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i COMPRISING THE WHOLE OF ‘THE 
CORRESPONDENCE | 
RELATIVE TO THE LATE NEGOCIATION FOR PEACE 
BETWEEN 
GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, 
AS LAID UPON THE TABLES OF THE TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, 
@N THE 27TH AND 23TH OF DECEMBER. 
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SIRy Downing -fircei, Seft. 6, 1796. 
~W obedience to the orders of the KinG, my 
J Waiter, i have the honour to tranfmit to you 
the inclofed Note, and to requeft of. you that 
you will forward it to His Danifh Majeity’s 
Wiiniter at Paris, to be by him communicated 
to the Executive Dire@tory. © ug 
The fentiments of your Court are too well 
known tothe Kine to admit of Hys Mayes- 
Ty's entertaining any doubt of the fatisfaction 
with which His Danish Majesty will fee 
the intervention of his Minifters employed on 
fach an occafion, or of the earneftnefs with 
which you, Sir, will concur in a meafure that 
has for its object the re-etablifhment of Peace, 
To the Count de Wedel Farlfoerg.J GRENVILLE. 
NOTE.” {No.2} | ; 
HIS Britannic Mayjesry, animated 
with the fame deftire which he has already mani- 
fefted, to terminate, by ja‘t, honourable, and 
permancat Conditions of Peace, a War which 
has extended itfelf throughout all parts of the 
World, is willing to omit nothing on his part 
which may contribute to this object. 
It is with this view that he has thought 
it proper to avail himielf of the confidential in- 
tervention of the Minifters of a Neutral Power, 
to demand of the Executive Directory, Pafiports 
for a Perfon of Confidence, whom His Ma- 
yeTY world fend to Paris with a Commiffion 
to difcufs with the Government there, ail the 
means the moft proper to producé fo defirable 
an end. 
And His Mayesty is perfuaded thatthe 
fhall receive, without delay, through the fame 
channel, a fatisfa€tory aniwer to this demand, 
which cannot fail to place, ina ftill clearer light, 
the jufi and pacific difpofitions which he enter- 
tains in common with his Allies. 
Wefiminfier, Sept. 6, 1796 | - GRENVILLE, 
(Nong) < 
MY LORD, 
I HAVE the honour to inform your Excel- 
lency, that the Note addrefied to the Executive 
Directory of France, in date of the 6th or the 
prefent month, was tranimitted by Mr. KoENE- 
MAN, Chargé d’ Affaires oftiis DanispMayrs- 
sy, toM. Detacrorx, Miniter for Foreign 
Affairs, at Paris, who promifed that an Anfwer_ 
fhould be returned to it, after it had been fub- 
mitted to the confideration of the Government. 
Three cays having elapfed in expectation of this 
Anfwer, Mr. KonnemMAN went a fecond time 
tothe Miniter above mentioned, who gave him 
to underfiana, that the Executive DireGory had 
not permitted him to return an Anfwer in writ- 
ing, but that he was direfted to exprefs himfelf 
verbaily to this effect : 
* That the Executive DireGeory of the 
« French Republic would not, for the futuse,. 
‘¢ receive or aniwer any Overtures of Confiden- 
é 
&e¢ 
tial Papers, tranfmitted through any inter-, 
mediate channel from the Enemies of the 
«© Republic, but that if they would fend Per- 
“ {ons furnifhed with full powers and official 
papers, thefe might, upon the Frontiers, 
demand the Paffports neceflary for proceeding. 
ae) to Paueva sn : 
3 i, 
Vee Seat. 23 
6é 
e¢ 
1796. ?? Co. de WEDEL JARLSBERG. 
( Now 4s.) 
SIR, Paris, Sept. 19, 1796." 
1 WAS indifpofed at my country-houfe when 
your Excellency’s Courier brought me the Let- 
ters which your Excelleacy did me the honour 
to write to me on the 7thinit, together with the 
Note of Lord GrenviLve enclofed therein. I 
fet off for Paris on the following day, where, ~ 
after demanding ah audience of Citizen Dei A- 
crorx, Minifter for Foreign Affairs, I pre~ 
fented the Note above mentioned, accompanied 
by another in my own name, in which I ex- 
plained the motives that had induced me to un- 
dertake a meafure for which I had no authority 
from my Court, He promifed to febmit the 
two Notes to the infpeétion or the Government, 
and to return me an anfwer immediately. Hav- 
ing waited for three days without receiving an 
aniwer, I went a fecond time to wait upon the 
Miniter, who, ina very dry tone, informed me, 
that the Executive Dire€tory had not permitted 
him to return an anfwer in writing, but that he 
was dire€ted to exprefs himielf verbally to this 
effet : Sots 
‘© ‘That the Executive Dire@tory of the French 
© Republic would not for the futute receive or 
‘6 anfwer any confidential overtures, OF papers, 
‘ tranfmitted through any intermediate channel 
<¢ from the Enemies of the Republic 5 but that, 
<¢ if they would fend perfons furnifhed with 
<¢ full powers and official papers, thefe might 
‘* upon the Frontiers, demand the paffports ne- 
‘© ceffary for proceeding to Paris.” 
Such, fir, is the refult of a meafure which } 
have taken at your requeft, £ with, for the 
fake of humanity, that we may meet with bet= 
ter fuccefs, at {ome future peried 3 but I fear 
that this period is fttil at a great diftance. 
_ KofNEMAN. 
To his Excellency the Count de Wedel Farlfberg. 
