POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
"Paris, May 14.—I had the honour to announce to you yesterday that the Council had deliberated upon the reply of the English Cabinet to the demand that you had been charged to transmit. My preceding despatches have already prepared you for the resolution of the Government of the Re- public. France in a spirit of good-will and of peace had decided on inter- posing her good offices, with a view of terminating on honourable conditions the differences that had arisen between Great Britain and Greece. It had been agreed that the coercive measures already put in practice by England should be suspended during the mediation; and that if an arrangement, judged acceptable by the French mediate_ ,r was refused by the British ne- gotiator, the latter should refer back to London before he should have re- course anew to the employment of force. We had received on this last point the most formal promises. They have not been kept. This deplorable con- sequence has resulted, that at the very moment when a project of conven- tion, negotiated directly, and definitively agreed upon, between the Cabinets of Paris and of London, was on the point of arriving at Athens, where the essential basis of it was already known, Greece, attacked again by British naval forces, despite the ardent representations of France, was obliged, for sake of escaping complete ruin, to accept, without discussion, the clauses of an ultimatum quite different in rigorousness. On learning this strange result of our mediation, we hoped to see in it only the effect of some misunderstanding. We had hoped that the Cabinet of London, considering as non avenue the facts, to be regretted for all parties, which had taken place in consequence of the violation of an agreement with us, would maintain the project of convention that we had settled. You had been charged to make the demand. This demand not having been listened to, it has appeared to us that the prolongation of your sojourn at London is not compatible with the dignity of the Republic. The President has ordered me to invite you to return to France, after having accredited M. de Marescalchi in quality of Chargi tion of the Government for the z ability, spirit of conciliation, and firmness d'Affaires. He has ordered me equally to express to you the entire satisfac- tion you have constantly exhibited in a negotiation which did not depend on you for success.
"You will have the goodness to read this present despatch to Lord Palmers- ton.
" GENERAL DE La IlivrE, Minister of Foreign Affairs."
General de la Hitt° deposited all the documents connected with the negotiation ; the Assembly would read them, and, informed by them, would discuss the question at a future day. The communication of the letter was received by the Right with new demonstrations of pleasure,
and the motiog for printing the documents was affirmed by the great mass of the Assembly : but General Cavaignac, M. Gustave de Beaumont, and a few members of the Dufeure party, voted in the negative. On descend- ing from the tribune, General de la Hilts was surrounded, and compli- mented with animation, by many representatives—MM. Mole, Thiers, Changamier, Piscatery, and others. The proceedings were suspended for a half hour's efferxescence on the incident, and then the routine of business was resumed.
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