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

(No. 18.)

'4BSYa;Paris, Aug. ii, 1806, Ten o'Clock, A.M. ;
" It is our duty to renew the demand which we
havt already Mice made of a passport for a courier,.
and at th 6; same time of the passpOrts necessary to
enable us to return to.. England.
" We feel it also to be our duty toobserve,:to your.
Excellency that this request was made the,day before
yesterday, Saturday,. at half past six in, the evening,
214 that it • was.yesterday, Sunday, renewed to y‘?nr
Excellency; at eleven o'clock, and t twthis hour
we haVe received no answer to dui. request._

" Whenyour Excellency:shall recoiled that ahout-
twenty,fonr hours are pxpireOince we, addressed you
Tor the second time, and that, not to speak of our own
passports, we have been during the whole of thiS
time deprived of the means of sendin& a Courier to'
Englß;id, you cannot but be convinced that if we ab-
stain front any. remarks upon a proceeding so extra-
0-fdinary, and swcontrary to estabiished usage, it is,
throng 2 wish to avoid as long as possible any thing
which may Create ill humour; and change the-tone -
and nature of the communications which have hi-
therto preVailed between the two Governments.
. "We request your Excellency to accept, Sz.c.
4.‘ LAuDERnALE,
YAitmorrii:"

(No. 19.)
" Paris, August rr, iSo6.

" The undersigned, Ministers Plenipotentiary of
his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and: King of
Italy, have read with attention the- note dated the
gth inst. which their Excellencies the Plenipoten-
_ tiaries of his Majeity the King of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland have addressed to
- them, and its-which-they: again propose the icti pos.,
sidctis as the basis of the. negotiation. -
" The French Plenipotentiaries are:Uncertain whe-
ther they are to suppose-that-it-is to follow from the
adoption of this principle that England is-to have ci
Tight of exacting from the French Government, for
'herself and her Allies, all .the restitutions she may
think proper to claim, without any ohligatiofion her
part to restore to France, or her Allies, any of the
conquests she has made from them. This -is so ex-
traordinary a pretension, that it May,as well be said-.
that France is to sign whatever the English Plenipo-
tentiaries may think proper to propose, which we
can never suppose to be really the design of the Eng-
lish Government. They cannot have sent Plenipo-
tentiaries solely for the purpose of insisting upon the
admission of an undefined basis, which would place
all the conditions of the treaty in,theirpower. In a
state of things so obscure, - the French-Plenipoten-
tiaries require the explanations necessary, for clearing
rip and advancing the negotiation. • They consist in
a declaration of what conquests England wishes to
retain; of the conquests she is.inclined to restore to
France and hers Allies ; and, of the conquests which_
she is desirous France should restore. A system or
compensation would thus be unfolded which would.
give a clear idea.of the principles and intentions,ol
the British Cabinet. The 'French Pienipbtentiaries
Will learn what engagements they contract by the
adoption of the proposed basis, td ‘`vhich adoption
They triust•--assuredly cannot accede without com-
promising what is required of them. ,
l Tare- the, English Plenipotentiaries, in laying
down the principles of the uti possidetis, in contem-
plation to propose a system of exchange and Om-
perhaticirvi if th:it be the case, the Emperor adopts
it, because he finds it conformable to the two' prin-
ciples already avowed and consented to in the corre-
!pondence between the French Alinister for Foreign
Affairs, and the English Secretary•of State for the
Fereign Department, namely ;
" Ist. To the principle laid down by Mr. Fox, in.
his letter of the 26th of last March, that it should
be the object of both parties that the peace should be
bunourable for each of them, and tbr their Allies re-
, spetaively,' and at the same time that it should be of
a nature to assure, as far as they .could, the 'future.
tranquillity of Europe.' .
" 2. to- the principle annexed to the forecroing,
17-tthe:Ministertbr Foreign Affairs, in the id, .p.t.
June following, whiCh consists hi an acknoliedg-
ialent in favour of each of the Powers, of a corn-
plete right of interfering and guaranieeing affair's,
both continental and maritime.'

"Thelindersigned.-assure thci.r Excellencies the
Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic .I\l,lj,..sty of their
high conSide'ration.

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