684 Official Papers ralative to the Negotiation with France.* 



this niglit, on prcfling him, and remonftrat- 

 fcig- botli upon his coiidoft an'l the impropriety 

 of difguifii.g bis intention, I jrew Irom him 

 ih'ife word';, which I write down in hk pre- 

 fencc. " That being aware of the imnritdiate 

 danger of Auftria, if it was in his power to 

 fave it, he fhonld think liis duty to do fo, 

 even hy a feparite pe.ice." All he no\v ap- 

 pears to claim is the return of the troops ;'rom 

 Oermany; and if he is willing to make peace 

 en receivinj;; an afiurancc that orders to th.it 

 ctTecl fhnli be fent, nobody cnn doubt but that 

 It will be (igned, anii probably not a battilion 

 make a retrograde movement of fifty miles. 



M. Talleyrand fays, that M. d'Oubril is 

 willing to abandon Sicily and Oalmatia, and 

 ev«h to engage to fol-icit the junftion oi the 

 former to Naples, &c. 



I have ufcd every argument to diffiiade M. 

 cTOubril from fo unadvifeJ and unvvifc a mea- 

 Are< I hope more than I believe, with fiic- 

 ■-cefs. Indeed, I feared, from the firrt hour I 

 met him, that he was determined to make a 

 peace, good or bad, with or without Great 

 Britnin. I may perhaps gain a day, which 

 tiiay be a gr-'at deal, if that day ihoulr. produce 

 difpatches from M. de Strogonoft'. 

 • On the 17th at night the new arrangements 

 for Germany were finally determined upon. 

 ■The princes and the minirters who figned 

 were fcar(;e allowed time to read the deed. 



There is a confidcrable army forming at 

 Bayonne ( thirty thoufand men are there al- 

 ready This army is oftenfibly dcftined againft 

 Portugal, but will take Spain lilcewife. M. 

 Herman, one of the fecretaries of the toreign 

 oflice, fet oft for Liftoa with a inifhon on 

 the ISth. 



All the officers of the army now in Ger- 

 many received yefterd.iy orders to join their 

 Tcgiments inftantly. The court fay, this is 

 to have troops to occupy the States feizcd by 

 the new confederacy. The public afcribc this 

 tneafure to a defire to frighten the Emperor of 

 Germany ; and myfelf, to a \vi^ to hurry M. 

 d'Oubril, who has fiieivn fo much anxiety for 

 the evacuation of Germ?.ny. 



M. d'Oubril and M. Talleyrand have, as I 

 have Icavnt, fixed upon Majorca, Ivica, and 

 Minorca, for his Sicilian M-ijefty, if they can 

 prevail upon us to evacuate Sicily. 

 Cify of a Sffatcb fmm the Earl of Tarmath 

 to Mr. Stcreta-y Fox, dateA Paris, July '..0, 

 1806, 11 at nigit — Received July ^Ath.. 



S.R, 



At nine this morning, having h»d the ho- 

 nor to receive your letters by Mr. Lunguinoff, 

 and written a few lines to you in addiL-on to 

 my difpatches of laft n'ght, I went to M. 

 <l'Oubril j and, as I am happy fmcc to find, 

 -anticipated tht: contents of your difpatch of 

 the Iftthiiiftant. 



I ufed every argument and means to ob- 

 taia dtlay ; engaged to Iweak cff, if he did ; 

 and, finally, authorized him to liold out hopes, 

 thui I woul4 Itllen to p ropolicion^i of indcia- 



nity in lieu of Sicily for his Sicilian Majcfty» 

 if propofed by him, and accompanied by a 

 joint negotiation. 



I begged he would do nothing till after 

 B.ifilico fliould huve arrived, as I had learned 

 by the telegraph that he had landed lad 

 night. 



I did not find him difpofcd to llften to me ; 

 and not being willing to be too communica- 

 tive towards him at that moment, I went 

 away. 



At four, I heard from pood authority, that 

 peace was figned. At fix, Bafilico arrived. 

 1 then went to ftL d'Oubril. He w-as faid 

 not to he at home ; but, feeing his carriage, 

 I forced my way. He admitted the faft. 

 Peace',! fgrteii; the conditions, the evacuation 

 h,fiar.:cr of Germany by the French troops j 

 the integrity, &c. of the Ottoman empire ; 

 no attempt to be made upon Swr.dl{h Pomc- 

 rania; and, by a fccret aiticle, Ruffia pro- 

 mifes to obtain his Sicilian Majefty's confciil 

 to an exchange of Sicily for Majorca, Minot^ 

 ca, and Ivica. Riillia to ule her good office* 

 to rertore peace between France and Eng- 

 land 



RI. d'Ouhil fends a copy to Count Strogoi- 

 nott', :\nd g'les himfclf toSt.Petcrlhurgh. I h»i 

 no pjticncc to liften to M. d'Oubrll's defence 

 of his condurt, fo I did not cljim his good 

 olTicts. I muft have aiked him ollicially to 

 ftay, which 1 did not choofe to do. 



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



Yakmouth. 

 ExtraB from a iijpatch from the Earl ofYar. 

 v.oulh la Mr. Secretary Fox, dated PariSf, 

 July 21, 1306 — Rccei-ved JuJy '24:. 



Sir, 

 I f.iw M. Talleyrand to-day. I can per>» 

 teive that the terms of France are encrcafcd, 

 but itill not fo much fo as the fudden defec- 

 tion of RulVia had led me to apprehnnd. 

 Hanover, Malta, the Cape, and India, re- 

 main pore and unfullied ; and I took an op- 

 portunity in converfation to proteft, that, 

 ■come what come might, thefe were points I 

 tnevtr would fufier to be mentioned, but a's 

 poiiKs agri-ed upon. 



M. Talleyrand demanded my powers. I 

 did not think myfelf authorized, in the pre- 

 fent circumftances, to withhold them.— Ge- 

 neral Clarke is named to treat with me. 

 ExtraS! from a difpatch from the Ear! of Tar. 

 niuth to Mr. Secretary Fox, dated Pa^ris, 

 July 24, 1806. 



Sib, 

 I had the honor to fend by M de Longui- 

 noff difpatches acquainting you, for his Ma- 

 jefty's information, of the peace figjied be- 

 tween the Ruffian and French plenipotenti- 

 aries, and with as accurate a ftatcment of the 

 terms as I was able to obtain. M. d'Oubril 

 himfclf fet out for Pcterlburgh early on the 

 morning ot the 2''d. 



On the 32d I received the official notifies- 



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