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STAT EOPA PERS 
on this article of the treaty, which 
was, in fact, one of the conditions 
of the peace ; but both the article in 
the treaty and the demand were con- 
fined to the pretender personally, 
and were not extended to any of his 
family, or to any of his adherents. 
After his removal, many of his ad- 
herents continued to reside in 
France ; many persons resident in 
this country, who were attached to 
the cause of the pretender, and had 
promoted the rebellion in his fa- 
your, and who were consequently 
attainted for high treason, sought 
refuge in France, and were pervnit- 
ted to remain there till their death, 
without any application ever having 
been made by the British govern- 
ment for their removal. The duke 
of Berwick, the natural son of 
James the Second, who, from his 
principles and talents, was the most 
_ dangerous man to the interests of 
this country and the protestant suc- 
eession, continued to be a general in 
the French armies, and though de- 
scended from the king, an English- 
man, and an emigrant, it was not 
required that he should be sent out 
of France. In the present case, 
there is no article in the treaty of 
peace, by which his majesty is 
bound to send from this country any 
Frenchman whatever, except on ac- 
count of the crimes specified in the 
twentieth article of the definitive 
treaty, and in consequence of the 
proofs therein required haying been 
adduced: In the present case, it 
_ cannot be pretended that his majes- 
ty has ever given the slightest coun- 
tenance to the cause of the royalists 
in France against the present go- 
vernment, since the period when he 
acknowledged that government ; 
and if there were not these impor- 
tant differences in the two cases, they 
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would be totally dissimilar in the 
only remaining point; for in the 
case of the house of Stuart, as has 
been already stated, notwithstand- 
ing the violence of the times, and 
the danger to which the protestant 
succession was really exposed, this 
strong act of authority was confined 
to the person of the pretender : and 
the individual who must be recog- 
nized in that character by the French 
government, and whose case can alone 
bear any similarity to the former, 
even in this respect, is not, and ne- 
ver has been, within his majesty’s 
dominions : other precedents might 
be adduced on this subject; but it 
is not necessary to state them, as 
the foregoing are suficient. 
With respect to the complaints in 
detail, under the second head.— 
Upon the first, you may ‘nform the 
French government, that the emi- 
grants in Jersey, many of whom had 
remained there solely on account of 
the cheapness of subsistence, had ac- 
tually removed, or were removing, 
previous to the representation con- 
cerning them, in M. Otto’s note, 
and that, before your explanation 
with M. Talleyrand can take place, 
there will probably not be an emi- 
grant in the island. 
To the second complaint, which 
relates to the bishops of Arras and 
St. Pol de Leon, and others, his 
majesty can only reply, that if the 
fact alledged against them can be 
substantiated ; if it can be proved 
that they have distributed papers on 
the coast of France, with a view of 
disturbing the government, and of 
inducing the people to résist the new 
church establishment, his majesty 
would think himself justified in tak. 
ing all measures within his power 
for obliging them to leave the coun- 
try; but some proof must be ad- 
duced 
