tanley-and-Pitt Correspondence: Stanley went "23d May;" returned
(got his passports for returning) "September 20th."] Choiseul frankly
admits that he has come to the worst: ready for concessions, but the
question is, What? Canada is gone, for instance; of Canada you
will allow us nothing: but our poor Fisher-people, toiling in the
Newfoundland waters, cannot they have a rock to dry their fish on; "Isle
of Miquelon, or the like?" "Not the breadth of a blanket,"--that is
Pitt's private expression, I believe; and for certain, that, in polite
official language, is his inexorable determination. "You shall go home
out of those Countries, Messieurs; America is to be English or YANkee,
not FRANGcee: that has turned out to be the Decree of Heaven; and we
will stand by that."

So that Choiseul soon satisfies himself it will be a hard bargain, this
with Pitt; and turns the more assiduously to the Majesty of Spain (Baby
Carlos, our old friend, who has sore grudges of his own against the
English, standing grievance of Campeachy Logwood, of bitter Naples
reminiscences, and enough else), turns to Baby Carlos, time after
time, with his pathetic "See, your Most Catholic Majesty!" And by rapid
degrees induces Most Catholic Majesty to go wholly into the adventure
with Most Christian Ditto;--and to say, at length, or to let Choiseul
say for him, by way of cautious first-step (15th July, a date worth
remembering, if the reader please): "Might not Most Catholic Majesty be
allowed perhaps to mediate a little in this Business?" "Most Catholic
Majesty!" answers Pitt, with a flash as if from the empyrean: "Who
sent for Most Catholic Majesty?"--and the matter catches fire, totally
explodes, and Spain too declares War; in what way is generally known.

Details are not permitted us. The Catastrophe we shall give afterwards,
and can here say only: FIRST, That old Earl Marischal, Friedrich's
Spanish Envoy, is a good deal in England, coming and going, at this
time,--on that interesting business of the Kintore Inheritance,
doubtless,--and has been beautifully treated. Been pardoned,
disattainted, permitted to inherit,--by the King on the instant, by the
Parliament so soon as possible; [King's Patent is of "30th April, 1760
[DATED 29th May, 1759], Act of Parliament to follow shortly;" "August
16th, 1760, Act having passed, is Marischal's public Presentation to
his Majesty (late Majesty);" Old GAZETTES in _Gentleman's Magazine_ (for
1760), xxx. 201, 392.