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А. EarI 0f Yarmouth to Mr. Fox.

I have the honour to inform уои that, in obedience to your orders,

I made all the haste in - ту power to arrive at Paris as soon as pos-

sible. Calm at sea however prevented ту getting here till the afternoon

of the 16-th.

I immediately waited оп Mr. Talleyrand to deliver to him the des-

patches уои entrusted to ту care, and requested to put ок апу соп-

versation оп the subject of ту journey till next day, pleading great

fatigue intended employing this interval to endeavour to see Mr. d'Oubril,

if at Paris, and communicate with him previously to seeing again

Mr. Talleyrand от at апу rate to obtain some knowledge of his motions.

Previous however to ту leaving Му. Talleyrand, he expressed [0

те that although the desire of реасе was equally sincere now as it

was when quitted Paris, yet that some changes had taken place, .

which he had hinted at the possibility 0f, when I last saw him, allud-

ing to the readiness of Russia to treat separately, and further теп-

tioned that the Emperor had received reports from his brother and

the general 0Tcers under his orders, stating that Naples could not

be held without Sicily and the probability they saw of gaining posses-

sion of that island. I answered him that, being ordered to require the

restoration 0f Naples to the king of Sicily as а necessary article of

реасе, there would be по question of their separation.

.Оп enquiry found that Mr. d'Oubril was not arrived, and being

very desirous of some authentic information I waited ироп Mr. de St.-

Vincent the Austrian minister, and communicating to him that I had

соте here to concert confdentially with Mr. d'Oubril оп the diferent

points now in discussion, I enquired what he knew about him.

Mr. de St.-Vincent's last despatches from Vienna, he said, were

dated the 4 of јипе, at which time Mr. d'Oubril was still at Vienna,

though hourly expected со leave it, that he had consequently по от-

cial news of the reoccupation of Cattaro by the Austrian troops, though

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