After some few remarks upon the reciprocal advantages which must ever ensue from the most close and friendly connection between Russia and England, the Count entered upon the subject of the Emperor's situation in respect to France; he said he was convinced the two Courts of Versailles and Vienna, however friendly to outward appearance, entertained the strongest jealousy of each other. That the Emperor flatterd himself with ultimately overreaching France, in which he (the Count) lamented the certainty of his being mistaken, and ultimately proving the Dupe of that opinion. That France was making every preparation for a Land War, and according to his sincere and firm persuasion would infallibly in the course of another twelvemonth throw off the masque and fall upon the Emperor. He then showed me a letter from Count Romanzov, containing a piece of intelligence which he said gave him the utmost concern, viz., a Report of the Court of Hanover having entered into a Treaty with Prussia to oppose the Emperor's views upon Bavaria, and that the Hanoverian Troops were actually in march. A step of this nature he observed would unavoidably throw the Emperor into the arms of France, and would be directly accomplishing the joint views of France and Prussia, in effectually preventing any probability of a friendly understanding between Austria and England.