__jesty’s most serious attention. 
_ janguage held by M. Talleyrand ap- 
STATE 
No. XLVII.—Is an extract from a 
dispatch from the earl of Lauder- 
dale to Mr. secretary Fox, dated 
Paris, September 7th, 1806.— 
Received September 11th, pro- 
posing to delay the renewal of 
the conferences, 
No. XLVIII. 
- Extract from a Dispatch from Mr. 
Secretary Windham, to the Earlof 
Lauderdale, dated Downing-street, 
September 10, 1806. 
Downing-street, Sept. 10, 1806. 
My Lord, 
Your Jordship’s dispatch of Sept. 
4th has not failed to engage his ma- 
The 
pears directed to the object of en- 
gaging his majesty in a separate ne- 
gotiation, to the exclusion of Russia; 
but the interests both of this coun- 
try and of Enrope have always 
been considered here as essentially 
connected with the maintenance of 
the strictest union of councils and 
measures between his majesty and 
the emperor of Russia. It was with 
deep regret that his majesty saw the 
_ apparent violation of this principle 
in the separate treaty signed by M. 
d@Oubril ; and he cannot but con- 
sider the steady and upright conduct 
of the emperor of Russia on that 
trying occasion, as imposing on his 
majesty a fresh obligation not to 
separate his interests from those of 
so honourable and faithful an ally. 
Your lordship must therefore, in 
the first place, represent to the 
French alg a that the refu- 
i 
sal to ratify M. d’Oubril’s treaty, 
has replaced the two courts in their 
former state of close and intimate 
alliance ; and that any attempt on 
the part of France to separate them, 
must henceforth be considered as 
hopeless, She cannow form no ex- 
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pectation that she can conclude 
peace with either of them, until the 
negotiation with the other shall be 
brought to the same conclusion. 
In reverting to this resolution, 
his majesty dues not however desire 
to carry the operation. of this prin.~ 
ciple at all farther than. before.. He 
has no objection to its being under. 
stood, as was expressed to lord Yar- 
mouth in Mr. Fox’s. letter of the 
26th of June, thatthe two courts 
shall treat separately in form, but 
in substance im concert with each 
other. In this mode of treating, 
the separate interests of Great Bri- 
tain and France may, as befere, be 
separately discussed between them. 
But his majesty is determined, as is 
expressed in the same dispatch, that 
he willnot come to any final agree- 
ment without the consent of Russia, 
and that any arrangement of the 
points depending between him and 
France, is to be considered as pro- 
visional, and subject to the case of 
alike arrangement to be made by 
his ally. 
_ With respect to the separate ins 
terests of Great Britain, his majesty 
adheres to the basis originally pro. 
posed to him by France, and on 
which your lordship has so often 
had occasion to insist, that of the 
utt possidetis for the two powers 
and their allies in all parts of the 
world, with the single exception of 
the restitution of Hanover, as have 
ing been originally- attacked on 
grounds which cannot be defended. 
Thisis the offer of France as ori- 
ginally made to his majesty; it is 
the demand on which his majesty 
still thought fit to insist, when ap- 
parently abandened by Russia; and 
his majesty has no desire of increas- 
ing it under circumstances, which, 
according to the avowal of France 
herself, entitle his majesty to ex- 
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