I Love You Madly by Farr Evelyn

Author:Farr, Evelyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Published: 2016-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

‘The Empress of Russia has written to the King of Prussia to invite him in a most urgent manner to take part with her in vigorous measures to render unto the King of France his liberty and the prerogatives of his throne. His Prussian Majesty replied that he was ready and that he persisted in the sentiments he declared at Pillnitz provided that all the other powers, but, above all, the Emperor, desired to cooperate to the same end. A message has also been sent to the French princes that one will be guided here strictly by what is done by the court of Vienna, and that if it remains inactive the King of Prussia will do nothing on his own. You see, Monsieur le Comte, that everything depends on the final resolutions adopted by the Emperor. A letter supposedly written by the Queen of France to her brother has been seen here, in which this princess begs him to desist from any enterprise in her favour; one is not certain as to the extent of the Queen’s liberty in writing this letter. Prince Hohenlohe’s corps is still on a war footing. It comprises ten infantry battalions and some cavalry regiments.’

By this fragment of a dispatch you can see Prussia’s dispositions and judge those of the Emperor, and you will feel an even greater necessity to write to the King of Prussia.

Here’s a dispatch from M. de L Vauguyon to the baron from 10 October. He writes that M. de Florida Blanca, after having said that the King of Spain would join the Emperor’s proposed declaration, added that he foresaw that the King would end up by accepting the constitution and would do it in such haste that it would render the declarations agreed between the different courts too late. He proposed an addition, in the event that the King sanctioned or approved the constitution, that the powers should declare they would not recognize it before this sanction had been renewed by the King in a place where he was perfectly free; and at the same time he sent a plan of operations (it is the one which was communicated to you in the Spanish dispatches of the 13th and 20th). These proposals were sent to the Emperor by special courier at the end of August, and the reply must come at any moment. He writes that M. de Florida Blanca declared to the French chargé d’affaires, in the name of the King his master, that His Catholic Majesty did not believe that the letter addressed to him was written by the King and that as long as he was of that opinion he would not reply to it; that this response was communicated to the ambassadors of the other courts (and it is the Swedish Ambassador who sends it to me). M. de La Vauguyon finishes: ‘In addition, as this minister (M. de Florida Blanca) only desires at heart the restoration of France and the re-establishment of the personal

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