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government, with the notice that 
these priories have agreed amongst 
y themselves, that his holiness the pope 
shall select (pro hac vice), from 
_ amongst the candidates therein spe+ 
cified, the person who is to fill the 
post of grand master. 
_ His Britannic majesty on his part 
is willing to consider an election so 
ata? 
made as valid, according to the sti- 
pulations of the 10th article of the 
treaty of Amiens. 
His majesty therefore is ready to 
; acknowledge, in quality of grand 
master, the person whom the pope 
shall think proper to fix upon, from 
_ amongst the names contained in that 
list. 
His majesty has no other end in 
view in this than to see the 10th 
article of the treaty of Amiens duly 
- fulfilled, and the arrangement it con- 
‘i tains executed with as little difficulty 
as possible. 
It is stipulated by the 13th pa- 
_ ragraph of the same article, that 
_ the Austrian, Russian, and Prus- 
_ sian governments, shall be soli- 
' cited to accede to the said. arrange- 
_ ment. 
- The British government is of opi- 
; nion, that it might be proper for 
that of France to send without de- 
: : jay instructions to their ministers at 
Vienna, Petersburgh, and Berlin, 
to make, conjointly with his Bri- 
_ tannic majesty’s ministers, a com- 
_ munication to those powers in which 
_ they should be invited to accede to 
_ the arrangement respecting Malta, 
_ by which the independence of the 
_ island, and the other stipulations re- 
_ lative thereto, are placed under the 
_ protection and guarantee of those 
_ powers conjointly with their Bri- 
_ tannic and Catholic majesties and 
the French republic. 
655 
Note from M. Talleyrand to Mr. 
‘Merry, referred to in No. 6. 
The undersigned, minister for fo- 
reign affairs, has the honour to 
transmit to M. Merry, his Britannie 
majesty’s minister plenipotentiary, 
his answer to the note verbale which 
he addressed to him on the eighth 
Prairial. He doubts not that his 
majesty’s ministers will see in this . 
answer a new proof of the constant 
dispositions of the first consul to 
come to an agreement with the Eng- 
lish government, for the securing 
and facilitating the execution of the 
respective clauses of the treaty 
which has re-established peace be- 
tween the two states. 
The undersigned has the honour 
to renew to M. Merry the assurance 
of his high consideration. 
(Signed) Cha. Man. Talleyrand. 
Paris, 20th Prairial, Year 10. 
[The minister for foreign affairs 
of the French republic, has received 
the communication which has been 
made to him by his Britannic ma- 
jesty’s minister plenipotentiary, of 
the list of the candidates nominated 
by the votes of the different priories 
to the grand mastership of the order 
of Malta; and he has submitted to 
the first consul the proposal con- 
certed between the priories of the 
order, and approved by his Britan- 
nic majesty, of submittng (pro hac 
vice) to his holiness the choice 
among the proposed candidates, 
The first consul had no other ob- 
ject, in whatever relates to the order 
of Malta, than to see the 10th arti- 
cle of the treaty of Amiens duly 
executed, and to remove all the ob~ 
stacles which might render that exe. 
cution tardy or difficult. He more- 
over desires equally with his Bri- 
tannic majesty, that France and 
England 
