The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-02-24
OBSERVATIONS

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We can with difficulty conceive how, with
fneh authentic facts and thofe of fuch high i'm
portance, the Engiifh government has dared to
hazard ia many faife allegations. Accufed by
the opinion of Europe Of having prolonged the
war, it wiihes this day to remove this odous
responsibility hut the acts, even of its agents,
accufe il, and its affrrtons are contradictrd by
facts. His majstty the emperor and king, will
not aufwer 1t but by producing all thepapers
OF this negotiation, which his love for peace
made him with would have happier refut.
1t is not true that the French government
had made, before the negotiation, any of the
overtures nor any of the offers which the de-
claration fnppoies. All thefe fuppofitions have
been conitantly denied during the courfe of the
negotiation by his tnajeffy's minfry. II is
untrue that the French govei nment had accept
ed the pretended BATS which is aTer.ed in the
declaration, and that his Britannia majehy had
referved to himfelf, before entering into nego-
citation, the right of not treating, but in concert
with his allies.
1t will be eafy to convince by the anfwers of
the Mlnliter OF Exterior Relations TO Mr.. Fox,
and above all by that of No. s, that if the Eng.
llih Cabinet had held TO this referve, that the
negotiation would never have opened. 1t will
be eaiyto convince, even by the text of the full
powers OF lord Yarmouth, and more evidently
till by the reading of the letter of lord Lauder
dale, No. ls, that be fore the commencement
of the negotiation, the Engiifh government had
entirely and irrevocaby de(lfted from the pre-
tenhon of treating conformity with it's allies.
How dare a government thus publicly place it.
ieIf in contradiction with itfrif?
The expedition of fa6as which are about to be
fated, is not like the declaration of the king of
Eng and, hszarded publication, which is to be
believed on its own authority. 1t is Imported
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be printed hereafter.
In February of this year, there opened be-
tween the two powers negotiation direct, be-
tween cabinet and cabinet. Ii commenced un-
der favorable auiplces ; and on referring to this
period, we love to recollect trait worthy of
the noble character of the minifer which Eng
land has loft. A letter from Mr. Fox to his
ference highnefs, the prince of Becevento, in
farmed him, that an individual had prrfented
himfef to him, and had offered to attempt the
life of the emperor. (See No. / and 2.)
The BATS of the negotiation effablifhed them.
felves afterwards in the letters which the two
minRers wrote each other fuccefiyeIy and
after fraDk and continued dfculIions, Imported
by that tone of politeneis becoming the minifters
of two great powers, i was agreed, that they
would adopt, as the baic of the negotiation,
the two following principles IT. That the
jeds, that the peace ihould be honorable for
them and their REFLECTIVE allies, and at the fame
time it ihould be of the nature to allure, as
much as it WAS poGibIe, the future repofe of
Europe. Cd. That it fhould be acknowledged
In favor of one and the other power, that it
mould have all the right Of intervention and
guarantee for continental affairs, and for mari
time affairs. (Sce No. and y II is to thefe
principles, announced in the notes If the two
min;Rers, that the French government has foley
and perfeveringly referred.
Lord Yarmouth came TO PIrs he prefent-
ed full powers, and the negotiation proceeded
towardsits completion. 1t is not true, rs ie adj
vauced in the declaration of his Britannia Ma
jeGy, that the cabinet Of the Thuilleri cs, who
is not efficiently weak 10 treat with mniRers
without powers. found thufe of Lord Yarmouth
inefficient. The form is the fame as thofg OF
Lord Maucheher, in 1868, and the authorize
lions are even more complete and more extern
five. (See No. IL and l2.)
But the court OF London found that the pro-
fre!s Of the dfcuiiion was too rapid it feared
that it would lead to peace. To delay every
thing, it fent, under the fame title. fecond
minieer pleuipoten,iary, and foon after he was
lett alone, and they prefcrbed to him 10 wait,
under an apparent negocssiou, to fee what