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Crown ;. while, on the other hand, the recognitions
proposed with_ regard to the French Empire and its
Dependents, are -not only in 'honour of :the- Crania'
of France, but tend sulAtantially to establish -the
solidity of her power. With regard to the complaint
Of the want of full powers ; to avoid all pretence of
cavil on ,that account, I aria commanded by his M.l-
- ti transmit to you the instrument accompley-
ing this letter. But your Lordship should f.iirtv
state to M. Talleyrand; tha: you are not authorized
to make any use of them formally until M. Talley-
rand returns to his .former ground with respe& to
Sicily:; Your Lordship is direded further to acquaint
that Minister; that, if Russia offers to treat sena-
rately,itis only in the_way in :which we do, that is
to say,.separately ih form, lout in kusstancel, in con-
cert with each other. -- And here you will recoiled
that this very circumstance was Canvassed your
thnmer,conversations with M. Taneyrand, when that
Minister expressed himself.cle,lriy drat there-
be do objettioll, oh the part ox France, to such pre-
concert'.
The result of what • I have stated to your .Lord-
Ship tstrTlthrSicily 'h ,ea 'pee qua gran' ,;- (1,1
which subjed„ if the French' Minkter recedes fre74
his-former,ansW6", it is in vatn that any it tiler
cussion should take' place. • 'lt is clearly within his
firat'opinion -delivered to' yotir Lord,:.hip ,it is clearly
within his last descriptioneof places which are reci-
procally icvise"ssed 'by the two courittieS, :and cannot
in all probability-be recovered by war.
• ir, aceording, to fht•hobeconceived by your Loni.-
ship, this !matter •shohld' be an-zing-6(1,,
.yiat "ni,ay Open
yourfull powers; 'Sfaiing, atbtlie'same tiree, the de-
termination -Cif."th'ts 'Court -not m to'coe to my filial
agreement without-the-consent You will
of courseagaih mention^the qu6stions of Naples one
Istria. If•we could'attain.eitlier .til,fheln, it Would
beivaieli; 'but if -we' caneote your Lordship will net
state these points as conclusive reasons against agree,
ing on preliminary articles,-provided .stfch 'articles he
considered prktrisional, •a01.1,' S abject to the approba-
tiOn OPRusSia. t' '
'With regard fo -the mode of provisional agreertlept,
two suggest themselves "to' my mihd ; the One,
.to
svd the,agreement' we shall have entered into, cir
tO-Pethrsburgh,_ or to. sothesauthorized eagent-of
the ErrperOr'Afeeannlein.---at Vienna, Paris,
.or else-
wheree :or apeiobatiene the other, to cope the
precedent adopt :d by Lord tailsdoWne and Dr.
Franklin' iti:the year l'ef,"2:" At that thot a provi-
. slow! Treaty was signed by the Pleiiiimfentiarie;; ef
Great Britain fl-cl the united State; oC America,
With the reservation, that the -said treaty'shoWd t., t
have et-I*(26f till a peace should te agr'eed upon la.-
..tweet-I' Frana'e aud,England:. Of thei:e too seder}
should prefer the latter.
It does not appear that there his' been arty
versation between your Lordship and M. Talieyrand.
on a point which was mentioeed.to you, and which
appears to 'be of cOnsiderable importance ; I Mem
the future atdmission of, Russia and Sweden to b:-
come parties in' a DefinitiVVirreaty. I do not say
that this is a point that must be, determined upon'
previous to your settling the basis proposed; but it
is one which should not be lost sight of, but, on the
contrary, urged as far as Possible._ ,
No 16—Extrasd from a Dispatch- from the Earl of Vat.,
mouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, (I.:zed Paris, July
Received iuly 4.
• SIR, Paris,' ply Ist, tSo6.
I had the honour to receive, on Saturday night,
the full powers with which it has-graciously plea:,ed
His -Majesty to entrust me, and your Diseatch of
the 26th of June. • ,
I waited upon M. Talleyrand next morning, and
'stated to,hial'in the strongest manner the impossibi-
lity of Conversing any further npon the general out
lines of peace,- until he should return to the former
ground, and consider Sicily in its true and real situ-
ation, namely, a State not conquered by France, or
'likely to be so, and coming roost. stria ly within the
'meaning of his own words ; drat it had been clearly
iexpressed by him, and repeated to you in the first
-instance, that France did not intend -to make Sicily
,an obstacle to, Peace. . M. Talleyrand answered, that
while the war continued, and till terms were adually
agreed upon,. change of circumstances were always
•to be considered as reasons fora partial change of
terks ;' that Bonaparte bad been but lately convinc-
ed of the fcility of taking Sicily at some- future pe-
riod of the `war; but that, above all, he felt more
and more its absolute necessity tb make Naples and
the neighbouring territories tenable : that had any
'confidential overture been made 3 months ago, they
would have been ready. to settle the questiohot Na-
ples in the Manner most satisfadory to Great Bri-
tain ; the same a month later with' regard-to Hort-and.
Thosesubjeds were
-now arranged, and the Empe-
ror would consider any:retrograde measure As equi-
valent to abdication. I.observed to that' Minister,
that however much good faith may be necesary in
every transaction of the world, yet, that'being peal--
kith' so when a communication is made secretly and
verbally, I had a right lo be doubly surfiriSed at any
Change of gr_Sund. He deli:nth:a himself by his
former 'arguments about altered circumstances, and
said,-that when no change of diSpositien was mani-
fested towards Great Britain. herself, as to the resto- •
retion.of Hanover, or the possession of Majta and tbs
Cape, be *right we might suffer them to pessess
'themselves of a part of the States 'of their enemy,—
necessary to the tenure of the rest,•which no consi-
deration would now induce Franee to restore. ,
M. Talleyrand then asked, whether I had any •
powers.
•' I told him that I must decline answering
that question, until he should inform me that there -
would be no furTher'diicussion abobt Sicily : but that
he'mistlit -easily draw a conclusion that I had, from-
the thononrable manner • in which Great Britain en-
,,teavoured to remove every obsta:ile not in its own
nature insurrnouetable. •
The Zlinister then mentioned his being obliged- to
go to St. Cloud,-and asked, What I said ; I answared,
". that was ordered to cOritklq no conver,ennee