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

(No. 14.)

" The Undersigned, Minister Plenipotentiary of
his Majesty the Emperor and King of Italy, has laid
before the eves Qf his Government the Note sent
yesterday ny has r, xceliency Lord Laucteruaic,
rte-
nipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty.
His Majesty the Emperor and King of Italy
could not but be painfully atiefled to see that a ne--
gotiation, which has already been the obje& of so
many conferences—which has occasioned the dis-
patch of so many couriers on botli sid'eS—which
was, in short, concluded to its maturity, should sud-
denly have taken a retrograde course, so a, even to
present obstacles not in the nature of the stipula-
tions, but even in the very basis on ichich the tie-
got iation was. opened..
" The Court orFrance has constantly refused to
admit in the same negotiation the Courts of Eng-
land and of Russia ; and whatever desire his Majesty
the Emperor and King may have to see the general
-peace soon . established, there is no *consideration
.which could have induced him to Violate this princi-
ple of his. policy, Besides,. the negotiations. that
France had commenced at St. Petersburgh, bad con,
vinced his Majesty- the Emperor and King that the
English Cabinet were under a delusion as to the
nature of their connexions with Russia.

" After many months discussion, the Cabinet of
London yielded upon that point, and his ExCellency
the Earl of Yarmouth. arrived publicly at Calais, and
then at Paris, to treat about peace. He 'had, from
his arrival in that capital, conferences with his Ex-
cellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, after hav-
ing previously informed him that he was duly au-
thorized by his Government.
" Since that epoch, Russia has concluded its peace
with France. The Undersigned has - been named
Minister Plenipotentiary to treat with the P,lenipo-
tentiary of his Britannic Majesty; and the first step
was an exchange of his powers with those of his
Excellency the Earl .of Yarmouth, whom he had a'
right to believe, as• his full powers txpress, autho-
rized to treat, conclude,-and sign a definitive Treaty
between France and the United Kingdom of Great.
Britain and Ireland.

" Very frequent conferences, the greater part of
,them for many hours, have since taken plaCe be-
tween the two Plenipotentiaries, who being of good
faith on both sides, applied themselVes to smooth all
difficulties; and laid aside every thing which could
tend to irritation, or to embarrass or retard useless-
ly, the progress of the negotiation.
" Instead of exchanging Ntes,more or less'skill-
ful, but which
, remove from, rather than, approach,
the object to be obtained—instead of commencing
those controversies in ‘vriting,Which are not less pre-
judicial to humanity than open hostilities, and which
prolong the miseries of nations—and, aboVe all, in-
stead of negotiating a peace in the manner that war
is made,' the Plenipotentiaries managed with frank-
nesS the conferences, in which his. Majesty the Em-
peror and King granted all that he could grant, with-
out losing siglit of the dignity of his crown, his love
for his people, and the interest of his Allies.
" Never will' his Majesty be reduced to other sa-,
orifices.

e Does not the course taken by his Excellency
the Earl of Lauderdale, the new Plenipotentiary of
his Britannic Majesty, appear to announce, that a
multitude of notes would not be sufficient even for
the two Governments to understand one another

Ai,a is there ‘not eviiently a dang•er;, that pursting
such course, of which the abuse has been so mani-
fest in our time, that they will: ..11derstand otreano-
ther sfill less than they do at present If there is
no other wish bnt to create documents which may
afterwards be shewn to the Parliament of Great Bri-
tain, his Majesty the Emperor feels no such necessi-
ty. It is peace which he desires:- that peace equal-
ly honotlrable to France, to Great Britain, and their
Allies, which the assiduous and mutual labour of
the.respeclive Plenipotentiaries had made acceptable
to the two Governments.

