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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1801.
.Conorrlous of PUBLch-rlox
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Commercial InteHsiigencer. ct!
, I. lt will be publshed en a balssheet \
Jfizþcr-rval Paper of good quality, and s
with an elegagj type, of fivbieb :bf: paper
tbrifaim La specimeu.
'II. siIt will be fflllblsilsifhctd ectvevy day at 3 4
siv'claekj and delivered toszesg/Zvibers in tafwn
With the utmct'ctst regularity and expedi'.
tion, ssamI transmitted to these at a dfflanee
though the tity} ear_ly and regular e/mu
nel: of eanctveyanee. ss
III. Tin- price fail] be Five Dollars per
mmum, to be paid one half an rec eipt q/si the
first number, the remainder at the end of
Life wear.
Sales byAssisiszion.
. .Qn MONDAY,
The x'isstsih irsssififlat loo'clock, will be fold
. at our Auction _Room3
ct Mala-ga VVme m plpes,
French Brandy in do.
Sugar i—n barrels,
Bacon in lots,
Soal Leath'erin lots,
So'aP in boxes,
Nalls in casks.
Together '"UJit/l 'asi variety ()
DRYGOODS,
. Among fwln'cb drsse , -
Broadclothcts, kerseymcrcs, coatingg, swan- 4
siowns, plains, duffils, flannels, Irish li
nens, humhums, German and British os
naburgs, chintzes, calicoes, jaconet, book
Lnd tamboured munins, and a number of,
Other articles.
HENRY 65" THOS. MOORE,
Auctiouee r: .
January 7.
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L'ossbe Rented,
And a cfflon ifven immediateb—
A twosifkffory hositglse 'anssd garden on Duke
rect, about two squ'ards to "the eastward
the stone bridge.
W. HARTSHORNE.
A number of valuable [0th
Tctn_difserent sithations, to be sold-si—also, ;!
_r1ck house in" Kihg-streectt, _ in the tenuresi
9 Thomas Cmse ;--a part of the poicssbase
money Will be takeh in Alexandria Bank
ares ?} Psim. and fqrss somesi pf the lots, A.
si xandna nsi'n-anc'e shares. it 21 price to be
agreed '0n For art of the fpprsich'ase (mo
eral credit may be hind.
l..0ntss,tsih. ... ,_ct. eo
B Ofirasilng anTLoZsgmgss
Ulaybe 1'Rdfm five or six
. . gentlemen, b
'PPlymg to
mJOHlN YRDONj Knot Street.
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P A P E R S
Relati—ve to the cammmcrmmt of
NEGOCIATIONS or PEACE WITH
FRANCE.
(Continuea'. )
No. 3 5.
_ Note.
Lord Grenville presents his compliments
to M. Otto, and has the honor to send
him herewith the offlcial answer to his
Communication of the 273d instant.
He requests M. Otto to accept the as;
'suranccs of his high cOnsicctleration.
Dofwuiug-street, siSe-pt. 2 5, 1800.
( No. 36.)
Note.
It is by no means the wish of the British
government to prolong a written controffi
ss versy on the circumstances to which the*
sssirst part of M. Otto's note ofthe zzdl
instant principally relates; it is however
necessary , in order to vindicate the accura
cy to the former statement which the un
.dersigned was directed to make; that the
dates of those sacts should in reply to M.
ss ()tto's note be more particularly detailed;
ed August 24.
'_ but this will be done without adding any
fresh comment upon them.
The first propofal made to his majesty
on the part of France, for a naval armistice
grounded on that of the continent was dat
The notices for terminating the conti.
nental armistice wetess given by the French
generals on the 27cttlifand zgthof August;
the 'orders for that purpose must therefore
have been actually sent from Paris before
the 24th. '
His majesiy's answer was transmitted by
the undersigned to M. Otto on the 29th,
the very day on which the last of the no
tices was given in Germany. That answer
referred to the Austrian armistice as still
existing; and it was not till the 4th of
September that the first intimation was re
ceived here of the measures taken in Ger
many for giving notice of its termination.
With respect to the letter of M. Tal
ley'rand to the Baron de Thugut, to which
M. Otto referred, it was also dared the
24th of August. The French govern.
ment, so far from being at that time en
titled to consider his majesty's intentions
as hostile to the racstablishment ofa, solid
system of pacification, was then actually
in posseflion of the notification given in his
majesty's name, through his ally, of his
readiness to concur in immediate negocia
tion for that very purpose. '
It will be with realss'pleasure-that his
majesty will see the conclusiom which ap
peared to him to result from these fact:
dispssroved by the event. The best evidence
which the French government can now
gissve of the sincerity of its disposition; for
pez'tCe, will be found in the facilities it
may afford for expeditin both the corn
meoeement and the suCce tfol termination
ofct-that - ssne'gociation into which the king
Land his ally the emperor of Germany have
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already exPresied their willingness to en
ter,, and which can alone, by a general
and comprehensive arrangement to the in
terests of all the parties concerned in this
extensive war, afford to Euro the h0pe
ofsolid and permanent tranquillt .
