[974] “F. O.,” Poland, 5. Hailes’s despatches of January 1791.
[975] “F. O.,” Poland, 4. Hailes to Leeds, 1st and 11th December 1790.
[976] Dembinski, i, 103, 104. Alopeus to Ostermann, 6th December 1790 (N.S.). The British archives show that Hertzberg continued to smile on our efforts to coerce Russia, and encouraged the Turks to do their utmost against her. Jackson to Leeds, 4th January 1791 (“F. O.,” Prussia, 20).
[977] Dembinski, i, 108–10. Ostermann to Alopeus, 1st January 1791 (N.S.).
[978] “F. O.,” Russia, 20. Whitworth to Leeds, 8th January 1790.
[979] Pitt MSS., 332. Ewart to Pitt, 16th November 1790.
[980] “F. O.,” Poland, 5. Leeds to Hailes, 8th January 1791. This evidence and the facts stated later on, in my judgement refute the statement of Lecky (v, 287) that the political security of Poland did not enter into the motives of Pitt’s policy.
[981] “F. O.,” Prussia, 20. Leeds to Jackson, 8th January 1791.
[982] Ibid. Jackson’s despatches of 23rd January, 12th, 17th, 26th February, 1st March; “F. O.,” Russia, 20. Whitworth’s despatches of 14th, 18th, 25th January (on the “defection” of Spain from Russia); “F. O.,” Sweden, 20, Liston to Leeds, 17th February. For the fears of Marie Antoinette and the French Court that British armaments were aimed at France, see Sorel, ii, 181, 182.
[983] Vivenot, op. cit., 78, 79.