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Letter from Lord Keith to the Hon. Arthur Paget (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary).

Source: Paget, Right Hon. Sir Augustus B. Paget, G.C.B. The Paget Papers, Diplomatic and other Correspondence of the Right Hon Sir A. Paget. G.C.B., 1794-1807, 2 Vols. Longmans, Green and Co. New York 1896. Vol 1. Pages 264-265.

From Lord Keith to the Hon. A. Paget.

Leghorn Road, August 6, 1800.

Dear Paget,—Jones first Aid de Camp to Melas came here this morning, He reports the Empire and Russia as friends again and that Prussia had made some strong remonstrance to france in Lucca which they Abandon the Rascals Levee the fourth contribution this day and tomorrow deliver it to the Austrians, in Piedmont they are equally rapacious and the wretched inhabitants are in Arms and having Killed the Garrison of Mondovi are in the place-the Duke of Aust tells me twenty Batts of french have re-crossed the Alps He conjectures in consequence of the Prussians advancing in conjunetion with Russians from Poland, Jones who is said to be a Spanish Jacobin call Malas, 90,000 Strong and giting stronger every day I am yours very faithfully, I wrote you Yesterday and sail in half an hour.

Keith.

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