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I had gained more acquaintance in, and knowledge of, Russia in one month, than others, wanting my means, have done in twelve. As I was one day relating my progress to Lord Hyndford, he, like a friend, grown grey in courts, kindly took the trouble to advise me.
Europe after Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle A vast gambling establishment- -Charles excluded Possible chance in Poland Supposed to have gone thither 'Henry Goring's letter' Romantic adventures attributed to Charles Obvious blunders Talk of a marriage Count Bruhl's opinion- -Proposal to kidnap Charles To rob a priest The King of Poland's ideas Lord Hyndford on Frederick the Great Lord Hyndford's mare's nest Charles at Berlin 'Send him to Siberia' The theory contradicted Mischievous glee of Frederick Charles discountenances plots to kill Cumberland Father Myles Macdonnell to James London conspiracy Reported from Rome The Bloody Butcher Club Guesses of Sir Horace Mann Charles and a strike Charles reported to be very ill Really on the point of visiting England September 1750.
A conspicuous, more or less ridiculous person of those times. They met, one day on the road, a Lord Hyndford, English Ambassador just returning from Petersburg, with his fourgons and vehicles, and arrangements for sleep and victual, in an enviably luxurious condition, whom we shall meet, to our cost.
All my plans were now to be newly arranged. Lord Hyndford alone was in the secret, for I hid no secrets from him: he strengthened me in my first resolution, and owned that he himself, for such a mistress, might perhaps have been weak enough to have acted as I had done.
All ready there; salutations soon done; business set about, perfected: and Hyndford with pen and ink in his hand, he, by way of Protocol, or summary of what had been agreed on, on mutual word of honor, most brief but most clear on this occasion, writes a State Paper, which became rather famous afterwards. This is the Paper in condensed state; though clear, it is very dull!
HYNDFORD. "'Would your Majesty consent now to stand by his Excellency Gotter's original Offer at Vienna on your part? Agree, namely, in consideration of Lower Silesia and Breslau, to assist the Queen with all your troops for maintenance of Pragmatic Sanction, and to vote for the Grand-Duke as Kaiser? HYNDFORD. "'What was the sum of money then offered her Hungarian Majesty?
In a fortnight hence, Hyndford, who had followed to Berlin, got transient sight of the King one morning, hastening through some apartment or other: "'My Lord, said the King, 'the Court of Vienna has entirely divulged our secret.
She became a target for the land guns of the Turks at once and was sunk, only a few of her men, who were taken prisoners, escaping death. On the 19th of March, 1915, the British admiralty reported that the three British ships, Hyndford, Bluejacket, and Glenartney had been torpedoed in the "war zone" without warning, with the loss of only one man.
Hyndford took care she should see it, and, in conjunction with the chancellor, presented me to the sovereign. My reception was most gracious. She herself recommended me to the chancellor, and presented me with a gold-hilted sword, worth a thousand roubles. This raised me highly in the esteem of all the houses of the Bestuchef party.
They are dreadfully stiff reading, those Despatches of Hyndford: but they have particles of current news in them; interesting glimpses of that same young King; likewise of Hyndford, laid at his Majesty's feet, and begging for self and brothers any good benefice that may fall vacant.
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