) ae State of Public Affairs in France. 
have been all, from the beginning, and uni- 
formly , ieeapanle of maintaining the relations 
of amity and peace. Greatly, indeed, will 
hisM ajelty rejoice, whenever it thalt appear 

‘that the danger to which his own dominions 
and thofe of | his allies have been fo long ex- 
pofed, has really ceafed; whenever he fhall be 
fatisfied that the neceflity of refifiance is at an 
end ; that,afterthe experience of fo many years _ 
ot crimes and miferies, better principles have 
ultimately prevailed i in France ; and that all 
the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the. 
reftlefs fchemes of defruétion which have en- 
sangered the very exiitence or civil fociety, 
foe at length been finally relinquithed :— 
but the conviction of fuch a change, how- 
ever agreeable to nis Majefty’: S wiihes, Can re- 
fult only from experience, and from the evi- 
dence of facts. 
The beft and moft natural pledge of its re- 
ality and poe would be the reftoration 
of that line of princes which for fo many cen- 
turies maintained the French nation in pro- 
fperity at home, andin confideration and te- 
fpeét abroad :—fuch an event would at once 
have removed, and will at any time remove, 
ail objects in the way of negotiation of peace. 
It would confirm to France the unmolefted 
enjoyment of its sancient territory ; and it 
would give to all the other nations of Europe, 
an tranguility and peace, that fecufity which 
_ they are now com apelled to feek by other 
means. 
But, poe as fach an event muf be 
both to France and tothe world, it is not to 
this mode exclufively that his Majefty limits 
the poffibility of fecure and folid pacification, 
His M ajefty makes no claim to prefcribe to 
France what fhall be the form of her ao ern- 
eae or in whofe hands fhe fhall veft the 
uthority neceflary for conduéti oue the ae 
of a great and powerful nation. 
His Majefty looks only to the fecurity of 
his own dominions and chofe of his allies, and 
‘to the general fafety of Europe.—Whenever 
he fhall judge that fuch fecurity can in any 
manner be attained, as refulting either from 
the internal fituation of that country, from 
whofe internal fituation the danger has arifen, 
or from fuch other circumftances of whatever 
nature as may produce the fame end, his Ma- 
jefty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to 
concert with his allies the means of imme- 
diate and general pacification. 
Gnbe ly no fuch fecurity Tehexts exifts : 
no fufficient evidence of the principles by 
which the new Government will be dire&ed; 
no reafonable ground by w hich to judge of ite 
ftability. In this fituation, it can for .the 
prefent only remain for his Majefty to purfue, 
in conjunction with other powers, thofe ex- 
ertions of juft and defenfive war, which his 
regard to the happinefs of his fubjeéts will 
never permit him either to continue beyond 
the necefiity in which they originate, or to ter- 
minate on any other grounds, BG fuch as 
may bef contribute to the fecure enjoyment 
[Feb: I, 
of their tranquillity, their conftitution, and 
their independence, 
(Signed)- > GRENVILLE. 
Dawning-fireet, Fam 4, 1800 . 

Paris, 24 Niz uofe, 3th year, (Fon 145 1860. A. 
MY, LORD, 
at LOST no time in laying before the Firt 
Conful of the Republic the Official Note, 
under date of the 14th Nivofe, which you 
tranfmitted to me; and E am charged to for- 
ward the anfwer, equally official, which 
you will find annexed. 
Receive, my Lord, the affurance of my 
high confideration. 
(Signed) C. M. Tarreyranp. 
To the Minifier for Foreign Affairs, at London. — 

NOTE. 
The Official Note, under date of the TAtle 
Nivole, the 8th year, addreffed by the Mi- 
nifter of his Britannic Majefty, having beer 
laid before the Firft Conful of the French 
Repulic, he ebferved with furprife, that it 
refted upon an opinion which is not exaét, re-~ 
fpecting the origin and confequences of. the 
prefent war. Very far from its being France 
which provoked it, the had, it mntt be re- 
membered, from the commencement of her 
foualatans folemnly proclaimed her love of 
peace, and her difinclination to conquefts, 
her refpeét for the independance of all Go- 
vernments 5 and it is not to be doubted that, 
occupied at that time entirely with her own 
internal affairs, fhe would have avoided taking’ 
part in thofe of Europe, and would have re- 
mained faithful to her declarations. 
But from an oppofite difpofition, as foon as 
theFrench Revolution had broken out; almoft 
all Europe entered into a league for its de- 
ftru€tion. The aggreffion was real, long time ~ 
before it was public; internal refiftance was 
excited; its opponents were favourably re- 
ceived ; their extravagant declamations were 
fupported ; ; the French nation was infulted in. 
the perfon of its Agents; and England fet 
particularly this example by the difmiffal of 
the Minifter accredited to her. Finally, 
France was, in faét, attacked in her inde- 
pendance, in her feooee and in her fafety, 
long time befora the war was declared. 
This it is to the projeéts of fubje€tion, 
diffolution, and di {memberment, which were. 
prepared againft her, and the execution of 
which was feveral times attempted and pur-_ 
fued, that France has a right to impute the 
ewe which fhe has fahered: and thofe which 
have atfli&ed Europe. such projects, for a. 
long time without example, with refpeét to 
fo powerful a nation, could: not fail to bring 
* on the moft fatal confequences. . 
Affailed on all fides, the Republic could * 
not but extend univerfally the efforts-of her 
defence ; and it is only for the maintenance: 
of her own independance that fhe has made 
uke 
