. We make known to your
Majesty our sincere desire itt this respect by the present letter.
The long and bloody war which has toru the Continent is at an
end, without the possibility of being renewed. Many changes
have taken place in Europe; many states have heeu overthrown.
The cause is to be found in the state of agitation and misery in
which the stagnation of maritime commerce has placed the great-
est. nations.; Still greater changes may yet take place, and all of
them contrary to the policy of the English nation. Peace, then,
Isis( once the interest of the people of the Continent, as it is ti e
istereit of the people of Ureat Britain. We unite ip counting


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your Aldiesty to listeu to the voice of humanity, silencing shot Of
he passions; to seek, with the intention of arriving at that ob-
,i..ct, to conciliate all interests, and by that means to preserve
al the powers which exist, and to insure the happiness of
urope and of this generation, at the bead of which Providence
uas placed us.

(Signed) ALEXA NDER—NA POLEO PI .
Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to the Russian Autbassador,
at Paris, dated Foreign Office, 28th October, ISOS.
(Translation.)

SlR,—lfaving laid before the Kin; my Master the two letters
which his Excellency the Count Nicholas de Rionanzotf has
,ransmitted to me from Erfurth, l have received his Majests's
emninands in reply to that which is addressed to him, by the of-
ficial Note which I have the honour to enclose to your Excel-
lency. Howeser desirous his Majesty might be to reply directly
to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, you cannot but feel, Sir,
that from the unusual manner in which the letters signed by his
Imperial .3.laje•ty were drawn up, and which has entirely de-
prived them of the character of a private and personal communis
cation, his Majesty has found it impo-sible to adopt that mark
of respect towards the Emperor of Itu-sia, without at the same
time acknowledging titles which his Majesty never bus acknow-
ledged.
I am commanded to ad to the conteats of the official Note,
that his Majesty will hasten to commpoicate to his Majesty the
-King of Sweden, and to the existing Government of Spain, the
proposals which have been made to him. Your f,,xcillency
will perceive that it is absolutely necessary that his Majesty
should receive an immediate assurance that France acknowledges
the Government of Spain as party to any negociation. That
such is the intention of the Emperor of Russia his Majesty can-
not doubt. His Majesty recollects with satisfaction the lively
interest o hich his Imperial 111;kjesty has always manifestad for
the welfare and dignity of the Spanish snoluirchy, and be wants
no other assurance that his IMperial Majesty cannot have been •
induced to sanction by his concurrence, or by his approbation,
usurpations, the principle of which is not less unjust than their
example is dangerous to all legitimate Sovereigns.
As soon-as the answers on this point shallAsve OP received,
and as soon as his Majesty shall have learnt *the sentiments orthe
King of Sweden, and those of the Governraent of Spain, I shall
not fail to receive the 'commands of his Majesty for such cons-
oiunications as it may be necessary to make upon the ulterior
objects of the letter of Count Romanzoff.—l have the honour
to be, di:c. • .
(Signed) _GEORGE CANNING.
OFFICIAL NOTE.
.The King has uniformly declared his readiness and desire to
enter into negotiations for• a general peace on terms consistent
with the honour of hi- Majesty's crown, with fidelity to his en-
gagmen's, and with the permanent repose and security of Eu-
rope. His Majesty repeats that declaration.—lf the condition
of the Continent be one of agitatiOn and of wretchedness; it
,nano states have been overihrown; and more are sill) menaced
with subversion, it is a consolation to the King to reflect, that
no part of the convulsions w Inch have already been experienced,
or of those which are threatened for the future, can be in any
legree imputable to his Majesty. The King, is most willing to
acknowledge that all such dreadful ciainges are indeed contrary
to the policy of Great Brit;:ia. If the caire,ofsu much misery
is to be fining! in the stagnation of commercial intercourse,—al-
tsaufz,h his M jesty cannot be-expected to hear, with unquali-
:fied, regret, t3.4t the s.-lens devised for the destruction of the
:com erre of .his.subjeets has recoiled upon its authors, or its
ins.ru dentsy—yet it it neither in the disposition of his Majesty,
'a, •v.iathe character of the people over whom 'he reigns, to re-
,),e in the privations and unhappiness even of the nations
which are combined ;pinist him. His Majesty anxiously de-
sir s the termination of the sufferings of the Continent.
Tne. war in which his Majesty is engaged, was etrtered itite
by his Majesty for the immediate object of national safety. it
has been prolonged only because *no secure and honourable
laeans of terminating it have been afforded by his enemies. But
in the progress of a war, begun for self-defence, new obliga-
tions have been imposed.upon his Majesty, in behalf of powers
whom the aggressions of a common enemy have compeliel to
make common cause witfi his Majesty; or who haw* solicited
his Majesty's assistance and support in the vindication of tocir
national independence The interests of the Crowe of Portu„ol,
and of his Sicilian Majesty are confided to his Majesty's
ship and protection. With the King of Sweden his Majesty i