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otentiarics, as well as by his excel- 
 Tency the minister for foreign affairs, 
after the official note delivered by 
the undersigned and the earl of Yar- 
mouth on the 11th instant, after the 
letter addressed to his excellency, 
the minister for foreign aflairs, on 
the 14th instant ; and after the offi- 
cial note of the undersigned, dated 
the 22d instant, appears clearly to 
announce, that the French govern- 
ment has abandoned every wish for 
peace, on the conditions which they 
themselves had, in the first instance, 
proposed ; and which the undersign- 
ed has uniformly declared to be the 
- sole basis on which he was autho. 
rised to negotiate with that govern. 
ment. 
‘In this state of affairs, the under- 
signed cannot flatter himself with the 
possibility of any advantage result- 
ing from the prolongation of his stay 
at Paris; he feels, too, that farther 
delay would necessarily give to both 
nations, and to all Europe, reason 
to believe, that peace, the objeét of 
_ their desires, is on the point of be. 
ing concluded, at the very moment 
when all reasonable hope of attain- 
_ ing it, appears to be completely at 
an end. . 
The undersigned, strongly im, 
‘pressed with this idea, finds himself 
obliged to terminate his mission, by 
making to his exeellency the minis- 
ter for foreignaffairs, the formal de- 
mand of passports for his return into 
the presence of his sovereign. 
At the same time, and in confor- 
mity with the spirit of conciliation, 
which has constantly characterised 
his whole conduét since his arrival 
at Paris, the undersigned, at the mo- 
ment when he feels himself obliged 
by his instructions to demand his 
passports, cannot resolve to prevent 
the possibility of a communication 
767 
on the part of the French govern. 
ment, of a nature to enable him to 
carry on the negotiation, although 
from the continued silence of. that 
government, he can scarcely retain 
hopes of so favourable an issue. 
It will not, therefore, be until the 
morning of Wednesday the 27th in- 
stant, that the undersigned will have 
the honour of calling on his excel- 
lency the minister for foreign affairs, 
for the purpose of making a formal 
and definitive demand of the neces- 
sary passports for himself and suite. 
He has only to add, that the passports 
which he proposes to demand, will 
be for his immediate return, and not 
to be made use of according to cir- 
cumstances, as. he lately demanded 
them. 
(Signed) . Lauderdale. 
No. XLII. 
Copy of a Dispatch from the Earl of 
Lauderdale to Mr. Secretary Fox, 
dated August 29, 1806.— Received 
September 3. 
Paris, August 29, 1806. 
Sir, 
in my last dispatch, dated Augus¢ 
25th, I had the honour of stating to 
you the detail of the negotiation till 
the afternoon of that day. At 
eleven o’clock at night, I received 
from the plenipotentiaries of France 
a note, intimating their desire of 
having a conference on the subje 
of the note written by lord Yar- 
mouth and myself, on the 11th of 
thementh. Of this, as wellas ef the 
answer agreeing to the proposal, I 
have the honour to inclose copies, 
(marked A. and B,) 
On the 26th, at the hour appoint. 
ed, I went to the office of the minis. 
ter of the interior, where I found 
M. de Champagny and generaJ 
Clarke, the two plenipotentiaries of 
the 
