egotiation are
coming in from all quarters. I believe Lord Beauchamp will be
closed with, being only for a Marquisate for Lord Hertford, and
the sole question now being the time of doing it. Upon the
whole, I am far from thinking that we end the session at all
weaker than we began it, notwithstanding some untoward
circumstances which occurred. Our foreign politics are going on,
in my apprehension, as successfully as possible. The French were
beginning to cabal against us at Berlin, but the signature of
the Treaty has completely overthrown them there. They were at
the same time giving themselves some airs of importance at the
Hague. They presented a memorial, complaining in strong terms of
the 6th Article of our Treaty, which is unquestionably as
offensive to them as it could be. This has not yet been
answered, but it will be, and in terms at least as strong as
those in which it is couched. Their Ambassador, M. de St.
Priest, appears to have had orders to behave in the most
offensive manner possible. By great good luck in the first
squabble that has occurred in consequence of this, between one
of his servants and the mob of the Hague, his man has put
himself completely in the wrong; so that when he presented a
memorial complaining of the insult offered to a person in his
service, he received for answer a letter enclosing copies of the
examinations taken before the Court of Justice, and trusting
that as those papers evidently proved the violation of their
territory by a person in his service, he would not fail to
support the complaint which the States-General _had already_
directed their Minister at Paris to make on this subject. I
mention all this, not so much for the importance of the thing
itself, which will end in a paper war, as for the sake of
showing you how much the temper of our friends must be altered,
from the time when no persuasion of ours could induce them to
act with the smallest degree of vigour or firmness.

I have not seen any account from France since I last wrote to
you, but there is a report that Calonne has had an account of
further violences at Grenoble. There is no further news of the
Imperialists. Fitzherbert seems to expect more from the Russians
than I see any reason for. He is, however, unquestionably much
better informed on that subject than