928 State Papers relative to the late Negociation with France. [Dee, 

II Hrs Majesty alfo demands, that Her 
Mott Faithful Majesty may be comprchended 
in-this Negotiation, and may return to a ftate of 
peace with France, without any ceffion or bur- 
thenfome condition on either fide. 
TV. On thefe cond tions, His Majesty of- 
fers to France the entire and unreferved reftitus 
tion of all the Conquefts which he has made on 
that Power in the kaft and Wei Indies, propol-, 
ing at the fame time that a mutual underftand- 
ing fhould be eftablithed as to the means of fe- 
curing for the future the tranquillity of the two 
Nations, and of confelidating, as’ much as pof- 
fible, the advantages of their refoeétive poffef- 
fions. His Majrsty ofters, in like manner, 
the reftitution of the Iflands of St. Pierre and 
Miquelon, and ef the Fishery of Newfoundland, 
on the footing of the Status ante Bellum, 
But if, in addition to this, His Majesty 
were to wave the right given to him by the ex- 
prefs flipulations of the Treaty of Utrecht, of 
eppofing the ceffion of the Spanifh part of St. 
Domingo to France, His Majesty would then 
demand, in return for this conceffion, a compen- 
fation, which might fecure, at leaft in fome de- 
gree, the maintenance of the balance of the re- 
{pective poffeffions in that part of the world. 
V. Inall the cafes of ceffions or reftitutions, 
which may come in queftion in the courfe of 
this Negociation. there ihould be granted on each 
fide, to all individuals, the moft unlimited nght 
to withdraw with their families and their pro- 
perty, and ‘co fell their land and other immove- 
able poffeffions; and adequate arrangements 
fhould alfo be made, in the courfe of this Nego- 
tiation, for the removal of all fequeftrations, and 
for the {atis‘a€tion of the juft claims which in- 
dividuals on either fide may have to make upon 
the refpective Governments. 
MALMESBURY. 
(No. 29.) 
CONFIDENTIAL MEMORIAL ON THE PEACE 
| WITH SPAIN AND BOLLAND. 
The Allies of France not having hitherto ex- 
preffed any defire or difpofition to treat with 
ghe Kine, His Majesty might have forborne 
to enter into any detail on their account; but, 
in order to avoid any'‘delays prejudicial to the 
great objet which the Kine has in view, and 
to accelerate the work of a General Peace, His 
Mayesty will not refufe to explain himfelf in 
the fir inftance on the points which concern 
thof- Powers. If, then, the CaTHoLic KInG 
Should defire to be comprehended in this Ne- 
gociation, or to be allowed to accede to the 
Definitive Treaty. this would meet with no ob- 
fiacle on the part of His Mayesty.—Nothing 
having hitherto been conquered by either of the 
the two Soverei ns from the other, no other 
point could, at the prefent moment, come into 
queftion, but that of the re-eftablithment of 
Peace, fimply, and without any reftitution or 
compenfation whatever, except fuch as might 
poftibly refult from the application of the princi- 
ple declared at the end of the fourth Article of 
the Memorial already delivered to the Minifter” 
for Foreign Affairs. 
But if, during the Negociation, any alteration 
fhould take place in the ftate of things, in this 
refpect, it wiil then be proper to agree upon the 
reltitutions and compenfations to be made on 
each fide ; 
With regard to the Republic of the United 
Provinces, His Britannre Majesty and 
his Allies find themfelves too nearly interefted 
in the political ficuation of thofe Provinces, te 
be able to conient in their favour to the re-efta- 
blithment of the Stra:ws ente Bellum as with ree . 
fpect to territorial poffeflions, unlefs France 
could, on her part, reinftate them in all-refpeéts 
in the fame political fituation in which they 
ftood before the War. y 
If, at leaft, it were poffible to re-eftablifh in 
thofe Provinces, agreeably to what is believed 
“to be the with of a great majority of the in- 
habitants, their ancient Conftitution and form 
of Government, His Mayres1¥ might then 
be difpofed ro relax, in thcir favour, frdm a very 
confiderable part of the conditions on which the 
prefent ftate of things obliges him to infift. 
But if, on the contrary, it is with the Repub- 
lic of Holland, in its prefent ftate, that their 
Britannic and Imperiat Majestiezs will 
have to treat, they will feel themtelves obliged 
to feek in territorial acquifitions. thofe compen- 
fations, and that fecurity, which fuch a ftate of 
things will have rendered indifpenfible to them. 
Reftitutions of any kind, in favour of Hol- 
land, cou!d in that cafe be. admitted in fo far only 
as they fhall be compenfated by arrangemenis 
calculared to contribute to the iecurity of the 
Auftrian Netherlands. The means of accom- 
plithing this obje& will be found in the Ceffions 
which France has exaéted in her Treaty of 
Peace with Holland, and the poffeffion of which 
by that Power would in any caie be abfolutely 
incompatible with the fecurity of the Auftrian 
Netherlands in the hands of His IMPERIAL 
MAJESTY. 
It isonthefe principles that His BriTANNic 
Majesty would be ready to treat for the re- 
eftablifhment of Peace with the Republic of Hol- 
land in its prefent ftate. The details of fucha 
dif-uffion muft neceflarily lead to the confidera- 
tion of what would be due to the intereft and the 
rights of the Houfe of Orange. 
(No. 201) 
“MY LORD, Paris, Dec. 20, 1796. 
Mr. Evxyis returned here from London on 
Thurfday laf@, the 15th infant, at five, P.M. 
and delivered to me the Difpatches No, 1x and 
12, with which he was charged by your Lord- 
thip 
Although nothing ¢an be clearer, more ably 
drawn up, or more fatisfactory, than the inftruc - 
tions they contain, yet as it was of the lait im- 
portance that I fhould be completely mafter of 
the fubje&t before I faw the French Minifier, I 
delayed afking for a conierence till late on Fri- 
day evening, with a view that it fhould not take 
place till Saturday morning. 
He appointed the hour of eleven A.M. on that 
day, and it was near one before we parted. Al- 
though what is faid by M. Deracroix ni 
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