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London, England, 1806-12-24 00:00:00

FROM THE HITSUM 11,4114

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From 'the t 1 rSCII and DVTOii PP RS.

THE FRENCk 'SENATE.

BERLIN, Nov. 28.----On the 26th ult. the Kink
of Prussia rece►ved a visit from Marshal Dtmoc. who
was the bearer of new proposals for an Armistice;

PM:IS.-11e Commission to whom had been re-
ferred the examination of the in-ojet of the Seuatni
Ccinsultnm, and the Repor't to be made on his
Majesty's Message, made the Report to the Se-
nate this day, by their organ, LACEPEDL. It Was
as follows

which, however, were rejecled:

ALTONA, DEC. 2.—The report is repeated of the
French having been defeated by the Russians..:,—
Travellers arrived from Berlin, state, that from

" MONSEIGNEUR-rvSUSATORS,
U You, have referred to your Special Commission.
the Message sent you by his Imperial and Royal
Majesty, from his head-quarters at Berlin, ana
which has been coinwunicated to you by his Se-
.

900 to 1200 waggons of wounded French Soldiers

arrived in that city, on the 27th and three following
days. The Hospitals of Custrin and Stettin are de,

rene Higlnmss the Prince .Arch• Chancellor of the

scribed as full of sick and wounded. Ou the 25th

Empire.
You have in like manner referred to yOur Spe-
cial Commission the Imperial Decree, together with
the two Reports of the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, which were 'annexed to hiS Majesty's Mes-
sage, and a projet of Senatus Consultant relative to
the Military Conscription of 1807, and. whicn I am
going to read.
" Your Commission has been unanimously of
opinion, that the Senate ought to hasten to adopt
the projet of the Senatus Consult= which is pro-
posed to you ; and the motives of which, so well
developed by the Orators of Government, are laid
down in so' adtnitible a manner hi the Message of
Ills Imperial and Royal Majesty.
It is also conceived, that it could not better:second
the sentiments which this memorable, Message has
inspired us with, than by proposing to offer up to
his Imperial Majesty, in an Address, of which the
Commission has appointed me,. to submit to you
the projet, the lionitig-t; of your profound de-
votedness, and of your warm and resreaful gra-
funde.

DAVOUST was attacked by a Corps of 600 Cos-
sacks, while reconnoitring the Russian out-posts,

compelled to fall back, although supported by
1000 Poles ; most of his Cavalry were killed.
The French have emptied the Hessian and Saxon
Arsenals, with the contents of which they have
loaded several thousand waggons, and sent them
partly to the interior of France, and partly,to Poland.

• On the 27th ult. M. Du IA ROCIIEFAUCAULT, the
late French Ambassador at Vienna, arrived at Berlin,
NAPOLEI:* having appointed General ANDREOSSY to
be his successor. TALLEYRAND has likewise 'sent
his Agent DURANT on a special mission to the Au.
strian Court. He is to demand •of FBArep 11. the
cession of Saltzberg, BerchtolsOden, and the In-
viertel, for Bavaria) as well as the Austrian part of
Poland, as soon as the icingdotn shall be proclaimed)
return he is to offer the Prussian part of Silesia.
The Queen of Prussia and the Itoyal Family have
gone for St. Petersburgh.

