A collection of state papers relative to the war against France now carrying on by Great Britain and the several other European powers Volume 6 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ...and abrupt mode of proceeding, yet as a day was much more than fufficient for the ptir-pofe, I mould forbear making any particular remark on this circumflance: that as to the inference to be drawn from the pofitive manner in which they appeared to maintain the queftion put to me, I really could not make it different from that I had already exprelTed: that the reverting, after an interval of two months, to a queftion already ahfwered, and which queftion involved the fate of the negotiation, certainly could not be confi-dered as wearing a very conciliatory appearance: that in regard to my anfver, it could not be different from that J had given before: that my full powers, which were in their hands, were as extenfive as any could be, and it did not depend on me to give them more or lefs latitude; but that in facl their queftion went not to to the extent of my full powers, but to require of me to declare the nature of my inftrudHons; and on this point they certainly would forgive me, if I did not fpeak out, till fuch time as the circumftances of the negotiation called upon me to do it., The Frettfh minifter ftrove to prove to me, what he had before attempted, that the claiming a right of inquiry into the nature of the difcretionary authority confided in a minifter, by,no means implied an intention of requiring of him to a£l up to it to its utmoft limits. I obferved, if no fuch intention-exifted, why inftitute the inquiry? and if it did not exift, why not fay fo at once?--He faid, What we now aflc is little more than 'a matter of form; when you have given us your anfwer, we (hall follow it up by another ftep, which we are ordered to take. I faid, my anfwer was given two months ago; that, although I was ready to give it them again, and in writing,...
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