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order, or by interfering in any man- 
ner whatever in the internal politics 
of those states, under pretext of mak- 
ing proselytes ; which, exercised to- 
wards friendly powers, would be a 
real violation of the law of nations, 
‘** The King hopes that the Bri- 
tish government will see in this ex- 
position the incontrovertible justice, 
and the necessity of the war, which 
the French nation carries on against 
the King of Hungary and Bohemia, 
and that it will further find therein 
that common principle of liberty 
‘and independence of which it ought 
not to be less jealous than France; 
for England also is free, because she 
would be so ; and certainly she has 
not suffered that other powers 
_ should constrain her to change the 
‘constitution which she has adopted, 
_ ‘that they should lend the least as- 
sistance to her rebellious subjects, 
‘nor that they should pretend to in- 
terfere, under any pretext, in her 
internal discussions.” 
The honour of France, her desire 
of preserving and augmenting a 
good understanding between the 
two countries, and the necessity of 
clearing up every doubt as to her 
dispositions, requiring that they 
should be as publicly known as 
tae the undersigned Minister 
nipotentiary\requests that Lord 
Grenville would communicate this 
Official note to the two Houses of 
‘Parliament, previous to their deli- 
berating on the proclamation of his 
“Britannic Majesty of the 2Ist of 
-May. He seizes this opportunity 
of renewing to his Excellency the 
“assurances of his high esteem and 
“respect. 
The Minister Plenipotentiary 
a! of France, 
Bi). (Signed) F, Cuauveciy. 
_ ~ London, me 24th, 1792, 
“Fourth Year of French’ Liberty. 
179 
Letter from Lord Grenville to Mon- 
sieur Chawvelin, May 25th, 1792. 
Whitehall, May 25th, 1792. 
I HAVE already had the honour, 
Sir, to acknowledge the receipt of 
the note which you addressedtome, 
dated yesterday. 
Desiring, with ardour and since- 
rity, to maintain, in all the affairs 
that I may have the honour to treat 
with you, that harmony and cordi- 
ality which correspond with the 
intentions of the King, it is with 
regret that I find myself under the 
necessity of making to you the fol- 
lowing observations on the subject 
of that paper:—I am persuaded that 
it was not at all your intention to 
deviate from the rules and forms 
established in this kingdom for the 
correspondence of ministers of fo- 
reign courts with the King’s Secre- 
tary of state for this department. 
But it was impossible for me not to 
remark that in your last note, the 
only question relates to a commu- 
nication which you desire me to 
make to the two Houses of Parlia- 
ment, before they deliberate upon 
an object which you appear to’ be- 
lieve they were about to discuss. 
It is necessary for me to observe to 
you, Sir, that in‘my quality of Se- 
cretary of State to his Majesty, I 
cannot receive any communication 
from a foreign Minister, but in or- 
der to lay it before the King, and 
to receive his Majesty’s commands 
thereupon; and ‘that the delibera- 
tions of the two Houses of Parlia- 
ment, as well as the communica- 
tions, which his Majesty shall be 
pleased’'to make to them, relative to 
the affairs of the kingdom, are ob- 
jects absolutely foreign to all diplo- 
matic correspondence, and upon 
which ‘it is impossible for’ me to 
enter into any discussion ‘what- 
M 2 ever 
