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duce into the aythentic form of official notes tbofe
verbal conferenies which he had had with the French
Government, and in which they had acknowledged
the balls of the sai poi:delis. It was to get this writ-
ten recognition of the principle from the French Go
vernment that Lord Yarmouth was fent over. lie
was exprefsly enjoined not to negociate unlefs the bafis
was admitted ; and, although in an anforeften cafe,
he from the bet motives produced his full powers,
yet his Majelly's Minifiers willed that he thould not
have produced them until there was a dire and writ-
ten recognition of the bafis of treaty which they had
before properied. It would appear, from the whole
of the papers on the table, that Minißers never wifhed
to continue the negociation on any other barn.
Lord ,ELDON,`in explanation, laid, that what
he Mid taken notice bf was, that this converfation
with Lord Yarmouth, in the month of June, was
immediate y follov.,ed by a letter of M. Talleyrand;
which made no mention of any fuch balls. As, to
the point on which Lord Yarmouth was inffrofted,
as to the produftion of his full ppwers, it was not
merely a recognition of the general bates of peace,
hilt it was the fpecific paint of preferving Sicily from
France. ,
Lord LAUDERDALE expreffed his happinefs to
find, that the Addrefs before the Houle was likely to
' meet with their Lot &hips' unanimous concurrence,
but at the fame time he could not hap obferving, that
in the courfe of the diftuffion. a stall deal of extrane-
ous matter had been produced. and particularly by
the Noble Lord who fp-ke halt. It was not, however,
his intention to follow that Noble Lord either in his
' irrelevant remarks, or in that part of his fptech which
had relevancy to the fubjeft under confideratinn.—
He could not think of detaining the attention of the
Houle as to the one, and tne able andimpreffive man.
nor in which the cafe had been opened by his Noble
Friend on the bench near him (Lord Grenville) ten.
dered it quite unnecellary for him to offer many Ma-
-1 fetvations with regard to the other. He did not rife,
therefore, fo much with the intention of adding any
thing in the &ape of argument to what the Houfe
had heard from his Noble Friend, as in order to give
his teilimony to the Noble Lord oppofite (Lord El.
den). But before he proceeded to anfwer that Noble
1 Lord's call, he could not help expreffing his furprile
that it had been made at all. It certainly was
rather fingular that the' Noble Lord fhould apply
to him for evidence, after having doubted the
evidence of Lord Yarmouth—that he fhould deem
his tefliniony of any account, after treating, that
of Lord Yat mouth as perfeBly nugatory.' Palling
this by, hov ever, it did happen that he (Lord
L.) could give ample evidence to the fafts quettioned
by the Noble Lord oppofite. For, independently of
Lord Yarthouth's having repeatedly fluted there faels
to him, he was enabled to confirm them from other
fources, particularly from his own conferences with
the Minider of France. Without, however, any
corroboration from his teflimony, he would contend
that the notes And verbal communications of Lnrd
Yarmouth were quire diffident to fultain the after-
tions complained of in his Majedy's Declaration, and
alto to vindicate the condo& of the Negociation from
the Noble Lord's charge of irregularity. The Noble
Lord profeffe4 to have read the papers on the table;
and no doubtlhe has with great attention, 11111 he
feemed to have overlooked, or but Rightly confidered
the difpatch of the t 3th of June from Lord Yarmouth
to Mr. Fox. There the Noble Lord repeated the,
words of M. Talleyrand, that that Minißer bad been
" looking out far fume means by which a fecret
and confidential communication might be made,
explanatory of the fentiments alisd views of France.
as welt as the outlines of the terms on which
peace might be rellored." After this followed an
account of the verbal communication of Talley.
rand. Comparing this letter with that from Tal-
leyrand. of the ad of June, the propofitions afterted
by his Noble Friend in opening the cafe, appeared
to him to be completely rnide nut, and the
objeel ions of the Noble Lord t 2 be moR extraordinary
indeed. But as to the condat of Mr. Fox, it was to
be tecolleaed, that he wrote two letters on the t4th
of June, the °tie in reply to fuc,h part of Talleyrand's
communication as was xtitten; and the other, pre-
tenting Lord Yatnortith as an autlintifed perfon to
make to the French Minifler a verbal anfwer to loch
verbal communications as that Noble Lord was au-
thorifed by that Minifler to convey to this country.
Could any fault be found by any candid-roan, with
that mode of proceeding cn the Icore of regula
City ? Certainly not. But the Noble Lord oppofite
inferred that the wipe/petit was not infifled upon by
Lord Yarmouth, becaufe Sicily alone was mention-
ed. He called upon the Noble Lad, however, to ex
amine the difpatch of the rR of July. There Lard
Yarmouth flutes, that in a converixtion
rand he mentioned the impoffibility of going on any
further upon the outlines of peace " unlefi Ise amid
return to the former grounds,' and confider Sicily in
its true fenfe—unlels he came tidaly within the
.meaning of his own words." To what- then could
this refer but to forne general ptopofitiod berme made,
and the return of that prapofition wis'eaffly•tieduci-
ble from this difpatch. The exiflence indeed °flitch
general propofition appears clearly from the Words
of Talleyrand, that a change of circatallances were'
always to be confidered as a reafon for change of
terms. Futther, it• was to be obferved, that the
change then *role out of the opinion which Bona-
parte had jull adopted, that Sicily could be captured
by him with cafe. Thus the French Govetnment
thought proper to recede from their fir ft propofitions.
In this infiance indeed they avowed and attempted
to jußify the change, and in terms to' which pretty
intelligibly implied the nature of it. For why infill
upon Sicily? becaufe they thotight they could, get it
into their poffeffion, and-the conneelion- of polleffion,
with the avowed change of terms in this, inflance, led
at.leaft to. a natural and obvious inference in favour
of the argument refpeeting-utipeffidear. But there
was no occafion to reit upon inferences. Lord Yar.
mouth had iu his prefence, Rated to M. Talleyrand
himfelf, the original propofitions of that minute, re-
fpefting the utipiirdetis, as referred Co in his MaJefly's
Declaration, without meeting any thing like a denial.
The Noble Lord oppofite would admit that there was I
a very material difference between a,conerovedy as to
the inferences 4.-Acible Mom a propofition, and the
giving a dißinMeontradiftion to the propofition itfelf.
Now whatev4 there might have been of the former,
Talleyrand nUer uttered any thing at 'all apprNieli-
ins to the latter. On the contrary, i*ieed. Lord
Yarmouth's autism appeared evidently ittipi the