SD ADE 
tar No. 4. 
Sir, Paris, Sept. 6, 1796. 
I WAS indisposed at my coun- 
try house when your excellency’s 
courier brought me_ the 
which your excellency did me the 
honour to write to me on the 7th in- 
stant, together with the note of lord 
Grenville inclosed therein. I set 
off for Paris on the following day, 
where, after demanding an audience 
of citizen Delacroix, minister for 
foreign affairs, I presented the note 
- abovementioned, accompanied with 
another in my own name, in which 
I explained the motives that had 
induced *me to undertake a mea- 
sure for which I had no autho- 
rity from my court. He promised 
to submit the two notes to the in- 
spection of the government, and to 
return me an answer immediately. 
Having waited for three days 
without receiving an answer, I 
went a second time to wait upon 
the minister, who, in a very dry 
tone, informed me, that the exe- 
cutive directory had not permitted 
him to return an answer in writ- 
ing, but that he was directed to 
express himself verbally to this 
effect : 
‘¢ That +the executive directory 
of the French republic would not, 
for the future, receive or answer 
any confidential overtures or pa- 
pers transmitted through any in- 
termediate channel, from the ene- 
mies. 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 
proceeding to Paris.” 
Such, sir, is the result of a mea- 
sure which I have taken at your 
request. I wish, for the sake of 
letters. 
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humanity, that we may meet with 
better success at some future period ; 
but I fear that this period is still\at 
a great distance. 
I have the honour to be, with 
respectiul attachment, 
Sir, 
Your excellercy’s most humble, 
‘And most obedient servant, 
i KornEMAN. 
To his excellency the count 
Wedel Jarlsberg, §¢. 
Sc. Sc. Fs 
Nios ae 
IN demanding of the executive 
direétory of the French republic, 
through the intervention of the 
ministers of a neutral power, a 
passport for a confidential person 
to be sent to Paris, the court of 
London accompanied this demand 
with the express declaration, that 
this person should be commissioned 
to discuss. with the government all 
the means the most proper for con- 
ducing to the re-establishment of » 
peace. 
The king, persevering in the 
same sentiments, which he has al- 
ready so unequivocally declared, 
will not leave to his enemies the 
smallest pretext for eluding a dis- 
cussion, the result of which will 
necessarily serve either to pro- 
duce the happiness of so many na- 
tions, or at least to render evident 
the views and dispositions of those 
who oppose themselves to it. 
It is therefore in pursuance Of . 
these sentiments, that the under- 
signed is charged to declare, that 
as soon as the executive directory 
shall think proper to transmit to. 
the undersigned the necessary pass= 
ports (of which he, by this note, 
renews the demand already. made) 
his Britannic Majesty will send to 
L3 " Paris 
