Note 52 — Chapter XI · 1833–1836.

Mr. Ticknor, writing from Paris, February, 1836, said: “One thing, however, has done us much honor. General Jackson’s message, as far as France is concerned,—for they know nothing about the rest of it,—has been applauded to the skies. The day it arrived I happened to dine with the Russian minister here, in a party of about thirty persons, and I assure you it seemed to me as if nine-and-twenty of them came up to me with congratulations. I was really made to feel awkward at last; but this has been the tone all over the Continent, where they have been confoundedly afraid we might begin a war which would end no prophecy could tell where.” (Life, &c., of George Ticknor, I. 480.) Count Pozzo di Borgo’s company would not be likely to be composed of persons sympathizing with the French opposition.