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Les diagrammes suivants lllustrent la mMhode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 S 6 ■^ '/■ y ; ■^■:;f;,' :'r- , ; i ■ -'• ■ ■ 'i ^ m >f,>> y r- THE *, d* /: OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE RBLArxVB TO THl m NEGOTIATION FOR PEACE, ■#*^: ' ,;-■-■• 1pMSiHM*l?«W^ ^«**^ ■ -r- ill ■».. Kino ^ ■ BRTWBEN ^iJ£^2 BRITAIN AND THE FRENCH KEPUBLICX, AS LAID BBrOKE BOTH' HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. j|^*- >ii^^^ H/S MAJESTY'S COMMAND. LONDON : PRINTED FdR j. WRIGHT, Qtf9tlJ» Ot» BOND •TBXcr, rtCCADUlY. »797* / wmmmmmmmmm n •\: ■:\i'i'^:-:i'f, .» -'r.-.i .'» ■ . k ->^=-'*t'i'-';i/*^'<^'r* ».*. So'" ■ * > A i'*« .^TiwwWtfiimivrijMiHiitu. z^'' .2* ,T ^>', S,,V rt 4 :'?:»' .^i!". ")y,'^ i-^" v**"i :tJ'i^'\T^^ .1->;>ij', IP'*'*"'"'/*'*^* V'"'\'^'*'^'f J* %''gg%:m^::>m^^^^ Till I mar ,iS'2*'fi''^Xr ■M t-iV iia^H^A E^sa^sx/mi ls^^^^a%',Iima^ '•«»»af - ffS'^f -JS *i 1* J: ? IV ' .,1,-.,^. '•"'T ■ n^t^;. ■■» :VIS*^ J P.T jit«'i/.af/i* ,ip»^«S'%i|S'^'>«*-jf.i^Ut»iH'»' \ .r t l! 1. r LIST OP PAt'ERS ;' • d^\ PrefenUd hy His MAJESTY'S Command: «4* 1\ >-.■ > ■# No. I. OFFICIAL Note from Lord Grenville to the Mi- nifter for Foreign Affairs of the PVench Repub- f;/:" . lick, dated Weftminfter, ift June 1797 -^And ., V " 'iTanflation. No. 2. Official Note from the Minifter for Foreign Affairs tc\''.t':-fi 'iMtf^ Lord Grenville, dated Paris, 16 Prairial, 5th , ■A, r Year of the French Republic— And Tranflation, No^ 3. Official Note from Lord Grenville to the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, dated Weftminfter, 8th June 1797.— And Tranflation. Na 4, Official Note from the Minifter for Foreign Affairs to Lord Grenville, dated Paris, 23 Prairial, 5th Year. , ^y^i^^ji^v No. 5. Paflport. — And Tranflation. '* ; No. 6. Official Note from Lord Grenville to the Minifter for Forrign Affairs, dated Weftminfter, 17th --',■■ June 1797.— And Tranflation. * No. 7. Official Note from the Minifter for Foreign Affairs ' ; to Loi'd Grenville, dated Paris, 2 Mcffidor. — And .>{.. Tranflation. No* 8. Official NTote from Lord Grenville to the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, dated Weftminfter, 26th June 1797. — And Tranflation. No. 9. Official Note frorp the Minifter for Foreign Affairs to Lord Grenville, dated Paris, 1 1 Meflidor, 5th Year.— And Tranflation. No. 10. Extra *^f'*"' No. 16. v.; ' ,A Na 17- ^ No. 18. . No. 19. ., No. 20. No. 21. ,N04 22, No. 23- * No. 24. No. 25. No. 26. £xtra£l of a Difptch £-om Lord Maline(bury to Lord GrenvUle, dated Liflfc, Tuefday, iith July 1797. Copy of the Projeft delivered by Lord Malmcfbury . to the French Plenipotentiaries^ 8th' July i;y97.— And Tranllatiorr. < Note from Lord Malmefljury to the French Plenipo- tentiaries^ dated Lifle, the 8th July i797.»- And Tranflati9n. Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Malmefbur/, dated Lifle, 21 Meffidor, 5th Year. —And Tranflation. Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Maimefbury, dated Lifle, 22 MeiEdor, 5th Year. —And Tranflation. Extradl of a Difpatch from Lord Grenville to Lord Malmeibury, dated Downing Street, 13th July ^797- Extract of a Difpatch from Lord Mjilmefbury to Lord Grenville, daied Lifle, i6:h July 1797. ExtraiSl of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 16th July i'"97. Note from the French Pienipntentiar.es to Lord Malm?fl3ary, dared L^fl.-, 27 MeCidor, 5th Yeafi^ —And 1 raufl:\tH;n. -'.T'^ Note, from Lorc^ MRlnieft)ury to the French Ple'ni- . P'teniiaries, dated Lifl^, i5ih July 1797 — And Tiaiiflation. Note from the French Plcnipoter.iaries to Lord Malmefbury, dated Lrfle, 27 Meflidor, 5th Year, —And Tranflation. Copy of a Difpatch from Lord GrenvilK' to Lord Malmefljury, dated Downing Street, 20th July 1797- Copy of a Difpatch from Lord Grenville to Loid M ilmtfbury, dated Downing Street^ 20i:h July, 1797. Extract of a Difpatch fromv Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, d^ted Ltfle, 25th Juiy 1797. Note from Lord Malmeftury to the French Pleni- potentaries, dated Liflc, 24th July ^797. — And Tranflation. No. 27* ./,. ,;;.;{.■. -...I" mmmm^ f, [ Vll ] * No. 2y, Extiaft of a Difpatch from Lord MalmeHjury t6 Lo d Grenville, davteJ Liflct Sunday, 6t;h Auguft "797- No. 28. Nbte from the French Plenipotentiaries to i-ord Malmefbury, dated Lifle, 17 Thermidor, 5th Year. — Anid Tranflation. No. 29. Extraft of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbu-y to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 14th Augufl 1797. No. 30. Extradl of a Difpatch from Lord Grehville to Lord Malmefbury, dated Downing Street, I9i:h Auguft 1797. No. 31. Extra^ from the Meflage of the French DIre(5lory to the Council of Five Hundred of the 9th Auguft 1797 —Arid Tranflation. No. 32. Copy of a Difpatch fromXord Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 22d Auguft 1797. No. 33. Extraft of a Difpatch •from Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 22d Auguft 1797. No. 34. Extraft of a Difpatch from Lord Malmelbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 29th Auguft 1797. No. 35. Extraft of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grenvillcj dated Lifle, 5th September 1797. 'No. 36. Extraft of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grehville, dated Lifle, 9th September 1797. No. 37. Extraft of a Difpatch from Lord Grenville to Lord Malmefbury, dated Dowming-Streer, September ,t ' nth 1797. iNo. 38. Copy of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbury to Lord' Grenville, dated Lifle, nth September 1797. Na 39, Note- from the French Plenipotent'aries to Lord Malmefbury, dated Lifle^ 25 Frudidor, 5th Year. . — And Tranflation. i>No. 40. Note from Lord Malmefbury to the French Pleni- potentiaries, dated Lifle, 1 2th- September 1797.— And Tranflation, No. 41. Extrad); of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 1 7th September 1797. No. 42. Copy of a Difpatch from Lord Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 17th September 1797. No. 43. Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Malmefbury, dated Lifle, the 29 Fru(^idor, 5th Year.-— And Tranflation* ^^ ./ 'V I 'iM I [F »""i""F [ viii ) I I No. 44. No. 45. No. 46. No. 47- No. 48. No. 1 ' 1 49* No. 5°- No, 51- No. 52. No» 53- No. 54. Note from Lord Malmeftury tb the Frettch Pleni- potentiaries, dated Liflej i6th September, I797< — And Tranflation. Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Malmefljury, dated Lifle, 30 Frudlidor, 5th Year. —And Tranflation. Note from Lord Malmefbury to the French Pleni* potentiaries, dated Liile, i6th September 1797. —►And Tranflation. ' Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Malmefbury, dated Lil'e, 30 Fruftidbr, 5th Year, —And Tranflation. Note from Lord Malmefbury td the French Pleni- potentiaries, dated Lifle, Sunday, lytK Septem- ber i/97.---And Tranflation. — Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord MalmefbUry, dated Lifle, ift Complementary Day, 5th Year— And Tranflation. Difpatch from Lord Grenville to Lord Malmefbury, dated Downing Streetj 22d September 1797. Note from Lord Malmeflsury to the French Pleni- potenciaries, dated L mdon, 2 2d September 1797. — And Tranflations. - Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord V Malmefljury, dated Lifle, 4th Vendemiaire, 5th Year.— And Tranflation. Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Malmefljury, dated Lifle, lOth Vendemiaire, 6th Year.— And Tranflation. Note froni Lord Malmefbury to the French Pleni- potentiaries, dated London, 5th Oftobqi' 17^7.— And Tranflation. cor: -i»i\^-. CORRESPONDENCE, &fc. Papers frepnUd by His Majeflfs Command, (No. I.) Official NQte.«— LordGrenville to the Mt- nifter for Foreign Afikirauf Uie French Republick. IT A Signature dcs Pr?liminaires d'unc Paix, dont jLi la Concltifion definitive, doit terminer la Guerre du Continent, paroit ofFrir aux Deux Gou\i rnemens de h Grande Bretagne et de la France une OccaHon naturelle et des nouvelles Fslcilit^s pour le Renou- veifenlent des Negotiations pacifii.ques entre eux:— » Un^ Partie des Obftacles qui suroient pu retarder cet Ouvrage falutaire n*exiftant plus; et les Interets dpnt on aura ^ traiter depuis cet Evene^1ent n*etant ni audi 6tendUs nl audi compliques qu'ils Vetoiehi aiAiti^vanl La Cour de Londres defirant toujo^irs employi^f tous les Moyeiis les phis propres a contribuer ^,^ec Objfct, fi intereflaht pour Jje Bonhieiir^ des peiix Nations* n'a pas voulu omettre de renbuveller au Gouvemement Francois TAfllirance de fcs Difjwfi- tions coi^ftantes X cet egard. Et le Soufligne eft aUtoriz6 de propofer au Miniftre des Relations Ex- terieurts d*entrcr fans Dclai, et fous telle Fonhc qui ferajugee la plus convenabrei dans la Pifcuflion des Vues et des Pretenfions refpcftives, pour re^er les Preliminalres d'unc Paix, que Ton arrangeroit defi- nitivennent au Congr6s futur. Des qlie Ton feroit d*accord fur k Forme de cette Negotiation, le Gouvemement Britannique Yeroit prer ^ y concourir en prenant de fa Part toutes les E Meliires ri '•>■■ Mcfures Ics plus proprcs pour accclercr le Retablir- fement de la Tranqmllice publlque. (Signc) GRENVILLE. i Weftminlbcr, ce i Juin, 1797. (No. I.) Tranflation. The Signature of the Preliminaries ofa Pcactf, the definitive Conclufion of which is to put an End to the Continental War, appears to afford to the Two Go- vernments of Great Britain and France a natural Op- portunity and new Facilities for the Renewal of pa- cifick Negociations between them : A Part of the Obftacles, which might have retarded this fa^utary Workj no longer cxiftingj and the Interefts to 6c treated of being, after this Event, neither fo ^xtcrtlive nor fo complicated as they were before. , The Court of London, always defirous of' em- ploying fuch Means as arc beft calculated tp con- tribute to this Objcdb, fo intcrefting to the H^p? pincfs of the Two Nations, is unwilling to oinit r^n newing to the French Government the Affurancc pf the Continuance of its Difpofitions on thi^ Suited, And the Underfigned is authorized to proppfe to the Miuifter for Foreign Affairs to enter without Pe^ay* and in fuch Manner as (hall be judged the moft ex-» pedicnt, upon the Difcuffion or the Views and Prcii tcnfions of ea^h Party for the Regulation of the pre- liminaries ofa Peace, which may be dcfuiiti«cly,ar«j . ranged at the future Congrefs. K ., As fbon as the Form of this Negotiation ihall liavc been agreed uponi the Britiih Government will be ready t© cpncur in it, by taking pn its iPart fuch Mcafures^as are tjie moft proper tor accelerating thf ite-elbbliihiucnt of the public Tranquillity^ j.^l^v, . (Signed) CmMmJ^^H Weftmiditer, Jfcmi, 1797. i' Hcvi:, iUi fiyp e^vI UJ (No. ».) Official Note.— The Mii./ler for Foreieii Affairs to Lord Grenville. L^ Miniftre des Relations Extcricurcs dc la Re- publique Fran^aife fouflignc s'cft cmprcfle dc mcttrc ^ fous Ics ycux du Direftoirc Exccutitla Note qui lul Si etc tranfmifc Ic i Juin 1797 (v. ft.) par Ic Lord Grenville, au Nom de Sa Majefte Britannique. U eft charge d'y repondrc. Lc Dirc6toire Exccutifvoit avcc Satisfaftion l^ Delir qu* annonce le Cabinet de Saint James de hirt ceiKer enHn les Malheurs de la Guerre. II uccueil- Icra avec Empreflemcnt les Ouverturcs ct les Pro- politions qui lui feront faites par la Cour d'Angle-* terrc, Le Direftoire Exctutif dcfirc, cependant, que |ef Negociations s'fintament dc fuite pour un Traite Dc- finitif. Cette Marchc Lui paroit preferable k un Congrcs, dpnt le Refultat ne pcut qui ctre fort cloigne, ct ne rcpbnd point au Dcfir ardent qu'il a dc retablir, le plus promptcmcnt poffiblc, la Paix ^v cntrc les Deux Puiflanccs. ^■^. ^f (Signc) CH. DELACROIX. a Bans, le 16 Prairial, An 5 »^« de la RejQubUque Fraiiqaife, und et iadiviubl^. 'i (No. z,) Tranflation. ^5 put an EjicJ,, a*^ %ngth, to the val^niitits of mmmmmmmm *«•■ i! i t 4 ) -*".■ and Propofals which Ihall be made to it by th^Coiift of England. . The Executive Direftory defires notwithftanding, that the Negociations fhould be fet on Foot at once for ^ Definitive Treaty. This Proceeding appears to the pircftory prefeiablc to a Congrcs, of which the Refult muft be remote, and which does not cor- refpond with the ardent Defire that it has to re-efta- blilh, as quickly.as, poflible, fcace between the Two Powers. '4xU:] -f^:*rr^ (Signed) qH. DELAtlROIX. rLord Grenville to the Ml- * Paris, 16 Prairial, 5 th Year of the French Republick, one ;>nd indiviiible. — (June 4, 1797)* . (No. 3.) ^W'^^^OBcM Note.. ' liJ iv. . nifter for Foreign AiFairs,i^:,,>^j.A V La Cour de Londres a rc§u, avec la plus gfandc Sadsfadtion, les AfTurances des Difpofitions du Di- reiftoire Execudf d'acceuillir avec Empreflement les Ouvertures pacifiques de la Grand Bret:igne, aufli bien que de fon Defir de rctablir, le plus promptc- ment p©ffible, la Paix entre les Deux Puiflances. Empreffe d'y contribuer en tout ce qui peut de- pendrc de Lui, le Gouyernement Bfitannique nc tardera pas d'envoyer foit a Paris, Ibit i tel autre l,ieu fur le Continent dont on pourra convenir, un Miniftre pour traiter et conclure avec le PJenipoteiv tiaire qui fcra nomme par le Diredoire Executif. i^i Lp Souffigne eft charge de demander a connoitre jc Voeu du Diredloire fur le Lieu de la Negotiation, a fin qu'on puiftc prendre ici une D^terminatior^ jprompte a cct cgard j et de prier le Miniftre des Re- lations Iplxterieures de lui envoyer, fans Delai, les Paflcport^ neceflaires pour que le Plcnipotentiairie 4u Hoi puiilTe fe r«ndre au plutot i fa Deftination. La Qucftion de figncr des Articles Prcliminaircs oil t)ffinitifs dependra neceflaireftient de la Marchc ct dc la journurc de? Negoti^tip^s, aux-qucllcs, il fera , '. , ' apporte ( 5 ) a apportc dc la Part de 4a Grande Brctagne, Ic pcfir le plus nhc^re pour le prompt RetablilTement de \3l rnvj^Kdh (sign^) GRENVILUE. , 4: , a WeftmlnAer, ce 8 Juin 1797. • Z^'- ^ v* - '^ ,:mrt,a\ji^ ' CNo. 3 .) ' ' Tranaation. • ; ' ■ ' ^{^'- ' The Court of London has received, with the gre.atcft Satisfadion, the Affurances of the Difpofi- cions of the Executive Directory to entertain with Eagernefs the pacific Overtures of Great Britain, as well as of it's Defire to re-eftablifh, as foon as poi^ fible. Peace between the Two Powers. 7jHv-ir' ,i; Anxious to contribute to It in every Thing which can depend upon itfelf, the Britilh Government will not delay to fend to Paris, or to fuch other Place, upon the Continent, as may be agreed upon, a Mi*? nifter, to treat and conclude with the Plenipoten- tiary, who Ihall be appointed by the Executive Elj^ reftory. ''•■>- -'^ ^-^piint^^ nn . The Underfigned is direftcd to defire to know the Wiih of the Diredtoryj as to the Place of the Negor tiation, in order that a fpeedy Determination may be taken here upon that Subjed j and to requeft the Minifter for Foreign Affairs to fend him, without Delay, the ncceflary Paffports, to enable the King's •Plenipotentiary to repair immediately to his Defti- nation. The Qucftionoffigning Preliminary or De- ' finitive Articles, will neceffarily depend upon the Progrefs and Turn of the Negotiations, to which, 01^ the Part of Great Britain, will be bropght tht moft fiecerc Defirc for the fpeedy Re-cftabliftimcnt of '"^' .. . :^ ll':^^:?V (Signed) , pRENVILLE.'i ■ "^cftmioftcr, June'8tii, 175?^. ^ " , ^> ■ ■>'^%-^st^- • If,.. (No. ( 6 I (No. 4.) l^Pn^ifh Official Note.— The MinlAer for Foreign . 4P4ulhic :; Jill ir Af airs to Lord Grc^^^ -^ Li Direftoire Executjf de laRepublique Fran^>..''* Tranflation. CH. DElACROiC THBE»ecmlveDireaory oftheFreitchHcpwblick has feen with Satisfadion, by the Official Note of i^ord Grenvilfe, dated June 8th (O. S.), that the Coupt of London fhe ws itfelf difpofed to fet on Foot, ■without Delay, the Negotiation, for which It h^ lately made afr Overture, Filled with the fame Ea»- gernefs, convinced that the Inticntions of theBriti0^ Government are fuch as It defcribcs them, the D»- ye^Vy has dire■*■•■■'■ \ The Executive Dife'ftory has fixed upon theConv- munc of Lifle as the Place of M^ctiog for thiG( jp^focco tivc Plempotentiancs. ''. .; . '. ; (Signed) CH. DJlJLAqRQIX. i Paris,, 23 Prairial. 5th Year ^^^•^.^; >t" ^^'^! - of thi French BLepublick. ^f^C' Hflj/^^ijixu^Jj^ijj^ ^r- (June II, 1797.) -..i:Vi.^,:;!^«l^^ i *k^-:> ^. ^. .ki U.A . Form of Pali^rt. >; -4 \r '^1 »i (No. 5.) ^'Libcrtc, Egalite. ^'^•^^^: Fraternite, UnioiK^; ^v Au Norn de la Republiquc Fran^aifc. A Tous Officiers Civils ct Milit^ires, charges dc maintenir TOrdre public dans Ics difFerens Dcparte- mens de la France, et de faire relpcdler le Nona Frangois chez I'Etranger. ■;,'.'»*» ' y ' :; ; m Laifles paflfer librcment • ' \ . r 1 charge des pkins Pouvolrs de Sa Majejie Brifnrnique, a Peffet de negocier,^ eoncluf^y etjigner un Traite de Patx Definitifet Sep are avec la Republique Fran^aifi, Nattf 'de, ^c, ^£, ^c, -^>;^^-^'T£. m)^.^vf,^h:^''>.f'm- allant U LilU, Department du Nord, Lieu dejigne ponr la Negotiation^ A.. ^ifi-^i fans donner ni foufirirqu'il foit donne aucun Empechemenc Le pref^nt Paffepctrt (era valaWc pour Pecades fculemcnt. ^" Donne k Paris, le 23 Prairidl, I'An 5 de la Re:- publique, Une et Indivifible. Le Miniftrc des Relations Extetieures, (Signc) Q^, PJitACROlX. ;• ^ Farle Miniftre, ■■ .■^'^'^n^^-'y-u^^^^ ^^^, (Signc) T. GUIRAUOET, Ste. Gw. ( 8 ) 'V~'«fc . t ■%* •.1>4 XNo. 5.) . >. Tranilation. r; • Liberty, Equality. •Fraternity, Union, il? 'ii In the Name of the French Republick. To all Officers, Civil and Military,^ charged to maintain public Order in the diferertt Departments of France, and to make the French Name refpe6tcd Abroad. Allow to pafs freely' '' " ''' furnijhedwith the full Powers cf His Britannick Ma- jeHy for the Purpofe of negcciatingj cottclutiing, and Jigning a 'Dtfinitive and Separate Treaty ef Peace with the French Repuhlick, Native of, i^c, ^c. (sFc. f^: _ going to Lilley Department of the North, the Place ap- pointed for the Negdtiatiofjy without giving or fufFeririg any Hindrance to be ^ given to him. This Paflport (hall be in force for . Pecade$ only. ' ■.■:.':y^l'^:,. .&. . ^^ The Minifter Foreign Affairs,,^ ^^vv^^ ^ ., ,,v.^ . (Signed) CH. DEtACRblX., ' By the Minifter, - ; '.^'iSigned) , . T^ GUIRAUPET- , OfficUlNote.— LordGrenvllle tothe'kiniilcf , "; for Foreign Affairs. Xe Souflignc a re^u de la Part du Miniftre des Re- lations Extcrieures de la Republique Francjaifc la Note OfficicUe, avec Je Paflcporte qui y etoit joint. • ^ La Gourde Londrcs acceprc volontiers la Propofi- j tion du Qouvernement Francois par rapport auLicu ' de la Nc'gotiaf ion, et confente a ce que Lille foit de- fignc pour la Reunion des Plenipotentiaries refpeftifs^. v Bien entendu que celui du Roi aura la Faculte d*ex- p^dicr fcs Couriers en droiturc de LilJc a Douvres (No. 6.) ^ ;■ par r^ -f ( 9 ). ^arCalii»; et que les Batimens AnglaiS) deHgne^ pour maintcnir cettc Corhmunicadon, pourront entrer ct fortir libremcnc du Port de Calaisj ec naviguer en fcouteSuretc cntrc cette Ville et Douvres. ., All fujct dc Paflfepof^ le Soultigne le voit oblig6 de remarquer q'le les Termes dans lefquds cet In- ftrument eft redige s'ecartcnt de la Forme ufitee, par ia Defignation particuliere, qui s*y trouve, dt la Na- ture et de r.cttndue des PoUyoirs, ct de la Miflion du Flenipotentiaire du Roi . ■ \ ,. * ' Cettc nouvelle Forme paroit rufceptible d*entraincr fouvent de grands Inconveniens, et, d'apres les Termes dont on s'eft fervi dans k Cas aduel, elle auroit celui cle ne pas repondrC avec Exactitude aux Pouvoirs et a la MilTion du Miniftre doiit il eft queftion. Scs Plcin-Pouvoirs, rediges dans la Forme ordi- naire, embraiTeroient tous les Cas j et en ne lui pre- fcrivaht auciinc Vole de Negonation, lui donneroient la Faculte la plus illimiree de cortdure des Articles ou des Traitcs, foit Preliminaires foit Dcfinitifs, fe- lon qiie cela pourra 1^ m!euX con venir au prompt Retabliflement de la Paix, feul Objet de fa Miflion. Mais la Cour dc Londres ne ticnt nullement a la Conclufion d'un Traite Prciiminaire, et ne donneroic la Preference qu* a tel Moyen, quclqu'il puifle etre, qui fera trouve le plus propre a accelercr la Con- clufion de la Paix. .;!; ,;.*: a^ 4 '":':u X^i:^ *^:i Le JPlenipotentiairc du Rdi fera done egalement rer, et autorize at entrer fans Delai en Negotiation, ur I'un ou Tautre pied ; fur celui d'un Traite Prcii- minaire, ou bicn, fi cela continue ^ etrc le Voeu du DireCloire, d'un Traite Definitif. I*our cequi regarde la Queftion d'un Traite Se- parc i — il n'y auiou auCune ObjeAion a terrtiincr par Un parcil Traite ce qui regarde Ics'Interets rcTpeitifs dc la Frange et de la Grande Bretagne, lelon que ;, cela s*(?ftlor(linairemcnt pratique en pareilCa»: Mais , Ic Roi ne ^ei|t laiffer aucUn Doute fun 6on Intention J de pourvoir^ cc qui eft du auxlnt6rcts dc Sen Alliq ' 'il / c ■ U I kl laReine Tres Fidelle. Et par une fuite cles memei Principes, Sa Majefte ne refufera pas d'cntrcr en tcllcs Explication par rapport aux Interets de I'Ef- pagne et de la Hollande, qui pourroient par6itre ne- ceffaires au RetabliiTfemcnt de la Paix. ' . • Apres cette Explication franche et preclfe, Ic Gouvernement Britannique fe perfuade que le Di- redloire ne nrdera pas de Lui faire parvcnir un Paf- feport pour le Plenipotentiaire Britannique et fa Suite, dans la Forme ufitee, et tel qu'il a etc envoyc nu Mois d'Oftobre dernier pour la Million dont Lord Malmefbury etoit charge alors. . ' ^r^'>-^* \- Dan& cette Attente, et pour eviter tout 'D^lal, Sa Majefte a deja fait Choix du meme Miniftre pour La reprcfentcr dans cette Occafion importante : — Et Ic Soufllgne eft charge de demamler a quel Jour le Plenipotentiaire Fran^ais pourra etre rendu a Lille j — a fin que le Lord Malmfbury puiffe y arriver a la . meme Epoque. > '^'^^^''* .'-^^->^^;^>' .U..V . .... u (sign^) GRENVILLE. a Weftroinfter, ce 17 Juin 1797 -Tt i ■i'iii: \r (No. 6.) 1. JV . ' "lit •%«! Tranilatioi 1. h 1:0: ' The Underfigned has received from the Miniller for Foreign Affairs of the French Rcpublick his Offi- cial Note, with the Paflfport which accompanied iti ^ -*' The Court of London willingly accepts the Pro- pofal of the French GoverujTient with refpedt to the Place of Negotiation, and confents that Liflc fhall be appointed as the Place of Meeting for the refpeftiVc Plenipotentiaries : — It being always underftood, that the King^s Plenipotentiary mall have Liberty to dif- patch his Couriers dirciftiy from liflc to Dover, by Way of Calais , and that the Eriglilh Veffcls, ap- pointed for keeping up thisX!)oihmunication, ihall W allowed freely' to go into, and come out o^ thePbrt cf Calais, and to pafs- in perfect Safety between chat fCity and Dover. i^MK^i^ v: ^ - ..... -^ With ■i ■•_ .: • . ■ i; > en 'Ef- ne- " With relpeft to the PaiTport, the Underfigncd 6nds himfclf under the Neceflity of remarkirig that the Terms in which this Inftrument is drawn up, diFcr from the ufual Form, by the particular Dc- fcription, which is infertcd in them, of the Nature and Extent of the Powers, and of the Miflion of the King's Plenipotentiary, J >r-T ' »■ •' ytj / ■ ah This new Form appears liable to produce, in many Inftances, confiderable Inconveniences ; and, according to the Terms ufed in this particular In- (lance, it would have the Difadvantage of not an * fwcring exa'Uy to the Po\yers anel the Miflion qf the Miniller inqucftion. ^"t V- His full Powers, drawn up in the ufual Form, will include every Cafe ; and without prefcribing to him any particular Mode of Negotiation, will give him the mqft unlimited Authority to conclude any Ar- ticles or Treaties, whether Preliminary or Definitive, as might bcft conduce to the fpeedy Re-eftablifhment of Peace, which is the fole Objed of his Milfion. ' But the Court of London does not by any Means rnake a Point of concluding a Preliminary Treaty, and would prefer only that Mode, whatever it may be, which (hall be found the belt calculated to acce- lerate the Conclufion of Peace. The King's Plenipotentiary then will be equally ready, and authorized to begin the Negotiation with- out ^Delay, upon either footing; upon the footing of a Preliminary Treaty— or fliould fuch continue to be the Wi(h of the Direftory, upon that of a Definitive Treaty. ^ v—/"*^':''* ''!!