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London, England, 1806-12-12 00:00:00

, he is -authorised to negotiate, their Excellencies shal
furni.h him with new motives to justify such a dc-
termination.
" •In the Official Note sent to their Excellencies
,the French Plenipotentiaries on the. 12th of August,
it was observed to item, '-That the British Govern-
anent, very far from pretending to require of the
French Government all restitutions according to its
pleasure, without being bound to any restitutions to-
waOs France; has shown no other desire than that
of treating with the French Government upon the
basis that was pro-posed by ,France itself, such as is
expressed in the Note of-Lord Lauderdale, to' wit,
the treating geherally on the basis of the uti possi-
" delis, which' was scrupulously to be observed, ex.,
cept in the case of HanoVer, which it was proposed
to cede altogether to his Britannic Majesty.' '
" Even suppose it was• possible to mistake as to
the results which were necessarily to be drawn 'from
this principle, the conversations which took, place on
the 9th inst. between the Trench, Plenipotentiaries
and the Undersigned would not permit a doubt that
the proposition so declared had not been perfealy un-
derstood by the PlenipotentiarieS.
" Consequently, the Undersigned has only to-re-
peat, that pursuant to the instructions of his Go-
vernmen‘, he cannot do otherwise than insist upon
this principle
.being previously acknowledged. It is
only on this condition that it is permitted to him to
continue the Negotiation.
" The Note remained without any answer till the
25th of the month, when their Excellencies the
French Plenipotentiaries notified in writing to the
Undersigned, that.being desirous to converse with
him on the ohjea of the last Note that he had
addressed to them, they requested him to meet, on
the next day, at the Office of the Interior.
" The Undersigned does not think it necessary to
observe upon the interval- which elapsed between
Sending the Note on the 1 etir And the period of an
answer being returned to tt ; as well as on the man-
ner et' a,oiding a written answer
.to the contents of
this ;:cote, according to the Custom of all times and
Countries, whenever affairs of so great importance
well: in agitation. He contents himself 'with re-
marking that, after so long a delay, and after an in-
c,
vitation-inewriting, the Undersigned ateepted'it, in
the hope of, at length; 'receiving the decision of the
French Ghvernment on the contents of the Official
Note of the 12th. The conference appened to have
been rertdered interesting on the part of their Excel
lencies ,thee French Plenipotentiaries, with a view
only to engage the Undersigned to present the de-
, taileo-ojet of a Treaty, '
" Already; iii the Note of the 11th; the Under-
signed,' in conjtinaidn with Lord Yarinotith, had
formally declared, that till Fiance shotildadopt.such
a basis as the British Govi..eeetent thought had been
proposed, in the first place by her, it was not per-
mitted him to enter into the details of the Negotia-
tion; Besides, even supposing that the Under-
signed could 'so far forget himself, as to accede to
the prop6sition settled in the last Conference* aheit
Excellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, 1e.2 Would
not only have 'abandoned the only conditions. which
be Was" authorised by his instructions to admit 'as.
• the basis of the Negotiation, but he would have ex-
- - posed himself also to .a manifest 'contradiaien, by
presenting, in the first instance, the entire projeele
of a Treaty, whose details should result'from the
-Negotiation itself ; • a negotiation which the Under-
signed had declared could, not proceed, tilt the basis
in 9uestion had been previously, acknowledged.
" In this state of things, the Undersigned, after
having assisted, in compliance' with the request of
their Excellencies the French Plenipotentiaries, at
the conferences which they had proposed to him—
atior havieg deliberately refiee'led on All the com-
munications which had been made to him
.by their
Excellencies, and being fully convinced, that the ac-
tual.viim's of the French Government are very re-,
mote 'from those which His Britarnic Majesty sup-
posed--lastly, that the continuance of the Negotia-
tion could in future have ne other effect than that of
encouraging, in both Nations,,a hope
.which can ne-
ver* realized—the Undersigned considers it to be
his'clUty to declare, in the most formal manner, to their
ExCellencies, 'his,. determination, in conformity to
' the mstiuêtions of his Sovereign, to bring his mis-
sion to a conclusion. An admission in writing,
of the basis so often, brought forward ,by the Un-
dersigned, can alone area- a change in his re-
solution.

(Signed)

LAUDEItDAL-:•"

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