Note 2 — Chapter IX
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Metternich’s paper was a suggestion which he put into the mouth of the French Minister, and which he gave Leopold, who sent it here. He said, ‘If I were the French Minister, I would say so and so,’ to the effect that if the means of coercion did not prove efficacious, the Allies had better consider the matter afresh in conjunction with France, who would assist in settling it.