She was highly diverted with my answer, and repeated it to the King, who also laughed heartily at it.
The peace with England satisfied all classes of society interested in the national honour.

The departure of the English commissary from Dunkirk, who had been fixed at that place ever since the shameful peace of 1763 as inspector of our navy, occasioned an ecstasy of joy.
[By the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) it was stipulated that the fortifications and port of Dunkirk should be destroyed.

By the Treaty of Paris (1763) a commissary was to reside at Dunkirk to see that no attempt was made to break this treaty.

This stipulation was revoked by the Peace of Versailles, in 1783 .-- see DYER'S "Modern Europe," 1st edition, vol.i., pp.

205-438 and 539.] The Government communicated to the Englishman the order for his departure before the treaty was made public.