410: 
leads of an arrangement to be 
concluded by treaty or con- 
_ vention between his majesty 
and the I'rench government. 
_ Malta to remain in perpetuity in 
the possession of his majesty. The 
knights of.the order, of St. John to 
be indemnified by his majesty for 
any losses of property which they 
may sustain in consequence of such 
an arrangement. 
Hiolland and Switzerland to be 
evacuated by the French troops. 
‘The island of Elba to be confirm- 
ed by his majesty to France, and 
the king of Etruria to be acknow- 
ledged. 
The Ltalian and Ligurian repub- 
lics to be acknowledged by his ma- 
jesty, provided an arrangement is 
made in Italy for the king of Sar- 
dinia, which shall be satisfactory to 
hin, 
No. 51. 
Extract of a Dispatch from Lord 
Whitworth to Lord Hawkesbury, 
dated Paris, April 7, 1803. 
I received your lordship’s dis- 
patches of the 4th instant, by the 
messenger Wagstail, with their in- 
closures, yesterday evening; and 
shall, probably, i in the course of the 
day, have an opportunity of com- 
municating to M. de Talleyrand the 
note, which I shail translate tor that 
purpose. 
No. 52. 
Dispatch from Lord Whitworth to 
Lord Hawkesbury, dated April 7, 
1303. 
My lord, 
Since writing the preceding dis- 
patch, I have seen M. de Talley- 
vand, and communicated to him the 
inclosed note, which L trust your 
lordship will find as close a transla- 
tion as possible, of that which I re- 
ecived from your lordship, He read 
ANNUAL:<REGISTER, 1803. 
it over with much attention, and 
when he had done, he appeared to 
be in expectation of some other coms 
munication. Upon desiring he 
would explain himself, he said, that 
he was in hopes | should have. fur- 
nished him with the heads of those 
points, on which it was aflirmed, in 
the note, that the French govern- 
ment had so repeatedly refused all 
explanation and satisfaction. I told 
him that it would have been entirely 
useless to repeat what had been so 
ofien urged in vain; that he could 
not but know, that the explanation 
required referred to the conduct of 
the French government, and the 
system of aggrandisement which it 
had constantly pursued since the 
conclusion, and in direct violation 
of the treaty of Amiens, founded, 
as it indisputably was, on the state 
of possession of the two countries 
at the time; that, with regard to 
the satisfaction, it evidently referred 
to the unjustifiable insinuations and 
charges against his majesty’s govern- 
ment, against the oficer command- 
ing his forces in Egy pt, and against 
the British army in that quarter, 
contained in the official report of 
colonel Sebastiani. ile was, by no 
means, disposed to admit, that ei- 
ther of these cases conld justify 
the assertion of the French govern- 
ment haying refused explanation and 
satisfaction, on the ground that no 
notice had been taken of these trans- 
actions, but in a very cursory man- 
ner; nor had any explanation ever 
been required as to any particular 
transaction, whether in Italy or 
elsewhere, and if it had, it would 
immediately have been given ; and 
that the language of col. Sebastiani 
was not to be put in any compari- 
son with that used by major Wil- 
son, in his account of the campaign 
of 
