Official Papers retdtive to the Negottation with France. €99 



Mtelyt only his Majefty does not authorife 

 the underfigned to fign any treaty except 

 provifionally ; fuch treaty not to hive its full 

 effcft until pesce ihall have been concluded 

 between that faithful ally of Great Britain 

 and France. It is upon thefe conditions alone 

 that the underligned is at prefent authorifed 

 to negotiate. 



The underfigned has orders to add, that 

 his Britannic Majefty, fully aeqaainted with 

 the delire entertained by the court of St. Pe- 

 terfburgii for peace upon conditions recipro- 

 cally honourable and advantageous, and at 

 the fame time compatible with the interelts 

 of Europe, has nuthorifea him to impart to 

 the French plenipotentiaries the conditions 

 upon which Ruliia (according to the full and 

 perfeft knowledge his Britannic Majefty has 

 of the intentions of that court) would be 

 willing to negotiate with tbeFiEnch govern, 

 itient; to reduce them into the form of a 

 treaty in the event of their being agreed to 

 on both fides ; and to infert an article in the 

 provifional treaty between Great Britain and 

 France, by which his Britannic Majefty 

 fliould engage to employ his mediation, for 

 the purpofe of obtaining the acccffion of his 

 Majefty the Empeior of all the Ruflias to the 

 faid treaty. 



The underfigned is awrare that he ought 

 to make the official commiinicati'n of the 

 conditions to the'French Plenipotentiaries : 

 in the mean time, and for the fatisfaftion of 

 his Excellency the Minifter for Foreign Af- 

 fairs, he has no difficulty in telling liim that 

 they will be in fubftance the fame as thofe 

 which have already been communicated to 

 his'Etcellency by his Excellency Baron de 

 Budberg. 



(Signed) LAUDERnAtE. 

 C-/V :.f a dUp<JU-h from the Earl of Luadi'daU 



to Earl^iip.nci' , dalid Paris, Siptcmi/ir 



I'j'b, i%o(>.— 'Sec ei-ved Siftember i,zd. 

 Mv Lord, 



At one o'clock this day, Monfisur Talley- 

 jand called on me according to the appoint- 

 ment which 1 announced to your Lordfhip in 

 my la(1 di/patch. 1 immediately perceived, 

 that his plan was to exhibit extreme civility, 

 which no one knows better how to execute. 



After lome time fpent in compliments, and 

 in condolence on the great lofs the i^jrld had 

 fuftained, h« told me, thjt'as I had iufifttd 

 on an arjfwer in writing, one was prepared, 

 which contained a declaration coiforiant to 

 what he fuppofed me to v/i(h on the two moft 

 material points. Fitft, that the Emperor 

 was willing to adn]it of an article being in- 

 troduced to anfv.cr the ol'j;:ft5 I had in view 

 in relation to Ruliii, and to inflrucf^ his ple- 

 nipotentiaries to hear me with refpeft to the 

 • interelts of that power. Secondly, that 

 France would be ready to make great concef- 

 fioiis for the purpofe of i>btaining peace. 



After fjme converfation, all tending to 

 imprels me with the idea that peace was their 

 mam ui>j;ft, and that they were even ready 



to make any facrifice to fecuie it, he pro- 

 duced the paper to which he had alluiei 

 (marked A.); and which 1 had at firft un- 

 derftood he meant to tranfmit to me when he 

 fhoulH go home. 



Before he opened it, he looked at mtr, and 

 faid, that there was a mixture in it of what 

 perhaps I /hould not like, but that I nwift 

 take the evil with the good. He begjei 

 tliat I would allow him to read ir througli 

 without interruptinij him. When he had 

 finiihed, I faid that I (hould of courfe feni 

 fuch an anfv/er as I thought becoming ana pro- 

 per. I told him, and 1 t;uft, with per.'eA 

 temper and feeming indifierence, that the 

 moft imp rtant thing for me to know, was, 

 whether th^fe concefiions would be to the 

 extent of allowing us to retain what they 

 had originally propofed ? He anfwered, that 

 the Emperor would leave everything open t« 

 the plenipotentiaries. 



(Signed) Lauderdale. 



Copy of a note delivered by M. Talleyrand to ile 



Enrl of Lauder dale, dated Paris, £epter,:l>ir 



l^rb, i8o6. 



The underfigned, the Minifter for Foreign 

 Aft'airs, has laid before his Majefty the Em- 

 peror, King of Italy, the note which hia 

 E.-icellency the Earl of Lauderdale, Minifter 

 I'leaipo'.entiary from his Uiitaimic Majefty, 

 did hi.Ti the honour to addrcfs ta him on the 

 Ijtii of this month. 



Kis Majefty the Emperor and King fees 

 with regret that the negotiation feems to take 

 tjvery day a retrograde couife, and he is at a 

 lofs tidifcover what point the Engiifij govern- 

 inent wiih to attain. 



In the firft inftance, obfolete forms were 

 brought forward and urged for our accept- 

 ance, the text and the fubftance of whicii 

 had never been admitted, nor even difcuiled, 

 by the French government; and when this 

 (tiffiL-uIcy appeared to be removed, and the 

 French plenipotentiaries held out a profpedt 

 of facrihces which pioveo more and more the 

 ifefire of their government for peace, points 

 antecedent to the negotiation were recurred 

 to, and a queftion was ftarted again wiiich 

 had been three times decided; Fiift, by the 

 powers given to M. d'Oubrii, with which 

 his Britannic Majefty's plenipoientiaries were 

 ucijuainted, afterwards by the poi^'ers given 

 to the Earl of Yarmouth, and laftly, f.)r ths 

 third time, by thofe of the Earl of Lauder- 

 dale. One might have fuppofed that a difcuf- 

 fion, terminated before the firft conference of 

 the refpcilive n--gotiator5, and decided even 

 by the vi.'ty t\£i of their negotiation, would 

 not a jain be brought forward. , 



His .Majefty the Emperor wifhing however 

 to give a treih proof of his unii'orm defire lor 

 the re-cftihlilhment of peace, adheres to the 

 following prypofal : that the negotiations be- 

 tween France and England ftiall continue; 

 that the Miiiiilcr l-'lenipotcntiary of his Ma- 

 jefty tlic K'..iB ul Grta: Britain fnall be at 



libel ty 



