What a Minister ought to do upon his Arrival in a Foreign Court (1738) [ Practices ]
… and Familiarity to a certain Degree. Seeing there is no Prince but who has some Confident or other to whom he imparts with more than usual Freedom his most important Affairs; it is therefore highly necessary, that the Minister should … Men, who seize upon the principal Authority of the Commonwealth, and who sacrifice the Publick Interests to their own particular Views, and to the Advantages which they reap from thence. … "When a Minister is arrived in the Country to … he ought to procure, as soon as is possible, a private Audience of the Prince..." … Court … François de Callières, The art of negotiating with sovereign princes. of the usefulness of negotiations; of the choice of ambassadors and envoys; …
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