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<vat, no longer exifts ; and wlist we inoft de- 

 fire is, to live in harmony with fo great a 

 pbwer as Great Britain." 



(Signed) Yarmsuth. 



Kolefiom Mr. Secretary Fox to M. Talkyrand, 

 dated June l-^i, lS06. 

 Sir, 

 I juft write you a few words to '■xprefs to 

 you the pleafurc which I feel at tlic defire 

 you have manifelted for peace. I have only 

 to add that Lord Y;irmouth poirefles all my 

 confidence, and that whatever he ihall fay to 

 you, you may confider as laid by myfelf. In 

 great hafte, I am &c. 



(Signed) C.J. Fox. 



ExtraEi fiom a difpotch from the Eiirl of Tar. 

 mouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, dated Paris, 

 June 19, \'}>Q-i.— 'Rtcel-vedJum %ifl. 

 SrR, 



I have the honor to inform you that, in 

 obedience to joiir orders, 1 made all t!ie haile 

 in m'.' power to arrive at Paris as fooii as pof- 

 fible J a calm at fi;a however prevented mj 

 getting here till the afternoon of the 16th. 



1 immediately wairtd upon M. Talleyrand 

 to deliver to hiiu the difpatches you intrufted 

 to my care, and requei'ed to put oft' any can- 

 verfition on tlie fuhjeiS of my journey till 

 the next day. I intended employing tUis in- 

 terval to endeavour to fee M. d'Oubril if at 

 Paris, and communicite with him previoully 

 to feeing again M. Talleyrand, or at any rate 

 to obtain fome knowledge of his motions. 



Previous, however, to my leaving M. Tal- 

 leyrand, he exprelied to me that, although the 

 defire of peace w.is equally fincere no.v as it 

 was when I quitted i'aris, yet that fome 

 changes had taken place which he had hinted 

 at the poflibility of, when 1 laft faw him, al- 

 luding to the leadinefs of Rufiia to treat fe- 

 parately ; and further mentioned that the 

 Emperor had received reports from his bro- 

 ther and the general officers under his orders, 

 ftating that Naples could not be held without 

 Sicily, and the probability they inv; of gain- 

 ing, poncllion of that iti..nd. I aiifwcretl him, 

 that, being ordered to require the reltoration 

 of Maples to the King of Sicily as a necelfary 

 article of peace, there would be no quelHon 

 of their feparation. 



I conceive Sicily to be the great difficulty ; 

 though perhaps, were there no o:hcr, it might 

 be got over. JM. I'alicyraiid often and leri- 

 oully ftated the abfolute determination of the 

 Emperor not to confent to our demands of 

 Naples, Venice, Iltria, and halniali.i, or to 

 alienate any part of his Italian dates to form 

 a provifion for the King of Sard<nia. 



Againft ceflions in the Well Indies or clfc- 

 whcre I folemnly protelted ; nor do J think, 

 they tare fufliciently about thefe objeiilis to 

 give any fufficieat continental equivalent for 

 theni. 



M. Talleyrand often repeated that the 

 Emperor had enquired wl^ether I hud any 



powers, addmgr, "That in politics it is im- 

 polfible to hold the fame language, unlels 

 both parties are equally authorized j" and 

 as frequently faid that tliey confidercd 

 Hanover, for the iionor of tlie crown, Malt.i, 

 for the honor of the navy, and the Cape of 

 Good Hope for the honor of Ikitiih com- 

 mcr'e, to be fufficient inducements to induce 

 his M,:ijefty's miniiters to make peace. 



P. S. On Tuelday 17th June I waite4 

 upon M. Talleyrand, and he^un the converfa- 

 tion by alluiing to the changes he had hinted 

 at the night before, and defired leave to re- 

 peat the fubftance of what had palled at mr 

 former interviews with him, and which I 

 had by his defire communicated. He agreed 

 that the llatement was aceur.",te. 

 Extrafl frcn: a diff.alck from Mr. Secretary 

 Fox to the Earl if Turmouth, dated Dawning- 

 ftreet, Jur.e t>(), 1806. 

 My Lord — I had the honor on Saturday 

 evening to receive your LordiTiip's Ictte.-s of 

 the I'.'th aud Ihould fooner Jiave .infwered 

 them, if I had not been for thefe three days 

 paft totally incapable ot attending to bufmefs, 

 I am very hsppy to learn t'lat M. Tallevr 

 rand acknowledges your accounts of former 

 convorfations to be accurately corretl ; but 

 when he does acknowledge this, I have no 

 conception on what ground he can reced<| 

 from what he faid fo diftinilly to your lord- 

 ihip betore, upon the fubject of Sicily;, 

 " You are in poffeliion of it ; we a/k nothing 

 from you," are words that made the mone 

 imprctfion on me, bec.uife, tliofe contained 

 in the latter cl.iufe ol the fentcnce-had been- 

 ul'ed by his Excellency in one of his k'tters to 

 me. It was on the faith of the uti ^ojjidetit 

 being to be i>riftly obferved as the bafis, and 

 particularly Sicily, on which fatisfacfion had 

 been given to your Lordlhip, that his Ma- 

 jelty was induced to auth- rizc your Lord/hip 

 to hold further conferences with M. Talley- 

 rand. Any tergivcrfation or cavil therelbre 

 on that article, would be a breach of the 

 principle of the propofed bafis in its moft ef- 

 fentlal part. To fay that Hanover is an ex- 

 ception to th; principle, is in vain, inafnmclj 

 as Hanover is to be yeilded cyi.rcfsly in ho- 

 nor of the crown ; while, on t'le other hand, 

 the recognitions propofed with regard to th6 

 French empire and its dependants, are not 

 only in honor of the ciown of France, bttt 

 tend fubftantially to ellablilh the folidity of 

 her power. With reginl to the complaint 

 of the want of lull |)ower.< ; to avoid all pre- 

 tence of cavil on that accDunt. I am com- 

 manded by his Majcfty to tranfmit to you the 

 inlbumcnt accomp.>iiyii'g this letter. But 

 your Lordlhip Ibould lairly ftatc to M. '] alley- 

 rand, that you arc not authorized to make 

 any ufe of them forinally until M. Talley- 

 rand returns to his former ground wilh rc- 

 fpcdt to Sicily. Vour Lordlhip is diredlod 

 furtiier to ucquint tliat minilter, chat, if Kuf- 

 fia ofter.'i to treit feparately, it ii only in the 

 way in which wc doj that is to fay, fepa- 

 rately 



