726 
provided such articles be considered 
‘as provisional and subject to the ap- 
probation of Russia. 
With regard to the.mode of pro- 
visional agreement, two suggest 
themselves to my mind: ‘The ene, 
tasend the agreement we shall have 
‘entered into, either to Petersburgh, 
‘or to some authorized agent of the 
emperor Alexander, at Vienna, 
Paris, or elsewhere, for his appro- 
bation; the other, to copy the pre- 
cedent adopted by lord Lansdowne 
“and doctor Franklin in the vear 
1782. At that time a provisional 
treaty was signed by the plenipoten- 
tiaries of Great Britain and the 
ubited states of America, with the 
reservation, that the said treaty 
‘should not have effect till a peace 
‘should ‘be agreed upon between 
France and England. Of these 
two modes J should prefer the 
Jatter. 
‘It does not appear that there has 
been any conversation between your 
Jordship and M, ‘Talleyrand on a 
point which was mentioned to you, 
and which appears‘to be of consi- 
derable importance; I mean, the 
future admission of Russia and 
Sweden to become parties in a de- 
finitive treaty. Ido not say that 
this is a point that must- be deter- 
mined upon previous to your sett- 
ling the basis proposed ; but it is one 
which should not be lost sight of, 
but, on the contrary, urged as far 
as possible. 
No. XVI. 
Extract from a Dispatch from the 
Earl of Yarmouth to Mr. Secre- 
tary Fox, dated Paris July 1, 
1806.—Received July 4. 
Sir, Paris, July 1, 1806. 
Thad the honour to receive, on 
Saturday night, the full powers with 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806, 
which it has graciously pleased his 
majesty toentrust me, and your dis- 
patch of the 26th of June. 
I waited upon M. ‘Talleyrand next 
morning, and stated to him inthe | 
strongest manner the’ impossibility 
of my conversing any further upon 
the general outlines of peace, until 
he should return to the former 
ground, and consider Sicily in its 
true and real’ situation, namely, a 
statenot conquered ‘by France, or 
likely to be so, and coming most 
strictly within the meaning of his 
own words ; that it had been clearly 
expressed by him, and repeated to 
you in the first instance, that France 
did not intend to make Sicily an ob- 
stacle to peace. M. Talleyrand 
answered, that whilst the war con- 
tinued, and till terms were actually 
agreed upon, change of circum- 
stances were always to be consider- 
ed as reasons fora partial change of | 
terms ; that Bonaparte had been but 
lately convinced of the facility of 
taking Sicily at some future period © 
of the war ; but that, above all, he 
felt more and more its absolute ne- 
cessity to make Naples and the 
neighbouring territories’ tenable: 
that had any confidential overture 
been made three months ago, they 
would have been ready to settle the 
question of Naples in the manner 
most satisfactory to Great Britain : 
thesame a month later with regard © 
to Holland. Those subjects were 
now arranged, and the emperor, — 
would consider any retrograde mea- 
sure as equivalent to abdication. I 
observed to that minister, that how- 
ever much good faith may be neces. — 
sary in every transaction of the 
world, yet that being more pecu-— 
liarly so, when a communication is 
made secretly and verbally, I hada 
right to be doubly surprised at any ~ 
change | 
