STATE 
from such condnét that the infer. 
ence can be drawn, ‘‘ that the Bri- 
tish government have resolved to 
forego the prospeét of a peace.” 
Are the conditions which the 
undersigned was ordered to propose 
as the basis of a peace between his 
majesty the emperor of all the Rus- 
‘sias and the French government 
‘more of a nature to have given rjse 
to this suspicion ? Quite the reverse. 
If a solid and durable peace was the 
object of the two powers, these were 
such conditions as justice and expe- 
diency demanded. Justice ; because 
certainly nothing could be more 
equitable than to grant to his Sicilian 
_ majesty and to the king of Sardinia 
_a compensation for their immense 
losses on the continent. Expe- 
_diency ; because in order to insure 
the duration of peace, such an ar- 
‘rangement of boundaries as may 
prevent disputes must always be 
preferable to that which furnishes 
to one of the parties the means and 
_ advantages of attack. It was on 
_ this principle that the proposed eva- 
_ cnation of Dalmatia and Albania by 
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assurances of the disposition of the 
French government to renew the 
negotiation at a future period, as 
expressed in the official note of his 
exceliency the minister for foreign 
affairs. He has seen with no less 
pleasure, that the tone and the 
moderation observed in this commu- 
nication correspond with the senti- 
ments which accompany them. On 
this subject his excellency may rest 
assured, that the French govern- 
ment, could notin any way express 
a stronger désire to see an end put 
to the calamities of war, than that 
which his Britannic majesty will in- 
variably feel, whenever peace can 
be concluded on conditions compa. 
tible with the honour of his crown 
and the interests of his subjects. 
The undersigned ought here to 
conclude the official answer which 
he has thought necessary to make 
to the note of his excellency the 
minister -for foreign affairs, But 
he cannot pass over in silence 
one part of this note, where his ex- 
cellency wishes to convey the idea 
that «he British government seems 
_ the French troops, ,naturdlly sug- 
_ gested itself. 
_. If, therefore, the undersigned has 
i received orders to demand his pass- 
_ ports, and to depart from France, 
_ it is certainly not because his sove- 
e. Teign wishes to renounce peace, but 
because his sik finds himself 
‘ obliged to doso ; the French govern- 
no longer disposed to aét on the 
same principles which direéted the 
conduct of the great man whom 
England has lately lost. The un- 
dersigned, without being authorised 
to mention this subjeét, nor even to 
introduce it in an official paper, 
trusts in the known goodness and 
indulgence of his sovereign, when 
ment not having consented to all 
_ the conditions which were comprised 
_ in the proposals originally made by 
_ them to his Britannic majesty, and 
having moreover rejeéted, as the 
_ basis for the treaty with Russia, the 
_ just and_ reasonable conditions 
which the undersigned was autho- 
rised to propose. 
The undersigned has _ received 
with real satisfaction the general 
he allows himself to make the fol- 
lowing observations on this subject, 
During twenty-six years of inti- 
mate and uninterrupted connection 
with Mr. Fox, the undersigned ‘as 
much as any one, has had an oppor- 
tnnity of confidentially learning the 
sentiments of that celebrated man. 
From his knowledge of he is 
impressed with the strongest convic~ 
tion, that no minister could give to 
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