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without recalling again your atten- 
tion to the conduct of the French 
minister at Hamburgh, and refer- 
ring you to my instructions, by 
which you should abstain from con- 
cluding the arrangement, unless you 
have received from M. Talleyrand 
an assurance that his conduet would 
be publicly disavowed, 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
(Signed) | Hawkesbury. 
His Excellency Lord Whitworth, 
K. B, &c. Se. §e. 
No. 69. 
Extract of «@ Dispatch from Lord 
Whitworth to Lord Hawkesbury, 
dated Paris, May 9, 1803. 
The messenger, Sylvester, is ar- 
rived with your lordship’s dispatch, 
No, 15, of the 7th of May. 
As soon as I received your lord- 
ship’s' instructions, I prepared a 
translated copy of the project fur- 
nished me by your lordship, and a 
short note, with which it is my in- 
tention to accompany the communi- 
cation. I then sent a person to 
Monsieur Talleyrand, to know when 
I could see him, and I was inform- 
ed, that he was at St. Cloud. I 
soon after learnt, that he was gone 
there in consequence of the acci- 
dent which happened yesterday to 
the first consul. I understand that 
no bad conscguences are likely to 
ensue, and that he is able to trans- 
act business. | cannot, however, 
expect to see M. ‘Talleyrand before 
to-morrow morning. Although this 
circumstance may cause a delay of a 
few hours, your lordship may be 
assured, that the execution of those 
instructions with which you have 
furnished me, shall not he protract- 
ed, I shall leave Paris mest as- 
suredly, or have concluded a satis. 
fadtory arrangement, within the 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
time specified by your lordship, 
reckoning from the moment of my 
being able to make an official com- 
munication, rather than from that 
of the receipt of your lordship’s 
letter. 
No. 70. 
Extra&é of «@ Dispatch from Lord 
Whitworth to Lord Hawkesbury, 
dated Paris, May 12, 1803, 
‘The messenger, Sylvester, as I 
mentioned in my last dispatch, re- 
turned on the 9th, at twelve o’clock ; 
and I wrote to M. Talleyrand, in- 
forming him of it, and desiring him 
to name an hour when I might wait 
on him, in order to communicate 
to him the purport of my instruc- 
tions. To this letter, I received no 
answer that evening or the following 
morning. Anxious to execute my 
orders, and to lose no time, I en- 
closed the project furnished me by 
your lordship, aceompanied by an 
official note, and a private letter to 
M, de Talleyrand, and sent it to the 
foreign department by Mr. Mande- 
ville, with direétions to deliver it to 
M. de Talleyrand, or, in his ab- 
sence, to the Chef du Bureauw. He 
delivered it, accordingly, to M. Du- 
rand, who promised to give it to his 
chief as soon as he came in, which 
he expected, he said, shortly. At 
half past four, haying waited till 
that time in vain, 1 went myself to 
M. de Talleyrand; I was told that 
the family was in the country, and 
that they did not know when the 
minister would be in town. Half an 
hour after I had returned home, the 
packet which Mr. Mandeville had 
given into the hands of M. Durand, 
was brought to me, I believe, by a 
servant, with a verbal message, that, 
as M. de Talleyrand was in the 
country, it would be necessary that _ 
I should send it to him there. In — 
order 