A very respeetable Russian'Corps passed through
Merrtel on the 20th and 3ist ult.
-ALTONA, Nov. 17.—The French Garrison at
fiamburgly, which exceeded 16,000 men, under
Geners MORTIER, broke up two days ago extreme-
ly suciotsoly, leaving only 3000 men, and in the
Most dreadful weather took the road to Berlin.
Martial NI cAtttee Was tolave followed them yester-
day. The 3000 men left in Hatnburgh have since
been reinforced by as many more. It is privately
rumoured, that the 'reach Army has suffered a
considerable defeat, either in the vicinity of Posen,
or near Stettin, and that this occasioned the sudden
and abrupt departure of Marshal Motile& and his
Corps from Hamburgh.
Should things continue in their present state, two-
thirds of the City of Hambargh will be reduced to
the greatest misery, as the French will not suffer
any thing to go out of the gates all the heavy post
Waggons with parcels am stopped at the gates, and
sent back to be examined whether any British pro-
perty is concealed in them.
Dec. 2.--EsAccording to advices from Konitigs-
burgh, which come down to the 27th ult. the KING
of Pasissra still has an Army of 50,000 men, and
his Head-quarters are at Osterode, in East Prussia.
Dantzic has a garrison of 14,000 men, and at
the time these advices cane away, not a single
Frenchman was in that neighbourhood. The
French had bombarded Thorns but without success,
and the bridge at Thorn, over the Vistula, had been
completely destroyed by the Prussians, who had also
stopped the navigation of the river.
Russia, it is said, will immediately bring a force of
mere than 500,000 men into the field. Thb levies
throughout the Russian Empire 'will exceed swat
Millions of men, exclusive of the regular army.
Most important intelligence is anxiously expeEted
from Poland ; but should events prove onfavonr-
able to the French, the accounts must reach us very
sloes ly, as.theY have stopped the regular communi-
cation by the Posts.
The sound, Denmark, ancl the Duchies of Sles-
wick and Holstein, still remain free from invasion.
A few days ago Larl GowEa embarked on board an
English Ship of War in the Sound, and sailed for
the Baltic, either for Sweden or Russia.
The French are making great preparations for the
siege of Stralsund.
The venerable remains of the Duke of B IWNSWICK
have been refused interment in the tomb of his
forefathers. NAVOLEON answered to the Deputa-
tion sent to him, at Berlin, on this subject No,
Gentlemen, his ashes, are not worthy to . repose by
the side of those of.his ancestors !"
Two Hambro' Ships from Bourdeaux have en-
tered the Elbe, which shows that the blockade is not
very strift. •

'" I have then the honour to impose 'to the Se-
nate, in the name of its Special Commission, to
adopt.—
'" First, The projet of the Senatus Consultnm4.
relative to the Military Conscription.
" Secondly, the projet of a pecree, as well as the.
Address, which am going to have the honour to
present to you."
On this Report the Senate, in the same sitting,
adopted the projet of the Senatus Consultum it in
like manner adopted the projet of a Decree, and the
Address proposed by its commission.
(These two documents wilt be published when
his Akjesty, to whom they have been sent, shalt
have ordered them to be printed.)
* That eighty thousand Conscripts shall be raised
in 1007 ; they shall be called of at the periods
fixed by the Imperial Decrees they shall be taken
from the French bore from and comprising the
Ist January 1707, to the 3lst December of the
same year."

• FRAN4FORT, DEC. 2.--Yesterday and to day
Frauch troops again marched through hence, which
are to be followed by others. The left si,le of the
ithine swarms with Conscripts.. A Newspaper
asserts, that tilt Queen of Prussia is at present at
St. Petersburgll.
Wrln.n General THIEAULT took possession of
lda, he issued a Proclamation, in consetinence of
which it was declared, that that Country should
never return wider the subjedion of the 13rioces of
Orange. The fortress of PleSSenburgli surrendered
by capitulation on the 14th ult. The garrison Nie
Prisoners of War.

HAGUE, DEC. 7.—ln' the Sitting of the Assetn:,
bly of the-sth, a letter from the King was laid on
the table, sketching the out lines of an Ordinance
by which a tax on hearths shall 'be raised within this
Kingdom. At the same time a Message was re.,
ceived from his Majesty, in which, after having
given a, concise detail of the state of the Kingdom
since July last, his Majesw,calls the attention of
their High Mightinesses to .he present situatiof
the different branches of thettoverniiele and the
improvements of which eachiathem Ofriceptible ;
after which his Majesty informs them that the vA-
rious out-lines of laws
.shall:6e snbniiitea'to their.
consideration. Several newphithotiOnsi
have again taken-place.

