. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. eneral peacemaker, ordered quite anumber of medals to be struck in honour of thenew relations he had established with King Georgeand his subjects.^ On more than one of theseappears the somewhat equivocal device Je retiensla foudre et accepte la paix. In the Gazette deFrance of 12 Vendemaire (3 Oct., 1801) one reads : Aujourdhui, vers 7 heures du soir, le bruit ducanon sest f
. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. eneral peacemaker, ordered quite anumber of medals to be struck in honour of thenew relations he had established with King Georgeand his subjects.^ On more than one of theseappears the somewhat equivocal device Je retiensla foudre et accepte la paix. In the Gazette deFrance of 12 Vendemaire (3 Oct., 1801) one reads : Aujourdhui, vers 7 heures du soir, le bruit ducanon sest fait entendre a plusieurs reprises etpendant longtemps. A neuf heures, les com-missaires de police escortes de plusieurs detache-ments de cavalerie et infantrie ont publie danstoutes les places et carrefours de Paris, et au sondune musique guerriere, la signatures des pre-liminaires de la paix avec Angleterre. Bona-parte pinned his faith to the date he had chosenfor his official pronouncement, and it was not till9 November, when Lord Cornwallis had arrived inParis and Mr, Francis James Jackson was makinghis last preparations for crossing over to France, * See Medaillev Napoleon le Grand. L. Bramsen, 1904. pp. 27-37-. FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, BRITISH MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARYAT PARIS, NOV. 1801-APRIL 1802 FKOM A MEZZOTINT OF THE PERIOD HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION xli that Bonaparte issued the decree printed at theend of this volume.^ On Tuesday, 13 October, the London Gazettecontained George IITs proclamation declaring the cessation of arms, as well by sea as by land,agreed upon between his Majesty and the FrenchRepublic, and enjoining the observance thereof/Three days later Lord Cornwallis, now at 16Grafton Street, once more wrote to Colonel Ross:— I do not expect to leave this country beforethe 1st or 2nd of next month, so as to arrive atParis (to which place I am first destined for threeor four days, at the particular invitation of Bona-parte) by the 6th. He wishes me to see the fe
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