[867] Pitt and Leeds thought it a device to evade England’s offer of mediation (Leeds to Ewart, 25th June).
[868] “F. O.,” Prussia, 18. Ewart to Leeds, 11th June. He encloses a copy of the Prussian despatch of 5th May from Constantinople, sent by Knobelsdorff. (See also Hertzberg’s “Recueil,” iii, 76–8.)
[869] “F. O.,” Prussia, 18. Ewart to Leeds, 27th June.
[870] Ranke, “Fürstenbund,” ii, 376–85; Dembinski, 82–4, 314; “Bland Burges P.” 142–4.
[871] “F. O.,” Prussia, 18. Ewart to Leeds, 16th July. See too Vivenot, 5.
[872] For the protest of the Belgian Congress against the Reichenbach compromise, which dashed their hopes of independence, see Van der Spiegel, “Négociations ... des Pays Bas autrichiens,” 303–6.
[873] Ranke, “Fürstenbund,” ii, 387.
[874] On 7th September Bland Burges wrote to Lord Auckland that Russia had paid heavily for the Swedish peace (B.M. Add. MSS., 34433).
[875] “F. O.,” Sweden, 11. Liston to Leeds, 17th and 24th August, 3rd, 7th, and 10th September.
[876] Ibid. Liston to Leeds, 23rd November; Dembinski, i, 84.