| Content Description | States that he had been ordered home by the Foreign Office as a consequence of the King of Saxony's visit to Vienna; comments on his visit to Vienna, which had made him ill and describes his journey to England via Munich and Paris; had met Beust who was visiting the Emperor Napoleon to find out if he was a friend or enemy of Franz Joseph; Beust had told him that Prussia and Austria would not cease military operations until Austria had secured Venetia and Prussia, an equal slice of Austrian territory; reports that Beust had asked him not to inform Cowley of his arrival in Paris and he had not done so as both Cowley and Julian Fane were out when he called; informs him that he found the new chief [Clarendon] at the Foreign Office more agreeable than he expected and that Hammond would provide further details.
Reports that Clarendon considered Beneditti's visit to the King of Prussia a good idea; mentions that he had seen Hammond who had said he could go to Dresden; states that the new instruction for ministers not to follow monarchs outside their realm did not work; informs him he had visited Lord Russell at Pembroke Lodge and found him in low spirits, Kette had also been present and they had discussed the Prussian desire to annexe Saxony, Hanover and the Elbe provinces; points out that the Austrian army may not be well organised but had proved difficult to defeat; the establishment of a liberal protestant power [Prussia] was popular in England; mentions that he had seen Lord Clarendon who was preoccupied with the affairs of Germany; sends regards to Lady Buchanan and informs him that Col. Blane is to be the new military attaché in St Petersburg. |