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* be by him communicated to the 
executive directory. 
The sentiments of your court are 
too well known to the king to 
admit of his majesty’s entertaining 
any doubt of the satisfaction with 
which his Danish majesty will see 
the intervention of lis ministers 
employed on such an occasion, or 
of the earnestness with which you, 
sir, will concur in a measure which 
has for its object the re-establish- 
‘ment of peace. 
I have the henour to be, with 
the most perfect consideration, 
Sir, 
Your most humble, 
And most obedient servant, 
GRENVILLE. 
. To the count Wedel Jarls- 
berg, &c. Fe. He. 
No. 2. 
Note-—-HIS Britannic majesty, 
animated with the same desire, 
which he has already: manifested, 
to terminate, by just, honourable, 
and permanent conditions of peace, 
-a war which has extended itself 
throughout all parts of the world, »is 
willing to omit nothing on his part 
which may contribute to this objeét. 
It is with this view tbat he has 
thought it proper to avail himself 
of the confidential intervention of 
-the ministers of a neutral power, 
to demand of the executive direc- 
tory, passports for a person of con- 
fidence whom his majesty would 
send to Paris with a commission to 
discuss, with thé government there, 
all the means the most proper to 
produce so desirable an end. 
And his majesty is persuaded that 
he shafl receive, without delay, 
through the same channel, a sa- 
usfactory, answer to this danond, 
which cannot fail to place in a still 
Glearer light the just and pacific 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
_proceeding to Paris,” 
dispositions which he entertains in 
common with his allies. 
GRENVILLE, 
Westminster, Sept. 6, 1796. 
No. 3. 
My Lord, 
I HAVE the honour to inform 
your excellency, that the note ad- 
dressed to the executive directory 
of France, in date of the 6th of} 
the present month, was transmit~- 
ted by M. Koenemann, charge 
d’affaires of his Danish majesty, 
to M. Delacroix, minister for fos 
reign affairs at Paris, who promis- 
ed that an answer should be return- 
ed to it after it had been submitted 
to the consideration of the govern- 
ment. Three days having elapsed 
in expeGtation of this answer, Mr. 
Koenemann went a second time 
to the minister above mentioned, 
who gave him to understand, that 
the executive direétory had not 
permitted him to return an answer 
in writing, but that he was direéted 
to express himself verbally to this 
effect : 
‘¢ That the executive direétory 
of the French republic would not, 
for the future, receive or answer, 
any overtures or confidential pa- 
pers transmitted through any inter- 
mediate channel from the enemies 
of the republic; but that if they) 
would send persons furnished with 
full powers and official papers, 
these might, upon. the frontiers, 
demand the passports necessary for 
I have the honour to be, with 
the most perfect respect, 
My lord, 
Your excellency’ s most humble, 
And most obedient servant, 
_ (Signed) Comre pe WEDEL 
JARLSBERG, 
London, Sept. 3, 1796, 
No. 4, 
