This may do, if honestly and truly carried out.

Friday, November 13th, 1840 {p.349}

[Page Head: TERMS OF CONCILIATION.]

The day before yesterday Bourqueney called on me, and brought me
a letter from Guizot in reply to the one I had written him. He
then proceeded to tell me all that had occurred since I had
before seen him, and to this effect: On Saturday the Cabinet had
resolved upon an invitation to Guizot to announce his wishes and
ideas, and proposed a frank explanation _de part et d'autre_ on
the whole question. On Sunday, Palmerston communicated this to
Bourqueney, and very faithfully. On Sunday or Monday arrived a
despatch from Metternich, first of all confirming Neumann as sole
Minister to the Conference, and secondly announcing that any
concession in Syria was _now_ quite out of the question. This he
told Bourqueney, and conveyed to Palmerston, to whom it was a
great accession of force, and by this the disposition of Austria,
and with it that of Buelow, became entirely changed, and very
unfavourable to any transaction. On Monday morning Bourqueney
received a letter from Guizot saying that he had had a conference
with Lord Granville, to whom he had suggested various
alternatives for a settlement on the basis of a concession, which
Granville was by the same post to transmit to Palmerston, and he
at the same time told Bourqueney what they were: Egypt
hereditary, St. Jean d'Acre for life, and either Tripoli or
Candia for one of his sons; or the hereditary Pashalik of Acre
instead. On Monday night Bourqueney met Palmerston at dinner at
the Mansion House, when he said to him, 'You have heard from Lord
Granville, and he has transmitted to you M. Guizot's proposals
(or suggestions).' 'No,' said Palmerston, 'I have heard from Lord
Granville, but he sent me nothing specific on the part of Guizot.
But come to Lady Palmerston's to-night from hence, and we will
talk it over.' He went there, and Palmerston read to him a long
despatch from Granville, but which, to his surprise, did not
contain any of the specific propositions which Guizot had
notified to him, and, conceiving that Granville must have certain
good reasons for this reticence, he resolved to say nothing of
them either, and confined himself to mere general inquiries as to
what could be done, to which he obtained no satisfactory reply,
not a hope being held out of any concession. In this condition of
affairs he came to me to tell me what passed and consul