** ^k*" :*_ As to what regards the (^ellion of a fcparate Treaty-— there would be no Obje6tion to fettling* by a Treaty of this Kind, whatever relates to the re- fpeftive Interr.Iis of France and of Great Britain, as has been ufually the Pra6Hce in fimilar Cafes : But the King can not allow any Doubt to fubfift as to His Intention of providing for what is due to the Interefts of His Ally Her Moll Faithf J Majcfly. And in f ■«j ( »» ) t ' purfuancc of the fame Principles, His Majefty will nbt rcfufc to enter into fuch Explanations with rcfpedl: to the Intcrcfts of Spain and Holland as may appear neccffary for the Re-e(labli(hment of Pe.icc. After this frank and prccife Explanation, the Bri- tilh Government is perluaded that the Direftory will not delay to tranfmit to them a Paflport for the Bri- tifli Plenipotentiary and his Suite, in the ufual Form, and liich as was fent in the Month of October I'sft for the Miffion with with Lord Malmefbu: was then charged. In this Expeftation, and for the Sajce of avoiding all Delay, His Majefty has already made Choice of the fame Minifter to reprefent Him on this important Occafion. And the Underfigned is charged to en^- quire on what.Day the French Plenipotentiary will be at Lifle, in order that Lord Malmefbury may arrive there at the fame Time, (Signed) GRENVJLLE, Weftmiriftcr, June 17, 1797, v, . " vy '^^Vh-at ' (No/;.) Official I^ote.-wThe Minifter for Foreign Affairs to Lord Granville, Le Soiiflfigne Minlftre de Relations Exterieure? a mis, au0itQt fa Reception, fous les yeux da Direc- toire Exccutif, ]a Note Officjelle que lui a adreflee le Lord Grenville, en Date du 17 Juin 1797 (v. ft.), II s'empreflTe d'y repondre conformement aqx Ordre? qu'il a re^us. Lc Direftoire, partageant bien finc^rement le/ Sentimens pacifiques que temoigne Sa Majeftc Bn- tannique, ^c voulant amener le plus promptement poffible Negotiation? a une heureufe Iffue, pctfifte a demandcr que les Negociateurs refpeftifs s'occypcnt, auffitof leur Reunion, d'un Traite Dcfinitif. II ac- cepte avec Satisfaction le Confentement da Sa M^efte Britannique a cct cgard, cxprime d^ns la Not? du J-orcl Grenville, / * )-.'. • -'. t ( 13 ) nt a ♦ t« •. •% L^ be lu * '^ » - Lc Dircftoire confcnt ^ ce que Sa Majeft^ Britan*- "^ / niquc fanfe, par Son Plenipotentiairc, Ics propofi- tions ou Stipulations, qu'il jugera convcnables, pour Sa Majeftc Tr^s Fidelej comme rcciproquemcnt les Plcnipotentiaires de la Republique en fcroni: Eour fes Allies Sa Majefte Catholique ct la RepUf^ lique Batave. " ^ ^ :' " Le Direiloire. confent a ce que la Negociation foit ouvertc avec le Lord Malmelbury; cependanc un autre Choix Llii cut paru d'un plus heureux Au- gurc pour Ja prompte Conclufion de la Paix. - Le Diredloire demande qu'il foit etabli en Principe, que chaque Paquebot Anglais, qui aura tranfportc lc Plenipotentiairc ou un Courrier, rcpartira fur le Champ et ne pourra Icjourncr. II donera dcs Ordrcs pour qu'iii Ipit fourni lans Delai un Paquebot Frah- igaisa chacun des Courriers, que lc Plenijjotentiaire de Sa Majeftc Britannique cxpediera. II defirc toutefois que les Courriers ne loient pas trop mul- tiplies j leur Multiplication ayant etc une dcs prin- . cipales Caufes de la Rupture des Ncgociations pre- cedentcs. ^ D'aprcs les explacations ci-delTus, il devient in-' utile de tranfmettre au Lord Grenville un nouveau PaflTeportj les Rcftridrons, qu'il craignoit de voir dans celiii qui lui a etc adrelfe, fe trouvant entierc- :• ment levees. Les Plcnipotentiaires Francjais feront rendus h, Lille a I'Epoque oia" lc Lord Malmefbury pourra y , istre rendu lui meme. (Signe) CH. DELACROIX. Paris, le 2 MeiTidor, ' 1 / . (No. 7.) Txanflation, The und^rfigncd Minifter for Foreign AiFairshai laid before the Dire<5tory, immcdiatsly upon its Receipt, the Official Note addrcfied to him by Lord ^ GrciiviUc, 4ftt€d }m^ J7t 1797 (0. S.) He lofe$ ■ T w »o Time in replying to it, according to the Orders which he has received. ;.-* The Dircdlory, partaking moft finccrely in the paciBc Sentiments which His Britannick Majefty announces, and wifhing to bring the Negotiations as quickly as poflible to a happy iflbc, pcrfifls in re- quiring that the refpeflivc Plenipotentiaries Ihall begin immediately upon their Meeting to treat of a Definitive Trcary. The Dirc<5lory accepts, with Satisfadion, the Confent of His Britannick Majefty upon this Subjcft, expreffed in the Note of Lord Grenville, The Direflory confcnts that His Britannick Ma- jefty fhall make, by His Plenipotentiary, luch Pro- pofals or Stipulations as He Ihall think proper for Her Moft Faithful Majefty, as in return the Pleni^ potentiaries of the Republick will do for their Allies his Catholic Majefty and the Batavian Re-» publick. The Direftory confents that the Negotiation ftiaU be opened with Lord MalmeflDury. Another Choice would, however, have appeared to the ,Diic6toiy to augur more favourably for the fpeedy Conciufion o'f Peace. ' '-■'* ■ ■^ The Dire6lory requires that it ftiall be eftabliftied as a Principle, that each Englifti Pcsckct Boat, which ihA\ have brought over either the' Plenipotentiary Or a Courier, ftiall return without Delay, and ftiall not be allowed to make any Sc ty. Tlic Diredto.y will give Orders that a Frencii Packet Boat ftiall bc' furnifhed, witnou^ Delay, to each of the Couiiers whom the Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Ma- jefty ftiall difpatch. The Direftorv di fues, at the fame Time, that the Couriers ftiould not be fcnt too frequently J the frequent fending of them having been one of the principal Caulcs of the Rupture of the forjiier Negotiation. After the above Explanation, it becomes tinnecef- fary to tiranfmit to Lord Grenville a new PafFport; the ijr 'ti ■'( 15 ) rr..-i. tSc Reftri(5fcions which he apprehended were to ht found in that which has been addreffed to him, being entirely done away. The French Plenipotentiaries will have arrived at Lifle by the Time at which Lord Maltnclbury can himfclf be there. ^' . - (Signed) CH. DELACROIX. Paris, 2 Mcffidor. (June 20, 1797.) . . „ j (No. 8.) ;f Official Note.— Lord Grenville to the *^4 ^r.f. Minifter for Foreign Affairs. - Le Soufllgne a rnis fous* les yeux du Roi la Note Officielle du Gouvcrnement Francois qu'il a rc^u le 2j du Mois courant. Si'r les Deux premiers Articles de cette Note les Deux Parties font d'accord. II n'y a done rien ti, BJouter la dcflus aux Explications pr^cedentes j en confequence defquelles Explications, le Lord Malnfief- bury proccdcra fans Delai a Lille, pour entrcr eA Negotiation avec les Plenipotentlaires Fran<;ois, pou^ la Confedion d'un Traite Definitif. La Remarque, du Diredoirc fur le Choix que Sa Majefte a juge : k propos dc. faire de Son Pienipotentiairc n'ctant ' ccrtainement de Nature a exiger ai?cune Reponfei/,. Lc GoiiVerh'ement Britannique confent ^ I'Ar-j rangement propofe pour les Paquebotsj pourvil qu'il foil fourni rcgulierement, ct fans le moijidrc Delai un Paquebot Francois pour chaque Courier , <)ue le P16nipotentiaire Britannique fe vcrra dans lc casd'expcdicr: L'Exercice de (on Droit incontefta-iv ble ^ cet cgard ne devant et he pouvant etre /eglcc^ :" que par fa Difcretion feule, dans la vue d'amener li ^^ Negotiation dont il eft charge 3 unc promptc ci heureufe fin. Pour ce qui eft de la Rupture de la derniere Negotiation j its Circonftanccs ct les Motifs en fortl connus k toute I'Europc ; ct ce n'cft pas au Moment d'entaiiier une nouvcJic Difcuffion pacifiquc, que Id J ' ''I i' I li'J 1,1* gouvcfnement Brlcannique pcrtfequ'il peut ctrtf utiltf de les rappcUcn Le Lord Malmefbury partira dc Londres Ic ?o ce Moispour fe.reftdrc de fuitc k Calais; d'ou il rcglera ion Depart felon la Notification qu'il y rc^cvri dii Jour ou Ics Minlftrcs Francois poUnont etre rtndus aLille..,,^,._,^, ■ V * p » rSignc) GRENVILLE. ' I \/cftminftcr, ce 26 Juin tjgy. y ^ . ., , , ^ , , , .^ (No. 8.) •* ' Tranflation* ' ' ' • The Undcrfigned has laid before the King the Official Note of the French Govrtrnmcnt, Which he received the 23d of the prefent Month. ' .rjO As to the Two firft Articles of this Note both Par-* tics are agreed. On this Point therefoie there i$ nothing to be added to the Explanations already given; in confeqiience of which Explanations Lord Malmelbury will, without Delay, proceed to Lide to enter into a Negociation with the French Pieni-" potentiaries for the Completion of a Definitive Treaty. The Remark of the Dire6tory upon the Choice which His Majcfty has thought fit to make of His Plenipotentiary, being certainly of a Nature not to require an Anlwer. The Britilh Government agrees to the Arrangc- mei t propofed for the Packet Boats j provided that a French Packet Boat fhall be fumiflied regularly, and without the leaft Delay, for each Courier which the Britifti Plenipotentiary fliall find It neceffaay to difpatch : The Excrcife of his inconteftable Right in this Refpeotentiaire de Sa Majcfte Britanniquc y feia rendu. I k etc pourvu ^ ce que les P.iquebots ne manquaflfent ' jamais aux Courriers qu'il jugcra a propos d'expedier *&Londres. ' ,' ' Le Soufligne previent cgaiiement le Lord Grenville * qti^unc Copie de la prefentc Note fera remilc au Lord *:Malmc{bury, k fjii Arri^dc a Calais, i fin que ricn ' ne s'oppofe si ion Depart immediat pour Lille. (Signc) CH. DELACRODC. ^.11 Paris, le 1 1 Meffidpr« An. 5. r^ (Note 9.) " Tranflation. The under^ncd Minifter for Foreign Affairs loft no Time in laying before the Executive Directory the Official Note addrcffed to him by Lord Grenville, dcted the 21ft June (O. S.) 8th of the prcfcnt Month McflTidor. D . In I ,/■ t! ■%;i^ C '8 ) \V in AnlWc to this Note, he has the Honor to de- clare to Lord Grenville, that the Plenipotentiaries charged by the Direftory with the Negotiation, are alrea;_-<^t4*iei4„^'.v,^^' ^Avm c had this Morning my firft Conference "^th the French Plenipotentiaries, and having mutu- ally exchanged our full Powers, I think it my Duty to difpach a Meflenger, in order that his Majetty may ' ha^c the earKcft Information of this Circumftance, My Difpatdi however mtift be confined to this alone« as nothing Whatever has yet paiTed relative tQ the • ^Ne^tiatidn itfcl^- a- ^ -^ ■ ^ ■ " r ' ' ■#'^' (No. II.) ■ Copy ot *the fiill Powers of Uie IVInch id); ^ ^l^lenipotentiaries. ■%::'".'*/-■', Efgalith Liberte, '^ \ Extrcut des Segifiri^s d^s tclibcratidns du Dirc6loire Exccutif^ ^ ,; ^ . *4 Paris, le Trente Prairlal, Pan cihd dela Republirjue ••^'* F^aii9orfe, Uneetlndiviflble. Le Direftoire Exccutif, apres avoir oui le Rapport * *du Miniftrc des Relations Extcricurcs, arretc cc qui fuit. '- ■ ' .*^' Leg % Lcs Citoyens Letourncur, ci-devant Membrc du birc6lpire Executif, Pleville le Pellcy, et Maret, font autorifes ^ negocier avec Ic Minift.i;e Plenipo- tentiaire de Sa Majefte Britannique Ic Traitc de PaiJ^ a conclure cntre la Republique Fran^aifc et la Grande Bretagne. Lc Diredoire Icur donne les Plein-pou- voirs neceflaires pour arrcter et figner lcs Articles du Traite a intcrvcnir. lU ic conformcront aux In- ftrudions qui leur ont et6, ou leur fcrqnt, donnces par le Diredtoire ^xecutif, auquel ils rcndront Gomte des Progres et de rifllie des Ncgoeiarions. ^ - i]^ ^ lis font egal^ment autorifes, et fous lcs mcmcs Condition^^ a ftipujer pour les AHics dc la Rcpuh- lique^ Sa ^ajefte Catholique et U I^epyb^que Gar tavc. Lc pitoycn Colchen, nomme Secretaire General de la Legation Fran^aife, eft autorilc a al^fter aux C'^nferences pourdonner les Renfeignemens qui lui feront dcmandes, et prendre Note de ce qui fera conrenii ct arret6. ^ 'v . Lc prefent Arret^lre fera imprimc quant a prefent. Pour Expedition confornie, Dc Prcfident du Difcdtoire Executif, Par le Pircdboire Executif de Secretaire General, -^. -^M};^^ ,..,^^^j'i.,.,, ■-- V^LAGARDE. (No. ii.y -"'^^^tnmhoC'^'^'- ••' ■'''"^'' Liberty, 4 ^^ Equality, pxtraft from the Regifters of the Deliberations of jJie Executive Diredory, ■ -^ (*! w ; Pari* the 30th Pr^^irial, 5 th Yea. of the French Re- publiiik. One and Indtvifible. The Executive Directory, after having heard the Report of the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, decrees as toUows '. The Citizens ^^ctourncur, heretofore Member of the Executive Directory, Pleville ic Pellcy, and . ■ . - ' ■•,^-^;', ,t';>-;,*i' Marct, ^f r i'-' * I ( " ) „\.-\-,t,^.' t .,.-..., Maret,, are, aut;li6rizTfd to negotiate with the MIniftcr otcnti^ry of His Britannick Majefty, the Treaty pf Peace to be concluded between the French R^p^blick and Great Britaiiil , , The Diredory gives tbemthe neceflary (nli JPowe^rs for agreeing upon and.l^ingthe Articles of the Treaty to be made. Tjj^y , iHaJl , conform themiel ves to the Inftrudions which have been, or ihall be, given to them by the Exf,cptiye Dirc<5lory, to' whom they fhalV render an Account of the trogr^fs and the I flue of the Nego- •Tf^ey arc cq^ajly authbrlzecj, and under th': fame ^pfiditip^s, to ftipulate for the Allies of the Rcpub- U^k,, His Catholick Majefty and the Batavian Re- The Citizen Colchen, appointed Secretary General to the Frci^ch I-egation, is authorized to affift at the Conferences, to afford the Information which Ihall be required of him, and to take a Note of what (hall be agreed upon and fettled. The prcfentpecree, Ihall not be printed for the A true Copy, "^"':! - .*di T^c Prefident of the Executive Directory, .d^^^-h\ r,,HWt-'vSvM-: ^.f ? ■ CARNOT. r^ ^0 bi^^ 6y the Executive Direftory, hff Dj 6he ,vji. ^0303^ the Secretary General, >hn dauopt) boo^ <,d biuq^r J ■ .■ LAGARDE. (i^o. I a.) Extrafts of aDifpatch f-om Lord Malmibury to V . . I*or4,Q«nvillc, datedLifle, July II, I797. I HAD the Hbhor in my laft, by Brooks, of the 6th inftant, to inform you^ Lordfhip of my Arrival here, of thn Manner in which I had been received, and of my having, in the ufual Form, exchange^ my full Powers with the French Plenipotentiaries. ""^ On Friday the 7 th at Noon we held our SccQ/)d Confrrcnce. • /^ ;v; I opened it; -A •i ( 21 ) ^■ r e h s n m 1 opened this Second Conference with the French Plenipotentiaries, by faying, that I myfelf had no Obfervations to make on their full Powers, which appealed to be conformable to thofe ufually given by the Directory to their Plenipotentiaries, and of tourfc muft bt* coniidcred as fufficierit for the Pufpofes ex^ preffed in them ; that I, however, had tranfmitted them by a Meffengcr to my Court, and refrrved to myfcll the' Right of communicating any Objtftbns or Remarks which I might receive by the Re ^ jirh of my Meflenger, relative to thenti ^l?^t^% ^ii'''iiffi^ M. le Tourneur, to which, as Prefident of; the Commiflion, I, addreffed myfelf, replied, that' Wy had taken precifely the, lame. Steps' as b^ftlfjthkt they conlidered the full Powers I hhd given in, as in due Form, and fuflicient j but that they alfo referved to themfelves the fame Right, in regard to iriftruc- tions they might receive from the Direftbrj^'oh'this Subjed, as I had claimed in regard to my Courti"^*i^ To this, of courle, I aftcnted. ': ;'M^^'^': ^f\l^- ; On Saturday the 8th inftant \ gaW !h ffie Tr(^et precifely as I had received it from ybur lioMfhip ; a Copy of which (A), as it is tranflated into FrCifeh, I think it my Duty to inclofe. , ^; One of the French Plenipotenfidries ' pidpoick that fome Time Ihould be given them.to take the Pro- pofals I had made into Confidcratlon> aod begged of me merely for the Sake of Accuracy, and to help their Memory, that I would be good enough either to let M. Colchen put down on Paper, or myfelf fend them a Note containing,,tl>e Words w^th which I wilhcd the Articles left in Blank to be fiUeci up. I readily acquiefccd in the latter Mp4e, and immediate- ly on my Return fent them the ihclbfed Note (B). * On Sunday Evening I received the incloftd Note (C) from the French Plenipotentiaries, and in con- fequence of it went to the jpropofcd Coniference ..ycfterday. i Mi ( " ) One of the French Plenipotentiaries Informed me on the Subject of the Projet I had given them, and the Note with which I had accompanied it, that as thefc Papers contain many Points on which their Inftruc- tibns did not enable them to anfwer, they had, after having given them a very fcrious Attention, fent them, with fuch Obfervations as they had thought it their Duty to make on them, to the Diredory, and that the Moment they received an Anfwer, they would communicate it to me. But that in the mean- while, not to delay the Progrefs of the Negotiation, they wifhed that feveral Points which he termed in- filiated, but which, though not referred to in our Prbjet, were, he faid, infeparably connedled with the general Subjeft of Peace, might be difcuffed and got rid of now if 1 had n6 Obje6tion, and that it was wi;.h this View they had requefted me to meet them. — On my not expreffing any Difapprohation tc- this Modp ^f Proceeding, One of the French Plentpotentaries be- gan, by laying, that in the Preamble of th^ Treaty 'the Tide of King of France was ufed i that this Title they contended could no longer be infifted on, the Abolition of it was in a Manner cffential to the full Acknowledgment of the French Republick, and that as it was merely tituhr, as far as related to His Ma- jefty, but quite otherwife in the Senfe in which it ap- plied to them, he hoped it would not be confidered ' as an important Conceflion. ^ , ^. I informed him, that on all former Occafions a fe- ' parate Article had been agreed to, which appeared to me to anfwer every Purpofe they required, and which it was my Intention, as the Treaty advanced, to have propofed, as proper to make Part of this. The Article (the Firfl- of the leparate ones in the Treaty of 1783) was then read} but they objeded to it, as -not fully meeting their Views. It was to ' the Title itfelf, as well ^s iQ any Right which might be fuppofed to arife from it, that they objeded. I ^ could fcarce allow myfelf to treat tlvs mode of rea- foning ( i3 ) foning ferioufly. I endeavoured to make them feel that It was cavillitig for a mere word -, that it was creating Difficulties where nont exiftcd ; and that if all the French Monarchs in the Courfe of Three Centuries had allowed this to fland in the Preamble of all Treaties and Tranra(Stions between the Two Countries, I could not conceive, after its having been ufed for fo long a Period without any Claim or Pre- tention being fet forth in confequcnce of it, ho>y it could now affeft either the Dignity, Security, or Im- portance of the Republick— that in Fa6t ^« :h Titles have ever been confidered as indefeafaoic, and as Memorials and Records of former Greatnefs, and not as Pretenfions to prefent Power — and I quoted the Titles of the Kings of Sardinia and Naples, &c. as Examples cxaftly in point. I argued however in vain. They treated it very gravely, and made fo ftrong a Stand upon it, that I could not avoid taking it for Reference, which I thought it better to do, than feeling as I did at the Moment, to puih theCon- •verlation Srther. . '" Vv^ :• • r'^n ,i ^■■^'The Second in&lated Point was a very material one indeed, and which, although it. has been advert- ed to as a Propofal that might poffibly be brought forward, I contefs came upon me unexpeftedly.—- It was to a(k either a Reftitution of the Ships taken and deftroyed at Toulon, or an Equivalent for them. They grounded this Claim on the Preliminary De- ' claration made by Lord Hood on his taking Poffcf- fion of Toulon j and on the Eighth Article of the Declaration of the Committee of the Seftions to him. They faid. Peace they hoped was about to be re- 'cftablifhedj that His Majefty, in acknowledging the Republic, admitted that a Sovereignto exifted in the ■'French Government } and of courfe that the Ships, 'held only a as Depofit by England till this legal Au- "•thority was admitted, ought now to be rcftored. I ^'replied that this Claim was fo perfeftly unlocked for, ^that it was impoflible for me to have been provided '^i' ^5i ':'*' ( H ) '::J.' I J ! ■ j: ii I!: 'ir- Al fbi* It inf'rrjy lnftru6liohs, and thzt I cbuW ihtrefore only convey my own private Sentiments on it, which were, that they could oot have deyifed a Step more likely to defeat the great End of our MiHSon* 0»e of the French Plenipofentariss faid» that he iincerely Jioped not j that without a Reftitutipn of. the Ships, an Equivalent might be found to effeft the Purpofe defired, fince their great Objeift was, that fomething /hould appear to prove that this juft Demand had not been overlooked by them, and was npt left unfatis- Jcd by us. I told htm ifairly, I did not fee where this Equivalent was to be found, or how it could be ap- -oreciated; and that confidering the great Advanuges -Fjrancc had already obtained by the Warv^nd thofe ;fljc w^s likely to obtain irom;theA6t of Condefcen- 4onf I had already intimated Hi^ Majcfty was difpofcd to make in order to reftorc Peace, Ij w^( ipuch fur- ^prjzed, and deeply concerned at what I JKeard- I ,tnifted> therefore, that this, very inadn^ilTible Pro- .pofai Would be withdrawn. Xl»cy faid it.fWas npt in their Power ; and One of them, from a written Paper f before him, which he faid were his Inftruftions, read .to me Words to the Efleft I have already ftaled. i^ir;Their Third Queftion was as to any Mortgage we "•might have uptta theHowCoitntritfsVin -•. :i:i ^ - t ^5 i . ' tli'at ; if no Eici^ption Was ftat^d ih 'tW Fiirft Infta^i^c libne could be itiide with a Wtho-a'dif^t Effcft. ' * '> 'The French PUpnipotfentiarie^, Iibv«^<^Ver, wefi&^'lil tenacious bn tMs Poinr as tixi he other Two j ahcTas I foun^d'to every ArgtiVnent I ufcd tfiat they cohftantly oppofed thetr rhftruftibns, I had nothing t6 do but to defit^e that thfcy Would give me a writren P per {fating th^ Thfte* Claitti^, in order that Imijrht inj-. mediately tranfmit it to yOUr LOJ-dfliip, and oh th^il being promiftd, but Confcfencc broke up. .' ' ■ Between F(iur ^nd' Five P. M.' Yerferdayrt^rljti ceived the cnclofed Note (D), and I have loft h6 Time finee it is in my Pofliflion in pt^paring -;"'^; ^'^s i^^-'p'^ '"••';! i;oyA.Sm <>t (No. 13. A4JV fb' Projetd^JiA^tdbyLordMalmefbtirytothiB' .iU'^ ■>")' . FreraA iPlempotentiaties in tfecir Cw-, '■mn^^.ki iBtll-l: f^'^eo"' Ny^.8^^' »797v,rmKknu/>nl SoiT not6tre a tbus ceuk qU*il appartiendri Oil pent appaftenif ch Martierc cjuelconque. Le Sbfe- nlffiftie et fr^^poiMnt Prite Geotge Trois, p^r la^ (jTatedeDieU,Roidela'*GfahdcBrefegne, de Frant^/ ct d'lrUnde, Due de BtonfVit et de Lunebourg,' Archi Trefbrier el Elicaeirtdu'Saint Empire Romain, &c. ct le DireAoire Exiectrtif de'' Ik RepUbKqdti' Franc^fe, defir&fit egalerfieilt d€ 'ftire c^Aei* lar '* , E v:^ Guerre •i • 1 II ■'III; iif! ( »6 ) Etacs rfifpedUj^.pnt Qq>9uiie «^( i^on^itue pour leurs Plenipocenti(Mf^f(,4cb^raie$ de condMix, ct Hgner le Tr^i^ de PaJK DeBniuf ; fcavoir, .>sl Maj^ ft| le. Roi de; la Qrande Bretagnc, lejLord Baron de MatipeT-^ bury,. Pair du Royaume de la Grande Brccagne, Che- valier dutres Honorabie Qrdre.du Bain, Conreiller Wiv6 A6buelde Sa Majeftc*^ et !« Direffcoire Exe- CUtiCjie ]§ Rep^bliquc Frangoifc \ \; - ,: ! , '- l^^lj^^U apr^$ swoir ^fhangc Icurs Plcin- pouvpirSi r^^^i, foiit cojAvcnus jdcs Articles fui*^ vans;:-; int;t).r.. i>j im.^-g^^h ...y- Va-' -iii w* I. AuTitot que ce Traite fera figne et ratme, il y ^aura une P4W,uniyerfellc ct^cmctuejle, untrpar Mcr que par Tcrre» et une Amitie fincepc rt conldtote entre les ]~)eux Parties Contra£i:antes, leurs ctacs» Terriitoire^ ,et Peuples, fans Exception de Lieux ni de Perfonnes, en forte que les, Hautes Parties Cpn- tra6lantes apporceront la plm grat^^^ Attenl;ion k maintenir entrc JEllcs, leurs dits ctais, Territplrcs^ et Peuples, cctte Amitie et Corrcfpondance reci- proquc, fans permettre dorcnavant, que de tart ni d'autre, on commettc aucune Sorte d'Hpftilites, par Mer qu par Terre, pour quelqi^c; Caufe, pu fous quclque Prctextc que ce puiflc etre. II y aura un Oubiiet Amniftie generale de tout ce qui a pu etrc fait pu cpnimis de Part pad'agtre avant pudepuls le Cprtimencemcnt de la Guerre j et pn evitera fpig- neuftnienc tput ce qui ppurrpit altcrcr i Tavenir rUnionhcureufementretablie. . ,. j # D'abordapr^s I'echange des Ratificatipns de Ue^u\Trau4? de jPaix 4c NirVitgue de 1678 et i(fiijiv de Kyfiyick de 1^97^ et .c^'lt/.trcchc de 17 13 5 a.i. - . : _L ' ■'- '. ■ cclui ■*■ i *X .V ,]'l- l,i!'' lelui de Badedc'i/rXi cdiHdfck THple Alliance dt 14 Haye dfe t*ftfi teliiidth Qii«dniple Alliance dib ronavei;,de i^'^iii'le'Traitf de Piix dc Vicnncdfc 173811 JfcfMtcDefihififd'AixlaChat^dlc de i*748l,- Ic Tiait^ i!)e£(mtifdc Paris dc f^6i ; et Celui de Vei^- faplcs dit 1 7^3ft ferteht dc Baft tt' de Fondement I la ^^ik, etiti*t)ri. , .. i^l-^.r. .rv:>.:.,/ ■ "'IV. A regard du Dfoit de Peche fur les Cotes de L*Ifle de I'erre Ncuve, et des Ifles adjacentes, et dans le Golf St, Laurent, les Deux Parties feront re-, mifcs dans la m^me Situation ouElles ie trouvoient relpc6livcraent d'apr^s les Traitcs et Engagemens fubfiftans I l*£poque du Commencement de la Guerre. Etdanscette Vue, Sa Majeftc confent de reftituer i la France en toute Propriete les Ifles de ' St. Pierre et Nfiquclon. ''^'*^''*^*';' V. Le m6me Principe du Status antt Bellum efl: adopts du Confcntement afluel des Deux Parties^ \ E a regard ■|. : »i -r/i' .'