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the propriety and the necessity of my asking an Audience or 

 personal interview with your Lordship, which I now do, in 

 order that I may have an Opportunity of stating to your Lord- 

 ship more fully the objects of the Mission with which I am 

 charged, and of receiving from your Lordship such information 

 on that subject as may enable me to give a clear, authentic, and 

 satisfactory account of the success of that Mission to the 

 Sovereign who has deigned to entrust me with the management 

 of his Affairs at this Court. 



" Requesting that your Lordship would be pleased to inform 

 me when and where I may have the honour of waiting on you, 

 " I have the honour, &c. 



[Signed] " RUMFORD. 



"LONDON, I9th September, 1798. 



[Lord Grenville to Count Rumford.] 



"DOWNING STREET, Sept r aist, 1798. 



" COUNT RUMFORD. 



" SIR, In conformity to the Communication which Mr. 

 Canning has already made to you, I have now the honour to 

 enclose an extract of the Instruction which, by His Majesty's 

 command, I transmitted to Mr. Paget immediately on His Maj- 

 esty's receiving the Information of your nomination to succeed 

 Count Haslang. 



" You will not fail to observe that the Representation which 

 Mr. Paget was directed to make on this Subject rested wholly 

 on the circumstance of the decisive objection which His Majesty 

 feels against receiving as a public Minister accredited from An- 

 other Sovereign, a Person who is not only a subject of His Maj- 

 esty, but has actually been employed in a Confidential situation 

 under His Majesty's Governm 1 . His Majesty had graciously 

 been pleased to express His wish that this Intimation should 

 reach you before you set out for England, in order to avoid the 

 Inconvenience to which you might otherwise be' exposed. With 

 this View the Instruction sent to Mr. Paget was accompanied by 

 a Despatch transmitted by the same post to Hamburgh, in which 



