[819] The rebuke may have been due to Elliot’s silence; for in a P.S. to a letter of 16th October to Ewart, Elliot said: “Write everything about me to London; I have never written myself, having acted hitherto without instructions” (“F. O.,” Prussia, 14). As we have seen, he had acted largely on the advice of Ewart; and Liston, on finding this out, suggested to Carmarthen the need of cautioning Ewart not to go too fast (Luckwaldt, op. cit., 238).
[820] “F. O.,” Denmark, 10. Despatches of 30th November, 5th and 27th December. On 10th April 1789 Carmarthen assured Elliot of the desire of H.M. for a Danish alliance. He also commended him less coldly than before (“F. O.,” Denmark, 11).
[821] “F. O.,” Sweden, 7. Keene to Carmarthen, 30th December, 1788.
[822] “F. O.,” Denmark, 11. Elliot to the Duke of Leeds, 30th May 1789.
[823] “F. O.,” Denmark, 11. Leeds to Elliot, 24th June.
[824] Ibid., Leeds to Elliot, 21st August 1789.
[825] “Vorontzoff Archives,” xvi, 258–67.
[826] “F. O.,” Prussia, 15. Ewart to Carmarthen, 17th January 1789.
[827] On 22nd May Ainslie reported the slothful preparations for war. He had stated earlier that Russian money was at work at Constantinople to bring about a mediation by the Bourbon Courts in favour of peace (“F. O.,” Turkey, 10).
[828] See Häusser, i, 225–37, for its earlier developments; also for the more warlike plans at Berlin of a general alliance with Poland, England, Sweden, and Denmark for the humbling of Russia and Austria.