The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-23 00:00:00

. I must now inform you, thatbn 'Alonday M.
leyrand took the aside, and told me, that the telc7
graph announced the landing of 13,asilico, exPresFin-
at tliti same time a wish
.that the dispatches he. \voted
bring might lead to Peace. I answered, that I could
expect no; push remilt France dem:mded
city ; •and added, that if I might believe ...)üblic re-
port, the Emperor, so, far from sheaving any patilic
disposition, every day threw new obstacles in the'

•
way.
. , I then mentioned the changes in Germany. M.
1:1
Talleyrand sai that 'they were determined upon,
but should no 0 published if Peace took place. lie
has since re - ecr,thig to M. DOubril and myself,
'saying; if Peace Nl, il3 made, -Germatiy should remain

in its present state. '•
• M. D'Oubril writes both to you and to the Comte
De Strogonntii- his . Letters will contain probably
More than -mine, as I conversed very little with M.
Talleyrand.. r-lcit, on very delicate ground, tiad I
entered sufficiently into the question of indeinnities
,fcir the King of Sicily, to obtains precise idea to what
4t tent they could be carried, Mons- De Talleyrand
Might have formed an opinion that I had Some in-
Struaions, and . was prepared to abandon Sicily
whenever I was •assured of sufficient compensation.
No. 20.—Extraa ft-Om a Dispatch from Mr. Secretary Fox
• to the Earl of Yarmouth, dated Downing-strceti l uly
13.6.
MY LORD, Downing-street, ath July, !Sof,.

Your ,Lordship'S last dispatches have been -re-
ceived, and considered with all the attention' which';
theirimportance naturally demanded.
It unnecessary for me to recall to your Lordship's
recolleCtion that the demand of Sicily, in whatever
shape it may be brought forward by Fratice,.is in ex?,
press centradiaion to the- otThrs originally made to
your. Lordship by. M. Talleyrand: But it is material
that this topic should Dever be lost sight of in the
course of these discussions ; and that your Lordship
should observe to M,•Talleyrand, that whateverdif-
ficUlty now obstruds the conclusion of the Negotia-
tion arises solely from • this .unexpeaed departure
from the.-basis,orginally'established.
Am exchange is now offered for "Sicily, and it is in
that view, and not in that of an absolute and uti.7
compensated cession, that the question is to be con-
sidered. In this shape of the business, it is obvibus,
that the value of that exchange must be to,bejudged
of, not only' by this country and Russia, but also
by his Sicilian Majesty, as the King, whose troops
were admitted into Sicily for its defence and pre-
heaion, naturally feels insuperable obje6tions•to any
proposal fur abandoning that Island; unless with the
' free and full consent of its Sovereign, and in conse-
quence of such an arrangement as should provide
for his interests by a compensation really satisfa6loty
both in point of value and of security:
The plan of creating for him a new kingdom, to
consist of Dalmatia, Ragusa, and Albania, does not
appear likely to answer' 'this description: Albania,
which fOrms so large a part of this proposed So-
vereignty,. is now a' province of the Turkish Em-
pire; the dismemberment of which is a principal
o‘hje6t of the policy both of Great Britain and Russia
to prevent : that province has indeed beeii frequent-
ly involved in' the same sort of confusion which pre-
Vails in many other parts of that Empire. But this'
circumstance 'only increases the ditticialty. of giving
any consistence to a State to be formed out of such
materials. It does not lessen the. other objeOtiOnS
to stich, a plan.
• There are, in like. nianner, many and strong ob.;
jeaions to that part of the proposal, which respeEts
:Ragusa ; an independent State, whose territory has'
never been Ceded to France by any treaty, and of
• which she can, consequently, have no right to dis-
pose, her occupation of -it being, indeed, of a very.
recent date.

• But even- with Albania and Ragusa, and much
more without them, His Majesty sees no hope that
such a Power could be
.formed in that quarter as
would; either in extent of territory-or in amount of,
revenue, attbrd the Means' of opposing any barrier
ta- Austria or Turkey, or even of maintaiuing
own independence. ;
What advantage then could be gained to the Al-
lies by creating a nominal kingdom, without any
power either tO -reduce the couutries .of
which it would be composed under any iiniforni-
system of Government, or to defend' itself against
the first attack which may be made upon it from
without ? •
If there could, with the consent of his, Sicilian
Ma.jesty, be and question of, an exchange for
by the creation of a new State in that (laner, it- is
.obvious that this could no 'otherwise be done. than
by annexing to Dalmatia not only the'wliole of Is-
tria, butalso a very large proportion, if not the whole,
of the Venetian States, including, if possible, the
,city of Venice itself. In some such shape as this it
is possible that the proposition might be rendered
-not wholly unacceptable' to his Sicilian Majesty..
• And although the interests of this country separately
would bp far less consulted by such a plan than by
the continued occupation of Sicily, yet the sense
which the Russian Minister at Paris appears to
tertain of the advantage which might result from at
to Austria and to 'Russia frpm she recovery of Dal-
rnatia, if it were well combined with future arrange-
merits of defence, might induce his Majesty to ac-
cede to proposals of, this description 5 on the suppo-
sition above-mentioned. Of a tonafide,consent on the
part of his,Sicilian Majesty.
There appears, however, so little probability of
inducing France .so to extend her Otter, that any
further discussion might scarcely have been worth
pursuing, had not.M,D'Oubril strongly expressed his
wish that tills Court might rather seek to temporize;
-than to break off a Negotiation now brought to a
state which affords•so little pronlise of success-. It is
only in compliance with that desire that his Majesty
has been pleased to order your Lordship to continue
the conferences with M. Talleyrand, so as to ascer-:
.tain whether. any. more practicable shape can be
given -to the proposal of an exchange -for Sicily.—
If this cannot be done, your Lordship's attention will
of course be direCted to the obje6t of re•calling the
French Government to the basis, on which the
Negotiation •was originally placed by themselves, and
on whiCh his Majesty is still ready to conclude them.
M. D'Oubril has stated to- Count Strogonoff the
'proPosals whi,,:h have been made to him for the
conclusion of a separate' Peace, and the induce-.
ments.which, he thinks, might, lead his Mniesty to
judge such an arrangement .useful to the general in-
terests of Europe. His Majesty has undoubtedly
been 24 all times ready to make great sacrifices fur