e, 'When it comes to the
Draft of the Speech from the Throne to be delivered to
the Chambers, this will break up. The King will not
consent to adopt Thiers' warlike language.' This is
exactly what occurred some ten days later. Rossi had a
deeper insight into political causes and events than
any other man whom I have known.--H.R.]

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Guizot left London pretty well determined to take the Government;
and after some little discussion everything was settled, and the
new Cabinet proclaimed. The Press instantly fell upon him with
the greatest bitterness, and the first impression was that he had
no chance of standing, but the last accounts held out a better
prospect. I have had no communication with him but a short note
he wrote me on his departure, expressing his regret not to have
seen me, and begging I would communicate with Bourqueney, and let
him call upon and converse with me. I wrote to him yesterday a
long letter, in which I told him how matters stood here, and
expressed my desire to know what we could do that would be of use
to him. In the meantime there has been a fresh course of
wrangling, and a fresh set of remonstrances on the part of the
peace advocates here, and lively altercations, both by letter and
_viva voce_, between Lord John and Melbourne, and Lord John and
Palmerston. Clarendon, in a visit of six days at Windsor, worked
away at the impenetrable Viscount, and Lord Lansdowne battered
him with a stringent letter, pressing for the adoption of some
immediate measure of a pacific tendency; and in a conversation
which Clarendon had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he
found him well inclined to the same policy, so that there is an
important section of the Cabinet disposed to take an active part
in this direction. But Palmerston at the same time wrote to
Melbourne in a tone of the greatest contempt for all that was
saying and doing in France, and, of course, elated by the recent
successes in Syria, which, with his usual luck, have happened at
this critical moment, and certainly do appear to be decisive.[11]

[11] [Lord Palmerston's object in all these critical
discussions with his colleagues had simply been to gain
time for the operations in Syria against the Pasha to
take effect, for he had never ceased to maintain that
they would be completely successful, an