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Monthly Chronicle.
which they relate , or of any others , which the enemy might bring forward as the terms of peace , has been , on his Majesty ' s part , repeatedly called for , as often promised by the French Plenipotentiaries , but to this day has never yet been obtained . The rupture of the negociation is not therefore to be ascribed to any pretensions ( however inadmissible ) urged as the price of peace ; nor to any ultimate difference on terms , however exorbitant ; but to the evident and fixed determination ofthe enemy to prolong the contest , and to pursue , at all hazards , their hostile designs against the prosperity and safety of Ihese'kingdoms .
While this determination continues to prevail , his Majesty ' s earnest wishes and endeavours to rsstore peace to his subjects must be fruitless . But his sentiments remain unaltered . He looks with anxious expectation to the moment when the Government of France may shew a disposition and spirit in any degree corresponding to his own . And he renews , even now , and before all Europe , the solemn declaration , that , in spite of repeated provocations , and at the very moment when his claims have been strengthened and confirmed by fresh success , whichby the blessing of Providencehas recently attended his armshe is yet
, , , ready ( if the calamities of war can now be closed ) to conclude peace on the same moderate and equitable principles and terms which he has before proposed : the rejection of such terms must now , more than ever , demonstrate the implacable animosity and insatiable ambition of those with whom he has to contend , and to them alone must the future consequences of the prolonging of the war be ascribed . . If such unhappily is the spirit by which they are still actuated , his Majesty can
neither hesitate as to the principles of his own conduct , nor doubt the sentiments and determination of his people . He will not be wanting to them , and he is confident they will not be wauling to themselves . He has an anxious , but a sacred and indispensable duty to fulfil : he will discharge it with resolution , constancy , and firmness . Deeply as he must regret the continuance of a war , so destructive in its progress , and so burthensome even in its success , he knows the character of the brave people whose interests and honourare entrusted to him . — These it is the first object of his life to maintain ; and he is convinced , that
neither the resources nor the spirit of his kingdoms will be found inadequate to this arduous contest , or unequal tolheimportar . ee and value ofthe objects which are at stake . He trusts , that the favour of Providence , bv which they have always hitherto been supported against all their enemies , will be still extended to them ; and that , under this protection , his faithful subjects , by a resolute and vigorous application of the means which fhey possess , will be enabled to vindicate the independence of their country , and to resist with just indignation the assumed superiority of an against whom they have fought with the courageand
sucenemy , , cess , and glory of their ancestors , and who aims at nothing less than to destroy at once whatever has contributed to the prosperity and greatness of the British empire : all the channels of its industry , and all the sources of its power ; its security from abroad , its tranquility at home , and , above all , that constitution , on which alone depends the undisturbed enjoyment of . its religion , laws , and liberties . Westminster , October 2 $ , 1797 .
NEGOCIATION AT LISLE . , As the British Cabinet has published an official account of the correspondence between Lord Malmesbury and the French Commissioners , which is of high importance to every person in this country , we feei the propriety of giving such a view of it in our miscellany as is necessary to understand the precise meaning of both parties , omitting only what is superfluous . The correspondence begins with a letter from Lord Grenville to M . Delacroix ,
as follows : No . 1 . — ' The signature ofthe preliminaries ofa peace , the definitive conclusion of which is to put an end to the continental war , appears to afford to the two governments of Great Britain and France a natural opportunity and new facilities for the renewal of pacific negociations between them : a part of the obstacles which might have retarded this salutary work no longer existing ; and the inte-
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Monthly Chronicle.
which they relate , or of any others , which the enemy might bring forward as the terms of peace , has been , on his Majesty ' s part , repeatedly called for , as often promised by the French Plenipotentiaries , but to this day has never yet been obtained . The rupture of the negociation is not therefore to be ascribed to any pretensions ( however inadmissible ) urged as the price of peace ; nor to any ultimate difference on terms , however exorbitant ; but to the evident and fixed determination ofthe enemy to prolong the contest , and to pursue , at all hazards , their hostile designs against the prosperity and safety of Ihese'kingdoms .
While this determination continues to prevail , his Majesty ' s earnest wishes and endeavours to rsstore peace to his subjects must be fruitless . But his sentiments remain unaltered . He looks with anxious expectation to the moment when the Government of France may shew a disposition and spirit in any degree corresponding to his own . And he renews , even now , and before all Europe , the solemn declaration , that , in spite of repeated provocations , and at the very moment when his claims have been strengthened and confirmed by fresh success , whichby the blessing of Providencehas recently attended his armshe is yet
, , , ready ( if the calamities of war can now be closed ) to conclude peace on the same moderate and equitable principles and terms which he has before proposed : the rejection of such terms must now , more than ever , demonstrate the implacable animosity and insatiable ambition of those with whom he has to contend , and to them alone must the future consequences of the prolonging of the war be ascribed . . If such unhappily is the spirit by which they are still actuated , his Majesty can
neither hesitate as to the principles of his own conduct , nor doubt the sentiments and determination of his people . He will not be wanting to them , and he is confident they will not be wauling to themselves . He has an anxious , but a sacred and indispensable duty to fulfil : he will discharge it with resolution , constancy , and firmness . Deeply as he must regret the continuance of a war , so destructive in its progress , and so burthensome even in its success , he knows the character of the brave people whose interests and honourare entrusted to him . — These it is the first object of his life to maintain ; and he is convinced , that
neither the resources nor the spirit of his kingdoms will be found inadequate to this arduous contest , or unequal tolheimportar . ee and value ofthe objects which are at stake . He trusts , that the favour of Providence , bv which they have always hitherto been supported against all their enemies , will be still extended to them ; and that , under this protection , his faithful subjects , by a resolute and vigorous application of the means which fhey possess , will be enabled to vindicate the independence of their country , and to resist with just indignation the assumed superiority of an against whom they have fought with the courageand
sucenemy , , cess , and glory of their ancestors , and who aims at nothing less than to destroy at once whatever has contributed to the prosperity and greatness of the British empire : all the channels of its industry , and all the sources of its power ; its security from abroad , its tranquility at home , and , above all , that constitution , on which alone depends the undisturbed enjoyment of . its religion , laws , and liberties . Westminster , October 2 $ , 1797 .
NEGOCIATION AT LISLE . , As the British Cabinet has published an official account of the correspondence between Lord Malmesbury and the French Commissioners , which is of high importance to every person in this country , we feei the propriety of giving such a view of it in our miscellany as is necessary to understand the precise meaning of both parties , omitting only what is superfluous . The correspondence begins with a letter from Lord Grenville to M . Delacroix ,
as follows : No . 1 . — ' The signature ofthe preliminaries ofa peace , the definitive conclusion of which is to put an end to the continental war , appears to afford to the two governments of Great Britain and France a natural opportunity and new facilities for the renewal of pacific negociations between them : a part of the obstacles which might have retarded this salutary work no longer existing ; and the inte-