Identifier: journalofbritish00warr (find matches)
Title: The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms.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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Warren, Dawson, 1770-1838 Jackson, Francis James, 1770-1814 Jackson, George, Sir, 1785-1861 Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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General peacemaker, ordered quite a number of medals to be struck in honour of the new relations he had established with King George and his subjects. On more than one of these appears the somewhat equivocal device Je retiens la foudre et accepte la paix. In the Gazette de France of 12 Vendemaire (3 October, 1801) one reads : Aujourdhui, vers 7 heures du soir, le bruit du canon s'est fait entendre à plusieurs reprises et pendant longtemps. A neuf heures, les commissaires de police escortés de plusieurs détachements de cavalerie et infanterie ont publié dans toutes les places et carrefours de Paris, et au son d'une musique guerriere, la signature des preliminaires de la paix avec Angleterre. Bonaparte pinned his faith to the date he had chosen for his official pronouncement, and it was not till 9 November, when Lord Cornwallis had arrived in Paris and Mr. Francis James Jackson was making his last preparations for crossing over to France, * See Medaillev Napoleon le Grand. L. Bramsen, 1904. pp. 27-37-
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FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, BRITISH MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY AT PARIS, NOV. 1801-APRIL 1802 FROM A MEZZOTINT OF THE PERIOD HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION xli that Bonaparte issued the decree printed at the end of this volume. On Tuesday, 13 October, the London Gazette contained George IIT's proclamation declaring the cessation of arms, as well by sea as by land, agreed upon between his Majesty and the FrenchR epublic, and enjoining the observance thereof/Three days later Lord Cornwallis, now at 16 Grafton Street, once more wrote to Colonel Ross:— I do not expect to leave this country before the 1st or 2nd of next month, so as to arrive at Paris (to which place I am first destined for thre eor four days, at the particular invitation of Bona-parte) by the 6th. He wishes me to see the festival on account of the Peace, which is to take place on the 9th, after which I am to go to Amiens/ The Marquis Cornwallis, however, was not destined to be the only diplomatist accredited to the French Republic. The career of

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