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Seine, water-parties on the; frozen over. Seven Years' War, the. Severity of the winter of 1788-'89 much felt in France. Seville, the Barber of, the play of. Séze, M. de. Sieyès, Abbé. Simolin, M. Simon M., and the young king. Sir Edward Hughes. Sledging-parties. Small-pox caught by Louis XV.; caught by Madame Adelaide.
Yet, though his great confidant and panegyrist, M. Dumont, has devoted an elaborate argument to prove that he had not overestimated his power to influence the future; and though the Russian embassador, M. Simolin, a diplomatist of extreme acuteness, seems to imply the same opinion by his pithy saying that "he ought to have lived two years longer, or died two years earlier," we can hardly agree with them.
Kaunitz, having despatched his ultimatum on the international grounds of quarrel, declined to interfere in internal affairs. But Simolin saw Leopold on the 25th, and then the emperor admitted what his chancellor denied, that the cause was the common cause of all crowned heads. With those significant words he quits the stage. Five days later he was dead.
On Jones's return to Paris from America, previous to his Copenhagen trip, the Russian ambassador to France, Baron Simolin, had made, through Mr. Jefferson, a proposition looking to the appointment of the conqueror of the Serapis to a position in the navy of Russia, then about to war with the Turks.
Simolin wrote Catherine II. of Russia that, "with the chief command of the fleet and carte blanche he would undertake that in a year Paul Jones would make Constantinople tremble." This exciting possibility was no doubt constantly in Jones's mind while he was at Copenhagen, and probably increased his willingness to dismiss the indemnity negotiations.
Meantime Simolin, the Russian minister who had been helpful in procuring the fatal passport, arrived at Vienna with a last appeal from the queen. At that time she did not feel that their lives were in jeopardy, but their power. To the faithful Fersen she wrote that she hoped the enemy would strike home, so that the French, in their terror, might pray the king to intercede.
Date February 18th, 1791, Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 465. "Mirabeau et La Marck," ii., p., 216 date February 3d, 1791. Feuillet de Conches, ii., p. 14, date March 7th. Arneth, p. 146, letter of the queen to Leopold, February 27th, 1791. Feuillet de Conches, ii., p. 20, date March 20th, 1791. Letter of M. Simolin, the Russian embassador, April 4th, 1791, Feuillet de Conches, ii., p. 31.
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