[Footnote 1381: Arbuthnot to Howick, 15 Jan., 1807. F.O. Turkey, 55.
I saw Italinsky’s instructions. “The deposition of the Hospodars was the
chief ground of complaint, that the revocation of the act was the only
point which was immediately to be insisted upon and that this being
obtained all the other objects of discussion were to be referred to
subsequent negotiation. . . .” Arbuthnot to Howick, 25 March, 1807.
Italinsky who is here “fairly confesses that Russia wanted the
Principalities all along. . . .”]
[Footnote 1382: Memorandum from Budberg “vers la fin de 1806” [_sic_].
Sbornik, 82, pp. 488-91.
Budberg to Italinsky, Nov., 1806 (_sic_). _Mémoires of Hardenberg_, V,
pp. 412-17.