A shocking incident from lie bite of. a mad dog,
occurred on Monday tnorning to-the %..,icifiity of Char-
ing-cross :—A favourite dog belonging to, a stable-
keeper in Bond-street shtheedlOsoine sympttuns of
madness, on which his ownevaiased hint to be tied
up . with a strong iron chain-t"ne of the coach-
houses. OnMonda
y morning, Oren' t he Coachman
and one of the helpers went into the place where the •
dog was, he pulled at his chain in orde,rftol4llat
them. His disorder giving him ncloultee strength,
from his repeated efforts the chaithroke. Ulle of
the men leaped behind a coach ; the ottler, being
armed with a pitch-fork, defended himself; but both
escaped the dog, who ran out,- followed by several
persons armed with forks, bludgeonS, &c. down
Piccadilly, the Hay-market, &c. cling out " Mad
Dog ! ail D 0,- !" trufortanately the animal went
into a Public Dowse in the neiv,hbaurhood of Char-
ing Cross, and bit the Laddlord in the thigh, and
the thumb and finger of his right hand. The dog
was killed ; a Surgeon was immediately sent fin',
who without loss of time cut the piece out of the
thigh that was bit, and' ampotated the hand from
the wrist.
The 9th, t4th, 'and 91st Regiments of Foot
marched on Saturday from Hythe and Shorncliffe
Barracks,into Dover, w here they embarked 'yesterday,
in boats, which are to convey
.them to the Transports
waiting for them in the Downs. They are said to be
.destined for Ireland;
A Statute of Lunacy has been issued by the Loap
A' Depot of Ordnance Stores is to be immediately rs
‘,HANCELLOR against Mr. LUDLAM.
formed at Falmouth—part of the stores are already
issued, with an intimation' that others will soon • CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 24.—The late contrary
follow. It was intended to have lodged them at i winds prevent further supplies 'of grain in general,
Fendennis, ; but the Store-houses there are fin. and but little business stirring, the few sales of
ed with necessaries for the land service ; and, in Wheat are at less price ; previous to the close
consequence,- new buildings will be erected. Wipe- of Monday's Market, second and inferior qua-
ther the Government ground at Pendennis will be pities were 45.• and ss. per quarter lower ; Bar-
chosen for
.this purpose, or the newly purchased ley in little demand ; and Malt is rather lower ;
lands at Mylor, is not yet determined. i White Pease. in short supply, and full as dear ; Grey
! and Beans, of each sort, at Somewhat less ; the Oat
Yesterday, at the Public-Office, Hatton-Garden,.
Trade is - heavy' in sales, mid scarcely Jetch last
Wm. Ray Lucas, a publican, his maid-servant, and prices ; fine American Flour 445. to 4gs. per barrel.
Powell; a sawyer, .were charged with secretincr a :
• 1 heat cs a 7os aSS 04 Ite.ins -
W 5 4
pocket-book, which they had found in the street, Fine ditto - sc. , sflis „, -rek‘isea 7ni 1: s°i
:4
containing 4001. in country bank-notes, which they , R)e - . 47): a 45s z: oats 2.41 a 28-, a 43425 S c (cit
got changed for Bank of England notes. The Offi- - Daley - - Vs a 435 ad i Poland ditto •33s a 345. o 4
Mal! - . Os a 745 ad love Seed 241. 27i. as. ot
...Cers, on searching the Prisoners, found ^.501. of the :IV-hite Peace• iios'it 884 ad Fine, Vhmr 7 5.,4 7si 04
property, Tin, were committed for re-aurnipatiou. Grey ttitto- 465 api od Seconds - bpi a ',.w 04

