COLLECTION OF STATE PAPERS, RELATIVE TO THE WAR against FRANCE Now carrying on by GREAT BRITAIN and the Printed by S. GOSNELL, Little Queen Street, Holborn, For J. DEBRETT, oppofite Burlington House, Piccadilly. MDCCCI. PREFACE. THIS Volume, the Tenth of the Collection of State Papers, brings them down to the close of the century. Among the articles of the greatest moment in the contents is the Correfpondence, as well French as English, between Lord Grenville and M. Otto relative to the Negotiation with France. The rights of neutral flags, claimed by the northern powers of Europe, in oppofition to the principles maintained by the British government, being also a subject of great interest, all the papers respecting this difpute, and the captures in which it immediately originated, have been carefully collected, and will be found in the present Volume. The Work was ready for publication before the Armistice of Steyer, and fome other important articles, were received. In their insertion, therefore, it became impoffible to place them in their respective claffes; but, as the Index is very copious, no inconvenience can arife from this departure from the order generally obferved in this compilation. January 19, 1801. A 2 |