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No. 48. 
Dispatch from Lord Hawkesbury to 
Lord Whitworth, dated March 27, 
1803. 
My lord, 
Your exceilency’s several dis. 
patches to No. 26 inclusive, have 
been received and laid before the king. 
With respect to the subjeét of 
your excellency’s dispatch of March 
i4, I have it in command to signify 
to you his majesty’s pleasure, that 
you take the earliest opportunity to 
represent to .Monsieur de Talley- 
rand, the surprise with which his 
majesty has learnt the conduét which 
the first consul had observed towards 
your excellency in the instance to 
which that dispatch refers ; and you 
_ will add, that as his majesty has a 
right to expeét that his ambassador 
‘should be treated with the respect 
and attention due to the dignity of 
the sovercign whom he represents, 
it will be impossible for you to pre- 
sent yourself, on any days of cere- 
mony, to the first consul, unless 
you receive an assurance that you 
will never be exposed to a repe- 
tition of the treatment which you 
experienced on the occasion. 
Although your excellency appears 
to have anticipated this instruéticn 
in one of your most recent conver- 
sations with Monsieur de Talley- 
rand, I, nevertheless, think it right 
to enable your excellency to state 
to that minister, the sense which 
the king entertains of this transac- 
tion. Tam, &c. 
(Signed) Hawkesbury. 
His Excellency Lord Whitworth, 
K. B. &. &c. &e. 
No. 49. 
Dispatch from Lord Hawkesbury to 
Lord Whitworth, dated April 3, 
1803, 
ANNUAL REGISTER; 1803. 
My lord, 
I inclose to your excellency, for 
your information, copies of the of- 
ficial note delivered to me on the 
29th ultimo, by general Andreossy, 
and of the answer which, by his ma- 
jesty’s command, I this day return. — 
ed to that communication. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
(Signed) Hawkesbury. — 
His Excellency Lord Whitworth, 
K. B. &c. Sc. &e. 
Inclosure in No, 49. 
The undersigned general of divi- 
sion, ambassador and minister ple- 
nipotentiary from the French re- 
public, has laid before his’ govern- — 
ment the note addressed to him by — 
his excellency lord Hawkesbury. © 
He has received orders to make the © 
following answer to the observations 
therein contained. 
The objeét of this note appears to 
be to explain his Britannic majesty’s 
message ; and to give some elucida- 
tions which had been demanded re- 
speéting the execution of the treaty 
of Amiens. 
The first consul will not make 
any complaint relative to the extra- 
ordinary and unexpected assertions 
of this aét, issued by his Britannic 
majesty. Not one of them js — 
founded. 
Ilis Britannic majesty believes 
that his kingdom is menaced by 
preparations made in the ports of 
Holland and France. He has been 
deceived ; the first consul has made 
no preparation. 
There were, at the time of the 
message, but two frigates in-the 
roads of Holland, and but three. 
corvettes in the roads of Dunkirk. 
How can his Britannic majesty’s 
ministers have been deceived on facts 
so evident? His Britannic majesty’s 
ambassaders 
