STATE PAPERS. 



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No. XXXII. which, aftei' pro- 

 posing that negociations shall be 

 opened for a general peace ; that 

 hostilities shall be suspended ; that 

 British officers conveying orders to 

 foreign stations for that purpose 

 should be furnished with passes to 

 proceed through France, and that 

 prizes made after certain periods, 

 shall be returned ; states as follows : 

 Art. 4th. Malta and Egypt shall 

 be assimilated to the places in Ger- 

 many, which, although blockaded 

 by the French army, have been per- 

 mitted to enjoy the benefit of the 

 continental armistice. Malta shall 

 be furnished with provisions for 15 

 days at a time, at the rate of 10,000 

 rations per diem. With regard to 

 Egypt, six French frigates shall have 

 the liberty of sailing from Toulon, 

 of imlading at Alexandria, and of 

 returning without being searched, 

 and without suffering any opposition 

 during their passage, either from 

 English ships or from those of the 

 allies of Great Britain. An English 

 officer of rank shall for this purpose 

 embark on board one of the frigates, 

 and shall travel through France on 

 his way to Toulon. 



Art. 5th. The blockade of Brest, 

 of Toulon, and of every other French 

 port, shall be raised; and all British 

 captains shall receive instructions 

 not to interrupt the trade of any 

 vessel either entering therein or 

 going out thereof. No ship of the 

 line, however, of two or three 

 decks, actually at anchor in the said 

 ports, shall be at liberty to go out 

 before the renewal of hostilities, for 

 the purpose of changing its station; 

 but frigates, sloopS; and other small 

 ships of war, may freely go out and 

 navigate, and in the event of their 

 meeting at sea with ships belonging 

 to his Britannic majesty, they shall 



observe the customs established be- 

 fore the war. 



Art. 6th. The land-forces in the 

 pay of his Britannic majesty shall 

 not have the power of disembarking 

 in any port of Italy during the con^ 

 tinuance of the present armistice. "■. 

 Art. 7. The allies of France, 

 namely Spain, the Batavian repub- 

 lic, and Genoa, shall participate in 

 the benefit of the present armistice. 

 (If his Britannic majesty insist upon 

 including his allies in the armistice, 

 they shall enjoy the same advantages 

 with those of France.) 



Art. 8th. The present convention 

 shall be ratified, and the ratifica- 

 tions shall be exchanged in the space 

 of ten days, or sooner if it should 

 be possible. 



No. XXXIII. M. Otto, in a let- 

 ter to lord Grenville, Sept. 23, re- 

 fers to an answer which he incloses 

 to his lordship's note of the 20th. 



No. XXXIV. M. Otto enters at 

 much length into the positions ad- 

 vanced in the above note, and with 

 much ingenuity replies to them. 



No. XXXV. Is a note from lord 

 Grenville to M. Otto, Sept. 25, 

 referring to a note in answer to his 

 communication of the 23d. 



No, XXXVI. Contains this an- 

 swer, highly argumentative, but not 

 containing any new proposition. 



No. XXXVII. Lord Grenville 

 acquaints M. Otto, that in conse- 

 quence of his desire to communi- 

 cate personally with a confidential 

 person, his majesty had appointed 

 Mr. Hammond to meet him. 



No. XXXVIII. Lord Grenville, 

 in a letter to Mr. Hammond, same 

 date (September 24'), recapitulates 

 to that gentleman the progress of 

 the negociation, and shews in terms 

 the most striking and distinct, that 

 there did not exist a similitude be- 



