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that, in obedience to your orders, I 
made all the haste in my power to 
arrive at Paris as soon as possible ; 
calm at sea, however, prevented my 
getting here till the afternoon of 
the 16th. 
_ L immediately waited upon M. 
Talleyrand to deliver to him the dis- 
patches you entrusted to my care, 
and requested to put off any con- 
versation on the subject of my 
journey till next day. I intended 
_ employing this interval to endea- 
vour to see M. d’Oubril, if at Paris, 
and communicate with him previ- 
ously to seeing again M. Talley- 
rand, or at any rate to obtain some 
knowledge of his motions. 
Previous, however, to my leav- 
ing M. Talleyrand, he expressed to 
me that although the desire of peace 
was equally sincere now as it was 
when I quitted Paris, yet that some 
changes had taken place which he 
had hinted at the possibility of, 
when J last saw him, alluding to the 
readiness of Russia to treat sepa- 
rately ; and further mentioned that 
the emperor had received reports 
from his brother and the general 
officers under his orders, stating that 
Naples could not be held without 
Sicily, and the probability they saw 
of gaining possession of that island. 
I answered him, that, being ordered 
to require the restoration of Naples 
to the king of Sicily as a necessary 
article of peace, there would be no 
question of their separation. 
I conceive Sicily to be the great 
difficulty, though, perhaps, were 
there no other, it might be got over. 
M. Talleyrand often and seriously 
stated the absolute determination of 
the emperor not to consent to our 
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demands of Naples, Venice, Istria, 
and Dalmatia, or to alienate any 
part of his Italian states to form a 
provision for the king of Sardinia. 
Against cessions in the West 
Indies or elsewhere I solemnly pro- 
tested; nor do I think they care 
sufficiently about these objects to | 
give any sufficient continental equi- 
valent for them. 
M. Talleyraud often repeated 
that the emperor had enquired whe- 
ther I had any powers, adding, * 
“¢ qu’ en politique on ne peut parler 
la méme langue si onn’y est égale- 
ment autorisé:;’? and as frequent- 
ly said that they considered. that 
Hanover for the houour of the 
crown, Malta for the honour of the 
navy,.and the Cape of Good Hope 
for the honour of British commerce, 
to be sufficient inducements to in- 
duce his majesty’s ministers to make 
peace. 
P.S. On Tuesday 17th June I 
waited upon M. 'Talleyrand, and 
begun the conversation by alluding 
to the changes he had hinted at the 
night before, and desired leave to 
repeat the substance of what had 
passed at my former interviews with 
him, and which I had by his desire 
communicated. He agreed that the 
statement was accurate, 
No. XV. 
Ertract from a Dispatch from Mr, 
Seerctary Fox to the Earl of Var 
mouth, dated Downing-street, June 
26, 1806. 
Downing-street, June 26, 1806. 
My Lorn, 
Thad the honour on Saturday 
evening to receive your lordship’s 
Jetters of the 19th, and should 
sooner 
*“ That in politics it is impossible to hold the samelanguage, unless both partics, 
are equally autherized,” 
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