S TA TER OPA BIE BS. 
Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. 
to ali to whom these presents shall 
come, greeting.—Seeing that the 
flame of war bas for a long time 
raged in the different parts of the 
globe; deeply occupied with the 
project of terminating regularly so 
many quarrels and dissensions, of 
resioring and consolidating the 
public tranquillity; resolved for 
this purpose to chuse a man capable 
of a negociation of this importance, 
and to invest him with full autho- 
Tity to complete so great a work, 
be it known, that the fidelity, 
talents, genius, perspicuity and ex- 
perience of our faithful and dear 
counsellor, James, Baron Malmes- 
bury, knight of the most honour- 
able order of the Bath, inspiring us 
with full confidence, we have 
hamed him, and he is appointed. 
and constituted our true, certain, 
and accredited commissary and ple- 
nipotentiary, g giving and conceding 
him, in all respects, full and en- 
tire power, faculty, and authority; 
charging him besides with our ge- 
neral and special order to confer 
on our part, and ip our name, with 
the minister or ministers, commis- 
sioners, and plenipotentiaries, of 
the French republic, sufficiently 
invested with equal authority, as 
well as with the ministers, com- 
missioners, or ple>potentiaries of 
the other princes and states who 
may take part in the present nego- 
ciation, also invested with the same 
authority ; to treat either separately 
r togetber; to confer upon the 
Means of establishing a solid and 
durable peace, amity, and sincere 
concord ; and to adopt all resolu. 
tions and conclusions ; to sign for 
us, and in our name, all the said 
conventions or conclusions; to 
make, in consequence, every treaty 
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or treaties, and all other acts, as 
heshall judge necessary ; to deliver 
and receive mutually all other ob- 
jects relative to the fortunate exe- 
cution of the above-mentioned 
work; to transact with the same 
force and the same effect as we 
should be able to do if we assisted 
in person; guaranteeing, and on 
our royal word promising, that all 
and each of the transactions and 
conclusions which shal! be made and 
determined by our said plenipoten- 
tiary shall be made and agreed 
upon, ratified, accepted, and 
adopted with the best faith ; that we 
shall never suffer any one, either 
in whole or in part, to infringe and 
act contrary to them ; and in order 
to give to every thing more security 
Sand force, we have signed the pre- 
sent with our royal hand, and al- 
fixed to it the great seal of Great 
Britain. ; 
Given in our palace at St. James’s 
~13th October, year of grace 
1796, and of our reign, 37th. 
Manifesto of the British Government 
against France. 
THE negociation which an anx- 
ious desire for the restoration of 
peace had induced bis majesty to 
open at Paris, having been abrupt- 
ly terminated by the French go- 
vernment, the king thinks it due 
to himself and to his people to state, 
in this public manner, the circum. 
stances which have preceded and 
attended a transaction of so much 
importance to the peneral interests 
of Europe, 
It is well known that early in 
the present year, his majesty, laying 
aside the consideration of many cir- 
cumstances of difficulty and dis- 
couragement, determined to take 
such steps as were best calculated 
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