The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-15 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DOCUMEKTS

inrE,ZTING THE LATE NEGOTIATION BETWEEN

FRANCS AND ENGLAND.

(Concluded from our Paper of Saturday.
(N'°. 31.)
" The Undersigned Plenipotentiary of his Bri-
tannic Majesty has, without delay, transmitted to
his Court the communication made to him on
Thursday the 4th inst. by. his Excellency the Mi:
snister for Foreign Affairs; and he now hastens. to
answer that communication by intimating to• his
Excellency the line which his Majesty has thought
proper to prescribe for his condo& in the actual
state of things.
His 'Britannic. Majesty, ever attentive to the
maintenance of the intimate ties and of the alliance
subsisting between his Majesty and the Emperor of
All the Russias, naturally finds in the recent con-
du& of his, illustrious Ally, and the testimonies he
has just given of the interest Which be takes in the
welfare of Great Britain, and the general happiness
of Europe, fresh motives for not separating, in any
case, his interests from those of the Court of St.
Petersburg'h.
" His Majesty'does not, however, pretend to ex-
tend this principle farther than the Earl of Yarmouth-
was authorized to do, according to the instructions ,
of Mr.. Fox, in the communications between his
Lordship' and• the French Government. -.Nothing ►
prevents the interests of Great Britain and 'France
from being discussed separately ; his Majesty merely
does 'not authorise the Undersigned to sign any
treaty, but a provisional one, it being understood
that this 'treaty is not to have full died, but in 'the
case-of peace being concluded between the faithful
Ally of Great Britain and France. It is upon these
conditions only that the Undersigned is actually au-
thorised to negotiate.,
" The Undersigned is ordered to add, that his Bri-
tannic Majesty, perfealy informed of the desire en-
tertained by the Court of St). Petersburgh to make
peace on bases reciprocally advantageous, and corn-
patible at the same time with the interests of Europe;
has authorised him to communicate to ,the French
Plenipotentiaries conditions according to which Rus-
sia (in consequence of the intimate and full know,
ledge which his Majesty has of the intentions of
that Court) would be ready to negotiate with the
French Governrneet ; to reduce alert into the form
- of a Treaty, should they be agreed to on both sides;
and to insert, in the provisional Treaty between
Great Britain and France, an article according to
which his Britannic Majesty would engage to em-
ploy his mediation for obtaining the accession of
his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias to this
Treaty. •
" The Undersigned is not ignorant that it is to
the French Plenipotentiaries he has to submit the
official communication of the conditions. In the
mean time, and for the satisfaCtion of his Excellency
the Minister for Foreign Atfairs, he has no hesita-
tion to state, that they will be in substance the same
which leave be-en -already communicated to his. Ex-.
cellency by his Excellency Baron De Budberg.
" The Undersigned will wait, with anxious ex-
pe&ation, for the - answer to this communication,
which his Excellency the Minister fOr'Foreign Af-
fairs will have the goodness to transmit to him in
writing. It is the more essential 'to him to ybtain
it in-that form, as his Coat has remarked, that the
communications, already made by the Undersigned
have several tirnes remained without a written an-

swer. •
" The Undersigned has the honour to renew to
his Excaency the Minister for Foreign .Affairs the
asstiranceb of his high consideration.
". LAUDERDALE."
'' Paris, Sept. 13, i 3 A."

(No. 32.)
Copy of a Note addressed to Lord Lauderdale by
his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Sept. 18, 1 Buti
The Undersigned Minister for Foreign Affairs
has laid before his Majesty the EMperor, King of
Italy, the note which his Excellency the Earl of
Lauderdale; Minister .Plenipotentiary of his Britan-
nic Majesty, did him the honour to address to him
on the lath inst.
" His Majesty the Emperor and King sees with
concern, that the negotiation seems to take everyday
a retrograde direction, and he can, with difficulty,
expi:iin to himself what end the English Govern-
ment desires_to arrive at.
" At first, obsolete forms, both the text and the
grounds of which were never admitted, nut even
discussed by the French Government,,were brought
forward and attempted to be established its settled
rules ; and when that difficulty appeared to Inive
been reoloved, and the French Plenipotentiaries an-
ticipated sacrificel„ which evinced. more and more
the disposition of their Government to peace,, points
anterior to the negotiation were resorted to, and a
question which had been three times decided was
again revived ;, first,, by the powers given to M.
D'Oubril, and of which the Plenipotentiaries of his
Britannic Majesty were afterwards informed ; by the
powers which England had given to the Earl of
Yarmouth ; and finally, for the third time, by those
of the Earl of LaUderdale. It Was, it would seem,
a fit subject of consideration, that a discussion ter-
minated before the first conferences of the Negotia-
. tors, . and decided also by the single fa& of their ne-
gotiation, would be no more resumed. •
" His Majesty the Emperor, however, desirous to
give a new proof of his constant disposition for the
re-establishment of peace, adheres to the following
proposition :-7 That the negotiation between France
and England shall continue, and 'that 'the Plenipo-
tentiary of
_his Britannic Majesty shall be at liberty
to introduce into the treaty, either by a formal or a
secret or under any other form which may
answer the same end, every thing which he shall
' think u.-)eful conciliating the differences that
exist between France and Russia, and for malting
the latter participate in the blessings of peace; it
being, clearly understood, that no proposition will be
admitted but those which shoald.be respeclively hol•
nourable, and in no way atieelina• the real power
and dignity a the two empires; and that The extra-
ordinary. propositions-with ,which M. Novolftzoff
• wail charged on the part •of Russia; shall not7again
be brought forward, and which having signalized the
origin or a coalition, vanquished and confounded
from the instant of its formation, ought, with it, to
pi consigned to oblivion. These are propositions,