TOO Official Papers relative to the Negotiation xvith FraHce, 



liberty to introduce into the trerty, either as 

 • public or a fecret artttle, or in any othtr 

 form which would anfwer the fame end, 

 whatever he may conceive would tend to re- 

 concile the exifting difterences between France 

 anet Ruflia, and would procure for the latter 

 a participation in the benefits of peace, it 

 being well underftood, that no propolaU {hall 

 be admittcj except fuch as are refpeflively 

 honourable, and are not injurious to ciic rt.il 

 power and the dignity ot the two empires ; 

 and that we fliall not fee again brought for- 

 ward the extraordinary prcpol'als which M. de 

 Novofiltzoff was charged to make on the 

 part of Ruflia, and which having marked the 

 origin of a coalition conquered and ileftroyed 

 in i(s birth, ought equally to Le forgotten 

 with the coalition itfclf. There are propofals 

 which, being only the refult of blind confi- 

 ^nce, and of a fpecies of infatuation, and 

 being founded neither on the reil force of the 

 parties, nor on their geographical fitu;.tion, 

 are deprived of a pacilic charafier, and cjiry 

 with them their own condemnation. 



France ought neither to abandon the inte- 

 refts of the Ottoman empire, nor a pofition 

 which enables her to fuftain that empire 

 againft. the aggvcllions with which (he is open- 

 ly menaced by Rufiia ; but as all the olijeds 

 deltincd to enter into the airangenients of the 

 treaty muft be referred for oifcullion, the 

 undeifigned will n;)t feclc to anticipate the 

 refult which it may produce. 



If, after the changes which have taken 

 place in the cabinet of his Britannic Majefty, 

 pi'ace is (1-ill wiihedfor in England, peace may 

 be made, and that without delay. The I'.m- 

 peror will not hefitate to make feme facrifices 

 in ordtrr to accelerate it, and to render it du- 

 rable; but if the difpofitions for peace fliuuld 

 }rjve changed in London, if the wife and li- 

 beral views maniferted in the firft communi- 

 cations which took place with the illuftrious 

 niinifter, whom both nations lument, fliould 

 ro longer prevail, a vague difcudion, imno- 

 eerate prctnlions, and ambiguous propofals, 

 ■wide of that tone of franknefs and oignity 

 necefl'ary to conduce to a veal reconciliation, 

 wouM only have the efted of producing more 

 irritation, and would be unworthy of both 

 nations, France does not pretend to diftate 

 either to Rutha or to England, but /he will 

 be diftated to by neither of tliefe poweis. 

 Let the conditions be equal, juft, and mode- 

 rate, aad the peace is concluded ; but if an 

 irnperlous and exaggerating difpolition is evin- 

 ced, if pre-eminence is aftVc^ed, if, in a word, 

 it is meant to diiSate peace, the Emperor and 

 the French people will not even no. ice thefe 

 propofals. Coufiiing in themfelves, they will 

 lay as a nation of anfiquity anlwered its ene- 

 mies, *' you demand our arms, come and take 

 that." 



Ctpy of a Kcfe from Lord Lauderdale to M. 

 Taiiyrnjid, dt'ti.d Ptiris, i>£/>. \^th, 1806. 

 The iinderlic,ned, Plenipotentiary of his 

 Majefly the Kir.g of Great Britain, in an- 



fwering the official note of his ExcellencJ' the 

 Miniftf.- for Foreign Aftairj, dated the i8th 

 inftant, which has been received today, be- 

 gins hy remarking, that he purpofely abftaina 

 as much as potTibIc from all obfervation upon 

 thofe points contained in it, wliich are foreign 

 to the immediate objcdl in qu'^ftion. Uy thtte 

 means, he will avoid difculTioiis of a nature 

 to lead him to forget that tone of rooderatioa 

 which it is his duty to obferve in the whole 

 courfe of his mlnittry. He will thus main- 

 tain the line of conduft which is conform- 

 able to that love of peace, which charac> 

 terizes all the proceedings of the King his 

 maimer. 



When the underfigned reflefls that he c»r«e 

 to Paris, authorized to conclude peacr upon 

 terms undtriloud to have been propofed by 

 France: that notwithftaiiding the rofufal of 

 his Imperial Majefty of all the Ruflias to ra- 

 tify the treaty figacd by M. d'Oubril, and 

 the fplendid fucceli'es OBtainrd by his Maje- 

 lly's arms in Suaniih America, he was autho- 

 rized to give a/Turances thu the demands of 

 Jiis court in its own favour, would nat in con- 

 fequence of thefe fuccefl'vs be materially in- 

 creafcdj the underfigned had reafon to be 

 furprilcd at ftoding hi: gnvernoneot charged 

 with manifeiting an " in;:perious and exagge- 

 rating aifpofitioo." He is not iefs allonifhed-, 

 that his Excellency, in replying to a note in 

 which Lord Lauderdale had the honour oi 

 explaining dittinc^ly to him, that the condi- 

 tions pointed out by his Excellency Baron de 

 Budberg, were in fubftance what would be 

 infiltcd upon by Great Britain in favour of 

 Kuiria, fticald have thought it necell'ary to 

 reprobate fo ftrongly conditions propofed by 

 M. de Novoliltzoft' under totally difterent cir- 

 cuinftances, and of the nature of which, the 

 unacrligned is entirely ignorant. 



Nevertheless, after the explanations given 

 by the underligned to his Excellency theAli- 

 nilter for Foreign AB'airs, and the declaration 

 made by him to his Excellency, that the un- 

 dctfigncd is not authorized to urgotiate other- 

 wife than fo as to enlure the conclufion of a 

 peace with Great Britain and with Ruliia at 

 the fame moment; and, alter having receiv. 

 ed, in the cfiicial note of ycderday's date, 

 ailurances that the French government does 

 not refufe the admifiion of an article, the 

 delign of which (hall be to provide for this 

 indifpenfable objeft, the underligned will 

 make no difficulty in refuming the con- 

 ferences with their Excellencies the French 

 Plenipotentiaries, as fuon as their Excel- 

 lencies Ihall be duly authorized for this 

 purpofe. 



(Signed) LAUDCRnALE. 

 ExtraEl cf a Dijpuub from the Earl of Lau. 

 derJaU to Eai/ Hfinccr, dated Paris, Sep- 

 tember 2.6th, lioO. —Received September 28. 

 Nothing material happened after the con- 

 ference with M. lallcyrand, which 1 detail- 

 ed in my dilpatch ot the 19th inltant, till 

 the 22d, wltcu I leccivcd from him a com- 

 Rianication. 



