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TED. I,

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and derisive proof of the good understanding subsisting between
his Majesty and his august Ally ; such as shall satisfy, not his
.lajesty only, but Europe and the world, of the impartiality
~►ith which his Imperial Majesty has undertaken, and proposes
to administer, the defies of his office as Mediator.
With respect to the first of the two points which I have stated
a 5 absolutely indispensable, General lindberg appears as yet to
htive ',Tone no farther than to give a verbal assurance that there
i; not any article. among the secret articles of the Treaty of'l'it-
;;t,
stipulating for the shutting of the Russian ports against
Great Britain.
Rut it will immediately have occurred to your Excellency'
that a distinction might probably be taken in M. De Budbergs
wind, between a stipulation for the immediate and unconditional
eyecutiop of a purpose, and the agreement to resort to it
rvenlvally, antler circumstances which may not vet have occurred:
and that, supposing the former only to be the sense of NE de
Etalberg's assurance, that assurance might he literally true,
r ithout ►n fact conveying any thing essentially satisfactory,
The inference to be drawn from this circumstance is, that the
Russian Minister should be called upon by your Eyeellenev in
an official note, not for a simple disavowal only of any single
article, trot for the communication of the secret :alit les them-
selves, or at least of any agreement actual or eventual, inn hick
the interest of this country or its allies are in any degree eon-
cerned.
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In the same form% manner a communication should be re-
quired of the basii of the peace proposed by France; upon
which the Russian Minister does not appear•to have offered att
explanation.
The other two points are not so strictly connected with the
question of Mediation. Hut it is nevertheless perfectly reason-
able that Ills Majesty should reqnire some ostensible proof of
the good-will of his august Ally, to counteract the general itn-
pression which must have been created by late eveuts, of a dif-
Terence and disunion between them ; before his Nlajestv can
with a good grace accept those offices at 04: Emperor of Rus-
fia's hand, of which impartiality should be the essential cha-
racter. No proof could be selected, at once so easy for his
Imperial Majesty to give, so grateful to his Majesty to reccise,
to natural in the eves of the world, and so little liable to ex-
ception on the part of France, as the renewal of the 'treaty of
Commerce.

With respect to the remaining point, wl►ielo our Excellency
it instructed to uere,—a communication on the part of the Rus-
sian Government of its general viekis and policy for the future,
—you will observe, that his Imperial Majesty himself annexed
to his cnndlti►►wal acceptance of the mediation of the Emperor
of Austria a ►i►nilar demand of the communication of the ge-
neral views of the Court of Vienna respecting the future state
of Europe.

In the Treaty of Ilartenstrin, concluded between hi: Imperial
Majesty and the Kin of Prussia, and ()tiered by theta to the
acceptance of other Powers as the basis of a co-operation for
Vie purpose of producing a general pacific arrangement. a dis-
tinct and detailed exposition was entered into with respect i:ot
ply to the. Powers intended to be comprehended as parties to
the Treaty, but to all the Powers of Europe in whose fate anv
PVC of the principal Pavers could tie supposed to he interested.
These examples of what his Imperial Majesty has done, and
what he has required, would solliciently authorize Hb M‘jesty's
solicitude to obtain a similar explanation on the retreat oc-
casion.

But there are other grounds for it in the very Mate stud cir-
eumstauces of Europe, as arising out of the Treaty of Tilsit, and
the stipulations annexed to it ; some of which stipulations are
Stltrady carrying into execution in a way to excite his Majests's
appreliewimi. if not for his own interests, for those of his
allies. Is it possible that his Nlskjesty should not think it essen-
tial to be informed whether the 'subtle article of the Treaty of
Tilsit, which recognizes the French King of Naples untg as
Ring of Naples, is, in erect, contradicted by a secret article,
filch adds to this title that of the Two Siellies The most.-
tnents in the Mediterranean, and the surrender of Corfu, natu-
rally give rise to a variety of apprehensions, which it would he
for the interest of WO countries to quiet, or at least to reduce
within the hounds of truth. Dias not his Nlajestv the right to
require some explanation of the inten.ions of Russia ith re-
spect to Turkey ; a power with wboni his Nlajest.‘ finds himself
at war, and left whine in she war, for no other than ltus•ian in-
terests, aid from k rikiorroi espotite4 by his Nlikjesty fur the vtke
Of his ally ?

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" These topics your Excellency will urge la year conferences
with M. D. Lindberg with all the' earnestness *hich their im-
portance-requires, hut at the same time carefully avoiding a
stain of reproach ; and even when you are obliged to confess the
suspicion of engagements having been entered into such ac his
Nlajesty cannot hut disapprove, conducting your enquiry in such
a manner as shall lead M. De Budberg to believe, that his Ma.
jesty is anxious rather to find the means of preventing or reme-
dying the evil, than to discover the grounds of complaint against
Russia.
Upon the whole, your Excellency will collect from these in-
structions, that his Majesty is as mach desirous, as ever, to cul-
tivate the friendship and alliance of the Emperor of Russia;
that he conceives the only chance of safety for what remains of
Europe to depend upon the renewal of a good understanding be-
tween them; that his Majesty has never, even under appear-
ance the most unfavourable, altogether despaired of such recur.,
recce, on t;te part of the Emporor, to the counsels which are
best calculated for his own glory, and for the security of hi.; own
dominions, as it is now hoped has taken place . and that his
Majesty, upon such a change, is eager to forget all that, has
passed of a nature contradictory to those counsels, or incom.
sistent w ith them.

No, V.—Extracl of a Dißpoteh
.from the Some to the Same,
Haled Sept. 21, 1:407.

Mr, Canning expresses an entire approhntion of the answer
returned by Lord (.1. 1.. Gower to General liudberg's note. He
dwells upon the suspicious circumstances w hich.just Wed the refit-
sal of the mediation of Rte-4a, and on the accun►ulattce infor-
mation received of the plans formed by France to employ the
Danish navy against this country. He expres.c. earnest
wish that Russia should become the mrdintor and guarantce.of P.
pacification between the British a►•d Danish Court 4.

No. V I.—Estrart of a Dispatch from the Right lion. Lord
G. 1.. Gowrn, to Mr. Secretary CAN N G, dated September
oth, 1801.

Lordship inform% Mr. Canning that the Ministry for To.
reir,ll Affairs had been transferred from tieweral ltudher.r. to
Count Soltykolf; that the latter had at length informed him
that his Imperial Majesty did not think proper to communicate
the secret articles of the treaty of l'ilkit. " It is not,'' he said,
on account of their containing any stipulation% prejudicial to
England, but having once determined that these articles Alionld
not be ninde public, the Emperor sees no reason for receding
from his determination,"

Nit V 11.--Mrtract of a Dispatch from the Fame to the Came.
Lord G. L. Gower informs Mr. Canning, that Count Ro-
manzow had finally been appointed for Foreign Affairs ; and
that he had already taken an opportunity to press upon him time
subjects in agitation.

No, V from the Slime la the Same, dated Septem.

tember 19th, ltio7.

Lord CL L, Gower incloses a n►►te from the Russian Minister,
with Isis own reply. It appears that the Court of Russia, by
delays and unsatisfactory communications, had now began to
show a want of confidence in the British Government. The i►►•
clomtres are as follows. _ _