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Iffl been the last to resign the contest, and the delegated organ
of that only other Government who remained associated in site
conflict. met to explain their mutual sentiments on the4ll2•l•-,.
tumefies occation. Hardly can the imagination picture il 31:11-
ation more remarkable. The mission itself of Lord Ilutchiu-020,
was one of the most extraordinary on record. He was SA at,
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if not to superintend, at least to witness the final act of the
great drama wh.. h had been actimr, on the stage of Europe for
nearly twenty years. He was sent to cid with his counsels: te
he the organ of communicat:ou hem cen the two performi
i iovernments, mid to give to his own (4irerninent the advice o
au t.e-yy itness upon the inconceivably important transartito,4 )t
AV hich he was sent to bear so unusual a part. No documetit
with •A hich we are acquainted, in all the voluminous recorder of
diplomacy, can, in point of importance, bear to be compared
in all its circumstances is ith the narrative of the confererces
which Lord Hutchinson delivered in his place as a Peer of the
realm on last Monday night. As it is our object, in the pre-
sent disquisition, to poiut out carefully the bearings of Ali:se
memorable conferences, upon the great political questions which
at present agitate the Pritish public, it is absolutely necessary that
we should base the narrative before us ; hut, independent of this
imperious cause, we should deem it injustice to our readers nAt
to place a subject of such high importance, as far as (4) us 66-
hinged, in record before them. We copy the report from •die
Iforniag Chronicle ; we have every reasou to believe it la
the exact statement of the Noble Lord himself. When his
Lordship came to that part of his speech in which his narrative,
of the conferences was introduced, he thus expressed himself: ~
" On the 23d of August, my Lor&, I hod a conversatia
with the Emperor of Russia at Kaminco.arolf. His Imperia
hlajesty asked me whether I had not , admitted to Coto
Strogonoff, three days after the battle of Friedland, that it w 11.
necessary for him to make Pence? I told him that I had do .
so, that I wtr:, of that opinion then. is hich subsequeist,evi is
had confirmed ; that I thought myself bound in justice to hp,
and to ,n .elf, publicly to avow it, w hich I should continue ct
do as long a: I lived. llis Imperial Majesty .sic;, we are then
both agreed on the necessity there is to make Peace. I are
s%ered in the affirmative.
" His Imperial :Majesty proceeded to state, that be had
otTered his mediation to England; that he attached no false va-;
aity ( ginriule was the Fronds word) to the acceptance or
rejection of hi,: mediation ; but that it was his 11!•ASt :•iuce..r," ari
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4 conference hen .artpel .... ,
after the Treaty of Tilsit, and before the intelligence of the
attack on Copenhagen had yet reached them. Let us eli-
denvour, with as much precision as possible, to ascertain its
circumstances. It is a point to be received as demonstratively
certain, that in this conference there was no artifice un the part
of the young Emperor. It bears tke most striking internal evi
deuce of profound sincerity. The external proofs too of thi, An-
, cerity arc irresistible. 'No conceivable object was to he g a IDM
'by deceit. Hut above all, never would a young and inv..-
perieneed Monarch, have been selected as the instrument ot. a
' train of deceit. Had Bonaparte been the instigator, he woithl
ric.ver linve tru'ted the direct, and impetuous passions of a
youthful Emperor in so delicate a bu‘ines.; and Alexander
himself would surely have had some servants faithfol enough to
have prevented this direct prostitution of the royal dignity. Had
a scene of artifice been planned, some hackneyed courtier would
vhave sustained the iginomnitnis ta,k ; his Imperial Majesty
would have been -ts ithdrann from the disgrace, and front the
difficulty.
Depravity, not only the most din), hut the most experienced
would he implied in every imputation of insincerity on the p:.rt
of the voting Monarch. It i-, therefore, to be rejected with
confidence and certainty. To linst* accepted, and to have per-
r petrated the office of deception on this occasion would prove
hi u. not only a villain, but a practiced villain. But we know
that the chanteter of Alissander is directly the reverse of all
tinifit, De is simple anti •triless to a fault. This is well known .
to -.0 one of the defeets of his character. Though he is tar
fre s weak in under-dal:ding, from the privacy of his educa-
ti.
thin be is little mar:tinted w itb the artifices of other men, and
On „ways sufficiently master even of disguise.
tteh being the irresistible proofs of the sincerity of the Ern-
Arm- of Ituisia in this conference. it is completely decisive of
1 the twition, whether any secret articles in the Treaty of Tilsit

.:oere pointed against country. We may confil•ntly pro-
n4atn.:c that in the opinion n: the Fmprror or Ritszia on tittle of
that Treaty vs as injurious to e... tf an article revectiog
Corm way admitted. surely it will not be contended that his
opinion Was far writot ; surely it st ill not he contended that out
toterestt deelay afrected by the diptisal of Cort'u either

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POLITICII. DISQUISITION. I anxious wish that England should make Peace, as he was sure
that it was his interest, and also that of Europe, and ours, that
. • we should restore tranquillity to the world.
NU mftEn SEVEN. ) " I said to his Imperial Majesty, that he had not given suf-
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_.....,..—. j &lent time for England to accept or reject his mediation, be-
cause a mueit longer period than a month must elapse before any
LORD HUTCHINSON'S CONFERENCES WITH THE I
answer could he received; and though the disposition of my
in! PEROR OF RUSSIA. mind inclined towards Peace, I, nor no other man in England
--+•-, w ould accept it, but on conditions the most reasonable and hon- .
So much of the public attention has been attracted to the i•o• (tumble; that as far as we were concerned, the events of the
portant statements made by Lord Hutchinson in the House I War bad berm highly favourable. .
Lords on Monday last, respecting certain conferences which i "To which his Imperial Majesty replied, that the time al-
had the advantage personally to hold with the Emperor 0 : lowed was of no importance, because we might take three or
Russia, shortly after the Treaty of Tilsit, that they are ~i 4 . four months, if we pleased, to accept or reject his mediation :
, t hut his anxious wish and desire was, that we should make
dered an object of paramount interest among the topics %West
• Peace. That he had a perfect knowledge of the feelings and
press upon us for disco-slim. ", ' clmracter of the people of England ; that lie had been made ac-
The circumstances in which these conferences were held were quainted by Bonaparte with the conditions of Peace proposed to
ingular, momentous, and pregnant with eonsequenct..s.
.;„4.15. be offered, and that he had no doubt that even I myself would
sera in the history of Europe had just then been filed. The consider them to he highly reasonable and honourable.
struggle against the French Re‘olution, the most remnrkate " Some confidential conversation followed, which Ido not
think myself at liberty to disclose."
since the downfal of the Roman empire, had just been terr.4l.
Such is the account which Lord Hutchinson rendered of the
tutted on the Continent. The great Continental Monarch, who
first conference held between the Emperor of Russia and himself,

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