[572] “The prevailing opinion of this Court is the Emperor will ... sacrifice his alliance with Russia to that of 1756 [with France]” (Ewart to Keith, 11th September 1787. B.M. Add. MSS., 35539).
[573] Wittichen, 92–4; also ibid., 97, for the Anglo-Prussian Convention of 2nd October.
[574] “Auckland Journals,” i, 192.
[575] Ibid., 195.
[576] “F. O.,” France, 26. Eden to Carmarthen, 11th and 13th September.
[577] The original, in Pitt’s handwriting, is in “F. O.,” Russia, 15, dated 21st September, and inscribed “To all the King’s Ministers abroad except Paris and The Hague.”
[578] “Dropmore P.,” iii, 426–36; E. D. Adams, op. cit., 6, 7; “Buckingham P.,” i, 326–31.
[579] Ibid. Eden to Carmarthen, 20th September.
[580] “Dropmore P.,” iii, 435; “Méms. de Dedem de Gelder,” 7.
[581] Ibid., iii, 435.