He sent back all information to its respective source, instead of making it follow its course.

To M.Amelot he transmitted the news of the court; to M.Maurepas, that of Paris; to M.d' Havrincourt, the news from Sweden; to M.de Chetardie, that from Petersbourg; and sometimes to each of those the news they had respectively sent to him, and which I was employed to dress up in terms different from those in which it was conveyed to us.
As he read nothing of what I laid before him, except the despatches for the court, and signed those to other ambassadors without reading them, this left me more at liberty to give what turn I thought proper to the latter, and in these therefore I made the articles of information cross each other.

But it was impossible for-me to do the same by despatches of importance; and I thought myself happy when M.de Montaigu did not take it into his head to cram into them an impromptu of a few lines after his manner.

This obliged me to return, and hastily transcribe the whole despatch decorated with his new nonsense, and honor it with the cipher, without which he would have refused his signature.

I was frequently almost tempted, for the sake of his reputation, to cipher something different from what he had written, but feeling that nothing could authorize such a deception, I left him to answer for his own folly, satisfying myself with having spoken to him with freedom, and discharged at my own peril the duties of my station.