STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1798, sig. 109-5/26

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63 -60 - Mental illness to be declared incapacitated by government and to establish a regency under Ale- xander according to the English and Danish models. The idea arose in the talks of the ambitious vice chancellor Count Panin, whom Whitworth declared perfect Englishman, with the English envoy. Whitworth had in mind the English example, the mental illness of George III, for whom his son led the government at present, already in March l800, when the Russian-English tension became clear, Whit-worth wrote to Lord Grenville: "We must be prepared for everything. But it is a fact, if I also say with regret, that the emperor is not in his senses" ("The Emperor is less than not in His senses") l) "For some years now, this is already known to be the closest environment, and I myself was able to convince myself of it on various occasions... I have never for a minute lost sight of the tremendous importance of taking all the possible benefits from its character, and have considered the appalling fears for me which accompanied all my efforts, but, however, the truth must finally be revealed; we must know what our affairs depend on, at the same time But let us not forget that the emperor, however he may be, is the self-ruler of a powerful empire, which is naturally united with England, from which we can only gain the means to conquer the sea at Whitworth, whose friend Olga Alexanlrowna Shereb-zowa, and Count Panin joined even more clever and unscrupulous Neapolitan adventurers. Adniral Ribas. In September and October 1980, when the declaration of war was expected on England, the Baltic fleet was due to exceptionally numerous layoffs and lay-offs, and to the p.462. 2) Šumigorskij S.193-194. 3) Šumigorskij S.195.