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Conversation with the Duke of Orleans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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The Duke of Leeds begs leave to inform your Majesty that the Duke of Orleans came to him this morning.

The Duke of Orleans began the Conversation with a Eepetition of the French King's wishes, "to continue and even to improve the system of Friendship and good understanding which so happily subsisted at present between the two Kingdoms of Great Britain and France, that it never could be the Interest of them to quarrel, and that by coming to a fixed and determined system, not only of Peace but of intimate and substantial Union and Friendship, the two Kingdoms would not alone derive advantage, but all Europe must gain by such a Connection as it would be in the Power of the two Crowns to maintain the general tranquillity."

Type
Political Memorandums
Information
Camden New Series , Volume 35: The Political Memoranda of Francis Fifth Duke of Leeds , January 1884 , pp. 145 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1884

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References

page 145 note 1 The Duke of Orleans left Paris for England at 3 o'clock p.m. on October 14. When he asked for his passports Count Montmorin wrote to say that the King had given him a commission of the highest importance. Huber writes to Lord Auckland (Auckland Correspondence, ii. 364) that in reality he had been driven away by Lafayette for plotting against the King. The Duke of Leeds had succeeded his father on March 23, 1789.