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alowe consenfto treat. I did not, 
however, deliver it to him, cousi- 
_ dering it merely as: the heads of past 
- conversations. 
Genera! Clarke then said, that as 
_ it-was impossible [ could be prepared 
_ with the assent of his majesty to the 
arrangement proposed by Russia for 
his Sicilian majesty, ow which the 
terms might much depend, I must 
consider the communication he made, 
as not strictly official in point of 
_ form, but as depending only on that 
circumstance to make it so. 
General Clarke proceeded to 
"state, that, in the situation France 
was in at this moment, the em- 
_ peror would feel authorized to 
withhold some of the great points ; 
but that having repeatedly said the 
contrary, though not in an official 
nanner, he would abide by it. 
General Clarke first conversed 
bout his majesty’s German domi- 
ions. On this subject, by secret 
articles, any thing his majesty thinks 
ht may be stipulated: by the 
ublic article, the promise not to 
bject to some acquisition of terri- 
tory to be made by Prussia. I 
e 
stopped general Clarke here to say, 
¥ 
that his majesty never could consent 
he'Hanse Towns. General Clarke 
id, that it was Fulda, Hoya, and 
ome otier trifling principalities, 
Majesty, but that the independence 
ind» present state of the Hanse 
_ Lowns should not be meddled with, 
___ On the subject of Malta—Mailta, 
Gozo, and Connio, in full sove- 
Teignty to his majesty, with a clause 
+ Real rights in the island. 
§ In every part of the world. 
735 
in the article declaratory of the dis= 
solution of the order, and the two 
powers, *¢ *n’en) connoissent plus. 
lexistance.’”’? Some pensions for the 
chevaliers and others, having ** + des 
droits reels dans Visle.’—This not 
to extend to foreign commanderies 
of the order, or to any claim not 
local. 
The Cape in equal full sove- 
reignty ; as a condition it is desired, 
<¢ + qu’il y soit établi un port franc” 
to all nations: either the port itself 
declared so, or a part appropriated 
to that purpose. 
On the subject of the maintenance 
of the integrity of the territories and 
possessions of the Sublime Porte, 
general Clarke proposed an article, 
a copy of which I have the honour 
to send (marked E.) I told him the 
usual full clause would be sufficient : 
he persisted that J should send it for 
his majesty’s consideration. 
To the usual full clause of the in- 
tegrity of the territories and posses~ 
sion of his most faithful majesty, 
general Clarke weighed upen a pro- 
posed addition of the word ‘* § par- 
tout,”? and when asked for explana- 
tion, said, he thought his Britannic 
majesty might occupy some of his 
most faithful majesty’s foreign pos- 
sessions. 
The integrity of his Swedish ma- 
jesty’s dominions in the usual man- 
ner. 
Having dismissed these points, 
general Clarke stated the demands 
of France: 
Pondicherry, 
St. Lucie, °. 
Tobago, 
Surinam, 
* No lonzer recognize the existence of it. 
t That thert should be established there a free port, 
Goree, 
