The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-10
No. Is.
CLARKE.

The undersigned plenipotentaries of his Bri.
fannie majefty, do not conceive it their duty
10 enter into detailed confederation of the Off
cial note, which has juft been tranfmitted to
them from his excellency general Clarke, un-
def the date of the 9Th Auguft. In confequeHcc
of the manner in which the different points
which form the fnbjeGf of this note are therein
treated, it will be impoffible for them to diff
cuffs them with that calm and attention due to
the proprety required by the character with
which they are invefed by their fovereign. But
The fubje6 of this note is of 70 general ma
ture and 70 foreign to the object Immediately
in queition, that it would be perfectly ufelefs
TO take it into confederation at the prefent mo-
ment.
The undersigned lord Laudcrdae, far from
thinking that the manner of difcufling by writ
ing the Fundamental! points of a negotiation can
in any manner augment the difficulty of coming
to right understanding, thinks, on the contra
ny, that he has already perceived manifeft proofs
Of lis utility, in as much as the official note
prefented by him Gnce his arrival has brought
the negotiation TO an equivocal ifue, and put
an end 10 the Misunderstanding no doubt real
which have taken place, and which would never
have exied, had the fame method been adopted
Ence the beginning of the negotiation.
The undersigned Lord Yarmouth thinks him
felf Obliged 10 notice the manner in which he
has been given to underhand that he landed at
Calais inveted with public character TO treat
of peace. He only came to give in perfon and
with his own voice the anfwer TO communca-
tipn he had been intreated to make the Epglifh
government, founded on the BATS of the uti
$e57detis agreeable to the following words of
his excellency MIR. de Talleyrand :: /" We ak
nothing of y5a';" accompanied with pofitive
afurances that the reftitution of the German
pofiei1ions Of his majefy fhould meet with no
-furtber refihdTce. The fame fentiment is in
like manner exPrefied in Mr. de TalIeyrand's
Fetter to Mr.. Fox, dated the 1T April. " The
emperor dehres nothing of what England pof-
fenes."
Lord Yarmouth believes hmfef in like man.
ner obliged not to be dlent on the remarks made
by his Excellency General Clarke, concerning
the delays in the negotiation and the frequent
arrivals and departures of couriers. The an
fpVers of his Britannia majefy have always
been frank and fpeedy and if the number of
rauriers has been comfortable, it can only be
attributed to motives foreign t. his majeity.
The undersigned Lords Lauderdale and Var
mouth can by no means fubfcribe to the opini.
on brought forward by his Ex. General Clarke,
In laid note, that the negotiation " has been
ftt on foot and almoa brought to a conclufon"
In the interval that has elapied between the peri
cd OF the official information given by Viftount
Lord Lauderdale. On the contrary, they look
on this negotiation as having hardly began.
The conversations alluded to have confifted on
the Gjde of the French Plenpotentiaries in max
ine demands which the undersigned Vifcount
Yarmouth had uniformly declared to be mad
mi(ible and on the pat of lord Yarmouth in
retrencbng himfelf in the limits Of the ui beE.
.e!is, as having no iuaru6ion from his govern
ment to admit any other BATS in the negocat
on BATS fuggcfted by France 10 the commu-
nication made by lord yarmouth, and previouf-
w announced by the letter of Mr.. de TaIley.
faud, of the 1T April.
The undersigned Lords Lauderdale and Var
mouth think it ufelefs to repeat in this place
ihe motives Gated in the official note prefented
by lord Lauderdale, and which has induced his
nsi Nv to look on the BATS of the afi peIfdlfi5
t,rSuoied by France, as fufceptible of a parti-
tuIsr application to the REFLECTIVE fate of the
two countries. IL is for them deep lubje6t OF
repre,, that by the abfolute and decided aban-
conmcni Of this BATS by the French govern
nient, the expectation and hopes of the two
= aiions are entirely fruitrated.
II only remains for Lords Yarmouth and Lau-
fcrdaJe 10 declare that his majeay At all times
ready TO Elten to iuf and honorable condi-
tons of peace confidently relies on the means
nrniCbedt to him by the loyalty and affc 6tion OF
ii, futiettr. lie will never liiten to any pro-