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England should act in concert, in 
order the better to secure the inde- 
pendence and the organization of the 
order of Malta. He, therefore, 
consents that the choice of its grand 
master, from the candidates propos- 
ed by the votes of the priories, 
should for this time be submitted to 
his holiness. 
As to the 15th paragraph of the 
same Article, respecting the acces. 
sion of the powers, the first consul 
thinks with his Britannic majesty, 
that the powers should be invited to 
give their consent to ihe arrange- 
ments agreed upon; and the Frencli 
ministers at the courts of Austria, 
Russia, and Prussia, shall conse- 
quently, receive orders to take, con- 
jointly with his Britannic majesty’s 
ministers, the necessary steps for 
ebtaining the accession provided by 
the 10th article of the treaty of 
Amiens. | 
Paris, 10th Prairial, Year 10. 
No. 7. 
Dispatch from Mr. Merry to Lord 
Hawkesbury, dated Paris, June 4, 
41802. 
My lord, 
T had occasion to seo Mr. ‘Talley- 
yand yesterday afternoon, for the 
purpose of introducing to him, by 
appointment, some English gentle- 
men, previously to their presenta- 
tion to-day to the first consul. 
Having gone first alone into the 
minister’s cabinet, he said, that he 
had been directed by genera! Bona- 
parte, to represent to me several 
circumstances which stood very much 
in the way of that perfect reconcilia- 
tion and good understanding between 
the two countries and their govern- 
menis, which it was the first consul’s 
sincere wish to see re-established, 
jn order that such obstacles might 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
be removed before the arrival in 
London of the French ambassador ; 
because, although the circumstances 
in question had already produced a 
very disagrecable effect, whilst only 
M. Otto, as minister, had to. wit- 
ness them, they would acquire a 
great addition of force it they should 
still exist when the ambassador 
should be present; and since the 
first consul had given orders for ge- 
neral Andreossy to proceed to his 
destination with as little delay as 
possible, he wished that I should 
take an early opportunity to give 
an account to your lordship of the 
observations which he was charged 
to make to me, - 
After a preface to this effect, M. 
Talleyrand proceeded to state to 
me, that the accounts which M. Ot- 
to had transmitted of the disgust 
and inconvenience which he could 
not but feel and experience at meet~ 
ing, frequently, at his majesty’s 
court, and at other places, the 
French princes, and some French 
persons still decorated with the in- 
signia of Vrench orders which no 
longer existed; and, at-secing the 
countenance and support which con- 
tinned to be given, in England, to 
what, he termed, the ci-devant 
French bishops, as well as to other 
persons (he here mentioned Georges) 
inimical to the present government 
of France, had affected, so strongly, 
the first covisul, and were, in fact, 
so calculated to prevent thatsystem of 
cordiality which he was anxious to see 
established, that it was incumbent 
upon him to express his wish, that 
his majesty’s 'government might be 
disposed to remove out of the Bri- 
tish dominions all the French princes 
and their adherents, together with 
the French bishops, and othev 
French individuals, whose political 
principles 
