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and concluding Peace between the Republic and 
His Mayesry. 
To-morrow, if Logp MatmesBury pleafes, 
the refpectivr Powers fhall ke exchanged. The 
Minifter for Foreign Affairs will then be ready 
to receive the Propofitions, which Lord Mat- 
MESBURY is commiffioned to make to the. Re- 
public, on the part of His BriTANNic Ma-_ 
JESTY. 
The Minifter for Foreign Affairs requefts 
Lord MaLMESBURY, to accept the affurances 
of his high confideration. 
" @ Brumaire, Aug-5. Cu. DELAcRoTIx. 
( No. 12.) 
LORD Matmespury has the honour to 
prefent his acknowledgements to the Minifter for 
Foreign Affairs, for the communication which 
he has jult made to him, and he will have the 
honour to wait upon him to-morrow, at the hour 
which he fhall have the goodnefs to appoint, to 
receive the Copy of the full powers with which 
he is furnifhed on the part of the Executive Di- 
reétory ; and as foon as they fhall have been ex- 
changed, he will be ready to commence the Ne- 
gotiation with which he is charged. 
He requefts the Minifer for Foreign Affairs, 
tg acept the affurances of his high confideration. 
Paris, O&. 23, 179%. MALMESBURY. 
( No. 13.) 
EXTRACT FROM THE REGISTER OF THE DE- 
GREES OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY. 
2 Brumaire, (22 Nov.) 5th Year of the French 
Republic, One and Indiwifiele. 
THE Executive Direétory, after having heard 
the Report of the Miniter for Foreign Affairs: 
The Citizen €x artes DeELacrorx, Muni- 
iter for Foreicn Affairs, is charged to negotiate 
with Lord MaLmessuRry, Commiffioner Ple- 
nipotentiary of His Brirannic Majesty, 
furnifhed with full powers to prepare and nego- 
tiate Peace beaveen the French Republic and 
that Power, and to concludeit definitively be- 
tween them. The Dire€tory gives to the faid 
Minifter all vowers necefiary for concluding and 
figning the Treaty of Peace, to take place be- 
tween the Republic and His Brrrawnic Ma- 
resty. He fhali conform himfelf to the In- 
Hrutions which fhail be given him. He fhall 
vender a regalar account, from timeto time, of 
the progres and of the iffue of the Negotiations. 
The prefent Decree thall not be printed at 
this time. 
2) 
t 
MEMORLAL. 
ynie Majesty defirinz, as he 
has already declared, to contribute, as far as de- 
pends on him, to the re-citablifhment of public 
tranquillity, and. to enfure, by the means of juit, 
honourable, and {lid conditions of Peace, the 
future repofe of Europe; His Majesty is of 
opinion, that the beft means of attaining, with 
all poffible expedition, that falutary end, will 
be to agree, at the beginning of the Negotiation, 
on the general principle which fhall ferve as a 
bafis for the cefinitive arrangements, 
The fist objeé&t of Negotiation for Peace ge- 
nerally relates to the Reititutions and Ceffions 
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State Papers relative to the late Negotiation with France. [Dee 
which the refpeétive Parties have mutually to 
demand, in confequence of the events of the 
War. 3 saat ks 4: 
Great Britain, from the uninterrupted fuccefs 
of her Naval War, finds herfelf in a fituation to 
have no Reftitution to demand of France, frona 
which, on the contrary, the has taken Eftablifh- 
ments and Colonies of the higheft importancey 
and of a value almoft incalculable. 
But, on the other hand, France has made, on 
the Continent of Europe, Conquefts, to which 
His Mayest¥ can be the lefs indifferent, as 
the moft important interefts of his People, and 
the moft facred engagements of his Crown, are 
effentially implicated therein. : : 
The magnanimity of the Krne, his inviolable 
good faith, and his defire to reftore repofe to fo 
many Nations, induce him to confider the fitua- 
tion of affairs as affording the means of pro- 
curing for all the Belligerent Powers, juft and 
equitable terms of Peace, and fuch as are calcu- 
“ated te enfure for the time to come the general 
tranquillity. 
It is on this footing, then, that he propofes to 
negotiate, by offering to make Compenfation ta 
France, by proportionable Reftitutions, for thofe 
_arrangements to which fhe will be called upon 
to conient, in order to. fatisfy the Juft demands of 
the King’s Allies, and to preferve the political 
Balance of Europe. 
Having made his firft overture, Hrs Ma- 
yesty will, inthe fequel, explain himfelf more © 
particularly on the application of this principle 
of the different objets which may be difcufled 
between the refpeétive Parties. - 
It is this application which wil! conftitute the 
fabject of thofe difcuffiens into which His Ma- 
jesty has authorifed his Minifter to enter, as 
{oon as the principle to be adopted as the general 
bafis of the Negotiation is known. 
But His Majesty cannot omit to declare, 
that if this generous and equitable offer thould 
not be aceepted, or if, unfortunately, the dif- 
cuffions which may enfue fhould jail to produce 
the defired effe&, neither this general propofi- 
tion, nor thofe more detailed, which may reiult 
from it, can be regarded, in any cafe, as points 
agreed upen or admitted by His Majesty. 
Paris, 0&.24, 1796. MALMESBURY. 
( No. 55. ) 
EXTRACT FROM THE REGISEER OF THE DE- 
LIBERATIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE Dl 
RECTORY. 
Paris, § Brumaire, 5th Year of the 
Republic, One and Indivifible. 
THE Executive Dire€tory orders the Mintfter 
for Foreign Affairs to make the following An- 
{wer to Lord MALMESBURY : 
The Executive Diretory fees with pain, that, 
at the moment when it had reafon to hope for 
the fpeedy return of Peace between the French 
Republic and Hrs Brirannic MAyjEstTy, the 
propoial of Lord MaLMEsBURY, offers nothing - 
but dilatory or very diftant means of bringing the 
Negotiation to a conclufion. 
The Dire€tory obferves, thatif Lord Mat MEs-= 
Bury would have agreed to treat leparate- 
ly, 
