No. XXI. 
Extract from a Dispatch from the 
Earl of Yarmouth to Mr. Secre. 
tary Fox, dated Paris, July 19, 
1806.—Recetived July 22. 
Sir, Paris, July 19, 1806. 
On the 10th general Clarke was 
named plenipotentiary to treat with 
monsieur d’Qubril: they have 
since had daily conferences of many 
hours ; yesterday of fourteen. I[ 
hear every where that peace will be 
signed to-morrow between Russia 
and France. On the 17th M. 
@Oubril admitted to me that he had 
produced his powers, and that if 
conditions, such as he should judge 
necessary to ensure the repose of 
the continent could be obtained, he 
should sign a truce of ten months ; 
and this night, on pressing him, and 
vemonstrating both upon his con- 
duct, and the impropriety of dis- 
guising his intention, I drew from 
him these words, which 1 wrote 
down in his presence. ‘* * Que 
veyant le danger immédiat de lV Au- 
triche si’l pouvott la sauver il crot- 
roit de son devoir de la faire, \méme 
parine paix particuliere”’ All he 
now appears to claim is the return 
of troops from Soemany,s and if 
he is willing to make peace on re. 
ceiving an assurance that orders 
to that effect should be sent, no- 
body can doubt but that it will be 
signed, and probably not a batta- 
lion. make a retrograde movement 
of fifty miles. 
M. Talleyrand says, that M. 
d’Oubril is willing to abandon Si- 
cily and Dalmatia, and even to en- 
‘gage to solicit the junction of the 
former to Naples, &c. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
I have used every argument to © 
dissuade M, d’Oubril from so unad- 
vised and unwise a measure, I hope, 
more than I believe, with success. 
Indeed, I fearcd from the first hour | 
I met him, that he was come deter- 
mined to makea peace, good or bad, ~ 
with or without Great Britain. I, 
may, perhaps, gain a day, which © 
maybe a great deal, if that day — 
should produce dispatches from M. 
de Strogonofi. 
On the 17th, at night, the new 
arrangements for Germany were 
finally determined upon. The 
princes and the ministers who signs 
ed were scarce allowed time to read 
the deed. 
There is a considerable army 
forming at Bayonne: thirty thou- 
sand men are there already. ‘This 
army is ostensibly destined against 
Portugal, but will take Spain like- 
wise. M. Herman, one af the secre- 
tarics of the foreign office, set off far 
Lisbon with a mission on the 13th, 
All the. officers af the army now 
in Germany, received yesterday or- 
ders to join their regiments instantly. 
The court say, this is to have troops — 
to occupy the states seized by the 
new confederacy. The public 
ascribe this measure to a desire to 
frighten the emperor of Germany ; 
and myself, to a .wish to hurry M. 
d’Oubril, who has shewn so much 
anxiety for the evacuation of Ger- 
many. 
M. d’Oubril and M. Talleyrand 
have, as I have learnt, fixed upon 
Majorca, Ivica, and Minorca, for 
his Sicilian majesty, if they can pre- 
vail upon us to evacuate Sicily. + 
I have the honour to be, sir, &c. 
Yarmouth: | 
* “ That being aware of the immediate danger of Austria, if it was in his power — 
to save it, he should think it his duty to do so, even by a separate peace.” b 
No. XXII. 
