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the vigorous and decisiv,i hops r; ..-liich tifeneceiiy 11`.1 kustitliy,-110. the had. -
1);;---en 'cliiptie. . a tit look '
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of sett-preservation ottligv&liita.'hx resort', he woMd- l',upon.°lbein hi forced upon his IMperial4ijesty by.
yet, niecemillinkakkave frre,n spared,the painful task *t he',unfortunate eihnAlitallee73 of the: ni;tnerot ; anti
of a6ing Open that necessit); hp Russia been its a I had, even since the knowledge of the public Ar-
slate/CO dile? hakivarati tee of the iiikitraliti. of Den- Itcles-, ;13i.'ieir ant hotised to give fresh assurances of
mark, ittsseadOat 7atfottilitiv such . strong gbsund-of the desire, of his Majesty to renew the. intimacy and
34silici9,4110etutiie,ms*,prepared:t4sountettatice, if co4denoe*hiclihad before subsisted between the
net to-instizate,,kier 4ostiVity. - two Courts. .- " • -
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But it iill'affiii (itch - s'iiaiiittir. tO• &Veil upon .
l' . . Coil ti R orn Ini ow ' a nsweredi that.the.Emperoei
what might have -een the course of events, ihhe ii, friendship for his, Majesty had been proved by his.
Emperor of Russia liadivoikatfaarily delivered him- .' anxiety that peace should; be concluded between
self over to the Counsels-offrance, at a nioment I: England and France; dttd th.:it his impartiality had'
wlien'it ;A;•as' of lall-others the-Albstlessential :that a been manifested by his offer of mediation ; inipar..
gp'id understanding should be keit:up between Rus- tiality being the necessary attribute of a.Mediator. ~,
sia and Great Britain. '- ': .:•311 t ',l.i \ , ' +; ' After giving the obvious answer to his novel mode
Your 'ExcAilency'-will'.tlitodrtifir„%dell.'Ou these I of reasoning, 1 epresied my hope that the union
topics no le.Alier, than ,rrliYl* n:.;.Afry. to impress : of the two departments of Commerce and Foreign
uPot? the mitlfig the Hu tsian ,\liifiiter„t he conv le- . A tfairs in the same person would, accelerate. the,
tiOtithh( I heiV Used 9p-friell:We'is of rin4sia melt Negociation. of the Treaty. of Commerce. ;Nearly;
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of itself tiav prevstiedbirAl.ljgsAykom eat-nimbi- 1, a mu'uth-had elapsed. since the arrival here of 'a
catiiiovitli his Iniperial ara,4,4y Op gl,a, snhjett Of. I Projet of a Treaty, transmitted by M. Alopen6;
Pelinia)*, before L' prf.) hidel ovsp.stf(l4bui and as yet I have not been able to obtain an answer.
necessary inedsures;tlll;l` 0 1,0:4 14:liiAdispelled 11 whether tlit stipulations of that l?rojet of a Treaty
'all aPpreheurieff :Oar jirdi#,lTl;AtAlia'ite`r:
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ii It retp“,,,,,,i,,,.....,4,,,,,,,,,,,,,nucipte, wisely i GOV4tiVri*ni were di4posed to enter 0.611. into nego-
eStablislie'd ","iik• fear LxCeltiipix:A late Conferences ! tiations upon this sUbjca.. ;Count •Romanzow •ag-
imith Geberl lludberg, to liio fr,vard to the pi.o- ' saved ice that7itencyerheard of thialfrojetbut from
bable consequences ut what lipieriikeli' place, and to Sir Stephen Shairp; that since he had received the
eride4opur;.tp,turn. theta to such 'account as Oily '%porteleuille of Fbreidn Affairs, he had inquhed for
be mOSt.beneqClal:both to AtOsia .ith.l 'Cliedt Btit;:in, it, but it! could.nOtbeJbund, and fliat-he supposed
.*nd to that' cause which their reunion might yet at- ' it Inuit be atuong the Papers of the 4Mperor. I
ford a hope of condtOlpg td -a favourable issue.— , proposed to send him. a copy? which he declined to
After' the Per.ial Of' tile"'opers • which 'I inclose, accept, Saying; that he would, in the first ingtatice,
your Excellency wifrlsi fully informed of the whole , acquaint the, Emperor that I had requested an an-
situation of atililri with irespett to •Dentryrk:' His sliver from this Uovernmeut upon . the
,qq.estipp of
11,1:3jeqy is iierfe6ily ‘iiThog -that 'the pacification ' the renewal of the Treaty of Commerce.
with the Couli. of Denmark shbUieb'e wholly the • I iook chi; opportunity of observing to him that
work of the: Emperor of Russia; that.it Mi 031,1 uri- ' M. • Mopeds.' had asked •for 'this. -Projet ;. and that;
ginate in his. ItupeTrial MajesfY's• Council:,, he eon- therefore,, unless a peried change had taken place
dotted under. hiS Atispicesi aild•coucldded .under his in, the friendly;ldispositions of this Court the Em-
guarantee. • ' •• . -.' • • • • • ' i)erot would'Certainly approve of ottr entering into.

