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Monthly Chronicle.
which might afford the means of proceeding in the negociation . Week after week passed over in the repetition of these solemn engagements on the part ot his Majesty ' s enemies . Kis desire for peace induced him to wait for their completion , with an anxiety proportioned to the importance of the object ; nor was it much to expect , that his Minister should at length be informed what was the extent and nature of the conditions on which his enemies were disposed to terminate the war ' . It was mjhis stage of the business that the nth of Septemberthe
, on , appointment of new Plenipotentiaries was announced on the part of France , under a formal promise that their arrival should facilitate and expedite the work of peace . To renew , in a shape still more offensive than before , the inadmissible demand so long before brought forward , and so long abandoned , was the first , act of these new messengers of peace . And such was now the undisguised impatience ot ihe King ' s enemies to terminate all treatyand to exclude all
, prcspect of accommodation , that even the continuance ofthe King ' s Plenipotentiary at the appointed place of negociation was made bv them to depend on his immediate compliance with a condition which his Court had , two months before , explicitly refused , and concerning which no farther discussion had since occurred . His reply was such as the occasion required : and he immediately received a positive and written order to depart from France . The subsequent conduct of his Majesty ' s enemies has aggravated even this proceedingand added fresh
, insult to this unexamined outrage . The insurmountable obstacles which they threw in the way of peace were accompanied with an ostentatious profession of the most pacific disposition . In cutting off the means of negociation , thev still , pretended to retain the strongest desire to negocia ; o : in ordering the King's Minister to quit their country / they professed the hope of his immediate return to it : and in renewing their former inadmissible and rejected demand , they declared their confident expectation of a speedy and favourable answer . Yet before anv answer could arrivethev
, published a declaration , announcing to their country the departure ofthe Kino ' s Mini -tor , and attempting , as in every former instance , to ascribe to the conduct of Great Britain the disappointment of the general wish for peace , and the renewal of all the calamities of war . The same attempt has been prolonged m subsequent communications , equally insidious and illusory , by which they have obviously intended to furnish the colour and empty pretence Of a wish for peace , while they have still studiously and obstinately persisted in evading step which could lead to the of have
every success any negociation ; continued to insist on the same inadmissible and extravagant preliminary , and have uniformly withheld all explanation either on the particulars of the proposals ot peace so long since delivered by his Majesty ' s Minister , or on any other terms on which they were themselves ready to conclude ; and this in the vain hope , that it could be possible , by any artifice , to disguise the truth of these transactions or that any exercise of power , however despotic , could prevent such facts from oemg known , felt , and understood , even in Fiance itself . To to
France , Europe , and to the World , it must be manifest , that the rrench Government ( whjlst they persist in their present sentiments ) leave his Majesty witnout an alternative , unless he were prepared to surrender and sacrifice to the undisguised ambition of his enemies the honour of his crown and the satety ot his dominions . It must be manifest , that , instead of shewing on their part any inclination to meet his Majesty's pacific overtures on any moderate terms , they have never brought themselves lo state any terms ( however exorbitant ) on which they readto conclude
were y peace . They have asked as a preliminary land m a form the most arrogant and offensive ) concessions which the comparative situation of the two countries would have rendered extravagant in anv stag " ot negociation ; which were directly contrary to their own repeated professions - and which , nevertheless , they peremptorily required to be complied with in the very outset ; reserving an unlimited power of afterwards accumulating , from time to time , fresh demands , increasing in proportion to every new concession . On the other hand , the terms proposed bv his Majesty have been stated in the mojt clear , open , and unequivocal manner , The discussion of all the point ; 10
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Monthly Chronicle.
which might afford the means of proceeding in the negociation . Week after week passed over in the repetition of these solemn engagements on the part ot his Majesty ' s enemies . Kis desire for peace induced him to wait for their completion , with an anxiety proportioned to the importance of the object ; nor was it much to expect , that his Minister should at length be informed what was the extent and nature of the conditions on which his enemies were disposed to terminate the war ' . It was mjhis stage of the business that the nth of Septemberthe
, on , appointment of new Plenipotentiaries was announced on the part of France , under a formal promise that their arrival should facilitate and expedite the work of peace . To renew , in a shape still more offensive than before , the inadmissible demand so long before brought forward , and so long abandoned , was the first , act of these new messengers of peace . And such was now the undisguised impatience ot ihe King ' s enemies to terminate all treatyand to exclude all
, prcspect of accommodation , that even the continuance ofthe King ' s Plenipotentiary at the appointed place of negociation was made bv them to depend on his immediate compliance with a condition which his Court had , two months before , explicitly refused , and concerning which no farther discussion had since occurred . His reply was such as the occasion required : and he immediately received a positive and written order to depart from France . The subsequent conduct of his Majesty ' s enemies has aggravated even this proceedingand added fresh
, insult to this unexamined outrage . The insurmountable obstacles which they threw in the way of peace were accompanied with an ostentatious profession of the most pacific disposition . In cutting off the means of negociation , thev still , pretended to retain the strongest desire to negocia ; o : in ordering the King's Minister to quit their country / they professed the hope of his immediate return to it : and in renewing their former inadmissible and rejected demand , they declared their confident expectation of a speedy and favourable answer . Yet before anv answer could arrivethev
, published a declaration , announcing to their country the departure ofthe Kino ' s Mini -tor , and attempting , as in every former instance , to ascribe to the conduct of Great Britain the disappointment of the general wish for peace , and the renewal of all the calamities of war . The same attempt has been prolonged m subsequent communications , equally insidious and illusory , by which they have obviously intended to furnish the colour and empty pretence Of a wish for peace , while they have still studiously and obstinately persisted in evading step which could lead to the of have
every success any negociation ; continued to insist on the same inadmissible and extravagant preliminary , and have uniformly withheld all explanation either on the particulars of the proposals ot peace so long since delivered by his Majesty ' s Minister , or on any other terms on which they were themselves ready to conclude ; and this in the vain hope , that it could be possible , by any artifice , to disguise the truth of these transactions or that any exercise of power , however despotic , could prevent such facts from oemg known , felt , and understood , even in Fiance itself . To to
France , Europe , and to the World , it must be manifest , that the rrench Government ( whjlst they persist in their present sentiments ) leave his Majesty witnout an alternative , unless he were prepared to surrender and sacrifice to the undisguised ambition of his enemies the honour of his crown and the satety ot his dominions . It must be manifest , that , instead of shewing on their part any inclination to meet his Majesty's pacific overtures on any moderate terms , they have never brought themselves lo state any terms ( however exorbitant ) on which they readto conclude
were y peace . They have asked as a preliminary land m a form the most arrogant and offensive ) concessions which the comparative situation of the two countries would have rendered extravagant in anv stag " ot negociation ; which were directly contrary to their own repeated professions - and which , nevertheless , they peremptorily required to be complied with in the very outset ; reserving an unlimited power of afterwards accumulating , from time to time , fresh demands , increasing in proportion to every new concession . On the other hand , the terms proposed bv his Majesty have been stated in the mojt clear , open , and unequivocal manner , The discussion of all the point ; 10