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64 - 6l - Even after Whitworth's resignation in May 1980, there are still close relations between the Englishman and his confidants, Olga Sherebzowa, and Panin, as well as the Count Peter von der Pahlen, who took over the leadership of the conspiracy after Panin's fall. In the absence of an official English representative, England had reliable secret agents at the Russian court, at its head was Sherebtsova, who might seem more inconspicuous than an official personality. Clear evidence of the British's secret work in removing Paul's emperor has naturally been guarded to leave them behind. But such a careful historian as Theolor Schiemann thinks: "We have no reason to assume that the English Kabi- nice in relation to palace revolutions more scruples enpfand than Lord Whitworth himself." Count Pahlen, who tried in vain to win the General Nikolay Svechin for the conspiracy, has expressly emphasized to him that the conspirators would be supported by Englanl ("secondé par l'Angleterre").1) Napoleon had a distinguished intelligence service, so let him be believed if he traces the success of the conspiracy against Paul to the English gold. It is not the first time that English money works in secret for England's benefit in Russia. Pitt never failed when it was necessary to throw out funds for promising goals on the mainland. Prince Lopuchin, whose sister was married to the son of Olga Sherebzowa, claimed that she had 2 million Rbl from England after Paul's death. The Sherebzowa lcbbe, by the way, after Paul's death for a long time in London, where she was the beloved King George III. On her return to Russia she had a son with her, whom she spent for a son of George.2) It is probably not a mere coincidence that the closest Ver- 1) Schiemann 1, p.38 and 42. 2) Šunigorskij S.199.