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Copy of a Leiter written to Earl 
Gower, English Ambassadcr at 
Paris, by Mr. Dundas, and de- 
livered to the Minister for Foreign 
Affairs, dated Whitehall, the 17th 
of August, 1792. 
My Lord, 
IN Lord Grenville’s absence I 
have received and laid before the 
King your last dispatchés. 
His Majesty has been very deeply 
afflicted in receiving the informa- 
tion of the extent and the deplor- 
able consequences of the troubles 
which have happened in Paris, as 
well on account of his personal at- 
tachment to their Most Christian 
Majesties and the interest that be 
has always taken in their welfare, 
as for the earnest desire he has for 
the tranquillity and prosperity of a 
kingdom with which he is on terms 
of friendship. 
As it appears in the present state 
of affairs, the exercise of the exe- 
cutive power has been withdrawn 
from his Most Christian Majesty, 
the credentials which have hitherto 
been made use of by your Excel- 
lency can no longer be valid. His 
Majesty is therefore of opinion, that 
you ought not to remain any long- 
er in Paris, as well on this account 
as because this step appears to him 
the most conformable to the prin- 
ciples of neutrality which he has 
hitherto observed. His Majesty’s 
pleasure therefore is,that youshould 
quit thet city, and return to Eng- 
Jand as soon as you shall have been 
able to procure the necessary pass- 
ports for that purpose. 
In all the conversations that you 
may have occasion to hold before 
your departure, you will take care 
to express yourself in a manner con- 
formable to the sentiments herein 
communicated to you; and you will 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
take special care not to neglect any 
opportunity of declaring, that at 
the same time his Majesty means to 
observe the principles of neutrality 
in every thing which regards the 
arrangement of the internal govern- 
ment of France, he does not con- 
ceive that he departs from these 
principles in manifesting, by every 
possibie means in his power, his so- 
licitude for the personal situation of 
their Most Christian Majesties and 
the Royal Family. He most ear- 
nestly hopes that his wishes in that 
respect will not be deceived; that 
the Royal Family will be preserved 
from every act.of violence; the 
commission of which would not fail 
to excite sentiments of universal 
indignation throughout all Europe. 
I have the honour to be, &e. &c. 
Henry Dunpas. 
Note in Answer to the Communica- 
tion made by Earl Gower, the 
English Ambassador. 
THE undersigned Minister for 
Foreign Affairs has lost no time in 
communicating to the Provisional 
Executive Council, the letter com- 
municated to himby his Excellency 
Earl Gower, Ambassador Extraor- 
dinary from his Britannic Majesty. 
The council has seenwith regret, 
that the British Cabinet hasresolved 
to recal an Ambassador whose pre- 
sence attested the favourable dis- 
position ofa free and generous na- 
tion, and who has. never been the 
organ but of friendly expressions, 
and of benevolent sentiments. If 
any thing can abate this regret, it is. 
the renewed assurance of neutrality 
made on the part of England to the 
French nation. — This assurance 
seems to be the result of an inten- 
tion wisely considered and formally 
expressed 
