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dignity to permit an answer to be 
made to them on his part in any 
manner whatsoever. 
_ The progress and the result of 
the negotiation will sufficiently 
prove the principles by which. it 
will have been direéted on each 
side ; and it, is neither by revolting 
reproaches wholly destitute of 
foundation, nor by reciprocal in- 
veétive, that a sincere wish to ace 
complish the great work of pacifi- 
cation can be evinced. 
_ The undersigned passes, there- 
fore, to the first objeét of discussion 
brought ferward in the answer of 
the executive direétory ;—that of 
a separate negotiation, to which it 
has been supposed, without the 
smallest foundation, that the un- 
dersigned was authorized to ac- 
cede. 
His full powers, made out in 
the usual form, give him all ne- 
cessary authority to negotiate and 
to conclude the peace; but these 
powers prescribe to him neither the 
form, the nature, nor the conditions 
of the future treaty. 
Upon these points, he is bound 
to conform himself, according to 
the long established and received 
custom of Europe, to the instruc- 
tions which he shall receive from 
his court; and accordingly he did 
not fail to acquaint the minister for 
foreign affairs, at their first con- 
ference, that the king his master 
had expressly enjoined him to lis- 
ten to no proposal tending to sepa- 
rate theinterests of his majesty from 
those of his allies, 
There can be no question then 
but of a negotiation which shall 
combine the interests and pretensi-, 
ons of all the powers who make a 
common cause with the king in the 
present war. 
APERS, [155 
In the course of such a negotia- 
tion, the intervention, or, at least, 
the participation of these powers 
will doubtless become absolutely 
necessary; and his majesty hopes 
to find at all times the same dispo- 
sitions to treat, upon a just and 
equitable basis, of which his ma- 
jesty, the emperor and king, gave 
to the French government so strik- 
ing a proof at the very moment of 
the opening of the present cam~ 
paign. ; 
But it appears, that the waiting 
for a formal and definitive authori- 
ty on the part of the allies of the 
king, before Great Britain and 
France begin to discuss, even pro- 
visionally, the principles of the ne- 
gotiation, would be to create a very 
useless delay. 
A condué wholly different has 
been observed by those two powe- 
ers on almost all similar occasions ; 
and his majesty thinks, that the 
best proof which they can give, at 
the present moment, to all Europe, 
of their mutual desire to put a stop, 
as Soon as possible, to the calami- 
ties of war, would be to settle, 
without delay, the basis of a coms 
bined negotiation, inviting, at the 
same time, their allies to concur in 
it, in the manner the most proper 
for accelerating the general pacifi- 
cation, ; 
It is with this view that the un- 
dersigned was charged to propose 
at first, and at the very commence- 
ment of the negotiation, a princi< 
ple, which the generosity and good 
faith of his majesty could alone 
dictate to him—that of making com 
pensation to France, by proportion- 
able restitutions, for the arrange- 
ments to which she will be required 
to corisent, in order to satisfy the 
just pretensions of the king’s allies, 
and 
