be by him communicated to the difpofitions which he entertains in executive directory. The fentiments of your court are too well known to the king to admit of his majefty's entertaining any doubt of the fatisfaction with which his Danish majefty will fee the intervention of his minifters employed on fuch an occafion, or of the earneftnefs with which you, fir, will concur in a measure which has for its object the re-establishment of peace. I have the honour to be, with Your most humble, To the count Wedel Jarls- No. 2. common with his allies. GRENVILLE. Westminster, Sept. 6, 1796. Note. HIS Britannic majefty, animated with the fame defire, which he has already manifefted, to terminate, by juft, honourable, and permanent conditions of peace, a war which has extended itself 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 himself of the confidential intervention of the minifters of a neutral power, to demand of the executive direc-, tory paifports for a person of confidence whom his majefty would fend to Paris with a commiffion to difcufs, with the government there, all the means the moft proper to produce fo defirable an end. And his majefty is perfuaded that he thall receive, without delay, through the fame channel, a fatisfactory anfwer to this demand, which cannot fail to place in a ftill clearer light the juft and pacific My Lord, No. 3. I HAVE the honour to inform your excellency, that the note addreffed to the executive directory of France, in date of the 6th of the prefent month, was tranfmitted by M. Koenemann, charge d'affaires of his Danith majefty, to M. Delacroix, minifter for foreign affairs at 'Paris, who promifed that an anfwer thould be return ed to it after it had been fubmitted to the confideration of the govern ment. Three days having elapfed in expectation of this anfwer, Mr. Koenemann went a fecond time to the minifter abovementioned, who gave him to understand, that the executive directory had not permitted him to return an answer in writting, but that he was directed to exprefs himself verbally to this effect: "That the executive directory of the French republic would not, for the future, receive or answer any overtures or confidential papers tranfmitted through any intermediate channel from the enemies of the republic; but that if they would fend perfons furnished with full powers and official papers, thefe night, upon the frontiers, demand the paffports neceffary for proceeding to Paris." I have the honour to be, with Your excellency's most humble, London, Sept. 3, 1796. ARLSBERG. No. 4 Sir, No. 4. Paris, Sept. 6, 1796. I WAS indifpofed at my country houfe when your excellency's courier brought me the letters which your excellency did me the honour to write to me on the 7th inftant, together with the note of lord Grenville inclofed therein. I fet off for Paris on the following day, where, after demanding an audience of citizen Delacroix, minifter for foreign affairs, I prefented the note abovementioned, accompanied with another in my own name, in which I explained the motives that had induced me to undertake a meafure for which I had no authority from my court. He promifed to fubmit the two notes to the infpection of the government, and to return me an answer immediately. Having waited for three days without receiving an anfwer, I went a fecond time to wait upon the minifter, who, in a very dry tone, informed me, that the executive directory had not permitted him to return an answer in writing, but that he was directed to exprefs himself verbally to this effect: humanity, that we may meet with better fuccefs at fome future period, but I fear that this period is ftill at a great distance. I have the honour to be, with Sir, To his excellency the count No. 5. IN demanding of the executive directory of the French republic, through the intervention of the minifters of a neutral power, a paffport for a confidential perfon to be fent to Paris, the court of London accompanied this demand with the exprefs declaration that this perfon fhould be commiffioned to difcufs with the government all the means the most proper for conducing to the re-eftablishment of peace. The king, perfevering in the fame fentiments, which he has already fo unequivocally declared, will not leave to his enemies the fmalleft pretext for eluding a difcuflion, the refult of which will neceffarily ferve either to produce the happiness of fo many na. tions, or at leaft to render evident the views and difpofitions of those who oppose themselves to it. It is therefore in purfuance of thefe fentiments, that the underfigned is charged to declare, that as foon as the executive directory fhall think proper to tranfmit to the undersigned the neceffary paffports (of which he, by this note, renews the demand already made) his Britannic Majefty will fend to I HAVE the honour to tranfmit to lord Grenville a copy of the decree of the executive directory of the French republic, in anfwer to his note of the 27th September 1796, (O. S.) He will there fee a proof of the earneft de fire of the French government to profit of the overture that is made to them, in the hope that it may lead to peace with the government of England. I have the honour to fend him, at the fame time, the paffports required for the minifter plenipotentiary, whom his Britannic majefty proposes to name to treat; and I requeft lord Grenville to accept the affurance of my perfonal withes for the fuccefs of this negociation, as well as that of my most perfect confideration. → (Signed) CH. DELACROIX. Paris, 1 Vendemiaire, 5th year of the French republic. confideration