AZIIS,

the unfounded pretence; by which, the )!retch Cc.
vernment seeks to attribUte to delays- oat O'ir p. rt
the results Of its diva InjuitiCe and rtpeated breacti
Of promise.. . • . .
The whole of our intercourse with Fraw:e-benra
indeed so different a charadet, from .that of delay,
and the whole of the King's condua in in
every other instance, is !narked by so malty striking
proofs of his de'sire to avert, even by the greatest ‘,:u•!
crifices, such calamities as he is now accused of pro,
ducing, that your Lordship may perhaps Lave felt it
less necessary to enter into a particular refutation cif
"such a charge.
But after after the experience which in this Negota.
tion we. have had of the conduct of the French-6*i.
vernment, it is of the highest consequence nu( to
suffer such imputations to pass unnoticed, and, by
disregard, to acquire strength and currency.
Of the,subsequent proceedings no explanation cart
be necessary. -,
It had not been decided here, that in the event of
the signature of the Russian Treaty the Negotiation
on the part of this country should be pursued on
any 'other basis but that of the stria uti poss,idetis;
with the'exception of Hanover. The resolution of
admitting even the possibility of an equivalent for Si:.;
cily, had been adopted only in consequence of I\i,,
D'Oubril's desire, and in orkr to maintain, if it had
been possible, the union of council and measures be:',
tween. Great Britain and Russia.

Tlll. I.A"1"-E NttO :I VI lON WITII TRANCE.

r •
.1 . .
rADEIti• ItElAtIVt, TO TILE NEGOTIATION WITH
VIZ AN 0414,11, BY HIS MAJLSTY'S COM«

FANP, TO 130Tff. tioeSF.s OF r/iIILIAMENT.
(Cwrthmel raper of Yester4v,) •
No, . 2,9.—enpy at' a Dispatch frojn Mr. Sec?etaty Fek t;: the
'Earl of Niritiout;), dated ?)owning-street, Aug.'', !Soft.
M Y - Downing-street, Aug. 2, ak:6,
Mr. Goddard here yesterday evening With
Vour Aml,:hip AigOte4 of the 30th -Airy.
. .
;Majesty's ~.-!:rvinits- always did., justice, to. the
natives which induced your Lordship to • Prodtice
your tall pewei-s, though 'the step is one of which it
is not possible fin- them to .e:cpress approbatiOn,
thinking it, as they do, likely to baregiveu so much
more countemnce o:au •was desirable to the-new
and increasing email ds of France.
The full powers which Lord Lauderdale carries
with him, aic drawn jointly in his name and y,our
Lordship's. In the present disposition of the French
Government, there is, I fear, little probability that
Peace can be concluded on such terms as are alone
admissible. The trial should,
.however, be Made
with frankness and good faith ; and it is with this
view that His Majesty has been pleased to direa
that the Earl of Lauderdale should proceed to Paris,
notwithstanding the present unfavourable aspe& of
the Negotiation. His instructions your Lordship
Will consider as equally addressed to yourself, and
as the rule of your condu& in any conference which,
10 cOnjunClion with him, you may have with Mon-
sieur 'I allevrand or General Clarke ; and, in any
point of doubt that may occur, it is Majesty's plea-
sure, that your Lordship should be guided by Lord
Lauderdale's opinion, formed,, as it will. be, on the
tullest knowledge of the sentiments and views of His
Majesty's Government. I 4111, 45:-c

But by the produaion of your Lordship'S full
powers, his Majesty was in .some sort pledged to
continue the Negot►ation. It was then judged pro.,
per that a fresh Negotiator shoull be added to your
Lordship, and not an instant has been lost in giving
etre6t to that determination► ; nor lras any consider
able (Idly occurred on this side the water, except in
the s‘ingle point respetting the passport; which I
have explained in the outset of this dispatch.
I am, &c. (Signed) C. J. Fox.

