74 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. with the allies of Fr me .; but the negociation must equally em brace the interests of the allies of Great Britain. As soon as the ha.sis of negociation shall have been satisfactorily ascer tained, and an unexceptionable place of negociation agreed upon, his Majesty will he prepared to name Plenipotentiaries to meet those of the other powers engaged in the war; hut his Majesty will not again consent to send his Plenipotentiaries to a hostile capital. But while his Majesty has permitted the Undersigned to ad dress this frank and unequivocal exposition of his Majesty's sen timents to the Minister of the Emperor or Austria, the Under signed is at the same time charged to state distinctly to the Prince de Starhemberg, that, not having received any authentic proof of the Prince de Starhemherg's commission to enter into any explanations in the name of the French Government, or to afford any assurances by which that Government could he bound, his Majesty has not directed the Undersigned to give any autho rity to the Prince de Slat hzroberg to speak in the name of his Majesty to the Government of France. The Undersigned had the honour to request the Prince de Starhemberg to accept the assurances of his high consideration. (Signed) GEORGE CANNING. Foreign Office, Jan. 8, 1808. xcn. V ll. Note from the Prince DE STAIMEMBFRG to Mr. Secretary CANNING, dated London, Jan. 12th, 1808.—Re• alike! the 13th. Landon, Jan 12, 1808. The Undersigned has the honour to inform his Excellency the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, that in conse quence of orders from his Court, the present circumstances oblige him to demand passports for himself and all the indivi duals of the Austrian Mission at London. The Undersigned purposes to make use of them as soon as he shall have received from the French Government the passports which he demanded by the Messenger whom he dispatched yesterday. The Under signed requests his Excellency to accept the assurances of his bigh consideration. (Signed) LOUIS PRINCE DE STARIIEMBERG. No. VIII. Letter from Mr. Secretary CA NNING to the Prince de STARIIEMBEItG, dated January 13th, 1808. Foreign 0//ice, Jan. 13, 1808. Sir,—Having received information that Nlr. Adair has ac tually quitted V ienna, in CollSeqUellee of an intimation from the Austrian Government ; 1 have the honour of requesting that 3nu m ill have the goodness to acquaint me what is the latest date, at which you have reason to believe that Mr. Adair was still at ienua. I have, &c. (Signed) GEORGE CANNING. No. IX.—Nota from thr Prince DE STARTIT.NITIERG to lf r. Secretary CAN N t t., dated Lyndon, Jan. 1:•:, London, fan. 13, 108. In ancwer to the Note which the UnderM,ened has ,jut re ceived from his Excl.Henry the Secretary of State. he has the honour to inform hi;. Evcellency, that the last Dit•patehes \shirt) he ha , received from his Court, were of the :30th of October, and that no mention was mole in them of the departure of Mr. Adair. The Undersigned requests hi 6 T xcellency to accept the aurance of hi= high comideration. (Signed) LOUIS PRINCL DE STARHEMBERG. No. X.--.Y olr frnm Mr. Secretary CANNTVG to the Prince D Sl*RtiLmßEßci, tilted ./an. 13, 1808 Foreign Office, Jan. 13, MOS. The Undersigned, Ai3 Majesty's. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has the honour to inclose to the Prince de Starliemberz, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary from his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the passports which he has demanded for himself and for the Austrian Mission at this Court; having it at the same time in command from the Ding his Master, to express his Majesty's deep regret, that the circumstances of the time, and the Orders of his Court, should have imposed on the Prince de Starhembcrg the necessity of de manding them. The Undersigned requests the Prince de Star hcnsberg to accept the assurances of pis highest consideration. (Signed) GEORGE CA NN IN Cr. FF,B. J. PAPERS RELATIVE TO RUSSIA, ?OLMSTED BY HIS MAJESTY'S cOMMAND TO BOTH HOUSES 01 PARLIAMENT. No. I.