With respect to the supposed case, in
which it is stated, that France would not
agree to treat with Austria but for a sepa
rate peace, the fortune of war can alone
decide on the means Lof realizing such a
pretenfion, but whenever it shall be insisted
on by France, after the experience of what ss
has already passed, it will afford to all o
ther powere, not : presumption only , but
the painful and decided conviction, that
the French government has no real desire
to put a ssfinal and conclufi ve period to the
calamities of EuroPe. No man who con
fiders the past events of this contest with
attention, or who is capable of judging
with accuracy of the present situation of
affairs, can believe that is the present war
is to be terminated only by & succession of
ctseperate treaties between the different pow
ers now engaged in it, any permnnent or
solid basis of general tranquility could be
establishcd.
As his majesty has, in compliance with
M. Otto's wishes, authoriscd a properper- 4
son to confer with him rcspecting the dis.
ferent proposals fora naval armistice, it is
unnecessary to add any thing here on that
subject. This step assords new proof of his
,majesty's dispositions to lend himself to
every reasonable fucility which can con
tribute to a general pacisication, and eve
_ry part of his majesty's conduct will be
found conformable to those dispositions.
Dowut'ugstreet, September 2 5, 1 Boo
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(No- 37-)
Note from Lord Grm-vil/e ta M. Otto.
Downin -street, Sept. 24. 1800.
Lord Grenville presents his compliments
to M. Otto and has the honor to acquaint
him, that in conseqence of his-desire for
an opportunity of conversing with a per
son of mnfidencc on the part of this go
vemment, respecting the different propo
sals which had been made as to the cci'ndi.
tions of anaval armistice, his majesiy has
been pleased to give authority to Mr..
Hammond to meet M . Otto for that pur
pose.
It is the sincere wish of his majesty'a
government, that the result of their con
vectrsation on this subject, may tend to fa
cilitate the great work of a generalipacifi
catioctn on a solid and permanent ba 18.
Lord Grenville requcsts M. Otto to be
assured of his high consideration.
_ (No. 38.) 1
To Mr. Hammams.
Downing-street, Sept. 24, !800.*ss
Sta,
M. Otto having been empowered by the
Freneh government to negociate a comen,
tion for an armistice between this country
siand France, with a view to negociations
for a general peace; lad htving upressed
lsi- —_
! an earnest desire to enter into verbal expla
nations on the subject with some person
properly authorised on his majesty's' part,
the king willing to omit nothing which
can contribute to the great work ofrestor
ing solid and permanent tranquility to Eu
r0pe, has been pleased to make choice of
you for the purpose of meeting M. Otto,
and of receiving from him such verbal com
munications as he may wish to make in
addition to what has already Passed in wri
ting, respecting the different projects pross.
posed on either side for a naval armistice.
This letter will point to you the reasons
which induce his majesty .to consider .M.
Otto's second project as unsatissadsitory in
all the material points in which it differs"
from the counter-project prepared here by
his majesty's command. '
; You will state to Nl. Otto'his majesty's
? decision in this respect, and-you will enter
, without reserve into the discusiion of the
, grounds on which it rcsts. His majesty
, has no other object inct view in this transac
tion than to contribute to the refiorarion
of a general peace. He is unwilling for
this purpose, to sacrifice some present ad
. vantage, in the opinion that by so doing
he consults the permanent interests of his
people ; but he can neither consent, at the
opening of a negociation for peace, to
place himself in a condition of inferiorit-y
to his enemies, such as the result of the
war in which he is engaged, by no means
warrants ; nor does he think that the oh
ject of " peace itself would be promoted or
acceleratcd by rendermg the intermediate
situation of his' enemies, under color of
an armistice, such as they might be desir
ous to prolong, rather than to terminate it
siþy any admisiible conditions of peace.
His majesty sees, in the last project of
the French government, little progress to..
wards an accommodation , it is indeed
Rated in M. Otto's letter to me of the
zxst instant, that satisfactory explanations
are there given on the two most important
points which had been insisted on by his
majesty. '
The admisiion of his majesty's zllics to
partake in the same terms of the armistice
in which France claims to include her al
lies, is indeed .not only an important,
but an indispensable condition of any
such agreement : but there can be no
ground for representing this equal and ne
cessary arrangement as a concesiion on the
East of France, rather than on the part of
is majesty. And with respect to the
other point stated by M. Otto ( that which
relates to the Frenchships of war) the offer
of France falls very short both of the
king's demand, and of what would be ne
cessary even to asiimilate the na'val zrmis.
fice to that of the continent. The article
; in its present shape is therefore so far from
) containing any facility which would sos.
. ton'sior'remove the other obsiacles in the Way
3 of an amiable conclusion of this business
i that it still must be regxded in justice
' :. an unequal and ina 'fflble Child on
{the part ofthe king'omcmin-. .