(^I't'ii; lijl' l| ! m m m if m • J as 1 ■ regard, de toiit€s leiirs Ppflfcflions ct Droks refpcdjfjt duns toutes Ics Parties dp Monde j /kuflcs ExceptionB qui fcront (lipulee^ par les Articles fuivants du Traitc aftucl. Et dans cette Inten ion toutes les Pofleflions ouTerritoires que Tune ilcs Parti-es Coiitradantes pourroit avoir conqiiis ou pourroit conquerir fur I'autre (e.t qui ne fcront p^s fpecialcmcnt exceptcs dans ce Traitc), feront rendiis a celle des Deux Par- ties a qui ils apparcenoie'nt au'Coaimcnccment dc U Guerre aftuelle. V|. Les Pcux Parties font convenus d'ca^cepter dp ce Principe dc Rcftitution recipr oque ' •; 7r.'^i .A * ^ • X *J?^; qui reftera en toutc Pfoprtetc. ^ Sa Majefte Britannique. . 7.',v4 * YII. Dans tous les Cas de Reftitution ftipiile^ pajr le prefcnt Tmite, les Fortereffcs fcront renducs daris le meme etat.ou tiles fe trouyent adtutllement," et )1 ne icra fait aucun Dogirua^':e aqx Ouvrnges qui a\ironc etc copftrnits d puis leur Conquett. .. VIII. II eft aufli conyenu, que dans chaque Cas de Reftitution ou de Ceflion ftipule par un Article que^- conquc du prefent Traite, il fera accorde un Efpace de Trois Ans, a dater de la Notification du Traitf, dans rEndroit ou Territoire rcfpettlvenpient reftiti^e ou Cede, aux Perfonnes de quelqoe Defcription que ce fpit;. Habitants du dit ^ndroit ou Territoire, oii Poflcfleurs de Propricteij eri Vcrtu d'un Titre quel- conque reconnii cpiume valabtc avant la Guerre, ou qui leur feront devolves depui^ d'apres ks Loix qui exiftaient alois ; duraijit Icquel ECpace de Trois Ans iis pourront reftcr et demeurer danat le libre Exercice de IcVjT IjLel^gion^ et dans 1^ Jpui^ance de leurs Pof- ieflions et Effet? aux in^nocs Conditions et en verjcu des rhefpes Tit;res fous le^uek ils en font devenus Po^e%urs, fans.ctre cxpofes en aucune Maniere, qi fous aucupe Prctextc, a etre p'purfuivis ou traduitsen jfuftice ^caufe de leur Coridu|te paflec^ except? pour la Decharge 4^, p.ettes juftes^ tp contra^ees envers ,dcs Par^c\i}i^C5 K ^^ ^^ ^°^ ^^"x qui dansrE^aci? tni.Wi . :■■■ - - • • <^C r' 'J dc. 'v -t Mois apres la Notification de cc Tiaitc dc- 'clarcront au Gouverncmcnt, qui fcra alors ^tablj^^ Icur Intention de fe rctirer cux ou Icurs EfFcts, ctdc fc rcndrc ailleurs, auront et obticndrbnt fous k De* lai d'Un Mois apres telle Declaration, pleine Libertc de partir, et de retirer Icurs Effets,\ ou dc les vtndrc ct aliener tant leurs Biens meubles qu' immeubksV en tout Terns pendant le dit Efpacc de'Trois Ans, fans Empechement ou Contrainte, exceptc i caufc des Dfettts qu'ils auront pu contrader, ou dans 7c Cas d'une Pourfuite criminelle pour dcs Fairs com- mis pofteiieurcment ^ la Notifi'cation du pic(ent 'Traiie . ' IX. Comme il eft neccfTairc d'afUgner une E- pqque pour les Reftitutions cy defllis (lipulces, i] eft convenu qu'ellcs au.ont Lieu eji Europe dans 'I'Efpace d'un Mois, en Afrique et en Amerique dans trois Mois, et en Afie dans Six Mois apres la 'Ratification du preicnt Traitc. X- Pour emp^cher le Rcnouvellement dcs Pro- ems qui ont etc termines dans les Territoircs a reili- 'tuer en vertu de ce Tjaite, il eft convenu que les Jugemens rcndus en dernier ReiTorr, iur les Proces cntre Partic^liers et qui ont acquis Force de Chofes jugecs, feront maintenvs ct cxeci^tes fuivant Icur ;_ F orme et Tencur. ^'^- \:-:'r^ ';^:y'"; '.: .j^h^^-^f^ ^ ■' XI. La Decifion des Prifes et des. Saifies de Vaif- feaux a'i'-ec leur Cargaiiofis pris en pleine Mcr, ou ' arretes dans, les. l*oi ts de Tunion «u de I'au' re Fays, 4ntericurement aux Hoftilitcs, fera remilc aux Cours de Juftice refpeflives; de forte que la Vahdite des "dites Priles et Saifies fera decidee ft Ion le Droit des Gens et les Traitcs dans les Cours de Juftice de h Nation qui aura fait la Capture, ou comrnandc les "Saifies. Et pour pre veniVtous Ks Sujets de Piaintc *^tde Cpnteftation qui pourroient naitrc a I'Occafion des Priles qui pourroient etre faitcs en Mer depuis la 'Signature du Traite aduel, on eii convenu rccipro- .quennmt que les Vaiffeaux ct Effets qui pourroiei^t ctrc> ■■A'( i r io ) re pris dam UManche ou M fans aucune Exception ni autre Piltih^tipn plus particuliere deXems et de Lieu. ' i, , ,/;i^, ^r* ,. XII. Les Ames des Deux Parties contractantes, icayj^ir^ Sa Majcftc Trcs Fidelle comme Allje 4.^, Sa Wajcfte Britannique, ct Sa Majcftc Catholiqiie et )a fepubliquc Batavc comme AUics de la RcpybUqujc ran^aife, fcront invitees par les Deux PaiticsCo;\- , jtratlajjites a acccder Icettc Paix aux TTcrmes ct Cpa- Jdijiions ipccifies dans les Trois Articles fui vans j don't ^>Jpcux Parties Conrradtantes fe gararUiiTent reci- ^oqqcraent TExccution, y ct^nt reipc^l'^yement au- tbrilt.s par icurs fufdits Allies :— Et les Deux tarties Cpntradanres font en outre convenucs, que (i leurs Allies relpt>(5tirs n'y auraient pas ainH accede dans J'Ei^ace de Deux Mois a compter de rcchange des HatitiVations du prefcnt Traicc, la Paftie qu» re- gfoferaibn Acccffion, nc reccvra de fon Allie ni Aide ni Seicouris de telle Nature qui cc foit pendant la Du- jree altericure de la Guerre, j^ >( . .a, r ] - ■. XtU ^Sa Nlajeftc Britanmqiic s*eng^^ ,«n Traite de Puix Definitif avec Sa Majeftc Catho- lique (ur le: V^d^§^s^0f^M^(ifm^9mX^ qjul reiterji. ep ple«ic Prcprktc I 3a Majeftc Brit • ■ ( 31 y XIV. Sa Majcft^ Britannique s'cngage parcillc.* fficnt ^ cbhdurc un Traitf dc Paix Ddinirif avcd I4 RepubUque BaiAve furle Pied du Status anti BiUum^ Avec TException de. qui rcftcra tn plcinc Proprictc I Sa MajcftI Britannique et de qxiifera cede il SaMa* jcft^ Britannique en Echapgc de .^'"^f^:':' '' '"'7 Kn Cbnlid^ration de ccs' Reftitunons li falrc par Sik Majefte Britannique, touce la Propriety appartenante au Prince d'Orangc, au Mbis de Dccembrc 1794, ct qui i iti fequeflree faifie ou confifquee depuis cette Epoque^ lui fera rendue, ou bien elle lui fera plcine- ment^ompenfSe^par un Equivalent p^cuniare. Et la Republique Fran^aife s'engage en outre I lui pro* Curer 1 la Paix g^n^rale une Compenfatlon equivar lente de ^ Perce de fes Charges et Dignices dans les 1Pri!)yift^^& ,tJnics ; et les Perfonnes qui auront ^t^ enhi^ilTonh^ea ou exiles, ou dont les Proprietes au« roni ere iequeftr^es, ou confifqu^es dans la dite K€- publiotj^ 1 Caufe de leur Attachment ax Interets de la Maiibn d'Orange, oil i I'ancien Gouvernment des Prbvihces Unies, feront mifes en liberty, ou auront la Pcrmirtion de rctoumer dans leur Patric dV re- iidcr, et d'y jouii de leurs Proprietes en fe con^)rm-^ ant aux Lbix et & la Conftitution qui y font etablies. XV. Ua RIpublique Fran^oife s'cngage \ cori^ dure un Trait6 de Paix D^ftriitif avcc Sa Majcll6 Trcs Fiddle fur le Pied du Status ante Beilum, falls du'aucune Demande o\i Condition on^rcufe (bit fxig6c de Part ou d'autre. '''»^ ; '^^^^ -^i^ -nwr,^ ni A VI. Toutes les Stipulations cohtenues dans cfe Traite, relatives au Terns tt I la l^antere de iairc les Keditutions c*y mentibnhee^, ^inli que t6us liefs Privileges y refervcs aux 'Habitants oii Proj)rietair^s des Iflcs ou Territories rcftitues ou cedes, fcroiit certfcs fe' rappbrter egalcrhetit aStix l^eftitutidns h faiiPe ^ V^rtu des Trois dernicrs Articles > fcav6if,ie .*%'* Triezieme, If w III . Triezlemej Quatorzieme, et Quinzleme, hors les Caf 6u Tpn poiirrait y dero^cr duiiionrentaiieot niutuel cs Pahies interenees. ";'5^VII. Tous ks precedents /Traltes de Pah faits fntrii les Parties cohtra6^ani;es et leurs Allies re- Ajedifs de Part ct d-autfie riorhnies dans les Trois fufdits Articles, qui fubfi (talent et etaient en force • avant 4c Commencement des Hoftilites, feroht re- • Ijjedivement renouvelles, excepte en tant, ,qu!on pbiirra y deroger d'un Confcntement miituel j ^t, lc% ' Articjes dc ce Traite qui regardent la Ret>itutioi|(^^ WMriiers, la CeJIation (les ttoftilites,, et la D/^i.-; fS)ft ,^ regard des l*rires et Sai0e ,^ fe rappoY-^fp^l-^ M^It^rnti^'t aux Parties -refpe<5lives nomn^efs,d?;ns^t?s'.. T%is fufdits Article's, et feroiit .chiages^ faits jL la Propriete des Individus di'une Maniere c(^tr^ir^ aux Ufages et Droits de'la-Cjuerre, et toutes K^cla- rnations de Droits ou de Fropriet^s appartenans d des Particuliers aux Epoques du Commencement des Hoililites rerfjeaivemcnt enii-d leSdith'Mtfes,''lca- YOH^, la Grande Brctagne et le Pbrtiigff d"''dii>;Cdte* etla Franre, I'Efpagne, et la ^foli'^'nae/dii'lliftrei, ' ct quCj felon les Ufages rectus et leS L6ix des Na- tion^, PEpoque " dc la P^ix dc vPoit * ti\ tt f evivre,, ferbnt revues, cntendues, et jiigees da^ris fcs Cdiih d6 Juftice refpcdtjves des dificrentes Parties ; .iet pdjxie Juftice fera rendue par chacyne dt s dltes Pafdcs aux ^ Sujets et Pcuples dc l^iutre, de 14 njcriie Mariie'r'e qa' , a fes,propres Sinets Ct Fcuples. j-y ..■. ,^ „;, . , * -A ' V •* a yt M\ -'h * ( 33 ) Et en cas qu*il s*elcve des Pjairitcs iTur i'Execudoh de cet Article, lefquelles ne pourront etre fatisfeltes par un Arrangement mutuel cntre les Gouvcrncmcns reipedifs dans I'Efpace dc Douzc Mois apres qu'cUes Icur auronj cte addrcflecs, les ditcs Plsintes fe- ront jugees par des Commiflaires jures que Ton nom- mera de Part ct d'autrc, avec Pouvoir de faire intcr- venir un Arbitre de- quelque Nation neutre j et U Decifion des dits Commiifaires fera abfolue, et fans Appel . , 'f ^ p *^j - s • .£ XIX. ' ^k Majefte Britannique' ct la RepubKque* Fran^oife promettcnt d'obferver finceremcnt, et dcr bonne Foi, tous les Anicles contenus et etablisdans le prfifent Traite ; et ne foufFriront pas qu'il y foit fait de Contraventions fe garandflent, gcneralement ct reciproqueiiient, toutes les Stipulations du pr|:fent Traite. . ' ^^■-.■^,';A .-..^ir* 'in^^Ttf XX. L'5skatifications folemneJles du prcfcntTrauc,: cxpedices en bonne et due Forme, feront echangees en cntre les Parties Contradanc'ts, dans TElpace d'un Mois, ou plutot s*il eft poflible. ''"i^^.^M^^'PmeSi of a Treaty of Peace. ^^,}^. %¥^^^ Be it known to all thofe whom a mail or msyiA any manner concern. The ipoft Spenc and moft Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, Kipg of Great Britain, Fianrc, and Ireland, Dilkc of Brunfwic and Lunenburgh, Arch Treafiircr and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and- the Executive Dircftory of the French RepublirV,, bemg - equ;>'ly defirous to ^-^ut an End to the War, which has for lome Time paft fubfifted between the Domi- nions of the Two Parties, iiave named and confti-* , tutcd ft»r their Plenipotentiaries, charged with the concluding and fignipe of the Definitive Treaty of F Peace; « *-•<% «. : /.w'f,j.4>:i^.. ( 34 ) I ,1 ii III! hi;;- It Peace J viz. the King of Great Britain, the Lord Baron of Malmefbury, a Peer of the Kingdom of Great Britain, Knight of the Moft Honourable Order of th'i Bath, Privy Councillor tc His Britannick Ma- jefty, and the Executive Dire6^ory oCt;!).?., French Republic^ ■wf»•ll^^1!^t^^H■l.■^^^;if^|^/■yy]:l' •;-.^,," =i i^*'.^'\,[ who, after having exchanged their refpe<5tive ful.l Powers, have agreed upon the following Articles : I. As foon as this Treaty fliail be figned and rati- fied, there ftiall be an univerfal and perpetual Peace a& Well by Sea as by Land, and a fincere and conftant Friendftiip between the Two contracting Parties, and their Doniinions, and Territories, and People, with- out Exception of cither Pla<;es or Perfons j ib that the High Contrading Parties fhall give the greatcit Attention to the maintaining between themfelvc^ and their faid Dominions, Territories, and People, this reciprocal Friendfliip and IntcrcouTrfe, without; per- mitting hereafter, on either Part, any Kind of Hof-. tilitics to be committed either by Sea or by Land, for any Caufe, or under any Pretence whatfoever. *rherc f-uU be a general Oblivioni and Amnefty of every Thing which may have been done or committed by cither Party towards the other, before or fince the Commencement of the WarV and they fhall care- fully, avoid for the future every Thing which might prejudice the Union happily re-eftabliihcd. Immediately after the Exc^iaiigc of the Ratifica- tions of diis Treaty, Orders (hall be fent to the Armies suid Squadrons of both Parties to flop all K«>ililities { and for the ,Ex,ecution of this Article S«a PafTesihall be given on each Side to the Ships, difpat;ched to carry the N ews of Pe^cc to the Pofftl^ , (ions of the Two Parties.? ^u- >nii^;:;^pi . i Ih The Treaties of Peace of Niifi^giien of 1678 and 1679, of Ryf^'ick of 1697, and qF tJtrecht of> 1713; that of Baden of 1714; that of the Triple. Alliance of the Hague of 1717 j jhat of the Qpad-^. rki|>le AUianoc; of Loncbn of ijiSi the Treaty of • r*^,'.;^ \ ' . ■ ■■ ' ^ Peace , V' ^j;^^r^^^wF! according to the Receipts, attcfted Accounts, and other authentic Vouchers, which Ihall be fur- nifhcd on each Side j and Security (hall be recipro- cally given for the Payment of the Debts which the Prifoners may have contraiSted in the Countries where tliey may have been detained, until their entire ■Jleleaie. . .*....,, -j/qr/u-^ ,, y^'^-^. IV. With rcfpefl: to t^e Rights of Fifliery on the Coafts of the Ifland of Newfoundbnd, and of the Iflaiids adjacent, and in the Gulpfi of St. Lawrence, , the Two Partie' ^.uil return to the fame Situation iin which they il >r ^ refpcdively, according to t^ Treaties andSf ^ '^f nents fubfiftiug at the Period of the Commencem^ i ,r of the War, And with thi^ View, His Majefby confents to reftore to France, in full Right, the Iflands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. V. The fame Principle of the State of Poffelfion before the War, is adored by mutual Confent, with rcfped to all other Poffcffions and Rig ;ts on bot^ Sides, in rxr^ Fart of the Wory,j lave only the ^■' ''''' -F a.- '.'•"' : '^' :' 'L Exccp- ■i ■'¥' {1 s ' I I : I ll ■ : II- ( .36 ) , , , Exceptions . which arc _ ftipulated by the fubfequcnt ^''Ariicksofthrs Treaty. And, to this Intent, all '^ ]?o^'eflions or Territories which have or jpay have ;'^1^"eh Ciohqycre4by One of the Parties fronv the other ''^raniVptipccially excepted, in this Treaty), (hall be ^ reftored to the Party to whom they belonged at the , ^^CJomipencemcnt of the prefent War. " ''^' Vt. From this Principle of mutual )^efti;mion,;the . T^p Parties have agreed t9 except^ ; -: A '/I ' '" ' ;>< r^(-vbf(. which fli all re-i ^ ,,inaJif!t to His Britannick Majefty in full Sovereigr^. '^ -^ !y^I. tn all the Cafes of Reftitution provided by the 'yjmafem Treaty, the Fortrefles ihaUbe reftored iii the ' Mttic fcohdition in which they now are, and no: in- S'u|yilialIbedbneto?ny Wor^^s that have been, con- trujfted fince the Conqueft ot ■ » .i n: ' ^' / ^^f I* It is alfo agreed, that ir, cry Cafe of Re- njt^uti^p or Ceflion provided by any of the Arti(51cs ""^.tl^^^^^^ the Term of Three Years from the pfe'of'^hc Notification of the Treaty, in the le- "^jpe^lve Territory or Place reftored or ceded, fliall ..be ajlpwed , to Perfons of whatever Defcription, re- Sihe taws^ tl^n C3^\i^ing \ during . which Term of ree "SfcarK tjiey fti^il remain and refidc unmoleftcd ''wi'the^xercire of their Religion, and in the Enjoy- ^ meht of thejr Poffefllons and EffciSls, upon the Con- ^fttiohs and Titles under which they fo acqOiiedthe iKanie, without being liable in any Mannec, or under yiiy Pretence, ,tQ be ppfecuted or fued for their paft (JbiVdw^V, ^xcepc 83 to the Difcharge of jull Debts to oeclare to the C^ovcrnnient, then eftablifhed, th^ir In- teno^n to withgraw themfclves, or their Effeds, and ' '||i fjcmoy? to: ro?sc othjji; PlajCp, (halj \m^ and ob- '*\ '"' '"'" " tain 'iiiii "^ ' ( 37 ) tain witMri One Mf>nt}i after fuch Dedafatibn full Liberty to depart and to remove their Effefts, Or to fell and difpofc of the fame, whether moveable, or immoveable, at «iny Time within the faid Perioqof Three Years, without any Rcftraint or Hindrance, otcept on Account of Debts at any Time p6n- trafted, or of any criminal Profecutipn for A^^, done futicquent to thfc Notification of this Treaty/ ' -^ IX. As it is neceffary ro appoint a certain ftilod for the Reftitutions herein-before ilipulated, ir is agreed, that the fame Ihall take plate' in ^yrbpe vithin (One Month), in Africa and A thief ica^ within (Three Months), and in Afia within (Six Iiitbnffe), after the Ratification of th6 prefent Treitjr.'^^, ^^^' iuX. For preventing the Revival of the ILajiv^Sjits which have been ended in the Territotles to be re- ftoi'ed by virtue of this Treaty, it is agreedi 'th*^t the Judge-mcnts in private Caufes proribunccd in;|K^iaft Krfort, and which have acquired th^ ]?orc9 6jf^JSt- ters determined, fhall lie cohfirmed and dtetut^^^ Ac- cording to their Form and TenourJ^*'^^/^ " rr '^S XI. The Decifion of the Prizes and Se!klfrf;«^^of •Ships and their Cargoes taken at Sea or tclzecJ^in die Ports of either Country, prior to the' |ioftifci6s, Ihail be referred to the refpeftive Courts of Jqfticf i fo:tliat the Legality pf the faid Prizes and Seiziicc* ihafl be decided according to the Law of .I^atibns, and to Treaties;, in the Courts of Jjiftice bf the ^l^a- tion which Ihall have made the Captiii-e, or ord^i^d the Seizures. And in order to prevent all Ca\jfespf Complaint and Difpute which may arife Ori^cdpunt of -Prizes which may be made at Sea after die Sign- ing of this Treaty, it is reciprocally agreed that the Veffels and Effefts which may be taken in the Britiih Channel and in the North Seas, after the Spaci? of Twelve Days, to be computed from the Excljahgc of the Ratifeations of this Ttckty; iHall be rfeftorcd on each Side r-M-That the Term mall be One \fe^ from |hc Britiih Ghaoncl ^nd "the N*brth Seas,' a^ far ih' '.\ ( 38 ) as the Canary Iflands, inclufively, whether in the Ocean» or ixi the Mediterranean : Two Months from the ./aid Canary lUands as far as the Equinodlial Line or Equator :— Three Months from the Equator to any, r art to the Weft ward of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Eaftward of Cape Horn :-^— And, laftly. Five Months in all other Parts of the World, without any Exception' or any more particular De- fcription of Time or Place. , XIL The Allies of the Two Parties, that is to fay. Her Moft Faithful Majeftyas Ally of His Britannic^ Majefty, andKis Catholick Majefty and the Bitavian Kcpublick as Allies of the French Republick, fhall be invited by the Two Contracting Parties to accede to this Peace on the Terms and Conditions fpecificd in the Three following Articles j the Execution of which the faid Two Contrafting Parties reciprocally guarantee to each other, being thereto refpec^iveljr autborized, by their above-mentioned Allies:* — And the Two Contrading Parties further agree, that if their Allies refpedively fhall not have (o ac^^eded ^ithifl the Space of Two Months after the Ex . Agp ^f tjie Ratifications of this Treaty, the Party fo re* fufingto accede, fhall not receive from its Ally any Aid or Succour of any Nature during the further .Continuance of the War. Xill: His Britannick Majefty engages to conclude R V/efinitive Peace with His Catholick Majefty Qn ' the , Footing of the State of PoffelTion before the' War, w:ith the Exception of -^ -,0^, : ^^^;^ r^vj'^;^^-^ . ^i^ ^» ^^i:- 1*- ^*^-- fe. i^'i ^ ^^^*^^ ^^^ remain in tull Sovereignty to His Britannick Majefty, XIV, His Britannick Majefty in like Manner engages to conclude r. Definitive Peace with the Batavian Republick on the fame Footing of the State pf Ppffeinon befor.? . the War. with,)th? iij^ception of ■ « rf^ '-^ » L^' .wWchihali remain to His Bricarjnick Majefty in iiili v-» ( 39 ) Sovereignty, andof '3'; ^* '^ -^f =r • Oa^ih whicfc lhall.be ceded to His Majcfty irt Exchange for '''vi'^ In Confideration of thcie Reftitutions, to be hereby made by His Britannick Majefty, all Property be- longing to' the Prince of Orange, in the Month of December i794> and which has been fcized and con- fifcated fmce that Period, Ihall be reftored to him, or a full Equivalent for Money given him for the fame. And the French Repubiick further engages to procure for him, at the general Peace, an adequate. Compenfation for the Lois of his Offices and Dignii ties in ac United Provinces; and the Perfons wha have been iniprifoned or banifhed, or whofe Pro- perty has been fequeftered or confifcated in the faid Repubiick, on Account of their Attachment to the Interefts of the Houfe of Orange, or to the former Government of the United Provinces, fliajl be re- Icafcd, and (hall be at Liberty to return to thtit Country, and to refide therein, and to enjoy their Property there, conforming themfelves to the Laws and Conftitution there eftablilhed. XV. The. French Repubiick engages to concludti a Definitive Peace with Her Moft Faithful Majefty on the fame Footing, of the State of PolTeflion be- fore the War, and without any further Demand or hurthenfome Condition being made on either Side. ■';' " XVL 'All the Stipulations contaiined in this Treaty, refpefting the Time and Manner of making the Re- ftitutions therein meutioned, and all the Privileges thereby refer ved to the Inhabitants or Proprietors in the Iflands or Territories reftored or ceded, ihall ap- ply in like Manner to the Reftitutions to be made by virtue of any of the Three laft Articles, viz. the Xlllth, XlVth, and XVth, except in thofe Inftinoes where the fame may be derogated from by the muws tual Conlent of the Parties concerned. . <^ ^v'is. jBi XVIf, All former Treaties of Peace between'^thc" refpedive Parties, to whom the faid Three Artifcles relate, and which fublifted and were in force it the. . , Co»T>- .; li '; 1 w 11 N ; ( 40 ) Commencement of Hoililij;ies between tijem respec- tively, Ihall be renewed, except in fuch Inft^nces rnly where the feme nnay jp derogated from by mutual •Confent ; and tht Articl*"- of :his Treaty for the Rc- ftoration of Prl/ontrs, e CcfTation of Woftilities, and the DeciCii relative to Prizes and Seizures, Tiall equally apply to the. refpedive Parties to whom Jie faid Three Articles relate, and Ihall be held to be in full force between them, as foon as they fli^U re- fpeftively and in due form have acceded to this Treaty. _ , ., - :' ^ ^ . •■■ .' -^J, XVIII. All Sequeftrations impofed by any of the^ Parties named in this Treatyr on the Rights, Proper* ties, or Debts, of Individuals belonging to any other of the faid Parties, (hall be taken oif, and the Pro-- perty of whatever Kind fliali be reftpred in the firilcft M-nner to the lawful Owner j dr juft , Compenfadpn be made for it : And all Complaints of Injury done to private property, contrary to the ufual Pr^fticc and Rules, of War, and all-Claims of private rights or property wl^ich belonged to Individuals At. therperiojds of tftp Commencement of l^pftilitics refpc^ivcly,'bc* . tw^en the. f^id parties, viz. Great Briti^m ^d Fprtu-, gal on thip o^c Side, an4 France^ Spain, an4 H(oila^d, on the others and which ouoht»,aGpordihg to the ufual pra<5^Ige arid Laws of Kations, tQ rcv^ive ?it tKc ■ period of peace, (hall be received, heard^ at^d de- cided, in the refpeftive Cour-ts of Juftice of the ^jif- fcrent parties j and ^ull Jufticc therein (hajl be,49PC by each of the faid parties to the Subje<5^s andjpepple : of the other, in the fame Manner as to their own Sulycas or people. ■.'f,:\->^f'.:'^'^>'^ %:^rf^:.x-., -;*":-■ ^triv-'! And if any Complaint Ihpuld ar ifc rc^pcding the , Execution of this Article, whi<;h Complaints -Ihall not b^ fettled by mutual Agreement between the' refpciftive Governments wi.hin twelve Months after the fame fliall have been preferred^ to thcoi^ the i^q ihaU be determined by fworn Coirmriiflioners to. W? appointed on each Side, with Power to call in anAr« ^ bitrator ( 41 ) bitrator of any indifferent Nation j and the decifiort of the faid Coaimiffiontrs (hull bebindlhgVind wich^ 0ut- Appeal.