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preliminary or definitive, as might 
beft conduce to the {peedy re-efta- 
blifhment of peace, the minifter be- 
ing equally ready and authorized to 
begin the negotiation upon either 
footing. As to what regarded the 
queftion of a feparate treaty, his Ma- 
jefty infifted on providing for what 
was due to the Queen of Portugal, 
being willing to enter into the ne- 
ceffary explanations with refpeé to 
the intereft of Spain and Holland. 
This note concludes with announc- 
ing the appointment of Lord 
Malmefbury as his Majefty’s Pleni- 
potentiary. 
- 7. A Note from M. Delacroix to 
Lord Grenville, dated June 20th, 
expreflive of the perfect coinci- 
dence of the Direétory in the fenti- 
ments of his Britannic Majefty, ftat- 
ed in the foregoing note; agreeing 
to fend a new paffport; confenting 
to receive Lord Malmefbury as 
Plenipotentiary from the King, al- 
though “ another choice would 
have appeared to them to augur 
more favourably for the fpeedy 
conclufion of peace,” and defiring 
that “ couriers fhould not be fent 
too frequently, the frequent fend- 
ing of them having been one of the 
principal caufes of the rupture of 
the former negotiation.” 
8. A Note from Lord Grenville 
to M. Delacroix, dated June 26th, 
announcing that Lord Malmefbury 
would fet out for Lifle on the 30th, 
to negotiate for a definitive treaty. 
The remark refpecting his Lord- 
fhip, the note fays, did not require 
an anfwer. “ With regard to the 
rupture of the laft negotiation, the 
circumftances and the motives of it 
were known to all Europe: and it 
was not af the moment of entering 
into a new pacific difcuffion that 
the Britith government conceived 
it could be of any ufe to recall them 
to recolleétion. 
9. A Note from M. Delacroix to 
Lord Grenville, dated June 29th, 
{tating that the French Plenipoten- 
tiaries were already at Lifle, and 
that the neceflary provifions had 
been made refpecting packet boats 
and couriers. 
10. An Extract of a difpatch 
from Lord Malmefbury to Lord 
Grenville, dated Lifle, July 6th, 
announcing that he had that morn- 
ing had his firft conference with 
the French Plenipotentiaries, when 
they mutually exchanged their full 
powers. Nothing more then paff- 
ed. 
11. A copy of the full Powers ot 
the French Plenipotentiaries, Le- 
tourneur, Pelley, and Maret, and 
the Secretary General Colchen, to 
agree upon and fign the articles of 
the treaty, conformably to the in- 
ftrutions of the Executive Direc- 
tory. 
(No. 12.) 
Extraéts of a Difpatch from Lord 
Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, dated 
Lifle, July (1, 1797. 
I HAD the honour in my laft, 
by Brooks, of the 6th inftant, to 
inform your Lordfhip of my arrival 
here, of the manner in jwhich I had 
been received, and of my having, 
in the ufual form, exchanged my 
full powers with the French Pleni- 
potentiaries. On Friday the 7th, 
at noon, we held our fecond con- 
ference. I opened this fecond con- 
ference with the French Plenipo- 
tentiaries, by faying, that I myfeif 
had no obfervations to make on 
their full powers, which appeared 
to be conformable to thofe ufually 
given by the Dire¢tory to their 
M4 Plenipotentiaries,, 
