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detailed; and yet he left me with 
Such expressions us could not fail to 
create a belief, thai he intended to 
accede to my propositions. 
At the moment he quitted me I 
was much better than [{ had been 
for some days, and was in such 
hopes that £ was about to get well, 
that I undertook to write to him 
next morning, Tuesday the 16th, to 
say whether I could appoint ameet- 
ing in the course of that day. Un- 
fortunately I had a miserably bad 
night, and finding myself in the 
morning totally disqualified for 
exertion, | wrote to him a note of 
which I now enclose a copy (mark- 
ed B.) 
Your lordship will perceive, that 
in this note { pressed for an an- 
swer in writing, in a manner as 
strong and as inoffensive as | could 
devise. 
On the morning of the 17th, 1 
wrote to. M. Talleyrand a short 
note (marked C,) expressing my 
desire that he would come to me 
any time after three o’clock, which 
was hardly dispatched before | re- 
ceived a letter from his excellency, 
announcing the arrival of a courier 
at Boulogne, and the melancholy 
account of Mr. Fox’s death. A 
copy of this, together with my an- 
swer, a copy of which (marked D. 
and E.) Lhave the honour of in- 
closing. 
In the evening I reecived the in- 
closure (marked F’.) from which your 
lordship will perceive that [ shall at 
last have a meeting with M. Talley- 
rand to-morrow at one o'clock. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
(Signed) Lauderdale. 
First Inclosure (A.) 
Copy of a Note from the Earl of 
i» 
REGIS: TER, 
1306. 
Tauderdale to M. Talleyrand, 
dated Seplember 13th, 1806. 
(Translation. ) 
Paris, Sept. 13, 1806. 
The undersigned plenipotentiary 
of his Britannic majesty, lost no 
time in transmitting to his court the 
communication which his excellency 
the minister for foreign affairs made 
to him on Thursday the 4th instant ; 
and he now hastens to reply to that 
communication, by informing his 
excellency of the line of conduct his 
majesty has thought proper. to di- 
rect htm to pursue under the present “ 
circumstances. 
His Britannic majesty,everapxious 
to maintain the intimate connection 
and alliance which subsist between 
his majesty and the emperor of all 
the Russias, naturally finds, in the 
recent conduct of his illustrious ally, 
and in the proofs which he has lately 
aitorded of the interest which he — 
takes in the welfare of Great Bri- - 
tain and in the general happiness 
of Europe, additional motives not 
to separate, in any case, his in- 
terests from those of the court of St. 
Petersburgh. 
It is not, however, the intention 
ofhis majesty to carry this principle 
further than the earl of Yarmouth 
wasinstructed to carry it by. Mr. 
Fox, ‘in his lordship’s communica-~ 
tion with the French government, 
There is nothing to prevent the in- 
terests of Great Britainy and of 
France from being treated separate- 
ly: only his majesty does not au- 
thorise the undersigned to sign any 
treaty except provisionally: such 
treaty not to have its full effect until 
peace should have been concluded 
between that faithful ally of Great 
Britain, and France. It is upoa 
these conditions alone that the un- 
dersigned 
