Upon a change of Government a very great and sudden change of all or many of the Ministers at Foreign Courts is an evil and to be avoided, inasmuch as it induces an idea of a general change of policy, and disturbs everything that has been settled.

George III.

always set his face against and discouraged such numerous removals as tending to shake confidence abroad in the Government of England generally and to give it a character of uncertainty and instability.

It would be well if your Majesty could make this remark to Lord Aberdeen.
[Footnote 94: The new Ambassador to St Petersburg.] [Footnote 95: Percy, sixth Viscount Strangford (1780-1855), formerly Ambassador to Constantinople, whom Byron described as "Hibernian Strangford, with thine eyes of blue, And boasted locks of red or auburn hue."] [Footnote 96: See _post_, p.329.

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