[638] H. Bulwer, Life of Palmerston, II. pp. 333-334.

[639] Letters of Queen Victoria, Palmerston to the Queen, October 11, 1840.

[640] Levant correspondence, Palmerston to Granville, October 2, 1840.

[641] S. Walpole, Life of Lord John Russell, I. pp. 354-357.

[642] Letters of Queen Victoria, Melbourne to the Queen, October 9, 1840.

[643] Levant correspondence, Thiers à Guizot, 3 octobre, 1840.

[644] Ibid., 8 octobre, 1840.

[645] L. Vérnon, Mémoires d’un Bourgeois de Paris, V. p. 27.

[646] C. Greville, Journals (2), I. p. 337. Letters of Queen Victoria, Melbourne to the Queen, October 11, 1840.

[647] Levant correspondence, Palmerston to Ponsonby, October 15, 1840; Palmerston to Granville, October 17, 1840.