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island, as guaranteed by the present 
act. 
{V. Until the order shall be in a 
situation to provide, by its own re- 
sources, for the maintenance of its 
independence and neutrality, as se- 
eured by the preceding article, as 
well as for the defence of. their 
principal residence, the different 
forts shall be occupied by his Sicilian 
majesty’s troops, who shall send a 
suflicient force for the defence of the 
island and its dependencies, the 
number of which shall be agreed 
upon by his said majesty and the 
two contracting powers, who shall 
take upon themselves, conjointly, 
the expence of maintaining the 
whole of the said troops, so long 
as the defence of the island shall 
continue to be entrusted to them, 
during which period, the said troops 
shall be under the authority of the 
grand master of his government. 
V. The present additional act 
shall be considered as forming an 
integral part of the treaty of Ami- 
ens, the same as if it had been in- 
serted therein, word for word, and 
shall be executed in like manner. 
VI. Their majesties the emperor 
of ajl the Russias, the emperor of 
the Romans, the king of Spain, the 
king of the Two Sicilies, and the 
king of Prussia, shall be invited to 
accede to this act as guarantees. 
(Signed) Comte Alexandre 
de Woronzow. 
No. 35. 
Dispatch from Lerd Whitworth to 
Lord Hawkesbury, dated Paris, 
Jan. 27, 1803. 
My lord, 
I have to report to your lordship 
the purport of a conversation I had 
on ‘Tuesday Jast, by appointment, 
with M, Talleyrand. He had in- 
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vited me, some days ago, for this 
purpose. The communication he 
had to make to me related to two 
points, both equally important, as 
he said, to the maintenance of good 
harmony between the two countries 5 
with this difference, however, that 
the one originated with himself, and 
was dictated by his anxiety to do 
away every thing which might feed 
the mutual irritation of the two 
countries; and the other, by the 
express order of the first consul. 
That which came from himself re- 
lated to the English newspapers, 
against which he pronounced a most 
bitter philippic, assuring me, that 
the first consul was extremely hurt 
to find that his endeavours to conci-~ 
liate, had hitherto produced no other 
effect, than to increase the abuse 
with which the papers in England 
continually loaded him. He expa- 
tiated much upon this topic, and 
endeavoured to establish a fact, 
which [ assured him a reference to 
any one newspaper in Paris would 
instantly refute, that, during four 
months, not a word of provocation 
had appeared in any French jour- 
nal, which could justify a retort 
from those published in England. 
For the rest, he advanced nothing 
but what has been said, on more 
than one occasion to Mr. Merry, 
and reported by him to your lord, 
ship. 1 was, however, given to 
understand, that the first consul 
was, in fact, highly incensed, and 
the more so, he was pleased to say, 
as it came from a country of whose 
good opinion he was so very ambi- 
tious. 
In my reply, I could but go over 
the old ground, and endeavour t 
make M. Talleyrand understand— 
first, that whatever was said in th 
English papers, might be consider 
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