Comparez rintroduction, chap. ii

2. Coxe, Memoirs of Walpoie, II, p. 85. Le 22 sopteinhi-e Stanhope écrivait déjà à Townshend : <c As to i'oreign aiïairs Ihe crédit of a treaty vvith France upon such advantageous terms, together with the immédiate good elïects il will produce at home will enable his Majesty to make that figure on the continent, which the kings of England ought always to do, by securing to him the balance and arbitralion of the affairs of Europe. » ilbid., p. 83.)