C. J. Fox.

(No. 3r.)—Copy of a Dispatch from the Earl. of Lauder•
dale to Mr. Secretary fox, dated Paris, Attgust 6, i 806.--;
Received 'August i 3.
Slit,

No. Copy of a IMparch from Mr. Secretary Fox to the
tart of YarMouth, dated Do..vniug.street, Aug. 3, 1'406.
MY LORI), Downing-street. Aug. 3, iSoG.
I was unwilling to detain Lord Lauderdale for the
purpose of replying particularly to the unfounded -al-
legetious of M. Talleyrand, which you have reca-
pitnleted in your dispatch of the; 40th ult. But
some polars are there mentioned which cannot be
left without an answer, such, indeed, as I trust your
Lordship hassalready given to them. •
It is true, as stated by that Minister, that when
the demand was thade for Lord Lauderdale's pass-
port, there. still remained here a -blank passport, one
tsf Ihe two sent here smile title before your • Lord-
ship's arrival, when it had been proposed tis us to
neat separately from Russia. That proposal having
fallen to the ground, the-circumstance of our being
still in possession of the passport was overlooked ;
but, even if it had occurred, some doubt would pro-
bably have arisen, hoW far it might be proper, in so
different a state of things, to make use of it for
Lord Lauderdale, Without some previous commu-
nication of 'such an intention. This whole mat=
ter is, however, very immaterial. - The
_principal
point to which I feel it necessary to advert, is that
pert of M. Talleyrand'e language which -imputes to
this Countey • needless delays in the NegotiAtion,
and attributes to. that cause the nejustitieble meas
sures pursued by Fietnce in Germany and elsewhere.
In the instructions given to Lord .Lauderdale the
repeated-tergiversations of France, during the Ne-
gotiation, are detailed. It is from thence alone that
delay has arisen.
, Your Lordship truly states, that the-offers made
through yourself were so clearly and unequivocally
expressed, that the intention of the French Gzn ern-
silent could not be doebted. , But they were
no
sooner made than departed from. In the tirst
conference, after yeur Lordship's return to France,
Sicily was demanded.. In the former offers•,• it
had been distindly disclaimed, " (a) Vous d'avez
—nous ne -vows la demandons pas. •Si tious la
possedions elle pourroit augmenter de beaucoup les
diftieults."l'his demand, theretbre, , could not
h. ,'e been foreseen, being in contradisEtion to their
own assurances;, and your Lordship could only take.
it ad riferendlior. This produced a delay attribute-.
ble solely to France. Our answer was immediate
end distinct. The new demand was declared to be
a breach of the princiele of the proposed basis in its
most essential part. To obviate 'a cavil on the sub-
je& of,full powers, they were seat to you.; but with
`an express ,insineensa not to use them, nor even to
produce them' formally, till the French Government
elleitld return to iteformer ground respecting
your Lordship stated this to M. Talleyrand, and you
received, in return, s proposal of giving to His Ma-
jestyeor rn the King. of Naples, the House ToWns, in
lieu of Sicily. This being again a proposition en-,
,fifejknew, couldonly be referred for His Ma;esty's
cclnderation. On the,very next day after it arrived,
it was decidedly rejected here; and, so little were
we disposed to delay, that the same dispatch. con-
veyed to you His Majesty's orders, if the demand of
Sicily should still be persisted in, to desire your pass-
ports, and return to England.
Of this order your Lordship informed M. Taller"
rand, and its execution was delayed only by a Isesh
proposal of exchanges brought forward by France,
and supported by the Russian Ministers'as affbrding
the means by which His M.:jesty might prevent,
among other• things, the changes meditated in oer-
many. M, 'Talleyrand, it appears, now represents
this communieatien in the following terms : ".We
told you, that it you had powers, and would enter
into' Negotiation, we would not sign the arrange-
ment in Germany. "' M. Talleyrand's rol commu-
nication is to be found in your Lordship's dispatch
of the 9th July, in which he says, that those changes
" were determined upon, but should not be published
if Peace took place." ,
That dispatch was received here on the 12th, qtxl,
on the 17th, in dire& violation of these asSurances,
in whichever form they were conveyedi the German
Treaties were both signed and published.
They must, of course, have been prepared at least
one day, before. What M. Talleyrand, therefore,
calls a reasonable,time allowed to yeur Lordship to
consult your Government, was at the most twenty-
four hours, even supposing the utmost possible ex-
pedition to be made by the Messengers to and from
England, and no accident or delay to occur by land
or sea. These dates will, undoubtedly, not 'have
esicaped, your Lordship's attention, and will have
enabled you to refute, in the most decisive manner,

Paris, 6th Aug. 9 o'clock A.M.

