‘ 
will be prepared to set out; and 
that he will therefore of course be 
with your lordship in a very few 
days from this date. I need hardly 
observe to your lordship, that it is 
of the utmost importance, that in 
the interim, your lordship should 
avoid taking any step, or even hold- 
ing any language, whieh may tend 
in the smallest degree to commit the 
Opinion of his majesty’s government 
on any part of the matters now de- 
pending. , 
id No. XXVIII. 
Yarmouth to Mr. Secretary Fox, 
dated Paris, July 30, 1806.—Re- 
cetved August 1. 
Paris July, 30, 1806. 
ro) Sie, : 
___ Ihad the honour to receive your 
dispatch of the 26th instant late at 
night on the 28th, and next morn- 
_ ing lost no time in asking for blank 
_ passports for a person fully instruct- 
_ ed with the sentiments of his ma- 
_ jesty’s government, whom it was 
_ their intention to join with me in 
the important commission of treat- 
_ ing fer peace. M. Talleyrand told 
_ me he must take the emperor’s or- 
_ ders. I accordingly returned this 
_ day, when that minister informed 
_ me, that the emperor could consider 
this demand in no other light but that 
of unnecessary delay, because his 
“Majesty’s secretary of state was ac- 
. tually in possession of a blank pass- 
port, which would enable any per- 
_ Son or persons to come to Paris with- 
out the loss of time occasioned by 
_ this demand, but that ‘* pour sur- 
 eroit de facilités” there could be no 
difficulty about giving more. I 
i 
bof 
wer ATi oP APE RS. 
Copy of a Dispatch from the Earl of 
739 
answered that I had no knowledge 
of this circumstance.. M. Talley- 
rand said it was certain, because he 
had sent two entirely in blank, and 
that one only had been used, name- 
ly, that with which I returned. 
It is unnecessary for me to add 
any thing to what I have already 
said in my former dispatches, rela- 
tive to the signature of the Russian 
treaty ; any inaccuracy in the state- 
ment of its contents, such as I was 
enabled to’transmit them, may east- | 
ly be accounted for by the circum. 
stance of my not having seen the 
treaty itself, aud by the unwilling. 
ness M. d’Oubril naturally felt to 
open himself to me on that subject ; 
he informed me, at the time, that he 
should send a copy to M. de Strogo- 
noff, who would communicate it to 
his majesty’s ministers. 
{t is with pain, sir, proportioned 
to my zeal for his majesty’s service, 
and to the fair and honest conviction 
of wy having done nothing which 
the peculiar and trying circum- 
stances of the moment did not require 
from me, that I have learnt by the 
same dispatch the expression of, a 
wish that] had delayed the pro- 
duction of my full. powers till I 
could know the impression which 
this event of the Russian treaty 
might produce in his majesty’s 
councils,and the apprehension that, 
by the producing them, so soon af= 
ter the signature of the Russian trea~ 
ty, an impression might be created 
unfavourable to the further progress 
of the negotiation. 
If the question regarded only my 
own personal feelings, | should not 
think myself at liberty to allot to it 
so large a portion of a public dis< 
patch; but it may not, I coneeive, 
3B2 be 
A “ L = . he 
‘ * For still greater facility. 
