they concentrated on how to organise the work of the forthcoming congress, and decided that the plenipotentiaries of Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria, along with those of France, Spain and Sweden, would make up ‘a committee which would bring forth the Project for the arrangement of Europe according to the plan previously agreed by the 4 courts, of Austria, Russia, England and Prussia’. The plenipotentiaries of these four courts should therefore meet in Vienna two weeks before the start of the congress in order to agree the project.
