Abstract
Clancarty still on duty at the Hague on 18 November 1823 reported: “M. de Nagell informs me, that it is M, de Falck’s intention to make the passage from Rotterdam by Steam Boat, so that His Excellency will probably arrive in London on the 27th.”1 On 28 November Falck in London wrote a private letter to Van Nagell, marking it “Confidential,” He noted that the foreign minister’s dispatch to Fagel announcing the latter’s recall had made a deep impression, all the more so as it was unexpected. “I will not conceal the fact,” wrote Falck, “that I have seen with heart-felt regret a man of his years” — Fagel was almost 59 years old — “and his services reduced to the state to which the announcement of the King’s definitive intention has brought him, and from the bottom of my heart I hope that His Majesty may please to place a plaster on the wound, which if all the signs do not deceive is truly a bleeding one.” Falck would have to face the British alone: “I cannot expect the least help in the negotiation from my co-plenipotentiary.” He could count on Fagel only to present him to Canning and Wynn, and to attend the first conference for form’s sake. Canning had expressed to Fagel his surprise two days
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