"The Republic of the Seven Islands will be recognized.
"All the ports of the Adriatic and Mediterranean occupied by French troops will be restored to the King of Naples and to the Pope.
"Mahon will be restored to Spain.
"Malta will be restored to the Order; and if the King of England should consider it conformable to his interests as a preponderating naval power to destroy the fortifications, that clause will be admitted.
"In India, England will keep Ceylon, and so become unassailable mistress of those immense and wealthy countries.
"The other establishments will be restored to the allies, including the
Cape of Good Hope.
"In America, all will be restored to the former possessors. The King of England is already so powerful in that part of the world that to wish for more is, being absolute master of India, to wish to be so of America also.
"Portugal will be preserved in all its integrity.
"Such are the conditions which the French Government is ready to sign.
"The advantages which the British Government thus derive are immense: to claim greater ones is not to wish a peace which is just and reciprocally honorable.