- - '' ■•■'''•,'''••:<'''' '""if;*^-: ■KHLnrfl /'nviJ - XlX. tii's Britariiiick Ma|e(ly and the Frefidh Re*;; piibliqli: ptomife t6 obferve finccrely, and boril fid^7. air the An iclcs contained and cftabliftitd in the j^e-- fent Treaty J and they will not fuffer the fame ^ to W- iriftihgcd, dii'eftiy 6r indii-e(5tly, by their refpcflivc^ Subjedb; arid the faid Contrading Partita guarantee; to ca6K otKeri generally and reciprocally, all the Sti-^^ * f>trUtiohs of the prCfcnt Treaty:'^ ^' v )V|ii.r^l XX. The folemn Ratifications of the,prtfeht Tr^atj^,^^^ prepared in good and due Form, fhali be ex- . cfiaflgeciin^vv^J -!^ 'i- n .;; bctWcewthe*^ GdSy^r'adfihrf T^rhYslV'in Ai^'S^t of a Month, bf fo^itfci- Jih p6l!ibie, to b^ computed from the Day- df- tlicj'S^ftatui'e ot the Signature of the prcfchc Treaty*! r^%il^ thereof; &c.&-c/ '^V ^ .'- ' I:' ■'^^^'''^^ (J^tf.'iJAi'ij"J>T stiff Note froA Lord MilnieftMirV 'tblthii ccmiti^uhi^ Cqiliinumcatiort C6t\fidientiel)e ct vfe^ir biffeV'tii i>rri^clinc';l»reiive,dc feri^^^ ^, faOTW|e^h>gM^42 lal%ociafiohy eriieuf 6flff^t- qes le premier pas, tous les Ecjairciffementi quVde- pihdenTafe lui fur le I*rojgt db traits qWleuf i: retpis. j«r^ce avani jiavfuerce, ii eit inutire ae s'appuKer,luci ' rardcleVl.:pt«ibueljjsComt)en§^s^P^^^ .. . -;4.r.f f lilt m I m iiffl'i jcft^ Bntanniquc aurait dcmcndees par cet Articif, en retour dcs Rcftiaittons qu'elle eft difpolB a fairc pour le RctablUTcment dc ]a Paix, de vront fc trouvcr d'aprcs cette Declaration, dans les Cefllons ^ fairc, foit par Sa Majeftc Catholique, foit par la Rcpub- liquc Batavc. \a('- *^ ;}:j^ —^^h. \ C'eft pourquoi dans TArticle XIII. apres les Mots Staius ante ieiiumj le Lord Malmcfbury propofera d'jnfercr les Mots fuivants : •• A TException de I'lfle ** de Trinidad, qui rcftcra en toutc Propriete a Sa ^ " Majcfte Britannique." Lc Lord Malmcfbury croit qu'll eft peu neceflair* de repeter les Raifons qui Tengagent a infifter fur U Confervation dc cptte Conquete, ^ moins qu'clle nc foit compenfec par quelque autre Ceflion qui puiile balancer le Surcroit de Puiflahce rcfultar'-'^ dc VAc- quifition faite par la France de la Partie Efpa^^nole dc St. Dominguc. Quant i rArticle XIV. Je Lord Malmcfbury pro* pofe, qu'aprcs les Idiots Status ante Bellum, on ajoutc : ** Ayec Exception de la Ville, du Fort, et dc I'Eta- " bliflcment du Cap de Bonne Elperancci ct des Pof- " feffions qui ont appartenu aux Hollandois avant la ** Guerre dans TIQc dc fcylon, ct de la Ville et;" *« Fort de Cochin, qui feront cedes a Sa Majcfte *'^ Britanniquc, en Echange de la Yiilc dp Ncgapat^ ** nam, et de fes Dependanccs." ^ Lc Lord Malm(bury rcit^rc aux Miniftres PWni-' potentiaircs de la Republiqi^e Fran^aife, k T^moig- nagc de ion EmpreflTement I concourir avec cux, en tout ce qwi depend de lui, pour amc/ier la Ncgociation a une heureufc Iflfue; et les prie en meme Terns d'agreer les Affijrances dd fa haute Cpnfideratioh. . .\ ?^*^^(Signe) Bii^i , U\ MALMESBURT. ^r':; rl- :.'!r^.. ( 43 ) •fof. (No. 14. B.) • *■■ Tranflation. ' The Miniftcr Plenipotenti.iry of His Brirannick Majefty has the Honor ofprefenting to the Minifters l*ienipotenti :ry of the French Republick, in confc- quence of the Willi exprclTed by them irt the Con- ference of this Morning, the following Note : Which he rdquefts therti at the fame Time to confide r, not fo much in the Light of an official PaJ>^r As of a verbal and confidential Communication, dhd as a Proof of his Rcadinefs to facilitate the Progrefs of the Nego- tiation, by giving them, on the very Outfet, all the Explanations in his Power on the Projet of the Treat/ ' tyhich he has delivered to them. ' If, as the Miniftcrs Pienipotentiaty of the French • Republick have alTurcd him, it is contrary to their '' mbft pofitive Infllfiidlioris to enter into any Difculfioft ^ relative to the Ceflipn of thofc PofiefTions which bc^ ^ longed to France before the War, it is iifelefs to dwell on the Vfth Article : Since the Gompenfttions } which his Britannick Majefty might have demanded * by that Article, in Return for the ReftitutioBs which ' 'He is difpofed to rhakc for the Re-eftablifhmtrit of ] Peace, muft, in confequence of this Declaration^ be fought f6r in the Ceflioris to be made by I ^is Catho- " lick Majefty, and the Batavian Republick.-- '';'^'^-'' ; Lord Malmeftjury therefore propofes to mfcrt ih the Thirteenth At-ti'clfc, aftct the Words Status ante Bellttnti the followmg Words 1 " With the fotcepw ^■■ « tion of the I (land of Trinidadj Whkh fhall remaifi." *' in full Pofleflion of His Britannick Majefty/" * \* Lotd Malmeftjury imagines that it is imncceflary^' -for him to Irpeat the Reafons which induce him to - itillft upon the retaining of this Conqutft, unlefs coiiipenfation fhoiild be made for it by fome othj^r Ceflion which (hall balance the augmentation 6f Power accruing to France, from the acquifition of the Spanifh ^ part of St. Domingo. t,.„ Ga Wltli f Ij if" si! .tff. A'r ( 44 ) With regard to the Fourteenth Article, tor4 Malmelbury propofcs, that after the Words Statut ofite Beliumt ihould be added, " With the Exception **' of the Town, Fort, and Eftablilhmcnt of the " Cape of Good Hope, and of the Pofleffions ** which belonged to the Dutch before the War in " the Ifland of Ceylon, and of the Town and Fprq " of Cochin, which fhall be ceded to His 3ritan^ " nick Majedy in Exchange for the Tfcwn of Nega-. " patnam and its Dependencies." Lord Majmefbury repeats to the Minifters Pleni- potentiary of the French Republick, the Aflurancc of his Rcadinefs to concur wjth them, in every Thin^ which Ihall depend on him, to brinp ;.hc Negotiation to a happy Ifluci and requefts of ttieiri, at the fame Time, to 4C:cept the Afluranccs of his high Confidcr^ ;o/.|^^ y..;, i,.,^;., , (Signed)^,i^.MAl-M|E;5pyRy,. (^0* is. C.)» i / tji Note fropi the French PlenipciteirtiariM to - .' o' i ,1, n, , Lord Malmelbury. ^ •"^''■'^'"Os Miniftres FlenipOtentiaire? 1t^:Jica (Sign6(V/ - ,LrLP TOURNEUR.' '"'*''^ ^^U**^ '^^*- J4ii'J.ij/?LEVILLE LE PELLEY, .j.-,>,-F)oS' -^-^ )n '.. HUGUES B, MARETi , - Lille. lUxMeffidor, , ./ Ap Sipc ^6 la RepuWique. fiffii ,,r);.,^'n -^^ f.^^f ^.\ . -i.Ml ',Ho: c qOLCHEN, Sec Gen. de la Le^ioii* ^t^-*r^ Wii/rpl :>i,j lot. j?id£ifDy-< nf.yfH^f,M i^m'*- (No, .5. C.)..;A -.1, ,. Tranflado-v ..■>.L:i,.M f^^l ,;.) The Mlnifters Pl6hipotentiary of the French B:cpublick have received the Note which the Mi* niftcr Plenipotcntiairy of His Britannick Majcfty did them the Honor of addrcfling to them Yeftcr- day. They will give to it> as well as to the projeft of a Treaty to which it relates, the moll ferious Attentiori. In the mean time, though they are not yet en-'hlcd ^to communicate to Lord Malmefbury the R rks to which thefe two Papers appear to theni ,,,^,e, they think it their Duty to propofe to him a Conference to-mbrrbw, at One o'€loek> if* that Hour is agreeable to him, in order to treat '';^yrith him on diftinft Points, the difcuflion of which 'itiay'be ^ntetcd ypon ftparately,, and whipoh^ni^y; be %r6ceded in without Delay. ^i*"^M tPMi'y*hjv>^. I tliey' reqiieft Lord Malme&pry to accept the iAffyraiipes of their high Conlidcration.-*f tils 'uii ' #i^vi^4o'a'.i'(%«F«.,,;'. .I'E-TOyRNEUR,^! '^^ ' ^:4^f/HyMl1jj^c^yno\mi PLEVlLLg LE t>£LLEVV $jeCf 0«n, Ac U Leg. tion. I ■'■il ^h (Novt6. D^V yS;C|..:?^ Note frem the French Pl«mpotcn- tian^s to Lord M^mfcibury, dated Les Minirtrcs t'lempotentiairesdg la Republique I^rafiqaife s'cmprcflcnt de fatisfaire au Dcfir que Jeur a temoigne le Miniftire PJenipotcntiaire de Sa Ma- jefle Bfitannique, en lui tnvoyant une Note fur les Trois Points qui ont fait TObjet dc ia Conference de ^e Jour* I . lis ont 1' Ordre pofitif dVxigcr la Rcnonciation au Titre dc Roy de France que porte Sa Majcftc Britannique. .fi^-v" . ; Le Lord Malmelbury eft pric d'obfcrver qu'il ne s*agit pas feulcme;it ici d'une Rcnonciation aux Droits que Ton pourait pretcndrc devoir rcfiltex de ccttc Qijalification, mais encore et pofitivcment de Ja Qualification elle meme. L'^tabliflcment dc la Repubiique Fran^aife, etla Reconnoiflance de cette Forme de Gouvcrncment par le Roy d'Afigleterre, ne lui permettraient pas de conferver un litre qui fuppoferait en Franct rExiftence d*un Ordre de Chofts qui n*eft plus. ^, .', ' ^. ,)AiM :..:.^^iVr-^U * ' ■ a. Lcii Miniftres Pienlpotentiaires de la^Repub-' iique font charges de demander la Reftitution des ViifTeayx pris ou detruitsa Toulon. ,. ,; „ , L^Angleterre a declai;e hautement et, fomellement qu'elle prcnait les Vaiffeaux en Depot; pcur le Rojf de FranCe^. Ce Depot ell facte. II appartient in- contcHiablement a la Rcpublique, qv\ cxerce les Droits et la Souverainetc que I'Angleterre attribuoic |l Louis XVII. a I'EpocJue de la Prifede Touion. Sa Majefte Britannique ne fauraitdonc, en reconrtcif* fant la H^publiquc Frart^aife, meconnaitre ion Droit a la Reftitution dont ii s'agit, ou refufer de la faire ou d'en offrir rEquivalent, 3. Le§ Minil^res Plenipotentiaires ont" a diman-' deri tt demandant la Rcnonciation de Sa Majcftc Britannique a 1* Hypothcque fur la Belgique. v^v^rv* /€e Pays avaitcte engage 'jOur les.Emprunts faits par rEmpereur en Anglcterre. II eft dcvenu Panic ~ intceraatc ■'r: '■ ( 4^^ ) int^grante de \i Rcpubiique, eft nc peut rettcr grcrcJ d'une fcmblablc Hypothftqu^. • Lcs Miniftrcs Plcnipofchtiaircs dc Ja Republiq'ic Fran^aife pi lent k Lord Malmcfbury d'agrc8r.rA£»> furancc de kur haute Confideration, ;j,.VjM*i <-^^;f V;^' (Signe) LE TOUPNEUR. '^''^" ' V^^*.*^«?Hy^' . ^.-■^;'^';^PLEVILLEL£PELLEY,^ ■.i^,'.4^H4^m*:^-« ^r^i?|t;.n' HT'GUES B. MARgT, ^• Lille, if Meffidor, *-''''* '^''^ " , I'Ans de k Republique ■^•ti';'- % '^^ .'- , J-';^^^ -''•/' - 1 < » V. -. COi-CHEN. Sec. Gen. 'Tranflation.»^-"-'-:t^ •^:'">-^ r' ^ The Miniftcrs Plenipotentiary cf the French Rc- publick lolc no Time '.n complying with the Wilh ex-* prefled to them by the Minifter Plenipotentiary o^ His Britannick Majefty, by tranfmitting to him a Note on the Three points which were the Subject of tlieir Conference of this Day. ••'"' 1. They have pofitive Orders to require the lle- nanciatioii. of the Title of King of France; borne by His Brit*.nnick ^/Iajelly. Lord M"*lmeibury is requefted to obfcrve that the Qucftion is not only of a Renunciation of the Rights which might be pretended to bc derived from thia Title, but further a'^d forni^Uy of the Title itfelf. Th^ Eftabli/hment ot the French Republick, and the Acknowledgement of this Form of Government: by the King of England, wi!^ not allow of his retaining a Title which would infiply the Exiftencc in France of an Order of Things which, is at an End. 2. The Minifters Plenipotentiary of the ftepublicK^ are ordered to demand the RelVtutign of ^hc Yi^&U t^n or deftroyed at Toulon, '^^^'^^'v^^f'^^*'*^^^-^^^ .; Great Britain has publicly an(^ iortnaUy declared tliat thefe Vcffcls were taken in Triift' f6r the King of France This Trull is facred: It incoritcftablj^ belongs to the Republickj which exercifes .'le Righti! d(i4 the Sovoreignty that Great' BHtain att/ibutcd t6 Louis «t [m ■n ( 48.) fi >i !*,': I I > liii Loiiis XVII. at the period of the Capture ofTavioti* His Britannick Majefty cannot, therefore, in ac-*': knowkdging the French Republick, deny its Right to the Heftitution required, or refufc either to make the Reftitution, or to oQer an Equivalent for it. ;. 3. The Minifters Plenipotentiary have Orders to demand, and do demand, the Renunciation, on the part of His Britannick Majefty, of th^ Mortgage ofi i* elgium. ■ ,-»^ ■■■^* - -;a-'-;- ■ • -:• -■ ;,„ -v:-^,-''* >•,?; •■■ . .• • » - - That Country was mortgaged for the toans made by the Emperor in England. It has become an in- tegral part of the French Republic, and cannot re- main burthened with fuch a Mortgage. . s . . j^ The Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Re- public requeft Lord Malmefbiiry to accept the Aflii-, rancCj of their Confideration. .^ ^, * .i.^^'upA(5igncd); .. LE TOURNEUR. ""VT^'I ;U..k...u,v.:.>>^-vffv-^^^.;..HUGUES B.-MARET.'-" %:\. ■ f 'tine, le 22-Meffidor,. - ■.'^^■fli&mO:^fi) £4^<"'- Sth Year of the Republick, fi^^:!^ij«^j44^- i^ofevi-^kiO '^^^ -.ii^i. . ,wr^ .* .^OLCHEN, Sec.Ocn.^xi o?f y 1 >• Lord Grenville, date*. Lille, i6th July 1 797*' \*\ It was at the exprefs Invitation of the French' " Plenipotentiaries that I met them on Thiirfday the^ * 13th itJlferit; One of them ftatcd their Motive fdr ^ wifhihg to c . be'cjl^^ed fo foon, but to refun^e the DifctlTion on: ' the Article which he had Dbje6tcd to on my firfl: ^ rcadUlg the Frofef, and on which they conceived it '^ m'^m H was. ( JO y it m was polTiblc and even expedient to argue befofe we entered on the more important Branches of the Negotiation. It was Article II. that he referred to. He objefted to the Renewal of the Treaties therein mentioned from various Reafons j Firft, That many and even mod of them were irrelevant to that wc were now negotiating j Secondly, That they were in Contradidlion to the new Order of Things eftabliih- ed in France, as they feem to imply an Acknow- ledgement that a Portion of the Regal Authority is ftill exiiling -, Thirdly, That they might be fuppofed to apply to Convenriorts and Stipulations, in direct Contradidtion to their prefent Form of Government, and he quoted the Convention of Pilnitz in particu- lar. I was about co reply to himv and I truft in a Way that wou\d have done away his Apprehenfions on this point, when anoiber of them interpofcd by laying, That their fincere and only defire was that the Treaty we were now entering upon might be lo framed, as to fecure permanently the Objeft for which it was intended j that np Article likely to pro- duce this end might be omitted, nor any doubtful one infertedj but that the whole, as well with regard to the pad as to the future, might be fo clearly and 4iftin6tiy cxpreffcd, that no room for Cavil might be left. This he affured me, in the Name of his Col- leagues, was all that was meant by their Objedion to renew fo many Treaties in which fuch various Intcrefts,were blended, and fo many Points difcuffed, foreign to the prefent Moment. Their renewing them in a Lump, and without examining carefully to what we were pledged by them, might invol e us in difficulties much better to be avoided. I replied, ' thatl admitted moft certainly all he faid, and that it was with this View and on this principle folely that the Renewal of thefe Treaties was propofcd by His Majeity j and that if he recolleded (as he undoubt- edly did) the different Wars which were terminated by thefe Treaties, and the many important Rcgula-. %. k tions K'---.,^-,. -/:■.• n ( SI ) tions ftipulated by them, he would admit that the allowing them to remain in their full Force was fimply an Acknowledgement of the Tenure by which almoft all the Sovereigns of Europe, and particularly the French Rcpublick, held their Dominions up to this Day. That thefe Treaties were become the Law of Nations, and that infinite Confufion would refult from their not being renewed. He replied, that our Objed was evidently the fame, that we only differed as to the Mahncr. I. thbught the renewing thefe Treaties in toto would the belt coniribute to itj while they were inclined to think, chat extrading from them every Thing which immediately relted to the Interefts of the Two Countries andftating it inOne Article, was more likely to attain fhisdefirable Objedl. The French Minifler again repeated, that their Firft Wifli was, that the Treaty we were now making Ihould be clear, dif- tinft, folid, and lalting, and fuch a one as could not, at any future period, be broken through without a manifefl Violation of good Faith. And I again re- peated, that nothing could be fo confon,ant to mjr Orders, or the intentions of my Royal Mafter. One of the French Plemfcti.'ntiaries was difpofed to dwell on his Objeflions, which were, that thefe Trea.ies were figned when France was a Monarchy, and that any'Retrofpeft to thofe Times implied a Sort of Cenfurc on their prefent Form of Gove:n- menti but this was arguing on fuch weak Ground,- and fo incapable of being ferioufly maintained, that I, to avoid fuperfluous Contradiction, was veiy willing to let it pafs unnoticed. After a good deal of very con- * ciliatory, ana even amicable difcuflion, which, how- ever, neither Party gave much Way to the other, it was propofed by them that we {hould return Home, to meet again as foon as was convenient after an atten- tive and deliberate perufal of the Treaties, in order to ftatc refpeftively our Ideas on this Subjed. I ob- , fervcd,- that although I was perfeftly prepared to do Hi k 111 M m .'■■ ■',. r ..• ( J» ) 101 111 m hit ': €€ tt it at the Moment, and felt almoft bold enough to af^ firm, that no Meafure could be devifed which would fo completely meet our Intentions as an unrcferved Renewal of the Treaties they heficated about, yet I was very willing to acquiefce in their Propofal, with this fimpie Obfervation, that if any Delay arofc from it, fuch Delay was imputable to chem and not to me. My words were, " Je ne me rends pas refponfable ** des Longueurs dans lefqucUes cette Difcufliori *^ pourrait nous entrainer." The French MiniJ^r*s Anfwer was, " Si des Longueurs fervent a deter- miner des Objets qvii pourraient donner lieu a des Qucrelles a I'avenir, ce fera du Terns bien em- ploye." It was not my Wi(h to conteft this Af- fertioni and our Conference ended with it. vil';m;ry! :>aH 4zit''ff iu s^o^iMm; .:-l^ ^- ■.■:■-;', 7^\:' ij,'^v :?;:/. (No. 19.) ExtraAs of aDtfpatch from Lord Malmfbury to Lord Grenville^ dated Liile, July 16, 1797. My Lord, ■^Yesterday at the Moment I was preparing to attend the Conference, in which we were to enter into fuller Difcuffions on the litigated Subjeft of the Renewal of the Treaties mentioned in the Second Article of the Projet, I received from the French Legation the in clofed paper (A). In about an Hour I returned the encloftd Anfwer (B), to wliich I re- ceived the enlofcd Reply (C); and I am this Mo- ment come from the Conference which has taken place in confequence of it. I began by laying, that I had foUcited this Inter* view from the fame Motive which would aduate every part of my Conduft ; that I wilhed to make my Re- ports not only correft but conciliatory as far as dc • pendcd on me, and I now was come in order, if poflible, to obtain from them luch Comments and Explanations 6f the Note they fent to me-Yellerday,, ^ would enable me, when I traftfmitted it to my Court, to fecute the Negotiation from being inter- rupted, perhaps a^bruptly teirminatcd, by the pcruial > * (: S3 > of it. If I underftood it right, it meant that the Direct tbry requires as a fine qnanm Preliminarjf, that every thing the King has conquered from all andyeach of His Enemies fhouldbe reilored, and that till this Re^ -ftoration was confented to the Negotiation was not even to begin. I faid, if I was corred in thi^ State- ment, and the plain Senfe of the Declaration would l?ear no other Interpretation, I muft add that it would not only moft certainly prevent the Treaty from be- ginning, but would leave no Room for, treating at ally iince it deprived His Majefty of every Means of Negotiation J for 1 could not fuppofe that it was in their Thouglits to intimate that the Princinle of . Treaty, as far as it related to His Majefty, was to be One of ail Ceflion and no Compenfation, and yet that was precifely the pofition in which His Majefty was placed by their Note. ^ " ^'vi^n. '..it >r irr - £n donfequence, ks Min'^res Plenipotendsiires fouffignes inviccnt Lord Malmcibury is'expUqucr lur ccttc Reftitution, et ^ y confcntir s'il y eft fuffifam* ment autorife ; fi non, ct dans le Cas contraire k en^ , voyer un Courier a fa Cour pour en obtcnir les Pout yoirs neceffaires. L'Objetdcia Conference qui devoit avoir lieu ct Jour, fe trouvant necefiairement ajourne par I'Eflct de la Declaration ci-deffus, Les Miniftr^s Plcnipo**- tentiaires de la Republique ont k. tieinoigfncr au Lord Malmefoury le Regret qu'ils eprouvent de manqucr cette Occafion qu'ils avaient rccherchee de s'entrete* nir avec lui ; Au furplus, dans le Cas ou le Lord Malmelbury auroit quelque Communication a Icuf faire, ilsleprient de croire qu'ils fc font toujour* cmpreffes de le recevoir et de I'entendre quand il Ic jugera a propos. >^t ['■.■ .:^\',..y',Cs'[J'::^"ir\^: lis le pcieot en memc Terns d*agrcer de nouvcau VAffuranCe de Icur haute Confidcration««y 5U*>i,Hi#ii . (Signe) .i/, ^. LE TOTRNEUR. / ->*),, , ,,„.. . ^5 j^vj..,pLEVILLE LE PELLEYi \ 1 '^i'^:' \*- HUGUES B. MARET,;!^ ' LlUe, 27 Meffidor, -■ •<- 't' : - . * > l r An 5 de la Republique. '/' J mr><,'i . tg > 1si'?'•5^ |i>r« t^jr^t t|4 * ? COLCHEN, Sec. Gen. de la Legation* (No, 20. A^) Ui.;<-^;V5f. . Tn^nHation. -:^>;3fl|S2'>M4'^f ' t' The Minifters Plenipotentiafy of the French Rt* |>ublick have tranfmitted to their Government the Projeft of the Treaty, and the Note relating thereto, which were delivered to them the 20th of the prcfcnt Month, by the Minifter Plenipotentiary of His Bri> tannick Maiefty. . ': : I 'I ( J6 ) '■1>: m M I V •I fr They have juft received frcfli Communications and Orders, which require that they (hould make the fol- lowing Declaration to Lord Malmefbury. There exift in the public and Secret Treaties, by which the French Republic is bound to its Allies, Spain and the Batavian Republick, Articles by which the Three Powers refpcftively guarantee the Terri- tories poffeflcd by eacn 6{ them before the War. The French Government, unable to detach itfclf from the Engagements which it has contrafted by thefe Treaties, eftablilhes, as an indifpenfable Preli- minary of the Negotiation for the Peace with Eng- land, the Confent of His Britannick Majeily to the Reftitution of all the Poflcffions which He occupies, not only from the French Republick, but further and formally of thofe of Spain and the Batavian Repub- lick. In confequence, the Underfigned Minifters Pleni- potentiary requeft Lord Malmelbury to explain him- felf with regard to this Reftitujion, and to confent to it, if he is fufficiently authorized to do fo ; if not, and in the rontrary Cafe, to fend.a Meffenger to his Court, in order to procure the neceflary Powers, The Objc«a of the Conference which was to have taken place to Day being neceffarily delayed by the Purport of the abovementioned Declaration, the Mi- nifters Plenipotentiary of the Republick have to ex- prcfs to Lord Malmefbury the Regret that they feel m iofing this Opportunity of converfing together, which they had themfelves folicited :— But in cafe Lord Malmefbury fhould have any Communication to make to them, they beg him to believe that thfcy will always be happy to receive him, and tp Men to ^im, whenever he may think it popcr, ^ ;^ ■- > f ; '!*-■> :^' ■;j/;.^^ ^^t*. '■/. ».V. They . ko .■.-,*,.*riW-.s... ■ ( Si i 'They Hjqueft him, af tlitf" (9im(^ Tlrtiijrttt* icfcc^t^, anew the Affiiranccs of their "gh ConAderation. , . ^ (Signed) Lt TOURNEUR. . X^ i^-iOf^TiJ 'r PLEVILLE LE PELLEYj.. Lifle, a7thMeflidor, " , '^ # ^, 5 YbaroftheRepublick. ^^-''-[r-'-'^^^,':''^!, (July IS. 1797.) . .,.,,, ^. i, ,^ COLCHEN, Sec Gen. of thf Legation. (No.«i. B.) ji hiTM . Note from Lord Malmefbury to the Frenck ^^ri %i ^fiw W-M Plenipotentiaries, v^^r^ 9^51 jo yv iiHis Ls Miniftre Plenfpotentiairc de Sa" Majefte Bri- tannique a prcte 1' Attention la plus ferieufe a la Note, en Date dc ce Matin, qu'il vient de rccevoir dc la Part dcs Miniftrcs Plcnipotcntiaircs de la Republique Fran^aife. 11 n'hcfite pas a leur declarer que fes Inftruftions ne Pautorifent nuUement i admettre, comme Prin- cipe Prcliminairc, celui que leur Daclafation parait voirioir etablir: Cependant, etant perfuade que fon premier Devoir eft, de ne r^ aoncer i I'Efpoir d'unc' Conciliation que lorfqu'il aura epuile tbus les Mov- ent d'y arriver, et voulant ^cirteri dans le Rapport qu'il aura a faire h fa Cour, fur un Objec auffi impor- tant, Ik Poffibilite de toute Mefmtelligence, il leur demaodcra pour Dcmain, et k PHeuiC qui pourra leur convenir, une Conference, t la futte de laquellc il fc'propofe d'expcdier un Courier ^ fa Couf. -*' v II prie les Miniftres Plenipcf^ntiaires de la Repub- lique Fran^aife d'agreer les Affurances de fa haute CoRfideratioDr. .~? • \ ,•..:< (Sing6)^v? r»t m MALMES^UftY.' * A Lille, ce 15 Juillet 1797 \^^M^* '^'^ s?