Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-06
LaseG Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, July IA.

COIlVCIllOIi u Duiiit'5>''1
army Of tie King of Englahdin Hanover,
the First Consul caused that act TO DC sent
to the English government, IN ordss g
know whether his Britannia Majesty was
wiling to ratify it.
Citizen Talseyrand, Minister tor fo-
reign Relations, consequently wrote the
following letter to Lord Hawkesbufy;
Later fran The MnJq<r for F0reiggn ~
fairs, 10 Loyd Ha1vk.@ay,, PARIS, May
IS,ISos.
My LORD,
g After slight engagement with the
troops Of his Britannia Majesty the
French army occupies the territory OF Han.
over.
{" The First Consul having only in view
to obtain some pledge for the evacuation
of Malta, and to endeavor to accomplish
the execution of the Treaty OF Aniiens,
has not been disposed to make his Bril-
tannic Naj-sty's subject experience all the
rigours Of war. Nevertheless, the First
Consul canno. ratify the convention con-
cluded between the French army and that
Of his Majesty, of Which / have the honor
to subioina copy, but in as far as it shall
be mike manner ratified by his Britannia
Majesty; and in the first case, ! have It
expressly in charge from the First Consul,
10 declare thar it is his intention that the
army Of the King Of England, in Hanover,
should in the first instance, be exchanged
against all the sailors or soldiers which has
Maiesty's ships may or shall have made
prisoners.
!" The First Consul would see with pain
that his Britannia Majesty, in the refusing
to ratify the said convention, should otll8e
the French government to treat the coun-
try of Hanover with all the r,gors OF war,
and as country which, left to itself and
abandoned by its Sovereign, would find IL
| self conquered without capitulat'on, and
left to the discretion of the occupying
| power.
g / shall anxiousIy expect, my Lord,
| your communication of the intention OF his
Britannia Majesty.
I" Receive, my Lord, the assurance of
| ny high consideration.
lSignedj
CHI. MAU. TALLEYRAND."
Here jfallo7v, a eoay eftbe CoaOsatioa.
General Mortier at the same time re.
! eeived orders TO acgualnt the General Of
the King of England's army in Hanover,
that the First Consul would make no duff
Guilty OF ratifying the convention of Sub
lingen, as soon as his Britannia Majesty
himself should have ratified it. There is
not single sensible man in Europe who
could for moment have doubted the ratl-
fcation Of the King of England.
The receipt of the following answer
from Lord Hawkesbury, therefore, excited
the greatest as,onishment.
Ans7ve, Of Lord Haavkes5uryf. The MINI
stey FIR Foreign Affairs.
Downing street, June $, 1903.
SIR,
"I have laid your letter Of the 10th
inst. before the King.
!" lbave his Majesty's orders to inform
you, that as he has always considered the
character of Elector of Hanover as distinct
froh, his character Of King of the united
Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland,
he cannot consent 20 acqulesce IN any act
which might sanction the idea that he Is
Justly susceptible Of being attacked ~ one
capacity for the conduct he may think 1t
his duty to adopt in the other. Ii is not
now that this principle has, tor the first
time, been advanced. It has been recog-
nized by several powers ct Europe, and
more particularly by the French govern
ment, which, in 1875, IN consequence OF
his Maiesty's accession to the Treaty OF
Basic, recognized his neutrality IN his Ca
,ac;.,y of Eietfor of Hanover, at the mo.