The Paget Papers.

Letter from the Mr. Merry (Acting Minister in Paris) to the Hon. Arthur Paget (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Austria).

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 2.  Page 50.


From Mr. Merry* to the Hon. A. Paget.

Paris, April 26th, 1802.

I completed the Exchange of the Ratifications of the Amiens Treaty† with France, Spain, and Holland, four days ago. From the Manner in which the Austrian and Russian‡ Ministers now express themselves on the subjects of the Arrangement we have made for Malta, I must conclude that it has not been agreeable to their respective Governments. That Island, notwithstanding that we took Four Months at Amiens to dispose of it in a secure Manner, and were nearly continuing the War on account of it, will, I am afraid, still give us a great deal of trouble. Here there is just now, nothing new beyond what you will read in the Papers of the re-establishment of the Church. But at the Thuilleries there is something new on every Audience Day to make it reach the regular System of a Court, and their Approaches are carried on with perfect Quietness on the Part of the Spectators.

* Succeeded Mr. Jackson as temporary Acting Minister in Paris.
† Signed on March 27.
‡ Russia complained that her protectorate over Malta and the conditions she demanded had Leen wholly ignored in the Treaty. She objected to rank merely as one of the six guaranteeing Powers.


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