^' ' ' ' ' f '*^ ■i.i *r '1; (Note 21. B.) Tr^inflation. The Minifter Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Majefty has given the moft ferious Attention to the Note dated this Morning, which he has received •' »^ iv>^ . I from !^^ 5t- . , \ . ( 5» ) from the Minifters Plerupotentiary of the French Republick. "m.- i^^ - v ♦ ",.,.rr*!"i'*^. '^r V He has no Hefitation in declaring to them, that his Inftrudions by no Means authorize him to admit, as a preliminary Principle, that which their Declara- tion feems intended to eft^Wifli : Neverthelefs, being perfuaded that it is his firft Duty not to give up the Hopes of Conciliation until he-fhall (hall have ex- haufted every Means of obtaining it, and btiiig an- xious to avoid, in the Report which he Ihall have to make to his Court, the poflibiiity of Mifundcrilanding on a Subjeft of fuch Importance, he proppfcs to them a Conference for To-morrow, at the Hour mod; convenient to them, after which it is his Intention to difpatch a Meffenger to his Court. He requerts the Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to accept the Afllira^ce of his high. Confideration. -^ ■'■^- ' -."r ■;>;., .?,'.i.ii?HiT nvf. %v r,H. (Signed) MALMF.SBtJRY. Lille, 15th July; 1797. , rMi>f>T'%'Vi mii^^^i^-^^t''^ '^^■■' (No. 22. C.) < ifs.^ii:{ Note from die French Plenipotentiaries t# Lord Malmefbury. ' Les Miniftres Plenipotentiaires de la Republiquc Fran^ '% s'empreffent d'acccder au Defir que leur tcmoigwe Ic Miniftre Plenipotentiaire de Sa Majeftc ' Britannique, de confcrcr avcc eux fur I'Objet de la Note qu'ils kii ont adrefice ce Jour, m) i'mmtmrj::i lis ont en confcquence I'Honneur de lui proppfer " de fe rendre Demain, a onze Heures du Matin, au Lieu ordinaire des Conferences. lisle prient d'agrccr i'AflUraace (jf.kw i^utC " conjfidei'ation. ' '' / ■ ■ ' " \*^t-*f f»-^ •; ■:> j ;.«.-,■ . .<. "nVig^HEN, feGefi/^fclk^ion. - * . (No. mm y yt ■ ( S9 ) (No. sa. C.) ,f v-ti A Tranflatian. .»T:r k/"- ..:• "r, :> The Miniftcrs Plenipotentiary of the French Rf- publick lofc no Time in acceding to the Dcfire cx- prcfled by chc| Minifter Plenipotentiary of His Bri- tannick Majefty, of conferring with them on the Subjeft of the Note whifch they addreffed to him this Day. , , , j They have in confequence the Honour of pro>- pofing to him to meet To-morrow Morning at Eleven o'Cbck, at the ufiial place of Conference. They rcqueft him to accept the Afiuranccs of their high Confide ration. •'^Yfr .ft!-* ?t^rB»^wii^K^^ (Signed) ■■ lifle. the ft7tJi Meffidor, 5 th Year of the Repu^lick, one and indivifible'. ., . LE TOURNEURi*"'^^^' « PLEVILLE LE PELLEY. HUGUES B. MARET,;i, C?*i^ijl ./!fftf^fs-«\ r^S;i-Vf'^ (July >S» ^797') ■ ^'' : • ■ COLCHEN. S■'-- T ord Malmefbury, dated Downing Street, h'hzo, 1797. , _ ,, . • My Lord, .• . .^': '-.n-'^-fi ;,..t - YoVR LoVdfhip's Difpatches by the Mcffengcr Dreffins, were received here on the 17th Inftant, at Night, ahd I loft no Time in receiving His Majefty's Commands on the very important 3ubje£t of your Ltfitterj Wo, Q. ■'ip-<*.-*>i*ii'4.-*.-'V,tVii-:>,rj}j.:iiiAij.i>i-)i'> j;-,;v'i "M ' I am much concerned to be under thie Neceffity of remarking, that the Claipi brought forward in the Note tranfmittcd to your Lordfhip by the French Plenipotentiaries, is in itfelf fo extravagant, and fo little to be reconciled cither with the former Profef- fions of thofc Minifters, or with their Conduct in the previous Stages of the Negotiation, that it affords the ftrongeft Prefumption of a Determination to preclude all Means of Accommodation. If fuch is really the . Petermination of the Dire^pry, nothing can remain I 2 for ')■ I I ! /•', ( ' Itf, ! rilS ! : ( / ( 60 ) li'i, |i;,!-l m for this Country but to pcrfevcre in oppofing, with an Energy and Spirit proportioned to the Exigency, a Syflem which muft tend to perpetuate a State /)f War . and Civil Tumult in every Part of Europe. The natural Step upon the prefent Occafion would therefore have been :o direftyour Lordfiip to terminate at once a Nf'gotiation, which, on the Footing now propoftd by the Enemy, affords n ither the Hope nor the Means of any favourable Conclu- fion. Nothing being left for Treaty, where, as a Prelinjinary Step, one, Party is required to concede every Thing, and all compenfation from the other is abfolutcly and at once precluded. His Majefty's Sertrants have, however, obferved, th?t in the Con- clusion of your Lordfhip's Conference with the French Plenipotentiaries on the Subjed of the Note in Queftiouj the "Prefident of that Million informed your Lordlhip,' that it was not intended to refift all Compenfation for the immenfe Extent of Reftitution demanded from His Majefly, and for th§ other obvi- ous circurnflances of diladvantage to this Country in the Situation of Europe, as refulting from the Wati and even added, that he and his Colleagues would eventually bring forward Propofals on this Head for the Deliberation of the King's Govern- ment. It appeared, pofTibk that fome Advantage might perhaps arife to the great Objc6l of Peace, from grounding on this Declaration a further Pro- ceeding, fuvh as might afford to the Directory (if they are fo difpoftd.) the Means of replacing the Negotiation ^.; a nnore pradicable Footing. With tjie View therefore of leaving nothing untried whi(pji csn , contribute to rcftore Peace on any fuitablc Terms, His M:ijeiiy has been pleafed to diredt that your Lordftiip Ihouid for that purpofe afk another. Confefcnce with the French Plenipotentiaries. In this Conference your Lordrtiip will remark in fucH Terms as the Occafion muft naturallv fuggeft to you Upon the indcfenfioie Spirit and Tendency of die Deman^ u '! '1 ( 6« ) Demand now made by France. You will obrerve that France, treating in Conjunftion with her Allies, and, in their Name, cannot with any Pretence of Juftice and Fairnefs, oppofe her treaties with theni as an Obftacle in the Way of any reafonable Propofal of Peace in which they are to be included. In a fc- parate Negotiation, to which they were not parties, fiich a plea might, perhaps, have been ui^cd; but in that cafe France would have been bound to offer, from her own Means, that Compenfation which ihc did not think herfclf at Liberty to engage to obtain from her Allies. And fuch was, in Fa6t, as your Lord(hip muft rememberj the Principle on which His Majefty offered to treat lead Year, when he was really bound, by Engagements to Auftria, fimilar to thofc which are now ailedged by France. But it never can be allowed that France, Spain, and Hol- land, negotiating jointly for a Peace w:th Great Bri- tain, can fet up, as a Bar to our juft Demands, the Treaties between themfelves, from which they are at onceable to reieafe each other whenever they think fit. You will further remark, that even if, contrary {to all Reafon, fuch a Principle could for a Monif-nt have been admitted on our Part, ftiil even that Prin- ciple, inadmiifible- as it is, could only apply to pub- lic Treaties, known to thofe who agreed to be go- verned by them, and not to fecret Articles, unknown even to the French Plenipotentiaries, or concealed \)y One cf them from the Knowledge of the others. You will add in explicit, though not offenfivcj Terms, that the Whole of tliis Pretence now fet up by France is inconteftably frivolous and illufory ; being grounded on a Suppofition of a State of Things direftly contrary to that which is known really iq cxift. It being perfedly notorious that both Spain and Holland, fo far from wifhing to continue the War, were compelled by France :o engage in it, greatly againft their own Wilhcsi ii.«d to undertake,' r ' with- ii B' I; 14 -■ii? * h.':y%\- U'M iv ■ * -u '' ( «2 J mm m ir?: .'without the Mca!>s of fupporring it, a Conteft In which they had nothing to gain, and every Thing to Iftft?' It never therefore can be allowed to be' a QuefTion of any paffible Doubt, but that the Direc-^ tory, if they really wilh it, muft already have ob- ' tained, or could at any Moment obtain, the Confent bf thofe Powers to fuch Terms of Peace as have been propofed by His Majefty. If, however, France, from any Motive of Intcreft or Engagement, is in Truth defirous to procure' for them the Rcftitution of Pof- fefllons whi^h they were unable to defend, and havd no Means to reconquer, the Projeft delivered by your Lordfhip afforded an Opening for this : thofc Articles having been fo drawn ?s to leave it to France to provide ^a Compenfation to His Majefty, cither out of her own Colonies, -or out of thofc of her Allies, refpedlively conquered by His Majefty's Arms. The Choice between thefe Alternatives may be left to the Directory ; but to refufe both is, in other Words, to refiife all Compenfation. This is neverthelefs ex* prefsly declared not to be the Intention of thofe. with whom you treat. It is therefore neceffary that your Lordfhip (hould demand from them a Statement of the Propofals, which, as they informed you, they ' have to make, in order to do away this' apparent Contradiftion, which the King's Servants are wholly unable to reconcile by any Suggeftion of theirsi even if it Mere fitting and realbn^ble foi* them to bring for- ward any new Propofals immediately after the detailed Projed which was delivered on the Part of this Country at the Outfet of the Negotiation. ' Since that Projc6t is noe accedzd to, we have evi- dently, and on every Ground, a Right to expeft a Counter Projeft, equally full and explicit on the Part of the Enemy. You will therefore ftate to the French Minifters diftinftly, tliat. the only Hope of bringing this Biifinefs to a favourable Conelufiony h By their dating at once plainly, and without Hcferve, iheWholc of what they have toalk, inftcad of bring.. \ . . . ^ .... ing T-:^. If c 63 > ing forward feparate Points one after the other, not only contrary to the avowed Principle of th^ Nego- tiation propofcd by themfelves, bur, as it appears, even contrary to the Expedbation of the Minifter^i themfelves who are emploped on the Part of France* There can be no Pretence for refufing a Cbmpliance with this Demand, if the Plenipotentiaries of France are difpofed to forward the Obje6t of Peace; And the obraining fuch a Statement from them is» < as I have before Itated to your Lordihip, a Point of {o much Importance, in any Courfe which this Nego- tiation may take, that it is the King's Pleafiirc that your Lordfliip fhould ufe every poffibie'Endcavoui: to prevent their eluding £0 juli: a Demand. After what has paffed, it is, I fear, very doubt f^ J whether fuch a Counter Projedt would be framed on Principles fuch as could be admitted herej jbut it would at all Events place the Bufineis on itf real Iflue, and bring diftinftly into Qiieftion th " ral Points on which the Conclufion of Peace, or ix . ?rolonga-' tioQ QiWsLKi will really depend. , v i ,Hi. -^im^q^ iiit ^j I am, &c nt M^ ie(!) GRENVlLLlE^^ ' ,f .Right Hohourable Lord Malmcfbury. ^'t^^^.^'^^r^ (No. 24u|J| j:f3j}Qf|Coi>y of a Difpatch from Lord GrenvUle to? 1 r, J*^ >** i*. . ^o*"^ Malmelbury, dated Downi»2-Str6et# * My Lord, •n:x'iui^'::>a^ .vT^,<*/;V,v7;-y.^.|Jf^;i^yf :\rr- ■ f.. Theri arc Two feparate Points on which it is ne- ceflary for me to lay a few Words to your Lordfliip, in Addition to the Inflru^lions in my other Diipatch^ on the General Subjed of the Negodation. rm ■ The Firil relates to the Aflertion of One of the French Minifters, that the Portuguefe Ships and Troops were at Toulon, The Fa6t is very immate- rial as ,eo any Ccndufion that could be drawn froni iC) CO affbd th« Situation or juH: Claims of the Courc of «, ;- ' -■ • V.--*- fi f'iu m mil ill !-; m l|iv m t- ■^"\:f.\ i : <4 ) hi of Llifedil J bccaufe your Lordlhip well knows, that it is a Principk univerfally recognized in the public Law of Europe, that when Onfe of the Parties, in a Dcfenfive Alliance, furnifhes to his Ally the ftipulated Succours, thofe Succours remain entirely at the Dif- pofal of the requiring Party, to be employed where- cver he Ihall judge proper, fubjeft only to tlTc Li- mitations of the Treaty which before exifted j and if the Amount of thofe Succours is not cncreafed be- yond that engaged for, nor the Means of uling them extended by new Facilities, the Party furnifhing the l^ipulated Afliftance is not underftood to violate the Laws of Neutrality. -• ,. But the FadV, in this Cafe, would* not bear out the AfFertion, even if the Argument to be drawn from it were moi»e conclufive. The Troops of Het Moft Faithful M^jcfty having been, as L apprehend, no^ otherwifc employed than in the Two Campaigns car- ried on by Land, upon the Southern Part of the Frontiers of France and Spain. The other ^oint relates to what .vas faid to your Lordfhip about the Treaty of Pilnitz. It would certainly not require much Argument to prove that the Renewal of feveral Treaties enumerated by Name and Date, and the lafeft of which was con- cluded in 1783, does not imply a Renewal of ano- ther Treaty fuppofcd to be concluded in 179 1. But what is more material to the prefent Cafe is, that your Lordfhip Ihould take this Oppertunity to ex- plain, in the moft diftind: and unequivocal Terms, that if any ^-icret Treaty was in faft concluded at the Interview at Pilnitz, between the late Emperor and t|ie King of Pruffia (which is, to fay the leaft, . fery doubtful in point of Fad), this at leaft is cer- tain, that His Majefty was no Party to fuch Treaty j and not only was not then included in it, but has ncn ver iincc , adhered to it, nor even been apprized o£ its Contents. The publick Dect^ation which was made at that Interview, fhews on tht Face of it that .•■-■. ... ..'•, « - . • ....- . ...,.• His'. * ,\ 1 < . / i t ^ 1 t > i 1 'v , ( 6j ) : His Majefty was no party to it ; and it is, indeed, noLvTious that it applied to Circumftjinces whjch were done away long before the War brok!e out be- tween Aiiftria and France, and that the fubfequent Negotiations for the Maintenance of Peace between thofe Powers turned on points wholly dillinft from thofe fuppofed to have been referred to in the pre- tended Treaty of Pilnitz. This Explanation, however little connefted with the prcfent Negotiation, feems to be called for by the Allufion made to you upon the Subject j and, indf:ed, on a point on which fo much Mifreprefenta- tion has prevailed, it is ufcful not to omit the Op- portunity of ftating the Fads as they really are. ..,,„.. A, „:,.,„■: ;., lam, &C. -^ ^ , (Signed) GRENVIIXE. 'fe* Right Honourable Lord Malinefbury. • f-|^^|"^fk/i' -■•. •,V^/-J"'S»t j.5s (No. 25.) Extraftof a Difpatch from Lord Malmef- f^0 Jjt^# bury to Lord GrenviUe, dated Lifle, My Lord, 'rifWi'ViSf 3f^^^ivst<-:^J^*\r-i-rf^^ yy-'hi}^!^ ;i,i<|'''/ I HAVE the Honour to acknowledge your Lol-dr Ihip's Difpatches, No. 19 and 20, of the 20th inft. which were delivered to me on Saturday the 2 2d inft. by the Melfcnger Major. ^.^^ .b s»t.ir:;s^Mj;^«ri It was impoflible that the Claim brought forward in the Note inclofed ini my No. 9, could have pro- duced on your Lordfhip's Mind any Impreflion dif- ferent from '.hat which you defcribe, and I am happy to find that the Conduct I obferved, when it was firft delivered to ine, was fuch as put it in my power to execute with great Confiftency the fpirited In- ftrudlions your Lordfliip now fends me. . . tm J Immediately on the Arrival of the Meffenger, I propofed an Interview with the French Plenipoten- tiaries^ and we met on Sunday the 23d, at One P. M. , Jl could v-Uii^- ■■'•■T.i'V.f 't ._ '~f ;,.^> ;.j s^. ilhJ f^rrmiiik bhi h: ./, 'I f' . ■ li;: ^11:. ( 68 ) r iii ■•s;v.-, » I could not obey His Majefty*s Orders in a Man- ne)f rtiore likely to command Attention, and to im- prels thofc who heard me with a juft Senfe of the Mixture of Firmnefs and Moderation with which His Majefty was pleafed to condu6l this important Ncgociation, than by employing not only the Sub- '*ftancc, but as far a< was pra(fticable in Converfa- tion, the very Words of your Lordfhip's Difpatch, No. 19 i and if I (hould attempt to relate minutely what I myfelf faid in this Conference, it would in -Fa^ be little more than a Reperition of them. -in| began by obferving, that I was certain the French Plenipotentiaries muft "be fully prepared for ^^hat I now had it in Command to fay : I reminded them that I had taken upon me to affirm when we were laft aflembled, and immediately before 1 difpatched my Meffenger, that the requiring fuch a Preliminary as that propolcd in the Note, was putting an End at once to all Negotiation, and that I was fure Peace on fuch Terms would not be heard ofj that the Orders I was then about to communicate to them would prove that I had not made this A flcrtion lightly, or in confcquence of any hafty Opinion of my own, at the fame Time that it would alfo appear that my Royal Matter was as anxioufly and as finccrejy inclined to liftcn to all reafouablc and admiffible Conditions, as He was determined to repel and rejedt all fuch a* were of an oppofite Defcription. t then, my Lord, ^took up ray Arguments on the prccifc Grounds fet forth in your Lordftiip's, No. 1 9. 1 neither omitted any Thing, nor infertcd any Thing ofmy own, which '- ';;■'■■ " ■^y^-;'>; ( 67 ) • ■ \ ' . neccffary CotKdufion, that ther€ did exift when it was framed an Intention on the part of the Direc- tory to break off the Negotiation in the Outfet My Second Objeft in point of Reafoning, though a very primary One in point of Importance, was either to prevent the Negotiation breaking off at all, or if this was not to be prevented, to endeavour to be fo clear and explicit in my Language,, and to draw the Line fo djftindly between fuch Sacrifice* as His Majefty might be inclined to make in order to reftorc ib great a Bicffing as Peace, and thofe to which the Dignity of His Crown a»id Infereft of His Subjedts would never allow him to attend, as to make it im- poffible that by any future Cavil or Subterfuge the Interruption of the Treaty, if unfortunately it (hould be interrupted, could be imputed to any other Caufc than the exorbitant demands of the French Govern- ment i and the better to infure this purpole, I ex- plained to them that His Majefty having already in^ a detailed Projet'ftated fre£ly and fully His Condi- tions, and thefe Conditions having been at once re- jeded by a fweeping Claim on the Part of the French Government, it was not fitting or reafonablc, neither could it be expefted that arty new Ptopofals (hould originate with His Majefty: And that on every Ground the King had a Right to expeft a Centre' Projel from them, ftating at once plainly and with- out Referve the Whole of what they had to afk, in- ftead of bringing forward feparate points, One after another, dire6lly contrary to the principle on which we had agreed to begin the Negotiation, and which, from their being infulated, could only tend tp gro'j tra«5t and impede its progrcft.-; *f ?i^***;v f*»«rH/f'^*xi»^^ On the Firft, Point, on ;he Ihadmiffibility of the preliminary Conditions a^ propofcd by the French Goveriiment, One of the French Plenipotentiaries faid," it was impoffible for them to do more that to take it for Reference, that the InftruiStions they had received 'When ;hc Directory fcnc tht;ni the Note, were precife ' . K 2 and M r 1 N I'll IN 1.1 H if W m '«'.! I m % ■ and pofitivc, and that they had rcccivtd none fince. He therefore had on that Point fimply to requcft of me, that I would ftate in Writing the feveral Grounds on which His Majefty rejefted this Propofition, in order that the • Report tranfmitted by them to the Diredory might be correft ; and he affured me, that if I did not think it proper to put in Writing all rhe Arguments I had ufed to them in the Conference, they would have no Scruple of employing thofe I omitted in fuch a Way as was the bcft calculated to give them Weight, and to ufe the French Minifier*s, own Expreflion, to place the Negociation once more on Its Legs. ,.?-?>... >-H-;-'-^.t«;x^^»ry.^.v^v,;,-^i,,,^ In regard to the Second Point, he had no hefitation inagreeiug with me, that the beft Method, and in- deed the only One, which could accelicrate the Whole of the Bufinefs, was for them to give in a Contre- Projety neither did he attempt to difprove our perfcft Right to expedt One from them before we made any new Propofals. But he faid, that it was not neceflary . for him to obfcrve that as long as they were bound by their Inftruftions not to give way on the Propofition, , I had now fo decidedly reje<5led, that it was impof- fible for them to move a Seep without new Order? from the Dired:ory j that they would alk for thefe Orders immediately, and lofe no time in acquainting me when they were received. ifOTt I obferved, that in our laft Conference he had in- timated to me they were empowered to come to fome Explanation with me on the Subje6t of Compenfa- tion to be made to His Majefty for the great Ceflions he was difpofed to makej thai, at the time, I con- ceived thefe Explanations were of a Nature to quali- fy the wide claim dated in the Note, and that if \ had abftained from prcfling him further at the mo- tnent, it was from perceiving a Reludlance on their part to bring them forward: — That, however, if they really had fuch Propoials to niakc mc, and if they were of a Nature' to meet in Subftj^nce and Ef- -'■■".' ■ "./'■■■... if fThat as we leemed perfectly agreed as to tlie pro- priety of their producing a Conire-Prcjet, I had no- thing to fay on that point, except to exprefs ipy moft fincere Wifli that it would foon appear, and when it did appear, be fucb a one as virould lead to a fpeedy , and fatisfaftory Conclufion of th^ J^cgotiation, . ♦ *^ - ? : ■ * Kight Honourable Lord Grenvilfe. ' ' ' ' v. ■Sf JNo. 26.) Note from Lord Malmefbury to t})^ F/encH Plenipotentiaries. • -. >?♦»■.■ ,^., Le Miniftre Plenipoteritiaire de Sa Maj^ftc Britan- ti^fiique a fait pafTer i Sa Courla Note qui Jui a ete re* >^inifele 15 dece Mois par les Miniftres Plenipotcnti- |.|4f "'?':'■'■ qui ■■ -f 1i \ que Ic Principe de Compenfation fut reconnu par une Declaration formcUc ct pofitivc faitc au Norn du Dircdoirc Exccucif, et communiquec dans unc Note Officiellc en Date du 27 Novembre 1796, Declara- tion poftcricure a la Confeftion dc ces Traitcs. C'ctait done ^ fin d'applanir autant que poflible toutes Ics Difficultes, que dans le Projct du Trair6 que le Lord Malmelbury a remis aux Miniftres Plc- nipotentiaires de la Republiquc Fran^aife, on laifla ^ la France rAlternative d'etablir cette Compenfation fur Ics propres Pofleflions, ou fur cellesde les Allies. — Or, le Refus abfolu de cette Alternative, paraic ccarter le feul Moyen poflible dc concilier tous les Intcrets, et d'arrivcr a une Paix jufte, honorable, ct pcrmanentc. Le Lord Malnncfbury, perfuade que telle ne fauroit: etre rintcntion du Gouvernement Fran^ais, cfperc d'aprcs les Raifons qu'il vient de leur expofer, qu'on ne continuera pas a infiftcr lur une Condition k la quelle Sa Majedc Britanniquc ne pourra aucunc- ■ment Sc preter. '/^sJPa'-- '•\i\-^*r''-'^ih^. ' II prie de nouveau les Miniftres Henipotcntiairea; de la Republique Fran^aife d'agreer les Aflliranccs dc fa haute Confidcration. ^ , (Signe) MALMESBURY. / il i" ''** '■' i : If' 1 ;i' if* ■ ^ .1 :*'•• A Lifle, ce 24me Juillet 1797. ;*-;!; fit* J,. 4 Tranfiation. ^^#*?i^' (No. 26.) The Minifter Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Majefty has tranfmittcd to his Court the Note which was delivered to him the 15th of this Month, by the Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Republick ; and having received the Orders of the King his Matter, 6n this Subjed, he battens to repeat to thenn, in Writing, conformably to the Define which they have expreifed to him, the following Refledbions, which he had already flated to them verbally, in cbn- iequeace of his moft pofitive Inttrudbions. < . .