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sion employed by another British statesman more than seventy years afterwards, Cornwallis had hoped for a 'peace that will not dishonour the country,' and one 'that would afford as reasonable a prospect of a future safety as the present very extraordinary circumstances of Europe would admit.'
The table on which this Treaty was signed is, writes the editor of the Cornwallis Correspondence, still preserved in the Hôtel de Ville at Amiens. At one end of the apartment there is a full-length picture of the Plenipotentiaries and their suites. The portrait of Cornwallis is not unlike but the painting is indifferent. 'In the background an English officer is cordially embracing one of the French suite.'
