Danish Monarchy contained in the Treaty of 8th May 1852," thereby
giving those engagements the force of a guarantee, which was on
principle objected to by us at the time. Both Russia and France in
their answers object to such a guarantee now, even with regard to
Schleswig alone, as involving the guaranteeing powers in future grave
difficulties, and Lord John proposes to extend it to Holstein, a part
of Germany and not of Denmark, by way of obviating the difficulty. The
Queen cannot give her sanction to this proposal.

[Footnote 13: A Treaty was signed by the European Powers on
the 8th of May 1852, by which the succession of the line of
Sonderburg-Gluecksburg to the Danish throne was settled, and
the integrity of the kingdom guaranteed. See _ante_, vol. ii.,
4th January, 1852.]

[Pageheading: WAR IN AMERICA]

_Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria._

FOREIGN OFFICE, _30th May 1861_.

Lord John Russell presents his humble duty to your Majesty; he has the
honour to submit letters from the Emperor and Empress of Austria of a
private nature. The Cabinet decided yesterday that the ports of
your Majesty's Dominions ought to be closed to the ships of war and
privateers of the Belligerents in America.[14] A letter for that
object has been sent to the Law Officers of the Crown, and will be,
when put into proper form, submitted for your Majesty's approbation.

[Footnote 14: See _ante_, Introductory Note to Chapter XXX.]

_Queen Victoria to Viscount Palmerston._

OSBORNE, _30th May 1861_.

The Queen returns these papers. She thinks it of great importance that
we should be strong in Canada, and thinks an increase in Artillery as
important as the sending of two more battalions, as that Arm cannot
be supplied at all by the Colony. The Naval forces would, however,
require strengthening even more. It is less likely that the remnant
of the United States could send expeditions by land to the North
while quarrelling with the South, than that they should commit acts of
violence at sea.

_Queen Victoria to Lord John Russell._

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _5th June 1861_.

The Queen has perused the accompanying draft to Sir James Hudson. She
is of opinion that so important a step as proposals on our part for
the solution of the Roman Question, with which we are not directly
concerned, and for the solution of which we are for many obvious
reasons perhaps the Power possessing the least favourable