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[Letter of Francis William Newman to J. Chapman Esq.] 7 PVE, My dear Chapman, Various distractions made me (I am sorry to say) forget that your request of some suggestions about a Foreign Article for the Westminster ought not to be delayed. I fear what I write is too much in detail; but unless I give detail, I should not exhibit my own conception of the line of argument. Even so, I leave much to be understood. Thus when I refer to our conduct to Hungary, I would wish to contrast the good conduct of Queen Anne's Tory Cabinet, (who acknowledged Hungary & Austria as independent belligerents & mediated between them) with the bad conduct of Queen Victoria's Whig Cabinet which refused mediation & treated Hungary as rebellious for abiding by that treaty which Queen Anne's ministers helped it to make. So, we helped Sicily against Naples, while Naples was in secret French alliance, but we abandoned Sicily to Naples, when Naples & Austria were broken from French alliance. All this want of moral principle has made Europe at large believe the French epithet "perfide Albion", even those who have profited by it. I enclose to you a bill which I want (some of these days) to have receipted by you; for I shall have to exhibit it as a voucher. You will enter it against me in your book. Believe me Truly yours,
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