At the Cabinet room. Saw Lord Rosslyn there, as I used to be last year, désoeuvré and bored, as all Privy Seals will be. He seemed dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Ireland and in England. At Manchester there is a fear of a turn-out of some more cotton-spinners. Every thing depends upon the harvest.
The negotiations with the Turks came to nothing. The Grand Vizier's answer to Diebitch is excellent.
The sickness amongst the Russian troops continues, and Diebitch has not more than 40,000 men, even with Roth's corps.
The Ambassadors have been very well received at Constantinople. All are in good humour there, notwithstanding the losses near Shumla.
The Emperor does not go to the army.
Lord Heytesbury represents Russia as being the least formidable of the great Powers for the purpose of offensive operations, and seems to think she contains many elements of convulsion.
Metternich is trying to cajole the Russians by pretended fears of revolutionary principles.
They talk of a King in Columbia, and the French are intriguing to place a
French prince on the throne, after Bolivar.
July 25, 1829.
Cabinet room. The Ambassadors seem to have been received most cordially at Constantinople. We know no more of the Grand Vizier's losses. That he experienced a complete defeat there can be no doubt.