The desire expressed by Commedore Owen; in the
uncertain state of the weather, to get off the coast
of France as soon as possible, prevented me from'
detaining the boat for the purpose of announcing to
you my arrival at Calais.
After a very quick passage in his'Majestys Frigate.
the Clyde, I was put on shore on Sunday morning
the 3d about 11 o'clock. At Calais I received every
mark of attention and civility from the Magistrates,
and the Commanders of the Army and of the Ma-
rine, as well as from the inhabitants of the place,
who were in crowds on the shore-, 'expressing their
wishes for peace.
I have now to inform you, that on Tuesday I got:
to Paris about 12 o'clock, where I ithmedintely sent
the enclosed Note (marked A,) to his- Excellency
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, from whom I soon.
afterwards received the answer (marked B.), which
I- also enclose. At the hour appoinlid, I waited.
upon. his Excellency, with whom I had a shot t con-
versation, in which his anxiety for your sp.:edy re-
Covery formed the I riuciple topic. I fe•informed me
that General Chake. was the persoy lie se by the
Emperor to negotiate with Lord Yi:nnouth apd my-
self, and appointed thiS day at 1 t O'clock for the
formal exhibition of our powers.
As the frequency of communication gives rise to
false speculations in England, it is not my inteition
to send a Messenger until I shall have sottuttni::g
more important to cc:..utnunicate.
am,. Scc.

(a) YoO arc in possessiot of it. We do not demand it of
yo,:. If We possessui it the difficulties might be much ill..
crOSCd.

LAUDEIII4..ALE.

First Inclosure (A). = Copy of a Note from the Earl of Laui
derdalc•to 1%1. Talk) rand, dated August 5, t 8.6.

l'ari, August 5, 1306.

The Eat-I of Lauderdale, appointed by his Bri-
tannie Aldjesty, Plenipotentiary at the Court of
France; has the honour to inform his Ekcellericy the
Minister for Foreign Affairs of his arrival at ,Paris,
and at the smile time to request that lie will have,
the goodness to inform him at what hour he may call
upOn him.

Second 111CIOSilfe (B.)—Copy of a Note from M. Talleyrand
to the Earl of Laudetctalz, dated Aug. ;, deb. '

~• ' • - Paris., Atigust 5, cBo6.
The Minister for Foreign Atliiiri has learned 'with
pleasure the.arrival of the. Earl of Lauderdale. HS
will be happy to see him to-day at five o'clock.
H has the hobo& to present to the Earl of ' Lau-
derdale the a.iimranees of his high considertition;

No. 32.—Copy of a Dispatch froratlie Earl of Lauderdale .to
M. Secretary Fox, dated earls, Augu.st 7, iB.6.—Receiv.
.ed AuF,-;st' i 3. •

SIR,

In consequence of the appointment mentioned in,
My dispatch of ye:terday7s date, I called on his Ex-
cellency the Minister for Foreign Atiltirs at eleven
o'clock, and exhibited the powers with which his
Majesty had been graciously pleased to invest me.—
According to.custom, I left with his Excellency a
copy of the powers, and he-delivered to me a Icl-.-
ter, which I have the honour to inelose,. informing
ma that Goneral, Clarke had been appointed to neio-
tiate with,Lord Yarmouth and myself.
To General Clarke I was introduced before dit-
ner, at the ,house of his Excellency the Minister,
and, in the course of a short Conversation with him,
fixed our first meeting for twelve ondoci: this day.
I have reason to think that he did not wish it to
take place so soon, though 'he certainly made no
explicit objeaion when I proposed it.-1 ain, &c.
(Signed) .LALIDURDALE.
Inclosure referred to in the preceding Dispatch.—Copy of a
Note from M. Talleyrand to the Earl of Lauderdale, dated
August 6, ISA.
Paris. August 6, 18c6.

