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All this is most encouraging, and I trust our people will not be much longer content with receiving the reports and smiling their approbation.

The French, they write from Spain, are assembling in large force near Valladolid. Soult was going off as fast as possible with five hundred cavalry and from four to five thousand infantry.

5th.-A pencil note from Sir Charles; 'tis just eight o'clock. He is at breakfast; hopes I am also, and that we shall meet directly after. Possibly, if not probably, we may now be off at a tangent.

Mr. F. J. Jackson to George Jackson.

Brighton, April 5th, 1813.

I give some latitude to the information I have had, from pretty good authority, of your speedy departure, yet shall hasten the preparation of the papers I propose to send you, as I shall not be sorry that you should be in possession of them a day or two before you sail. I and my secretary-Elizabeth-will therefore work hard to send them this evening under cover to Cooke. Of course it will be as well not to open the packet in his room. I believe they will all have to rely upon you for essentials.

Fitzclarence, I hear, does not go, because they think he would write everything to his father, who would publish it in Bond Street; but I should not be surprised if he were reserved for the royal party. For both the Duke of Cumberland and the Duke of Cambridge are to go to Hanover, I understand; the

former in a military, the latter in a civil capacity. If so, there must be question of sending there an army of some sort, and I should think that by very great exertions it might be possible to collect ten thousand men for that service-including guards, German Legion, artillery and cavalry. But I do not know that we are up to the effort which to get together even this small number would require.

If you have an opportunity, pray urge upon Sir Charles the necessity of forming an army an army of reservealmost as strong as the army that goes forward-to act in case of check or defeat in the first instance; also, that the countries where the allied armies subsist should give them gratis those supplies they would have been forced to give as contributions to the French army. Bernadotte ought to be by this time. in Pomerania, and I see clearly that much stress is laid upon his co-operation. If he should get the command of an efficient army and be disembarrassed of the Danes, his name and military talents would indeed tell for more than the number of men he would take into the field. The origin of the expedition of 1807 was, in my sense, that we should make Denmark everything or nothing; and now the time is come, if she be obstinate, to reduce her to zero.

6th. I had only just time to get the inclosed ready to send off as a parcel, per coach, to your hotel. On reflection, I have preferred this to sending to the Office. You will find allusions to many points of which I am persuaded Lord Castlereagh will say nothing. On the last point I am sure he will be

silent, whatever he may think; so you must take me for the only monitor you have. Valeat quantum valere potest.

I like very well Bonaparte's answer to the representative body. It shows or seems to show that he thinks of making no stand to the east of the Rhine. This is a fine wind for the transports. They sailed on the 3rd, I see, for Sweden, and I trust Bernadotte will very soon make use of them. By-the-bye, it looks as if Bonaparte were not quite sure that the King of Denmark would refuse this Norway scheme. I think he will, and I hardly see what indemnity we could in decency offer him. To give him any German town or province, would be in direct opposition to Mr. Fox's instructions to me on the subject of Anspach and Bareuth. By these several days of hard work with Sir Charles, I suppose you have now got into the pith of the business. It would not surprise me if, now, as in 1805, Russia had pledged us for more than we choose to perform.

If I thought it probable that you would be yet some days in town, I should be inclined to run up again, as this is an interesting moment to be near the centre of affairs.

Extracts from Mr. F. J. Jackson's Notes and Memoranda for his Brother's use in Germany.

You know also, how sincerely attached I have ever been to Baron Hardenberg; I will therefore only mention here, that I shall enclose a letter for him, and that you may assure him that

I have never ceased under all circumstances to do full justice to the loyauté and sterling worth of his real sentiments.

You will remember Helbig, and if any circumstances should bring you within reach of Gentz you should certainly keep up a communication with him, though with more caution even than formerly. Because, in addition to his vanity-which might then have led him to disclose your secrets, if entrusted with them, to other persons-there is now the circumstance of his connection with Metternich, whose agent he is supposed to be, and with the French Government, who most likely on their own terms only have forborne to persecute him. Nevertheless, I cannot help thinking that Gentz, in the main, is sound at bottom and that he would rather serve our cause than that of the French; in which case, he is by far the ablest man I ever met with in Germany-infinitely superior to Pozzo de Borgo and the other agents who have at different times been employed by us and Russia. His views, are practical, and theirs, for the most part, though otherwise good, are only theoretical.

However, you must be cautious not to enter into any positive engagements with him without sufficient authority; for he is needy, fond of his pleasures, and would entertain great pecuniary expectations. But bearing in mind these antécédentes, it would not be difficult to turn to a very good account a renewed communication with him. If you see him, make my kind remembrances to him, and say that I set a great

value upon his correspondence and upon his account of the Prussian campaign of 1806, and that I shall be very glad at all times to hear from him.

I would by all means advise you to be upon your guard against the swarm of French agents who, under different disguises, will assail you for the pretended purpose of giving information, but in reality for that of obtaining it, and of betraying you. The establishment of a French police at Berlin and its environs must have multiplied this race; though, perhaps, the suspicions to which, from that circumstance, they will be exposed will make it necessary for them to use more specious pretences. I should extend my precautions to the answering in very few instances, in writing, applications of this sort; and I should be particularly careful how and where I deposited papers that I did not wish the enemy to obtain possession of. As long as he has a garrison on the Elbe, there will be a receptacle for stolen papers, and even for stolen persons, if the latter should be thought likely to be valuable. I should also communicate with great caution with those agents who have been heretofore avowedly employed by England-as Mills, Ompteda, King, Horn, &c. The plan has hitherto been to get all out of them, and they may be useful to tell you what has passed, but they have very rarely learned what our plans were, and they will now only know them by second hand, and after some interval of time. I would, however, advise your keeping on good and confidential footing with the Hanoverian ministers or officers that may come in

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