-.. He i m. ;:«, il ' ! \i \ 72 ) VJiT:' He obfcrves, in the firfV Place, that to require "As an indifpenfable Preliminary of Negotiation « for Peace with England, the Confent of His Bri- " tannick Majeltv to the formal keftitucion of all " the PoflTtfTions which he occupies, as well thofe of ' •* the French Ht'publick, as further and formally " thofe of Spain and the Batavian Rcpublick," is to wilh to edablifli a previous Condition, which ex- cludes all Reciprocity, refufes to the King all Com- penfation, and leaves no Objed of ulterior Negocia- tion. >' > • That the French Republic, formally authorized by its Allies to negociate the Articles of Peace in their Name, cannot fairly fet up its partial 1 reaties with them, in Oppofition to reafonable Propofals of Peace, fince it is univerfally underftood that the Contra 'T^:-J»i i-V ^^V 1 1 ,|li •T-m I V ( 73 ) . ' . bcr 1796 ; a Declaration, posterior to the Completion of thofc Treaties. » It was, thcrcfbrc, in order ta remove, as much as poflible, every Difficulty that, in the Projeft of a Treaty, which Lord Malmelbury has delivered to the Miniftcrs Plenipotentiary of the French Repuhlick, the Alternative was left to France to fettle this Com- penfation on its own Poflcifions, or on thofc of its Allies : But the abfolute Refulal of this Alternative appears to do away the only poflibk Means of conci- liating every Intcreft, and o{ arriving at an honour- able, juft, aAd permanent Peace. ' V '■: Lord Malmelbury, pcrfuaded that fuch cannot be the Intention of the French Government, hopes, that in confequencc of the Reafons herein ftated, a Condition, will not be infifted upon, to which His Britannick Majefty can by no Means confent. He again rcquefts the Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Republick to accept the Aflurances of his high Confidcration. .^ ^ (Signed) MALMESBURY. - Lifle, 24th July, 1797. » , M;-j\ ., ■ .■•••,'••-->,..■ ;l mi ( 74 ) had received that Morning from Paris did riot bring any fpecifick Reply to my iaft J>Jote, but only went to * Wm them that the Direftory had taken the Subjc'6t into their moil ferious Confide rat ion, and wuuld acquaint tacm as foon as polTible with the Re- fuJf. - • I covld not avoid exprefliiirr ^my Concern ^and Surprifii that there exifted any Hefitation whatever in the ^ind of the Directory on a Point, which, although a very important, was -certainly a very fimple one: — That to allow it to remain in Doubt whether His Majefty was to' have any Compenfation or rot. was in other Words to leave it in JDoubt whivk;l;Yr:' y^mther cf the French Minijl^rs faid that he really believed that this would be the only great Impedi- ment we Ihould have to encounter, that every Thing would aQ on quickly and fnloothly, and tliat I muft admit tlie prefcnt to be a very important and difficult: Point in the Negotiation. I agreed with him entirely as to its Importance, but could not acquiefce as to. its Difficulty. ■ : ^:' -,■: v •■ >/'vi^ s?V*?' "vi^^-ii I am very forry, my Lord, that in fuch a Mo- ment, and after waiting fo long, 1 Ihould not be able to fend you more explicit and decifive Aflu- rancesij but it is not in my Power to compel the French Negotiators to move on fafter. All I can do is by my Cond^afl: and Language to take care that no Part v/hatever of the Imputation of Delay fliould attach to me. I have, at every Conference I have held, always declared my Readinefs, to proceed, and I (hall not iail to repeat this every Time we meet. Right Flonourable Lord Grcnville, &c. $cc. &c. (No. 28.) Note from the French Plenipotentiarlea to Lord Malmeftury. Les Minlttres Plenipotenriaires de la Republique Fran^oife feroient charmcs de Pouvoir s'cntretenir quelques Inftants avec Loccl Maln»«^ft)ury j ils ont en confequencc I'Honneur de lui propofer une Reunion qui auroit Lieu aujourd'hui a Deux Hcures ou a telle autre qui lui conviendroit mieux, et c^u'il voudroic bicn indiquer. • - :. ' ^; iW;'." ■"■;;'•■( 77 ) C*eft avec Plaifir qu*iJ5 renouvellent aU Lord Malmefbury rAflurance dc leur haute Confideration; urrnm^^A (signe). LETOURNEUR/' ' ;; ; ^ HUGUES B. MARET^ * ^' Lille, 17 Thermidor, ' An 5ine de la Republique. -.^ ' ; " ; 'i .' .' V ir- ^ : , COLCHEN, Sec. Gen. de la Legation, Tranflation. (No. 28.) ^> ; . The Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Re- publick will be happy to have an Opportunity of converfing for a few Minutes with Lord Malmef- buryj and they have in confcqucnce the Honor of propofingi to him to meet them at Two o'Clock To- day, or at any other Hour which may be more con- venient to him, and which he will have the Goodnefs to appoint. They renew, with Pleafure, to Lord Malmefbury, the Affurances of their high Coniideration. • / (Signed) LETOURNEUR. - HUGUES B. MARET, ^ IjlTe, 17 Thermidor, 5th Year of the Republict. (Auguft 4, 1797.) rf ■ t-'t-f-' (No. 19.) COLCHEN Sec. Gen. of the Legation of the Republick. ^ (Aug. 4, 1797.; Extraft of a Dlfpatch from Lord Malmelbury to Lord Grenville, dated Lille, Auguft 14th, 1797* My Lord, ,. ^, v ; IN confequence of the Refolution we had come to, to meet ©n the Days of the Arrival of the Poft from Paris, our Conferences for this hft Week have taken place regularly every other Morn- ing, except on Thuffday the loth of Auguft, which ■•■,.; >• ■ '7 . •- -' ' ••♦ ^-.^ -.v being ■'1 m "him ' (78 ) being the Anniverfary of One of their National Fes- tivals, the French Legation could not attend. - 1 1 <' I have in mine, No. 17, given your Lordfliip an Account of every Thing which pafTerl in thefe Con- ferences, up to that of the 6rh. On the 8th nothing was faid at all worth tranfmitting, except an Intima- tion flung out by by One of the French P/enipotemui- ties, thp.c it would b^. neceflary -to take into Confi- deration the Rights of Neutral Nations on this Oc- cafion. But as he fpoke very vaguely, and in gene- ral Terms, 1 did not choofe to prcfs him for an Ex- plariation, as I confider it more judicious to avoid Difcuffions on feparate and collateral Points, and not . to enter into Negotiation :ill the Whole can be brought under Deliberation at once. V'^hat pafled on the 12th was rather more intered- ing. The Return of Mr, Wcflev afforded me a very natural Opportunity of expreffing the Impatience with which an Anfwer to my lall Note was ex-^>e ; ,' :. I replied it was indeed very material to make good the Time we had loft. The French Minijler anfwered, you would not call it Time loft if you knew how ic was employed. On my exprcfling, by my Manner, aWifti "^FW W\ ( 79 ) a Wiih to bf informed, he went on, by faying we * will not fcruple to tell you, though we feel we ought not yet to do it officially, that we are confulting with our Allies; that we have communicated to them all that has pa fled here; we have ftated that, unlefs they mean to continue the War, they muft releafe us from our Engagements, and -enable us, to a certain De- gree, to rrjeet your Propofals, The Conference of Tp-day is this Moment over. One of the French Plenipotentiaries informed me, that he had received this Morning a Letter. from the Prc- fident of the Directory, afluring him that in Four or Five Days they would receive their final Ijiftrudions; and he added of himfelf, that he trufted thefe woufd be fuch as would enable us to continue our Work without any further Interruption. I faid, I hoped thefe Inftrudions would be in Subflance a Counter Projed, a» I did not fee how any Thing fhort of One could enable us to proceed fo rapidly as he defcribed. He agreed with me entirely, and allured me, that both he and his Colleagues had repeatedly ftated the NecefTuy of a Counter Projefl being fent them^ and he obferved,. that he really thought the French Go-» vernmcnt might have forefeen every Thing which had pafled, and been prepared wi.th one; and that this would have faved a great deal of valuable Time. As I could not myfelf have faid more, I readily gave a full Alfent to what I.heard. •„ W ij., ■■ '8- i^'^f (No. JO.) • , Extracl ofa Difpatch from LordGrenvilleto ' Lord Malmefbury, dated Downing Street, Auguft iQtb, 1797. m Pi£i Expreffion mentioned in One of your Lord- ihip's laft Difpatches to have fallen from One of tha French Plenipotentiaries, leads to the Prefumption that it is intended, on the Part of France, to bring forward fome Propofal about the Navigation of Neu- tral Powers I. Time of War. Your Lprdfhip will belt judge ot the proper Opportunity of exprefllng His I.'.' 11 Mis MaicftyS decided and unalterable Refolution oft ihis Pdinr, not to admit of any PropOfal for treating with his Enemies on the Subjcdt bf the Rights or Claims of Neutral Powers. The only Remark with which I have to'trouble your Lordfbip by this Meflcnger, relates to an Ej^- . preffion in the late Mcflage of the JDiredbory to the Council of Five Hundred, which, if literally taken, conveys an accufation againft His Majefty's Govern- ment, that fome Delay has arifen on the Part of this Country in the Negotiations at Lifle. This is fo avowedly contrary to the Fad, that it muft be con- fidered as imp'olTible that fuch a Charge could be intended to be made by a Government which had at ' that Moment delayed for Three Weeks making any Anfwer to His Majefty's diftinfl and liberal Propo- fals of Peace, and whofe Plenipdtentiaries were daily apologizing to your Lordfhip for this unbecoming, and as they almoft confefs, ufiaccountable Delay; but as the Point is too important to Be left unnoticed. ' it is the King's Plcafure that your Lordlhip (hould prefent a Note, remarking upon the Senfe to which thefe Words arc liable, exprefling your Perfuafion that fuch cannot be the Intention with which they were ufed, but alking on the Part of yout Court an E'q lanation to that Effedt, which cannot be refufed without a Violation of every Thing which Truth and Juftice require on fuch an Occafion. (No. 31.) Extraft from the Meflagc of the French Di- TtAovy to the Council of Five Hundred, Auguft 9th, 1797. En fin, cette Caufe eft dans le Defefpoir ou font tous les vrais Citoyens, et partlrulieremcnt les Dc- fcnfcurs de la Patrie, de voir s*cloi^ncr, au Moment m^mc de f* Conclufion, et apr^s Trivoir achet6c par tant de Sang et de SoufFrancc, urc Paix Definitive, que follicitoient enfin avec EmpreiTement )es Chefs dc la Coalition vaincue, et qu'un Gouvcfncment, Ami m ( 8J ) Ami de THumanite, cherchmc ^ concJure avcc plus d' Em preflement encore, lorfque, tout a coup, rani- mant leurs Efperanccs, comptant fur unc Diflblu-- tion gen6rale par le Defaut de Finances, fur la De- f\ru6tion de GouvernCnicnt, fur la Mort, ou I'Exil des plus braves G^.n^raux, et fur ia Difperfion ct la Perte des Armees, ces ni^mes Puiflances coalifees ont misf autaflt de Lenteur dans lesi Negotiations, qu'elles avoient montrc d'Ardeur pour terminer. vi K. Tranflation. (No. 31.) ■' , > V. In (hort thisCaufe is in the fame Defpond^ncy in which all good Citizens, and particularly the Defen- ders of the Country are, at feeing deferred at the very Moment when its Conclufion was thought to be liear at hand, and after having bdught it with fo itiuch Blood and fo much Suffering — a definitive Peace with the Heads of the vanquiflied Coalition at Ifength folicited in good Earned-, when its Conclufion was expelled, and which a Govtrnnnent,. friendly to Humanity, were ftill more earneft to conclude: When, all on a fudden, buoyed up with new Hopes, reckoning upon a general DiiTolution of the Govern- ment by the falling of its Finances, upon its Def- truftion, upon the Death or BaniQiment of its braveft Generals, and upon the Difperfion and Lofs of its Armies, thefe very fame couicfced Powers have thrown as much Delay into the Negotiations, as they had flicwn Apxiety to bring them to an End. - ._{ . (No. 32.) ' * , Copy of a Difpatch from Lord Malmlbury p -U 'X '"■ '' to Lord Grenville, datcu Lifle, Auguft ■- u_i'. tZf 1797. v^ '•>- ■ . •'■* My Lord, In my Conferetice of this Mormng, I *took an Opportunity of remarking to the French Plenipoten- tiaries on the very unfair and extraordinary Aflcrtion which had appeared in the MeflTage of the 9th Inftant, frorti the pirc^ory to the Council of Five Hundred, -% ' ' -•■ ^ ' M viz. liSfi ( 8» > I V J? Hi m I • i^: it I \0u «( <( viz, <' que leff t'ui(fance$ qoaritiSet ont mis arutant def Lenteur dans xcs Negotiations* qu'elles avoient montre de TArdeur j^our Ics terminer." I obferv- ed to them that I had Orders from my Court to aik a precife Explanation, whether thife Accufationof Delay was meant to appJy tp the Manner in whicli His Majedy had conduced i he. Negotiation at Liile^ and if it was fo meant, to declare that no Acd^fation was ever more deftitute of Foundation, nor a wider Deviation from the real Fad. I faid I was perfeftly ready to abide by their Determination on this Point, convinced thatfit was impoffible for them not to ac- knowledge that the Delay (if there had been any blameable Delay) relied with the French Govern- ment and not with His Majefty. The Frejfch Ple- nipotentiaries admitted this to be moft ftridly true j that the Phrafe I had quoted was an ill judged one, and mal redigee ; but that it could not tn any Point of View whatever be conftrued as applying to England v and they were ready to fay, that when it was written, the Dircftopy alluded folely to the Court of Vienna j that they cotild aflurc me thev had been very faithful in their Reports, ancf that when they faid this it was faying in other Word*, that I had efi»rried on the Ne-' gotiation with as much Expedition as^ pofllble^ and that if it had proceeded tfowly for this lad ^nthF, the Slownefs arcfe on their Side and not on minie. I faid I could not fof an Inftant call in queftion their Feelings on this Point % if was the Infmuation conveyed in the Meifage, and Whichr had gone over Europe, that it was necefTary for tAc to clear up, and to know whether the Direftory thought and felt as they did. One of the Fxeneh Mimjlers, with very ilrong ExprefHons, aiTured me the Directory certainly did think and feel like them ; thai- no unfair or infi- dious Aliufion was meant, and added, ** qjJe ce ** Meifage etoit fait popr ittmuler les Confeils." I went on by Qbierving it was very eflential for me to have this fully explained^ and thsit I fliould give them in T ( «3 ) m g Note to this Effcft j they rcquefled X would hot, it would iead to difagreeable Difcuffiobs, and wou4d not anfwer €h« End I propofed. They would take upon themrdves now to aflure me in the Name of the DireAory that nothing at all fimilar to the Con- ilruAion I put on the Phrafe was intended, and that as foon as they could receive ati Anfwer to the Re- port thcylhouW make of To-day's Converfation, they would fay the fame from the Dircftory itfelf. I hope, my Lord, I have, therefore, by obtaining this very pre<:ife and formal Difavowal of an Inten- tion to fi* any Impytation of Delay on His Majeftjr's Government, fulfilled the Objcft of my Inftm6lions on this particular Pointy If when the French Pleni- potentiaries fpeak from the Direftory, the Difavowal ihould not be equally fatisfadory and comp^^te, I then will not faU, according to your Lordfhip's Or- ^cf, to give in a Note* I have the Honor to be, &c. ■'■'>'''''' ^"' ^ (Signed) MALMESBURY. {light Honourable Lord Grenvilie. • (No. 33.) * V. Extraft of a DIfpatch from Lord Malmof- ^t.fi..l -..i- ,. « • r, . bury to Lord Grcnvillo, dated Lifle, /'.:. . , '. - Auguftaa, 1797. ' The FourConferences I have held with the French plenipotentiaries, fince I laft wrote to your Lordfhip on the 14th inftant, will not, I fear, furnilh very intereHing Materials for a Difpatch. Our Conference of this Morning was principally employed in what I have related in my other Dif- patch 5 but th« French Plenipotentiaries aflured me, that by Thurfday, ol- at the lateft by Saturday, they expe^ed to receive their long expefted Meffenger. . il! t'B WS , l!i!>'' i.|- il. I|i[':il (No. 34,) ^xtra£t of a Difpatch from Lord Malmef* J bury to Lord Grenvilie, dated Lifle, Auguft 39, 1 797. U:f^- VFi^V5to,v ! ^1 I AM extremely forry to be forced to announce to rtJElS'-HJ Mz your ( «4 ) ;-;;\y' W your Lordfhip, that frcfh DqUys occur in theProgrefs of the Negottation.ijj? ^jfcjii*}r»;^Km/ oj bviX h\'Jiy^t ;c The French Plcnipotetitiaritfs iriforrtied me at our Conference Yeftcrday, that the laft Anfwer from Holland was fo un(atisfa6tory that the Directory had ordered the Minifter for Foreign Affairs to return it to the Dut<;h Minifters at Paris ; that the Dutch Ministers could not take upon themfelvesto alter it in the Way the Direftory proppfed, but had been obliged to refer to their Government for new Orders j and that therefore, fuppofmg no Tinnie to be loft in Deliberation on this Subjedt at the H^gue, it would be at leaft a Week from To-day before any farther Account cpujd be received here. After lamenting this unexpcftcd Procraft {nation of our Bufinefs, I expreHed a Wifli to know what the Dutch Anfw?r had been, what Objedions the Direc- tory had made to it, and the Alteration they wefe defirous it (houjd undergo. One of the French Plenipotentiaries faid, it had not been communicated to them, but that he underftood it was complexes louche ^ et peu Jatisfaifante. — That (he Directory cxpeded it fhould* be clear and diftind^, and fuch an one as would enable them to fend fuch Inftrudlions here, as would allow us to go on with the Negotiations in a Way to recover the Timp wc had iolT. ■:m^m\',^ii ^'is^.:,:{*im:!:;?* A , 'i ■v_ i [ i ^ t I iiii .« 'li IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET {MT-3) // 1.0 I.I L£|2^ |2.5 ■so ~^~ KBB lU 2.0 1.25 1 U ,J4 ^ 6" ►> Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 23 WIST MAIN STRIIT WIBSin.N.Y. MSM (716) •73-4503 \ ;V ■l^ O \ ^1 ^J\^^^ "•

'. •■ ^ "" - - '. (No. 3S.) Copy of a Difpatch from Lprd Malmeftury to Lord Grenville, dated Liile, Monday, September i I, xyg;. i^-' My Lord, ' Oi* my going to the Conference this Morning, the 'Flrtftidi Plenipotentiaries informed me that the whole .V. French r- ( »7 ) r. French Legation was recalled^ and that Mdlrs. Tn^" hard and Bonnifr. d'Alco were appointed in theit; Room. They faid, their Orders were to communis cate this Event to me immediately, ¥tnd at the fame Time to add, in the Name of the French Govern- meitt, that this Alteration, in the Choice of the Ne-. gotiators, would not produce any whatever in the Difpofition of jche Diredgry, to bring the Negotiation to a happylifue. I affured them I Wi^s extremely forfy to hear that they were recalled. That we had hitherto adcd to- gether fo cordially, that it was to be lamented any Circumftances had ariifen which made the French Government think it advifable to put the Negotiation into other Hands. That I received with Satisfadion what they told me as to the Sentiments manifefted by the Dire^ory, Relative to the Negotiation, and that I could aflure them, they were fuch as certainly exiftcd in the Breaft of my Royal Maftcr. *'v-,*>)^..:'^'^i:^-*'>%'VjT:.v^» • >';^ ' 1 then fuggcfted to therti, whether it would not ht proper to give me an Official Note on this Occafion, fince it made a very marked Period in the Negotiation j and as they perfedly agreed with me on the Propriety of this, they fent me that I now cnclofe* I confider this Event as fo material, that I do not )ofe a Moment in difpatching One of my Servant^ to England, as I have at prefenc no MeiTenger with me. ■^y.i"' • : I have the Honour to be. &c. .•^!!5.-3;.v... (Signed) MALMESBURY. Right Honourable Lord Grenville* , It (1^0. 39.>. Note firom tlie French Plempotentiftrlet to' Lord Malmeibury. Les Minlftres Plenipotentiaires de la Republtquc f'ran^oife ont THonneur d'rnformcr Lord Malmeibury qu'ils ont ic^vi, par TOrdinlrie de ce Joufi un ArrSt6 n ;l ;'13 ill If li ! :iil?il IBIl ■Al,r ^ \ ( 88 ) Pf! dw Diredtorie Executif, qui porte leur Rappd, tk la^ Nomination des C. C. Treilhard et Bonnier pour leur fucceder, ct fuivrcles Negotiations commencces avec I'Angleterrt*.— Le Miniftre des Relations Extc-» rieures, en enyoyant aux Miniftres Plenipotentiaircs fouflignes cet Arr6te du Diredtoire du Vingt-deux dc ce Mois, leur mande d*attendre TAriivee de leurs SucceiTcurs.' II les charge aufli de prevenir le Mini- lire Pienipotentiaire de Sa Majefte Britannique qOe Je Changement des Negociateurs n'en apporte aucun dans les Difpontions du DiK^oriei pour la Negotia-^ Les Miniftres Plenipotentiaircs de la Republique Fran9oife ont THonneur de r6iterer au Lord Malmcf- bury TAffurancede leur haute Confideration. v,,-c.-..; .,,.;>^..,. 14. (Signe) LETOURNEUR. ;• - HUGUESB. MARET. J ,: Lille, le 25 Fruftidpr, ^ '^ , ' An 5 de la Republique, _ J, ';. .;^j ^,.;.;^, ,^ -..i., , ♦ ^ ' - ;^ COLCHEJ^, Seel deii. dc la Legation: i (No. 40.) -^W^^^'^^ _~N6fe from Lord Malmefbury to the ■'"■M:^^'^ M(^y-- French Plenipotentiaries, ' * "Le Miniftre Pienipotentiaire de Sa Majefte Briran- nique a THonneur d*accufer la Reception de la Note que les Miniftres Plenipotentiaircs de la Republique Fran^oife lui ont adreftfee, pour ]ui faire Part de TArrlt^ du Difc6ioirc Executif qui porte leur Rappel et la Nomination des Miniftres deftines a leur fuc- ceder, ct a fuivre les Negociation» deja' commencces. II recoit en m^mc terns avec Satisfa?.; Wl >'f'} T/T'K'^.''^' ( 8? ) -The \finillers Plenipotentiary of the French Rc« public haive the Honour to inform Lbrd Malmef- hurf that they have r«^ceivcd, by this Day's [Poft,' a Decree of the Executive Direftory,. fignifying their Recall, and the NDmination of Citizens Treil- hard and Bonnier to fuccecd them, and to . continue the Negotiations entered upon with England. The Nflinifter for Foreign Affairs, in fending to the Underfigned Minifters Pletiipotentiafy this De- cree of the Dire6tory, of the 2 2d of this Month, . orders them to wait the Arrival of their Succeffbrs. It alfo directs them t6 inform the MJnifter Plenipo- tentiary of His Britannick Majcfty, that the Chan^ge of the Negotiators does not carry with it any Change in the Difpofition of the Dire6tory, with regard to the Negotiation. J ''"* ^ The Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Re- publick have the Honour to renew to Lord Malmcf- bury the Afluratices of their high Confidcration. r . f. *vT # (Sign Lord Malmcibury in thanking the Minifters Ple- nipotentiary of the French Republick for this Com- munication, begs them to be perfuaded of his per* fonal Regret on account of their Departure, and to accept the Afiurances of his high Confideratton. (Signed^ M ALMESBURY, Lifle, Sept. 12, 1797. ■ 'I '^iX, m %■ ri^lf-:: w;* (No. 41.) £^tra<^ of a Dlfpatch from Lord Maimed - bury to Lord Grenville, dated LiflCj Hh^' 17th September, 1707. :.--,;; -^ . ^ MyUrd, "^-• • The new French Plenipotentiaries, Meflieiirs Treilhard and Bonnier d*Alco,. with their principal Secretary M. Derche, and Two private Secretaries, arrived here at Five o'Clock A» M. on Wedncf- day the 1 3th Inftant. At Eleven A. M. they fent M. Perche to i»cquaint me with their Arrival, and - to inquire at what Hour I would receive their Vifit. In confequence of my faying whenever it was con- venient to them, they came immediately, attended by Meffieurs LcTourneur, Marer, and Colchenv On taking Leave, M. Le Tourncur came forward and faid to me, in hts Name and that of his Col- leagues-, that they could not terminate their Miflion . without exprefling the Satisfaction they had felt frorti the Opennefs and Candour (Loyaut6 et Franc^ifc) with which I had adted during the Whole of the^ Negotiation, or take Leave of me, without exprcff- ing their fincere perfonal Regrets ; that the Recol- legion of my Conduct would always be agreeable to them, and that it had given me the ftrongeH: Title ta ^ their Eftcem and good Wifbes. After giving the new Plenipotentiaries as much f Time as was neceffary to return to their own Houfc, I fent Mr. Rofs to aik at what Hour I might return . . . tficir rr vv .m t * CO their Vifit 5 and, in confcquence of their Anfwer, I Tvent to them, attended by Lord Morpeth and Mr. Ellis. "I took an Opportunity of returning the Compli- ment M. Le Tourneur had made me ; and I rauft in Juftice repeat my Lord, what I have already faid, that his Conduct and that of his Colleagues has^ in every Point whjch has depended on them, been perfectly fair and honorable, and in no Inftance contrary to the_ Principles they announced, and the Profcflipns they made. It is therefore impoflible for me not to regret them, and not to confider the Change of Negotiators at lead as a very unpleafant, if not a very unfortunate Incident. >,j,.uiIJLiii ^4 \. ^^^:^^^-m^^^'^^^ a Dilpa^ch from Lord MalmeC >''*• ■ * '^ bury to Lord Grenville^ dated Lifle, ,*vif.i^ir io j.tj*;i ^s,> '• "^ 7 he French Minifler ft rove to prove to me, what he had before attempted, that the claiming a Right of Enquiry into the Nature of the difcretibnary Au- thority confided in a Minifter, by no Means implied an Intention of requiring of him to z^ up to it to its utmoft Limits. 