STATE 
Monsieur Delacroix will have 
the goodness to accept from me 
the assurance of my most perfect 
consideration. 
(Signed) GRENVILLE. 
Westminster, Oct. 13,1796. 
To the minister for foreign af- 
fairs, gt Paris, 
No. 8. 
LORD Malmesbury, named by 
his Brittannic majesty as his pleni- 
potentiary to the French republic, 
e the honour to annouce, by 
is secretary, to the minister for 
foreign affairs, his arriva) at Paris ; 
and to request of him, at the same 
. time, to be so good as to appoint 
the hour at which he may wait 
upon him, for the purpose of com- 
municating to him the object of 
his mission. 
Paris, October 22, 1796. 
To the minister for foreign affairs, 
No. 9. 
THE minister for foreign affairs 
learns with satisfaction the arrival 
of lord Malmesbury, plenipoten- 
tiary of his Britannic majesty. He 
will haye the honour to receive 
him to-morrow at eleven o’clock 
in the morning, or at any later. 
hour that may suit him, till two 
o'clock. He hopes that lord 
Malmesbury will forgive him for 
thus limiting the time, on account 
of the nature and the multiplicity 
of his occupations. 
1st Brumaire, An 5. (Octos 
ber 22, 1796.) 
To lord Malmesbury, minister 
plenipotentiary from his Bri- 
tannic majesty to the French 
republic, at Paris. 
No. 10. 
LORD Malmesbury has the ho- 
PAPERS, 
nour to thank the minister for 
foreign aflairs for the obliging an, 
swer which he has just received 
from him. 
He accepts with pleasure the 
first moment proposed, and will 
wait upon him to-morrow morn 
ing, at eleven o’clock precisely. 
Paris, Oct. 22. 
To the minister for foreign) affairs. 
151 
No. li. 
THE minister for foreign affairs 
has the honour to apprize lord 
Malmesbury, commissioner pleni- 
potentiary of his Britannic majes- 
ty,. that he has received from the 
executive directory the necessary. 
powers for negotiating and cone 
cluding peace between the repube 
lic and his majesty. 
To morrow, if lord Malmesbury 
pleases, the respective powers shall 
beexchanged. The minister for 
fereign affairs will then be ready 
to receive the propositions, which 
lord Malmesbury is commissioned 
to make to the republic on the 
part of his Britannic majesty. 
The minister for foreign affairs 
requests lord Malmesbury to accept 
the assurances of his high conside- 
ration. 4 
(Signed) Cu. DELAcRoIx. 
2 Brumaire, An. 5. 
~ (Oct. 22, 1796.) | 
: No. 12. 
LORD Malmesbury has the ho-~ 
nour to present his acknowledg- 
ments to the minister for foreign 
affairs for the communication which 
he has just made to him, and he 
will have the honour to wait upon 
him to-morrow, at the sour which 
he shall have the goodness to aps 
point, to receive the copy of ihe 
tull powers with which he is fur- 
L4 nished 
