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vinced me that it was not meant to 
give me my passports without an- 
other attempt, and I was, there- 
fore, not surprised when, about ene 
o’clock, I received the inclosed note 
from M. de ‘Talleyrand, 
In this situation I am waiting the 
hour of rendezvous with M. de Tal- 
leyrand. 
First Inclosure referred to in No. 66. 
The undersigned has reported to 
the first consul the conversation 
which he had with his excellency 
lord Whitworth, on the 6th of this 
month, and in which his excellency 
announced, that his Britannic ma- 
jesty had ordered him to make, ver- 
bally, in his name, the following de- 
mands : 
Ist, That his Britannic majesty 
should retain his troops at Malta 
for ten years. 
2d. That the island of Lampedosa 
should be ceded to him in full pos- 
Session. 
3d, That the Freneh troops should 
évacuate Holland. 
‘And that if no convention, on 
this basis, should: haye been signed 
within a week, his excellency lord 
Whitworth had orders to termi- 
nate his mission, and to return to 
London. 
On the demand made by the under- 
signed, that lord Whitworth would, 
in conformity to the usage of all 
ages, and of all countries, give in 
writing what he himself called the 
yltimadum of his government, his 
excellency, declared, that his in- 
structions expressly forbade him to 
transmit, on this subiett, any writ- 
ten note. 
The intentions of the first con- 
sul, being entirely pacific, the un- 
dersigned dispenses with making any 
observations on so new and so strange 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
a manner of treating on affairs of 
this importance. 
And, in order to give a fresh tes. 
timony of the valne which he at- 
taches to the continuance of peace, 
the first consul has direéted the un- 
dersigned to make the following no- 
tification in the accustomed style and 
forms. 
As the island of Lampedosa does 
not belong to France, it is not for 
the first consul either to aecede to 
or to refuse the desire testified by 
his Britannic majesty, of having this 
island in his possession, 
With regard to the island of Mal. 
ta, as the demand made respecting 
it by his Britannic majesty would 
change a formal disposition in the 
treaty of Amiens, the first consul 
cannot but previously communicate 
it to his majesty the king of Spain, 
and to the Batavian republic, con- 
tracting parties to the said treaty, in 
order to know their opinion; and 
besides, as the stipulations relative 
to Malta haye been guaranteed by 
their majesties the emperor of Ger- 
many, the emperor of Russia, and 
the king of Prussia, the contract- 
ing parties to the treaty of Amiens, 
before they agree to any change 
in the article of Malta, are bound 
to concert with the guaranteeing 
powers. 
The first consu) will not refuse 
this concert, but it belongs nat to 
him to propose it, since it is not he 
who urges any change in the gua- 
ranteed stipulations. 
With regard to the evaeuation of 
Holland by the French troops, the 
first consul has no difficulty in di- 
reéting the undersigned to repeat that 
the French troops shall evacuate Hol- 
land at the instant that the stipula- 
tions of the treaty of Amiens shall be 
executed in every quarter of the at 
he 
