A series of gilt-copper medals apparently struck…
October 1822 CE
The reply of Alexander, who expresses his surprise at the desire of France to keep the intervention wholly French, is to offer to march one hundred and fifty thousand Russians through Germany to Piedmont, where they could be held ready to act against any Jacobins, whether in Spain or France.
This solution appeals as little to Metternich and Montmorency as to Wellington; but though united in opposing it, four days of confidential communications reveal a fundamental difference of opinion.
Wellington, firmly based on the principle of non-intervention, refuses to have anything to do with the suggestion, made by Metternich, that the powers should address a common note to the Spanish government in support of the action of France.
Finally, Metternich proposes that the Allies should hold a common language, but in separate notes, though uniform in their principles and objects.
This solution is adopted by the continental powers; but Wellington, in accordance with his instructions not to countenance any intervention in Spanish affairs, will take no part in the conferences that follow.
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Alexander I of Russia
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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Ferdinand VII of Spain
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François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
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George Canning
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Karl August von Hardenberg
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Karl Nesselrode
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Klemens von Metternich
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Pope Pius VIII
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
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Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
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Prussia, Kingdom of
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Russian Empire
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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Austrian Empire
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Spain, Bourbon Kingdom (first restoration) of
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Holy Alliance
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Quintuple Alliance
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