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to treat upon any other principle 
than that of compenfations: a prin- 
ciple which has been formally re- 
eognifed as the bafis of a treaty 
equally juft, honourable, and advan- 
tageous to the two powers. Lord 
Malmefoury requefts the minifters 
Plenipotentiary. of the French Re- 
bkged to accept the aflurances of 
is high confideration. 
(Signed) Matmessury. 
Lifte, Saturday, Sept \6rh, 1797, 
10.4. M. 
No. 45. (C.) 
Note from ile French Plenipotentiaries ta 
Lord Malnefoury. 
THE Minifters Plenipotentiaries 
of the French Republic, commiffion- 
ed to treat of peace with England, 
have the honour to acknowledge 
the receipt of the anfwer of Lord 
Malmetbury to the note which was 
prefented to him in the conference 
of yefterday. 
_ It appears from this anfwer, and 
from the two notes of the 15th and 
24th of July, to which it refers, that 
Lord Malmefbury has not powers 
for agreeing to the reftitution of all 
the poffeflions which his Britannic 
Majeity occupies, whether from 
the Freneh Republic or from its al- 
lies. In confequence, while the 
reiterate io Lord Malmefbury the 
mott pofitive affurances of the fen- 
-timents of the French government, 
the underfigned apprife him of a 
decree of the Executive Directory, 
which fignifies that, in cafe Lord 
Malmefbury fhall declare himfelf 
not to have the neceflary powers 
for agreeing to all ihe reftitutions 
which the. laws and the treaties 
which bind the French Republic 
make indifpenfable, he {hall be re- 
“quired to return, in four-and-twen- 
ty hours, to his court, to afk for 
fufficient powers. Lord Malmef- 
bury can fee in this determination 
of the Executive Directory nothing 
elfe than an intention to haften the 
raoment when the negotiation may 
be followed up with the certainty 
of a {peedy conclufion. ° 
The Minifters Plenipotentiaries 
of the French republic requeft Lord. 
Malme/bury to accept the affuran¢es 
of their high confideration. 
(Signed) TREILHARDs 
i Bonnier. 
Lifle, 30 Frudtidor, 5th year of the 
Republic (Sept. 16, Vi97.) 
By the Minifters Plenipotenti- 
aries, the Secretary General 
of the Legation, Dercnue. 
No. 46. (D.) 
Note from Lord Malmefbury to the French 
Plenifotentiaries. 
THE underfigned Minifter Ple+ 
nipotentiary of his Britannic Majet- 
ty has the honour to acknowledge 
the receipt of the note of this day, 
which has been fent by the Minif- 
ters Plenipotentiary of the French 
Republic. Whatever regret he may 
experience at feeing the hope of a 
fpeedy conciliation thus deftroyed, 
he can return no other anfwer to a 
refufal fo abfohite to continue the 
negotiation on grounds which ap- 
peared to have been already agreed 
upon, than by demanding the ne- 
ceflary paffports for himfelf and his 
fuite, in order that they may fet off 
within the four-and-twenty hours, 
and return immediately to England. 
He requefts the Minifters Pleni- 
potentiary of the French Republic 
to accept the affurances of his high 
confideration. 
(Signed)  Marmesspury, 
Lifle, Saturday, Sejit. 16, 1797, 
3 P.M. 
No. 