of the note addreffed to the minifter for foreign affairs by lord Grenville, dated September 27, 1796, withing to give a proof of the defire which it entertains to make peace with England, decrees as follows : The minifter for foreign affairs is charged to deliver the neceilary paffports to the envoy of England, who fhall be furnished with full powers, not only for preparing and negotiating the peace between the French republic and that power, but for concluding it definitively between them. True copy. By the minifter. J. GUIRAUDET, sec. gen, No. 7. LORD Malmesbury, who is appointed by the king to treat with the French government for a juft and equitable peace, calculated to reftore peace to Europe, and to enfure the public tranquillity for the time to come, will have the honour of delivering this letter from me to M. Delacroix. The diftinguished rank and merit of the minifter of whom his majefty has made choice on this occafion, makes it unneceffary for me to say any thing in his recommendation; at the fame time that it furnishes a fresh proof of the defire of his majefty to contribute to the fuccefs of this negotiation for which object I entertain the moft fanguine wishes. Monfieur Monfieur Delacroix will have the goodness to accept from me the affurance of my most perfect confideration. *(Signed) GRENVILLE. Westminster, Oct. 13, 1796. To the minister for foreign afJairs, at Paris. No. 8. LORD Malmesbury, named by his Britannic majefty as his plenipotentiary to the French republic, has the honour to announce, by his fecretary, to the minifter for foreign affairs, his arrival at Paris; and to request of him, at the fame time, to be fo good as to appoint the hour at which he may wait upon him, for the purpose of communicating to him the object of his miflion. Paris, October 22, 1796. No. 9. THE minifter for foreign affairs learns with fatisfaction the arrival of lord Malmesbury, plenipotentiary of his Britannic majefty. He will have the honour to receive him to-morrow at eleven o'clock in the morning, or at any later hour that may fuit him, till two o'clock. He hopes that lord Malmesbury will forgive him for thus limiting the time, on account of the nature and the multiplicity of his occupations. ft Brumaire, An. 5. (00ber 22, 1796.) To lord Malmesbury, minifter plenipotentiary from his Britannic majefty to the French republic, at Paris. THE minifter for foreign affairs has the honour to apprize lord Malmesbury, commiffioner plenipotentiary of his Britannic majefty, that he has received from the executive directory the neceffary powers for negotiating and concluding peace between the republic and his majesty. To-morrow, if lord Malmesbury pleafes, the refpective powers thall be exchanged. The minifter for foreign affairs will then be ready to receive the propofitions, which lord Malmetbury is commiffioned to make to the republic on the part of his Britannic majefty. The minifter for foreign affairs requefts lord Malmesbury to accept the affurances of his high confideration. (Signed) CH. DELACROIX. 2 Brumaire, An. 5. (08. 22, 1796.) No 12. LORD Malmesbury has the ho nour to prefent his acknowledgements to the minifter for foreign affairs for the communication which he has juft made to him, and he will have the honour to wait upon him to-morrow, at the hour which he hall have the goodnefs to appoint, to receive the copy of the LORD Malmesbury has the ho- full powers with which he is fur No. 10. L 4 nifhed 2 Brumaire, (22 Nov.) 5th year of the French republic, one and indivisible. THE executive directory, after having heard the report of the minifter for foreign affairs. The citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter for foreign affairs, is charg-, ed to negotiate with lord Malmefbury, commiflioner plenipotentiary of his Britannic majetty, furnished: with full powers to prepare and negotiate peace between the French republic and that power, and to conclude it definitively between them. The dire&tory gives to the faid minifter all powers neceffary for concluding and figning the treaty of peace to take place between the républic and his Britannic majefty. He fhall conform himfelf to the inftructions which thall be given him. He fhall render a regular account, from time to time, of the progrefs and of the iffue of the negotiation. The prefent decree fhall not be printed at this time. A true copy. (Signed) L. R. REVELLIERE LEPEAUX, Memorial.-HIS Britannic majefty defiring, as he has already declared, to contribute, as far as depends on him, to the re-establishment of public tranquillity, and to enfure, by the means of juft, honourable, and folid conditions of peace, the future repofe of Europe; his majetty is of opinion, that the best means of attaining, with all pollible expedition, that falutary end, will be to agree, at the beginning of the negotiation, on the general principle which thall ferve as a bafis for the definitive arrangements. The firft object of negotiations for peace generally relates to the reftitutions and ceffions which the refpective parties have mutually to demand, in confequence of the events of war. Great Britain, from the uninterrupted fuccefs of her naval war, finds herself in a fituation to have no reftitution to demand of France, from which, on the contrary, she has taken establishments and colonies of the highest importance, and of a value almoft incalculable. But, on the other hand, France has made, on the continent of Europe, conquefts to which his majefty can be the lefs indifferent, as the most important interefts of his people, and the most facred engagements |