Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-15

q ngalta as loon as that exchange iha'l
& have taken place: they lhall there ioEro
& . general chapter, and fhall proceed to
. The election OF Grand Matter, to be
q cholen from amonga the natives which
orcterve Langues, if no luch election
q lhall have been already made iince the
exchange Of the ratiicationsof The pre-.
/" liminary articles Of peace.
The object of this paragraph was that
ia the event of an election having taken
place lubieeuent to rhe exchange OF the
rati6cations of the preliminary articles OF
peace, and antccedent 10 the conclution OF
the defnitive treaty, that election r1ouid
be conGdered as valid; and though no
mention is made 10 the article OF the pro-
clama,ion of the Emperor of Ruiiia, loon
after his accef1ion TO the throne, by which
the Knights Of the Order were invited TO
aasmble, and to proceed to the election OF
Grard Mater, the f;pulation in quef-
ton evidently referred to the contingency
Of an election taking place on the copti~
nent in confeqnenee OF that Proclamation.
You will inform the French Govern
ment that his Majeay is ready to oonhder
the election which has lately taken place
at ST. Pcterfbusgh, under the auipices OF
the Emreror Of Rullla, to be valid, ac-
cording TO The Aipulation in the Iith ar
ticle.
His Majefy has no other objea in the
whole OF this tranlattion, than that the
10Th article Of the treaty may be carried
into complete execution with. as little dit
fculty as poAible.
AS the 9Th paragraph in the 10th ar
ticle ftipula,es that the governments OF
AuRria, Rufia and Pruiia, ihould be To-
vited 10 accede TO The arrangements re-
fpecing Malta, it is defra6le that the
French Government lhould inffucf with
out delay their ambafadors or lainiitefs at
Vienna, Pesesibargh and Berlin, to make,
CONFORMITY with his Majefy's mlnlitefs at
thole courts, an official communication
dehting the acceiEon Of thoie powers 10
the arrangements relative to Malta in the
Dehnitiye Treaty; by which ii is provid-
ed that the independence OF the ifland, and
the other Populations, fhall be under tie
guarantee of thofe powers, in conjunction
with his Majefy, the French govern
ment, and the King Of Spain. have
the honor to be &c.
(Signed) HAWKESBURY.
Anthony Merry, Elq. &c. &c.
No. 6.
Eatvaa efafypatcb from Anf6ony Msr-
~, Eta. to Lo,d Huqvksgury, dated
Paris, June II, 1902.
have now the honor 20 tranlInlt to
your Lordihip, incloied copy OF an an
lwer which reached me LAT night Though
dated eighf days back from The FIench
MiniRer, to the note verbale which l
delivered to him, containing His Majcf
tvs proportions retPe6ting The execution
offome points of the arrangements relative
to Malta contained in tie roth article OF
the Defniti9e Treaty or Teace'-- l On
will faa the entire acquirfcsnce OF this
government to lhofe proportions expfeiied
in very satisfactory manner.
tIaclofure referred TO in No. o.
His Britannia Majelty's Minliter Pie
nipo,enliary has the holof TO tEanlmit
herewith to Citizeo Talleyrand Minlltef
for the Foreign affairs of the French Re-
public, the Note Verbal of the COM
munication he has been ordered 70 make
| to him by his Government, WHO are de-
| fi.oBs that the propoials it contains may
/ be acceptable to the French Government !;
| and they may be Altered that the Bflt,ih
Government in making theie Propoials
have no other Object in view than to tsci-
80. a.. a,GaA manner the ayec,,fjon