Hawkesbury a Otto

Downing street, april 17, 1801.

The undersigned is authorized to express to M. Otto, that His Majesty's government is unwilling to interpret any passage of his note of the i6th, as conveying an insinuation that persons in whom His Majesty ever placed his confidence, could give countenance to the atrocious attempt to which M. Otto's communication refers. If any part of that communication could be so understood, it would, in a disavowal, warrant expressions of the warmest indignation.

The French government has furnished no information whatever, to prove that any persons within thèse dominions were parties to the above mentioned attempt. But if such information should be afforded, His Majesty will feel that he owes to himself and to the interests of civil

1. Voir dans la a Conspiration anglaise» (Paris; inipr. de la Rép., an IX), une lettre de Dutlieil, du 25 janvier 1S00 (p. i65 if); et une lettre de Hyde de Neuville à Dutlieil, du 4 février (p. 101, io5; cf. p. n4)- — Sur le nom supposé « la Bourse », voir p. 44 (clef de la correspondance).

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society, to take those steps whicli may be found to be justifiable by the laws and usages of tbis kingdom, as well as conformable to tbe sentiments of bumanity and justice which bave invariably governed His Majesty's conduct. (Arch. des Aff. étrangères.)