M.Necker saw that his credit at Court was declining, and fearing lest that circumstance should injure his financial operations, he requested the King to grant him some favour which might show the public that he had not lost the confidence of his sovereign.

He concluded his letter by pointing out five requests--such an office, or such a mark of distinction, or such a badge of honour, and so on, and handed it to M.de Maurepas.

The or's were changed into and's; and the King was displeased at M.Necker's ambition, and the assurance with which he displayed it.

Madame la Marechale de Beauvau assured me that the Marechal de Castries saw the minute of M.Necker's letter, and that he likewise saw the altered copy.
The interest which the Queen took in M.Necker died away during his retirement, and at last changed into strong prejudice against him.

He wrote too much about the measures he would have pursued, and the benefits that would have resulted to the State from them.