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They were supposed to meet the French Foreign Minister,Charles Maurice de Telleyrand, instead he sent three agents Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy and Lucien Hauteval to negotiate a bribe of 50,000 pounds and a loan to the French government before negotiations could begin.
proposed an imperial union with Britain. Under this program, all acts of Parliament would have to be approved by an American assembly to take effect.