This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... as suspicious and unpleasant. Hence it was easily to be conceived that the friends of Russia declared all over Europe that my uncle, quite in contrast to my own political opinions, was at bottom a thorough Russophile, and at any rate a true friend of peace. Princess Lieven, the most famous of the agents in Russia's employ, was especially indefatigable in persuading her correspondents, both in England and in Paris, that my uncle was far from agreeing with his politizing nephew. Of my brother, too, the same people asserted that the Russian Emperor possessed numerous letters from him, which clearly showed his leaning towards the cause of Russia.--Albert remarked to me on this score: 'My correspondence with the Emperor Nicholas has been confined to announcements of the births of my children; it may therefore be presumed to be as uninteresting as it is harmless.' All these intrigues, however, proved, what importance the Russians attached to the relations into which I had entered with the Emperor of the French. My brother was also satisfied with my visit to Paris, and wrote me, on the 22nd of March, the following gratifying letter: 'I postponed answering your hasty lines from Brussels, until I had read the memorandum which you handed to Uncle Leopold for transmission to us. It reached me only yesterday, and I hasten to express my pleasure at the way in which you have treated the various questions with the Emperor, and at the clearness with which your apergu of these interesting conversations is written. I agree with every word you have said to him, and I find in his answers just the ideas and the spirit which we have hitherto had reason to attribute to him. For Germany--if she desired, or were able, to do her duty--there could be no happier combination, in this...
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