Campelen straightened up immediately when he heard the word "Brabant" and gave a sign to the Dutch diplomat beside him.
The latter quickly gestured for all the servants to leave and tightly closed the main gate.
Only then did Campelen carefully say, "Marquis, in fact, the Brabant uprising has nothing to do with the Netherlands."
The British Foreign Minister nodded, "Yes, it has nothing to do with it. Vandernoot did not get the support of the Dutch Parliament."
The Vandernoot he mentioned was the leader of the Brabant uprising.
Brabant was a core region of the Southern Netherlands, which is modern-day Belgium, where a large-scale rebellion was currently taking place.
At that time, the Southern Netherlands was still Austrian territory, but it had been practicing a relatively autonomous political model, managed by the States-General of the Netherlands.