The situation or his Imperial Majesty,, es tbe
natural Protector" of the.North,-obvionsly point's him
but for such a task ; which even France could not
refuse to assign to him,' unless Ti•anCe Were ripe to
breaking with the Coart'of l'etersburg.•ll.' .Den--
inztk has unquestionably applied to thi:Einpei-Ofol
Russia for proteEtion.- How can that application be
better answered than by. the Emperor of Russia's'
engaging to bring Great Britain to an 'arrangement
111)0n such terms as are stated in the inClo'S'ed Papers ?
Andeto suchtingagement on the part of the Emperor
of Russia, the Emperor is before-hand assured of
the consent of ItilMajesty.
No. Vl. 6 xtraft ()fa Dispatch frotirthe Right Hon. Gran-
, vine leveson Gower. to. Mt., Seorentry .t a►tni►tg,.datctt
'St• Poct'sbt.try,ll,,Sppt. g, 1847.—R: eoi.ived,od.
I have do hononr-to inform yout,that,ouTuesday
last Gctneral Budi/etig gave , up the Pottleuille of the
Foreign AfEiirso Cvga„Sultylsoff, took an. ealy
opportunity' after this. notification of steing:Count
kollykotf, and recapitulated to
.hitn.what .had passed
trey last conference. with General. Adriberg ; . I .re,
minileditint of the promise nt.tde by his predecessor
to bring underthe in2tnediate consideration of the
:rnile.,ror the puinta Lyon which I bad been inittruet...
td to obtain un. answer frail this Court, belcire
could signify the acceptance of his dilajesty to the
propose i offer of mediation: observed that the tardif
;less is.Gok‘erotoeut upon this subject ill aceordod
vith the anxiety expre:sced tai Imperial Majesty for
the etnninsicit of peace netvt'een It.nglano and France.
Couto. boltyTioff.answltred that he would on the fol-
lowing'duy tike the ~criperor'i orders -with respekt to
the commitniektiou ,of the Secret Articles of- the
treartot Tilsit; that without seeing his linperial
Majesty he could-take upon, !inns& to say, that the
Russian Government vas well disposed to enter into
siiiegotiation upon ~the.,Tfeaty of Commerce ; and
Ile repeated. what I had bcfore .heard from General
iittdbirgklthat tie Fn jet ele Traittii transmitted by
Alopcius, must, in the tirtlt i»statice, be 'sub-
mitted' Lathe consisleration of the Department •‘i.hich
It .peettliatly concerned. In the course of our cow-
yersation, he gave .many general assurances of tike
itmicable disposition of this Court torycards England,
and of the salisfac.t ion he 31inuld fed in contribnting:
to the establishment of -a fons,ng of friendly and con-
fidential intereourso between our two .Governments.
Cow,: boltykoif being in the country yesterday,
toy endeavours to bee • him were unavailing- ; but I
this titotg- obtained a. conference, • when, after
sotne eic,gp;i,.tis of re,2ret, art hi 'first oitimunica.
lion with .Inc neing.okm unpleasant nature, he told
nle that he was authorised by the Emperor to inform
sue, that I‘l,9esty. did:not think proper
to communicaik: the .Secr,:t Articles. : It is nut,. tie
tm 'account at' containing any stipulations
prejudicial In R112,1/1110 ; bill baring :once determined
that these Article.= shin hi runt bo made- public, the
Emperor sees no reason for %seeding frtOin Lis 'der
Aerminaiion.

negotiation upon it, though it might happeli that
some, of the provisions of it might poisibly be con-
sidered here as not wholly'ffee from,objeCtion.
fie that he was hallay to hear from Sir
Stephen Shairp that the projet contained nothing
COptrary to the regulations prescribed in the mani-
fest the.ist 'January; for that '.tas't tondainental
law Of the countryy,and after boasting of the indul-
gence lie had ,sliewn to the English Alercliants in
the execution of this Aa, he sheaved a wish to end
our eonterenca, by beginning a conversation on in-
different su*L'.ts,

No. Vlll.—Diinatcli from the 'Right 1-ron. Lord Granville
Levesion Gower to Mr. Svcretary Catitinig, datettSt.
burgh, 19th Sept. Ist Oct.—Receivvel Oct. .
St. PeterOurgli, ist Oa. 15;.7..
Sta-1 had the honour; by the last mrssenger, to
inform you of my.having.uommunicated..to,.Count
ttomanzoW a copy of the Capitulatiot, of Copeo-
bagen, accompanied by a short note, in which I
eiptaised my .hope that this Capitulation inigitt be
followed by the re-establidonent of peace between
Prear Brittin and Denmark.

