[558] F.O. Turkey 359, 360, Ponsonby to Palmerston, October 30, November 24, December 18, 1839; F.O. Turkey 392, Ponsonby to Palmerston, January 28, 29, 1840. Levant correspondence, Ponsonby to Palmerston, November 13, 1839.
[559] Coste (Jacques), 1798-1859, founder and manager of the Temps, the organ of the tiers parti. This venture proved a disastrous failure, and M. Coste in 1840 was in pecuniary difficulties. There are frequent allusions to his embarrassments in his correspondence with Fethi Ahmed Pasha.
[560] F.O. Turkey 394, Ponsonby to Palmerston, May 29, 1840 (separate and confidential)—“Your Lordship knows the intimacy which exists between M. Coste and M. Thiers, and he (Coste) undoubtedly does speak (as he asserts) the sentiments of the President of the French ministry.” Lord Ponsonby goes on to state that the original letters have been in his hands. The copies transmitted contain many notes in Palmerston’s handwriting.
[561] F.O. Turkey 395, Ponsonby to Palmerston, July 13, 1840 (separate and confidential).
[562] F.O. Turkey 395, Ponsonby to Palmerston, July 30, 1840 (separate and confidential).
[563] Vide p. 227.
[564] F.O. Turkey 405, Hodges to Palmerston, June 17, 19, 1840.
[565] Guizot, Mémoires, V. pp. 205, 206.
[566] Levant correspondence, Hodges to Palmerston, June 16, 1840.
[567] Affaires étrangères, 655 Angleterre, Guizot à Thiers, 11 juillet, 1840.