" Nevertheless, to skew to the eyes of all his love
for justice and the sincerity of his pacific stliti, •
meats, and that it may be truly known to whom
every hindrance to the,prOgress of the negotiation
ought to be attributed, his Majesty the Emperor and
King has deignedeto permit the .Undersigned to dis-
cuss' here the main question relative to eithe basis of
this negotiation, already. advanced, and upon the
point of being terminated.
" In the letter written to his Excellency Mr.FOX,
on the Ist April, by hts Excellency the French Mi-
nister tbr Foreign Atfairs, that Minister announces,
that his Majesty the Emperor and King adopted en-7
tirely the principle laid dOwn in the digpatchof hic
Excellency Mr. Fox, of the 26th of March, and pre-
sented as the basis of-the negotiation, that the, pro-
posed peace ought to be henOurable for the two
CotirtS, and for their respeCiive
In his letter of the 2d of June, to his,Excellency.
Mr. Fox, his Excellency,the Minister for- Foreign Al--
fairs went still farther. He proposed, in the name of
his Majesty the Emperor and King, to establish for
basis two fundamental principles; the first taken from
the letter of Mr. Fox, of the 26th of March, to wit,
that the-two States should have for their object, that
the .peace should be honourable for them and, for
their. respthive Allies, .at the same time that the
peace should be of such a
.nature, as to secure, as far
as they could, the future repose of Europe.. The
second principle was, a recognition in favour of
both Powers, of the.right of interference and guarari
tee, both for Continental and maritime affairs.'
" Such were the basis adopted by the British GO;
ivernment, and 'agreed to' by it. It never could have
come into the contemplation of his Majesty the Em-
peror and King, to take for the basis of the negotia-
tion the uti possidetis. If such had been his ideas,
. he would have kept Moravia, a part of Hungary,
Styria, Carniola, Croatia, the whole of Austria, as
well as its capital ; Trieste'. and Fiume, and the shores
surrounding them, would-be now under his power,
as well as Genoa and Venice; moreover, Osnaburgh,
and all the mouths of the great rivers in the North
of Germany, would be subject, to hiS Empire ; and
certainly then his Majesty might, without any diffi-
culty, leave the Cape, Surinam, Tobago, St: Lucie,-
Pondicherry. &c. in the liana of his Britannic Ma-
jesty.
As to Sicily, even upon that hypothesis, his Ma-
jesty the Emperor and King would not have left it
to his enemies , but his .Majesty would have thought'
only that the conquest of. that Island ought to have
preceded the opening of the negotiation'; and while
Prussia and Russia. have • guaranteed and recognised
the changes which have taken place in the Kingdom
Of the Two Sicilies, was it to be presumed that Eng-
land could have been able to prevent the conquest
of Sicily, which is only separated from the Continent
by a canal of less than 2000 toises ?
Liwt tlic cape and Surinam, and
other Dutch Possessions, could be detached defini-
tlvely from the Kingdom of Holland, is it not cer-
tain that its incorporation with the French Empire
would have been the necessary consequences of the
refusal of England to restore to it its- Colonies ?
What-means would there be, in fact; to preSiffe:a
Nation Which had nothing but debts, and from
which the 'entire absence of commerce, wouhkre-
move every means of payment ? Whatever their
Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of His Britannic
-lajesty may alledge, it is impossible that they
should not be convinced, that it is a thing extremely
lifferent for Great Britain to see the Texel, and the
mouths of the
.Rhine and Meuse, subjea .iO the
• French custom-house laws, and to seethem subject
to those of the Dutch.. Thus, then,. without the
restitution of its Colonies, Holland would, of neL
cessity, become a Province of the Frendh Ertipire ;
in accepting the- Crown of Holland, -Prince
Louis forMally declared his intention of renouncing
it, if the Dutch Colonies should not •be restored at
the general peace. • •
• " Let Hanover, moreover, become a province of
France e let Trieste, Flu meeind -their territories, be-
come hi like,manner provinces of the kingdom of
Italy : and let Great Britain keep in.cOMpetltition
the Cape, Surinam, Malta, Pondicherry, &c. France
will consent.to it ; and the great principle of ti"ti
sidetis shall be applied in the whole .extent, both.
,
present. and for the future.
" Let the new Minister Plenipotentiary of. his
Britannic Majesty find in the history of the world, a
negotiation concluded between two great-nations, on
the principle of uti passidetis. Let him examine whe-
ther the uti possidetis 'does not rather belong to an .
armistice than to a peace ? It is impossible not to
say, that in proposing to France the uti possidetis,
especially in -the present circumstances, they must
7have formed a strange idea of the charaeler of 'the
Emperor Napoleon ; and they must have supposed
him reduced to a singular degree of humiliation and
distress.

