Count Ficquelmont person

“Count Ficquelmont, who was accompanying the army on his way to take up his duties as ambassador at Naples, wrote: ‘We are all suffering acutely from the disastrous shortage of money.”…”

“Vincent gave him a letter to Ambassador Count Ficquelmont, informing the count of the offer being made by Barbaia…”

“When he arrived on April 12, Count Ficquelmont immediately introduced him to the government…”

“Metternich instructed Count Ficquelmont in Naples to get from that government the money that had been expended…”

“Carl reported the conclusion of this agreement to Count Ficquelmont, stating: “I am accordingly glad to be in a position . . . to give your Excellency the assurance that the first two payments are secured, and that I shall be making payment…”

““If the burdens that we impose,” he reported to Vienna, “‘are so oppressive that they are more than the country can stand, all parties will unite in desiring our departure.…”

“Ficquelmont discussed this matter with Carl Rothschild, and Rothschild also thought that it was only by appointing this descendant of the eminent Tuscan noble family... that the material recovery of the country could be assured.…”

“Ficquelmont now lamented the fact that the sums to be paid by Naples had not been fixed once and for all...…”

““The real reason,” he stated in a report to Vienna...…”

“Count Ficquelmont must be given considerable credit for the fact that he opposed these exaggerated demands, and pointed out that the annual claim of 13 million ducats, sent in by Quartermaster-General Koller, was gaining for the Austrian th…”