who have now the influence in their hands, which will effect his purpose.

If Pozzo should be inclined to negociate, on the part of the French Government, with you upon money or other objects, I wish you to keep all these circumstances of influence in our own hands, and not to give the Russian Government the authority of his intervention.

I am, dear Liverpool, ever yours,

C.

In a letter some time since, Lord Bathurst suggested that the restoration of prisoners should not make a part of the preliminary treaty; but after Russia acted, and France followed, none of the Powers could hold back.

Lord Castlereagh to Lord Liverpool.

Paris, April 20, 1814.

My dear Liverpool-I shall not delay Jackson. He goes over to see his wife, who is unwell, and I shall send a messenger to-morrow or the day after, with our Convention for a suspension of arms. We had our conference to-day with Talleyrand. He agrees to the evacuation of all fortresses and territories beyond the French frontiers of January, 1792. There are words in the preamble which will leave the future limits open to negociation; but the surrender of Mayence, Luxemburg, Antwerp, &c., is sufficiently assuring as to the substance.

The projet in question was drawn by Talleyrand, with a provision for liberty to withdraw all arsenals, stores, ships, &c., from the places ceded, not making a part of the ordinary attirail of the fortress. This was specially intended to save the fleet at Antwerp. I objected, and stated the best reasons I could why this was not a consequence of the existing state of things. Talleyrand pressed it as essential to their influence with the nation, and Metternich urged me strongly afterwards to recommend that this point should not be insisted on. referred to what had been before agreed upon, admitting, how

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ever, that the question was changed. After a good deal of discussion, it was agreed to save this case entire for ulterior negociation but I cannot hope to succeed in it with anything like a cordial concurrence; and, if you can reconcile feelings at home to abstain from urging this claim, you will essentially strengthen the new Government, and preserve the high character we have hitherto established throughout these discussions.

Lord Camden to Lord Castlereagh.

Arlington Street, April 20, 1814. Dear Castlereagh-I do not know if you have received a letter I addressed to you, at the first opening of that scene, which has ripened into the glorious events which are now celebrating all over Europe. My advice in that letter, which was written after the manifestation at Bordeaux, was to pause, at least, until it could be seen if a Bourbon spirit manifested itself more widely. From the reports which I had heard, I hardly flattered myself it was at all general; and indeed, unless the Allies had got to Paris, I think it would not have appeared widely.

Let me particularly congratulate you on the brilliant events which have taken place, as connected with your public character, to which they have given a tone which your most sanguine friends could hardly have dared to expect. Although I foresee some difficulties between you and your friend, the Prince of Benevente, I expect a very early termination to the war.

Ever yours, most affectionately,

CAMDEN.

Lord Castlereagh to the Lords of the Treasury.

Paris, April 20, 1814.

My Lords-The Chancellor of Prussia, Baron Hardenberg, having represented to me, in the strongest manner, the urgent

necessity in which his Government feels itself, of requesting from Great Britain an immediate advance of one hundred thousand pounds sterling, either in cash or bullion, I have acquainted his Excellency that I have recommended to your lordships to comply with this application, and I am to desire that your lordships will lose no time in taking the pleasure of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent upon the subject.

I have, &c.,

CASTLEREAGH.

Lord Castlereagh to Admiral Young.

Paris, April 20, 1814.

Sir-The French Government has made a very earnest representation to me of the extreme want of transports under which they labour, for the purpose of assisting in the transport of prisoners of war, now about to be exchanged; and has urged me to acquiesce in the application of the vessels named in the enclosed list, and now at Flushing, to this service. I have not thought it expedient, under all the circumstances of the case, to decline acceding to this request; and I have therefore to beg that you will permit the said vessels to proceed without molestation from Flushing, and I shall take the earliest opportunity of informing the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of the communication which I have now made to you.

This letter will be forwarded by the French Government to the officer commanding the vessels in question, who will be directed to deliver it to you.

PS. In granting permission for the sailing of these vessels from Flushing, it is not understood that they are to be considered as exempt from the Fourth Article of the Convention already signed with France, it having been expressly arranged with the French Government that, for all purposes of discussion, they are to be considered as actually remaining in harbour.

Lord Wellington to Lord Castlereagh.

Thoulouse, April 21, 1814.

My dear Lord-Your brother Charles has just given me your letter of the 13th, and I am very much obliged and flattered by your thinking of me for a situation, for which I should never have thought myself qualified. I hope, however, that your lordship and the Prince Regent and his Government are convinced that I am ready to serve him in any situation in which it may be thought that I can be of any service. Although I have been so long absent from England, I should have remained as much longer, if it had been neces-. sary, and I feel no objection to another absence in the public service, if it is necessary or desirable.

In regard to going now to Paris, your brother will inform you of the circumstances here, which would render my absence just now inconvenient and possibly dangerous to the public service. I shall know more, however, of the state of affairs in a day or two; and I will undertake the journey with pleasure, if I should find I can do so without public inconvenience.

Believe me, my dear lord, ever yours most sincerely,

WELLINGTON.

Lord Castlereagh to Lord Clancarty.

Paris, April 21, 1814.

My Lord-Count de la Forêt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, appointed by the Provisional Government of France, has written to me, requesting an application from me to the Dutch Government, in order to procure the speedy enlargement of M. le Baron Louis de Malouet, Prefet of Laon, who was taken prisoner by the Russian troops, and is at the present moment at Utrecht. I have written to assure the Count de la Forêt that I should lose no time in complying with the wish expressed by him, and I have therefore to request that your Excellency will immediately make the necessary application

to his Royal Highness the Prince Sovereign's Government, in order to accelerate M. de Malouet's return to Paris.

I have, &c.,

CASTLEREAGH.

Lord Melville to Lord Castlereagh.

Admiralty, April 21, 1814.

My dear Castlereagh-I send this by Mr. Mackenzie, whom, in compliance with your request, we have sent to Paris, as Commissary for prisoners of war. I have little to add on this subject to what we have set forth in our letter to the Foreign Office; though, in all probability, the case has been materially altered, since that letter was written, by the decree of the French Government (as announced in the newspapers), liberating the prisoners of all the Allies.

Under any circumstances, I do not suppose that you would think of detaining the French prisoners here, at an expense of about £100,000 per month, beyond the signature of the Preliminary Articles; though, I believe, they have usually been liberated finally on a Definitive Treaty only. There is one description of prisoners here, viz., those under the Baylen Convention, amounting to 280 officers and 1,200 privates, whom we are bound, I think, to send off forthwith, as the French appear to have liberated all the Spaniards.

It will be very desirable that a French Commissary should come here, for the purpose of taking sole charge of the selecting and sending to France the 67,000 prisoners in this country. The French Government, if you cannot prevail upon them to take immediate charge of their subsistence, should, for their own sakes, be considering of their being properly disposed of on their arrival at the ports of France: they would otherwise be in great want of everything. I enclose, for your information, a statement of their numbers.

We had a most interesting and splendid scene yesterday, on the entry of Louis XVIII. into London: he was much gratified, as were his family and attendants, with their recep