—Note from General By oft c;, to his Exceltenry Lord GRANVILLE LEVESON Guw•i:n, dated Jane , 1807. My Lord,—Accept my hest thanks for the promptitude iv it h which you had the goodness to transmit to me the dispatches which I have received, to . ttether with your Excellency's letter of the llth and 23d instant. fhe reports which your Lordship mentions are well founded. (en the !tth and 21st instant an ar mistice was concluded, which was yesterday ratitird by both parties. The two armies remain nearly in the same positions, and hostilities will not recommence until a month after the de nunciation of the armistice. Senflble that it is of the utmost importance to you to transmit this intelligence as speedily ai possible to your Court, 1 lose not to instant in redispatching the Nlessenger whom your xrelleoey has scot to me. In respect, my Lord, to the interview which you request of me, it would give me great pleasure to comply with sons wishes, if it were possible for me to foresee at what place the Lmperor will stay even for a tew days ; hut as we are upon our journey, I must wait for the tirst opportunity of taking his Imperial Majesty's commands, in order to invite you to rejoin me, where 1 may then be.-1 have the honour to be, &e. A. DE No. 11.--Note from his Exec! len . 11 LordriitANVll 1.11 1,1:v Esov Go w En, to General By on Li; 6, dated .dente!, 10-2 S .17171 f, 1507. General,—l have to acknowl-dge the receipt of the intelli gence of the armistice which wa; signed on the 2IA of this month, and although I implicitly confide in your Excellcoe's assurances, I cannot pass over in silence the prospect of a solid and permanent peace, R hit7:l, from the tenor of your public letter to the governor of Riga, your Lxcellroey appears to lie's will be the result of that measure. The reciprocal engagements bet ween the Courts of London and St. Petersburgh, the know a principles and firmness of his Imperial Majest), the verbal assurances of the Emperor %%hien I have just transmitted to the King my ruester, we•re so many pledges, that it is not now a question (according to public - mour) to negociate for a separate peace, but for a general one ; and whatever doubts I may have entertained on this subject, your Excellency's letter to tieneral Buxlinv den has completely done away. The just and enlightened manner in which :sour Excellenry views the situation of Europe, convinces me that you could not expect a peace would be either firm or lasting, which did not include every Power at war, and which was not founded upon an equitable basis. My Court will be ready to concur in negociat ions so formed, since it made war for the sole purpose of obtaining a secure and permanent peace. But your Excellency w ill, nevertheless, permit me to express all that re gret I feel, at being unable to make known to my Goverment the basis, upon w hick it is proposed to ground negociations. At the moment when negociation is carrying on with the eueniv, it is most essential that unlimited confidence should subsist between the Allied Powers. Ilpon this principle it is that the Court of London has ever acted, and it would be superduous to recall to your Excellency the eagerness testified by the British Ministry last year to calillitlvicate to the Russian Ambassador the whole of the correvolltance with the French fiovernmeot. I wait with impatience your Excellency's Ammons to repair to his Ma je,ty. Nothing can afford me greater pleasure than to repeat in person the a,surances of the esteem, and high consideration ss ith vs hitch I have the honour to be, lour Excellency's, &v. 6tl I.lt. No. I T.—Note front Geurrat Ilu pni:nC., to lii. E.rcelltur . ii Lord Gil AN VILLE lat: vLsos w , dated Til.it,U-3(1 .1 um, 60; . Sir, and Ambaisador,— I have received the letter which your Excellency did me the honour of addressing to me ..steraa) and, having laid it before the Emperor, my august Alaster, I hasten to transmit you the answer which his Imperial Al:kje,ty has commanded me to return to it. The firmne,,s and perseverance with which his Majemy during eight months maintained and defended a cause which he had rea son to suppose (animal' to all Sovereign, arc the most certain pledges of the intentions which uninvited him, as well as of the loyalty and purity of his principles. Never would his Imperi.:l Majesty have thought of des iating from that system, which ml has hitherto pursued, if he had Inca supported by tcal as=i=l• aocc on the part of his allicb. '.l l