[602] “F. O.,” Prussia, 13. Carmarthen to Ewart, 14th May 1788.
[603] Ibid. Ewart to Carmarthen, 27th and 31st May 1788; Wittichen, ch. xx.
[604] B.M. Add. MSS., 28063.
[605] “Malmesbury Diaries,” ii, 421.
[606] The secret articles are in Ranke’s “Fürstenbund,” ii, 358; for the published treaties of 13th June and 13th August see Martens, iv, 382–5, 390–3; for the negotiations, Luckwaldt, 114–16, Salomon, “Pitt,” 344–51. The accounts of these important events given by Tomline, Stanhope, and Lecky are brief and unsatisfactory.
[607] So Wittichen, 148.
[608] “Records of Stirring Times,” 58, by the authoress of “Old Days in Diplomacy.”
[609] Certain letters of the Earl of Liverpool recently sold in London show that there was an open breach between King and Queen in 1804, and that Pitt helped to patch it up.
[610] Huish, “Mems. of George IV,” i, 60–2.
[611] H. Walpole’s “Last Journals,” ii, 480–1.