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votes, and failing, we transmit to 

 after-times our names in solemn 

 protest on belialf of the parliament 

 constitution of this realm, the li- 

 berty which it secured, the trade 

 which it protected, the connexion 

 which it preserved, and the consti- 

 tution which it supplied and forti- 

 fied. 



This we feel ourselves called 

 upon to do in support of our cha- 

 racters, our honour, and whatever 

 is left to us worthy to be transmit- 

 ted to our posterity. 



Leinster, 



Meath, 



Granard, 



Moira, by proxy, for the 

 Sth, lOth, and 11th rea- 

 sons, 



Ludlow, by proxy, 



Arran, 



Charlemont, 



Kingston, by proxy, 



Riversdale, by proxy, 



Mountcashell, 



Farnham, 



Belmore, by proxy, 



Massey, by proxy, 



Strangford, 



Powerscourt, 



De Vesci, 



Wm. Down and Connor. 



R. Waterford and Lismore, 



Sunderlin, except for the 

 7th reason, 



Lismore, by proxy. 



Letters from the Minister for Fo- 

 reign Affairs in France, andfrom 

 General Buonaparte, with the 

 Answers returned to them by the 

 Right HonourahleLordGrenville, 

 his Majesty's principal Secretary 

 of Stale for Foreign Affairs. 



Letter from the Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs in France to Lord Grenville. 



MY lord, 1 dispatch, by order 

 of general Bonaparte, first 

 consul of the French republic, a 

 messenger to London; he is the 

 bearer of a letter from the first con- 

 sul of the republic to his majesty 

 the king of England. I request you 

 to give the necessary orders, that 

 he may be enabled to deliver it di- 

 rectly into your own hands. This 

 step, in itself, announces the im- 

 portance of its object. Accept, my 

 lord, the assurance of my highest 

 consideration. 



(Signed) Ch. Mau. Talleyrand, 

 Paris, 5th Nivose, Sth year of the 

 French republic, (Dec. 25, 1799-) 



French Republic — Sovereignty oj 

 the People — Liberty — Equality. 



Buonaparte, first Consul of the Re- 

 public, to his Majesty the King 

 of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Paris, 5th Nivose, Sth Year 

 of the Republic. 

 Called by the wishes of the 

 French nation to occupy the first 

 magistracy of the republic, I think 

 it proper, on entering into office, 

 to make a direct communication of 

 it to your majesty. The war, which 

 for eight years has ravaged the four 

 quarters of the world, must it be 

 eternal ? Are there no means of 

 coming to an understanding? How 

 can the two most enlightened na- 

 tions of Europe, powerful and 

 strong beyond what their safety and 

 independence require, sacrifice to 

 ideas of vain greatness the benefit*^ 

 of commerce, internal prosperity^ 