Six days after I received the inclosed Note from
the Russian Minister; The pretensions set forth in
this Paper, and. the tone in which they are urged,
appeared to me to be of a nature to call for an im-
mediate answer. in my reply (of which inclosu a
ckoPy)=l endeavoured to satisfy the Russian Minister
that his Majesty's Governineht had, in the commu-
nications which I had beep autlibris4d to-inake,
shonim every reasonable mark of relpea and conii-
deration for his. Imperial Majesty, notwithstanding
his change of system and principiekt but t thought
it no less necessary to let the Russian" Minister clearly
understand, that his Majesty was' not to be fright-
ened out of the pursuit (if such.. measurer as he
Might judge expadient for the security of his Etn-
pire, by an indirea inen;ace.Or intimation of the dis-

pleasure of, the*4tnperoy of
'At the 6arnelirne ihatlsent tins ansWer,l requested
a pouf.,:renoe with Count itornanzowi with the- view

of extra6tinc, from him some explanation of the ox-
presston, " que lbEinpereur a dolt 4 ittnte
comma aunt inti.lr6:s de son' Empire de ne pas s'y
'Homier insensible." Two days and a half passed
with Out any notice being taken of this request of a
dopier-elite: I renewed my demand ; when oft the
following day Count liomanzow wrote, that he in-
tended passing two days at Gatsehina, the Palace of
the Emprois Mother, but that on bis return *on
Wednesday he Would receive me. • ,
I accordingly called upon him this day. 'Upon my
entrance he made many apologies for net having ap-
pointed an earlier day for our conference. 1 told
item that my impatience proceeded from:nty wish:to
AVOifi all possible misunderstanding between our two
,Courts ;Allot I was sorry to observe; that in the
Note which he addressed to me, he bad made use
of certain expressions which would with great reason
create considerable uneasiness in England ; that he
.must be sufficiently well acquainted'with the British
.Povernment to ItubW that whatevever might be the
..wiShes and views of this Court,' no more ef-
fedual mode could have been adopted to prevent
their 'receiving that attention which had uniformly
been given to the'. representations:of this country,
than the Use of language which implied Menace. 1
:iiipsvledged that the. very current reports of tin
• embargo being about to 'be laid upon _English ti hips
in Russian ports, .which reports, I was,sorry: to ob-
serve,fhad.originated with a person employed in.the
Oflice for Foreign Affairs,' had perhaps the effect
of making me attribute a more hostile sense to some
parts. of the Note than what was really intended ,by
lies Excellency ; but • that:. then knowledge of these
.reports:wonld certainly reach Englanii, and that it
Was now therefore .in the highest degree essential
that I 41041 receive frOm him assurances that the
Emperor entertained no hostile intentions .towards
Great Britain., •

No. V11..-Extra6l of a t)ispatell from the Rii;iit lint:. Lord,
G.ranville I..eveAtt Gower, to Mr. Sccret4ry
dated St. ectentbitrgifs ['tit Stlitetnber,
Uttober 7tit. •
St. Vetet.burgb, Septeinbci
My last Dispatclais to yuu hall scarcely lett St.
Petersburgh, when I received information that the
Emperor had named Count Itornalizow Minister foe
Foreign Affairs. ;',Chin appointment was
%nude known threedays atterwards to the Corps Di-
Vomatigne by a circular note. I thoulit.it my duty
to lose tin ti!,,,. it 2 seei4Caunt Ronianow i and the
state of inNtiliteh I have been . so long kept
with r
•e%pc...1 to the Negotiation of icnett of the
rem), of ComMerce, ,justifier) me in reque.iing an,
inullediate contetcnec with the new Mintsicr: , ';
Afier the usual cOniplinients upon .his.
rnent, I expreswd to him the regret .1 at the
extraordinary tero,'l'VV. of his CtitArt totards that. of
•London, and my emterne disappointment at the,re-
„fusal which had born significAl to me. by Count
Soltyketi to connounicine to we the secret ar-
rangement cuncluded at Tilsit. I.Observe4 that
this retu4al wade it impossible for the King, my
14aster, to avail, himself of his Imperial Alaiesty s
' oirer.of mediation 1. 'for how, I said; could it be plc-
ttesd that his‘Majesty ;would ncept, the meditation.
• Pr a S'oereig-n,, hetweeti whom and Buonaparte
ihgle WI-1$ every
,614)earirice of intimate union
rld secret understanoUng, and from whom his Ma-
leBtY bud. not beau ible to obtain any mark What.
eNta of friendilliri; and confidence %, .1 added, thtit
wds the more.surprisTd* at this conddd, .becauie
not\,t hits-tat:ding the gr6unds 'of dissatisfaction which
the 1 üblishod Articles of the Treaty of afford-
.
• "d to his auesty, such was ,his vartiality 'towards

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Count Romanzow answered, that I mast be aware
bow, little worthy of credit were the frequent re-
ports that had been raised at St. Petersburgh,,of
embargo being to be laid upon English Ships ) and
that hd could asilare me that thel Russian, Govern-
mont had not even thought of such a .measure.,,
Rut.
upon my cdnstruing his words into an aqurattge
;that no embargo would take plaeepand eipressing -
`the satisfa4ion J. should feel in tranarni4ing:sackan
.assuraace to my Court, he Teplied, that he .wal.not .
`authorisesl to say-: any thing to me of the tutur6-in-;
tentions of his Sovereign.) .that neither -he nontlie:
MiniSler bad...received any accounts from
kiel since_ the .capture of Copenhagen:; :that the
Emperor, therefore, being.as yet unacquainted with
the BeAititueuts and views cot the Prince Royal of