The Undersigned Minister for Foreign Affairs has
igst po time in laying before his Majesty the Empe-
ror And King the full powers which his Excellency
IfOrd Lauderdale, Minister Plenipotentiary on the
pert of his Britannic Majesty, has done him the ho-
flour to communicate to him. , He has the honour
to inform Lord Lauderdale, thet General Clarke has
been appOinted by his Majesty, and has tekvived
his -credentials,to treat for Peace ; and thl--:t it is with
that Minister that their Excellencies my Lords Lau-
derdale and Yarmouth will, have to enter into negc.
tiation on the snbje.c.l of the present discussions,
which the two Governments equally desire to see
happily concluded.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs requests Ms Ex-
cellency Lord Lauderdale to accept the assurtnlce
ilia high consideration.
(Signed) CH. M. TALLiTRAND,
rrinctat Benevento.

No cop 01-4 I.:if:patch-holt, the tt.i;l t
M.r• Secretary F.9i, dated Paris, August 7,
ed August 13.
'sl - • , Paris, August 7, ISA.
I received iri,due time, and in their order, your
several-dispatches of the 2sth ult. and 2d.and 3d in-'
stant..-- As no Messenger has been dispatched' from
heocet -since.--tlid reef ;,t Of them, I hav&been oblig--
. eI to defer till now replying 'to- their cOntents-.
It. NiAs with great satisfaelion that I learnt by your
dispatch of the .e.2d inst, the intelligence of tord Lau-
derdale's departure from Enghtnd.; as; independent-,
i1:-of the advantages I 'must derive- from commoni-;
with a person charged with the latest, and
—fullest instructions from- his Majesty, his arrival
here afforded me the opportunity ofevincing, in the
dearest mannet, that I had in no instance thought
myself at liberty to depart from the basis originally
I lid down ds the. only one on which his Alaysty's
Ministers could consent to treat with the French
Government.
It must be evident, that whatever delaYs have oc-
carred in the Negotiations are imputable to'France,-
and to the perpetual variation of the terms proposed
by 'her ; and 1 had not failed, before the receipt of
your dispatch of the 3d inst. repeatedly to do justice
to the condud of his Majesty's Government in that
respea.
'As itt theiine of%condiao which I thought it my
duty tOktbserve previous to the Earl of Lauderdale's
arrival, I had no other objet in view firm). the ful-
io the best of my'abilities, the mission with
which his Majesty had been graciously pleased' to
charge me, I can, under the 'present circumstances,
have no other. ambition 'than that of a co-Oeration
my be-st endeavours in the Negotiation (intrust-
ed to us jointly, upon the same basis on which I
have originally placed it.
I have the honour to he, &c. .
(Signed) YARMOUTH.
No. 34.--Full Powers given to,the Earls of Lau-
derdale and Yarmouth, ihich were communicated
to M. Talleyrand on the 6tb of August.
No 3-'. --Copy of a Dispatch from the ..Earis rt.. Lauderdale
alift Ysrmouth Mr. Secretary fiA, dated F..ris, August
9, 1E0'6.-- Recciv•.!d August 13.
SIR. Paris, August 9, 181:6.
Thinking. it Utinecessary in send -a_ Courier to Eng-
land with the de-tails-tkl the mere matters of
,form
tvhic:ll necessarily, tpok place after Lord Lauderdale's
v.'e have delayed writing-till there- appeared
sotnething of importance to communicate to Von. -
We have now to. inform.-you, that Lord Lauder-.
dale, having ..his powers, and delivered a
copy in- ti.e- customary form, onr first meeting with 1
- General Clarke, the Plenipotentiary of. the French
Cuvet;urnent; took place at his house on Thin-sday
the-7th August, et noon.
Our conversation commenced by General Clarke's
_observing, that as Lord Lauderdale had just arrived
from London, with full instruelions from his Majes-
tp, lii had probably something new to communi-
cate.