1 obferved, if no fuch Intention ex- iftcd, why inftitute the Enquiry ? and if it did exift, why hot fay fo at once}— He faid, what we now aflc is little more than a Matter of Form ; when you have, given us your Anfwer, we fhall follow it up by an- other Step, which we are ordered to take. I faid, my Atifwer was given Two Months ago; that, al- though I was ready to give it thep again, and in Writing, as One to their Note^^yet, as it could, not > be different, I did riot fee why they fliould not pi-o- cced immediately to the other Step, by which I was told the Qeftion was to be followed up. It wotildi, be premature, faid the French Minifter ; but in draw- ,. log up your Anfwer, do not forget the Force of the i Arguments I have ufcd, or in your Report to your^i Court, the Affurances we have given of the earneft > "Wifh of the Direftory to terminate the War.. t^ I replied, that I ftill mud maintain, that from?^ .the Manner in which they thought proper to defincif full Powers, 1 could fee no Diftindtion between ac- knowledging the Power and admitting the Principle ; , and tl w\ s f I il '.* ( 9« )' tnd that the Queftion itfclf could not be plit' v^iffi' any other' intention — (Your Lordlhip will obfervc^ from the fubfequent Notes which paflcd between us^ that I was perfedlly grounded in this Aflertion); — that in my Reports, they might be fully afifured t ihould adt up to that conciliatory Spirit, which, from the earlieft Period of the Negotiation^ had al- ways decided my Condudt; and that, inaufpiciouS" as Appearances were, I certainly would be careful not to make them look kojiile. At vhe Word hoftile, both the French Plenipotentiaries were moft wartti' in their Proteftations, that nothihg could be lefs fo ; that the Idea of the Negotiation breaking off was" as far from their Thoughts as from their Wilhes. I faid, that although -I heard this with Pleafure, yet I coiSld not avoid adverting to Fads, and that, when in(lead of an Anfvycr, and the favourable Ari- fwer which I had every Reafon to expcft, I received only the Repetition of a Demand, which had been already fatisfied Two Months ago ; I certainly could not think this a good Omen. If it did hot bode ari immediate Rupture of the Treaty, it afluredly did' not announce a near and fuccefsful Termination of . it. the above-mentioned Minijier perfifted I was mif- taken ; that the Bufinefs would end fpeiedily ; that' Speed was their Wifli, and Speed with Pekce for its Objedfc. Oft breaking up our Conference, I faid, that I took it for granted we fliould meet again at the ufiiall Hour, on Sunday. He faid, that it perhaps might' not be neceflary, but that they certainly would let' me know in Time j and this conveyed to me the firft' Idea of what has fihce taken placjf. ; .. ...:-\ linclofeyour Lordlhip the l^ote A; f Acfelvts^u in this Conference from the French Plenipotentiaries, and the Anfwcr B, which I made to it Ycfterday Morning at ID A. M. v At 6 P. M. the Note C was tranfmitted to me ;. to which at 8 P. M. I returned he AnfWcr D, by" v'^,:\>\;:-.-^^,v,.;-:..'/'^;,',vx. ■. 'Mr, jffWW-A ( 97 V tAr. feo(s, whom I fcnt in order that he might br'ng me the Paflports I afkcd for -, but at a Quarter be- fore 10 P. M. M. Derche, Secretary of the French Legation, delivered to me the Paper marked E } and thi» Morning at 9 A. M. I replied by the Note F, which immediately produced that marked G. The Notes fent me by the French Plenipotentiaries fpeak for themfelvcs ; and it is unneceflary to enter into any Reflexions on them* I am willing to hope that the Anfwers I have made were fuch as became the Situation in which I (land, the Importance of the Caufc intrufted to me, and the fteady but tem- perate Condud which the Spirit of my Inltruftions mjoin me to hold. It was my Wilh to give every Opening to the JF'rench Plenipotentiaries to recal the violent Step they had taken ; and, if polTible, to convince them of its extreme Impropriety. And it was with this View, and with a moft anxious Defire not to exclude all Hope of the Reftoration of Peace, that I deter- mined on fuggeding the Idea of our meeting once more before 1 left Lille. This Meeting took place To-day at Noon : I opened it by obfcrving, That the feveral. Notes they had received from me fince the preceding Evening had been too expreffivc of the Surprize I felt at the Meafure^hc Direftory had thought proper to adopt, to make it necefTary for me to enlarge upon it in this Conference j and indeed my fole Motive for fug- gefting that it might be for our mutual Satisfadion that it (hould be held, was, becaufe this Meafure appeared to me to be in |iich direA Contradi^ion to the very ftrong AiTurances l had fo cooftantly ai^d repeatedly heard from them, apd to the pacifick In- tentions with which they declared they ;- were fent, that it was my earneft Wilh (before I cppQdered their Coixdud as fprcing me to a Step /^hich nfiuft fo -materially afliedt The Sqccefs of the Negotiation), tp be perfectly certain thafl underftood clearly and ■ -f;^ ■• ''■':^--/ ■ ■: ■;*^^:-: ■ '^': '■■ •'" • ' -;-- - diftihaiy Jiilii! liiifi I ill 'i i ii nfl ■ !!": ' :■ "till ( 9» ) m di{lin£Uy the precife Meaning of their official Notef, On their iadtnitting that nothing could be more reafonable than that I (hould, on fo important a Point, require Explanation, or more fatisfa^lory to them than to give it me (as far a^ lay in their Power), I proceeded by Taying, that it appes^red to me that I was called upon to produce immediately my full Powers, or rather my Inftrudliona (for however dif- ferent thefe vrere ip themfelves, in their Demand they Teemed conft^ntly blended), and that if either I refufed to confent to this, or if on confenting to it, it was fornid that I was not authorifed to treat on the Principle they laid down, I was then in the Space of Twenty-four Hours to leave Lilie, and return to my Court •, and that I w.'ts required to ob- tain full Authority to admit this Principle, if it ^as wifbed the Negotiation fliould proceed. This I faid appeared to me to be the evident Senfe of, the Notes, and I begged to know whether I had miftaken it or not. One of the French Plenipotentiaries faid, '* You ** have underftood it exaflly ; i hope you equally ** underftand the Intention of the French Govern- ,•* ment, which is to accelerate Peace by removing •< every Obftacle which (lands in its Way.** I replied, that having now no Doubt left on my Mind as to their exzOi Meaning, and being quite fure notyithftanding the Obfervation they had made, quefavais faifi la veritable Intention de leur Ndte^ k would, I feared, be a very unprofitable Employment of our Time to argue cither on the Nature of the Principle they announced as a fine qu^ non, to even a preliminary Difcuflion, or on the extrque Diffi- ,culty of reconciling the peremptory Den>»nd with which they opened their MifTion, to the pariirck Profel&ons that accompanied it; thai if they were determined to perfift in this Demand, it was much better to avoid all ufelefs Altercation ; and nothing in that Cafe remained for me to do, but to aft for niy PaflportSj and to fignify to them my Intention *"» fli t ( 99 ) of leavlog France at in early Hour the next Morn- ing. They faid, they had their Hands tied by/an Arr^tc of the Direftory, and were bound to obferve th6 Condudt they had followed by the mod poHtive Orders; and although we remained together fome Time longer, not a Hint dropped from them ex- preffive of a Wifli thar, inftead of going myfelf for new Inftrudions, I ihould either Write for them by a MeflVnger, or obtain them by fending to England One of the Gentlemen who are with me. I endea- voured by every indircd Means to fugged to them the Necefficy of adopting fome fuch Modification, if they meant that their Wiflies for Peace, in the Expreffi 'fi of which they were this Morning more eager rhan ever, (hould meet with the flightcft De- gree of Credit ; 1 again brought to their Recollec- t' )n that I was authorized to receive any Propofal> any Coufre Projet they tendered to me, but that they mud br II ware that it was not pofTible for me to alter the Orders I had received, or to aflumc an Authority With which I was not inveded, I dwelt particularly and reprarediy on my being competent to take any Thing they faid for Reference; but this availed nothing, except drawing from One cf them zRtmzxk^ that the full Powers which authorized a Minider to hear Propofals, were widely different from thofe which would enable him to accede to them ; and chat it was fuch full Powers that the Dircfjbojy re- quired me to folicit* An i'afy Anfwer prefented itfelf to this Mode of Reafoning $ but I faw no Advantage to be derived from prolonging a Converfation, which, after the pofitive Declaration they had made, could lead to nothing : I therefore ended the Conference by de- claring my Refolutiou to begin my Journey at a very early Hour the next Morning, and by faying, that immediately oh my Arrival in England i would make an exa£t Report of every Thing that had paiTed fmce their Arrival. O a • I trud, {. 10^ ), I truft, my Lord, t, (hall not incur C^nfure for having declined to offer in diftin(ft Terms to wait at Lillu till 1 could know His Majefty*s Pleafure on the peremptory Propofal made to rne : But when I con- iiderpd the Nature of the Propofal itfelf, the Avowal that this would not be th laji, nor perhaps the moil humiliating. Condition required of us, and the im- perious Style with which I was enjoined to depart m Twcnty.four Hours, it was utterly impoffible for me to aflfume a Language or affedb a IVlanner that could be interpreted into Solicitation or Entreaty : I felt myfelf called upon to treat the Whole of this extraordinary Proceeding with Cahnnefs and Tem- pers ^nd notwithftaoding the deep and poignant Cbncern 1 muft feel at an Event which I fear will remove all Probability of ar^ immediate Pacification, 1 trufl that in the Expreflion of this Sentiment I have not ufed a Language unbecoming the Charader with which I am inveftcd, or the Greatnefs of the Sovereign and Country whofc Dignity and Intercft? iit is my primary Vvfxy to confult and to maintain, I have the Honor to be ■■ f ^':* with great Refpe(a, my Lord, '- ^ ;!-' -^ ^ «; - UP Lordlhip*3 moil obedient :'^,^^mm^kkp- . humble Servant, : -:^^^^-^-" 12'!' (Signed) MALMESBURY, J!'! Right Honourable Lord Grepyillp, .^ » (No. 43. h') Note from the French Plenjpotcpdarlcj tq ■ Lord.Malmeibury. Les fouffign^s Miniftrcs Plenipotentiaircs dc Ig- Jlepublique Franjaife, charges de traiter de la Paix avec TAngleterre, ont PHoniieur d'aflurer le Lord M^lmcfbury, Miniftre Plenipottntiaire de Sa Majeft^ ' Britannique, que le Gouvernement Francois veut auifi fmceremenr, ' auffi fortement que jativais, une" Paix deftrec par les Deux Nations; mais nc pouvant* jponclure qu'une i^aix bal6e fur les l^oiT^etl^ Tr^tf^ « »i?^»«T«'-w iiS. QUI ^ f. >•' 1 c%i ' _^.^.w •w . "W- ■ ( lOI ) qui lient la Republique Fran9aire, perAiad^ que pour, parvenir k ce But il raut s*expiiquer avec uoe entiere > Franchife, et vbukinc imprimer a la Negotiation 1» . plus grande Adtiviti^, le Diredtoire Escecutif a ex* ^ preiTement charg6 les Souffignes de deipanfler a\|'/^ Lord. Malmelbury, s'il a des Pouvoirs 'yfiifans pouft^, , dans le Traite qui icroit conclu, reftituer | la Re^ ^ . publique Fran^aife et st fes Allies, toutes les Pof> -/^ (efllons qui depuis le Commencement de la Guerre ; ont paf]fi§ dans la Main des Anglais. Les Sou£%n6s font egalement charges par le Di* reftoire Exccutif de demander au Lord Malm^ibury • une Reponfe dans le Jour, lis le prient d*agr^t;r iei:^ Tcmoignages de leur haote Confideration. - v^vyc} " (SigQc) TREILHARD, '^i%.^- I'l^'f'^ %A\\ti le xq Fruftidor, An 5? de la !R.epubUque '-"^^M^h BQNJSTIER. t ♦,- ^i ■*9:it Par les Miniftrcs PleDipotenti:airc$,.>i ' le Sec. Gen. de la Legation. , PERCH5; :,l:'f.>;i :.;ij ;„^v^, (No.43.A.)^ j!!:^^'''^-^ Tranflation._ WF^' •i The underligned Minifters Plenipotentiaries of th«4. French Reputlick, commiffioned to treat of Peace i with England, have the Honour to aflfure Lordr^' Malmefbury, Minifter PJenipotentiary of His Bri- i tan nick Majefty, that the French Government wiihesci as (incerely, as (Irongly as ever, a Peace, deHred by-' the Two Nations: But, unable to conclude any other , Peace than fuch a one as is founded on the LawsrI and on the Treaties which bind the French Repub* I lick, perfuad^d thar, to arrive s^t this End,' it i& ne« i ceflary to explain jtfeif with entire Franknefs, and-* defirous of giving to the Negotiation the greateft^i Rapidity,, the Executive Dircdory has exprefslwJ charged the Underfigeed to demand of Lord MalmeU « \i^f^^ wh^thf r ))e'has fu^ient powers for rc(loiiog«i^ ^--^- . ■^' ,- i: *-■ y^~ ' -V ^ - ;^N'-w-f-:M(jp»«'r^:»-'- :-;ip.»fWi -fcv ir ti/'^m'- 'Vm in the Treaty which may be concluded, to the French ' Repubhck and to its Allies, all the Pofleffions which. : fince the Beginning of the War, have paflcd into the* Hands of the Englifh. * The Underfigned are equally charged by the Ex- ' ccutive Direftory to demand from Lord Malmcfbury an Anfwer in the Courfe of the Day. They requeft' him to accept the Affuranccs of their high confidcr- ation. ': -* - o :.u , > (Signed) TREILHARD. '.■.-, .;..:,, .J... ^: BONNIER, • Lille, 29 Fruftidorv" ^>-^-- . ■/ - ,. *^' 5tliYearof thcRepublick. '''^'^ -s; ^s-^vKv i,^rf^. >J> (Sept. 15, 1797.) By the Miniilers Plenipotentiary of the ^/ French Republick, the Sec. Gen. V DERCHE. • ^■v (JTo. 44. B.) .' .jiSj:^*'"^. **•«:: yn J* Note from Lord Malmej(bury to the French Plenipotentiaries* Le fouifigne Miniftre Plenipotentiaire de Sa Ma- jefte Britannique recoit avec beaucoup de Satisfaction rExpreflion du Defir fincere pour la Paix, que Ics Miniiires Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Fran> (oife lui ont annonce Hier au Nom de leur Gou^ vernement; II a THonneur de les alTurer que le Rot Ton Maitre eft anim6 du m^me Delir, et n'a rien de plus a Coeur que de mettre Fin aux Malheurs de la Guerre. . .^i^^rt.;^-. .■. ■ 't^ Quant k la Queftion que les Minidres Plenipoten* tiaires de la Republique Fran9oire adreflfent au Loril Malmelbury fur KEtendue de fes plein Pouvoirs, il croit deja avoir fait a ce Sujet la Reponfe la moins equivoque dans les Deux Notes qu'il k remifes k Jeurs PredecelTeurs le 15 et le 24 du Mois de Juillet. Cependav.:, pour evitei toute Mefentenduc, II re* nouvelle la Declaration qu'il a faice Hier; favoir, qu'il ne peut et ne doit traiter que d'apres le Prin* cipc dcs Compcnfations; Principe qui a etc formel- Icment . < »o3 ) 4ement rcconnCl comme Bafe d'onc Trait^ egal^mene juftc, honorable, et avantageux aux Deux Puiflances. Lc Lord Malmeibury prie Ics Miaiftres Plcnipo- tentiaires dc 1:| RcpubUque Fran9oife d'agr^cf 1^ Aflurances dc fa haute Confidcration. ''"^'^ ^ * ^ : " (oigne) M ALMESBURY, i Lille, ce Samedi, i6 S«ptcmbrc, ■ iioA.M. 1797. pMo^V :.n rt; n^f'! (No. 44. B.) f ri:-f ;:^ • Tranftatlon. ^ !.";>■ ' 1. .,|ii- ■■ ■ ' The underfigned Miniftcr Plenipotentiary of Hcs Britannick Majefty receives with great Satisfaction the Expreflion of the fincere Defire for Peace, which the Minifters Plenipotentiaries of the French Repub- lick announced to him Ycftcrday in the Nanic of their Government. He has the Honour to aflure them that the King his Mailer is animated with the fame Delire, and has nothing more at Heart than to put an End to the Calamities of the War. ^^-Arj?^ With regard to the Queftion which the Minifters Plenipotentiary of the French Republick addreflfcd to Lord Malmeibury, concerning the Extent of his full Powers, he confiders himi'elf as having already given the moft unequivocal Anfwer upon this Sub- ject, in the Two Notes which he delivered to their Predeceffors on the 15th and 24th of July/l^^*^^ ?«'«'* •'74: However, to avoid all mii'underftanding, he re- news the Declararion, which he made Yeftcrday j that is to fay, that he neither can or ought to treat upon any other Principle than that of Compenfations s a Principle which has been formally recogni:^ed as the Bafis of a Treaty equally juft, honourable, and advantageous to the Two Powers. Lord Malmefbui-y requefts the Minifters Plenipo- tentiary . of the French Republick to accept the Affuranccs of his high Confidcration. . j-n (Signed) MALMESBURY. ;!■ JLifie, Saturday, i6th September, 1797. ■'^l . ^ 10 A. M. '■ -v :l (I', I ■.v,-f;:^p- -'-■:';:.:^rf' ■ t ■■ (Ktf. 4$. C.) 1 jjf^ Note from the Frehch l^IenipoterUlantit ^i^i Kif to Lord Malmelburjr. v*-*-, Les MiniftVes Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Traiijaife charges dc traiter de la Paix avfcc TAnglc- terre, ont l*H6nneur d*accufer la Reception de la Reponfe du Lord Malrrtefbury k la Note qui lui a ^t^ remife dans la Conference d'Hier. II refulte de cette Reponfe et de$ DeUx Notes des 15 & 24 Juillct aux quelles elle fc refere, que Ic Lord Malmcfbury n^a pas de Pouvoirs pour cdhfcntir ^ la Reflitution de toutes les PoiTeilions que Sa Majeft^ Britannique occupe, foic fur la Republique Fran^dife^ ibitlur fcs Allies^ £i i^:'^;:iiM±-l^'fryM^fP^^n^fe retirer dans les Vingt quatre Heures vers fa Cour pour demander es Pouvoirs XufHfans* Le Lord Malmefbury ne peut voir dans . cette Deternnination de Diref^oire Executif qu'un^ Intention de hlter I'lndant od les Negotiations pourront^tre fuivies avec la Certitude d'une prompcp Les Miniftres Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Fran9aife prient le Lord Malmcfbury d'agrccr les AlTurancetde ieur haute ConfideratioQ. ;, ^ (SignQ TREILHARa r* BONNIER. !^ ♦^ *:/■«• t-f-m' ■■!■ ' ^! taie, 30 Fruflidor, ^in jdclftRcjmbiiqueFran^aife, * ?5 Far les Miniftres Plenipotentiaires, >^ r; i^; • ; -; Ic Sec. Gen. dc la Legation. , '.}n- DERCHE, .,..6 E! Translation. No. 4fi.C) ,u,„»;.iv^ The Ministers Plenipotentiaries of the Ffericli Republick, commissionned to treat of Peace with England, have the Honour to acknowledge the Receipt of the Answer of Lord Malmesbury to the Note which was presented to him in the Conference of Yesterday. It appears from this Answer, and from the Two Notes of the 15th and 24fh of July, to which it re- fers, th%n4 the Sec. Gen. of the Legation, ^ V7 ■ ;;. -•^:.;f^-";,;i^.-^>DERCHE. itsle, 30Fraaidor, 5th Y^ar of the ' ?^r%a , .,-a.; . it Bepublick. (Sept. 16, 1797.) * .0«^")ll^M im!3 ' ' ..:. . - ^- ...oU^:ij- . •• (No. pryj it ;»?srfi?fj- • j^ i (Signed) A> i ■1: mi Si! ' ' 4 "■\ ii^l i -. ^ ( lofl ) (No. 46. D.) Note from Lord Malmesbury to the Preach '^■'^/•^'*/*.; •**;,'-../■"■ ■'■■ Pleofpotentiaricj. ^ivst'r^t^" -y^^y- ■ ■^ I.E soussighe Ministre Pl^nipoteiiHaife deSa Ma- jeaft6 Btitannique a FHonneuf d'accuser )a R^ceptibii de la Note en Date d'aujourd'hiii, qui lui a €\€ remise dc k Part des Miniatres Plenipotcntiaires de la R^pu- blique Francaise. Quelque Chagrin qu'il ^prouve h. voir s'evanouir TEspoir d*une prompte Conciliation, il ne pout r^- pondre 4 un R^fus aussi absolu de continuer Ic N^- gociations sur les bases qui lui paraissaient d^jt ar- f^tees, qu'en demandant les Passeports necessaires pour lui et peiur sa Suite, afin de po^ivoir, dans les Vingt-quatVe Heures se mettre en Route, et sc rendre de suite en Angleterre; ' .11 prie les Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la R^pu- bliqu6 Franqaise d'agrecr les Assurances de sa haute Consideration. - -- -^ rf-:■.'^^>vnv^;^^■: -i \ ,..^..;.i^«.,;^:.vu.^ (Signc) MALMESBURY* • ALillt, ceSamedi, iSSeptfembre, k8 ?.U.'^^>i^Mi^'^' The undersigned Ministei Plenipotentiary of his Britannick Majesty has the Hohour to acknowledge the Recisipt of the Note of this Day, >Vhich has been sent him by the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the' French Repubjick. Whatever Regret he may experience at seeing the Hope of a speedy Conciliation thus destroyed, he can return no other Answer to,a Refusal so absolute to continue the Negotiation on Grounds which ap- peared to Jiave been already agreed upon, than by demanding the necessary Passports for himsejf and , his Suite, in Order that they may set off within the Four-and-twcnty Hours, and return immediately to ^ England. "; He requests the Ministers Plenipote^itiary of the French Republick to accept the iiss^^cc^? of jiiis high Consideration. * •"*,"-'" ''^^:.; J * (Signed) MALMESBLFRY. Lisle, Saturday, 1 6lh Septemhre, 8 P.M. ■> V ( 107 ) ill' ^ (Na.*47. E.) V ' * Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to h.t.U\i ^LqjjJ Malmesburjr. Lbs soussign^s Ministre$ jPlepipotentiaires de U R^publique Fr^nqaise charges de trailer delaPaix. avec I'An'gleterre, pnt rHonaeur d'accuser la Jl^cep- tion de la Reponse de Lord M^lmesbury^ la Not« . qu'iU lui ont adies^ee aujourd*hui. lis croient devoir lui observer, qu'il ne par^U pas en avoir saisi la veritable lAtemion ; quVll^ ne, contient nullempnt un Refus de continper les NegOf ciations, jnais, au contraire, un Moyen de les actiyer et de les suivre avec un Succes, aussi desirable pour les Deux Nations qu'il serait Flatteur pour les Minis- ties charges de negocicr. Le Gouvernement Francjais est si eloigne des In- tcntioTis que feemble supposer la Note du Lord Ma!mesbupy, que les Ministres Pldnipotentiaire^ de - la Republique Fran^aise n'ont retju aucup Ordre de quitter le Liey des Conferences apr^s ie Depart du Ministre Plenipot^ntiaire de Sa Majeste Britannique. j Les Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Francjaise prient le Lord Malmesbury d'agreer les Assurances de leur haute Considdration. j. . ; ihri:'-y,5?.(Signc) TREILHARD, ^^ ^v^vJ;.:V^^r:^^:f^vBONNJER. Lille, ce 30 Fruftidor, an 5 de la i - > ' £cpul?Uque Fran^aise. > ''^'^< r'- . Par les Ministres Plenipotentiaires, . i ■^i^J^i:^- le Sec. Gen. de la Le'gation, ^ ^^mikr^t ■ -■• . DERCHE. , (No.47.E.)« .^ ' Translation... C -%^'-*i^|;^ ; The undersigned Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Republick, commissioned to treat of Peace with England, have the Honour to acknowledge the Receipt of Ix)rd Malmesbury 's Answer to the Note Vidiicii th^y addressed to him* this Day. V ;. V'k • ^hey •■7.' " ... .;...- 5 * ■^::\y'':. . They think it right to observe to him, that he does not appear to have seized the real meaning of their Note ; that it by no means contains Refusal to con- tinue the Ncgociations, but, on the contrary, the Means for giving them Activity, and for following then) up with a Success^ no less desirable to the Two Nations, than it would be flattering to the Ministers charged with the Conduft of them. r The French Government is so far from entertain- ing the Intentions which the Note of Lord Malmes« bury appears to impute to them, that the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Republick have re- ceived no Order to quit Lisle, after the Departure of the Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannick Ma^ jesty. The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Re- publick request Lord Malmesbury to accept the As- surances of their high Consideration. -^^ d TREILHARD.P '•BONNIER. V? ■ - By the Ministers Plenipotentiary, ^- r'^^p^l.m>W^ . (Signed) "^^. ■■-•r/ the Sec, Gen. of the Legation ■ '^'"^'^ ?■ ■-:-^ ' • ' DERCHE. Lisle, 30 Fru6tidor, 5lh Year pf the French ... BepubHcIf. (Sept. 16, 1797.) •^i^l' (No. 48. F.) Note from Lord Malmesbury to the French Plenipotentiaries. Le soussign6 Ministre Plcnipotentiaire de Sa Ma- jesty Britannique a THonneur d*accuser la Reception de la Note que les Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Franc^aise lui o|jt transmise Hier au (Soir, par les Mair)s du Secretaire General de leur Legation. II croit n^ pas pouvoir mieux r^pon-. die qu'en leur souniettant a soh Tour les Observa- tions suivantes. Qu'ayant dej^ fait, pSr '^a Note du 24 Juillet, & ^*apr^s les Ordres expr^s 4e sa Cour> une RcpoBse • * im ' ^ .,■--' - - J ...■•. ..- -\-- ■ • ' ■ y» V , - ^ :*: ■*«, ' , ( 109 ) & la Question qui vient d'etre si inopin^ment renou- 'Ye\\6c, Question qui ne portant en Apparence que sur les Limites de ses Plein-,pouvoirs (qui sont dci •plus amples) exige en efFet la Declaration de toute I'Etendue de ses Instructions : — et ne pouvant 6tre autorise en aucun Cas', hormi celui de la Rupture des N^gociations, de quitter le Lieu de sa Destina- tion sans les Ordres expr^s du Roi son Maltre; il n*a pti regardcr une Note portant, d'apr^s un Arr^t6 -du Directoire Ex^cutif,- " qu'il avait k se retircr *' dans les Vingt-quatre Heures vers sa Cour," que commc une Demarche peu propre k accelerer la Confection de la Paix. — Cependant, pour repondrc aux Assurances des Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Franqaise, et pour t6moigner son D^sir de bien saijir leur veritable Intention, sur laquelle il. serait tr^s-f&che de se meprcndre, il croit qu*il pourrait 6tre plus satisfaisant de se reunir encore une Fois ; et dans le Cas oil les Ministres Pldnipo- tentiaires dfe la Republique Franqaise se trouvassent du m6me Avis, le Lord Malmesbury leur proposerait que cette Reunion e6t Lieu de menieure Heure que de Coutume, afip qu*il se trouve k Terns de prendre le t'arti que pourra exiger le Resultat de leur Con- ference. II prie les Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la Repu- blique Franqaise d*agrecr les Assurances de sa haute > Consideration. -'M'-^^k^Si^j^M ..