ubstance
of your Majesty's memorandum of this afternoon. Viscount Palmerston
has taken another copy of this draft.

_Telegram to the Earl of Clarendon._

_28th February 1856_.

[_Enclosure._]

Your letter has been considered by the Cabinet.

Russia should be told that she cannot recede from the conditions
which she deliberately agreed to by a _pur et simple_ acceptance at
Petersburg, which she afterwards formally recorded in a protocol at
Vienna, and which she has within a few days solemnly converted into
preliminaries of peace.

Those engagements must be fulfilled, and those conditions must be
carried into execution.

As to Kars, Austria, France, and Great Britain have undertaken to
maintain the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and that integrity must
be maintained.

Russia received no equivalent for giving up the principalities which
she had occupied as a material pledge. She can receive none for giving
up Kars.

If Russia determines to carry on the war, rather than give up Kars,
things must take their course.

[Pageheading: TRANQUILLITY OF INDIA]

_The Marquis of Dalhousie to Queen Victoria._

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, _29th February 1856_.

Lord Dalhousie presents his most humble duty to your Majesty.

The guns are announcing from the ramparts of Fort William that Lord
Canning has arrived. In an hour's time he will have assumed the
Government of India. Lord Dalhousie will transfer it to him in a
state of perfect tranquillity. There is peace, within and without. And
although no prudent man will ever venture to predict the certainty
of continued peace in India, yet Lord Dalhousie is able to declare,
within reservation, that he knows of no quarter in which it is
probable that trouble will arise.[16]

Lord Dalhousie desires that his very last act, as Governor-General,
should be to submit to your Majesty a respectful expression of the
deep sense he entertains of your Majesty's constant approbation of
his public conduct while he has held the office of Governor-General
of India; together with a humble assurance of the heartfelt gratitude
with which he shall ever remember your Majesty's gracious favour
towards him through the eight long years during which he has borne the
ponderous burden he lays down to-day.

Lord Dalhousie begs permission to take leave of your Majesty, and has
the honour to subscribe himself, with deep devotion, your Majesty's
most obedient, most humble and faithful Subject an