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Stipulations for a peace were proposed; a truce of fifteen days was proclaimed, which was several times renewed; part of the troops were dismissed and the rest went into winter-quarters. However, before any definite arrangements could be made, Mary, Queen of England, died, and the meeting was dissolved.
«His Majesty approves of the plan you have proposed for settling some of the Loyalists at Cataraqui and places adjacent, and is satisfied with the reasons you have given for suspending the execution of the directions contained in the late Secretary of State's letter to you with regard to establishments on the tracts of land to the eastward of the River St.
Adhémar and Delisle have, since their first arrival in England, paid a visit to the continent, and on their return have made application for the admission of three young Eclesiasticks, whom they proposed to take out with them from the Seminary of St.-Sulpice at Paris, but the same reasons which operated with you, have produced a negative to that requisition.
I understood the question which was put to me to be whether any agreement had been made between England and France to interpose by force to put an end to that war; and I said that no formal agreement of any kind had been made between the two governments; and certainly none of that kind had taken place, but that a formal application had been made some time before, by the government of Montevideo, for our mediation, and that we had instructed M. Mandeville to offer it to the other party, the Buenos-Ayres government; I ought perhaps also to have mentioned the conversation which I had had with baron Bourqueney, and in which he proposed, on the part of his government, that our representatives at Buenos-Ayres should communicate and assist each other in this matter; but in the hurry of reply, it did not occur to me that that conversation came within the reach of the question.
It appears essential also that, whatever substitute may be proposed, if any be found, should be considered in the first instance only as an experiment, by which the operation of the treaties in this respect would necessarily be suspended until its success or failure had been manifest.
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