HO EUROPEAN POLITICS. [1814. 



difficulties not being all on Canning's side. Sharp was 

 rather diverted with this, and with finding them all 

 planted at Bolton's and not at Lowther ; for when he 

 met them at Charles Ellis's some weeks before, they 

 gave out that their visit was to Lowther, and said 

 not a word of Bolton. It seems Huskisson is going 

 ultimately to Ireland, and Peel to be got rid of. 



" Pray, if you should ever hear of any family going 

 abroad, and wanting a physician, recommend a friend 

 of mine, who is just reduced from the staff, and a man 

 of great skill and worth, as well as a gentleman in all 

 respects, and extremely accomplished. 



" If you mean to buy ' Waverley' (which is Scott's), 

 you may keep my copy instead of bringing it to town, 

 as I find one here. Yours ever truly, H. B." 



Paris had been entered by an army commanded by 

 the leading European sovereigns, and composed of the 

 same Prussians, Bavarians, and Wurtembergers who, 

 having marched and fought under Napoleon to the 

 attack upon Moscow, had now, under Alexander, taken 

 part in a triumphal entry into Paris, accompanied by 

 Cossacks; thus verifying the strange prediction of 

 Eousseau, that "the time would come when Tartars 

 should encamp in that city." There had been nothing 

 like it since the irruption of Attila and his Huns. 



A sort of provisional treaty was hastily made at 

 Paris, but, to avoid squabbles and quarrels over the 

 division of the booty, the more important matters 

 were adjourned to a congress, held at Vienna, where 

 many momentous questions were to be decided, not 

 by an equal participation of all the European powers, 

 but rather under the direct dictation of those whose 



