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from the latter: In our-conference 
of this morning he faid they were 
{till without any letters from M. 
Talleyrand (which rather furprifed 
him) but he could affure, me,: with 
certainty,’ that by Monday ‘they 
fhould, be. empowered to go on 
with the negotiation, and that I 
might fafely fay fo to my court. 
(No. 37.) 
Extract ‘of a letter from Lord 
Grenville to Lord Malmefbury, 
dated Sept. 11th, expreflivej of his 
conviction that a fash days muft 
fhew what were the views of the 
predominant party at Paris refpect- 
ing the queftion of peace. 
(No. 38.) 
This was a difpatch from Lord 
Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, 
dated September 11th, informing 
him that the whole French legation 
had been recalled, and that Meff. 
Treilhard and Bonnier d’ Alco had 
been appointed in their room, 
(No. 39.) 
A note from the French Pleni- 
potentiaries to Lord Malmehbury, 
dated September 11th, announcing 
the foregoing circumflance, and 
affuring his Lordfhip, that the 
whange of the negotiators did not 
earry with it any change in the dif- 
pofition of the Directory with re- 
gard to the negotiation. 
(No. 40.) + 
A note from Lord Malmefbury 
to the French Plenipotentiaries, 
dated September 12, acknowledg- 
ing the receipt of the above com- 
munication. 
BIE 
(No. 41.) 
Extra& of a difpatch from Lord 
Malmefbury to Lord Grenville, 
dated Lifle, September 17, ftating 
the arrival ‘of Treilhard and» Bon- 
nier, with their Secretary General 
Derche, and two private fecretaries, 
their introdu@ion to him! by the 
former Con:miffioners, and the re- 
turn of the vifit by his Lordfhip.— 
Le Tourneur, on this occafion, ex- 
prefied, in the name of his col- 
leagues, their great fatisfaction at 
the opennefs and candour which 
Lord Malmefbury had difplayed 
during the whole of the negotia~ 
tion, and their regret at being o4 
bliged to take their leave of hie 
Lordfhip. Lord Malmefbury took — 
an opportunity of returning the 
compliment. 
(No. 42.) 
Copy of a Diffatch from Lord Malmef= 
bury to Lord Grenville, dated Lifle, 
17th September 1797. 
My Lord, 
I thall endeavour in this difpatch 
to give your Lordfhip as circum- 
ftantial an account as‘my memory 
will allow meto do, of what has 
paffed in the two conferences I 
have held with the new French 
Plenipotentiaries. 
In that of Friday the 14th, after 
communicating to me the arée of 
the Directory appointing them te 
fucceed Mefhieurs l.e Tourneur and 
Maret, and empowering them ‘to 
continue the negotiation with me, 
one of them began by making the 
ftrongeft affurances of the fincere 
defire entertained by the Direétory 
for peace. He obferved, that if 
this defire had manifefted itfelf fo 
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