P. S. This conversation took 
place on Friday last, and this morn- 
ing I saw M. de Talleyrand. He 
_ had been with the first consul, after 
I left him, and he assured me that 
he had been very well satisfied with 
the frankness with which I had 
made my observations on what fell 
from him. I told him, that, with- 
out entering into any farther detail, 
what I had said to the first consul 
amounted to an assurance of what I 
trusted there could be no doubt, of 
the readiness of his majesty’s minis- 
ters to remove all subjects of discus- 
sion, where that could be done 
without violating the laws of the 
country, and to fulfil strictly the en- 
gagements which they had contract- 
ed, inasmuch as that could be recon- 
ciled with the safety of the state — 
As this applied to Malta and Kgypt, 
he gave me to understand that a 
project was in contemplation, by 
which the integrity of the Turkish 
empire would be so efiectually se- 
eured, as todo away every cause of 
doubt or uneasiness, either with re- 
gard to Egypt, or any part of the 
Turkish dominions. He could not 
then, he said, explain himself far- 
ther. Under these circumstances, 
no one can expect that we should 
relinguish that assurance which we 
have in hand, till something equally 
satisfactory is proposed and adopted. 
Whitworth. 
The Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, 
Sc. &c. §c. 
No. 39. 
Dispatch from Lord Hawkesbury to 
4 Lord Whitworth, dated Feb. 18, 
Bh 7803: 
; My lord, 
Your excellency’ s dispatch, of 
; February 21st, has been reccived, 
and laid before the king. 
STATE : PAP ERS: 
691) 
I have great satisfaction in com- 
municating to you his majesty’s en- 
tire approbation of the able and ju-. 
dicious manner in which you appear 
to have executed the instructions 
which J gave to you in my dispatch 
of the 9th instant. 
The account you have given of 
your interview with the first consul, 
is, in every respect, important. 
lt is unnecessary for me to re- 
mark on the tone and temper in 
which the- sentiments of the first 
consul appear to have been express- 
ed, or to offer any observations in 
addition to those so properly made 
by your excellency, at the time, up- 
on several of the topics which were 
brought forward by the first consul, 
in the course of your conversation 5 
I shafl, therefore, content myself 
with referring your excellency to 
my dispatch to Mr. Merry, of Au- 
gust 28, 1802, in which the subjeét 
of the complaints of the French go- 
vernment, respecting the freedom of 
the press, the emigrants, &c. are 
particularly discussed. I cannot, 
however, avoid noticing, that no- 
thing approaching to explanation or 
satisfaction is stated to have been 
thrown out by the first consul, in 
answer to the just representations 
and complaints of his majesty, in 
consequence of the unwarrantable 
insinuations and charges contained 
in colonel Sebastiani’s report against 
his majesty’s government,—the of- 
ficer commanding his forcesin Egy pt, 
and his army in that quarter; but 
that, on the other hand, the Jan- 
guage of the first consul hagtended 
to strengthen and confirm the suspi- 
cions which that publication was 
peculiarly calculated to excite. 
{ shall now proceed to give you 
some farther instructions on the Jan- 
guage which it may be proper for you 
Yy2 to 
