[828] It would be conveyed from the Spanish frontier by Chaptal’s system of telegraphy.
[829] F.O. France 751, Cowley to Aberdeen, April 8, 1846 (private and confidential).
[830] H. Bulwer, Life of Palmerston, III. pp. 219-226. T. Martin, Life of Prince Consort, I. pp. 350-352. Guizot, Mémoires, VIII. pp. 261-264.
[831] Practically the whole of the correspondence relating to this affair has been removed from the archives des affaires étrangères in Paris. But in the volume marked “828 Espagne” the following unsigned and undated note is to be found:—“In the question of the Spanish marriages there was a private correspondence between the King and M. Bresson, and also between the latter and M. Guizot. After the death of the ambassador the minutes of his letters and the original answers of the King and of the minister (Guizot) were handed over to M. Guizot by his widow, and were carried off by him in February, 1848. But it is certain that Madame Bresson retained improperly a copy of this correspondence which her husband had made, and which it was her duty to return to the Foreign Office.” (M. Bresson committed suicide at Naples in November, 1847.)
[832] Letters of Queen Victoria, Memorandum by the Prince Albert, December 20, 1845.
[833] H. Bulwer, Life of Palmerston, III. pp. 192-193. C. Greville, Journals (2), II. p. 388. Guizot, Mémoires, VIII., pp. 279-282.
[834] Correspondence relating to the Queen and Infanta of Spain, Aberdeen to Sotomayor, June 22, 1846.
[835] Revue retrospective, pp. 52-53.
[836] F.O. France 753, Cowley to Aberdeen, July 13, 1846 (private and confidential); Revue retrospective, p. 171.
[837] Revue retrospective, p. 171.