--" But,
,in demanding the uti possidetis, his Excel-
lency the Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiary of his
Britannic Majesty, without having any regard to the
principles which he advances, wishes, nevertheless;
to change the entire destiny of a
,Continent2l tia7
tion, which furnished to England 25,000'111er), anA
Which supplied her with a part of those means which
she displayed in the seven years war, andeven in the
war.oithe French Revolotion against the-artniess of
the North. Thus, 'then, they wisli the uti pass/de/is to
deprive France of all her commerce and establish-
ments, and to rpin her Allies ; but they wish to vio-
late the principle of the uti possidetis, to oblige France
to renounce its engagements; to break its treaties ;
and, in short, to dissolve its_whole"Continental sys-
tem. Is not this, to propose peace a thousand times
more disastrons:than the longe4 war, and conditions
capable of excitii;g.the indioatiou Of every French-
man ? shall France have conquered 'all .the
Pw.vers hired by England, during the 'continuance of
the three Coalitions, to see imposed upon it con-
ditions as uniyst as they are. dishonouri,ble, in
spite of the moderation and eucrosity that she has
she

. ,
qis tx-Cellehey,-Mr. Fox, hilshiedselfpropwie.(L
that the peke M30131(t he honou6ble fir the two
3 f
Cautts, and tor their Tespeaive

" His Mliesty the tmperc,r and' King cannot
regard the' peace -as ItOnourable, if by one. of the
conditions of it he is to loSe a single subje& ; and, '
'however small niay be the importance of the Colony
of Tobago, it is soilicien't that it was a part of the..
French Empire, when his Majesty took the reins of
Government, to prevent his Majesty from ever sigtt-
log a treaty in which shall be contained the alienation
of that Colony, or of any, other which belongs to'
him in the same manner. NO "reasonable Eogfl h-
man could ever flatter himself to the contrary4.,ana
in his present situation, his Majesty .would lOse, if
he consented to it, the esteem of every brave and
generous man; even among 11:.S'enernies.
" The Undersigned is charged to declare, that hij
• Majesty .the Emperor and King esteems the' very
idea of a negotiation on the basis of rife uti pamicietis;
as a di.4hOhour. It is so much the more contrary td
his principles, as his Majesty has restored his con=
quests, and be would reign over a population double
of that which.is now subjea to him, if 'at the
of the peace that he made at the expiration. of those
different coalitions, "he had taken for his only "princi
pies the uti possidetis..
" The Undersigned is also charged to declare, that!
the only bAis of negotiatioir' which hiS Majesty the
Emperor,. and, King ,will adopt, are those proposed'
impart by Mr.. Fox, and in part conviineo in tue ;et-)
ter addre'sSed to him 'on ti 'c,cl;iii 'June' by tile NI:-,
nister of. Foreign AtUrsi, and r,eferred to in,iiie;t2tli;
paragraph of the present i\lot,L
" Majesty the Emperor and ('r,7 -not,
require from Great Brit.iin any thug covary to he
interests of her Allies:: .he ought then to expeet, that
they...would not_requii-e of him any t wing contrary ito
the interests of his own.. 7 77
Undersign4imliarged to add, tiklit bee
1.
fers to all which ~a been prepared by thi!nivitual
efforts of hii Eidelletitylhe:Earl of Yarmouth, ai'd
of the Undersigned.
" If the peace is not restored, it is not France4.llt
can be •accused, of having changed; but Eugland,
although the peace between Vrance.and aussia,and
other events unfavourable to Great: Britain; , oarg
taken place siiice the negOtiatioti 'had beCtf-&)itiA
mencekand was almost brought to its conclusic;n, an
concert with his Excellency the Earl of Yarm• nth.
" The Undersigned seizes 'this opportunity of as.,
suring their Excellencies, the Earls of Lauuerepatet
and of Yarmouth, of his high consideration.
(Signed) " CLAWKIL."

(NO. 15.)

