wortS DAW OPiA PLEARIS< 
(No. 17.) 
Extra® of a Difpatch from Lord Gren- 
ville to Lord Malmefbury, dated 
Downing-freet, July 13, 1797. ' 
WITH) refpect to the: demands 
contained in the note tran{mitted 
to your Lordfhip by the French mi- 
nifters, they have been naturally 
received here with great furprife. 
On the fubject of the Netherlands 
as connected with the Autftrian 
loans, it'is conceived that any ex- 
planation between his Majefty and 
the French government is wholly 
unnecefiary.. The loans raifed in 
England for the fervice of the Em- 
peror of Germany, and guaranteed 
by act of parliament here, reft, as 
your Lordfhip will perceive by 
the annexed copy of the conven- 
tion on that fubje&, upon the fecu- 
rity of all the revenues of all the 
hereditary dominions of his Impe- 
rial Majefty. They donot feem in 
any manner.to come under the de- 
{cription contained in the VIth ar- 
ticle of the preliminaries between 
Auftria and France, ‘refpectin 
mortgages upon the foil of the Ne- 
therlands;.on which ground alone 
France could have any pretence to 
interfere in the bufinefs. Nor is 
this fubje& one which appears to 
be in any manner a fit point of dif- 
cuffion between his Majetty and the 
Republic; the King neither forms, 
nor has any intention of forming 
any demand on the French go- 
vernment for the payment of any 
part either of the intereft or capital 
of thofe loans. It is to the Empe- 
ror alone that his Majefty looks for 
‘the performance of his Imperial 
‘Majetly’s engagements to him; and 
‘it is upon the Auftrian govern- 
ment, and upon its revenues, that 
_ individuals concerned in thofe loans 
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have claims of private right, and 
means of perfonal demand, fecured 
to them bythe convention. 
On. the other two points I have 
nothing to. add to the obfervations 
which your Lordfhip has already 
made upon them: and -we can 
therefore only wait with patience 
forthe anfwer to the /rojet delivered 
by your Lordfhip, which will en- 
able us to. form a judgment on the 
intentions of the government with 
whom weare treating. 
Right Hon. Lord Malmefoury: 
(No. 18.) 
Extradt of a Difpatch from Lord Malmcf= 
bury to Lord Grenville, dated Lift, 
16th July, LI97.. 
IT was at the exprefs itivitation 
of the French ' Plenipotentiaries 
that I met them on Thurfday the 
13th inftant; one of them ftated 
their motive for wifhing to confer 
with me, not to be in confequence 
of any ‘anfwer they .had received 
from Paris on the fubject of the 
§ proet, which, he obferved, could 
not be expected fo foon, but to re- 
fume the difcuffion on the article 
which he’ had objected to on my 
firft reading the frojet, and on which 
they conceived it was poflible and 
even expedient to argue beforé we 
entered on the more important 
branches of the negotiaiion. It 
was Article II. that he referred to. 
He objected to the renewal’of the 
treaties therein mentioned, from va- 
rious reafons: Firft; That many, 
and even moft of them, Were irrele- 
vant to that we were now negoti- 
ating ; Secondly, That they were 
in contradiction to the new order 
of things eftablifhed in France, as 
they feem to imply an acknow- 
ledgement that a portion of the re- 
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