| Content Description | Congratulates him on his return to Berlin; is due to leave St Petersburg, but may defer it till the spring; has got permission to take a residence at the expense of the embassy; has taken the former Austrian Embassy for the purpose; describes the interior; Gorchakov's despatches have been calmly received; the Emperor is continuing his programme of internal reform; freedom is restricted in Finland, and more so in Poland; Stanton had told him that the insurrection was in decline; his eldest son is to go to Darmstadt to learn German; describes his son as 'a big lad with as much knowledge as can be got off the football and cricket ground of Harrow'. |