. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms.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. le urgency. Very littleis known of the negotiations which lasted through-out the spring and summer of 1801 between LordHawkesbury and Monsieur Louis William Otto[1754-1817], whose ostensible occupation inLondon was the arranging of terms for the ex-change of prisoners of war. Otto was a native ofBaden, who, in early life, had been employed byM. de la Luzerne in the diplomati
. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms.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. le urgency. Very littleis known of the negotiations which lasted through-out the spring and summer of 1801 between LordHawkesbury and Monsieur Louis William Otto[1754-1817], whose ostensible occupation inLondon was the arranging of terms for the ex-change of prisoners of war. Otto was a native ofBaden, who, in early life, had been employed byM. de la Luzerne in the diplomatic line inAmerica as well as in England. His first wife wasan American lady. Miss Livingston, possibly arelation of the Councillor Robert Livingston, theAmerican envoy to France, who arrived at Parisat the end of 1801.^ In 1782 he had married, ashis second wife, the daughter of the French Consulat New York. Otto was a man of good presenceand manners. That he was in affluent circum-stances is made clear by the fact that duringthe year 1801 he occupied the handsome cornerhouse at the eastern end of Hereford Street,on the southern side of Oxford Street andclose to Portman Square, then generally called * See post, p. EXCHANGE OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE PRELIMINARIES OK PEACE AGREED TO ON OCTOBER I, 1801, BETWEEN M. OTTO AND LORD HAWKESBURYFROM A CONTEMlORARY ENCRAVINC; HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION xxix Oxford Road. Little or nothing was allowed toleak out concerning the progress of the negotia-tions either by Mr. Addington and Lord Hawkes-bury on the one hand or Monsieur Otto on theother. England and France were still technicallyin a state of war on Thursday, i October, 1801,when late in the afternoon the preliminaries ofpeace which were to form the basis of the Treatyof Amiens were signed by Lord Hawkesbury onbehalf of George III and Monsieur Otto as therepresentative of the French Republic. TheLondon Gazette of Friday, 2 October, contains thefollowing official announcement :— DOW
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