1834 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
Plenipotentiaries, and of. courfe 
muft be confidered as fuficient for 
the purpofes expreffed in -them; 
that I, however, had tranfmitted 
them by a meffenger to my court, 
and referved to myfelf the right of 
communicating any objections or 
remarks which I might receive by 
the return of my meffenger, rela- 
tive to them. M. Le Tourneur, 
io whom, as prefident of the com- 
miffion, I addreffed myfelf, replied, 
that they had taken precifely the 
fame fteps as myfelf; that they con- 
fidered the full powers I had given 
in, as in due form, and fufficient ; 
but that they alfo referved to them- 
felves the'fame right, in regard to 
inftructions they might receive from 
the Direétory on this fubjeét, as I 
had claimed in regard to my court. 
To this, of courfe, Laffented. On 
Saturday, the 8th inftant, I gave 
in the /rojet precifely as I had re- 
ceived it from your Lordfhip; a 
copy of which (A) as it is tranflated 
into French, I think it my duty to 
inclofe. One of the French Pleni- 
potentiaries propofed that fome time 
fhould be given them to take the 
propofals [had made into confidera- 
tion, and begged of me, merely for 
the fake of accuracy, and to hel 
their memory, that I would be good 
enough either to let M. Colchen 
put down on paper, or myfelf fend 
them a note containing the words 
with which I wifhed the Articles 
left in blank to be filled up. I rea- 
dily acquiefced in the latter mode, 
and immediately on my return fent 
them the inclofed note (B). On 
Sunday evening I received the in- 
clofed note (C) from the French 
Pienipotentiaries, and in confe- 
quence of it went to the propofed 
conference yefterday. One of the 
French Plenipotentiaries informed 
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me on the. fubje& of the projet 1. 
had given them, and the note with 
which I had accompanied it, that 
as thefe papers contain many points 
on which their inftructions did not 
enable them to anfwer, they had, 
after having given them a very 
ferious attention, fent them, with 
fuch obfervations as they had 
thought it their duty to make on 
them, to the Direétory, and that 
the moment they received an an- 
{wer, they would communicate it to 
me. But that in the meanwhile, 
not to delay the progrefs of the 
negotiation, they wifhed that feve- 
ral points which he termed infulat- 
ed, but which, though not referred 
to in our frojet, were, he faid, in- 
feparably conne¢ted with the gene- 
ral fubjeé of peace, might be dif- 
cuffed and. got rid of now if I had 
no objection, and that it was with 
this view they had requefted me to 
meet them. On my not expreff- 
ing any difapprobation to this mode 
of proceeding, one of the French 
Plenipotentiaries began, by faying, 
that in the preamble of the treaty 
the title of King of France was 
ufed; that this title they contended 
could no longer be infifted on; the 
abolition of it was in a manner 
effential to the full acknowledge- 
ment of the French Republic, and 
that as it was merely titular as far 
as related to his Majefty, but quite 
otherwife in the fenfe in which it 
applied to them, he hoped it would 
not be confidered as an important 
conceflion.—I informed him, that 
on all former cccafions a feparate 
article had been agreed to, which 
appeared to me to anfwer every 
purpofe. they required, and which 
it was my intention, as the treaty 
advanced, to have propofed, as 
proper to make part of this. The 
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