| Content Description | Reports on letter from Paget following an interview with Lord Russell and Lord Palmerston; he reports that the Germans would only be allowed to 'go so far', but wondered how far that would be; mentions the idea of personal union [for Schleswig-Holstein] and claims that Augustenburg would be favourite; if the duchies could choose between union with Denmark or Prussia, they would choose the former; Hamburg, as a free town, would not like to be caught up in conflict between Denmark and Prussia; France had agreed to support England at a conference as a result of Lord Clarendon's mission; encloses a remedy for rheumatic gout which he acquired in Venice. |