Note 185 — BOOK THE THIRD 1812-1815

[Lord Holland gives the same account of these intrigues in his Foreign Reminiscences, p. 297. He there relates that the kind of token sent to Metternich is uncertain. It was either the ring, a few words in the Duc de Dalberg’s handwriting enclosed in a button, or a note in Lord Castlereagh’s writing to the Princesse de Vaudemont, as a proof of his being confidentially connected with Talleyrand. This latter story was told him by Lord Goderich in 1833.]