[839] “F. O.,” Prussia, 16. Ewart to Leeds, 28th November and 8th December 1789.
[840] “Leeds Memoranda,” 147.
[841] “F. O.,” Prussia, 16. Leeds to Ewart, 13th December 1789.
[842] “F. O.,” Prussia, 17. Ewart to Leeds, 18th February 1790. I can find neither in our archives nor in the Pitt MSS. any confirmation of the statement of Father Delplace (“Joseph II et la Rév. Brabançonne,” 148) that Pitt suggested to the “ambassador” of the Belgian Estates their election of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and that the ambassador demurred, because he was a Protestant. Pitt never recognized any Belgian envoy as having official powers, and took no step that implied Belgian independence.
[843] “F. O.,” Prussia, 17.
[844] “F. O.,” Prussia, 17. Ewart to Leeds, 22nd February 1790.
[845] Lord Acton, “Lects. on Mod. Hist.,” 304.
[846] Keith’s “Mems.,” ii, 257.
[847] On 19th March Fitzgerald reported to Leeds (“F. O.,” France, 34): “M. Van der Noote has made a second application to His Most Christian Majesty and the National Assembly, which has met with a similar reception with [sic] the former, the letters having been returned unopened.” Lafayette moved an amendment, but it was shelved.
[848] “F. O.,” Prussia, 17. Leeds to Ewart, 26th February. Several sentences of the draft of this despatch are in Pitt’s writing.