L’Europe eut la bonhomie d’être surprise de cet événement, qui ne surprit point le marquis del Dongo ; il écrivit à son souverain une lettre pleine d’effusion de cœur ; il lui offrait ses talents et plusieurs millions, et lui répétait que ses ministres étaient des jacobins d’accord avec les meneurs de Paris.
Europe was kind enough to be surprised at this event, which did not at all surprise the Marchese del Dongo; he wrote his Sovereign a letter full of the most cordial effusion; he offered him his talents and several millions of money, and informed him once again that his Ministers were Jacobins and in league with the ringleaders in Paris.