Star.
London, England, 1803-05-10 00:00:00

STATE OF THE IiEGOCIATIns: WITH TRANCE.

PELHAM then rofe. He had, he raid, lig.
nifiecl to the Houfe, on Friday lall, that he expea-
ed to have it this day in command from his Ma-
jelly to make a communication fittest to remove
the anxious uncertainty of their Lordthips and the
Public, relative to the state of the dircullion which
had arifen between this Country and France. In
confetweace of what he had then the honour to
reprefent, the Honfe was pleated then to refrain
from entering into particular deliberation upon
that fithjeet. A Noble Earl who had given notice
of a motion to elicit information rerpeaing it, was
likewife pleaftd to defer his motion. For thefe
realons, his Lordlhip, though circumflances did
nut yet enable him to addrefs their Lordthips with
the expefted communication from his f‘lajeflv,
thought it incumbent nn him, as far as was poill-
ble, to fatisfy the Houfe in regard to the caufes
of the delay. Lord Whitworth, it was Rated on
Friday, had received orders to leave Paris on a
certain day, unlefs he fhonld previoufly receive the
fatistaftion required upon the points in dilpute.—
As General Andreoffi had on Friday applied at
the Foreign Office for pairporta, and no difpatches
had been for tome days received from Lord Whit.
worth, it was concluded that the Britifh Ambaffa-
dor had, on Tueblay or Wednefday loft, moll
probably left Paris ; and it was believed that his
Lord(hip's arrival in London might he within the
next two days. Contrary to this expeaation, Lord
Whitworth, when on the eve of leaving Paris, had
been addrelfzd with a new propofat on the part of
the French Government, upon which his Lordfhip
had thought it his duty to delay his departure from
the French metropolis, till he Ihould have tranf-
mitted that propofal to his isla;elly's Minillers
here, and Ihould have received farther orders upon
it. The propof.l was not of fuch a nature as to
form a pr-tper fubjeci of any communication to
' Parliament. Yet, it neceffarily produced matter
of delay, till an anfwer Ihould have been returned
to it, and received at Paris. Only for that period,
would the intended communication to their Lord-
fliips he withheld. rr Unlels, however, in the mere
fan of delay, his Lortllhip laid, he had no reafon
to hold out to the Hustle that the propofal on the
part of France was of a nature to produce a change
in the fublance of the promifed communication."
His Lordthip concluded by Rating, that, with as
little delay as was compatible with the circum-
fiances of the incident he had mentioned, a com•
municatiors adapted to put an end decitively to the
disagreeable uncertainty in which he was lorry that
their Lordlhips and the country had, for Come
time, been, would OM fail to be brought down
from the King.
Lord DAR 4 LVY gave his thanks to the Noble
Secretary of State, for having, in a manner fo
han4rme and candid, Rated thole fails to the
Houle, which their Lordlhips had now heard.—
Tn him they were, for the relent, entirely lois-
fattory. He moil readily agreed to refrain from
now bringing on the motion of which lie had
given notice. Nay, farther, if intended com.
munication fhould prove to be r f th.rt clear and
decilive nature, putting an end to ali nocertaitity,
which the worth of the Noble Sect er y if State
encouraged him to hope, lie vrotold the:t confider
himtelf as freed from any neceairt of bri !Tint! on
his motion at all. He wished to fry a few wo:ds
of the realons upon which lie had been induct ,' to
give notice of that motion. Ht undertook ru
make the cootion,hccaufe it had been propofed by
nn other Noble Lord. The darknels and mixer.
randy in which the nation had been In long held,
in regard to the recent difpute with France ; the
endlef, protrafling of the negotiation ; the conti-
nual increating anxiety which pervaded the minds'
of the whole public ; the milchiefs at iting from all
dill. to every concern of britinel, public and pri-
vate, moll forcibly demanded a fitiA...retory expla-
nation from his Majctly's Afinilrera. Where could
that explanation be given with fo mach conflim
tional propriety, as in the two Houfes of Parlia-
ment F. But lie would not enter further into the
tubjca, bemire lie was anxious, at this time, to
provoke nnthing like a general difctiffion. He ;
wmild not fit down, however, without mentioning'
that if the communication, which they were to
cape& fhould not prove of that decifive, fatisfac.
tory nature, which the Noble Secretary of State
feemed to intimate, he fhould then reel himfelfilill
ender an obligation to move the Houle as fnon as
poffilile, agreeably to his original notice. He con
chided with moving, that the order for his intend.
ed motion should be dlidia,g A. It was difcharged
accordingly.
Earl Setae's entirely approved the condull of
the Noble Earl, in forbearing to bring on the mo-
tion which he had intended to make. He agreed
with him, that the aaplanation of the Noble Se-
vetary of ~rate was, in the prtfent cireumfiances
or the affair to which it related, not at all unlatif-
f testy. He laid, that he and his fa iends had
lately avoided pr cdanq too mach Ilion his M
t; ,74.nutrys ti.r esiilit"ati"m, an an opinion that

they had to ftraggle with sliften'tlet and embar.
raftments in the great bufinefs by which these at
tention was chiefly occupied, amidll which it would
he ungenerous, if not unfair, eagerly to harah
them in the Howes of Parliament. Yet he could
not but obferve, that by what had rifled fince Fri-
day, he and his friends were Pillified in the desire
which they had then espreffed, that the Hoitfe
fhonlil not adjourn over Saturday. As he then
thought, fomething had occurred, even on the
morning of Saturday, which was fit to afford mat-
ter for a certain fort of communication to the
public, it would have becn better and more coniti-
tutional if that information, (mall as it was, could
have been given on Saturday, and in the firtl in-
fiance to the two Houfes of Parliament. His
Lordillip concluded with exprefling his hope, that
the Houle would, with a: little delay as podilde,
he favoured with a clear, decisive, and fatixiaaoty
communication.—Adjourned.