Le 8 mars, à six heures du matin, le marquis, revêtu de ses insignes, se faisait dicter, par son fils aîné, le brouillon d’une troisième dépêche politique ; il s’occupait avec gravité à la transcrire de sa belle écriture soignée, sur du papier portant en filigrane l’effigie du souverain.
On the 8th of March, at six o'clock in the morning, the Marchese, wearing all his orders, was making his elder son dictate to him the draft of a third political despatch; he was solemnly occupied in transcribing this in his fine and careful hand, upon paper that bore the Sovereign's effigy as a watermark.