" The, 'Undersigned Pienip,,tentiaries of his nriA.
tannic Majesty do not think theysho ad allow thetn-
selves to enter into
„a , detailed consideration of dui
official note which has been sent to
,tliem, on th
Part
fnicral Clarke, dated the.artt
of g
the manner in which the different:different:u'ognst. After f his Ficellency G
points that arc .the subject of .that nciit,
,are Acre;
treated, it would be impossible for them to discuss
them•with that calmness and that regard due tofin-Ms
which the charaaer with which they are clothed
by their Sovereign require's. But the. subject of this.
noteis -Of a nature:so general, and 'o-foreign to ;the;
object immediately in question, that it wo.ikl be ief
fectly useless to take it-into consideration at thepre-
sent time..
_ . .
" The.Umiersigned, the Earl of Lauderdale, fir
from thinking that the manner of discussing in Avrit-
ing the fu:ndaK'nental points of a negotiation, :cart* by
any means increase the -difficulty of coming tii ao
understanding, thinks, on the contrary, that he al-
ready _porce, ves manifest proofs of its utility in this;
the official note presented•by him since his at-
rival, 11.1..3 led the negotiation to •an unequivocal is-
sue, and has pitt an end to the misconceptions (no "
doubt real. pnes) which have eaken place, and- which
could never have existed 'if:the same method had,
been, adopted. 'since the commencement df the ne-
gotiation. .•• _
• " The Undersigned, the tail of YaintOuth, sees
himselfobliged to recur to the manner in which it has
been given to' be understood .that he has landed ac
Calais, clothed :with a public chara&er, to treat abour
peace..He has only come over to give, in person and
viva-voce, the answer to a communication which
he
had been requested:to make to the English Goverro.
merit, founded upon the basis of the uti
from the following words:of his Excellency, M Pe
Talleyrand : "We deMand nothing from you ;"
which were accompanied , by the positive assurances
that the restitution of his Majesty's German posses-sions would experience ndresistance. The same senti-
ment is found equally expressed in the letter of M: De
Talleyt-and to Mr. Fox, dated the ist of April : " The
Emperor has nothing to desire of what England post-
SCSS6S-:' ' • •

The Earl of Yarmouth thinks himself equally
.bound not to pass over in-,silence fhe remarks made
by his Excellency Gen. Clarke on. the subjea'ortlfe
delay in the negotiation, and the frequent intercourse
by couriers. The answers of his.Brithnnie Majesty-,
have always been frank and ready ; and it num-
.-ber of couriers lias been 'considerable, it can only be
p
'aatcqtruibauitt-tedble:to O.use with which his Majesty is u. t
" The Undersigned, the Lords Lauderdale. and
Yarmouth, can by no means concur in the Opinion
expressed by General Clarke in his note,' That the.
negotiation II ad
.been Com fnenced, and almost brought.
*to conclusion,' in the Interval which passed between
- the period when Lord Yarmouth officially co,ininb-
pleated. his full powers, and the arrival of Lord Lau-
derdale. .
On the contrary, they considered the Negotiation
as having; sciircely begun. The conversations allukted
to Consisted), on the part Of the French :Plenipoten-
tiary, in requiring what the undersigned, Lord Yar-
mouth, has uniformly declared inadmissible ; and
on the pal:: of
,Lord Ya:rthouth, to confine-bimself
,• within the limits of the uti ps.sidetii, as tbe'instruc-
tions from his Government did not authorize hinito
admit any other basis, of *negotiation ; a basis stlg-
geited, by France, in the-comniuniCation by
Lord Yarmouth, and previously announced in M.
Talleyrtuas, letter Of the Ist o;,` ApriL
" The Linde' LziuderiLle
_and
Yarmouth, ,think it unnecessary to now the
reasons mentioned' ()I-Rial nottilitclertted:hy
,Y Lord La.Atadale, which ihi.l4.lo4,NPliemT. to
the t)asis of uti p,widetis‘piEnpoied b Lluve,
as susceptible 'of- a partieuhr ap;Acratlon t). the;te-
spe,.ti‘e situation.of the two couu:rics. 'lt io them
zu:jea of extreme regret, that the expettationand

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