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Monthly Chronicle.
V . In all the cases of cessions or restitutions , which may come in question in the course of this Negotiation , there should be granted on each side , to all individuals , the most unlimited right to withdraw with their families and thejr property , and to sell their lands and immoveable possessions ; and adequate arrangements should also be made , in the course of this Negotiation , for tlie removal of all sequestrations , and for the satisfaction of the just claims , which individuals on either side may have to . make upon the respective Governments . MALMKSIUJRY .
CONFIDENTIAL MEMORIAL ON THF . PEACE WITH SPAIN AND HOLLAND . The Allies of France not having hitherto expressed any . desire or disposition to treat with the King , his Majesty might have forborne to enter into any detail on their account ; but in order to avoid any details prejudicial to the great object which the King has in view , and to accelerate the work of a general Peace , his Majesty will not refuse to explain himse'f in the first instance on the points which concern those Powers . If , then , the Catholic King should desire to he comprehended in this Negotiation , or to be allowed to accede to the Definitive
Treaty , this would meet with no obstacle on the pari of his Majesty . Nothing having hitherto been conquered by either of the two Sovereigns from the other , no other point could , at the present moment , come into question , but that of the re-establishment of Peace ,, simply , and without any restitution or compensation whatever , except such as might possibly result from the application of the principle declared at the end- of the fourth article of the Memorial at-, ready delivered to the Minister for Foreign Affairs . But ifduring the Negotiationany alteration shall take place in the state
, , of things in this respect , it will then be proper to agree upon the restitutions and compensations to be made on each side . With regard to the Republic of the United Provinces , his Britannic Majesty and his Allies find themselves too nearly interested in the political situation of those Provinces to be able to consent iu their favour to the re-establishment ' of the status ante helium ' , as with respect to territorial possessions , unless France
could , on her part , reinstate them in all respects in the same political situation in which they stood before the war . If at least it were possible to re-establish in those Provinces , agreeably to what is believed to be the wish of a great majority of the inhabitants , their . ancient Constitution and form of Government , his Majesty might then be disposed to relax , in their favour , from a very considerable part of the conditions on which the present state of things obliges him to insist . But if , on the contrary , it is with the Republic of Holland , in its present
state , that their Britannic and Imperial Majesties will , Have to treat , they wi ( l feel themselves obliged to seek , in Territorial Acquisitions , those compensations , and that security , which such a state of things will have rendered indispensable to them . Restitutions of any kind , in favour of Holland , could in that case be admitted , in so far only as they shall be compensated by arrangements calculated to contribute to the security of the Austrian Netherlands . The means of accomplishing this object will be found in the cessions which France has exacted iu
her Treaty of Peace with Holland , and the possession of which by that Power would in any case be absolutely incompatible with the security of the Austrian Netherlands in the hands of his Imperial Majesty . It is on these principles that his Britannic Majesty would be ready to treat for the re-establishment of Peace with the Republic of Hojland in its present state . The details of such a discussion must necessarily lead to the consideration of what would be due to the interest aud rights of the House of Orange .
FROM LORD MALMESBl'RV TO THE RIGHT HON . LORD GRENVILI . E , & C MY LOUD , Paris , Dec . 20 , 1796 . Mr . Ellis returned here from London on Thursday last , the 15 th instant , at five P . M . and delivered to me the dispatches , No . 11 and 12 , with which he was charged bv vour Lordship .
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Monthly Chronicle.
V . In all the cases of cessions or restitutions , which may come in question in the course of this Negotiation , there should be granted on each side , to all individuals , the most unlimited right to withdraw with their families and thejr property , and to sell their lands and immoveable possessions ; and adequate arrangements should also be made , in the course of this Negotiation , for tlie removal of all sequestrations , and for the satisfaction of the just claims , which individuals on either side may have to . make upon the respective Governments . MALMKSIUJRY .
CONFIDENTIAL MEMORIAL ON THF . PEACE WITH SPAIN AND HOLLAND . The Allies of France not having hitherto expressed any . desire or disposition to treat with the King , his Majesty might have forborne to enter into any detail on their account ; but in order to avoid any details prejudicial to the great object which the King has in view , and to accelerate the work of a general Peace , his Majesty will not refuse to explain himse'f in the first instance on the points which concern those Powers . If , then , the Catholic King should desire to he comprehended in this Negotiation , or to be allowed to accede to the Definitive
Treaty , this would meet with no obstacle on the pari of his Majesty . Nothing having hitherto been conquered by either of the two Sovereigns from the other , no other point could , at the present moment , come into question , but that of the re-establishment of Peace ,, simply , and without any restitution or compensation whatever , except such as might possibly result from the application of the principle declared at the end- of the fourth article of the Memorial at-, ready delivered to the Minister for Foreign Affairs . But ifduring the Negotiationany alteration shall take place in the state
, , of things in this respect , it will then be proper to agree upon the restitutions and compensations to be made on each side . With regard to the Republic of the United Provinces , his Britannic Majesty and his Allies find themselves too nearly interested in the political situation of those Provinces to be able to consent iu their favour to the re-establishment ' of the status ante helium ' , as with respect to territorial possessions , unless France
could , on her part , reinstate them in all respects in the same political situation in which they stood before the war . If at least it were possible to re-establish in those Provinces , agreeably to what is believed to be the wish of a great majority of the inhabitants , their . ancient Constitution and form of Government , his Majesty might then be disposed to relax , in their favour , from a very considerable part of the conditions on which the present state of things obliges him to insist . But if , on the contrary , it is with the Republic of Holland , in its present
state , that their Britannic and Imperial Majesties will , Have to treat , they wi ( l feel themselves obliged to seek , in Territorial Acquisitions , those compensations , and that security , which such a state of things will have rendered indispensable to them . Restitutions of any kind , in favour of Holland , could in that case be admitted , in so far only as they shall be compensated by arrangements calculated to contribute to the security of the Austrian Netherlands . The means of accomplishing this object will be found in the cessions which France has exacted iu
her Treaty of Peace with Holland , and the possession of which by that Power would in any case be absolutely incompatible with the security of the Austrian Netherlands in the hands of his Imperial Majesty . It is on these principles that his Britannic Majesty would be ready to treat for the re-establishment of Peace with the Republic of Hojland in its present state . The details of such a discussion must necessarily lead to the consideration of what would be due to the interest aud rights of the House of Orange .
FROM LORD MALMESBl'RV TO THE RIGHT HON . LORD GRENVILI . E , & C MY LOUD , Paris , Dec . 20 , 1796 . Mr . Ellis returned here from London on Thursday last , the 15 th instant , at five P . M . and delivered to me the dispatches , No . 11 and 12 , with which he was charged bv vour Lordship .