. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. Ambassador at Con-stantinople. The promotion of the youngdiplomatist had been little less rapid than theecclesiastical advancement of his father. FrancisJames Jackson was only twenty-five whenhe received this important appointment. Hisbrother, born in 1785 and another plenipo-tentiary in petto, was already a Westminsterscholar. Eighteen months later [30 Nov., 1797]that much-
. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. Ambassador at Con-stantinople. The promotion of the youngdiplomatist had been little less rapid than theecclesiastical advancement of his father. FrancisJames Jackson was only twenty-five whenhe received this important appointment. Hisbrother, born in 1785 and another plenipo-tentiary in petto, was already a Westminsterscholar. Eighteen months later [30 Nov., 1797]that much-favoured churchman Canon Jacksondied at Tunbridge Wells. He was only Jackson writes in her diary for December :* My dear husband was interred under the greataltar of St. Pauls (in the crypt) on the loth, * Canon Jackson entertained feelings of great regard andesteem for his son-in-law, whom he describes in the codicil of hiswill dated ii Sep., 1797, as that truly respectable character.*He bequeathed to the young clergyman his gold chain and seals,as well as half his books on divinity. If George Jackson, thenaged twelve, did not enter Holy Orders the Vicar of Edmontonv/as to have the whole of MRS. DAWSON WARREN (^NEE CHARLOTTE LUCY JACKSON) FROM A CONTEMPORARY WATER-COLOUR EDITORS PREFACE xvii attended by his sons and brother, and a fewfriends, the Duke of Leeds at the head/^ Withintwo years the Duke, while still in the prime of life,was destined to follow his lifelong friend to thetomb. It was in 1797 that the name of Bonapartefirst became a terror throughout the length andbreadth of the land, as the commander of the so-called Army of England. At that time it wasclearly impossible to foresee the trend of eventsin 1801, and no one was likely to imagine thatat the dawn of the new century Francis JamesJackson would be named Minister Plenipoten-tiary to the French Republic, and that hewould be accompanied to Paris by his six-teen-year-old brother, fresh from
Size: 1481px × 1687px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidjournalofbri, bookyear1913
