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POLICY OF FRANCE IN LA PLATA
The following important and interesting document
has been laid before the French Chambers :

(Official.)

" Paris, March 22, 1845,

" Monsieur lc Baron—The two Governments of
England and France, taking into consideration the inde-
finite duration of the war which is carried on by the re-
publics of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, the interrup-
tion of commerce which thence results, and the injuries
of all kinds which the neutral foreigners established in
those latitudes are compelled to sustain, have just con-
certed measures for the purpose of causing their media-
tion to be accepted by the belligerent parties. As every-
thing connected with the mediation is to constitute a
separate question—a temporary mission—which will re-
main independent of the functions, both of the Chargé
d'Affaires of France at Buenos Ayres, and of our Consul-
General at Monte Video, the King has thought it his
duty to appeal to your experience and your tried zeal
fit his service, by appointing you, on my proposal, his
Extraordinary Commissioner in La Plata.
" Mr. Gore Ouseley, recently appointed Minister of her
Britannic Majesty at Buenos Ayres, in the room of Mr.
De Mandeville, and destined by his Government to fill
the same mission as yourself, must have already set out
to proceed to his post. You will, therefore, have the
goodness to prepare likewise to set out as quickly as
possible. His Majesty's frigate Erigone, which is to
convey you to La Plata, has r ceived orders from the
Minister of Marine to keep itself in readiness for sailing.
You will, in the first instance proceed to Rio Janeiro, in
order to inform the Government of the Emperor of
Brazil of your voyage. It is, in fact, in consequence of
the communications of the Brazilian Cabinet, repre-
sented by M. the Viscount d'Abrantes, on the La Plata
question, that the Governments of France and England,
already occupied with the difficulties of the situation, and
resolved to take it into serious consideration, have defini-
tively adopted the decision to interfere in common. I
annex a copy of the dispatch which has been addressed
to me by the Viscount d'Abrantes, and one of the reply
that I have made to him. You will perceive therefrom,
that, according to our first ideas, we had consented to
agree with the Brazilian Government respecting the
means of execution. After a more mature examina-
tion, the two Governments deemed it more advisable, for
the interest of Brazil itself, not to engage in any mea-
sures which might become coercive with respect to a
neighbouring Government, and to leave France and
England in the utmost independence. as well as the
responsibility of action. You will explain to the Im-
perial Cabinet the motives of our conduct, and you
will info-rn it that our sincere good •t_oll towards it
mikes us attache real value to-keep ilbg it accurately
informed.

" Your stay in the capital of Brazil Will necessarily ue
short; and immediately after having discharged the im-
portant duties whirl' call you thither, you will set out
for La Plata. On your arrival at Buenos Ayres, your
first care will be to put yourself in communication with
Mr. Ouseley, who will, without doubt, have reached
that city before you. You will learn from him the actual
state of the question at the hour of your arrival, in conse-
quence of the preliminary steps which he will have taken
whilst awaiting you, and you will take measures with him
for all those that will follow. You will habitually re •
side at Buenos Ayres, where also your colleague is to re-
side, in order to keep yourself in constant communication
with him. It will be easy for you to communicate
from thence, in writing, with the Government of Monte
Video. The Argentine is, moreover, the more consider-
able of the two states, which it is our object to recancile ;
it is undoubtedly, from its government that the resist-
ance to our mediation will arise ; it is the latter, at
least, that will have to make the first sacrifice for the re-
establishment of peace ; and it will be advisable for you
to remain at the seat of the principal difficulty, in order
to labour more closely for its solution.
" The object proposed in the first place by France
and England is to cause the cessation of hostilities.
" Mr. Ouseley is instructed first, to address to Gene-
ral Rosas, friendly representations to this effect. To
these you will add your own, which will derive a new
degree of authority from the peculiar situation of
France with respect to the Argentine Government.
You will render General Rosas sensible of the regard
which the King's Government has nut ceased to enter-
tain for him since the conclusion of the treaty
of the 29th of October, 1840, of the, no doubt, use-
less, but persevering, efforts that have been made
by our Consul General at Monte Video, in order
to maintain in a state of neutrality the French sub-
jects who wished to take arms against Oribe ; of the re-
sistance which we have opposed for the last four years to
the efforts made in France itself to influence public
opinion, for the purpose of driving us to interference.
You will inform him that our intention is by no means
to recommence what the treaty of 1840 happily termi-
nated ; that we are not the allies of the present Go-
vernment of Monte Video against him ; that we re-
cognise, in common with all sensible persons, the neces-
sity that has borne him to, and which maintains him in
the Government of his country, that we have waited as
long as we could, in order that the war might terminate
of itself; but that we are no longer justified in waiting
any longer at present, in face of the sufferings and the
reiterated requests of those of our nation who have
remained neutral, and that we ate compelled, for the
interest of our commerce, as well as for that of humanity,
to put a period to a state of things which has become
intolerable

" We are inclined to believe that the Government of
Buenos Ayres will acknowledge the evidence of these
facts: You might add, that in the conversations that,
have taken place between the two Governments on the
subject of mediation, we have always taken care to
make all the provisos necessary for preserving the
honour and the interest of the Argentine republic ; pro-
visos that the English Cabinet, moreover, has admitted
with perfect good faith. You will inform him, in fine,
that his own dignity, the future prospects of his power,
and his very devotion to the American cause, counsel
him, in our opinion, to yield with a good grace,
and not to prolong a ferocious contest that is con-
demned by the whole world. The conditions that he
will obtain in the final arrangement, after having taken
the initiation in the work of pacification, will be neces-
sarily better than if he persists in exciting every interest
against him. You will assure him that, in the negotia-
tion, we will spare no pains to obtain the concession to
him, in fact, of the best terms possible, but at the same
time reminding him that we have recognised, as well as
England and Brazil, the independence of the Eastern
State, and that we can admit nothing that puts that in-
dependence in question.
" Even although Mr. Ouseley should have failed, be-
fore your arrival, in his attempt at friendly persuasion,
you will yourself make a further endeavour. If General
Roses yields to these reasons ; if he consents to recall
General Oribe and to order his army to evacuate the
eastern territory, you will undertake, without delay, in
colleen with your colleague, the negotiation of an
arrangement between the two republics. Here,
the resistance will no doubt change its nature ;
you will have to contend against the claims of the
present heads of government of Monte Video, exalted
by an unexpected deliverance. You will not hesitate to
reduce such demands to their proper value ; you will de-
clare that the two great powers have not interfered to
satisfy local animosities and emigrant rivalries, but to
establish peace upon solid bases, aeci to ensure the main-
tenance of order upon the two banks of La Plata ; you
will say, loudly and firmly, that far from taking part in
favour of one of the two republics against the other, the
two eahipele are determined to guarantee the security of
each of them for the future, tie well of that of Beetles
Ayres as that of Monte Video.
" Consequently if the Government of Buenos Ayres
deems it necessary to its repose to banish from the
eastern territory the Argentine refugees that are to be
found there, you will admit the legitimacy of this claire,
and accept it as a condition of peace. It is well tinder-
stood that, in this case, you will interfere in case of
need, in order to fereieh the individuals pointed out
the tpeuns of quitting Monte yieleci, and to fulure fur
their persons and property all the protection de-
sirable. On the other Nod, if the Eastern Republic
claims, on the part of teat of Buenos Ayres, guarantees
against future aggressions, you will take care to give to
;,;lase guarantees such a form as shall app. ar to you the
1 niCit serious and ethcacious. In a worue you will spare
pothin, with your colleague, firmly W cement the good