GEORGE, EARL MACARTNEY: diplomatic instructions, papers and letters sent to Macartney by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Grenville, and Under Secretaries, George Canning and George Aust, mostly relating to his secret mission to Louis XVIII in exile in Ve... 1795-1796
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Aust, George.
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