Journal de Malmesbury

July 12, i8o3.

Dined witb lord Pelham.... After dinner a long conversation. . . . Explained to me that he had taken great pains to impress the cabinet with the necessity of attending to the continent and interior of France by subsidy ; and that having engaged Addington to go certain lengths, viz. to grant £2,000,000 before the next meeting of Parliament, his wish was to find a fit person to exécute their plans, and that he, and most of his colleagues had thought of me.

Pelham then entered into détails ; said Monsieur had proposed to him, after having proposed it to Addington and lord Hawkesbury from whom he got no answers, to collect an army in France to restore the ancient monarchy, if he would allow him £400>000; tnat Addington rejected this as impossible, and talked of £ 5o,ooo ; but