We have discussed this remarkable correspondence elsewhere, but may here
remark that a son of Count Arnim's complains that the allusion to England should have been made with- out explanation as to the quarter from which the expres- sion of dislike proceeded. No explanation was necessary, of course, to the Emperor, who must have known the facts but it ought to have been added when the reports were sent to press. It is now doubtful whether the remonstrance proceeded from the English Court—which is niost improbable, Lord Gran- ville not being accustomed to such strong criticisms of foreign statesmen—or from the German Embassy. The accusation as it stands is most unfair to the Count, who is accused by persons not specified of being liable to ne distrusted by other persons not named. The reference may have been necessary in a confidential document addressed to a personage who knew all names, but its publication without a note is unjustifiable, and a most dangerous blow to the frankness of the German Diplomatists, who now never know what confidential and necessary criticism may be divulged.
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