Flassan, vi. 110. ‘Woronzoff and _D’Eon were the intermediaries in the correspondence between Louis XV. and Elizabeth_.’ The Marquis de l’Hôpital to the Duke de Choiseul, August 23, 1760. ‘The services of M. D’Eon in foreign affairs are well known. _He has not a little contributed to the renewing of the alliance with Russia._’ The Chevalier Douglas to M. Rouillé, St. Petersburg, 1756, ‘I am very greatly pleased at the arrival of M. D’Eon. _I have been long acquainted with his intelligence, his zeal, and attachment to his work._’ ‘Gazette d’Utrecht,’ No. xlii., 1757. ‘_M. D’Eon de Beaumont who has been at work under the Chevalier Douglas, Minister Plenipotentiary for France, during the whole time of his negotiations with this Court, &c._ The Empress’ gift of 500 ducats is the result of the esteem and good-will he has gained for himself at this Court during his stay.’ _St. Petersburg Correspondence._ The Duke de Nivernois to M. de Bertin, Controller-General of Finance, October 12, 1762. ‘_M. D’Eon has already been employed upon several occasions at the Court of Russia, under critical and most important circumstances._’ Royal warrant of August 25, 1775, granting permission to Mademoiselle D’Eon to wear the cross of St. Louis in female attire. ‘His Majesty desiring to mark by special favour his sense of the public and secret services, in war and in diplomacy, _which the said Mademoiselle D’Eon de Beaumont has had the good fortune to render during upwards of twenty years, consecutively, to the late King,’ &c._, see p. 254. I would add under this head, for what it is worth, that the anecdotes related by D’Eon concerning himself in Russia have been taken from a note-book, ‘Recueil de mes Pensées,’ dated 1754. The non-contents maintain, that until he became secretary of Embassy, nothing was known of D’Eon. I ask in reply: How came a young, untried, and unknown individual to be appointed secretary to the French Embassy in Russia, during a crisis in the affairs of the two countries?