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MISSION TO FRANCE
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A few days subsequently he was called on to proceed to France, in order to negotiate the Peace of Amiens; and with a hope that he might still give an old friend 'as good partridge shooting as Suffolk can afford' at no distant date, he set out on his diplomatic mission.