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a sepafate peace with France and 
her allies, ‘This was declined here, 
not from any unwillingness to enter 
into discussions for peace on just 
and honourable terms,. an object 
which his majesty has uniformly 
expressed himself desirous of ac. 
complishing, but because the king 
was bound by engagements to Rus- 
sia, which precluded him from treat- 
ing otherwise than in concert with 
that power. Subsequently to this, 
a proposal was conveyed through 
your lordship for the conclusion of 
peace on the basis so often refer- 
red to; and the intermediate com- 
munications received from Russia, 
enabled his majesty, consistently 
with good faith, to entertain those 
proposals and to express his dispo- 
sition to accede to them, provided 
that, in the mode of treating and 
coucluding, the most intimate con- 
cert should still be maintained with 
Russia. 
The extraordinary step taken by 
M. d’Oubril has now removed all 
necessity of further reserve on this 
point. 
His majesty, in this state of things, 
thinks it proper to combine toge- 
ther the two proposals which he 
has at different periods received 
from France; and, as the difficulty. 
which before prevented the sending 
from this country a public minister, 
openly accredited, to treat for 
peace, now no longer subsists, and 
as-an acceptable basis of negotiation 
has been proposed to him by the 
enemy, his majesty directs, that 
your lordship should apply to M. 
Talleyrand for passports for a pub. 
lic minister so authorized and ac- 
credited, to whom, itis his majesty’s 
gracious intention to join your 
lordship, in the full powers to be 
granted by his majesty. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
The great advantages which tlie 
king’s service will derive from the © 
employment of a person fully in- © 
structed as to the sentiments of his — 
majesty’s government on all the © 
various points of discussion that — 
may arise, cannot fail to strike — 
your lordship in the same light in ~ 
which they are seen here; and the 
king’s servants entertain no doubt © 
of your lordship’s zeatous and hearty 
co-operation in the execution of the 
joint instructions which such a per= — 
son will bring with him. I have 
only, therefore, to add, that your ~ 
lordship may assure M. Talleyrand, 
that as soon as the necessary passe. — 
ports are received, there shall not 
be an hour’s delay in his setting out ; 
and that his majesty’s government ~ 
continues ardently to wish for the 
conclusion of peace, provided it can — 
be accomplished on the same grounds 
of national honour, which have 
never been lost sight of here. 
XXVIII. 
Extract from a Dispatch from Mr. 
Secretary Fox, to the Earl of Yar- 
mouth, dated Downing-street, July 
28, 1806. 
Downing-street, July 28, 1806. 
My Lorp, 
Your lordship’s dispatch of the 
24th instant was received here this _ 
morning, and, as it is probable that, 
in the course of this day, or to-_ 
morrow at farthest, your lordship 
will receive mine of the 26th instant, 
I do not think it necessary to do 
more at present, than to request that 
your lordship will assure M. Talley- 
rand, that, immediately on the re- 
ceipt of the passports which you 
have been instructed to demand, 
the earl of Lauderdale, who has 
been humbly recommended to his 
majesty for this important trust, 
will 
