1803. } NWN ( 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 
The CORRESPONDENCE between GREAT BRITAIN anp 
FRANCE on thesusjecr of the late NEGOTIATION, prefented 
by his MAJESTY’S COMMAND, to both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT. 
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PAPERS prefented to both novuses of PaR- 
LIAMENT, MAY 18, 1803. 
OS. 1 and 2, dated May 25 and 24, 
1802, are letters from Mefirs. Otto, 
and Lord Hawkefbury, announcing the ap- 
pointments of General Vial, on the part of 
the French government, and of Sir Alexander 
Ball, on the part of the Britith government, 
to execute that part of the treaty of peace 
which related to the furrender of Malta. 
No. 3 is a difpatch from Lord St. Helen’s, 
dated Peterfburgh, April 235, 1802, by which 
it appeared that he entertained doubts whe- 
ther the Emperor of Ruflia would guarantee 
the arrangements of the treaty of Amiens, 
relative to Maita. 
No. 4 coniifts of a difpatch from Lord St. 
Helens, dated Peterfburgh, May 7, 1802, 
in which he ftates that he has reafon to hope 
that the firt impreffions that had been pro- 
duced here by certain parts of the arrange- 
nent relative to Malta, have been removed; 
‘and that his Imperial Majefty may even be 
ultimately induced to guarantee the whole of 
that arrangement; provided that the fteps 
which have been taken towards the election 
ef a new Grand Mafter, according to the 
mode fuggefted by this court, be confidered 
as fulfilling what is required on that head by 
the latter ‘part of the paragraph of the 120th 
article of the Treaty of Amiens ; and confe- 
quently that no new election for that office is 
to take place in the manner pointed out by 
the former part of the fame ftipulation. 
No. 5is a letter from Lord Hawkefbury to 
Mr. Merry, at Paris, informing him that 
his Majefty agrees to the election noticed in 
the previous communication, and requefting 
that the French government fhould infruct, 
without delay, their Ambafladors or Minit 
ters at Vienna, Petertburgh, and Berlin, to 
make, conjomtly with his Majefty’s Miniters 
at thofe courts, an official communication, 
defiring the acceffion of thofe ‘powers to the 
arrangements relative to Malta in the defini- 
tive treaty ; by which itis provided, that the 
independence of the ifland and the other fti- 
pulations fhall be under the guarantee of 
thofe powers, in conjunétion with his Majetf-- 
ty, the French Government, and the King of 
Spain. 
' No.6 contains Mr. Merry’s note.to aeeey * 
rand, and his sagan ae 
No. 7. ; 
My Lord, Paris, Fune 4, 1802. 
~ Thad occation tofeeM.Talleyrand yefterday 
afternoon, for the purpofe of introducing to 
him, by appointment, fome Englith’ gentle- 
men previoulfly to theirp refentation to-day to 
the Firft Contul. i 
Having gone firft alone into the Minifter’s 
Cabinet, he faid, that he had been directed 
by Genera! Bonaparte, to reprefent to me fe« 
veral circumftances which Rootl very much in 
the way of that: perfect reconciliation and 
good underftanding between the two coun- 
tries and their governments, which it was the 
Firtt Contui’s fincere with to fee re-eftablithed, 
in order that {uch obftacles might be removed 
before the arrival in London of the French 
Ambaflador ; becaufe, although the circum= 
ftances in queftion had already produced avery 
difagreeable effect,whilft only M.Otto, as Mis 
nifter, had to witnefs them, they would ac- 
quire a greater addition of force if they 
fhould ftill exift when the Ambaflador fhould 
be prefent; and fince the Firft Conful had 
given orders for General Andreofli to proceed 
to his deftination with as little delay aa pot 
fible, he withed that I fhould take an eanly 
opportunity to give an account to your Lord- 
thip: of the obfervations which he was charged 
to make to me. 
After a preface to this effect, M. Talleyrand 
proceeded to ftate to me, that the accounts 
which M. Otto had tranfmitted of the difgut 
and inconvenience which he could not but 
feel and expenence at meeting frequently at 
his Majefty’s court, and at other places, the 
French Princes, and fome French perfons 
fill decorated with the infignia of French ; 
orders which no longer exifted ; and at {eerie 
the countenance and fupport w hich continued 
to be given in England, to what he termed 
the ci-devant French Bifhops, as well as to 
other perfons (here he mentioned Georges) 
inimical to the pretentGovemment of France, 
had atfected io ftrongly the Firft Conful, 
and were in fact fo calculated to prevent 
that fy tem of cordiality which he was anxious 
to. fee eftablithed, that it was incumbent upon 
him to exprefs his with, that his Majefty’s 
Government might be difpofed to remove o: it 
of the Britih dominions. alf the French 
Princes and their adherents, together with 
the French Bifhops and other French. indivi- 
duals whofe political principles and conduct 
muit necefiarily occafion great jealonfly to 
the French Government. He continued to 
obferve, that the protection aid faver which 
all thefe perfoas in queftion continued to 
meet with, ina country fo clofe a neighbour. 
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