STATE: PAP ERS. 
je me battrai aussi. Vous pourrez 
 peut-etre tuer la France, mais ja- 
mais Vintimider.—On ne voudroit, 
said J, ni Pun niJautre. On vou- 
droit vivre en bonne intelligence 
avec. elle.—IJ| faut donc respecter 
les traités, replied he; malheur a 
‘ceux gui ne respectent pas les 
traités ; ils en seront responsable a 
toute |’Europe.—He was too much 
agitated to make it adviseable for 
me to prolong the conversation ; [ 
therefore made no answer, and he 
retired to his apartment, repeating 
the last: phrase. 
It is to be remarked, thatall this 
passed loud enough to be overheard 
_ by two hundred people who were pre- 
sent, and I am persuaded that there 
was not a single person, who did not 
feel the extreme impropriety of his 
conduct, and the total want of dig- 
nity as well as of decency on the 
occasion. 
I propose taking the’ first oppor- 
tunity of speaking to M. Talley- 
rand on this subject. 
I have the honour to be, &e. 
- \ (Signed) Whitworth. 
The Right Hon. Lord Hawkes- 
bury, &co &c. &e. 
No. 44. 
Extract ef a Dispatch from Lord 
Hawkesbury to Lord Whitworth, 
dated March 15, 1803. 
I send your excellency a copy 
_ of the note presented to me by ge- 
_ neral Andreossy on the 10th in- 
stant*, and a copy of the answer 
which I have, this day, by his ma- 
_ jesty’s commands, returned to it. 
No. 45. 
Note from Lord Hawkesbury to Ge- 
neral Andreossy, dated March 15, 
1803. 
699 
The undersigned, his majesty’s 
principal secretary of state for fo- 
reign affairs, has laid before the 
king the note of his excellency 
the French ambassador of the 10th 
instant. 
In obeying the commands of his 
majesty, by returning an official an- 
swer to this note, the undersigned 
feels it necessary for him to do little 
more than repeat the explanations 
which have been, already given, on 
more than one occasion, by himself 
verbally to general Andreossy, and 
by lord Whitworth to M. ‘Yalley- 
rand, on the subject of the note, 
and of the poimts. which appear to 
be conneéted with it.. He can have 
no difliculty in assuring the French 
ambassador, that his majesty has 
entertained «a most sincere desire 
that the treaty of Amiens might be 
executed in a full and complete 
manner; but it has not been pos- 
sible for him to consider this treaty. 
as having been founded on princi- 
ples different from those which have 
been invariably applied to every 
other antecedent treaty or conven- 
tion, namely, that they were nego- 
ciated with reference to the aétual 
state of possession of the different 
parties, and to the ¢reaties or public 
engagements by which they were 
bound at the time of its conclusion ; 
and that if that state of possession 
and of engagements was so mate- 
rially altered by the act of either of 
the parties as to affect the nature of 
the compaét itself, the other party 
has a right, aecontie to the law of 
nations, to interfere for the purpose 
of obtaining satisfaction or compen- 
sation for any esseutial difference 
which such a¢is. may have subse~ 
quently made in their relative situa- 
tion ; that if there ever was a case 
to which this principle might be ap- 
plied 
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