Das „Chalet des Mélèzes“ in den französischen Alpen am Fuße des Mont Blanc (Region Haute Savoie), 1865 von David Urquhart als Sommerhaus erbaut.
Schließen [Le c]halet des ...
21st July

You should suggest to Mr

to write to Paris, about the Right of Search. I write a few lines to M. Le Play. But Russia will take care not to drive France to think of this—a good slap at Prussia and then her intervention to mediate and make peace and institute her Protectorate in Europe is all I look to as, for the moment, her design.—Besides getting into an easy way of assimilating wars and reviews—what is postponed is not lost.—She will move each power turn and turn about, but not so as destroy their cohesion, wanted as they are as customers and for the destruction of Turkey.

| I have just concluded an exposition of the case for Rome.

 Anspielung auf die spanische Thronfolge 1868–1870 und den Zusammenhang mit dem Konflikt zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich.
Schließen The point of my prediction of June 1869 is not in the mention of Prince Hohenzollern, but in saying that his nomination would involve war.—At that time no such consequence would have followed that had to be prepared for, before his nomination—prepared for, I mean not in spain but in Paris—France had supported the Hohenzollern on the Danube.