Ambassador in London
This was a special secret commission in order to negotiate a separate peace with Great Britain. But after his arrival, at the end of September, Wall faced serious difficulties derived from the antipathy of English ministers, because of his Irish and Jacobite roots. In addition he had to suffer the Marquess of Tabuérniga's opposition. Tabuerniga was a Spanish refugee who wished to have the commission Wall was holding. Although the commission failed, Wall remained at London and Tabuerniga was repatriated.
In London he lodged in a mansion on Soho Square, the fashionable part of the city; he enjoyed the intense social life. He was portrayed by Van Loo (picture in the National Gallery, Dublín), he ordered a "Santiago" from Tiépolo for the chapel of his church (in the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest), and sponsored to men like Smollett, whose translation of Don Quixote (1755) is dedicated to Wall.
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