The Paget Papers.

Letter from Mr T Jackson to the Hon. Arthur Paget (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the two Sicilies).

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.  Page 308.

From Lord Minto to the Hon. A. Paget.

Vienna, 7th Feb. 1801.

My Dear Sir,—His Majesty has declared war* against Russia. I am not yet acquainted mith the Declaration of war agt Denmark and Sweden, but orders are issued to stop at sea and detain the vessels of those nations.
Prussia has not yet taken a part in the war, but that event is also to be apprehended. The Empr. of Russia has sent Mr. de Kalitcheff to Paris as Ambassador to the French Republick.
The squadron which got out of Brest on the 9th Jany was driven in to La Vilaine by Sir Edward Pellew. The Austrian Peace is expected immediately, on very mortifying and afllicting terms. The French have positively refused to include Naples in the Austrian peace, or Armistice, but professed a disposition to return to a good understanding with that court, on account of the powers which interest themselves in her favour, and particularly Russia. Mr. de Gallo's passport had been ask'd for, but the answer was not yet recd from Paris. . . . . Believe me ever, &c.

Minto.

* This war againat the "Baltic Powers " arose out of the claims made by the "Armed Neutrality."

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