^.< :'>'.r- . ,; :^ 17 Septembre 1797. /^^^# - ''^ (No. 48. F.) Translation. ' ''Kd 0''' * - ' .The undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Majesty has the Honour to acknowledge the Receipt of the Note which the Ministers Pleni- potentiary, of the French Republick transmitted to jlijn y^stcrdajr, through the Hands of the Secretary Geji(?r I !['!'! '■> . .( 110 ) Ccneral of their Legation. He thinks he cannot tiiswcr !t better than by submitting to them in hia Turn the following Observations. ' .,f >, • ^.. That having already by his Note, dated July 24, %T\d in Obedience to the express Orders of his Court, given an Answer to >the Question which is now so unexpectedly renewed, a Question, that in Appear- ance relates solely to the Limits of his full Powers, (which are ;a the most ample Form), but which does in Fact require a Declaration of the whole Extent of his Instructions ; and not being autho- rised to quit the Place of his Destination without the express Orders of the King his Master, in any Case except that of the Rupture of the Negociar tion ; hfc could not help considering a Note enjoin- irtg him, in consequence of a Decree pf the Execu- tive Directory, to return to his Court in the Space of Four-and-Twenty Hours, as ill calculated to ac- celerate the Conclusion of Peace : Nevertheless, to answer the Assurances of tlic Ministers Plenipoten- tiary of the French Republick, and to testify his Desire to seize their real Meaning, with respect to which he should be very sorry to deceive himself, -he thinks that it would be more satisfactory to meet once more ; and if the* Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Republick should be of the same Opi- nion, Lord Malmesbury would propose that this Meeting should take place at an earlier Hour than usual, in order that he may have Time to take such Steps as the Result of their Conference may render necessary. He desires the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Republick to accept the Assurances of his high Consideration. V*'f> . .;w,-t1k. -w/; . . Lisle, Sunday, ' Sept. 17, 1797* ■ t , ■'• ■ '.■. '■'.■, v' •■',.■ ■■■ I .■ ■'■ (Signed) MALMESBURY.' ^^T\1' .fm'_:^:m^-:^:^l' (No.- > «*» .. S^' ( 111 ) i-iL n<^-U.fffli5safi ,v»^l (•;?■, (No. 49. G.) '.-If Note from the French Plenipotentiaries tt ;.,„„, Lord Malniesbury.; .^^^ ' Le8 sousslgn^s Mlnlstres Plcnipotentlaires dc la Republiquc Franqaise, charges de traiter de la Paix avcc I'Angleterrc, out I'Honneur d'accuser la R6cep- ti6n de la Note que le Ministre P16nipotentiaire de Sa Majesty Britannique leuf a transmi3c ce Matin. En se referant aux Notes adress^es k Lord Malmcs- bury les 29 et 30 Fructidor, ct notamment a la pre- miere du Jour d'Hier, ils acceptent la Reunion que le Lord Malmesbury paralt d^sirer, et lui proposent I'Heure de Midi. ^ .* : * ^ .. ' . Ik orient \t Ministre Pl^ni potential re de Sa Ma- jest6 Britannique d'agreer les Assurances de leur haute Consideration, . ,, > . ^ (Sign6) , treilhard; bonnie;r. I Jlle, le 1 Jour compl^men- ' taire de I'An 5 de la H&pxx- • blique Fran^aise. ' 4|jj ; > • -;j --». ;^,*-> Par ics Ministrcs PMnipotentiaires, 'l^;. , ; le Sec. Gen. de la L6gation. ^ ^uiv-^v^- ...♦. ;.. ,■: v., ,,. DEftCHE. (No.4p.G.) ^ ♦i 5 TianslaUon. : -MtThe undersigned Ministers Plenipotentiary of ,fthe French Republick, commissioiied to treat of 'Peace with England, have the Honour to acknow- ■ ledge the Receipt of the Note which the Minister ■ ^Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Majesty has trans- mitted to them this Morning, Referring to the ^ Notes addressed to Lord Malmesbury on the 29th and . 30th Fructidor, and especially to the First of Yes- ; tcrday, they agree to the Meeting which Lord i,:^aiiJi*ns ,. ■- - - -. >: .;■ - --; •-: ' ' • ' "' Malmes- ( 113 ) ir^.,.- .' '.-f Malnesbury appears to desire, and propose the Hour of r«O0n. ■■Airvii4iS:'/'Karf*-«Nt''^ *iM»^-.-^v . '■f;,^-;.\k' ;sir'.i ' They request Lord Malmesbury to accept the Assurances of their high Consideration, -v.v \,r^^P^r''.^''-W^^i: :tV' r^: (Signed) TREILHARa ^..7 BONNIER. . ■ ■ .............. . , , ^ Lisle, I st Complementary Day, !^-^ ' ;i 5th Year of the French Re- rj. „ publick. (17 Sept. 1797.) ' - - J/" ;| f* By the Mini!»*-ers Plenipotentiary, ;' :. ; ■ ; • • ' ;?: t?he Sec. Gen. of the Legation., DERCHE. (No. 50.) >-' J i . ' .^ . ;t .y^,» Dispatch from Lord Grcnville to ' . „ »^ , Lord Malmesbury, dated Down^ : .^ vr ing-Street, Sept. 22, 1797. My Lord, I HAVE had the Honour of laying before His Ma- jesty your Lordship's Dispatches^ in which you have given an Account of the extraordinary Conduct of the new Plenipotentiaries of the French Republick, of the. Answers given by your Lordship to their ;un- justifiable Demand, and of your consequent Depar- ture from Lisle. • i: '•:':': Oi I have the SatisfactiOii to be able to assure your Lordship that His Majesty has been pleased to ex- press His entire Approbation of your Lordship's judicious and temperate Conduct in the unprece- dented Situation in which you were placed, and of the Manner in which you expressed yourself, both in your official Notes, and in your Conversations with the French Plenipotentiaries, as well aa of that in which you have conducted yourself during the whole Course of the Negociation, which seems too likely to be now brought to its Close. As it appears, however, that some furtkcr Answer will probably be expected by the French Govern- ment to their late extraordinary Demand, notwith** standing, :■■■ ,■ — > . • '>Js'ii3" ),' V-' ... .: Wanting the full and conclusive Reply given in yoiir Lordship's Notes, I have received the King's Com- mands to transmit to you' the inclosed Draft of a Note, which it is His Majesty's Pleasure that your liordship should transmit to the Plenipotentiaries at iiislc, by a Messenger whom 1 shall direct to be in readiness for that Purpose. , .,_ . ',:,V:/" •■S'*;f.im. :^ -^ i : ": * (Signed) GRENVILLE; Right Honourable '^>^|s ^,^^4-•*] { Lord Malmesbury* < - ^3^ ^; - / fiii ■ v •. > ' ^/ hi (No. 51.) \i i^Totefrotn Lord Malriiesbuiy to the iPrcnck Plenipotentiaries. Le ISoussigr. e a rendu ^ sa Cour un dompte fidMe des Circonstances qui ont interrompu I'Exercice des [f'ondlions mportantesqu'il avait plu auRoi son Maltre de lui confier. Sa Majeste a daign6 honorer de sort Approbation entiere les Reponses que le Soussigne a dejl faites ^ la Demande extraordinaire et inat,tendue que les nouveaux Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Franqaise lui ont adressee des leur Arrivee ^ Lille* Mais pour rie kisser aueun Doute sur la Nature et i'Objet de cette Demande, le Soussigne a requ I'Ordre expr^s de declarer au Nom de Sa Cour ; 1. Que les Plein-pouvoirs que Sa Majeste ajiigei piropos de )\x\ accofder pour trailer et conclure la PaisE sont census etredigfis dans la Forme la plus ample, au-^ ' torisant le Soussigne pleinementet sans reserve a signer' tout Traite de quelle Nature et sous qiielles Condi- • tions que ce fut, dont il pourrait conren*;- avec les Plenipotentiaires Franqais,ei(ise conformant toujours aux Instructions qu'il aurait \tc^s de la part de Si^ Cour.' " ' ' : 2. Que ces Plein-pouvoirs ont etc te^us et fecon-<'! nus pour suffijan^tant p?.'* les P16nipotcnti aires avec' lesquels il a traite- jusqu'ici, cjue par ie Diredoircf' '.r-'K^.'r ■.•■'-_ " Of- ^' ■" ■ "' - ■ ■- ■ l^ii-'' . M ^v..,:,;-;- ,. .; ^ i ;■'(- r«*'.>' «»:.-i; JtiT-mefme ; et qu*il ne peut en consequence y avoir tieu k aucune nouvelle Discussion sur cet Objet d^jJ fcrmine par un commun Accord, et qui d'ailleurs n'est susceptible d'aucune Difficult^ ou Doute quelconquc ; tout cc qui a ete fait a cet e^rd etant entiSrement confornje aux Usages 6tablis depuis long-tems, ct. reconnus par toutes les Nations de TEurope. 3« due la demande du Diredloire se rapporte done r^ellement, non pas aux Plein-poavoirs du Soussigad mais^ TEtendue de ses Instruftions, dont le Dire^loire ne pouvait, en aucun Cas, lui demander la Gonunu- rjcation qu'en autant que le Soussignd pour^it U }|i^er utile au Succ^ dc la Negociation ; et quebien loin d'etre dans le Cas dc donner des nouvelles Explications quelconquesjie Soussigneavait fout Lieu dc croire, d'apr^s les Communications r^iterdes qui lui ont 6t6 faites par les Plenijpotentiaires Franqais, qu'ilrecevrait incessammentunContre-Projet, de Na- ture a faciliter la Marche ulterieure de la Negocjation^ suspendue depuis plus de Deux Mois. - ^ ^ 4. Que la Cour de Londres a du 6tre bien plus ^onn^e encore du Contenu de la nouyclle Demande faite au Soussigne ; cctte Demande portant sur des Conditions Prelimihaires qui avaient ddj^ 6t6 rejett^ei des le Commencement de la Negociation, et dont les.Plenipotentiaircs Franqais s'etaient en EfFet d6- partis, per I'Annonce formelle des Mesures dont le Dire6loire s'Occupait pour «*arranger en consequence avec ses Allies. •.«-,' i • ■ • 5. Que ce n*est done qu'en consentant ^ traiter sur la Base du Projet detaille avec tan't de Franchise, ' qu6 le Soussign^ a remis d^s les Premiers Jours dc son S^jour k Lille, oi^ \j^^ ^^ ^u' faisant passer un Contre-Projet d*une 'A^fcre conciliatoire, conforme- ment aux Assip:ances qu'il en a revues depuis si long Tcms, qu'il parait possible de continuer la Ne- gociation, dont les Pldnipotentiares l^Dnt si fortement , Ui\u6 que le Pirectoire ne dc$irait pas la Rupture, ^■^^' - :' z:*^', .- malgre mm ct '.;::•-•-' ._-•■ ( 115 ) :"-.•■;■>: , nislgrf la D-marche adoptee k son egard. D-marche que le Soussign6 s*abstient de qualifier, mais qui n'a pu manquer de produire ici I'lmpression des Dispo- sitions les moins pa^ifiques de la Part du Direp^ toire*- y ■■■'■[ ''''^''■ ■• ^ '• :^••>^^-:^^''^€«T^'•i>i■:"^, . ". ^ Le Soiissignfi est charge d*ajouter, que Sa Ma* jeste verrait avcc un vrai Regret la Certitude de cea Dispositions, si peu compatibles avec Ic I^esir ardent qui Tanime, de pouvoir rendre la Paix aux Deux Nation^ ; mais que si sans y avoir contribud de Sa Part, Sa Majesty doit encore se trouvcr dans la Ne- cessity de continuer la' Guerre, elle sc conduira dans toutes les Occasions d'apr^s les m^mes Principes^ en faisant tout ce qui peut dependre d'Elle pour le Retablissement de la Paix, mais en persistant tou* jours ""k defendre, avec une Fermet6 inebranlablc, ja Dignite de Sa Couronne et les Interets de Son Peu- pie. Le Ministre Pl/'nipotentiaire de Majestd Britan- nique prie les Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la R6- publique Fran^aise d'agreer I'Assurance de ;ja haute Consideration. • ' ''•'^'- (Signe) MALMESBURY. A Loudres, ce 22 Septembie 1797* (No. 51.) Translation. The Undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Majesty has rendered to his Court a faitii- ful Account of the Circumstances that have inter- rupted the Exercise of those important Fun6lions which His Majesty has been pleased to entrust to him. His Majesty has deigned to honour with his entire Approbation the Answers which the Undei- signed has already maory themselves, and that there is consequently po Room for any new Discussion upon a Subjed^ which has already been closed by common Agree- ment, and which moreover is not liable to any Doubt or Difficulty whatever ; every Thing which has been ^ done jhitherto upon this Subject, being entirely con-- formable to Customs long established and recognized by all the*Nations of Europe. '; *.:.>. ; . '* . , 3. That the Demand of the Direc^lory therefore, in Reality, refers not to the full Powers of the Un- dersigned, but to the Extent of his Instrudlions, of which the Direftory could not, under any Circum- stances, require any Communication, further than as the Undersigned himself might judge such a Com- munication conducive to the Success of the Nego- tiation ; and that very far from being in a Situation to be called upon for any new Explanations whatever, the Undersigned had every Reason to expedl, from the repeated Communications which had been mad^ to I'm by the French Plenipotentiaries, that he should immediately receive a Contre-Projet, of a Natvire ^o facilitate the further Progress of the Ne-^ .^ * -<• ( 11? ') gotiation which had been susperided for mor? than T»yo Months. ■ '^^-^u^^P.-/-;^^;-!.-.-;^' , -4. That the Court of London had good Reason to be still more astonished at thp Substance of the new Demand made to the Undersigned ; a Demand relating to Preliminary Conditions which had already been rejected at the very Commencement of the Negotiation, and from which the French Plenipo- tentiaries had m EfFedl depai:ted, by a formal Noti- fication of the Measures which the Diredlor'y were in consequence taking for the Purpose of coir* g to Some Arrangement with their Allies. V • • i 5. That it is therefore only by consenting to treat upon the Basis of the Project:, detailed with so much Openness, which was presented b^ the Under- signed a few Days after his Arrival at Lisle, or by returning a Contre-Projet of axonciliatory Nature, Agreeably to the Assurances whi-ch. he received so long ago, that it appears possible to continue the Negotiation, which the Plenipotentiaries have so strongly assured him that the Diredlory did not wish to break off, nothwithstanding the Measures lately- Adopted with respedl to him : A Measure which the Undersigned forbears to characterize, but which could not fail to produce in this Country the Imr. pression of a Disposition by no Means pacii^ck oii the Part of the Diredtory. The Undersigned is directed to add, that His Majesty would see with real Regret the Certainty of the Existence of such a Disposition, so little com-? patible with the ardent Desire with which he is Animated to restore Peace to the Two Nations ; but; that if, without having Himself contributed to it oi^ His Parr, He should again tind Himself und?r %he Necessity of continuing the War, He will condudt Jlimself upon every Occasion agreeably to the same Principles, doing every thing which can depend ^ipqn him for the I^e-establishmeat of Peace, but Sjt' ' ' ' - persisting !' . ' ( ns ) ' . . ^ - ' • u ' ' '' Srsisting to defend, with an linshaken firmness, the ignity of His Crown, and the Interests of His people. The Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic k Majesty requests the Ministers Pleiiipotentiary of the French Kepublick to* accept the Assurance of hU l)igh Consideration. ' ' ' ' • > C ' 7j; " ' ■■ V (Signed) MALMESBURY,' :' London, [ thc22dof September 1797. ' ^ y:ii\ (No. 52.) Note from the French Plenipotentiaries to Lord Malmesbury. Les MInistres Pl£nipotentiaires de la Republique Francjaise, charges de traiter de la Paix avec i'Angle- terre, ont requ la Note, datee de Lend res, qui 'leur a ^t6 apportee par un Courier cxtraorcjinaire, de la ' Part de Lord Malmesbury. lis ont I'Honnenr de lui r^pondrcj que leur Note du 29^Fru6Vidor, a laquelle jls se refdrent, presentait la double Assurance de rintention formelle du Gouvernement Francjais de continuer les Ncgociations de la Paix, & de sa Deter- mination con Stan te de n'acceder qu'^ des Con^jen- tioL compatibles avec la Dignity de la Republique Franqaise. Une Paix, dont la Base serait c.ontraire aux Loix, ou aux Engagemens pris avec les Allies, ne saurait remplir TEspoir de la Nation. C'est \xii Point dont le Directoire Executif. ne s'est jamais departi, & sur lequcl ses Sentimens n'ont jamais vzx\i. , ^ V > Le Lord Malmesbury ay ant formellement declare ■dans ses Notes des 1 5 & 24 Juiliet, & en dernier Lieu du 17 Septembre, qu'il n*avait pas les Pouvoirs nd- cessaires pour restituer les Possessions HoHandaises ; U. Espagnoles, occupies par le^ Troupes de Sa Ma* jcst6 Br*annique, le Directoire Executif a donn6 une n' . elle Preuve de sa loyal e Franchise & de son Di d'acceldrer la Conclusion^ en invitaht le ^. ' :„. " ; r Lord \ V V -'■: Lord Malmcsbury I sc retirer vers sa Cour, pour ob- tcnir des Autoris^tions, sans lesquelles il ne pcut pas conclure ; D-marche ^n^ce^sitd par les Declaration^ du Ministre Plenipotentiaire de Sa Majesty Britan- nique, & sur laquelle il est impossible de faire pren- dre le Change k rout Esprit juste. Les Ministres Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Fran^aise prient le Ix)rd Malmesbury d'agr^er les* Assurances de leur haute Consideration. (Signe) Lille, le 4 Vend^mlalre, An 5 de la Republiqus. (Sept. 25, 1797.) TREILHARD.. BONNIER. \ Par les Ministres PlenipotentiaireSr le Sec. Gren. de la Legation, '. Derche* 1, (No. 52.) Translation. The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Re- publick, commissioned to treat of Peace with Eng- land, have received the Note, dated from London, which has been brought to them by an extraordinary Messenger, from Lord Malmesbury. They have the Honour to answer to him, that their Note of the 2^th Fructidor, to which they refer, offered the double Assurance of the settled Intention of the French Government to continue the Negotiations for Peace, and of its constant Determination not to agree to any other Conditions than such as are com- patible with the Dignity of the French Republick. A Peace, of which the Basis should be contrary to the Laws, or to the Engagements'taken with its At- - lies, would never satisfy the Hopes of the Nation. It is a Point from which the Executive Directory has ; never departed, and upon which its Sentiments have ^ never varied. .-■-'^. ■■!.>— ■.^-. . ; . .■; Lord. * ' - ( lao ) Lord Malmcsbury having formally declared in hit Notes of the 1 5th and 24th oiF July, and in the last Instance in that of the l/th September, that he had not the Powers necessary for restoring the Dutch and Spanish Possessions, occupied by the Troops of His Britannick Majesty, the Executive Directory has given a new Proof of its Openness, and of its Desire to accelerate the Conclusion of Peace, in requiring Lord Malmesbury to return to his Court, for the Purpose, of obtaining the A.uthority, without which he cannot cohclude ; a Measure rendered necessary by the Declaration of the Minister Plenipotentiary of His BVitannick Majesty, and upon which it is impossible to give a wrong Impression to any thinking and impartial Mind. The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Re- publick i*6quest Lord Malmesbury to accept the As- surance of their high Consideration. (Signed) TREILHARD, BONNIER. Lisle, 4th Vendemlaire, r";' / >! Slh Year o'f the Repul)lick, , ■ ' /, , . . > 5 .' /" • • '• (Sept. 25, 1797.) .'!-/■.'■;• ^ (No. 53.) Note from the French' Plenipotentiaries to Lorci Malmesbury. Les Ministres Plenipotentiaries de la Rcpubliqufc Franqaise, charges de traiter de la Paix avec I'An-' gleterre, ont THonneur de faire sqavoir au Lord Malmesbury, qu'aiant adresse Copie de sa dernidre Note k son Gouvernement, le Dire(9:oire Exdcutif' leur a present de declarer en son Nom, qu'il ri'a pas cesse de vouloir la Paix ; qu'il a donne une Preuve non Equivoque da Sentiment qui I'anime, lorsqu^il a ordonne aux Ministres Pldnipotentiaires de la Repu- blique de reclamer une Explication cathegorique sur les Pouyoirs donnes par le Gouvernement Anglais 4 sonMinistre Plenipotentiaire ; que cette Demande n'a- vait, ct ne pouvait avoir, d'autre Objet, que d'amener • '■ ■- ■ ■ ••> ■ " enlin -ir;.-;>^-'«„. .,■;,. enfin la N^gociation k une Issue prompte et lieu« reuse. ■■ *■- ''V/*- Que rOrdre dohn€ iux Ministres PWnipdten- tiaires de la R6publique de rtster 4 Lille aprfis fe DS-i part da Lord Malmesbiiry, est une nduvelle l*reuv# ■ que le D!re -.!4. R iN, o^ •"S.; • • '■>• ( IW ) . ^t rtfir"^ TransiatiOB. nc^frr. ••»•? ,'T^E Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Reimblick^ charged to treat for Peace with England, have the Honour to inform Lord Malmesbury, that having sent a Copy of his last Note to their Govern- ment, the Executive Dirc6lory has directed them to declare in its Name, That it has never ceased to wish for Peace ; That it gave an unequivocal Proof of the Sehtimerlt which animates 4t, wheo it ordered the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Republick to require a categorical Explanation as to the Powers given by the English Government to its Minister Plenipoten- tiary ; That this Demand had, and could have, no other Obje<51: but to bring the Negotiation to a speedy and successful Issue : That the Order given to the Plenipotentiaries of the Republick to remain at Lisle after the Departure of Lord Malmesbury, is anothei" P|"oof that the Di- re<5lory had desired and foreseen his Return with Powers that should not be illusory, and the Limita- tion of which should no longer be a Pretext for de- laying thie Conclusion of Peace : That such are still the Hopes and Intentions of the Executive Direiftory, which enjoins the Ministers ' Plenipotentiary of the Republick not to quit Lisle till the continued Absence of the Negotiator should no longer leave any Doubt of the Intention of His Britannick Majesty to break off all Negotiation ii-?: That consequently the 25th Vendemiaire (i6th of 0* ^i-u.^Ki >,• . n jimj. '.J. i, ; (Oftober 1, 1797.) / ,,>. i}2j)*iii.;.....v- -' . . .i.-if^ tThe Sec. of the Legation, t\'l! V>. :i''l^ •i-lll;s/i f.r'f '•■- . . DeRGHJE. ntr ■iy^j f bi Le Soussign6 ayant reniis au Minvstdre du lioi k Note des Plenipotentiaires de la Republique Pran- (jaise, a Tordre de leur observer, ..h^haiJ oas ..> Que ce n'est qu*eh consequence de rinjott(Stton fof"^ fiielle et {xjsitive du Dire<5fco'i.re, qu'il a quitt^ LiHe : que ses Pouvoirs n'dtaient ni illusoires ni limits*, et que rien n'a et6 omis de sa Parr pour acc^l6rer la N^* gociation, c^ui n'a et^ retard^e que par les D^lais du Dire6toire, et qui n'est aujourd'hui suspendut qtiS parsonAae. ^<3«kiwi^r. *i Pour ce qui regarde la Reprise des Conf(Srences le Sbussign^ ne peut que se r^fdrer k sa derniere Note, oil il a designe avec Franchise et Precision les seuU Moyens qui restent pour continuer la N^gociation : observant, en m^me Tems> que le Roi ne pourrait plus traiter en Pais Ennemi sens avoir la Certitude de voir respefter pour I'avenir dans la Personne de son Plenipotentiaifc les Usages ^tablis parmi toutes les Nations civilisdes, k I'egard des Ministres Publics, et principalement de ceux charges de travailler au Betablissement de Ja Paix, ; . c mmimm X^ Ministf'e Pl^nipotehtiaire de Sa Majesty Bri-' tjuititque pric les Ministres Pl^nipotentiaires de la K^publique Franqaise d*agr^cr ks Assunuices de aa haute CkMisidcration. (Sign^) MALM^BURY. ILbAdns, ce5 06kobre 1797. ^^P ^ ' (No. 54.) Translation. "' The Undef signed having laid before the KineV Ministry the Note of the Plenipotentiaries of the French Republick, is dire6\ed to observe to them. That it is only in consequence of the formal and positive Injtind^ion of the Direciory that he quitted Lule; That his Powers were i^either illusory nor limited ; And that nothing was omitted on his Part to accelerate the Negotiation, which has been only retarded by the Delays of the Directory, and which at thlEs Moment is only sitspended by its Act. :.With regard to the Renewal of the Conferences, the Undersigned can only refer to his last Note, vsfhere he has explnined with Frankness tod Predsioh the only Means which leoiaiii for continuing the Negotiation ; observing^ at the same Time, that the King co^ld no longer, treat in an Enemy's Country, without being certain that the Customs established amongst til civilized.Nktons, with regard to Publick Ministers, and especially to those charged to negotiate fof the Re-esitabHshme^ of Peace, would be respected ibr the future in the Person df His Plenipotentiary. The Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannick Majesty requests the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Republick to accept the Assurance of his high Consideration. (Signed) MALMBSBURX* London, 5th October, 17917, ^v -, . . , i^ . ,-.•;--« - .,.\ ■ ■. -^ ^- ■- -