gta. 
send bith without delay. 
STATE PA PERS. 
the arrival of the minister from your 
court, he will eppoint one and will 
The em- 
peror is ready to make every con- 
cession, which, from the eatent of 
your naval forves, and of your pre- 
ponderance, you may desire to ob- 
I donot think that you can 
refuse to adopt the same principle 
of making him proposals conform- 
“able to the honour of his crown and 
_ the commercial rights of his domi- 
‘nions. Jf you are just—if you de- 
“sire only what is possible for you 
to obtain, peace will be soon 
“made. 
I conclude, by declaring that his 
“majesty fully adopts the ‘principle 
wy laid down in your dispatch, and of- 
e 
fered as the basis of the negotiation, 
** that the peace proposed should 
be honourable for the two courts, 
and for their respective allies.” 
1 have the honour to be, with the 
highest consideration, 
Sir, 
Your excellency’s most obedient, 
humble servant, 
(Signed) Ch. Man. Talleyrand. 
No. VII.- 
Prater from Mr. Secretary Fox to 
M. Talleyrand, dated Downing- 
Street, April 8, 1806. 
(Translation. ) 
Downing-street, 8th April, 1806, 
Sir, 
I did not receive until yesterday 
€yening your dispatch of the first 
instant. Before I reply to it, allow 
me to assure your excellency that 
‘the frankness and oldiging tone 
which prevail in it have produced 
the greatest satisfaction here. A 
Spirit of conciliation manifested 
on both sides is already a great ad- 
“vance towards peace, 
713 
If what your excellency says re- 
specting domestic affairs relates to 
political affairs,an answer is scarcely 
requisite. We do not interfere in 
such concerns in time of war, much 
less shall we do so in time of peace ; 
and nothing can be further from the 
ideas which prevail here than any 
wish either to interfere with respect 
to the internal regulations which 
you may judge proper for the ma- 
nagement of your custom duties 
-and for the support of your commer- 
cial rights, or to offer insult to your 
flag. As toa treaty of commerce, 
England supposes that she has no 
greater interest in desiring it than 
other ations. There are many 
who think that such a treaty be- 
tween Great Britain and France 
would be equally beneficial to the 
two contracting parties ; but thisis a 
question upon which each govern- 
ment must decide according to its 
own ideas, and the party re. 
jecting it gives no offence, and is no. 
way responsible to the party pro- 
posing it. 
{t is not my individual opinion 
alone, sir, but. it must be acknow- 
ledged by every reasonable man, 
that the true interest of France is 
peace, and consequently that the 
true glory of her rulers ought to be 
placed in the preservation of it. 
{t is true that we have mutually 
accused each other, but it can an- 
swer nO purpose at the present 
moment to discuss the arguments 
upon which those accusations were 
founded. Like vou we desire to 
treat upon equal terms. Assuredly 
we are not accountable to ‘each 
other for what we doat home; and 
the principle of reciprocity that 
your excellency has proposed on this. 
poiat appears just and reasonable. 
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