Official Papo's relative to the Negotidtutn with France. 683 



(lh£ fame demand, offering to defift fram the and thai I hid no authority to liften to any 

 recognition by Great Brita'in of any or all the propofaU whatloever for the relloralion af 

 nevv^llates, v.-aving this conceflion to the ho- peace till he (hould dcfift froai all pretenfion 

 nor of the powers created by France, and fet- to the iiland of Sicily. 



ting Hanover againft Sicily, and pleading that M. Talleyrand not being wiHing tt> make 



no "fucii rccoijnition bciiig demanded, Ha- any fuch declaration, I afked liim t« give lue 

 Dover would then appear a fair equivalent for a paiVport to return to London ; he defired me 

 that ifland. He read the draft of an article to wait one day till he ihould ajjain have taliea 

 K> this ette<ft: That Great Britain and Trance the Emperor's orders. 



fliould not oppole each other's arms againft I accordingly returned this morning, whea 



fuch of the powers now at war, as (hould not he dcfired mo to propofe Ualmatia, Albania^ 

 be named in the preliminary articles. and Ragufa, as an Indemnity fer the lofs of 



To this I declined making any anfwer, re- Sicily to his Sicilian Majcfty ; to this I aa- 

 peatingmy orders not to converfe further till 

 he ihould abandon this proportion, and return 

 lo the former bafis. I added that, unlefa he 

 did lo, I could cxpeft nothing but your order 

 to return to England. 



M. Talleyrand wilhed to revert to the old 

 »opic, on which I repeated to him that it \va« 

 impolVible for me to converfe on any part of 

 the fubjecl, till he ihould entirely rclinquiih 



fwered that as the racfienger was returning 1 

 fliould communicate this propofition, but that 

 it by no means authorized metoexpeS an 

 anfv.er, and therefore I mail beg leave U^e- 

 turn to England. 



Had M. d'Oubril not been here, I fliould 

 immedi-.'.tely have inuued on jiaflports. 



I muft now inform you that on Monday Mi 

 Talleyrand took. i«c afide, and told me that 

 .very mode of feeking for the poffeffion of the telegraph announced the landing of Bafi- 

 5ijily_ lico, exijreliing at the fame time a wi{h that 



i\I. Talleyrand defired me to inform you, the difpalches he would bring might lead to 



that on the 29th of June the Fiench troops 



w ere to take polTeffion of Cattaro. 



ExtraBfrom a dijfatcb from the Earl of Tar- 

 mouth to Mr. Secretary Ftx, dated Paris, 

 July\ji, lliOo, midnight.— Recei'ved July i^tb. 



Sir, 

 After clofing the difpatch I had the honor 



peace. I anfwered that I could expedl n» 

 fuch refult wliilll Fiance demanded Sicily} 

 and added, that if I might believe public re- 

 port, the Emperor, fo far from fliewing any 

 pacific difpolition, every day threw new ob- 

 ftacles in the way. 



I then mentioned the changes in Ger- 

 many. M. Talleyrand faid that they were 



to addrefs to you this morning, I v.'cnt fur the determined upon, but Ihould n:t be publlJhed if 



'palTport ;\I. Talleyrand h;id promifed to have 

 prepared for the medenger's return. 



Inftead ot giving me the palVport, lie made 

 many excufes for its having efcaped his me- 

 mory, requeuing me to wait till he fhould 

 some back, from St. Cloud. 



When I returned, M. Talleyrand pro- 

 pofed lo me to offer the Hans Towns as an 

 eflaidiihment for the King of Naples, and 

 that the Briti/h troops fliould occupy them 

 the fame day they retake poffellion of Ha- 

 nover. On a little further converfation, I had 

 litlle doubt tliat were England to provide in 

 any other manner for his Sicilian .Majefty, 

 the King might add the Hans To^ns and 

 their territories, in full fovereignty to his 

 German dominions. 



The piopofition about the Han3 Towns be- 

 ing entirely new, I promifed to refer it with- 

 eut any comment to you for his Majefcy's 

 eonfideration. I have the honor to be, &c. 



(Signed) Yarmouth, 



E^'.raEl from a difpalch from the Earl of Yar- 

 mouth to Mr Secretary Fox, dated Paris j 

 "July 0th, IHOO.—Reuiicd July 12ih. 



Sir, 



peace took.plac^. He has fmce repeated this 

 to M. d'Oubril and myfelf, faying if peace 

 was made, Germany ihould remain in its pre* 

 fent aate. 



hi. d'Oubril writf s both to you and to the 

 Compte de Strogonoff; his letters will pro- 

 bably contain moie than mine, as I converfei 

 very little with M. Tall'^yrand. I felt on 

 very delicate ground. Had I entered fur- 

 ficicntly into the queilion of indernnilics for 

 the King of Sicily, to obtain a precii'e idea t» 

 what extent they could be carried, Monfieur 

 Talleyrand mi^sht have formed an opinion 

 that I had force iiiftruftions, and was pre- 

 pared to abandon Sicily whenever I was al- 

 furcd of fufficiriit compenfation. 

 ExtraB from a d'fpatih from the Earl «f Tar- 

 mouth to Mr. Sfcrernry Fax, -dated Paris, 

 July 19, lU o\!cck at night.— Renivtd 

 July 'l-2d. 



Sir, 

 On the 10th, General Clarke was named 

 Plenipotentiary to treat with Monfieur d'Oub- 

 ril ; they h.ive lince h.'.d daily >.oiilercnccs of 

 many hours, yellcrd.ay ot lourtcea. I hear 

 every where tliat Pciice will !'C finned to-mor- 

 row between Ruiiu and France. On tiiC 

 I had the honor to receive your difpatch of 17th M. d'Oubiil admitted* to me, that he 

 the .'>th inibnt early yedcraay morning, an>l as had produced his powers, and -tnat it conditions 

 foon 's poliibk a.'Cer waited upon 'M T.ilicy- luch as he Ihould judge necciraiy to cnlure 

 rami to coniniur.iv.ite to l:ini 'hac t .e orfcr the rejioic ol iiie cjiuincnt could be obc.uned, 

 ■l4ae.by Fwiicu waa by nu uicuilj odoullible. Us {houiu U^n. a Uucc of ten jnontns 3 ai^d 



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