Transcriber’s Note

A number of probable printers’ errors were identified and corrected during the preparation of this e-text:

[Page 8], “oppor-” changed to “opportunity” (an early opportunity of)
[Page 13], “dons” changed to “dans” (alleguez dans votre derniere lettre)
[Page 22], “tremble mentque” changed to “tremblement que” (plus terrible tremblement que ce soldat)
[Page 31], “conjuction” changed to “conjunction” (his Court, in conjunction with your’s)
[Page 32], “pui” changed to “qui” (activite d’esprit qui donne les succes)
[Page 37], “n’enoblit” changed to “n’ennoblit” (la truye n’ennoblit pas le cochon)
[Page 37], “burreau” changed to “bourreau” (is with you a bourreau)
[Page 42], “dress” changed to “address” (tendency of the address)
[Page 42], “gentlemen” changed to “gentleman” (can bind a French gentleman)
[Page 43], “absosolutely” changed to “absolutely” (at last, absolutely refused)
[Page 50], “conjuction” changed to “conjunction” (in conjunction with the Court of France)
[Page 52], duplicated word “an” removed (till an event turned up)
[Page 53], “negocitien” changed to “negociation” (no trouble in the negociation)
[Page 53], duplicated word “and” removed (and the Duc de Choiseul)
[Page 56], “preremptory” changed to “peremptory” (in a high and peremptory tone)
[Page 56], “Tho” changed to “The” (The originals of all these important letters)
[Page 57], “negociaaion” changed to “negociation” (particulars of this extraordinary negociation)

Punctuation errors were amended without note.