Lord Lauderdale in substance replied,-that. it Was
his with, before intermeddling with the Negotiation
now pe.nding,distinaly to recall to the recolleaion of
General ,Ciarke what% had 'already pasSed between
f
his Majesty and the Government o France,
_and at
once pre, 1.4.)1y to state the only footing on which his
Majesty could consent to treat. To effe& this ob-
jea, he informed General Clarke that he had pre-
pared a Note (marked A.), which he begged to de--
liver-to him as official.
General Clarke read the Note twice with great at-
tention, and afterwards placed it in his portfolio,
saying, Om he must take it ad Teferendum.
Very little passed at this meeting sufficiently inte,
resting tosme, .z being detailed ; the GeneralobjeEt-
ed to the praaice 'he apprehended Lord Lauderdale
meant to introduce, of cnuduaing the Negotiation
by writing ; and said, he .was afraid the Emperor
would regard it as a means of endless delay, if a,
Note was to be delivered upon every'insignificant
question which -it might be necessary to discuss.
The reply consisted merely in stating the distindion
. betwist deliering a written Note for One purpose of
tit olice bringing to a point the basis on which the
Negotiation was to be condueled, and resorting on
every 'trivial occasion to that praaice." The C.7st, it
was contended, must accelerate ; the latter, it .was
adipitted; would dela}, the Negotiation ; and it
would .be therefore carefully avoided,
.as it was. his
Majesty's wish that no delay should take place.
•General Clarke, with something like an insinua-
tion that an unfair advantage was taken by the Go-
vernment of Great Britain,,announced; that as there
load been two Plenipotentiaries appointed by his. M-
ajesty, it was the 'E:nperor's intention 'to do the same;
and that the name of the person seleatd Would be
communicated to us. , •
- It is proper to state; that in the course' of this
conversation 'Lord Yarmouth recalled to General'
Clarke's recolleaionohat in all the interviews he had
swith him,. he unitiirinly stated the uti possidetis ris
the only basis upon Which
,he could possibly treat.
General Clarke, in re'ply, said, that he couldmake
no answer to what Lord Yarmouth stated, without
- alluding to Conversations Which he affeCied to con-
sider as loose, calling them " (n) -des romans ,ppli-
tiques ;". at the same time by his silence he clearly ad-
mitted what Lord Yarmouth most distini9ly stated.
Our first interview terminated with an appoint-
ment to Meet at Leal Lauderdale's apartments on
Frilay the sth, at -twelve o'clock, the General ob-
serving that it might be perhaps necessary to put off
the appointment, as he, wished to have t'ull time to
consider the'Note 'whichba been delivered, and as
the new Plenipotentiary might wish to have an op-
portu9ity 'carefully to read the Correspondence that
hitherto had taken place. He promised at the same
ihne, if this was the case, to give us notice. by
in
matingtne morning.
- On-Friday the sth, at eleven o'clock, the inclol-
sures (marked B. and .C.) were left at Lord Lauder.-
dale's arAi-tments, and an answer was sent to Gen.'
Clarke, stating that an appointment had been made
by Lords Lauderdale. and Yarmouth to receive. the:
Turkish Ambassador at four o'clock, and requesting
• thaLth,leopeting should take place 'On .S44rthy .the
tpth,zof noon. •
2.1 General Clai--ke and Monsieur Champagny, Mi-
:4S-ler of the`....lziterior, the newly appointed Pienipo,
c'ntiary, •IS -ft erwaidS put off this ruktiog-- till four
~9,o'cloc4iip*.tr#, as the lattet was. obliged to attend
the Emperor's PriVlLTOunCit at St. Cloud. . •
(a)`l oh cal Romances.