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what eagerness I avail myself of 
every opportunity of giving to the 
persons, with whom this negocia- 
tion has procured me the advan- 
tage of being acquainted, fresh 
marks of the distinguished senti- 
ments which I shall never cease, un- 
der any circumstances, to entertain 
towards them. 
Lam, &c. 
(Signed) — Lauderdale. 
Fourth Inclosure (D.) 
Copy of a Note from the Earl 
of Lauderdale to Messrs. Cham- 
pagny and Clarke, dated August 
29, 1806. 
(Translation. ) 
Paris, 29th August, 1806. 
The undersigned plenipotentiary 
of his Britannic majesty, being on 
the point of renewing with their ex- 
cellencies the French plenipoten- 
tiaries the conference of the 26th 
inst. thinks himself obliged to lay 
before their excellencies the state of 
the negotiation, such as it stood af- 
ter the note transmitted on the part 
of the undersigned and of the earl 
of Yarmouth,. on the 12th instant. 
Their excellencies, the French ple- 
nipotentiaries, will perceive from 
this statement, that the discussion ‘is 
come toa point which will no longer 
permit the undersigned to continue 
it, unless, by the admission of the 
only basis on which he is authorised 
to negotiate, their excellencies should 
afford him fresh motives to justify 
such a determination. 
In the offcial note transmitted to 
their excellencies the French pleni- 
potentiaries, on the 12th of August, 
it was observed to them, ‘* That 
the British government, far from pre- 
tending to ¢ exact from the French 
government, every restjtution which 
may suit their convenience, without 
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being bound to make any restita- 
tion to France,’ never expressed 
any other wish than that of treating 
with the French government on the 
basis which was proposed to her by 
France herself ; as it is expressed in 
the note of lord Lauderdale, viz. to 
treat generally on the basis of uéé pos- 
sidetis, which was to be scrupulously 
observed, except in the case of 
Hanover, which was proposed to be 
ceded to his Britannic majesty, with 
all its dependencies.” 
‘¢ That even ifit were possible to 
mistake the result which would ne- 
cessarily follow from this principle, 
the verbal discussions which took 
place on the 9th inst. between the 
Vrench plenipotentiaries and the 
undersigned, leave no room for 
doubt, whether the proposition thus 
laid down was perfectly understood 
by those plenipotentiaries. 
‘¢ The undersigned have, there- 
fore, only to repeat, that they can- 
not, consistently with the instructions 
of their government, do otherwise 
than insist upon the previous recog- 
nition of this principle. It is on 
this condition alone that they are 
authorized to continue the negotia« 
tion.” ; 
This note remained without 
answer till the 25th of that month, 
when their excellencies the French 
plenipotentiaries informed the un- 
dersigned by a letter, that, ‘* ‘The 
plenipotentiaries of his majesty the 
emperor of the French, king of 
Italy, wishing-to confer with his ex- 
cellency the earl of Lauderdale, his 
Britannic majesty’s plenipotentiary, 
upon the subject of the last note his 
_exeellency addressed to them, re- 
quest his lordship will eallat the of- 
fice of the minister of the interior 
to-morrow, about three o’clock in 
the afternoon, where they will meet, 
provided 
