text:  My mission was now accomplished for I refused to hold the embassy under a rival cabinet; but I carried with me from St Petersburg two trophies:--the former was the treaty concluded by Paul with France for the march of an army in conjunction with a French column of 300 000 men to invade India--a document which had hitherto baffled all diplomatic research; the other was the pathetic and noble letter of Alexander to the British sovereign proposing a restoration of the national friendship