Meanwhile he despatched his son to Coblenz to give advice to the royalist exiles, who were then mainly in the hands of Calonne, one of the very worst of the ministers whom Louis XVI.

had tried between his dismissal of Turgot in 1774, and the meeting of the States-General in 1789.

This measure was taken at the request of Calonne, who had visited Burke at Margate.

The English Government did not disapprove of it, though they naturally declined to invest either young Burke or any one else with authority from themselves.

As little came of the mission as might have been expected from the frivolous, unmanly, and enraged spirit of those to whom it was addressed.
In August (1791), while Richard Burke was at Coblenz, the _Appeal_ was published.